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34 "This water space was convenient for my further traveling because the large river on the banks of which the city of Babylon stood, flowed into it, and we proposed to sail up the stream of this river in order to get there.

35 "During the period of the flow of time this 'incomparably-majestic' Babylon flourished in every respect. It was a 'center of culture' not only for the beings dwelling on the continent Ashark, but also for all the beings of all those other large and small terra firmas which were adapted to the needs of the ordinary being existence on that planet.

36 "At the time of my first arrival there in this 'center of culture' of theirs they were just preparing that ............ which was afterwards the principal cause of the acceleration of the rate of the degeneration of their 'psychic organization', especially in the sense of the atrophy in them of the instinctive functioning of those three fundamental factors which should exist in the presence of every kind of three-brained being, namely, those factors which give rise to those being-impulses which exist under the names of 'Faith, Hope and Love'.

37 "The decline of these being-factors by inheritance from generation to generation has brought it about that instead of a real being psyche, such as should exist in the presence of every kind of three-brained being, there now already exists in the presence of your contemporary favourites, although a 'real psyche' also, nevertheless one that can be very well defined by one of the wise sayings of our dear Mullar Nassr Eddin which consists of the following words: 'There is everything in it except core, or even kernel'.

38 "It is absolutely necessary to relate to you in as great detail as possible what occurred during that period in Babylon since all this information may serve you as valuable material for a better elucidation and transmutation in your reason of all of the causes which together have finally given rise to that strange psyche of the three centered beings, which psyche your contemporary favourties already have, and which has so much interested you.

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becomes for all those around him an object which evokes in their presence the functioning of that crystallized consequence of the property of the organ Kundabuffer which is called 'envy'.

51 "And the second fact consists in this that when in the presence of your favourites their chief particularity functions 'crescendantly', and according to the established custom among different communities of theirs, their process of the reciprocal destruction of each other's existence proceeds, then afterwards when this property only proper to themselves and maleficent for them, themselves, has run its course, and they temporarily cease these processes of theirs, then the Kind of that community in which a greater number of subjects remains unharmed, receiving the title of conqueror, usually takes for himself everything which is possessed by the beings of the conquered community.

52 "Such a King-conqueror 'there usually orders his subjects to take from the conquered all their lands, all the young beings of female sex present in the conquered community, and all that which is called 'riches' accumulated by them during centuries."

53 "And so, my boy, when the subjects of that said peculiar Persian King conquered the beings of another community he ordered them not to take, and even not to touch any of these, but to take with them as what are called 'captives' only all the learned beings present in the conquered community."

54 "Clearly to represent and transmute in yourself the understanding why in the individuality of that Persian Kind such a peculiar craze arose and became proper only to him, you must know that still at the period of the Tikliamish civilization, there in the town called 'Chiklaral', a three-brained learned being, by name 'Kharnakhoomoo', whose essence later became crustallized into what is called an 'eternal-hasnamus-individuum' invented that any old metal you like abundant in that planet, could easily be turned into the rare metal 'gold', and all that was necessary to know for this being just one very small 'secret'.

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being effectuated, so to say, in order that from this region of the surface of your
planet there should issue more of those vibrations arising from the destruction of being
existence.

67 "During this last explanation Hassein interrupted Beelzebub with the following
words:

68 "Dear Grandfather, I do not understand why, for the purpose of the effectua-
tion of this most great cosmic process, the issuing of the required vibrations should
depend on any definite region of the surface of the planet".

69 To this question of his grandson Beelzebub replied as follows:

70 "As before long I intend to make the special question of those terrifying
processes of reciprocal destruction which they call 'wars' the theme of my tales con-
cerning the three-brained beings of the planet Earth, it is better to defer this ques-
tion of yours also until this special tale, because then, I think, you will understand
it well".

71 Having said this Beelzebub again continued to relate about the Babylonian
events.

72 "When the peculiar Persian King I mentioned began, thanks to the hordes in
subjection to him, to conquer the beings of other communities and to seize by force
the learned among them, he assigned as a place for their congregation and existence the
said city of Babylon to which they were taken in order that this lord of half the then
continent of Asia could thereafter freely 'examine' them in the hope that one of them,
perhaps, might happen to know the secret of turning cheap metal in the metal gold.

73 "With the same aim he even made at that time a special what is called 'campai-
gn' into the country 'Egypt'.

74 "He then made this special campaign there because the learned beings of all the
continents of the planet were assembled there at that period, the opinion being widely
spread there that more information for their various 'sciences' was to be got in this
Egypt than anywhere else on their planet.

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140 "Some of his phrases even reached ordinary contemporary beings of the planet Earth, and among them was also this, namely, 'the Building of the Tower of Babel'.

141 "And contemporary beings now already quite clearly picture to themselves that once upon a time a certain tower was built in this said city of Babylon to enable beings to ascent to 'God Himself' in their planetary bodies.

142 "The contemporary beings of the planet Earth also say and are quite persuaded that during the building of this 'Babylonian Tower' a number of 'tongues' were confused.

143 "Altogether there reached the contemporary beings of the planet Earth a great many of such isolated expressions, uttered of fixed by various reasonable beings of former epochs concerning certain details of a complete understanding from the epoch when the 'center of culture' was Babylon, and also from other epochs; and your favourites of recent centuries, simply on the basis of these 'scraps have with their already quite 'babelish' reason, concocted such 'cock and bull' stories as our Arch-cunning Lucifer might envy.

144 "Among the many teachings then current in Babylon concerning the 'question of the 'beyond'', two had a large number of adherents though these teachings had nothing in common.

145 "And it was precisely these two teachings which began to pass from generation to generation, and to confuse their being'sane mentation', which had already been con-fused enough without them.

146 "Although, in the course of their transmission from generation to generation the details of both these teachings underwent change, nevertheless the fundamental ideas contained in them, remained unchanged, and have even reached down to contemporary times.

147 "Of these two teachings which then had many adherents in Babylon one was just the 'dualistic', and the other the 'atheistic', so that in one of them it was proved that they do contain this 'soul' and in the other quite the opposite, namely that they con-

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166 "Concerning 'Hell' it was said that it is a place of no vegetation, but it is always unimaginably hot, and without a drop of water.

167 "Sounds constantly echo in this 'Hell' of fearful 'cacophany' and infuriatingly offensive 'abuse'.

168 "Everywhere there are instruments of every conceivable torture from the 'Rack' and the 'Wheel' to instruments for lacerating bodies and mechanically rubbing them with salt, and so on, of the same kind.

169 "In the Babylonian 'Idealist' teaching it was minutely explained that in order for his 'soul' to enter this 'Paradise' the man must constatly strive while on Earth to provide most material for the ledger of the spirit 'Angel' sitting on his right shoulder, otherwise a superior amount would be provided for the records of the spirit sitting on the left shoulder, in which case such a man's soul would inevitably go to this most awful 'Hell'.

170 Here Hassein could not restrain himself, and suddenly interrupted with the following words:

171 "And which of their manifestations do they consider good and which bad?"

172 Beelzebub looked at his grandson with a very strange look, and shaking his head said as follows:

173 "Concerning this, which being-manifestations are there on your planet considered good and which bad, two independent understandings, having nothing in common with each other, have existed right from the most ancient times up to the present period, having passed from generation to generation.

174 "The first of these understanding exists there and passes from one generation to another among such three-brained beings there, as those members of the society Ahaldan who were on the continent Atlantis, and such as those who after the Transapalnian Perturbation', several centuries later again became beings, although of another kind, who, acquired almost the same in the foundations of their general presence and

## Chapter XXVI

The Legomonism Concerning the Deliberations of the very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash,
Under the Title of 'The Terror of the Situation'.

"The Legomonism", Beelzebub continued to speak, "through which the deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash were transmitted, had the following contents:

"It began with the following prayer:

"In the Name of the causes of my arising, I shall strive always to be just towards every already spiritualised origination, and toward all the originations of the future spiritualised manifestations of our Common Creator, Almighty Autocrat Endlessness, Amen.

"To me a trifling particle of the whole of the Great Whole, it was commanded from Above to be coated with the planetary body of a three-centred being of this planet and to assist all other such beings arising and existing upon it, in freeing themselves from the consequences of the properties of that organ, which for great and important reasons was actualised in the presences of their ancestors.

"All the sacred Individuums here before me, specially and intentionally actualised from Above, have always endeavoured while striving for the same aim, to accomplish the task laid upon them, through one or other of those three sacred paths for self-perfecting, fore-ordained by Our Endless Creator Himself-namely, through the sacred paths based on the being-impulses called 'Faith', 'Hope' and 'Love'.

"When I reached my seventeenth year, I began as commanded from Above, to prepare my planetary body in order, during my responsible existence, 'to be able to be' impartial.

"At this period of my self-preparation, I had the intention upon reaching responsible age, of carrying out the task laid upon me, through one or other of the said three sacred being-impulses also.

"But when during this period of my self-preparation, I chanced to meet many

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE CHIEF CULPRIT FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL THE VERY SAINTLY
LABOURS OF ASHIATA SHIEMASH

1. "You remember that I have already told you that the basis of the initia-
tive for the arising there of the factors which became the causes of the final
destruction of the still surviving remains of the beneficent results for the sub-
sequent generations of your favourites of the conscious labours of the VERY
SAINTLY Ashiata Shiemash did not issue from the scientific beings who were then
assembled from almost the whole of the surface of the Earth, in the city of Babylon;
but that these latter, - as it had long before become proper to the majority
of the terrestial scientists of 'new format' - were only, like 'carrier-germs', the
unconscious disseminators of every kind of evil, already arisen before them, both
for their own and for subsequent generations.

2. "As the basis for all the further great and small maleficent doings and unconscious maleficent manifestations of the scientific beings of that time, relative to the destruction of even the last remnants of the results, beneficent for the three-brained beings there, that were obtained from the very saintly conscious labours of the ESSENCE LOVING Ashiata Shiemash, there served - as my later detailed researches concerning his further very saintly activities made clear to me - the 'invention' of a scientific being, well-known there in his time, also belonging to the number of scientists of 'new format', named Lekkrohamsanin.

3. "In the presence of this terrestial three-brained being, the 'highest-being-part' was coated and perfected up to the required gradation of objective reason, and afterwards he became, as I have once already told you, one of the number of those 335 'highest-being-bodies' who are called 'eternal-hasnamus-individuums' and who have the place of their further existence in the Universe, on a small planet existing under the name of 'Retribution'.

4. "Now, strictly speaking, about this terrestial three-brained being Lekkrohamsanin, I would have to fulfil my promise and to explain to you in detail con-

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cerning the expression 'Hasnamus', but I prefer to do so a little later in the
proper place of the sequence of my given tale.

5. "And so, my boy, the mentioned maleficent 'invention', - or as they them-
selves, that is, the contemporary terrestial scientists, name such an invention of
a scientist there of 'new format', - 'composition' or even a 'creation' - was just
actualised, as I have already told you, two or more centuries before the time when,
during my fifth stay there, I first reached the city of Babylon, where partly by
coercion and partly voluntarily, scientific beings had been assembled there from
the surface of almost the whole of the planet.

6. "That maleficent 'invention' of that scientist of former centuries reached
the scientific beings of the said Babylonian epoch by means of what is called a
'Kashireitleer', on which this invention was engrossed by the said learned Lekk-
rohamsanin himself.

7. "It will do no harm to relate to you a little more in detail the story of
the arising of this Lekkrohamsanin and also how, owing to which accidental cir-
cumstances of his environment, he later became there a 'great scientist' and
'authority' for his contemporary beings of almost the whole surface of your planet.

8. "This must be explained to you because this story by itself is very char-
acteristic and can moreover serve as a clear indication of what three-brained being
in general there become what are called 'authorities' for other scientists of
'new format' there and hence for all the other unfortunate ordinary beings there.

9. "The details concerning the conditions of the arising and subsequent forma-
tion of this Lekkrohamsanin into a responsible being chanced to become clear to
me, by the way, during my investigations of, namely, which aspects taken to-
gether of the strange psyche of your favourites had served as the basis for the
gradual change and ultimately also for the total destruction of all those bene-
ficent special forms in the process of their being-existence, which had been grafted

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101. "In addition to several very undesirable consequences for the said Individuums themselves, in whom they arise - about which I shall later also explain to you in detail - this said 'something' has still another particularity, namely, that as soon as the action of what is called 'intense-effort' ceases in the presences of the given arising, it is always perceived and manifested according to some or other part of the mentioned 'Naloo-onossian-spectrum-of-impulses', as if there were not enough of that something like the first and second being-foods, and it thus helps the totality of the whole given presence to manifest itself 'harmfully-actingly', both for itself and for other independent Individuums around.

102. "From the total presence of every kind of three-brained being, there arise four kinds of the mentioned independent 'Hasnamus-Individuums'.

103. "The first kind arises, when the planetary body of a being becomes such a 'Hasnamus-Individuum' during its planetary existence.

104. "The second kind arises when there become Hasnamus-Individuums the 'Kesdjan-bodies' of the three-brained beings which are 'fulfilledly' coated in the total presences of the beings, and which acquire in themselves the property of 'Tirinoorind', that is, they are no longer subject to the property of decomposition in any sphere of that planet on which they arise.

105. "The third kind of 'Hasnamus-Individuum' issues from amongst those three-brained beings, in whose presence the highest 'being-body' is already 'fulfilledly' coated and perfected, in the sense of objective reason up to the corresponding gradation, and who have also acquired in themselves the property 'Tirinoorino' not only as regards the sphere of that planet on which they arise, but also in all the other spheres of the Universe, until that time where there proceeds in the presence of the given Individuum what is called the 'complete-transformation of this said 'something'.

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106. "The fourth kind of 'Hasnamus-Individuum' is similar to the third, but with this difference that for the Hasnamus of the third kind there is possibility of at some time obtaining the mentioned transformation, whereas for this fourth kind that possibility is already lost forever. Hence this fourth kind of Hasnamus is called the 'Eternal-Hasnamus-Individuum'.

107. "All the four said independent kinds of 'Hasnamus-Individuum' who may have their arising in the total presence of any three-brained beings, on account of the acquisition and the existence of the said 'something' in their presences, completely lose, firstly, any possibility of crystallising in themselves the divine data for the arising of the sacred impulse of 'Objective-Conscience'; and secondly, after the sacred process of 'Rascooarno' and pending the elimination from their presence of the action of the said 'something', they must inevitably be subject to the corresponding.

108. "And, namely, in the Hasnamuses of the first kind, that is to say, when the said 'something' is acquired by beings still consisting only of just a 'planetary-body' alone, the decomposition of their planetary body does not proceed according to the general rule. In other words, the ceasing to function of the various kinds of what are called 'self-sensible impulses' does not simultaneously proceed in their presence with the approach of the sacred 'Rascooarno'.

109. "But in them the process of the sacred 'Rascooarno' begins still during their planetary existence and proceeds in parts, that is, one by one there gradually cease to participate in their total presence the functionings of separate, what are called, 'Complexes' of some of their independent spiritualised 'localisations', or, as your favourites would say there, -

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presences themselves of these cosmic Individuums and which are called 'intentional suffering'.

114. "Such cosmic arising, therefore, must inevitably suffer correspondingly, until the time when they shall have succeeded in eradicating this 'something' from their presence.

115. "For the existence and suffering of these 'Hasnamus-Individuums' who arise from amongst the 'highest-being-bodies', there are even intentionally allotted and preserved in the Universe, four small planets situated in various most remote corners of our great Universe.

116. "One of these four small planets, called 'Retribution', is specially prepared for the 'eternal-Hasnamus-Individuums'; and the other three are for the 'highest-being-bodies' of those Hasnamuses in whose presences there is still the possibility of eliminating from themselves at some time or other, the said undesirable 'something'.

117. "These three small planets exist under the names of:
(1). 'Remorse of Conscience'.
(2). 'Repentance'.
(3). 'Self-Reproach'.

118. "Here it is interesting to notice that from among the number of all the highest-being-bodies which have been coated and perfected in every kind of exterior form of three-brained beings, there have, so far, reached the planet 'Retribution' from the whole Universe only three hundred and thirty five; and one of them is just the 'highest-being-part' of the said Lek-krohamsanin of the planet Earth.

119. "On that planet 'Retribution' those 'eternal-Hasnamus-Individuums' must constantly endure those incredible sufferings called 'Inkiranoodel', which are like the sufferings called 'Remorse of Conscience', but still more terrible, their chief terror being this, that these 'highest-being-bodies' must always undergo those horrible sufferings with the consciousness of complete hopelessness.

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120. "As regards the 'Kaloo-onossian-spectrum-of-impulses' which I spoke of, on account of which certain separate cosmic arising are transformed into Hasnamuses, then, on the basis of the chief cosmic law the sacred Eptapararshinoch, this spectrum has the essence to be the source of the 'perception-for-the-bringing-forth' and 'manifestation' of seven heterogeneous, what are called, 'aspects'. And these 'aspects', if characterised according to the ideas of your favourites and defined in their conversational language, may be called as follows:

(1). Conscious and unconscious depravity of every kind.

(2). Self-satisfaction from leading others astray.

(3). The urge to destroy the existence of other breathing things.

(4). The urge to succeed in never actualising being-effort.

(5). The wish to conceal one's defects under the cloak of pretence.

(6). Calm self-content in the use of what is not personally deserved.

(7). The striving not to be what one is; and thus never to be aware or to sense one's real place in the Universe; and neither to give to others what is due, nor what corresponds, nor what is, in fact, deserved.

121. "And so, my boy, from the time that your favourites made a 'clean sweep' from the surface of their planet of every kind of result of the veryointly conscious labours of ASHIATA SHIEMASH, their separate communities gradually arose again in great numbers as before, under those two forms of what is called 'subjective-ordering' which they themselves call 'hereditary monarchy' and 'republic'.

122. "And in connection with these 'state-organisations' and established for these 'inner-subjective-orderings', there again began to exist there terrors for all the beings of that ill-starred planet."

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11. Mainly there then existed on that continent, two brained and one brained beings called 'wild-quadrupeds' and 'reptiles' but of your favourites, the biped beings, there were then on that continent only a number of small groups, almost as 'wild' as the 'quadrupeds' themselves.

12. The occupation of these small groups of biped beings was just the destruction of the 'quadruped' and 'reptile' beings, - and occasionally also of each other.

13. And the number of your favourites on that continent Europe only increased when emigrants from Naralpleissee, wandering from one place to another, finally arrived and settled there.

14. Towards the close of that period there migrated from Tiklichamish to that continent Europe a number of beings of the first Asiatic group who had two quite different professions; namely, some of them were engaged in various marine occupations, and others in what are called there 'cattle-raising' and 'sheep-farming'.

15. The cattle-raising families populated chiefly the southern shores of the continent, because those parts were at that time very convenient for the maintainance and grazing of such quadruped beings.

16. And that group of terrestrial beings was then called 'Latinaki', a word that signified 'shepherds'.

17. At first these shepherds existed with their families and flocks scattered in different places. But later on their numbers gradually grew, partly from the immigration of beings from the continent Asia having the same profession as themselves, and partly because they were becoming more

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and more prolific, for the reason that the Nature of the planet Earth had begun to adapt herself to the deteriorating quality of the vibrations she demanded and that had to be formed from their radiations, by substituting those vibrations which are now already obtained only from the process of their sacred 'Rascooarno', or, as they say - 'from their death'.

