Tag: Sábios
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B1098
B1097 B1099 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1098] “It was just from that time that discussions, quarrels, and disturbances arose among all the members of that society; and in this case also the same began to proceed as I already mentioned and as had in general long before become customary there: Those quarrels…
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B1097
B1096 B1098 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1097] “In consequence of this, from that very same day, as they gradually became familiar with the details of this astonishing theory, they began to get into the state of typical beings of the Earth, that is to say, they began to forget the extraordinary hypothesis…
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B1096
B1095 B1097 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1096] “They were so struck with this theory of his, that at first, as is said there, a ‘sepulchral silence’ prevailed among them for quite a time, and, plunged into stupor, none of them could even stir, and only after the lapse of rather a long…
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B1095
B1094 B1096 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1095] “’Obviously our lives serve also for maintaining something great or small in the World.’ “This idea expressed in the ancient manuscript so captivated the philosopher Atarnakh that thereafter he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the study of only this aspect of the question which had interested…
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B1094
B1093 B1095 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1094] “And everything subsequent came about through the influence of a then very famous philosopher, Atarnakh, and his theory expounded by him in a treatise under the title: ‘Why do Wars Occur on the Earth?’ “When this philosopher made his appearance among the members of this…
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B1092
B1091 B1093 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1092] “And so, when on their continent Asia, these terrible processes of reciprocal destruction there became already too frequent, certain brothers of the said fraternity, with the most venerable Brother Olmantaboor at their head, just decided for the first time to try whether it would not…
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B203
B202 B204 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 203] “His colleagues began delivering addresses in their temples proving exactly the opposite of all that the priest Abdil had preached. “At last it came to the point that the priesthood began to bribe various beings who had ‘Hasnamuss’ properties to plan and commit every kind of…
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B202
B201 B203 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 202] “Thereafter fragments from his speech began to be spread among those who had not personally heard it. “It is interesting to notice, that it was the custom then, for priests to exist simply on the offerings of their parishioners, and this priest Abdil had also been…
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B201
B200 B202 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 201] “’If by his Reason a being is higher than you, you must always bow down before him and try to imitate him in everything; but if he is lower than you, you must be just towards him, because you once occupied the same place according to…
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B197
B196 B198 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 197] “’For our COMMON CREATOR all beings are only parts of the existence of a whole essence spiritualized by HIMSELF. “’But what do we see here now? “’One form of beings created by HIM, in whose presences HE has placed all HIS hopes and expectations for the…
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B190
B189 B191 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 190] “The custom of ‘pleasing-their-gods’ by destroying the existence of other beings is followed there, on your planet, until now, only not on the scale on which these abominations were practiced by your favorites at that time on the continent Ashhark. “Well, then, my boy, during the…
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B188
B187 B189 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 188] “Soon after we were on ‘good terms’ with each other, I discovered that in the Being of this priest Abdil – owing to very many external circumstances among which were also heredity and the conditions under which he had been prepared for a responsible being –…
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B187
B186 B188 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 187] “I first began visiting these establishments of theirs, because there, on the planet Earth, at present just as formerly, nowhere can one observe and study the specific peculiarities of the psyche of the beings of the locality so well as in just such gathering places of…
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B176
B175 B177 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 176] “You probably do not know yet what the Sacred-Aliamizoornakalu over an essence means? I shall later explain it to you in detail but meanwhile I shall simply use the words of our dear Mullah Nassr Eddin who explains this process as ‘giving-one’s-word-of-honor-not-to-poke-one’s-nose-into-the-affairs-of-the-authorities.’ “In short, when I presented…
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B174
B173 B175 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 174] “But I will tell you meanwhile that there proceeded in that fragment of red copper something rather like those terrifying pictures which I occasionally observed among your favorites on the planet Earth through my Teskooano from Mars. “I said ‘rather-like’ because what occasionally proceeded among your favorites…
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B169
B168 B170 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 169] “’Furthermore, according to the law called “Heteratogetar,” the “Salnichizinooarnian-momentum-vibrations” or “rays” acquire the property of acting on the organs of perception of beings only after they have passed a limit defined by science in the following formula: “the-result-of-the-manifestation-is-proportionate-to-the-force-of-striving-received-from-the-shock.” “’And so, as the given process of the clash…
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B168
B167 B169 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 168] “’I have again admitted the influx of parts of the Okidanokh, namely the Anodnatious and the Cathodnatious of equal force of “striving-to-reblend.”’ “When I looked at the Ammeter and the Voltmeter and indeed saw that their needles moved and stopped on the same figures I had noticed…
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B166
B165 B167 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 166] “However, my boy, in order that you may not at this moment be too distressed, it is not superfluous to add that this happened in me then for the first and also the last time during all the periods of my being-existence. “But perhaps it would be…
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B165
B164 B166 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 165] “The following is what happened: “Gornahoor Harharkh with all those unusual heavy appliances which had been put on him as well, suddenly found himself at a certain height above the chair and began to flounder, as our dear Mullah Nassr Eddin says ‘like-a-puppy-who-has-fallen-into-a-deep-pond.’ “As it afterwards proved,…
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B164
B163 B165 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 164] “At first, what is called my ‘initiative-of-constatation’ proceeded in the usual way, that is, according to what is called the ‘center-of-gravity-of-associative-experiencing,’ but later, when this initiative-of-constatation of everything proceeding in me gradually and almost imperceptibly became the function of my essence alone, the latter not only became…