The Searchable Index to G. I. Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

The purpose of this ebook is to provide a productive means for searching through, reading, and analyzing the First Series of Gurdjief’s writings: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man or Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson. It is intended, in part, as a companion publication to the various volumes in the series of books entitled: To Fathom The Gist. It has been written and compiled by the same author to facilitate some of the approaches to fathoming the gist of Te Tales described in that series of books. However, it may prove useful to those who have never read any of those books. Cover Title Page Copyright c Page Epigraph Contents Section I — How To Use This eBook The Intention The Text of the Tales A Book of Lists Preliminary Advice The PDF: A Digital Aid How To Use The Search Capability of This Book The Indexes The Four Index Sections Entries in the Categorized Index The Categories and Subcategories The Appendices Section II — The Index of Noun Adjuncts Being Essence Objective Self Section III — The Categorized Index The Higher Realm Time, Number, Measure The Megalocosmos Cosmic & Planetary Phenomena Laws Cosmic Substances Mars, Saturn, Experiments Higher Bodies, Reason, Hasnammus Mentation, Consciousness, Conscience, Essence Phenomena of the Psyche Life Forms Human Biology People, Characters Religions, Organizations, Government Food, Drink Physical Substances Objects, Devices Foreign Terms, Adjectives, Exclamations, Part Words Section IV — Te Alphabetic Index — A — — B — — C — — D — — E — — F — — G — — H — — I — — J — — K — — L — — M — — N — — O — — P — — Q — — R — — S — — T — — U — — V — — W — — X — — Y — — Z — Section V — The Text of the Tales Friendly Advice Contents FIRST BOOK I The Arousing of Thought II Introduction: Why Beelzebub Was in Our Solar Syste III The Cause of the Delay in the Falling of the Ship ‹Karnak› IV The Law of Falling V The System of Archangel Hariton VI Perpetual Motion VII Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty VIII The Impudent Brat Hassein, Beelzebub’s Grandson, Dares to Call Men “Slugs” IX The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon X Why “Men” Are Not Men XI A Piquant Trait of the Peculiar Psyche of Contemporary Man XII The First “Growl” XIII Why in Man’s Reason Fantasy May Be Perceived as Reality XIV The Beginnings of Perspectives Promising Nothing Very Cheerful XV The First Descent of Beelzebub upon the Planet Earth XVI The Relative Understanding of Time XVII The Arch-absurd: According to the Assertion of Beelzebub, Our Sun Neither Lights nor Heats XVIII The Arch-preposterous XIX Beelzebub’s Tales About His Second Descent on to the Planet Earth XX The Third Flight of Beelzebub to the Planet Earth XXI The First Visit of Beelzebub to India XXII Beelzebub for the First Time in Tibet XXIII The Fourth Personal Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth XXIV Beelzebub’s Flight to the Planet Earth for the Fifth Time XXV The Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash, Sent from Above to the Earth XXVI The Legominism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Under the Title of “The Terror-of-the-Situation” XXVII The Organization for Man’s Existence Created by the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash XXVIII The Chief Culprit in the Destruction of All the Very Saintly Labors of Ashiata Shiemash SECOND BOOK XXIX The Fruits of Former Civilizations and the Blossoms of the Contemporary XXX Art XXXI The Sixth and Last Sojourn of Beelzebub XXXII Hypnotism XXXIII Beelzebub as Professional Hypnotist XXXIV Russia XXXV A Change in the Appointed Course of the Falling of the Transspace Ship ‹Karnak› XXXVI Just a Wee Bit More About the Germans XXXVII France XXXVIII Religion XXXIX The Holy Planet “Purgatory” THIRD BOOK XL Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Again Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh XLI The Bokharian Dervish Hadji-Asvatz-Troov XLII Beelzebub in America XLIII Beelzebub’s Survey of the Process of the Periodic Reciprocal Destruction of Men, or Beelzebub’s Opinion of War XLIV Opinion of War XLIV In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man’s Understanding of Justice Is for Him in the Objective Sense an Accursed Mirage XLV 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 the Life of Man XLVI Beelzebub Explains to His Grandson the Significance of the Form and Sequence Which He Chose for Expounding the Information Concerning Man XLVII The Inevitable Result of Impartial Mentation XLVIII From the Author Section VI – The “Other Words” Index — A — — B — — C — — D — — E — — F — — G — — H — — I — — J — — K — — L — — M — — N — — O — — P — — Q — — R — — S — — T — — U — — V — — W — — Y — Appendix A – The List of the Mentions of “God” Appendix B – The List of Sayings and Proverbs Appendix C – The List of Neologisms and Invented Words The Higher Realm Time, Measure The Megalocosmos Mars, Saturn, Experiments Alla-attapan Lav-Merz-Nokh Higher Bodies, Reason, Hasnammus Mentation, Consciousness, Conscience Phenomena of the Psyche Properties of Psyche Parts of the Psyche Life Forms Human Body People, Characters Religions Food, Drink Physical Substances Transport Communication Objects and Other Items Foreign Adjectives, Exclamations Appendix D - The List of Morphemes of the Neologisms Appendix E – Editorial Corrections to the Text Additional Text Changed Text Neologisms Accents Guide & Index Suggestions Spelling Errors Appendix F – Possible Errors in the Text of the Hyphenation Inconsistencies Capitalization Inconsistencies Textual Errors Names About The Editor Acknowledgements Other Books by This Author Contact Information This ebook provides a productive means for searching through, reading and pondering Beelzebubs Tales To His Grandson by G. I. Gurdjieff. It has been written and compiled by Robin Bloor, the author of To Fathom The Gist, Vol. 1, to help in some of the approaches to fathoming the gist of Beelzebub's Tales described in that book. It is likely to prove useful to anyone who studies The Tales in depth, since the indexes and lists it includes may be thought provoking for the reader. Words (including neologisms) that the compiler considered important or significant are organized into a comprehensive set of categories and arranged within those categories. There are about a hundred such categories covering everything from names of people and places to psychic states. It could be thought of as a "digital concordance" as it includes the full text of The Tales and an index of every word used in The Tales, along with the frequency of its occurrence. However, note that it includes no references to the physical pages of any printed version of the book, so it is not a concordance in that sense.