18. And thus, when thanks to all this, their numbers had considerably increased and external conditions demanded frequent relations between separate families, they formed their first common place, and this common place they called 'Rink'.

19. It was that group of Asiatic shepherds that the later famous Romans just originated; their name having been taken from the name of their first common place 'Rimk'.

20. Those Asiatic beings who were engaged in 'marine occupations', namely, in fishing and in gathering sponges, coral, and seaweed, emigrated with their families for the convenience of their profession and settled either on the western shores of their own continent Ashark or on the southeastern shores of the continent Europe, or on the island of the Straits which still divide the continents Asia and Europe.

21. The beings of those newly-formed groups of three brained terrestrial beings were then called 'Hellenaki', - a word that meant 'Fishermen'.

22. The number of the beings of that group, also, gradually increased owing to the same causes already mentioned respecting the group of shepherds.

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23. The names of the beings of this second group changed many times and finally they came to be called 'Greeks'.

24. And so, my dear boy.

25. The beings of just these two groups were one of the chief causes that the Reasons of the contemporary favourites of yours have become mech- anical, and that there have become completely atrophied in them the data for evoking the impulse of being-shame.

26. The greeks were the cause why the Reasons of the three brained beings there began gradually to degenerate and become at last so degenerate that among contemporary beings it is already as our dear Mullar Nassir Eddin says, 'a real nonsense mill'.

27. And the Romans were the cause why in the result of successive changes, those factors are never crystallised in the presences of the con- temporary three brained beings there, which in other three brained beings evoke the impulse called 'instinctive-shame'; that is to say, the being- impulse that maintains what are called 'morality' and 'objective morality'.

28. Thus it was that those two communities arose there, which afterwards, as it often happens there, became very solid and powerful for a definite period. And the history of their further maleficent "prepared inheritance" for the beings of subsequent generations is as follows:

29. According to the investigations of our countryman, it seems the earliest ancestors of the beings of the community, which was later called 'Greece', were often obliged, on account of the frequent storms at sea which hindered them in their 'marine occupations', to seek shelter during the rains and winds, in quiet places, where just from boredom, they played various

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'games' which they invented for their distraction.

30. As it later became clear, there ancient fishermen amused themselves at first with such 'games' as children now play there, but children, it must be noticed, who have not yet started the contemporary schooling, - because the children there who do go to school have so much homework to do, consisting chiefly of learning by rote the 'poetry' which various candidate Hasnamusses have composed there, that the poor children never have time to play any 'game'.

31. Briefly, these poor bored fishermen played at first the ordinary 'children's games' already established there long before; but afterwards when one of them invented a new game called 'Pouring from the empty into the empty', they were all so tickled with it that thereafter, they amused themselves with that alone.

32. This game consisted in formulating some question or other, always about some 'fiddle-faddle' or other, that is to say, a question about some deliberate piece of absurdity, and the one to whom the question was addressed had to give as plausible an answer as possible.

33. Well, it was just this same game that became the cause of all that happened later.

34. It turned out that among those ancient bored fishermen, were a number so 'clever' and 'ingenious' that they got to be expert in inventing, according to the principles of that peculiar 'game', very long explanations.

35. And when one of them discovered how to make what was afterwards called 'parchment' from the skin of the fish called 'shark', then some of these

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skilful fellows, just to 'swagger' before their companions, even began en-
grossing these long explanations of theirs on these fish skins, employing
those conventional signs which had been invented earlier, for another game
the 'Mouse-trap'.

36. Still a little later, when these bored fishermen had already given
place to their descendants, both these engrossed fish-skins and the craze
for the said peculiar 'game' passed to the latter by inheritance; and these
various new inventions, both their own and their ancestors, they called first
by the very high-sounding name, - 'Sciences'.

37. And thus in course of time the craze for cooking up these 'sciences'
passing from generation to generation, the beings of that group, whose en-
cestors had been simple Asiatic fishermen, became 'specialists' in invent-
ing every sort of such 'sciences' as these.

38. These 'sciences', moreover, also passed from generation to generation
and a number of them have reached the contemporary beings of that planet
almost unchanged.

39. And hence it is that a good half of what are called the 'Egoplasticurians' arising in the Reason of the contemporary beings of that ill-starred planet, from which, what is called a 'being-world-view' is in general formed in beings, - are crystallised just from the 'truths' invented there by those bored fishermen and their subsequent generations.

40. Concerning the ancient shepherds, who later formed the great powerful community called 'Rome', their ancestors also were often forced, on account of bad weather, to put their flocks into sheltered places, and to pass the time together somehow or other.

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41. Being together, they had 'various talks'. But when everything had been talked out and they felt bored, then one of them suggested that as a relief they should take up the pastime which they then called for the first time 'Cinque contra uno', an occupation which has been preserved to the present time under the same name, among their descendants who continue to arise and to exist there.

42. So long as only the beings of the male sex then engaged in that business, everything went 'slowly-and-peacefully', but when a little later their 'passive-halves' also joined in, that is to say, their women, and who at once appreciating it, soon became addicted to it - they just then gradually attained in these 'occupations', such 'finesses' that even if our All-universal Arch-cunning Lucifer should rack his honourable brains, he could not even invent a tithe of the 'turns' these erstwhile shepherds then invented and 'prepared' for the beings of the succeeding generations of that ill-starred planet.

43. And so, my boy, when both these independent groupings of terrestrial three brained beings multiplied and began acquiring every variety of those effective 'means', whose acquisition is the usual aim of all communities there during all periods of their existence, namely, the 'means' of reciprocal destruction, they then began carrying out these 'processes' with other independent communities there - for the most part, of course, with the less powerful communities - and occasionally among themselves.

44. Here it is extremely interesting to notice that when periods of 'peace' occurred between these two communities there - communities of almost equal strength - in respect of the possession of efficient 'means' for the processes of 'reciprocal destruction' - the beings of both groups, the places of their existence being adjacent, often came into contact and had

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friendly relations with each other; with the result that little by little they then picked up from each other those specialities which had first been invented by their ancestors and which had become proper to them. In other words, the result of the frequent contact of the beings of those two communities was that the Greek beings; borrowing from the Roman beings all the finesses of sexual 'turns', began arranging their what are called 'Athenian-nights', while the Roman beings, having learned from the Greek beings how to cook up 'sciences', composed their later very famous what is called 'Roman law'.

45.2 A great deal of time has passed since then. The authors of both those kinds of being manifestation have already long been destroyed, and their descendants who chanced to become 'powerful' have been destroyed also. Yet no..... the contemporary three brained beings of that planet, spend even with emotion, more than half their existence and being-energy-acquired somehow or other - in unconsciously and sometimes even consciously, absorbing and actualising those two ideals, the initiators of whose arising were the said bored Asiatic 'fishermen' and 'shepherds'.

46. And so, my boy, later on, it seems, when both these groupings among your favourites acquired many of the said efficient 'means' for the successful destruction of the existence of beings like themselves, and when they had become practised in persuading or by the potency of their 'means', compelling - the beings of other countries to exchange their inner convictions for those ideals invented by their ancestors there, then, as I have said, they first conquered the neighbouring communities situated on the continent Europe, and afterwards with the help of the hordes they collected during that period, turned towards the continent Asia for the same purpose.

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47. And there already on the continent Asia, they began spreading that maleficent influence of theirs, first among the beings populating the Western shores of that continent, - beings in whom, as I have already said, being-impulses of a more or less normal being-existence had been cultivated for centuries - and afterwards, they gradually began advancing into the interior.

48. This advance of theirs into the interior of the continent Asia proceeded very successfully, and their ranks were constantly being increased, chiefly because the scientists who had been in Babylon then continued everywhere on the continent Asia to infect the Reasons of beings with their Hasnamussian political ideas.

49. And they were also helped very much by the fact that there were still preserved in the instincts of the Asiatic beings, the results of the influences of the 'initiates' and 'priests', disciples of the VERY SAINTLY ASHIATA SHIEMASH, who in their preachings had inculcated among other things, one of the chief commandments of Ashiata Shiemash which declared:

50. 'Do not kill another even when your own life is in danger'.

51. Profiting by all this, these former fishermen and shepherds could very easily advance, destroying on the way all those who declined to workship the 'gods' they themselves had finally acquired, that is to say, their fantastic 'sciences' and their phenomenal depravity.

52. At first these 'sowers of evil' for all the three brained beings there of all the succeeding generations arising on the continent Europe, and especially the Greeks, in their movement into the interior of the continent Asia, acted if slowly nevertheless essentially.

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53. But when some time later, there appeared and stood at the head of what is called an 'army', that 'fulfilledly-formed' 'Arch-vain-glorious Greek', the future Hasnamus Alexander of Macedonia, then from that time on there just began to proceed the said 'clean sweep' of the last remnants of the results of the very saintly intentional labours of our now COMMON COSMIC MOST VERY SAINTLY ASHIATA SHIEMASH, and again there was resumed, as it is said, the 'old, old story'.

54. Although every time the place of the centre of culture has been changed, among your favourites, those strange three brained beings, and what is called a new 'civilisation' has arisen, and each new 'civilisation' has brought for the beings of succeeding epochs something both new and maleficent, nevertheless, not one of these numerous 'civilisations' has ever prepared so much evil for the beings of later epochs, including of course the contemporary epoch, as that same infamous Greco-Roman civilisation.

55. Not to mention the large number of other and minor psychic features, unbecoming to the possessed by three brained beings, and now existing in the presences of your favourites, that civilisation is mainly to blame for the complete disappearance from the presences of the three brained beings of succeeding generations, and especially of the contemporary beings of the possibilities for crystallising the data for 'sane-logical-mentation' and for evoking the impulse of 'being-self-shame'.

56. Namely, the 'ancient-Greek-fantastic-sciences' served for the complete atrophy of the former, and the 'ancient-Roman-depravity' for the latter.

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57. In the early period of that Greco-Roman civilisation, the said maleficent impulses, which have now become being-impulses, namely, the 'passion-for-inventing-fantastic-sciences' and the 'passion-for-depravity', was proper to the Greek and Roman beings alone; when, as I have already said, the beings of both these communities chanced afterwards to acquire the said strength and began coming into contact with and influencing the beings of other communities, the beings of many other communities of your unfortunate favourites, gradually began to be infected by these peculiar and unnatural being-impulses.

58. This took place, on the one hand, as I have already said, owing to the constant influence of both these communities, and, on the other hand, owing to that peculiarity of their psyche - common to all the three brained beings of that planet, and already well fixed in it before this - which is called there 'imitation'.

59. And thus, little by little these 'inventions' of those two ancient communities have brought it about that already, at the present time, the psyche of your favourites - shaky enough already before there has now become so unhinged in all of them without exception, that both their 'world-outlook' and the whole ordering of their ordinary existence in general, rest and proceed exclusively on the basis of those two said 'inventions' of the beings of that 'Greco-Roman-civilisation', namely, on the bases of fantasying, and of striving-for-sexual-gratification.

60. Here it is very interesting to notice that although, as I have already told you, thanks to the inheritance from the ancient Romans the 'organic-self-shame' - proper to the three brained beings - has gradually entirely disappeared from the presences of your favorites, nevertheless there has arisen in them in its place something rather like it. Of this

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pseudo-being impulse, which they also call 'shame', there is all you like,
in the presences of your contemporary favourites, but the data for its
bringing-forth, just as of all the rest, are quite singular.

61. This being-impulse arises in their presence only when they do something which under their abnormally established conditions of ordinary being-existence is not acceptable to be done before others.

62. But if nobody sees what they do, then nothing they do- even if in their own consciousness and their own feeling it should be undesirable - evokes any such impulse in them.

63. The 'bliss' prepared there by the ancient Romans has in recent times already so penetrated the nature of your favourites breeding on all the continents of that ill-starred planet, that it is even difficult to say which beings of which contemporary communities have inherited most from these 'obliging' Romans.

64. But as regards the inheritance passed down from the ancient Greeks, namely, the passion for inventing various fantastic 'sciences', this passion has not become proper to all the three brained beings of contemporary time equally, but it has passed down only to certain beings arising among the beings of all the contemporary, both large and small communities, breeding on all the terra-firm parts of the surface of that peculiar planet.

65. Proportionately, this passion, namely, 'to-invent-fantastic-sciences', has passed down by heredity from the ancient Greeks mainly to the beings of the contemporary community, existing there under the name of 'Germany'.

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quired the possibility of inventing and they do now almost every day invent here or there some such new invention or 'new means' and, employing them in the process of their existence, they have now already brought it about that poor Nature there - already infected, through no fault of her own, without this - is scarcely able to actualise what are called her 'evolving' and 'involving' processes.

71. For your clear representation and better understanding, how, namely, these contemporary direct heirs have surpassed their 'legators', I must explain to you now also about certain 'means' existing there now at the present time and already widely used which owe their existence exclusively to these 'Nature-helping' direct heirs of ancient Greece.

72. I will explain to you certain of these means there, now existing and in use everywhere, which have been 'invented' by the beings just of that contemporary community 'Germany'.

73. I should like first to emphasise, by the way, one very odd phenomenon, namely, that these contemporary 'substitutes' for the ancient Greeks gives names to their said maleficent 'inventions' names which for some reason or other all end in 'ine'.

74. As examples of the very many particularly-maleficent 'inventions' of those German beings, let us take just those five of what are called 'chemical-substances', now existing their under the names of 1) Satkaine, 2) Aniline, 3) Cocaine, 4) Atropine, 5) Alisarine, and which chemical substances are used there at the present time by the beings of all the continents and islands, as our dear Mullar Nassir Eddin says: 'Without moderation'.

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75. The first of the enumerated means - specially invented by the German beings - namely 'Satkeine' is nothing else but 'Samookoorooasar', that is to say, one of those seven what are called 'neutralising-gases' which arise and are always present in the general presence of each planet and which talks part in the 'accomplishing-crystallisation' of every definite planetary and interplanetary formation, and which in separated states are always and everywhere, what are called, 'indiscriminate-destroyers-of-the-already-arisen'.

76. About this German invention, I once also learned there among other things, that when one of the beings of that community, for reasons I recently described, happened to obtain this gas from some 'surplanetary' and 'intraplanetary' definite formations, and noticed in the said way its particularity, and told several others about it, then these others, owing to the fact that there was then proceeding in the presences of the beings of their community, consequently in them themselves, what is called 'the-most-intense-experiencing' of the chief peculiarity of the psyche of the three brained beings of your planet, namely, 'the-urgent-need-to-destroy-the-existence-of-others-like-themselves'; and indeed, the beings of that community were then quite absorbed in their process of reciprocal destruction with the beings of neighbouring communities- these others thereupon at once 'enthusiastically' decided to devote themselves entirely to finding means to employ the special property of that gas for the speedy mass destruction of the existence of the beings of other communities.

77. Having begun their practical researches with this in view, one of them soon discovered that if this gas is concentrated in a pure state in such a way that it could be freely liberated in any given space at any given time it could easily be employed for the mentioned aim.

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78. That was enough, and from that time on, this gas, artificially isolated from the general harmony of the actualisation of everything existing, began to be liberated in a certain way into space by all the other ordinary beings of that community during the process of reciprocal destruction, just when and just where the greatest number of beings of other, as they are called, 'hostile' communities were grouped.

79. When this isolated particularly-poisonous cosmic-substance is intentionally liberated into the atmosphere under the said conditions, and then, striving to reblend with other corresponding cosmic substances if it should enter the planetary bodies of three brained beings nearby, it instantly and completely destroys their existence, or, at best, permanently injures the functioning of one or other part of their general presence.

80. The second of the 'chemical-substances' I enumerated, namely, 'Aniline', is that chemical colouring substance, by means of which most of those surplanetary formations can be dyed from which the three brained beings there just make all kinds of each objects as they need in the process of their ordinary being-existence.

81. Although thanks to that 'invention' your favorites can now dye any object any colour, what the lastingness of the existence of these objects becomes - ah, just there lies their famous Bismarck's 'pet cat'.

82. Before ever that maleficent Aniline existed, the objects produced by your favorites for their ordinary existence, such, for instance, as what are called 'carpets', 'pictures' and various articles of wool, wood and skin, were dyed with simple vegetable dyes, which they had learned

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during centuries how to obtain, and these just-enumerated objects would formerly last from five to ten and even fifteen of their centuries.

83. But now, thanks merely to this Aniline, or to dyes of other names into which this same Aniline enters as the basis, there remains of the objects dyed with these new colours, at most after about thirty years, only perhaps the memory of them.

84. I must also say that the beings of the contemporary community Germany have been the cause not only that thanks to this maleficent Aniline, the productions of all the contemporary beings of this planet are quickly destroyed, but also that productions from ancient times have almost ceased to exist on that ill-starred planet.

85. This latter occurred because for various Hasnamussian purposes and for their notorious, as they call them, 'scientific aims' they collected the surviving ancient productions from all countries and not knowing how to preserve ancient objects, they only hastened their speedy destruction.

86. But they used and still use those 'antiques' they collected as 'models' for 'cheap goods' which are everywhere known on that ill-starred planet by the name of 'Ersatz'.

87. As for the third of the enumerated chemical substances they 'invented', namely, Cocaine, that chemical substance not only also is of great assistance to Nature in more rapidly decomposing the planetary formations - in this instance, their own planetary bodies - but this chemical means has an effect on the psyche of the contemporary beings of the planet Earth, surprisingly similar to that which the famous organ Kundabuffer had on the psyche of their ancestors.

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88. When their ancestors had that invention in themselves of the Great Angel Louisos, then thanks to it, they were always exactly in the same state as the contemporary beings are when they take this German invention called 'Cocaine'.

89. I must warn you my boy, of course that even if the action of that German invention was similar to the action of the famous organ Kundabuffer, it happened without any conscious intention on the part of the contemporary beings of the community Germany; they became colleagues of the great Angel Louisos only by chance.

90. At the present time almost all the beings who become genuine representatives of contemporary civilisation very meticulously and with the greatest delight and tenderness introduce into themselves this 'blessing' of contemporary civilisation, of course, always to the glory, as our dear Mullar Nassar Eddin says, of the 'one-eyed-General'.

91. The fourth of the enumerated chemical substances, namely, 'Atropine' is also everywhere there in great demand at the present time for a great variety of purposes; but its most common use is for a certain exceedingly odd purpose.

92. It seems that thanks to the same abnormally established conditions there of ordinary being-existence, their organ of sight has acquired the property of regarding the faces of others as good and pleasing, only when they have dark eyes.

93. And when this chemical substance, called 'atropine', is in a certain way introduced into the eyes of beings, the pupils become dilated and darker; and, because of this, most of them introduce this 'Atropine' into their eyes, in order that their faces may appear good and pleasing to others.

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94. And, truly, my dear boy, those terrestrial beings who introduce this 'German blessing' into their eyes do have very 'dark eyes' until they are 45.

95. I said until 45, because so far there has never been a case there when a being using this means could see and still continue its use; after 45.

96. 'Alisarine', the fifth and last of the enumerated inventions, is also everywhere wide-spread.

97. And that 'blessing' of contemporary civilisation is used there chiefly by, what are called, 'confectioners' and such other specialists as prepare for the other beings of that planet most 'tasty' articles for their first food.

