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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson G. Gurdjieff

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson By G. Gurdjieff

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G. Gurdjieff


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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.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson Summary

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything by G. Gurdjieff

BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON is Gurdjieff's world-famous cosmological epic. It examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of beings belonging to a distant world, led by the 'all-wise Beelzebub'. Through this cosmological allegory - rich in humour, anecdote and linguistic elaboration - Gurdjieff demonstrates a methodology for the spiritual growth of all mankind.

About G. Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff was born in Alexanderpol in 1877 and trained both as a priest and physician. For some twenty years he travelled in the remotest regions of Central Asia and the Middle East, moulding his thought. On his return he began to gather pupils in Moscow, and from this base his ideas began to spread worldwide.

Table of Contents

Beelzebub's Tales to His GrandsonFirst Book
1. The Arousing of Thought
2. Introduction: Why Beelzebub Was in Our Solar System
3. The Cause of the Delay in the Falling of the Ship Karnak
4. The Law of Falling
5. The System of Archangel Hariton
6. Perpetual Motion
7. Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty
8. The Impudent Brat Hassein, Beelzebub's Grandson, Dares to Call Men Slugs
9. The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon
10. Why Men Are Not Men
11. A Piquant Trait of the Peculiar Psyche of Contemporary Man
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 upon the Planet Earth
16. The Relative Understanding of Time
17. The Arch-absurd: According to the Assertion of Beelzebub, Our Sun Neither Lights nor Heats
18. The Arch-preposterous
19. Beelzebub's Tales About His Second Descent onto the Planet Earth
20. The Third Flight of Beelzebub to the Planet Earth
21. The First Visit of Beelzebub to India
22. Beelzebub for the First Time in Tibet
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 Legominism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Under the Title of The Terror-of-the-Situation
27. The Organization for Man's Existence
28. The Chief Culprit in the Destruction of All the Very Saintly Labors of Ashiata Shiemash

Second Book
29. The Fruits of Former Civilizations and the Blossoms of the Contemporary
30. Art
31. The Sixth and Last Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth
32. Hypnotism
33. Beelzebub as Professional Hypnotist
34. Russia
35. A Change in the Appointed Course of the Falling of the Transspace Ship Karnak
36. Just a Wee Bit More About the Germans
37. France
38. Religion
39. The Holy Planet Purgatory

Third Book
40. Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Againt Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh
41. The Bokharian Dervish Hadji-Asvatz-Troov
42. Beelzebub in America
43. Beelzebub's Survey of the Process of the Periodic Reciprocal Destruction of Men, or Beelzebub's Opinion of War
44. 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
48. From the Author

Additional information

GOR001478259
9780140194739
0140194738
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything by G. Gurdjieff
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20000127
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