Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: Typescript Facsimile

by George Gurdjieff

Overview

All and Everything: Ten Books, in Three Series, of which this is the First Series.

FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of 'An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man, ' or, 'Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson.'
SECOND SERIES: Three books under the common title of 'Meetings with Remarkable Men.'
THIRD SERIES: Four books under the common title of 'Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am.' '

All written according to entirely new principles of logical reasoning and strictly directed towards the solution of the following three cardinal problems:

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.
SECOND SERIES: To acquaint the reader with the material required for a new creation and to prove the soundness and good quality of it.
THIRD SERIES: To assist the arising, in the mentation and in the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, non-fantastic representation not of that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the world existing in reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780957248144
Publisher:	Book Studio
Publication date:	01/23/2020
Series:	All and Everything , #1
Edition description:	1931 ed.
Pages:	638
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.28(d)

Table of Contents

BOOK ONE



1. Warning. (Instead of a preface).

2. Introduction: Why Beelzebub was on this Solar System.

3. The Reason for the Delay in the Falling of the Trans-space Ship 'Karnak'.

4. The Law of Falling.

5. The System of Archangel Hariton.

6. Perpetual Motion.

7. Being Aware of Genuine Being-Duty.

8. The Impudent Brat Hassein, Beelzebub's Grandson, Dares to Call Us 'Slugs'.

9. The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon.

10. Why "Men" are not Men.

11. A Piquant Trait of the Peculiarity of Man's Psyche.

12. The First Growl.

13. Why, in Man's Reason, Fantasy May be Perceived as Reality.

14. The Beginnings of Perspectives Promising Nothing Very Cheerful.

15. The First Descent of Beelzebub on the Earth.

16. The Relative Understanding of Time.

17. The Arch-Absurd. In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Our Sun, it Appears, Neither Lights nor Heats.

18. The Arch-Preposterous.

19. Beelzebub's Tales about His Second Descent on the Planet Earth.

20. The Third Flight of Beelzebub to the Planet Earth.

21. The First Visit of Beelzebub to India.

22. Beelzebub in Thibet for the First Time.

23. The Fourth Personal Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth.

24. Beelzebub's Flight to the Planet Earth for the Fifth Time.

25. The Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Sent from Above to the Earth.

26. The Legomonism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash under the Title of "The Terror of the Situation."

27. The Kind of Organization for Man's Existence Created by the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash.

28. The Chief Culprit of the Destruction of all the Very Saintly Labours of Ashiata Shiemash.

29. The Fruits of Former Civilizations and the Blossoms of the Contemporary.

30. Art.

BOOK TWO

31. The Sixth and Last Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Surface of our Earth

32. The Hypnotism.

33. Beelzebub Professional Hypnotist

34. Russia. Old Russia and the Cause of the New

35. The Change in the Pre-Determined Course of the Falling of the Inter-System Ship 'Karnak'.

36. Just a Wee Bit More about the Germans.

37. France

38. Religions: their Rise and Distortion.

39. The Holy Planet Purgatory. The Creation and Maintenance of the Universe. Man's Place in this Maintenance. The Transubstantiation of Forces in Man and his Highest Destiny.

40. The History Related by Beelzebub of how Men Learnt and Again Forgot about the Fundamental Universal Law of Heptaparaparshinokh.

41. The Bokharian Dervish Hadji-Asvatz-Troov's Experiment on the Law of Vibrations.

BOOK THREE

42. Beelzebub in America.

43. Beelzebub's Survey of the Process of the Periodic Reciprocal Destruction of Men.

44. Good and Evil. In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man's Understanding of Justice is for him in the Objective Sense an Accursed Mirage.

45. 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.

46. Beelzebub Explains to his Grandson the Significance of the Form and Sequence which he Chose for Expounding the Information Concerning Man.

47. The Inevitable Result of Impartial Mentation. Beelzebub's Opinion of the Sole Means for the Salvation of Man.

48. From the Author.

Editorial Reviews

“The teaching,” writes one, “was given in fragments—often in unexpected ways—and we had to learn to put the pieces together and connect them up through our observations and experiences.” However, the year 1924 was to prove a landmark for the teaching. It was in the late summer that Gurdjieff, slowly reassembling his forces after a near-fatal motor car accident, himself began during convalescence to put together in the form of a book those separated fragments. Work activities were reduced. Gurdjieff, while sustaining those pupils who remained, wrote incessantly, whether at Fontainebleau, or on his frequent motoring trips or seated at a table in the Café de la Paix in Paris where he had long been a familiar figure. All and Everything the book is called, not inaccurately, since it sets out to cover every aspect of the life of man. Into this vast allegory of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, top-heavy from its sheer weight of argument and at the same time soaring off into space, like a great, lumbering flying cathedral, Gurdjieff gathered the fundamentals of his teaching. Man, we are told, has an unique place and function in the cosmological scheme and enters into obligation by the fact of being born. The awareness of all this is not, however, a gift of Nature, neither are Individuality, Consciousness, Free Will and an Immortal Soul—these attributes, which man mistakenly believes he already possesses, have to be acquired by his own special efforts. Above all, the book repeatedly insists that man is asleep. It is only at the moment when he awakens, not merely to consciousness but to conscience—to Gurdjieff the words were, in fact, synonymous—that his true evolution can begin.

— P.L. Travers

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