98. The 'confectioners' and other professionals there who prepare the said tasty articles for the first food of the rest of your favourites use this same German 'sure-fire' composition, Alisarine, of course unconsciously, for that purpose which has there already finally become the ideal for the whole of the contemporary civilisation, the purpose expressed in the language of our honoured Mullar Nassir Eddin in the following words: 'As long as everything looks fine and dandy to me, what does it matter if the grass doesn't grow!'

99. Anyhow, my boy, those contemporary substitutes for the beings of ancient Greece are already now a great help to poor Nature - though only in the process of decomposition - with all their practical attainments based on the 'sciences' they have themselves invented.

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It is not for nothing that our dear Mullar Nassir Eddin has the following
wise expression: Better to pull ten hairs a day out of your mother's head,
than not to help Nature.

100. Strictly speaking, the capacity to cook up 'fantastic sciences'
and to devise even new methods for ordinary being-existence there, did not
pass from the ancient Greeks to the beings of that contemporary community
Germany alone; the same capacity was perhaps not less also inherited by
the beings of another contemporary community, also an independent one, and
also in her turn enjoying dominion.

101. That other contemporary community of your favourites is called
'England'.

102. There has even passed from ancient Greece to the beings of that
second contemporary community, England, and directly to them alone, one of
their most maleficent inventions which the beings of that contemporary com-
munity has most thoroughly adopted, and now actualise in practice.

103. This particularly maleficent 'invention' of theirs, the ancient
Greeks called 'Diapharon', and the contemporary beings call 'Sport'.

104. About this contemporary 'Sport' there, I shall explain to you in
as much detail as possible at the end of my tale; but you must know, in
the meanwhile, that though the beings of that community England also now
invent large quantities of the various new objects required by your fav-
ourites in the process of their ordinary being-existence, nevertheless they
do not invent chemical substances like the beings of the contemporary
community Germany, no.... they invent chiefly what are called 'metal-goods'.

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105. Especially in recent times, they have become expert in inventing and in distributing to the beings existing over the whole of the surface of your planet, vast quantities of every kind of the 'metal-goods' called there locks, razors, mouse-traps, revolvers, scythe machine-guns, saucepans, hinges, guns, penknives, cartridges, pens, mines, needles and many other things of the same kind.

106. And ever since the beings of this contemporary community started inventing these practical objects, the ordinary existence of the three brained beings of your planet has been, just as our dear Mullar Nassir Eddin says, 'not-life-but-jam-gratis'.

107. The beings of that contemporary community has been the benefactors of the other contemporary beings of your planet, offering them, as they say there, 'philanthropic aid', especially as regards their first being-duty, namely, the duty of carrying out from time to time the process of 'reciprocal destruction'.

108. Thanks to them, the discharge of that being-duty of theirs has gradually become for your contemporary favourites, 'the merest-trifle'.

109. In the absence of these inventions it used to be exceedingly arduous for these poor favourites of yours to fulfil that being-duty, because, they were formerly forced to spend a good deal of sweat in it.

110. But, thanks to the adaptations of every kind invented by those contemporary beings, it is now as our esteemed Mullar Nassir Eddin again says, 'just roses-roses'.

111. The contemporary beings now scarcely need make any effort whatsoever in order to destroy completely the existence of beings like themselves.

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112. Sometimes sitting quietly in what they call their 'smoke-rooms', they can destroy, just as a pastime, as it were, tens and sometimes even hundred of others like themselves.

113. It will do no harm, I think, to tell you now a little about the still-existing direct descendants of the beings of the mentioned Greek-Roman civilisations also.

114. The descendants of the beings of the once 'great' and powerful community Greece there, still continue to exist and also to have their own independent community, but for the other independent communities there, they have at the present time scarcely any significance whatever.

115. They already no longer do as their ancestors did there, who were dyed-in-the-wool specialists in cooking up all kinds of 'fantastic sciences'; for it a contemporary Greek did also cook up a new 'science', the beings of the other communities of the present time would not pay the smallest attention to it.

116. And they would pay no attention to it, chiefly because that community has not at the present time enough of what are called 'guns' and 'ships', to be what is called an authority for other contemporary beings there.

117. But though the descendants of the former great Greeks, namely the Greeks of the present time, have lost the trick of being, what is called, a 'fancy-authority', for other three brained beings there - which has already become proper to their presence - they have now perfectly adapted themselves there on almost all the continents and islands to keeping, what are called, 'shops', where without any haste, slowly and gently, they trade in what are called, 'sponges', 'halva', 'Rakhat Lokoum', 'Turkish delight', etc., and sometimes 'Persian dried fruits', never forgetting the dried fish called 'Kefal'.

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118. And as for the descendants of the famous Romans, although they too still continue to arise and exist, they no longer even carry the name of their ancestors, though they still call the chief place of their community, by the consonance 'Rome'.

119. The contemporary beings of the community formed by the descendants of those former shepherds, afterwards the great Romans, are called by the other beings there, 'Italians'.

120. Except for that specific being-impulse which first on that planet, the ancient Roman beings crystallised in their presences, and which subsequently spread gradually to all the other three brained beings of that planet, scarcely anything else had passed by heredity from their ancestors to these beings called Italians.

121. The beings of that contemporary community Italy exist at the present time very quietly and peacefully, doing nothing more than unostentatiously inventing ever new forms of their harmless, what is called, 'mcaroni'.

122. Nevertheless, there had passed to certain beings of that contemporary Italy, by heredity from their ancestors, one special and very peculiar 'property' called, 'giving-pleasure-to-others'.

123. Only they manifest his inherited need, that is to say, this 'giving-pleasure' not towards beings there like themselves, but to the beings of other forms.

124. It must in fairness be said that the said special property came to the beings of various parts of contemporary Italy not from the great Romans alone; this inherited property became more naturalised by their ancestors

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of considerably later epochs, namely, at the time when they began 'spreading'
among other beings both of their own community and of the neighbouring weak-
er communities, the doctrines, already changed for their egoistic purposes,
of a certain genuine 'sacred-messenger-from-Above'.

125. At the present time the beings of various parts of contemporary Italy, actualise there this property of 'giving-pleasure-to-others' in the following way:

126. The existence of the quadruped beings called 'Sheep' and 'goats' - whose planetary bodies they also use for their first food - they do not destroy all at once; but in order to give this 'pleasure' they do it 'slowly' and 'gently' over a period of many days; that is to say, one day, they take off one leg, then a few days later, a second leg, and then the third and so on, for as long as the 'sheep' or 'goat' still breathes. And sheep and goats can breathe without the said parts of their general presence for a very long time, because, in the main functions of the 'perceiving' of cosmic substances for the possibility of existing, these parts do not participate, though they do in the functions which actualise those impulses in the beings which give self-sensation.

127. After what I have already said, there seems no need to say any more about the descendants of those Romans who were once so 'menacing' and so 'great' for the other communities there..

128. Now let us talk about that particularly maleficent 'invention' of the ancient Greeks, which is being actualised there in practice at the present time by the beings of the contemporary community, there called England, and which invention they call 'Sport'.

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129. Not only have the beings of the contemporary community, England, - namely, those beings who chiefly actualise during the process of their ordinary existence this particularly-maleficent invention of the Ancient Greeks - thereby added thanks to its maleficent consequences, one more sure-fire-factor, personally for them themselves, for the contraction of the duration of their existence - already trifling enough without that - but also, in addition, that, experiencing in their turn the 'greatness' of their community, which coincides with the present time, that are in consequence authorities for three brained beings there; and, furthermore, because they have made the actualising of the invention in practice their ideal, and its spreading their aim - then in consequence of all this, they, at the present time, by every possible means 'strongly' infect the beings of all other both large and small communities of that ill-starred planet with that invention of theirs.

130. The basis also for that very very serious misconception there was the disappearance from the general presence of those favourites of yours of the possibility of the crystallisation in them of those factors from which 'logical-mentation' is actualised in the three brained beings.

131. And in consequence of the absence in them of this 'logical-mentation', all of them almost without exception, merely because certain candidates for Hasnamus there have asserted that they could attain something 'good' for themselves by means of this same sport, - an assertion they believe with all their presence - have now, in the hope of attaining this same 'something', given themselves up 'entirely' to that sport.

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132. None of these unfortunates know and probably never will reminate that not only is nothing good obtained by them from this magnificent 'sport' of theirs, as I have already told you, solely on its account alone, they still further shorten the duration of their existence which is already sufficently trifling without this.

133. So that you may better represent to yourself and understand why the duration of their existence is being still further diminished on account of this sport, it is here in place to explain to you a little more in detail about what I have already promised you to explain, namely, the difference between the duration of being-existence according to the 'Foolasnitamnian' principle and according to the 'Itoklanoz' principle.

134. You remember that when I explained to you how these favourites of yours define the 'flow-of-time', I said that when the organ Kundabuffer with all its properties was removed from their presences, and they began to have the same duration of existence as all normal three brained beings arising everywhere in our Universe, that is, according to what is called the 'Foolasnitamnian' principle, they also should then have existed without fail until their 'second-being-body-Kesdjan' had been fulfilledly coated in them and finally perfected by Reason up to the sacred 'Ishmech'.

135. But later, when they began existing in a manner more and more unbecoming for three brained beings and entirely ceased actualising in their presences their being 'Partkdolgduty', foreseen by great Nature, by means of which alone, it is possible for the three brained beings to acquired in their presences the data for 'coating' there said higher-parts, and when, in consequence of all this,

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the quality of their radiations failed to respond to the demands of the
Most Great Common Cosmic Trogoaftoegocratic process, - then it was that
great Nature was complelled for the purpose of 'equalising-vibrations'
gradually to actualise the duration of their existence according to the
principle called 'Itoklanoz', that is, the principle upon which in general
and everywhere is actualised the duration of existence of one-brained and
two brained beings that have not the possibilities present in three brained
beings, and are therefore unable to realise in their presences, the said -
foreseen by Nature - 'Partkdolgduty'.

136. According to this principle, both the duration of being-existence
and also the whole of the contents of their general presences, are in gen-
eral acquired from the results arising from the following seven actualisa-
tions surrounding them, namely, from

1) Heredity in general,

2) Conditions and environment at the moment of conception,

3) The combination of the radiations of all the planets of their solar
system during their formation in the womb of their productress,

4) The degree of being-manifestation of their producers during the period
they are attaing the age of responsible being,

5) The quality of being-existence of beings similar to themselves in their
near neighbourhood,

6) The quality of what are called the 'Teleokrimalnichnian' thought-waves
formed in the atmosphere surrounding them also during their period of
attaining the age of majority, - that is, the sincerely manifested good
wishes and actions on the part of what are called the 'beings-of-the-same-
blood', and finally,-

7) The quality of what are called the being-Egoplasticurah' of the given
being himself, that is, his being-effort for the transubstantiation in
himself of all the data for obtaining objective Reason.

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137. The chief particularity of existence according to this principle Itoklanvz, consists in this, that in the presences of beings existing according to it, dependently upon the enumerated seven exterior actualisations, there are crystallised in their being - 'localisations', - representing in beings the central place of the sources of actualisation of all the separate independent parts of their general presence, - or, as your favourites say, in their brains, - what are called 'Bobbinkandelnosts', that is to say, 'something' that gives in the given 'localisations' or 'brains' a defined quantity of possible associations or 'experiencings'.

138. And so, my boy, because these contemporary favourites of yours, these three brained beings of the planet Earth, already arise only according to the principle 'Itoklanoz', therefore from the moment of conception up to the age of a responsible three brained being, there are crystallised in their brains these 'Bobbinkandelnosts' with well defined possibilities of actualising the processes of association.

139. For the greater eluciation of this question and for your better understanding, and also to not to waste time on explanations concerning the essence itself and also the forms of functioning of such definite cosmic realisations as these just mentioned 'Bobbinkandelnosts', which are lawfully crystallised in the 'localisations' or 'brains' of those beings who exist only on the basis of 'Itoklanoz', I intend to take as an elucidating example just those 'artificial-Jamtesternohi' such as your favourites also have and which they call, 'mechanical-watches'.

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140. As you already well know, although such 'artificial-Jamtesternohi' or 'mechanical-watches' are of different what are called'systems', yet they are all constructed on the same principle of 'tension-or-pressure-or-the-unwinding-spring'.

141. One system of 'artificial-Jamtesternohi' or 'mechanical-watch' contains a spring exactly calculated and arranged that the length of the duration of its tension from unwinding may be sufficient for 24 hours; another system has a spring for a week, a third for a month, and so on.

142. The 'Bobbinkandelnost' in the brains of beings existing only according to the principle 'Itoklanoz' corresponds to the spring in 'mechanical-watches' of various systems.

143. As the duration of the movement of 'mechanical-watches' depends upon the spring they contain, so the duration of the existence of beings depends exclusively on the Bobbinkandelnost formed in their brains during their arising and during the process of their further formation.

144. As the spring of a watch has a 'winding' of a definite duration only, so these beings also can associate and experience only as much as the possibilities put into them by Nature for experiencing, during the crystallisation of those same 'Bobbinkandelnosts' in their brains.

145. They can associate and consequently exist just so much, and neither more nor less.

146. As 'mechanical-watches' can act as long as the spring has what is called 'the-tension-of-winding', so the beings in whose brains the said 'Bobbinkandelnosts' are crystallised can experience and consequently exist

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until these 'Bobbinkandelnosts' formed in their brains - owing to the mentioned seven external conditions- are used up.

147. And so, my boy, because the results of 'partkdolgduty' were no longer thereafter obtained in the presences of your favourites and the duration of their existence began to depend exclusively on the results of the seven accidentally arranged external conditions I have just enumerated, then thanks to all this, the length of their existence, especially among the contemporary beings, has become of a very different duration.

148. At the present time the duration of their existence may be from one of their minutes up to seventy to ninety of their years.

149. And so, for all the reasons I have described, however your favorites may exist, whatever measures they may adopt, - and even if, as they say, they should 'put themselves-in-a-glass-case', - as soon as the contents of the 'Bobbinkandelnost' crystallised in their brains are used up, one or another of their 'brains' immediately ceases to function.

150. The difference between 'mechanical-watches' and your contemporary favorites is only that in 'mechanical-watches' there is one spring, while your favorites have three of these independent 'Bobbindandelnosts'.

151. And these independent Bobbinkandelnosts their three independent 'localisations' in three brained beings, generally, have the following names:

152. The first - the Bobbinkandelnost of the 'thinking-centre',
The second- the Bobbinkandelnost of the 'feeling-centre',
The third - the Bobbindandelnost of the 'moving-centre'

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153. Even that fact which I have recently often repeated, namely, that the process of the sacred 'Rascooarne' is actualised for these favourites of yours by thirds - or, as they themselves would say, - they begin to die in parts - proceeds also from the fact that, arising and being formed only according to the principle of 'Itaklanoz', they, existing non-harmoniously, unequally use up the contents of these three separate independent brains, namely, 'their 'Bobbindandelnosts', and hence it is that there frequently occurs to them such a horrible 'dying', as is not proper to three brained beings.

154. During my stay there among them, I personally very often constated their 'dying-by-thirds'.

155. This was possible because, although, in the presences of your favourites, especially the contemporary ones, the 'Bobbindandelnost' of one of their brains may be entirely used up, nevertheless the beings themselves would sometimes continue to exist for quite a long time.

156. For instance, it often happens there that, owing to their specifically abnormal existence, the contents of one of the 'Bobbindandelnosts' are used up in one of them, and if it is of the 'moving-centre', or as they themselves call it, the 'spinal brain', then although such a contemporary three brained being there continues to 'think' and to 'feel', yet he has already lost the possibility of intentionally directing the parts of his planetary body.

157. Here it is interesting to notice that when one of your contemporary favorites already partially dies for good in this way, then their contemporary 'Zerlikners' - or, as they are called, 'physicians' look upon such a death as most certainly a disease, and with every species of the 'wiseacring', that has become proper to the, they start treating it; and they give these supposed diseases every sort of name consonant with an

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ancient language utterly unknown to them, called 'Latin'.

158. They very widely-spread diseases there with such names are the following: 'Hemiplegia', 'Paraplegia', 'Paralysis-progressiva' - 'essentialis', 'tabes-dorsalis', 'paralysis-agitans', 'sclerosis-disseminata', and so on and so forth.

159. Such deaths by thirds there on the planet Earth which pleases you, have occurred particularly frequently during the last two centuries, and they occur to those of your favourites, who, thanks either to their profession, or to one of their, what are called, 'passions', arising and acquired by the beings belonging to all both large and small communities there, on account of the same abnormally arranged conditions of their ordinary being-existence, have lived out in a greater or smaller degree during their being-existence, the contents of the 'Bobbinkandelnost' of one or another of their being-brains.

160. For instance, a one-third death on account of the Bobbinkandelnost of the 'moving-centre' or 'spinal-brain' often occurs there among those terrestrial beings who give themselves up to that occupation which the beings belonging to the contemporary community England now practise, thanks to the maleficent invention of the ancient Greeks, and which maleficent occupation, they now call there 'Sport'.

161. The character of the pernicious consequence of that 'maleficent-occupation' there, you will well understand when I tell you that during my stay there among those favourites of yours, I once prepared a special section of my statistics for elucidating to myself how long those three brained beings there can exist, who become what are called 'wrestlers' by profession, never

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once in those statistics of mine, did I notice that any of them had ex-
isted longer than forty nine of their years.

162. And a one-third death through the premature using up the Bobbin-kandelnost of the 'feeling-centre' occurs for the most part among those terrestrial beings who become by profession, what are called, 'representatives-of-Art'.

163. The majority of these terrestrial professionals, especially the contemporary ones, first fall ill with one or another form of what is called, 'psychopathy'. Thanks to this, they afterwards in their psycho-pathy intentionally learn, as they say, to feel; and thereafter repeatedly feeling these abnormal being-impulses they gradually use up the contents of the 'Bobbinkandelnost' of their 'feeling-centre' and thus disharmonising the tempo of their own general presence, bring themselves to that peculiar end which is not often met with even among them there.

164. Here, by the way, it is very interesting also to notice that the one-third death through the 'feeling-centre' occurs among your favourites also thanks to one very peculiar form of 'psychopathy' called there, 'altruism'.

165. And concerning premature partial death through the 'Bobbinkandelnost' of the 'thinking-centre' - the deaths of this kind among your favourites occurs in recent times more and more frequently.

166. This kind of death through the being - 'thinking-centre' occurs there chiefly among those favourites of yours who try to become or have already become scientists of 'new-format', and also among those who during the period of their existence fall ill with the craze for reading, what are called, 'books' and 'newspapers'.

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167. The result among those three-brained beings there of reading superfluously and associating only by thoughts, is that the contents of the 'Bobbinkandelnost' of their 'thinking-centre' are exhausted before the contents of the 'Bobbinkandelnosts' of their other being-centres.

168. And so, my boy, all these misfortunes, namely, the contraction of the duration of their existence and also may other consequences, maleficent for them themselves, occur to your favourites exclusively only because they have even until now not yet learned of the existence of the cosmic law called, 'Equalisation-of-many-sourced-vibrations'.

169. If only such an idea occurred to them, and they were merely to perform their usual wiseacrings with it, perhaps, then, they would get to understand one very simple, as they call it, 'secret'.

170. I allow that somebody would be certain to understand this 'secret' because, in the first place, it is simple and obvious, and secondly, because they had discovered it long ago and they even often employ it in what they call, their 'practical-use'.

171. They even use this simple secret to which I referred, for those 'mechanical-watches' which we took for comparison, as an elucidating example concerning the duration of their existence.

