Tag: Ocasião
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B1017
B1016 B1018 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1017] “’And the initial cause of the institution of this fast was the dispute at this Kelnuanian Council between two then famous learned men, namely, the great Hertoonano and the great Greek philosopher Veggendiadi. “’The great Hertoonano was the representative of all the followers of the teaching…
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B64
B63 B65 [BTG III Cause of delay in falling, p. 64] “Apart from the imperfection of their exterior form, their Reason also is quite ‘uniquely strange.’ “Their ‘being-Reason,’ owing to very many causes about which also I may tell you sometime, has gradually degenerated, and at the present time, is very, very strange and exceedingly…
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B90
B89 B91 [BTG X Why “men” are not men, p. 90] “And during just this third descent there, when it was made clear by the thorough investigations of the sacred members of this third Most High Commission that for the maintenance of the existence of those said detached fragments there was no longer any need…
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sacred name
I said “with my genuine soul” because recently living in Europe and coming in frequent contact with people who on every appropriate and inappropriate occasion are fond of taking in vain every sacred name which should belong only to man’s inner life, that is to say, with people who swear to no purpose, I being,…
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B528
B527 B529 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 528] “As I had nothing particular to do at this time on the planet Mars, I decided to wind up without delay my current affairs and personally to descend to your planet, and there, on the spot, at any cost, to elucidate this question which had…
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B532
B531 B533 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 532] “Even I, who had then learned perfectly eighteen of their different languages, found myself during my travels under conditions at times where I had not even the possibility of getting fodder for my horse, in spite of the fact that my pockets were full of…
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religions
“‘Although these Havatvernoni or Religions have nothing in common’, continued His Conformity, ‘yet nevertheless in these peculiar religions of theirs there is very widely spread among the beings of all three groups the same custom called among them “Sacrificial-Offerings”. 1102 BTG XIX “The name Olbogmek means, ‘There are not different religions, there is only one…
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observatory
One of his chief occupations was the arranging of an “observatory” on the planet Mars for the observation both of remote points of the Universe and of the conditions of existence of beings on neighboring planets; and this observatory of his it may here be remarked, afterwards became well known and even famous everywhere in…
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apes
“The contents of this etherogram concern just your favorites in connection with these terrestrial beings I have just mentioned, that is, these apes. BTG XXIII “I must tell you first of all, that on account of a cause also ensuing from the abnormal being-existence there, there was long ago crystallized, and there is periodically intensified…
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sensations
And so, just at the moment when our Kurd was overwhelmed by all the unusual sensations proceeding within him from this strange repast on the bosom of Nature, there came along the same road a fellow villager of his, one reputed by those who knew him to be very clever and experienced; and, seeing that…
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priest
The point is that this dexterity was thoroughly taught me only a few days before this event by a Greek priest from Turkey, who, persecuted by Turks for his political convictions, had been compelled to flee from there, and having arrived in our town had been hired by my parents as a teacher for me…
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theories
“And as for the objective reality of the theories of both these ‘great’ terrestrial ‘learned beings’, I am reminded of one of the wise sayings of our esteemed Mullah Nassr Eddin, namely: “‘They were both very successful, though of course not without luck, in finding the authentic godmother of the incomparable Scheherazade on an old…
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Commission
“The results of these experiments having been approved and blessed by the Commission of Inspection under the presidency of Archangel Adossia, the construction of a big ship based on these principles was begun. BTG IV “The Most High Commission came to our planet Mars since it was the nearest to the planet Earth and from…
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Beneficence
“The City Gob was situated on both banks of the mouth of a large river called the ‘Keria-chi’ which flowed into the Sea of Beneficence and which had its rise in the eastern heights of this country. BTG XX “Into this Sea of Beneficence, on its western side, another large river flowed called the ‘Naria-chi’.…
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B110
B109 B111 [BTG XV First descent upon Earth, p. 110] “So I could not help deciding at once to undertake to help them to settle this difficulty of theirs. “At first I tried to help them while remaining on the planet Mars, but when I became certain that it would be impossible to do anything…
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sacred members
“The sacred members of this Most High Commission at once quieted us by saying that the apprehended danger of a catastrophe on a great cosmic scale had already passed. BTG IX “And so, my boy, inasmuch as such a cosmic actualization was possible only with the sanction of HIS ENDLESSNESS, the Great Archangel Sakaki, accompanied…
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being-functions
“Before beginning his explanations I think it not inadvisable to warn you once and for all that all my conversations with various three-centered beings arising and existing on various planets of that system where I was obliged to exist for the ‘Sins of my youth’ -, as for instance in the present case, the conversations…
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beings of our tribe
“As I have already said, many of us definitely settled down on the planet Mars; and others, by the ship Occasion which had been put at the disposal of the beings of our tribe for interplanetary communication, either went or prepared to go to exist on other planets of the same solar system. BTG X…
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Most Great Commission
“He explained this to me when, on the occasion of the first great misfortune to his planet Earth he came to the planet Mars as one of the sacred members of the third Most Great Commission; and the captain of the transspace ship Omnipresent, with whom I had several friendly talks during that journey home.…