Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All And Everything: 1st Series (All and Everything Series 1)

With Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson , G. I. Gurdjieff intended to "destroy, mercilessly . . . the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world." This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life.The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man's teleological purpose in the universe. This edition of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson —the first single-volume paperback to appear in English—restores the original, authoritative translation. Cover Page 1 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Editors' Note on the Revised Edition 5 Contents 11 First Book 15 Chapter One: The arousing of thought 17 Chapter Two: Prologue: Why Beelzebub was in our solar system 61 Chapter Three: The cause of a delay in the falling of the Karnak 66 Chapter Four: The law of falling 76 Chapter Five: The system of Archangel Hariton 80 Chapter Six: Perpetual motion 83 Chapter Seven: Becoming aware of genuine being-duty 86 Chapter Eight: The impudent brat Hassein, Beelzebub's grandson, dares to call men "slugs" 89 Chapter Nine: The cause of the genesis of the Moon 91 Chapter Ten: Why "men" are not men 97 Chapter Eleven: A piquant trait of the peculiar psyche of man 103 Chapter Twelve: The first growl 107 Chapter Thirteen: Wiry in man's Reason fantasy may be perceived as reality 112 Chapter Fourteen: Introducing a perspective that promises nothing very cheerful 115 Chapter Fifteen: Beelzebub's first descent to the planet Earth 118 Chapter Sixteen: The relativity of the concept of Time 129 Chapter Seventeen: The arch-absurd: According to the assertion of Beelzebub, our sun neither lights nor heats 141 Chapter Eighteen: The arch-preposterous 154 Chapter Nineteen: Beelzebub's tale about his second descent to the planet Earth 180 Chapter Twenty: The third flight of Beelzebub to the planet Earth 206 Chapter Twenty-One: The first visit of Beelzebub to India 224 Chapter Twenty-Two: Beelzebub in Tibet for the first time 246 Chapter Twenty-Three: The fourth personal sojourn of Beelzebub on the planet Earth 260 Chapter Twenty-Four: Beelzebub's fifth flight to the planet Earth 302 Chapter Twenty-Five: The Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash sent from Above to the Earth 331 Chapter Twenty-Six: The legomonism concerning the deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash under the title of "The Terror of the Situation" 336 Chapter Twenty-Seven: The order of existence created for men by the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash 348 Chapter Twenty-Eight: The chief culprit in the destruction of all the Very Saintly Labors of Ashiata Shiemash 370 Second Book 390 Chapter Twenty-Nine: The fruits of former civilizations and the blossoms of the contemporary 391 Chapter Thirty: Art 424 Chapter Thirty-One: The sixth and last sojourn of Beelzebub on the planet Earth 493 Chapter Thirty-Two: Hypnotism 524 Chapter Thirty-Three: Beelzebub as professional hypnotist 544 Chapter Thirty-Four: Beelzebub in Russia 556 Chapter Thirty-Five: A change in the appointed course of falling ofthe intersystem ship Karnak 615 Chapter Thirty-Six: Just a wee bit more about the Germans 618 Chapter Thirty-Seven: France 621 Chapter Thirty-Eight: Religion 650 Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Holy Planet Purgatory 695 Third Book 757 Chapter Forty: Beelzebub tells how men learned and again forgot about the fundamental cosmic law of Heptaparaparshinokh 759 Chapter Forty-One: The Bukharian dervish Hadji Asvatz Troov 812 Chapter Forty-Two: Beelzebub in America 856 Chapter Forty-Three: Beelzebub's survey of the periodic process of the reciprocal destruction of men, or Beeizebub's opinion of war 980 Chapter Forty-Four: In Beetzebub's opinion, man's understanding of justice is in the objective sense an accursed mirage 1037 Chapter Forty-Five: In the opinion of Beelzebub, man's extraction of electricity from Nature, and its destruction during its use, is one of the chief causes of the shortening of human life 1061 Chapter Forty-Six: Beeizebub explains to his grandson the significance of the form and sequence which he chose for expounding the information concerning men 1076 Chapter Forty-Seven: The inevitable result of impartial mentation 1088 Chapter Forty-Eight: From the author 1099 A landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one's daily lifeWith Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to'destroy, mercilessly... the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world.'This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life.The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man's teleological purpose in the universe. This edition of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson--the first single-volume paperback to appear in English--restores the original, authoritative translation. Among other convictions formed in my common presence during my responsible, peculiarly composed life, there is one such also-an indubitable conviction-that always and everywhere on the earth, among people of every degree of development of understanding and of every form of manifestation of the factors which engender in their individuality all kinds of ideals, there is acquired the tendency, when beginning anything new, unfailingly to pronounce aloud or, if not aloud, at least mentally, that definite utterance understandable to every even quite illiterate person, which in different epochs has been formulated variously and in our day is formulated in the following words: "In the name of the Father and of the Son and in the name of the Holy Ghost. Amen." With Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson , G. I. Gurdjieff intended to "destroy, mercilessly . . . the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world." This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life.The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man's teleological purpose in the universe. This edition of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson --the first single-volume paperback to appear in English--restores the original, authoritative translation. First series: To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world Examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of beings belonging to a distant world, led by the 'all-wise Beelzebub'. This title demonstrates a methodology for the spiritual growth of mankind.