172. In all the 'mechanical-watches' of various systems they use this said simple secret for regulating what is called, the 'tension' of the said spring for the corresponding part of the general mechanism of the watch; and it is called, it seems, the 'Regulator'.

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173. By means of this 'regulator' it is possible to make the mechanism of a watch, wound for instance for 24 hours, go a whole month, and on the contrary thanks to this 'regulator' it is possible to make the same winding for 24 hours finish in five minutes.

174. In the general presence of every being existing merely on the basis of 'Itoklanoz', 'something' similar to the 'regulator' in a mechanical-watch is present and is called 'Iransankeep'; this 'something' means: 'not-to-give-onself-up-to-those-of-one's-associations-resulting-from-the-functioning-of-only-one-or-other-of-one's-brains'.

175. But even if they should understand such a simple secret, it would be all just the same, - they still would not make also those being-efforts necessary to it, and quite open even to the contemporary beings, - and thanks to which by the foresight of Nature, beings in general acquired the possibility of what is called 'harmonious-association', by virtue of which alone energy is created for their active being-existence in the presence of every three brained being - consequently in them themselves. But at the present time, this energy can already be elaborated in the presences of your favourites, only during their quite unconscious state, that is to say, during what they call, 'sleep'.

176. But in your favourites, specially in your contemporary favourites, who existe constantly passively under the direction of only one of the separate spiritualised parts of their general presence, and, in consequence, constantly manifest themselves entirely by their - factors for negative properties also lawfully arising in them, and hence by negative manifestations, only - in them there just proceeds that same unequal using up of the contents of their various 'Bobbinkandelnosts', that is to say, the possibilities, placed in them by Nature according to law, of action by one only or by two only of their brains are always experienced, in consequence

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of which, the contents of one or of two of their 'Bobbinkandelnosts' are prematurely exhausted; whereupon, just like those 'mechanical-watches' in which the winding is run down or the force of their 'regulator' is weakened, they cease to act.

177. Sometime, later I shall explain to you in detail not only why when beings existing only according to the principle of 'Iteklanoz' exist by the direction only of one or only of two of their spiritualised sources, and not harmoniously, that is to say, with all three combined, and in agreement, - that particular brain of theirs is prematurely used up in them and consequently dies, in which there were superfluous associations, during the period of its existence but also why, on this account, the other 'Bobbinkandelnosts' also are used up, even without their own action.

178. But you must here know this also, that even on your planet, one still occasionally finds one of your favourites whose duration of planetary existence extends to five of their centuries.

179. You will then understand very well, that in the case of certain of your favorites even of recent times who, by some means or other, find out and transubstantiate in the right way in their Reason concerning certain details of the law of association proceeding in the separate brains of beings, and also concerning the mutual action of these independent associations, and who exist more or less according to what I have said, then in their case and in consequence of all this, - the Bobbinkandelnosts formed in their separate being-brains are not used up, as they are among the other beings there, but their general presence acquires of existing much longer than the other three brained beings there.

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180. During my stay there for the last time, I myself personally met several of these terrestrial contemporary three brained beings who were already two, three, and even about four of their centuries old. I met them mostly among a small 'brotherhood' of the three brained beings there, composed of beings from almost all their what are called 'Religious', and whose permanent place of existence was in the middle of the continent Asia.

181. The beings of that brotherhood, it seems, partly elucidated the mentioned laws of association in being-brains for themselves, and in part such information reached them from ancient times through genuine initiates there.

182. As for that same contemporary community, whose beings have become the chief victims of that particularly-maleficent invention of the beings of the said ancient civilisation, they not only now use it in the process of their own existence but they try to infect 'strongly the beings of all the other communities with this same evil.' Moreover, owing to that maleficent 'sport' of theirs, these unfortunates not only still further diminish the duration of their own existence - already trifling without this - but thanks to that action of theirs, they will, in my opinion, eventually entail for their community what quite recently occurred to a large community there named 'Russia'

183. I thought about it during my stay there before my final departure from that planet.

184. And I first began thinking about it when I learned that the 'power-possessing' beings also of that no less great contemporary community, were already utilising that maleficent means of theirs - 'Sport', - for their own Hasnamussian aims, exactly as the power-possessing beings of the community Russia had, for their similar aims, utilised what is called 'the-question-of-Russian-vodka'.

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185. Just as the power-possessing beings of the community Russia then tried, by every kind of artifice, to instil into the weak wills of the ordinary beings the necessity of the intensive use of the said 'Russian vodka', so also the 'power-possessing' beings of that community England are now already also manouvring to intrigue the ordinary beings of their community with this same 'sport' and to urge them to it by every means.

186. The apprehensions which then arose in me are already, it seems, being justified.

187. And I conclude this from the etherogram I recently received from the planet Mars, in which among other things, it was said, that though there are more than two and a half millions of what are called 'unemployed-beings' in that community England yet the power-possessing beings there take no measures concerning this, but endeavour to spread still more widely among them that same notorious 'sport' of theirs.

188. Just as in the large community Russia the contents of all what are called 'newspapers' and 'magazines' used to be always devoted to the question of Russian vodka, so now in that country England, more than half the text of all their evil-sowers is devoted to that notorious 'sport'.

Chapter XXX

ART

1. At this place of his tales, Beelzebub became silent; then, turning suddenly to his old servant Ahoon, who sat there also listening to him with the same attention as his grandson Hassein, he said:

2. "What, old man! Are you also listening to me with the same interest as our Hassein? Weren't you yourself personally with me everywhere on that planet Earth and didn't you see with your own eyes and sense for yourself everything about that which I am relating to Hassein?

3. "Instead of just sitting there open-mouthed at my tales, you also tell our favourite something....There is no getting out of it. We have got to tell him all we can about those strange three-brained beings, seeing that they have so intensely interested him.

4. "Surely you must have been interested in one aspect or another of these queer ducks; well, tell us something just about that aspect."

5. When Beelzebub had finished speaking, Ahoon, having thought a while, replied:

6. "After your subtly psychological tales about all these 'unintelligibles', how can I come in with my tales?"

7. And then, with an unusual seriousness and preserving the style and even whole expressions of Beelzebub himself, he continued:

8. "It is, of course...How shall I put it? My essence even was often thrown out of balance by those strange three-brained beings, and they, with their 'funny ways' used nearly always to supply an impetus for evoking the being-impulse of amazement, sometimes in one and sometimes in another of my spiritualised parts".

9. And then addressing Hassein, he said:

10. "Well, our dear Hassein!

11. "I will not, like His Right Reverence, relate to you in detail

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about any particular oddity of the psyche of those three-centred beings
of our great Universe who please you. No, I will only remind His Right
Reverence of one thing, the cause of which arose just during our fifth
stay on the surface of that planet. This one thing, when we were there
for the sixth and last time, had already then been formed, and it serves
as the chief cause why, in every one of those favourites of yours, from
the very first day of their arising until their formation as responsible
beings, their ableness of normal being-mentation is step by step distorted
and finally transformed almost into a 'Kaltusara'.

12. Thereupon, addressing Beelzebub himself, he with a timid look and
already in a hesitant tone, continued to speak:

13. "Don't blame me, your Right Reverence, for venturing to express to
you the opinion which has just arisen in me, and which is the outcome of
my ruminations on data already perhaps worn too thin for being-mind con-
clusions.

14. "While relating to our dear Hassein about all the various reasons
that have brought it about that the psyche of the contemporary three-
centred beings of the planet Earth who pleased him, has become transformed,
as you once deigned to express yourself, already into just a mill for
grinding out nonsense, you scarcely even mentioned one factor, perhaps
more important than the others, which, during recent centuries, has
served as the basis for it.

15. "I intend to speak about that factor which has already become de-
finitely maleficent for the contemporary beings and at the arising of the
cause of which, you yourself were present, as I very well remember,
during our stay then in Babylon; I mean the factor they themselves call
'Art'.

16. "If you should vouchsafe in your wisdom to take up that question in
detail, then according to my understanding our dear Hassein will have

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perhaps the choicest material for his better elucidation of all the abnormal
strangeness of the psyche of the three-brained beings, who, in most recent
times, arise on that planet Earth which has interested him."

17. Having said this and having with the tip of his tail wiped off the drops of sweat which had formed on his forehead, Ahoon became silent and adopted his usual attentive posture.

18. With an affectionate glance, Beelzebub looked at him and said:

19. "Thank you, old man, for reminding me of this. It is true that I have scarcely even mentioned that indeed harmful factor - created also by them themselves - for the already final atrophy even of those data for their being-mentation also, which by chance had still survived.

20. "All the same, old man, though it's true that I have not so far once referred to it, that does not mean that I had not considered it at all. Having still a good deal of time before us during the period of our travelling, I should, in all probability, in the course of my subsequent tales to our common favourite Hassein, have remembered, in its time, about that of which you have reminded me.

21. "However, perhaps it will be very opportune to speak just now about this contemporary terrestial 'Art' because, as you said, during our fifth personal stay there, I was really a witness of the events which gave birth to the causes also of this contemporary evil there and which arose, thanks, as always, to the same learned beings there who assembled in the city of Babylon from almost the whole of the surface of that ill-starred planet."

22. Having said this, Beelzebub then turned to Hassein and spoke as follows:

23. "This same now definite idea there, existing there already under the denomination 'Art' is, at the present time for those unhappy favourites of yours, one of those automatically acting data the totality of which already by itself converts them,- that is, being containing in their presences every

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kind of possibilities for becoming particles of a part of Divinity, -
gradually, and though almost imperceptibly yet very surely, into what is
called merely 'animated flesh'.

24. "For the all-round enlightenment of the question about the notori-
ous contemporary terrestrial Art, and for your clear understanding of how
it all came about, you must first know about two events that occurred in
that same city Babylon during our fifth personal flight to the surface of
that planet of yours.

25. "The first is this: namely, how and why I then came to be a witness of the occurrences which were the basis of the reasons for the existence among the contemporary three-brained beings of the planet Earth of that now definitely maleficent idea called Art; and the second is this; namely, which were the antecedent events that in their turn then served as the origin of the ariseings of these reasons.

26. "Concerning the first, I must say that during our stay then in the
city of Babylon, after the events I have already related which occurred al-
ways among the same learned terrestrial three-centred beings assembled there
from almost the whole planet, that is to say, after they had split into
several independent groups and were, as I have already told you, already
absorbed in a question of what is called 'politics', and as I had it in
mind at that time to leave Babylon and to continue my observations among
the beings of the then already powerful community called Hellas, I decided
to learn their conversational language. From then on I chose to visit
those places in the city of Babylon and meet those beings there, which
would be of most use in my practical study of the conversational languages.

27. "Once when I was walking in a certain street of the city of Babylon
not far from our house, I saw on a large building by which I had already
many times passed, what is called an 'Ookazmotra', or, as it is now called

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on the Earth, a 'placard', which had been just put up and which announced
that a Club for foreign learned beings, that 'Adherents of the legonomism',
had been newly opened in that building. On the door was a notice to the
effect that the enrolment of members of the club was still going on, and that
all the reports and scientific discussions would be conducted in the local
and Hellenic conversational languages only.

28. "This interested me very much and I thought at once whether it would not be possible for me to make use of this newly-opened Club for my practice in the Hellenic conversational language.

29. "So I then enquired of certain beings who were going in or coming out of that building, about the details concerning the Club; and, when, thanks to the explanation of one learned being, with whom, as I chanced to find out, I was already acquainted, I had made it all more or less clear to myself, I then and there decided to become also a member of that club.

30. "Without thinking long about it, I entered the building and passing myself off as a foreign learned being, I requested, as an adherent of Legonomism, to be enrolled as a member of the club.

31. "And I managed this very easily, owing always to the same old acquaintance whom I had met by chance and who, like the others, took me for a learned being like himself.

32. "And so, my boy, having thus become what is called a 'full member' of that club, I used afterwards to go there regularly and to talk there chiefly with those learned members who were familiar with the Hellenic conversational language which I needed.

33. "As regards the second thing, this proceeded from the following Babylonian events.

34. "It must be remarked that among the learned beings of the planet Earth who were then in Babylon and who were gathered there partly by coercion from almost the whole of the planet by the mentioned Persian king, and partly voluntarily on account of the already mentioned notorious question

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of the 'soul', there were several among the beings brought there by coercion
who were not, like the majority, 'the learned of new format', but who with
a sincerity already proceeding from their separate spiritualised parts, strove
for High Knowledge only with the aim of self-perfection.

35. "Owing to their real and sincere strivings, to the corresponding manner of their existence and to their being-acts, these several terrestial beings had already, even before their arrival in Babylon, been considered initiates of the first degree from amongst those terrestial three-centred beings, worthy to become what are called 'All The Rights Possessing' initiates according to the reformed rules of the Most Saintly Ashiata Shiashash.

36. "And thus, my boy, when I began going to the said Club, it became quite clear to me, both from the conversations with them and from other data, that these several terrestial learned beings who sincerely strove to perfect their reason, had from the beginning kept themselves to themselves in the city of Babylon, and never mixed in any of those affairs with which the general mass of these Babylonian learned beings there of that time very soon became involved.

37. "These said several learned beings kept themselves apart there, not only in the beginning when all the other learned beings who were then in the city of Babylon first opened a central place for their meetings in the very heart of the city, and when for their better mutual support both materially and morally, they founded there a central Club for all the learned beings of the Earth, but later on, also, when the whole body of learned beings divided into three separate 'sections' and each of these 'sections' had its independent Club in one or another part of the city of Babylon, they identified themselves with none of the said three 'sections'.

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38. "They existed in the suburbs of the city of Babylon and scarcely met any of the learned beings from among the number of the general mass; and it was only several days before my admittance among them as a member of this club that they for the first time united for the purpose of organising the Club of the 'Adherents of Legomonism'.

39. "These learned beings about whom I am speaking had all without exception reached the city of Babylon by coercion and they were for the most part from among the number of those learned beings who had been taken there by the Persian king from Egypt.

40. "As I later learned, this uniting of theirs had been brought about by two learned beings who were just from among the number of the said initiates of the first degree.

41. "One of these two initiated learned beings of the Earth who had his rising amongst, as they are called, the Moors, was named Kanil-El-Norkel. The other learned initiated being was named Pythagoras, and he arose from amongst, as they are called, the Hellenes, just those Hellenes who were afterwards called Greeks.

42. "These two learned beings, as it later became clear, happened to meet in the city of Babylon and during what is called their 'Ooissapagaoonian-exchange-of-opinions', that is, during those conversations the theme of which always refers to the question, which forms of being-existence of the beings of the present time can serve for the welfare of the beings of the future, they clearly constated that in the course of changing generations of beings on the Earth, a very lamentable and melancholy phenomenon occurs, namely, during the processes of reciprocal destruction, that is, during what are called 'wars' and 'popular risings', invariably a great number of initiated beings of all degrees are for some reason or other destroyed, and, together with them also very many legomonisms are for ever destroyed through just

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which alone up to that time various information about former real events on
the Earth had been transmitted and continue to be transmitted from generation
to generation.

43. "When the two mentioned sincere and honest learned beings of the Earth constated, as they then called it, so 'melancholy a phenomenon', they deliberated a long time about it, and the result of all their deliberations was that they decided to take advantage of the exceptional circumstance, namely, that so many learned beings were together in one city, to confer collectively for the purpose of finding some means for preventing if only this melancholy phenomenon proceeding on the Earth owing to the abnormal conditions of the life of man.

44. "And it was just for this purpose that they organised that said Club and called it the 'Club of Adherents of Legomonism'.

45. "So many like-thinking beings at once responded to their appeal that two days after my own admission as a member of this club, the enrolment of new members already ceased.

46. "And on the day when new members ceased to be admitted, the number of those entered amounted to a hundred and thirty-nine learned beings; and it was with this number of members that the club existed until the said Persian king abandoned his former caprice connected with those terrestrial learned beings.

47. "As I learnt after my entry as a member of that club, what is called a general meeting had been arranged on the very first day of its opening by all the learned beings, at which it was unanimously resolved to hold daily general meetings, at which reports and discussions on just the two following questions were to be made, namely, the measures to be taken

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by the members of the club on their return home for the collection of all
the Legomonisms existing in their native lands, and for placing them at the
disposal of the learned members of this Club which they had founded; and
secondly, what was to be done in order that the Legomonisms might be transmitt-
ed to remote generations by some other means than through initiates only.

48. "Before my entry among the members of the club, a great variety of reports and discussions concerning these two mentioned questions had already proceeded at that general meeting of theirs; and on the day of my entry a great deal was said on the question how to obtain the participation in the fundamental task of their club of initiated beings also from among the followers of those so-called 'Ways' which were then called 'Onandjiki', 'Shamanists', 'Buddhists' and so on.

49. "And so, on the third day after my entry among the number of the members of this Club, there was uttered for the first time that same word which has chanced to reach contemporary beings there and which has become one of the potent factors for the final atrophy of all the still surviving data for more or less normal logical being-mentation, namely, the word 'Art'. The word, however, was then used in another sense and its definition referred to quite a different idea and had quite another meaning.

50. "This term was uttered in the following circumstances:

On that day when that word 'Art' was used for the first time, and its
real idea and exact meaning were established among the other reporters, there
stepped forward a Chaldean learned being, very well known in those times, who
was called Aksharpanziar and who was also then a member of the Club of the
Legomonism.

51. "As the report of that already very aged Chaldean learned being, the great Aksharpanziar, then served as the origin for all the further events

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connected with this same contemporary Art there, I will try to recall his speech and repeat it to you as nearly as possible word for word.

52. "He then said as follows:

'The past and especially the last two centuries have shown us that during those inevitable psychoses of the masses, from which wars between states and various popular revolts within states always arise, - invariably many of the innocent victims of the popular bestiality are indeed those who, among others, owing to their previous piety and conscious sacrifices are worthy to become initiates, by whose means various legomonisms containing information regarding all kinds of real events which have taken place in the past are transmitted for the conscious beings of succeeding generations.

53. "'Just such pious men as these always become such innocent victims of the popular bestiality, only because, in my opinion, being already free within and never wholly identifying themselves, as all the rest do, with all the ordinary interests of those around them, they cannot for that reason, share either in the attractions, pleasures and sentiments, or in the similarly clearly sincere manifestations of those around them. And because in ordinary times they exist normally and in their relations with those around them are always well-wishing in both their inner and outer manifestations, they acquire in normal periods of everyday life and respect and esteem of those around them; but when the mass of ordinary people fall into the said psychosis and split into their usual two opposing camps, then these latter in their state of bestialised reason during their fighting, begin to entertain morbid suspicions of just those who in normal times have always been unassuming and serious; and then, if it should happen that the attention of those under this psychosis should rest a little longer on these exceptional men, they no longer have any doubt whatever that these said serious and outwardly always quiet men have undoubtedly also in normal times been nothing more nor less than the 'spies' of their present enemies and foes.

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54. "With their diseased reasons these bestialised men categorically conclude that the previous seriousness and quietness of such men were nothing else but simply what is called 'Secrecy' and 'duplicity'.

55. "And the sequel of their psychopathic conclusions is, that these bestialised men of one or the other hostile party, without any remorse of conscience whatever, put these serious and quiet men to death.

56. "In my opinion, it is what I have just said that has most frequently served as the cause why what very Legomonism about events which really took place on the Earth has in the course of its passage from generation to generation also totally disappeared from the face of the earth.

57. "And so, my highly esteemed colleagues, if you wish to know my personal opinion, then I shall sincerely tell you, with all my being, that in spite of all I have said, there is nothing whatever to be done about the transmission of true knowledge of remote generations through corresponding initiates by means of Legomonism.

58. "Let this means be continued as before, as it has been on the Earth from the dawn of centuries and as this form of transmission by initiates through their 'ableness' to be, was reformed by the great prophet ASHIATA SHIEMASH.

59. "If we contemporary men desire at the present time to do something beneficent for men of future times, all we must do is just to add to this already existing means of transmission, some new means or other, flowing from the ways of our contemporary life on the Earth as well as from the many centuried experience of former generations in accordance with the information that has come down to us.

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60. "I personally suggest that this transmission to future generations be made through the human what are called 'Afalkalna', that is, through various productions of man's hands which have entered into use in people's 'daily life', and also through the human 'Soldjinoha', that is, through various forms and ceremonies which have already been established for centuries in the social and family life of people and which automatically pass from generation to generation.

61. "Either these human 'Afalkalna' themselves, and in particular, those which are made of lasting materials will survive and, for various reasons go down to men of remote generations, or copies of them will pass from generation to generation, thanks to the property which is rooted in the essence of man - that is, of giving out as their own one or another of the productions of man which have reached them from long past epochs, after having changed it in some minor detail.

62. "In regard to the human 'Soldjinoha', as for instance, various 'mysteries', 'religious ceremonies', 'family-and-social-customs', 'religious-and-popular-dances', and so on, then although they often change in their external form with the flow of time, yet the impulses engendered in man through them and the manifestations of man derived from them always remain the same; and thus by placing the various useful information and true knowledge we have already attained within the inner factors which engender these impulses and these useful manifestations of man, we can fully count on their reaching our very remote descendants, some of whom will decipher them and there by enable all the rest to utilise them for their good.

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63. "The question now is only this, namely, but what means can such a transmission through the various human 'Afalkalna' and 'Soldjinoha' as I have described be actualised?

64. "I personally suggest that this be done through the Universal Law called the 'Law-of-Seven-foldness'.

65. "The Law-of-Sevenfoldness exists on the Earth and will exist for ever and in everything.

66. "For instance, in accordance with this Law, there are in the white ray seven independent colours; in every definite sound there are seven different independent tones; in every state of man, seven different independent sensations; further, every definite form can be made up of only seven different dimensions; every weight remains at rest on the Earth only thanks to seven 'reciprocal thursts', and so on.

67. "Well, of the knowledge now existing which we have personally attained or which has reached us from times past, just that knowledge which we shall agree is useful for our remote descendants, must be indicated in some way or other in the said human 'Afalkalna' and 'Soldjinoha' so that it may be perceived in the future by the pure reason of man, by means of this great Universal Law.

68. "I repeat that the Law of Sevenfoldness will exist on the Earth as long as the Universe exists, and it will be seen and understood by men in all times as long as human thought shall exist on the Earth, and it can therefore boldly be said that the knowledge indicated in this manner in the mentioned productions will exist also for ever on the Earth.

69. "And as regards the method itself, that is to say, the mode of transmission through this Law, this, in my opinion, can be actualised in the following way:

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70. "In all the productions which we shall intentionally create, on the basis of this Law for the purpose of transmitting them to remote generations, we shall designedly introduce certain also lawful inexactitudes, and in these lawful inexactitudes we shall place, by intelligible means, the contents of some or other true knowledge which is already in the possession of men of the present times.

71. "In any case, for the interpretation itself or, as may be said, as they 'key' to those inexactitudes in that great Law, we shall further make in our productions something like a Legomonism, and we shall secure its transmission from generation to generation through initiates of a special kind, whom we shall call, initiates of Art.

72. "And we shall call them so because the whole process of such a transmission of knowledge edge to remote generations through the Law of Sevenfoldness will not be natural but artificial.

73. "And so, my highly attained and impartial colleagues...

74. "It must now be clear to you that if for some reason or another the information useful for our descendants concerning knowledge already attained by men and about part events on the Earth fails to reach them through genuine initiates, then, thanks to these new means of transmission which I have suggested, men of future generations will always be able to reflect upon and to make clear to themselves, if not everything now already existing, then at least those particular fragments of the common knowledge already existing on the Earth, which chance to reach them both through these said productions of the hands of contemporary men and through those various ceremonies already now existing in which by means of this Great Law of Sevenfoldness we shall now, and with the help of these artificial indications of ours, put what we wish?

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75. "With these words the great Aksharpanziar then concluded his report.

76. "A considerable excitement and noisy discussions followed his speech among all the members of the club of the Adherents of legomonism, and the outcome of it was that then and there they unamiously decided to do as the great Aksharpanziar had suggested.

77. "A brief interval was then allowed for eating, after which they all assembled again, and the second general meeting of that day continued throughout the night.

78. "Well, the unamious decision was then carried, to begin the following day making what are called 'minia-images', - or, as the contemporary three-brained beings call them, 'models', - of various productions; and to try to work out the possible and most suitable means of indication, on the principles laid down by the great Aksharpanziar; and thereafter to bring these 'minia-images' or 'models' of theirs to the Club for exhibition and exposition to the other members.

79. "In a day or two, many of them already began bringing in the evenings the 'minia-images' they had made and showing them with the necessary explanations; and they also began demonstrating every variety of those acts, which beings of that planet had before occasionally performed in the process of their ordinary existence and which also they still manifest up till now.

80. "Among the number of the models they brought and the various being-manifestations they demonstrated, were combinations of different colours, forms of various constructions, and buildings, the playing on various musical instruments, the singing of every kind of melody, and also the exact representation of various experiencings foreign to them, and so on and so forth.

81. "For the sake of convenience, the members of the club soon divided themselves into a number of groups, and each seventh part, - which they

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called a 'day', - of that definite period of time which they called a 'week',
they gave over to the demonstration and exposition of their productions in
one particular branch of knowledge.

82. "Here it is interesting to notice that this definite period of the flow of time, namely, a 'week', has always been divided on your planet into seven days; and this division was even made by the beings of the continent Atlantis, who expressed in it that same Law of Sevenfoldness with which they were quite familiar.

83. "The days of the week were then on the continent Atlantis called as follows:

(1). Adashsikra,

(2). Evosikra,

(3). Gevorksikra,

(4). Midosikra,

(5). Maikosikra,

(6). Lookosikra,

(7). Soniasikra.

84. "These names were changed there many times and at the present time the beings there already name the days of the week thus:

(1). Monday,

(2). Tuesday,

(3). Wednesday,

(4). Thursday,

(5). Friday,

(6). Saturday, and

(7). Sunday.

85. "And well, as I have already told you, they then devoted each day of the week to the production of one or another specialty either of their hands, or of some other form of consciously designed being-manifestation.

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86. "Namely, Mondays they devoted to the first group, and this day was called the 'day-of-religious-and-civil-ceremonies'.

87. "Tuesdays were given over to the second group and was called the 'day-of-architecture'.

88. "Wednesday was called the 'day-of-painting'.

89. "Thursday, the 'day-of-religious-and-popular-dances'.

90. "Friday, the 'day-of-sculpture'.

91. "Saturday, the 'day-of-the-mysteries', or, as it was also called, the 'day-of-the-theatre'.

92. "Sunday, the 'day-of-music-and-song'.

93. "On Mondays, namely, on the 'day-of-religious-and-civil-ceremonies', the learned beings of the first group demonstrated various ceremonies in which the 'fragments-of-knowledge' that had been previously selected for transmission, were indicated by means of inexactitudes in the Law of Seven-foldness, chiefly in the inexactitudes of the lawful movements of the participants in the given ceremonies.

94. "For instance, let us suppose that the leader of the given ceremony, - the priest, or according to contemporaries, the clergyman, - has to raise his arms towards Heaven.

95. "This posture of his infallibly demands, in accordance with the Law of Sevenfoldness, that his feet should normally be placed in a certain position; but these Babylonian learned being intentionally put the feet of the said leader of the ceremony not as they should be placed in accordance with this Law, but otherwise.

96. "And in general it was just in all these 'otherwises', that the learned beings of that group indicated in the movements of the participants in the given religious ceremony, by a conventional what is called

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established custom, but again they based their calculations on the manner of
laying the still lower stones and so on.

102. "And it was just in these unusual combinations of the laying of stones derived from the Law of Sevenfoldness, that they indicated, also by means of a conventional 'alphabet', the contents of some or other useful information.

103. "This group of learned members of the Club of the 'Adherents of the Legomonism' further indicated what they wished in their 'minia-images' or 'models' of proposed constructions by utilising the Law called 'Daivibrizkar', that is, the law of the action of the vibrations arising in the atmosphere of enclosed spaces.

104. "This law, which has utterly failed to reach the contemporary three-brained beings of that planet, was then already quite familiar to the beings there, that is to say, they were already quite aware that the size and form of enclosed spaces and also the volume of the air enclosed in them, influence beings in particular ways.

105. "Utilising this law, they indicated their various ideas in the following way:

106. "Let us suppose that according to the character and purposes of some building or other, it is demanded that from the interiors of the given building, in accordance with the Law of Sevenfoldness and with the practice of centuries, definite sensations in a certain lawful sequence must be evoked.

107. "The utilising the Law of 'Daivibrizkar', the combined the interiors of these projected in such a way, that the expected sensations were evoked in the beings who entered them, not in the anticipated familiar lawful sequence, but in some other order.

108. "And it was just these deviations from the lawful sequence of

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sensations, that they placed whatever they wished in a certain way.

109. "Wednesdays - the 'day of painting' - were devoted to the combining of different colours.

110. "On those days the learned beings of the given group brought for demonstration every kind of object necessary for domestic use made of such coloured materials as could last a very long time: namely, they brought 'carpets', 'stuffs', 'chinkrooaries', that is, drawings made in various colours on specially tanned leather capable of lasting many centuries, and things of a similar kind.

111. "By means of variagated colours of threads, various representations of the nature of their planet and various forms of beings also breeding there were drawn or embroidered on these productions.

112. "Before continuing to speak about this, namely, in which way those terrestrial learned beings then indicated various fragments of knowledge in their combinations of various colours, one thing bearing on what I am just relating must be noticed - a thing definitely unfortunate for those favourites of yours and which was also obtained in their presences on account of the same abnormal forms of their daily existence established by them themselves.

113. "First I wish to explain to you also about the gradual change for the worse in the quality of the formation in them of those 'organs-of-perception' which should be formed in the presence of every kind of being, and about the organ which particularly interests us in the given case, the organ for the perception and distinguishing of what is called, the 'interblending-of-centre-of-gravity-vibrations' which reach their planet from the spaces of the Universe.

114. "I am speaking about what is called the 'General-Total-Vibration-of-all-the-sources-of-the-actualisations', namely, just about that which

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the learned being Aksharpanziar, of whom I spoke, called the 'white ray',
and about just those perceptions of impressions from separate blendings
of centre-of-gravity vibrations which are distinguished by beings as sepa-
rate, what are called, 'tonalities-of-colour'.

115. "You must know that at the very beginning of the arising and existence of the three brained beings of the planet Earth, before the period when the organ Kundabuffer was introjected into them, and later when this organ was totally removed from their presences, and even after the second Transapalnian catastrophe there almost up to the time of our third personal flight to the surface of that planet, the said organ was actualised in them with what is called a 'sensibility-of-perception', similar to that which is actualised in the total presences of all ordinary three-brained beings of the whole of our great Universe.

116. "Formerly, at the periods mentioned, in all the three-brained beings arising on this planet, this organ was formed with the sensibility of perceiving the mentioned blendings of 'separate' center-of-gravity-vibrations' of the 'white ray' and of distinguishing one third of the quantity of the 'tonalities-of-colour' of all the tonalities in general obtained in the presences of the planets as well as in all other greater and smaller cosmic concentrations.

117. "Objective science has already accurately established that the number of separate interblendings of 'centre-of-gravity-vibrations' from the 'General-Total-Vibration', namely the tonalities, or as your favourites say, 'colours', is exactly equal to one 'Hooltanpanas', that is to say, according to the calculations of the terrestrial three brained beings, of five millions, seven hundred and sixty-four thousand, eight hundred and one tonalities.

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118. "Only a third of this total number of the interblendings or tonalities - minus the one tonality which is accessible only to the perception of Our Almighty Endlessness - that is, one million, nine hundred and twenty-one thousand, and six hundred tonalities, perceived by the beings as 'differences-of-colours' - can be perceived by all the ordinary beings on whatever planet of our great Universe they arise.

119. "But if the three brained beings bring the perfecting of their highest part up to fulfilment and at the same time their perceiving organ of visibility acquires the sensibility of what is called 'Olooestesnohian' sight, then they can already distinguish two thirds of the total number of tonalities existing in the Universe, which number, according to terrestrial calculation, amount to three million, eight hundred and forty-three thousand, and two hundred differences of tonality of colour.

120. "And only those three brained beings who bring the perfecting of their highest being part up to the state of what is called 'Ishmesch' become able to perceive and distinguish all the mentioned number of interblendings and tonalities with the exception of that One tonality which, as I have already told you, is accessible to the perception only of Our Almighty Creator.

121. "Although I intend to explain to you in detail in the future how and why in the presences of the 'Insapalnian-cosmic-concentrations' from the evolving and involving processes of the 'General-Total-Vibration' there is acquired by every kind of definite formation the property of producing various effects upon the mentioned organ of the beings, nevertheless, I do not consider it superfluous to touch upon this question, also, now.

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122. "It is necessary to say, first of all, that according to the fulfilled result of the fundamental cosmic law of the holy Eptaparabarshinoch, that is, that cosmic law which was called by the three-brained beings of the planet Earth of the mentioned Babylonian period 'the Law of Sevenfoldness', the 'General Total Vibration' like all the already 'definitised' cosmic formations, is formed and consists of seven what are called 'complexes-of-results', or, as it is also sometimes said, of 'seven-classes-of-vibrations' of those cosmic sources, the arising and further action of each of which also arise and depend on seven others, which, in their turn, arise and depend on seven further ones and so forth right up to the first most holy 'unique-seven-propertied-vibration' issuing from the most holy Prime Source; and all together they compose the 'General-Total-Vibration' of all the sources of the actualisations of everything that exists in the whole of the Universe, and thanks to the transformations of these latter, they afterwards actualise in the presences of the cosmic 'Insapalian-concentrations', the said number of the various 'tonalities-of-colour'.

123. "And as regards the details of the most holy 'unique-seven-propertied-vibrations', these you will understand only when, as I have already many times promised you, I shall have explained to you in detail in its proper time, concerning all the most great fundamental laws of World-creation and World-maintainance.

124. "And meanwhile concerning the given case you ought to know that when this said 'Common-Total-Vibration', that is, what the terrestial three-brained beings call the 'white ray', enters with its proper presence into the 'spheres-of-the-possibilities' for its transformation in the presence of an Insapalian planet, there then proceeds also in it, just as in the case of every already 'definitised' cosmic arising, possessing the possibility of still further actualisation, that cosmic process called 'Djartklom', that is, it itself remains as a presence, but its essence, as it were,

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135. "Like the painters, they also then found between these said two definite smells about seven hundred very definite shades, which they employed in their elucidating experiments.

136. "I do not know to what these two peculiar 'movements' then in Babylon would have led and where they would have stopped, if a newly appointed chief of the city, still during the time we were there, had not begun prosecuting the followers just of that second new 'movement', because with their already sufficiently keen sense of smell, they had begun to notice and unwittingly to expose certain of his what are called 'shady-dealings', with the consequence that he used every sort of means to suppress everything connected not only with that second new 'movement', but with the first as well.

137. "As regards that organ of theirs about which we began to speak, namely, the organ for the perception of the visibility of other cosmic arising which were beyond them, the deterioration of its sensibility, continuing also after the Babylonian period, reached the point that during our last stay on the surface of this planet, your favourites already had the possibility of perceiving and distinguishing instead of the one million nine hundred and twenty one thousand and six hundred 'tonalities-of-colour' which they ought to have perceived and distinguished, only the result of the penultimate as it is called 'sevenfold-crystallisation-of-the-white-ray', that is forty nine tonalities, and even then only some of your favorites had that capacity, while the rest, perhaps the majority, were even deprived of this possibility.

138. "But what is most interesting in respect of the progressive deterioration of that most important part of their total presence, is the sorry farce that results, namely, that those contemporary three-brained beings there, who can still manage to distinguish the mentioned miserable fraction of the total number of tonalities - namely, merely forty nine - look down with

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superior self-conceit and with an admixture of the impulse of pride, upon those
other beings who have lost the capacity to distinguish even this miserable
number, as upon beings with an abnormal deficiency in that said organ of
theirs; and they call them: diseased, afflicted by what is called 'daltonism'.

139. "The last seven interblendings of the centre-of-gravity-vibrations of the white ray which, just as now among the contemporary beings there, they then had in Babylon, have the following names:

(1). red,

(2). orange,

(3). yellow,

(4). green,

(5). blue,

(6). indigo,

(7). violet.

140. "Now hear in just which way the learned beings then in Babylon belong-
ing to the group of painters indicated various useful information and fragments
of the knowledge they had attained, in the lawful inexactitudes of the great
cosmic Law then called the 'Law of Sevenfoldness', by means of the combina-
tions of the mentioned seven independent definite colours and other secondary
tonalities derived from them.

141. "In accordance with that definite property of the 'Common-Total-Vibra-
tion', that is, of the 'white-ray', during the process of its transformations
about which I have just spoken and which was already then familiar to the
Babylonian learned painters, namely, that one of its 'centre-of-gravity'
vibrations is derived from the others and is transformed into a third and so
on, - in other words, that said separate colours of the 'white-ray' are
always derived one from the other and form a third, as, for example, the orange
colour is obtained from the red, and further the orange colour itself passes
in its turn into the yellow colour, and so on and so forth - then, whenever

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145. "On Fridays, days devoted to 'sculpture', the learned beings be-
longing to this group brought and demonstrated what were then called 'minia-
images' and by the contemporaries 'models', and which were made from material
there called 'clay'.

146. "Those 'minia-images' or 'models' which they brought for exhibition and familiarisation represented as a rule separate beings or beings in groups or various other beings of all kinds of exterior form breeding on their planet.

147. "Among these productions were also various what are called 'allegorical-beings' which were represented with the head of one form of a being there, with the body of another and with the limbs of a third and so on.

148. "The learned beings belonging to this group indicated all that was requisite in the lawful inexactitudes derived from what was then called the law of 'Dimensioness'.

149. "You must know that to all the three-brained beings of the Earth and also of course to the sculptors of that period, it was already known that, in accordance always with the same great Law of Sevenfoldness, the dimensions of any definite part of any whole being are derived from the seven dimensions of other of his secondary parts, which in their turn are derived from seven tertiary parts, and so on and so forth.

150. "According to this, each large or small part of the whole totality of the planetary body of a being has exactly proportionately increasing and diminishing dimensions in relation to his other parts.

151. "For a clear understanding of what I have just said, the face of any being can serve as a good example.

152. "The facial dimensions of every three-centred being in general and also the facial dimensions of the three-centred beings who please you of the planet Earth are the result of the dimensions of seven different fundamental parts of the whole of his body, and the dimension of each separate

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part of the face is the result of seven different dimensions of the whole
face. For instance, the dimensions of the nose of any being are derived
from the dimensions of the other parts of the face, and on this nose in its
turn there are actualized seven definite what are called 'surfaces', and
these 'surfaces' also have seven lawful dimensions down to the said atom it-
self of this face of theirs, which is one of the seven independent dimen-
sions composing the dimensions of the whole planetary body.

153. "In the deviations from these lawful dimensions, the learned sculptors among the members of the 'Adherents of Legomonism' then in the city of Babylon, indicated all kinds of useful information and fragments of knowledge already known to them which they intended to transmit to the beings of remote generations.

154. "On Saturday - the 'Day of Mysteries', or the 'day of the theatre', the demonstrations produced by learned members of this group were the most interesting, and, as it is said, the most 'popular'.

155. "I personally preferred these Saturdays to all the other days of the week and tried not to miss one of them; and I preferred them because the demonstrations arranged on those days by the learned beings of that group, frequently provoked such spontaneous and sincere laughter among all the other terrestial three-centred beings who were in the given section of the club, that I sometimes forgot among which three-centred beings I was and that being-impulse manifested itself in me which properly arises only in one-natured beings like myself."

156. "At the outset the learned beings of that group demonstrated before the other members of the club various forms of being-experiences and being-manifestations. Then, later, they collectively selected from all that was demonstrated, what was suitable for the various details for one or another already existing mystery, or for one newly created by themselves;

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experiences by itself evokes in the whole being a desire for a corresponding manifestation, a corresponding movement is thus actualised in accordance with separate parts of their total presence.

168. "Just these said differently-sourced associative experiences proceed in their general presences and are derived one from the other also in accordance with the same Law of Sevenfoldness.

169. "The learned members of the club of the 'Adherents of the Legomonism' belonging to this group then in Babylon, indicated what they wished in the movements and in the actions of the participants in the mysteries in the following way:

170. "For instance, suppose that in order to fulfil the role of some participant in the given mystery some or other definite association were bound to be evoked in one or another of his brains, by the action of one or other new impression given to him; and suppose that associations were bound to evoke some or other manifestations or movements of the given participant, then intentionally they produced those manifestations or movements, not as they should have been produced in accordance with the Law of Sevenfoldness, but 'otherwise', and in these 'otherwises' also they inserted in a certain way what they wished to transmit to distant generations.

171. "Now hear at which demonstrations I used always to be glad to be present on Saturdays, in order to rest from my intense activities at that time, and how these learned mysterists demonstrated before the other learned members of the club of the 'Adherents of the Legomonism' all kinds of being-experiences and manifestations according to flowing associations, from among the number of which fragments for future mysteries were selected.

172. "For these demonstrations they constructed in one of the large halls of the Club a special raised place which they then called, the 'reflector-of-

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reality'. Beings of subsequent epochs to whom the information concerning these Babylonian learned mysterists chances to be transmitted, and who began imitating them and as it were doing the same, called and still call their constructions of a similar kind 'estrada'.

173. "So, two of the participants would always come upon these 'reflectors-of-reality', or 'estrada', first; and then usually one of them stood for a while and, as it were, listened to what his own what is called 'Darthelhlustnian' state, or, as it is sometimes otherwise said, to the state of his own inner 'associative-general-sychic-experiencings'.

174. "Listening in this way, he would make it clear to his Reason that, for instance, the sum total of his associative experiences emerged in the form of an urgent inclination to hit another being in the face, the sight of whom had always served as the cause for the beginning of the association of a pervious series of impressions present in him, just the associations of those impressions which had always evoked in his general psyche disagreeable experiences, offensive to his own self-consciousness.

175. "Let us suppose that these disagreeable experiencings always proceeded in him when he saw someone who was then called 'Irodohahoon', which professional there is already now called by the contemporary beings a 'policeman'.

176. "Having then made this 'Darthelhlustnian' psychic state and inclination of his clear to his Reason, but at the same time, being on the one hand well aware that in the existing conditions of external social existence it was impossible for him to gratify his inclination completely, and, on the other hand, being already perfected only in his reason and being well aware of his dependence on the automatic functioning of the other parts of his general presence, he clearly understands that on the gratification of this

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inclination of his, will depend the fulfillment of some prospective and im-
portant being-duty of his, of great importance to those around him; and having
thought over everything in this way, he decides to gratify this urgent in-
clination of his asbest he can by at least doing a 'moral injury' to that
'Irodohahoon', by evoking in him associations that would lead to unpleasant
experiencings.

177. "With this object in view he turns to the other learned being who had come on to the 'estrada' with him, and treating him now as an 'Irodohahoon' or a 'policeman', he would say:

178. "'Hit you! Don't you know your duty? Don't you see that there....?' pointing with his hand at that moment in the direction of another small room of the club where the other participants of the demonstrations of that day were, 'a couple of citizens of the city, a 'soldier' and a 'cobbler' are fighting in the street there and disturbing the public peace, and here you are leisurely strolling about imagining yourself God knows who and leering at the passing wives of honest and respectable citizens of the city !!! Just you wait, you scamp! Through my chief, the city's chief physician, I shall report to your chief this negligence of yours and breach of duty!'

179. "From that moment the learned being who had spoken would be a physician, because he had chanced to called his chief, the head physician of the city, while the second learned being whom the former had called a 'policeman' would assume the role of a policeman. The two other participating learned beings who were then immediately brought from the other room where the one who assumed the role of policeman went for them, assumed one of them the role of a 'cobbler' and the other, the role of a 'soldier'.

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180. "And these two latter learned beings assumed and had to manifest themselves in just those roles, namely, one in the role of a 'soldier' and the other in the role of a 'cobbler', only because the first learned being who, having himself in accordance with his 'Darthelhlustnian' state assumed the role of a physician had called them 'soldier' and 'cobbler' respectively.

181. "Well then, these three learned beings who were thus cast impromptu by the fourth learned being for the fulfillment of every kind of perception and manifestation, which had to flow by law, of types foreign to them, or, as your favourites say, of 'strange roles', namely of the roles of the 'cobbler', 'soldier' and 'Policeman', further produced their experiences and relaxed manifestations from these said experiences, thanks to the being-property in them called 'Ikriltazkakra' - a property also familiar to the learned beings of the planet Earth of that period, who previously had already the possibilities of perfecting their presences up to the ableness of actualising it.

182. "Three centred beings can acquire this said being-property called 'Ikriltazkakra' only if there is already personally acquired in their presences what is called 'Essoaieritoorassnian-will' which in its turn can be obtained thanks to always the same being 'Partkdolgduty', that is, to conscious labours and intentional sufferings.

183. "So it was in this way that the learned members of the group of the Mysteries then in Babylon became players of 'strange-roles' and demonstrated before the other learned members of the club, the experiences and the actions derived from them, and which were produced in accordance with the directing of their well-informed Reason.

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184. "And thereafter, as I have already said, they, together with the other learned members of the club of the Adherents of Legomonism who were present, selected the corresponding from among the number of being-impulses demonstrated in such a way, and which had to be experienced and manifested in the actions of the beings according to the law of the flowing of different-sourced associations, and only then did they include those selected in the details of some mystery or other.

185. "Here it is very important to emphasise that then in Babylon the three brained learned beings who belonged to the group of the mysterists indeed reproduced in action amazingly well and precisely the subjective particularities of the perceptions and manifestations of various types foreign to them.

186. "They reproduced them well and precisely not only because as I have already explained, they contained the being-property 'Ikriltazkakra', but also because the learned beings of the planet Earth of that time were very well aware also of what is called the 'law of type' and that the three brained beings of their planet were ultimately formed in twenty-seven different types, and also which of them and in which cases what had to be perceived and how it had to be perceived, and how they were bound to manifest themselves.

187. "Concerning the said being-property, I have just called 'Ikriltazkakra', I must add further that just this property alone give beings the possibility of restraining themselves within the limits of all those impulses and promptings which are evoked at any given moment in their general presences by the associations flowing in that brain in which they themselves have consciously given the start for the proceeding of associations of one or another series of impressions already present in them; and it is only thanks to just that property that beings have the possibility of perceiving every

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kind of detail of the psyche of the type they have already previously well studied, and of manifesting themselves similarly to it and, so to say, fully impersonating it.

188. "In my opinion, it is on account of the absence of just that property that the majority of all those anomalies have arisen which have just resulted in the three brained beings of the planet Earth who please you, becoming possessed of such a strange psyche."

189. "You must know that both in the presences of the three brained beings these also of the present time, as well as in the presences of every kind of three brained being in general, every new impression is accumulated in all their three separate brains in the order of what is called relationship and afterwards they take part with the impressions already previously registered in the associations evoked in all these three separate brains of every new perception, in accordance with and in dependence upon what are called the 'centre-of-gravity-impulses' present at the given moment in their whole presence."

190. "So, my boy, seeing that there continue to flow in the presences also of your contemporary favourites, three kinds of independent associations which also continue to bring forth totally different kinds of being-impulses, and at the same time they have already entirely ceased the conscious actualisation in their presences of every kind of those cosmic results by means of which alone the mentioned being-property can be acquired in three-brained beings, then in consequence of all this the result was just obtained, that the general presence of each and every of your contemporary favourites in the process of his existence consists, as I have already told you, as it were, of three quite separate personalities, - three personalities which have and can have nothing

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in common with each other, either in respect of the nature of their arising or in respect of their manifestations.

191. "Hence it is that there just proceeds in them that particularity of their general presence which is expressed thus: that with one part of their essence they always intend to wish one thing; at the same time with another part they definitely wish something else; and thanks to the third part, they already do something quite different.

192. "In short, what happens in their psyche is just what our dear teacher Mullar Nassr Eddin defines by the word a 'mix-up'.

193. "Concerning the demonstration of the Babylonian learned beings of that time belonging to the group of the Mysterists, I must add that in the course of the action the number of the participants was gradually supplemented by their other colleagues also dependently on various voluntary associative happenings.

194. "And besides all this, every participant thus engaged in the fulfillment of the perceptions and accurate automatic manifestations that happened to be connected with him and were proper to a personality of a type quite foreign to him, had at the same time that he was fulfilling that role to give himself time, under some plausible pretext to change into corresponding costume.

195. "And they changed their costume in order to manifest themselves more clearly and more strikingly in the fulfillment of the role they assumed, and so that the other learned members present of the club of the Adherents of the legomonism who checked and selected the fragments of the future mysteries could more easily and surely collate them and make a better selection of everything they saw.

196. "On Sundays, namely, on the days consecrated to music, and singing,

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the learned beings belonging to this group first produced on various sound-producing instruments, and also with their voices, every kind of what is called 'melody' and then explained to all the other learned beings how they indicated in these works of their whatever they wished.

197. "They also had it in view to implant these works of their in the customs of various, what are called, peoples, in the calculation that these 'melodies' they created, passing from generation to generation, would reach men of remote generations who, having desiphered them, would discover the knowledge put into them and that had already been attained on the Earth, and would also use it for the benefit of their ordinary existence.

198. "For your understanding of how the learned beings there of that group made their indications, in the 'musical' and 'vocal' productions of theirs, I must first explain to you concerning certain special particularities of the perceptive organ of hearing present in the general presences of every kind of being.

199. "Among the number of these special particularities is the property called 'Vibroechonitanko'.

200. "You must know that those parts of the brains of beings which objective science calls 'Hlodistomaticules', and certain of which on your planet the terrestrial, as they are called, 'learned physicians', call 'nerve-brain-ganglia', are formed of what are called 'Nirioonossian-cryostallised-vibrations', which in general arise in the fulfilled formation of every being as a result of the process of all kinds of perceptions of their organ of hearing; and later on, these 'Hlodistomaticules', functioning from the reation upon them of similar but not yet crystallised vibrations, just bring froth in the corresponding region which is subject to the given brain, the said 'Vibroechonitanko', or, as it is sometimes also called, 'Remoree'.

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201. "In accordance with the foresight of Great Nature these said 'Hlodistomaticules' serve in the presences of the beings as real factors for assisting the arising of the processes of association of those moments, when either the promptings arisen within are absent or the shocks coming from without do not reach their brains.

202. "And the as yet non-crystallised 'Nirioonossian-vibrations' in general arise and later enter into the general presence of the beings, either by means of what are called the vocal chords of every kind of being or by means of certain 'sound-producing instruments' which the beings have artificially invented.

203. "So, just these vibrations arisen from the said sources and entering into the presences of the beings, when they touch the 'Hlodistomaticules' of one or another brain then, according to the general functioning of the whole being, they produce the said process of 'vibroechonitanko'.

204. "The second particularity consists in this, that in general by the action of vibrations obtained from the sequence of sounds of every kind of melody, the association is usually evoked in the presences of the beings in one or another of the three brains, just in that brain in which at the given moment what is called 'the momentum-of-what-was-experienced' is increasing more intensively, and the sequence of the impulses evoked for experiencing already usually proceeds in an automatic order.

205. "The learned musician-singers then in the city of Babylon, combined their melodies in such ways that the sequence of the vibrations of the sounds should evoke in the beings a sequence of associations, and therefore, also impulses for experiencing, not in the usual automatic order, that is to say, so that the sequence of the vibrations, on entering into the general presence of the beings, should evoke the 'vibroechonitanko' in the 'Hlodis-

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tomaticules', not of just one brain, as it usually proceeds, namely, in just
that brain in which at the given moment the associations predominate, - but
now in one brain, now in another, and now in the third; thus, for seeing also
the quality or, as they themselves would say, the numbers of the vibrations
of the sounds which would affect one or another brain.

206. "This latter, namely, from which vibrations, in which brain of the beings, which data are formed, and for which new perceptions these data might serve for what are called 'determinants-of-new-resultants', they were also already quite familiar with.

207. "Owing to these sequences of sounds which they combined simultaneously
in the presences of beings, different kinds of impulses arose, which evoked
various quite opposite sensations, and these sensations in their turn pro-
duced unusual experiences in them and reflex movements not proper to them.

208. "And truly, my boy, the sequences of sounds they combined did indeed
affect all the beings, into whose presence they entered exceedingly strangely.

209. "Even in me, a being cast, as they would say, in another mould, various impulses were brought forth and were alternated with an unusual sequence.

210. "It happened in this way because as the sounds of their melodies which
they had combined in a definite sequence entered into my general presence,
there proceeded 'Djartkhom' in them, or as it is otherwise said, the sounds
were 'sorted out' and acted equally upon all my three variously-caused 'Hlod-
istomaticules', with the consequence that the associations proceeding in me in
the three independent brains - though simultaneously and with an equal inten-
sity of similar but differently natured series of impressions, - produced in
my presence three quite different promptings.

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211. "For instance, the localisation of my consciousness, or, as your favourites would say, my 'thinking-centre', brought forth in my general presence, let us suppose, the impulse of joy; the second localisation in me, or my 'feeling-centre' brought forth the impulse called 'sorrow', and the localisation of the body itself, as once again your favourites would call it, my 'moving-centre', brought forth the impulse of 'religiousness'.

212. "And it was just in these unusual impulses evoked in the beings by their musical and vocal melodies, that they indicated what they wished.

213. "And so, my boy, after all I have already related about this terrestrial contemporary notorious 'Art', I imagine you have enough to understand why and how, during the period of my fifth personal stay on your planet, I happened to be a witness of the events of the causes of its arising and in what connection and with what meaning it was pronounced for the first time just then at that period which your contemporary favourites call the 'Babylonian-civilisation'.

214. "So I will now already speak about those facts there, after learning which, you will be able clearly to represent to yourself and approximately to understand how greatly 'logical-mentation' in all these three-brained beings pleasing to you must have deteriorated in so short a time, that without any what is called 'constancy-of-self-individuality', they have submitted to be made the 'slaves' of those few from among their midst who are called 'wastrels', and who, in consequence of the final loss of the divine impulse 'conscience', could for their egoistic aims create from this 'empty-word' Art which chanced to reach them, also such a sure-fire 'factor' in all of them for the final atrophy of all the data for 'conscious-Being' that still survived in them.

215. "When during the period of my sixth and last personal stay there I

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heard everywhere about this contemporary 'Art' of theirs and came in con-
tact with its results, and when I made clear to myself just what it was all
about, then having recalled about my Babylonian friends of that time and
about their good intentions towards their remote descendants, and as opport
unities offered, made clear to myself more in detail just which results were
obtained from all that of which I happened then to be a witness, and about
which I have just been telling you.

216. "Initiating you now into the process, hidden from strangers and which became fixed in my general presence, of my conscious impressions during my last personal stay there on the surface of this planet of yours concerning this contemporary Art of theirs, then my 'I' must now as a result, with an arisen and profound being-impulse of regret, emphatically state that of all the fragments of knowledge already attained by the beings of the 'Babylonian-civilisation' - which fragments, it must be allowed, did also contain a great deal- literally nothing has reached the beings of contemporary civilisation for the benefit of their ordinary being-existence, apart from a few 'empty-words' without any inner content.

217. "Literally nothing whatever has reached them, not only of all the various fragments of general knowledge already then known on the Earth which they indicated in lawful divergencies from the sacred Law of Eptaparabarshin-och, or, as they called it the 'Law of Sevenfoldness', but in the interval of time between these two civilisations of theirs, their being-rumination has so deteriorated, that they now already do not know nor even suspect the existence of such an all-universal law on their planet.

218. "And as regards this word Art itself, upon which thanks to the strange-
ness of their reason, there has been 'piled up' during this time, as they
themselves would say, 'devil-knowns-what', I must tell you that my special
investigations regarding to this word made it clear to me, that when this
word among the other words and separate expressions used by the learned beings
of that time, also began automatically passing, generation by generation and

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it chanced to get into the vocabulary of certain three-brained beings there,
in whose presences on account of various surrounding circumstances, the cry-
stallisations of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer h
had proceeded in just that order and 'mutual-action', which by chance became
of the kind that it predisposed the arising in their general presences of data
for the Bing of 'Hasnamus-Individuums', then this said word for some reason or
other happened to please just that kind of three-brained being there, they
began using it for their egoistic aims, and gradually they made from it that
very 'something' which, although it continues to consist of, as it is said,
'complete vacuity', yet has gradually collected about itself a fairy-like ex-
terior, which now 'blinds' everyone of these favourites of yours who keeps
his attention on it only a little longer than usual.

219. "Besides this word, from among the number of other definite words used in their discussions by the learned beings then in Babylon who were members of the club of the Adherents of the Legonomism, there also passed automatically from generation to generation quite a number of other words and even several what are called 'foggy-notions' concerning certain definite understandings of that time.

220. "Among the latter, both in respect of name and pseudo-imitation carica-
tures, are their contemporary theatres now existing there.

221. "You remember that I have already told you that both the hall and the demonstrations themselves of the learned beings belonging to the group of the mysterists then at Babylon were still designated by the word 'Theatre'.

222. "If I now explain to you a little more in detail concerning this con-
temporary theatre of theirs, then possibly you will have enough material for
the elucidation, first of all, concerning what came of all the good intentions
and efforts of the learned beings of the Babylonian period; and secondly, what
of all that had already been attained in respect of true knowledge passed from

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the times of that 'Babylonian-culture' to the beings of this contemporary
'European culture', in which the said 'Art' has become mainly covered with the
mentioned exterior; and thirdly, you will sense certain aspects of the male-
ficence of that said contemporary notorious Art of theirs.

223. "A certain amount of information concerning that activity of the group of the Mysterists, learned members of the club of the Adherents of Legomonism, having also reached, as I have just told you, the beings of the contemporary epoch, the latter thereupon had the wish to imitate them also in this, and for this purpose they began also building special halls and also calling them 'Theatres'.

224. "The three-brained beings of the contemporary civilisation quite fre-
quently assemble in considerable groups in these theatres of theirs and also
to observe and, nominally, to study the various prepared manifestations of
their 'artists', as they have quite recently begun to call them, just as the
other learned members of the club of the Adherents of Legomonism studied then
in Babylon the reproductions of the learned beings of the group of the Myster-
ists.

225. "These 'theatres' of theirs came to have a significance of the greatest importance in the ordinary process of existence of your favourites, and on account of this they put up particularly large buildings for this purpose which rank in most of their contemporary cities as the most remarkable constructions.

226. "It will do no harm, I think, to comment here upon the misunderstanding connected with the word 'artist'.

227. "I am bound to comment upon this, because this word was also transmitted to your contemporary favourites from the Babylonian epoch, but it was transmitted not like other words, that is, merely as empty words without sense, but just as one single particle of the consonance of a word then used.

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228. "You must know that the learned beings then in Babylon, the members of the club of the adherents of the Legonomisn, were called by the other learned beings of that time who were well-disposed towards them, and they also called themselves by a name which your contemporary favourites would write as 'Orpheist'.

229. "This word is composed from two definite roots of words then in use, which, in contemporary times, would signify 'right' and 'essence'. If someone was called thus, it meant that he 'rightly-sensed-the-essence'.

230. "After the Babylonian period, this expression also automatically passed from generation to generation with almost the same meaning, but nearly two centuries ago, when the beings of that time began wise- acreing with the mentioned data, particularly in connection with that 'empty' word 'Art', and when various what are called 'Schools-of-Art' arose and everybody considered himself a follower of one or another of those schools, well just then, never having understood its genuine sense and chiefly because among the number of the said schools of Art there was also a school of a certain, as the contemporary beings already call him, 'Orpheus', a figure invented by the ancient Greeks, they then decided to invent a new word defining their 'vocation' more exactly.

231. "So, instead of the said expression 'Orpheist', they just invented the word 'Artist', which had to mean 'He-who-is-occupied-with-art'.

232. "In order better to represent to yourself all the causes subsequently arising also from that misunderstanding there, you must first of all know that before the second terrestrial 'Transapalian-catastrophe', when these favourites of yours still arose and were prepared to become responsible beings normally, they by means of intentionally producing from themselves of corresponding consonants for their what is called speech, that is, for mutual intercourse, had and could make - also like all the three-brained beings of all the great Universe - consonants up to three hundred and definite as they are called 'letters'.

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233. "But later on, when, thanks as always to the same conditions of ordinary being-existence abnormally established by themselves, every kind of property proper to be possessed in the presences of the three-brained beings gradually deteriorated, this 'being-ableness' also deteriorated in them and at such a tempo that whereas the beings of the Babylonian period could now use for conversational intercourse among themselves, only seventy-seven definite consonants, the deterioration continued at such a tempo after the Babylonian period that after five centuries they could already use at the most only thirty six definite 'letters', and the beings of certain communities could not reproduce even this number of separate articulate sounds.

234. "So, my boy, seeing that information concerning the Babylonian period passed from generation to generation to the succeeding generations not only by means of what is called 'verbal-transmission', but still also by means of marks on durable materials, that is, as it would be expressed there, by means of 'inscriptions' - and these 'inscriptions' consisted of conventional signs, which then stood for definite 'being-articulate-sounds' or 'letters' - then, when at the beginning of the contemporary civilisation certain beings there began to collate them 'from a fifth to a tenth' and reflected that they already could not con-sound or pronounce many of these definite 'letters', they then just invented what is called a 'written-compromise'.

235. "This mentioned 'written-compromise' consisted in this, that instead of every kind of sign or 'letter', the taste of the pronunciation which although they understood, yet they could not pronounce it, they decided to employ a slightly similar 'letter' contained in their alphabet at the given time, and so that everybody should understand that it was not that letter but quite another, they always wrote by its side the letter of the ancient

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Romans now already meaningless, but existing, and called in English 'h' and
among the contemporary French 'ahsh'.

236. "From then on, all the rest of your favourites began doing the same,
namely to each of these suspicious letters they added this Roman 'inheritance'.

237. "When this 'written-compromise' was invented, they had about twenty-five of these suspicious 'letters', but in the course of time, as their 'ableness' to pronounce deteriorated side by side with the increase of their 'wise-acreing', the number of the letters they specially invented for such a 'being-ableness' diminished, and by the time the word 'Artist' was invented, they had already only eight of these letters; and in front of this notorious 'ahsh', they wrote letters, partly ancient Greek and partly ancient Latin, which they indicated in the following way: 'th', 'ph', 'gh', 'ch', 'sch', 'kh', 'dh', and 'oh'.

238. "The basis they had for the arising of such a misunderstanding there,
was the compromising sign 'ph'.

239. "And it was the basis because it appeared both in the word by which the learned mysterists were designated and also in the word which stood for a personality invented by the ancient Greeks, with whose whole name, as I have already said, one of the 'schools of Art' then existing, had been connected; and the result of this was that the mentioned representatives of this terrestrial Art of that time, with their already now quite bob-tailed reason, thought that it was nothing more than the word indicating 'the-followers-of-this-historical-personality'; and as many of them did not regard themselves as his followers, then instead of the mentioned word, they just invented the word 'Artist'.

240. "As we have seen, not every inheritance of the ancient Romans turned out to be maleficent for the beings of subsequent generations, but in the

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given case, this little letter 'h' of theirs, has been even an inspiring
factor for the bringing forth of that 'being-ableness' in the presences also
of such beings of subsequent generations, to whom it became already de-
finitely proper to have no initiative or ableness of their own, and they
wished and succeeded in substituting for the already long-existing definite
expression 'Orpheist' the new word 'Artist'.

241. "Here it is very important in general to inform you concerning a great strangeness there, in respect of the mentioned gradual atrophy in the presences of all three-brained beings of this planet also of such a 'being-ability' as the capacity to reproduce the 'consonants' required for mutual intercourse.

242. "You must know that the tempo of the deterioration of this being-capacity in the general presences of the beings does not proceed in everyone in every generation uniformly in the sense of the psychic and organic functioning of their planetary body; but it alternates, as it were, at different times and on different parts of the surface of this planet, affecting at one time more the psychic and at another time the organic part of the functioning of the planetary body.

243. "A very good elucidating example of what I have just said, is afforded by the sensations of the taste and the capacity to pronounce those two definite consonants or those 'letters' known there at the present time which are used among almost all the contemporary beings who breed on all parts of the surface of your planet and which passed to them through the ancient Greeks from times long past.

244. "The said two letters were called by the ancient Greeks 'Theta' and 'Delta'.

245. Here it is interesting to notice that your favourites of very ancient
times specially used just these two letters for making definite names of
two quite opposite meanings.

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246. "Namely, they used the letter 'Theta' in words which expressed ideas relating to the notion of 'Good' and the second letter 'Delta' they used in words relating to the notion of 'evil'; as for example, 'Theos', that is, 'God', and 'Demonos', that is, 'Demon'.

247. "The notion and 'taste' of the consonance of both these letters passed to all the beings of the contemporary civilization, but both these different letters, having entirely different essences, they for some reason or other indicated by means of one and the same sign, namely, the sign 'th'.

248. "For instance, the beings of the contemporary community called 'Russia', try as they may, already cannot pronounce these said two letters at all. But they already are very definitely aware of their difference, so that whenever they have to use these letters in words with definite notions, then although the letters they pronounce do not correspond at all, they correctly sense their difference and do not use one letter for the other.

249. "On the other hand, the beings of the contemporary community called England, still pronounce each separate letter almost as the ancient Greeks pronounced it; but while doing so, sense no difference in them, but without the least embarrassment, employ for words of entirely opposite meanings, one and the same conventional sign in the form of their notorious 'th'.

250. "For instance, when beings of that contemporary England utter their favourite and frequently used expression 'thank you', you can clearly hear the ancient letter 'Theta'; and when they pronounce the word they like no less, and equally frequently use, - the word, 'there', then you hear distinctly and definitely the ancient letter 'Delta'; but, all the same, without any what is called 'Remorse', for both these letters they make use of one and the same 'pan-paradoxical' 'th'.

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251. "However, I think I've talked enough about terrestrial philology.

252. "We had better continue to clear up first the causes why it has been customary just among your contemporary favourites to have such theatres everywhere, and afterwards about what their contemporary artists do in these theatres, and how they manifest themselves there.

253. "As regards the question why it became quite the custom among them to assemble - often in considerable groups - in these theatres of theirs, in my opinion it was because these contemporary theatres of theirs and all that goes in them chanced to turn out to be very congenial with the abnormally formed general presences of the majority of these contemporary three-brained beings, namely with those beings there had been already finally lost the need, proper to three-brained beings, to actualise their own initiative in everything, and who exist only on chance shocks from outside, or by orders of the consequences crystallised in them of one or the other properties of the organ Kundabuffer.

254. "From the very beginning of the arising of those theatres of theirs, they assembled and they till now assemble in them for the purpose of watching and studying the reproductions of their contemporary 'artists'; no, they assemble only for the satisfaction of one of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, - a consequence which had been readily crystallised in the general presences of the majority of them, and which was called 'oornel', and which the contemporary beings now already call 'swaggering'.

255. "You must know that thanks to the mentioned consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, the majority of the contemporary beings acquire in their presence a very strange need to evoke the

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expression in others of the being-impulse called 'Astonishment' regarding themselves, or even simply to see it on the faces of those around.

256. "The strangeness of this need of theirs lies in this, that they get satisfaction from the manifestation of astonishment on the part of others, regarding just their exterior appearance, which they have precisely in conformity with the demands of what are called their 'fashions', - that is to say, with just that also maleficent custom of theirs, which began there still from the times of the Tikliamishian civilisation and which has at the present time become one of those being-factors which already now automatically leaves them neither the time nor the possibility to see or sense reality.

257. "This custom maleficent for them themselves consists in this, that they periodically change the external form of what is called 'the-covering-of-their-nakedness'.

258. "Here a proposal it is interesting to note that it has gradually become the rule in the general process of the ordinary existence of these three-brained beings who please you, that the changes of the appearance of the mentioned covering are directed by such beings there of both sexes as have already 'become worthy' to become candidates for 'Hasnamus-Individuums'.

259. "In this respect, the contemporary theatres turned out to be corresponding to your favourites, because it is very convenient and easy for them to show off, as they like to say, their 'chic' coiffures, or the specially tied knot-of-their-cravat, or the daringly bared, what is called 'Kupaitarian-part-of-their-body', and so on and so forth, while at the same time they can look at the new manifestations of the 'fashions' already actualised conformably with the up-to-date indication of the same candidates for 'Hasnamus-individuums'.

260. "As regards what these contemporary artists do with their 'swaggerings' in these theatres, to get a clear picture of this, you must first hear about this, still another exceedingly strange 'illness' existing there

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under the name of 'dramatisacring'; the predisposition to which illness arises in the presences of certain of them thanks only to the carelessness of what are called their 'mid-wives'.

261. "This criminal carelessness on the part of their 'mid-wives' consists in most instances of this: before doing her job, she calls on the way at the houses of her other clients and drinks there rather more than usual of the 'wine' they offer her, so that while she is doing her job she unconsciously utters words, already fixed in the processes of the ordinary existence of your favourites, like the 'formulae' of what are called their 'magicians', and the new unfortunate being first takes in at the moment of what they call 'its-appearance-in-God's-world, the words of this maleficent 'formula'.

262. "This formula consists of the following words: 'Eh, you what a mess you've made!'

263. "Well, my boy, thanks to that criminal carelessness on the part of the mid-wife, the unfortunate newly appeared being acquires in his presence just that predisposition to the mentioned strange illness.

264. "When such a three-brained being there who has acquired at his first appearance the said predisposition to the illness 'dramatisacring' reaches the age of a responsible being, should he by that time know how to write and should wish to write something, then he suddenly gets this strange illness and begins wiseacring on paper, or, as it is said there, to 'composing' various what are called 'dramas'.

265. "What usually serve as contents for these works of their, are various events which are supposed to have occurred, or which might occur in the future, or finally, events of their own contemporary 'unreality'.

266. "In addition to this, among the symptoms of this peculiar illness

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there appear in the general presence of the sick being, seven other very specific particularities.

267. "The first is this, that when this strange illness arises and already functions in the presence of the given being, particular vibrations are spread around him which act on his environment - as they say - just like the 'smell-of-an-old-goat'.

268. "The second consists in this: that from the change of the inner functioning in such a being, the exterior form of his planetary body, undergoes the following changes: his nose is held aloft; his arms, as it is said, akimbo; his speech is punctuated by a special cough, and so on.

269. "The third - that such a being always gets fearful of certain perfectly harmless, natural, or artificial formations, as for instance, of what are called 'mice', of 'hands-clenched-in-a-fist', the 'wife-of-the-chief-stage-manager-of-the-theatre, the 'pimple-on-his-nose', the 'left-slipper-of-his-own-wife' and still many other formations outside of himself.

270. "The fourth particularity leads him to this, that he already entirely loses all capacity for understanding the psyche of the surrounding beings similar to himself and of getting clear about it.

271. "The fifth - consists in this, that both inwardly and in his manifestations, he criticises all and everything that he hasn't himself.

272. "The sixth - that the data for the perception of anything objective are more atrophied in him than in all other terrestrial three-brained beings.

273. "And the seventh and last particularity consists in this, that there arise in his presence what are called, 'Haemorrhoids', which, by the way, is the sole thing which he carries with modesty.

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274. "It usually then further happens there, that if the sick being had an uncle who is a member of one or other of their 'Parliaments', or if he himself gets acquainted with the widow of a 'former-business-man', or if the period of his preparation for becoming a responsible being has for some reason or other passed in such an environment or under such conditions that he has automatically acquired the property called 'slipping-in-without-soap', then what is called the 'producer', or, as he is also called, the 'owner-of-lambs' takes this work of his and orders the mentioned contemporary 'artists' to 'reproduce' it exactly as it was wiseacred by this being who has fallen ill with this strange illness of 'dramatisacring'.

275. "And already further, these contemporary artists there first reproduce this work themselves alone without strangers, and they reproduce it until it goes among them exactly as the sick being himself had indicated, and the producer has ordered, and when finally the work goes among them without the participation of their own consciousness and feelings, and these contemporary artists themselves are completely transformed into what are called 'living automatons', then and then only, with the help of all those among them, who have not yet become entirely 'living-automatons' - for which reason they later acquire the name of 'stage-managers' - they do the same thing with their assistance and under their direction, but already now in the presence of other ordinary beings assembled in these contemporary theatres of theirs.

276. "Thus you can now, from all I have just said, easily conclude that, besides many definitely maleficent consequences, the expounding of which I shall soon touch upon more in detail, these theatres cannot of course yield

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anything else for that lofty aim which the Babylonian learned beings then had
in view when they created for the first time, such a form of conscious re-
production of perceptions and of the associative reactions to them of other
beings similar to themselves.

277. "All the same, it must be admitted, that they obtained, of course ac-
cidentally, from their theatres and from these contemporary artists of theirs,
for the processes of their ordinary being-existence, one 'not-bad-result'.

278. "To understand in what this 'not-bad-result' consists, I have first to
explain another particularity which becomes proper to the general presence of
beings who arise according to the principle 'Itoklanoz'.

279. "In accordance with this principle, the elaboration in the presence of
such beings of energy necessary for what is called their 'waking-state',
depends on the quality of the associations which proceed in their general pre-
sence during their 'complete-passivity', or as those favourites of yours say,
'during sleep'; or vice versa; that energy necessary for the 'productiveness'
of this said 'sleep', of theirs, is elaborated in its turn also from the
associative process proceeding in them during that said 'waking-state' of
theirs, which this time is already now dependent on the quality or intensity
of their activity.

280. "And this began to apply also to these terrestrial three-brained beings
from the time, when, as I have already once told you, Great Nature was com-
pelled to substitute for the 'Fullasnitanian' principle previously proper
to their presences, the principle 'Itoklanoz'. Thereupon there was ac-
quired and there is up till now in the process of their existence such a

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particularity, that if, as it is said among them they 'sleep-well', then they will also 'be-awake-well' and vice versa; if their waking-state is bad, then they will also 'sleep' badly.

281. "So, my boy, because during recent times they have been existing already abnormally, then in consequence, that established automatic tempo which had more or less previously helped the procedure of the obligatory associations was even changed, and as a result, in recent times they have been sleeping badly and when awake have been even worse than before.

282. "And why these contemporary theatres of theirs with their contemporary artists have come in useful for improving the quality of their sleep, was due to the following circumstances.

283. "After the need to actualise the 'being-Partk dolgduty' in them themselves had entirely disappeared from the presences of the majority of them, and in the process of their 'waking-state' every kind of association of unavoidably perceived shocks proceeded only from several already automatised what are called 'series-of-former-imprints' consisting of endlessly repeated what are called 'impressions-experienced-long-ago', then there began in its turn and has continued up till now, to disappear in them even the instinctive need to perceive every kind of new shock which are the 'daily bread' for the three-brained beings, and which issue either from their inner separately spiritualised being parts or from corresponding perceptions coming from without for conscious associations, namely, for just that being-association upon which depends the intensity of transformation of every kind of 'being-energy' in the presences of beings.

284. "During the latter mentioned three centuries, the process itself of their existence became such, that in the presences of the majority of them during their daily existence, that 'being-comparative-association' almost no

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longer arises, which usually proceeds in the three-brained beings thanks to every kind of their new perceptions, from which alone in the general presences of the three-brained beings can data be crystallized for their own individuality.

285. "So, when your favourites existing in such a manner in their 'daily-life' began going to these contemporary theatres and watching the senseless manipulations of these contemporary artists of theirs, and received shocks, one after the other, of every kind of reminiscence, already previously perceived, of not less senseless and absurd notions, then during this waking state of theirs, more or less tolerable being-associations are willy nilly obtained in them so that when they get home and go to bed, - they sleep much better than usual.

286. "Although indeed these contemporary theatres with all that is done in them chanced to prove in this way - but of course only 'for-to-day'- an excellent means for the better sleep of your favourites, nevertheless the objectively evil consequences for beings of these theatres, and particularly for the rising generations, are in general incalculable.

287. ""The chief harm for them from these theatres of theirs consists in this, that these theatres served as an additional factor for the final destruction in them of every kind of possibility of ever possessing the need proper to the three-brained beings, called the 'need-of-real-perceptions'.

288. "It came to be a maleficent factor for this chiefly because of the following circumstances.

289. "When they go to these theatres of theirs and, sitting quietly, look in at every kind of varied and many-sided, even if senseless, 'manipulations' and manifestations of their contemporary artists, then although they are in their usual waking-state, every kind of association, both 'thinking' and 'feeling' proceeds in their presences, exactly as they must during the periods

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of their complete passivity, or sleep.

290. "Namely, when they receive a large number of accidentally corresponding shocks for stimulating shocks already fixed and perceived before and automatised in a series of impressions, and when they reflex these with the functioning of the, what are called, 'organs-of-digestion-and-sex', then as a consequence, obstacles arise in their presences for the procedure even of those deplorably conscious being-associations which have already somehow become sufficiently automatised to produce in them a more or less regular tempo for the transforming of the required substances for that passive existence of theirs, during which the required substances must be transformed just for their active existence.

291. "Otherwise speaking, when they happen to be in these theatres of theirs, they are not, during these periods, entirely in that passive state in which the proceeding of the transformation of substances required for their already usual waking-state-that has somehow become sufficiently automatised in them also - with the result that these contemporary theatres of theirs have come to be for them only an additional maleficent factor.

292. "Among many other aspects of the maleficence of this contemporary 'Art' of theirs, one of the most obviously ignored, but for all the three-brained beings there one of the very harmful in respect of the possibility of acquiring of conscious what is called 'individual-Being', is the radiation of the representatives of the contemporary 'Art' themselves.

293. "Although this maleficent radiation gradually becomes there the lot or specific attribute of the representatives of all the branches of their 'Art', yet my detailed physio-chemical investigations definitely showed me that it is always worst just in those mentioned contemporary 'artists' or 'actors' who mime in these contemporary theatres of theirs.

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294. "The maleficence for all the other of your favourites of those total radiations issuing from them has become distinctly noticeable, particularly in recent times of their present civilization.

295. "Although certain of the ordinary beings used already long before to become such professionals there, yet in former times, on the one hand, every kind of data for 'Hasnamussian-properties' did not become fulfilledly crystallised in the presences of every one of these professionals, and on the other hand, other of your favourites obviously instinctively felt the maleficent influence issuing from those professionals, and hence were on their guard and behaved towards them in a corresponding manner and very carefully.

296. "Namely, in former centuries such artists or actors were everywhere relegated to the lowest caste by other beings, and were regarded with contempt. And even at the present time there, in many communities, for instance on the continent Asia, it is unpleasant to shake hands with them, as one almost always does when meeting beings similar to oneself.

297. "Even up till now in these said communities, it is also considered defiling to sit with such artists at the same table and to eat together with them.

298. "But the contemporary beings of that continent which has come to be at the present time, the chief place of what is called their 'cultured-existence', not only put these contemporary artists on a level with themselves in their inner relations, but even largely imitate them in respect of their appearance, and at the present time they imitate them pretty thoroughly.

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299. "The custom of shaving the beard and moustache, now followed by all your favourites, can serve as a very good example for confirming what I have just said.

300. "I must tell you that these in past epochs terrestrial professionals-artists had always to go with shaved moustaches and beards during the ordinary process of their existence.

301. "They had to shave these 'expressors' of masculinity and activity of theirs, first of all, because, always playing the roles of other beings, they had often to change their appearance and for this they not only had to put on their faces a corresponding what is called 'paint' but also to wear wigs and false moustaches and beards, and the latter was impracticable if they had their own beards and moustaches; and secondly, because the ordinary beings of all former communities there, considering such artists dirty and a harmful influence, and fearing to fail to recognise them if they chanced to meet them in ordinary conditions of existence and of somehow touching them, then promulgated everywhere a severe law, that the beings of the profession of artists or actors, in order to be unmistakable for other beings, should always shave their moustache and beards.

302. "While explaining just now to you the cause of the arising of the customs of shaving moustaches and beards among artists there, I recall a very reasonable and very economic what is called 'measure-of-justice' of the three-brained beings of the epoch of the 'Tikliamishian-civilisation' connected also with the shaving of the hair, but in this given case with the hair growing on the heads of the beings there.

303. "A law was then established and strictly enforced that those petty criminals among them who, after trial and sentence by, in their turn, seven elderly beings of the given region, had been ascribed to one of the four already previously established categories of 'immorality' and 'crime', - with

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which beings all what are called their 'prisons' are now also usually crowded,
- should for a definite term go about always and everywhere with one of the
four corresponding sides of theirs heads shaved; and, furthermore, any such
convicted being was obliged to uncover his head whenever he met or spoke with
others.

304. "It is interesting to note that there then also existed a law of the
same kind about shaving the head in regard to the immoral behaviour of women.

305. "And namely in regard to women, a sentence existed and was also very
strictly enforced - in this instance by seven elderly local women who had
earned respect by their previous conduct.

306. "And the penal measures for women were fitted to the four manifesta-
tions which were then considered there, for women, as the greatest laxity and
immorality.

307. "Namely, if all her neighbours noticed, and all the seven mentioned
elderly women confirmed it, that the given woman had behaved without due
regard and neglectfully towards her family duties, then according to the law,
she had for a definite term to appear everywhere with painted lips.

308. "But if various women noticed that she had begun to manifest towards
her children with a weakening of her maternal impulses, then under the same
conditions, those around her condemned her to go about everywhere also for
a definite term with her face made up and painted white and red, but only
the left half.

309. "And if, following the same procedure, it was established that a woman
manifested a disposition to avert the conception in herself of a new being
for the purpose of the prolongation of her generation, then she was condemned

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to appear with her face made up and painted also with white and red, but
this time only on the right half.

310. "And women who attempted to violate their chief what is called 'wifely-duty', that is, who deceived or who only tried to deceive her legal husband, or who attempted to destroy a new being conceived in her, was obliged by the same procedure to be always and everywhere, also for a definite term, made up and painted with white and red, this time over the whole of her face."

311. At this point of the tales, Beelzebub was interrupted by Ahoon with the following words:

312. "Your Right Reverence! All your explanations concerning the terrestial Art and those three-brained beings there who now practise it and are so to say its representatives, and particularly your elucidations concerning the contemporary 'comedians' there or 'artists', have suggested to me to use all the impressions fixed in my general presence which were perceived during my last stay on the surface of this planet Earth which has pleased our dear Hassein, and to give him a good piece of very practical advice...."

313. Having said this, Ahoon intended to look expectantly at the face of Beelzebub with his usual glance, that is, without blinking for a long time, but as soon as he had noticed his usual, though always grieved yet kind and indulgent smile, he, not expecting the requested permission and being somewhat confused, at once turned this time to Hassein and spoke as follows:

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314. "Who knows? Maybe, our dear Hassein, you indeed will have to be on that planet Earth and to exist among those peculiar three-brained beings who are pleasing to you...."

315. And this time, again keeping the style and intonations of Beelzebub himself, he continued:

316. "For just that reason I wish here to initiate you in any case into the results of various impressions which I involuntarily perceived both concerning the resulting type and concerning the particularities of its manifestation just by those said contemporary representatives of Art there.

317. "You must know that this contemporary Art, adorned with a false halo and also those beings who are assumed to be its adepts, are not only put on their own level by the other three-brained beings there of the contemporary civilisation, particularly during the several latter decades and imitated by them in their exterior manifestations, but they are always and everywhere undeservingly encouraged and exalted by them.

318. "And in these contemporary representatives of Art themselves, who really in point of their genuine essence are almost nonentities, in them there is formed without any of their being-consciousness, on their own part, a false assurance that they are not like all the rest, but, as they entitle themselves, of a 'higher-order', - with the result that in the presence of these types, the crystallisation of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer proceeds more intensively than in the presences of all the other three-brained beings there.

319. "Just in regard to such unfortunate three-brained beings, the surrounding abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence are already so established, that there are bound to be crystallised in their general presences and to become an inseparable part of their general psyche, those of the consequences of the organ Kundabuffer which they now themselves call 'swagger', 'pride',

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beginning of the arising in me of the impulse of pity, not only in respect of them themselves, but also in respect of all these unfortunate favourites of yours in general.

324. "Try now to give your attention not to all the three-brained beings in general, nor to the other representatives of their contemporary Art, just to those who become and acquire the title of 'artist' or 'actor'.

325. "Everyone of them really being in respect of genuine essence almost what is called a 'nonentity', that is, 'something' utterly empty but enveloped in a certain visibility, they have nevertheless gradually acquired such an opinion of themselves, by means of favourite exclamations always and everywhere repeated by them themselves like 'genius', 'talent', 'gift', and still a number of others, each like themselves, void with only an exterior, - that it is as if, among the similar beings around them, only they have 'divine origin', only they are almost 'God'.

326. "Now listen and try to trans-substantiate for use at the proper time in the corresponding parts of your general presence, my truly very practical advice.

327. "This practical advice of mine consists in this, that if for some reason or other you should have to exist, particularly before very long, among the three-brained beings of that planet Earth pleasing to you, - I say before very long, because both the presence of these three-brained beings who please you and all the already fixed exterior conditions of their ordinary being-existence frequently undergo degeneration - and if you should have there some affair or other proper to every conscious three-brained being, just such affairs as have

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as their basis the aim of attaining some benefit or other for surrounding
beings and the fulfillment of which depends also on those same surrounding
beings - then in whatever community of the contemporary civilization this may
proceed, then if you should have to meet these contemporary terrestrial types,
in what are called there the 'circles' you meet in the interests of these
affairs of yours, oblige yourself never to fail to be very, very careful and
take every kind of requisite measure to keep on good terms with them.

328. "Why you must be so careful towards just them, and in general, in order that you may better represent to yourself and understood from every angle these terrestrial contemporarily arisen types, I must be sure to explain two further facts definitely formed there.

329. "The first is this, that on account, as always, of the same conditions of ordinary being-existence abnormally established there, and thanks to the arisen and existing there 'ephemerally-puffed-up' maleficent idea there of their notorious Art, these representatives of Art gradually become crowned with an imaginary halo in the pre-conceived picturings (representations) and conceptions of other three-brained beings there, and automatically thereby acquire an undeserved authority, in consequence of which all the rest of your favourites always and in everything assume that any opinion they express is authority beyond dispute by anybody.

330. "And the second springs from this, that these contemporary types newly arisen there, acquire, as they are formed, a corresponding inner presence that permits them to become, quite consciously on their part, just as easily somebody's slave, as they can, thanks merely to chance, exterior conditions, become his worst enemy.

331. "That is just why I advise you to be very careful not to make enemies

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by day, then with an expression of astonishment on your face, ask him:

341. "Do please tell me, what is your secret for always looking like a youth in his 'pink and cream' ; and so on and so forth. Only remember one thing...never tell the truth.

342. "Although you have to behave like this towards all the beings in general of that planet, it is particularly necessary towards the representatives of all the branches of contemporary 'Art'.

343. "Having said this Ahoon, smirking like a Moscow suburban match-maker at the marriage of her clients, or the proprietress of a Parisian fashion-workroom in what is called a 'high-life-cafe', began rearranging the folds of his tail.

344. And Hassein looking at him with his usual sincerely grateful smile, said:

345. "Very many thanks to you, dear Ahoon, both for your advice and, in general, for your elucidation of certain details of the strangeness of the psyche of the three-brained beings of that in all respects ill-treated planet of our great Universe."

346. And then he turned to Beelzebub himself with the following words:

347. "Please explain to me, kind grandfather. Is it really possible that nothing has resulted from the intentions and efforts of those Babylonian learned beings and that indeed, nothing whatsoever has passed of those fragments of knowledge which were already then known on the Earth, to the contemporary three-brained beings of that strange planet?"

348. At this question of his grandson Beelzebub said as follows:

349. "To the great sorrow of everything that exists in the Universe, scarcely anything has survived, my boy, from the results of their labours, and hence

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nothing has become the property of your contemporary favorites.

350. "The information they indicated in the said manner passed from generation to generation, only, in all, for a few of their succeeding centuries.

351. "Soon after the period of the 'Babylonian-Magnificence', thanks to the same chief particularity of their, namely, to the 'periodic-process-of-reciprocal-destruction', there almost wholly disappeared from amongst the ordinary beings there, not only the legononisms concerning the keys to the lawful inexactitudes in the Law of Sevenfoldness contained in each of the branches of the 'being-Afalkalno' and 'Soldjinoha', but, as I have already told you, there gradually also disappeared even the very notion of the Universal Law of the holy Eptaparabarshinoch, which in Babylon they then called the 'Law-of-Sevenfoldness'.

352. "Every kind of conscious production of the beings of the Babylonian period were gradually destroyed; partly by themselves decaying with time, and partly, thanks to their processes of 'reciprocal destruction', that is to say, to the degree of that psychosis of theirs which is called the 'Destruction-of-everything-existing-that-comes-within-the-sphere-of-the-perception-of-visibility'.

353. "Thanks chiefly to these two causes there little by little disappeared from the surface of that ill-starred planet almost all the consciously actualised results of the learned beings of the Babylonian epoch and at such a tempo that after three of their centuries already scarcely any of them were left.

354. "It must also be noted that, thanks to the second mentioned cause there, there also gradually diminished and finally almost entirely ceased,

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end of three of their centuries after the Babylonian period there 'almost'
entirely ceased to exist every kind of conscious and automatic reproduction
of the 'being-Afalkalno' and 'Soldjinoha'.

361. "You must know, that two branches of the conscious hand-productions of the beings of the Babylonian period chanced upon favourable conditions and partly consciously and partly automatically on the part of the transmitting beings, some of them passed from generation to generation.

362. "One of the said two branches recently ceased to exist; but the other
has even reached certain beings of contemporary times almost unchanged.

363. "This branch which reached beings of contemporary times is called there 'sacred-dances'.

364. "So, thanks to this branch alone, which survived from the period of the Babylonian learned beings, a very limited number of three-brained beings there now have the possibility with certain labours conscious on their part, to decipher and learn the information hidden in it and which is useful for their personal being.

365. "And the second mentioned branch which recently ceased to exist was
that branch of the knowledge of the Babylonian learned beings, which they
called the 'Combination-of-different-tonalities-of-colour' and which the con-
temporary beings now call 'Painting'.

366. "The passing of this branch from generation to generation proceeded
almost everywhere, but with the flow of time, gradually disappearing, also
everywhere, it proceeded in quite recent times at a still quite regular tempo
both consciously and automatically only among the beings of the community
called 'Persia'.

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367. "And it was only just before my last departure from that planet of yours when the influence of a similar profession of beings of the contemporary 'European-culture' began to become noticeable also there in Persia, and the beings of that profession in the community Persia also began wiseacring, that such a transmission already ceased entirely.

368. "It must also be noticed that in spite of all this, not a few of the still surviving productions of the Babylonian times reached the beings also of the contemporary civilisation, namely chiefly to the beings breeding on the continent Europe.

369. "But these productions which reached the beings of this contemporary civilisation - and not originals but only bad copies made by the of the productions of the Babylonian epoch - who had not finally become what are called 'Plagiarists' - they simply stuffed into what are called their 'museums', without suspecting the 'well-of-whom' concealed in them and without taking corresponding practicable measures. And there in these museums they gradually were either destroyed or they were partially ruined by frequent copyings from them, made by means of various eroding and exidising compositions, as, for instance, 'alabaster', 'fish-glue' and so on, only that the copyists might swagger before their friends or cheat their teachers and achieve some other Hasnamussian aim.

370. "It must in fairness be remarked that now and again certain beings also of the contemporary civilisation have suspected that 'something' was concealed in the productions which chanced to reach them in the original, specially created then in Babylon by the members of the Club of the Adherents of the legomonism, or in those copies which were made during their transmission from

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generation to generation by various conscientious professionals, that is, by
such professionals to whom, as I have already said, it was still not quite
proper to 'plagiarise', and who therefore did not resort to the detailed re-
making of productions in order to give them out as their own, and thereafter
while searching very seriously for this 'something' certain of those inquiring
beings of that European civilisation even found in them a certain definite
'something or other'.

371. "For instance, at the beginning of the contemporary European civilisation, one of these beings, a certain monk named Ignatius, who had formerly been an architect, attained even to the possibility of deciphering the hidden knowledge and useful information in the productions of almost all the branches of what was already named an ancient Art, which had reached him from the Babylonian epoch.

372. "But when this monk Ignatius was about to share what is called this said 'discovery' of his with other beings there like himself, namely, with two of his what are called, comrades, monks, - together with whom he as a specialist has been sent by his Abbot for the purpose of directing the laying of the what are called 'foundations' of a temple, which later became famous, for some trifling reason flowing from the consequences of one of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer crystallised in them, called 'envy', he was murdered while asleep and his planetary body was thrown into the water-space surrounding that small island on which it was proposed to erect the said temple.

373. "The said monk Ignatius sprang and was formed for the Being of a responsible being, on the continent Europe; but when he reached the age of a responsible being, then with the aim of enriching himself with information

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concerning the profession which he had made the aim of his existence, namely,
the profession there called 'Architecture', he left for the continent of
Africa. And just he it was who entered as a monk into the 'Fraternity' which
existed on that continent Africa, under the name the 'Truth-Seekers'; and
afterwards when this fraternity migrated to the continent Europe and increased,
and when its brethren began to be called 'Benedictines', he himself was al-
ready an 'All-the-Rights-Possessing-Brother' of this said brotherhood.

374. "The temple I referred to exists there even up till now and is called, it seems, 'Mont Saint-Michel'.

375. "In this Europe still several other inquiring beings noticed from time to time lawful inexactitudes in the works of various branches of Art which had reached them from ancient times; but no sooner did they find the key to the understanding of these inexactitudes than their existence came to an end.

376. "Still one other, that is, another being from that continent Europe, also noticed, and continuing to interest himself further and perserveringly to labour, he began fully to decipher the productions of almost all the branches of Art.

377. "And this wise terrestrial three-brained being was named 'Leonardo-d Vinci'.

378. "At the end of my present tale about the terrestrial contemporary Art, there is no harm, I think, in noting still another of the many specific particularities of just those beings of the contemporary civilisation who are occupied with the notorious Art.

379. "This specific particularity of theirs consists in this, that whenever one or other of the mentioned beings, namely, of the beings who notice in various productions which have reached them from ancient times, some very

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'lawful-illogicality', and begins to produce the given branch in a quite new manner, perhaps in order to make the said 'lawful-illogicality' practically clear to himself; then the majority of the beings around him, having the profession of the same branch, at once become his followers and begin doing supposedly the same thing but of course without either aim or sense.

380. "And it is just this said 'specific' psyche of the beings there, representatives of contemporary Art, that brings it about that on the one hand, what are called new 'movements' of Art are always arising there among your favourites, and, on the other hand, those which, even if only 'after a fashion' are nevertheless somehow arranged rightly by the preceding generations, are constantly shrinking.

381. "Although this 'Illogicality' proceeds among the representatives of all the branches of contemporary Art, yet for some reason or other it is the beings who are occupied in the branch they called 'painting' who are most susceptible to it.

382. "Hence it is that at the present time there exists among these contemporary professions a great many 'new movements of painting' which have arisen in this way and have nothing in common among themselves. These new movements of painting are known there under the names of 'Cubism', 'Futurism', 'Synthesism', 'Imagism', 'Impressionism', 'Colourism', 'Formalism', 'Sur-realism' and many other similar 'movements' whose names also end in 'ism'."

383. At this place of Beelzebub's tale, the hoofs of all the passengers of the trans-ship Karnak suddenly as it were radiated from themselves a 'something' phosphorescent'.

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384. This meant that the ship Karnak was nearing the place of her destination, that is, the planet Revosvradendr. Therefore, a bustling movement began among the passengers, for the preparations for descending from the ship.

385. Beelzebub, Hassein and Ahoon ended their conversation and hurriedly began to prepare themselves also.

386. The phosphorescent gleaming of the hoofs was obtained because there was directed from the engine-room to that part of the ship, concentrated together in a particular proportion, the holy parts of the sacred Omnipresent Okidanoch.

END OF THE FIRST BOOK