CHAPTER XV

THE FIRST DESCENT OF BEELZEBUB UPON THE EARTH

"Upon that planet Earth", Beelzebub began to relate, "I descended for the first time on account of a young being of our tribe who had had the misfortune to become deeply involved with a three-brained being there, as a consequence of which he had got himself mixed up in a very stupid affair."

"There once came to my house on the planet Mars a number of beings of our tribe, also dwelling there on Mars, with the following request:

"They told me that one of their young kinsmen, 350 Martian years before, had migrated to exist on the planet Earth, and that a very disagreeable incident for all of us, his kinsmen, had recently occurred to him there."

"They told me further:"

"'We, his kinsmen, both those existing there on the planet Earth and those existing here on the planet Mars, intended at first to deal with the unpleasant incident ourselves, with our own resources. But notwithstanding all our efforts and the measures we have adopted we have been unable so far to accomplish anything.'

"'And being now finally convinced that we are unable to settle this unpleasant affair by ourselves independently, we venture to trouble you, Your Right Reverence, and urgently beseech you to be so kind as not to withhold from us your wise advice how we may find a way out of our unhappy situation.'

"They told me further in detail in what the misfortune which had befallen them consisted.

"From all they told me I saw that the incident was disagreeable not only for this young being's kinsmen, but that it might also prove disagreeable for the beings of all our tribe.

"So I could not help deciding at once to undertake to help them to settle this difficulty of theirs."

"At first I tried to help them while remaining on the planet Mars, but when I became certain that it would be impossible to do anything effective from the planet Mars, I decided to descend to the planet Earth and there, on the spot, to find some way out. The next day after this decision of mine I took with me everything necessary which I had 'at hand' and flew there on the ship 'Occasion.'

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"I may remind you that the ship 'Occasion' was the ship on which all the beings of our tribe were transported to that solar system and as I have already told you, it was left there for the use of the beings of our tribe for the purpose of interplanetary communication.

"The permanent port of this ship was on the planet Mars; and its supreme direction had been given me from Above.

"Thus it was on this same ship 'Occasion' that I made my first descent to the planet Earth.

"Our ship landed on this first visit of mine, on the shores of just that continent which during the second catastrophe to this planet, disappeared entirely from its surface.

"This continent was called 'Atlantis' and most of the three-brained beings and likewise most of the beings of our tribe then existed only upon it.

"Having descended, I went straight from the ship 'Occasion' to the city named 'Samlios', situated on the said continent, where that unfortunate being of our tribe, who was the cause of this descent of mine, had the place of his existence.

"The city 'Samlios' was then a very large city, and was the capital of the largest community then on the planet Earth.

"In this same city the head of this large community existed who was called 'King Appolis'.

"And it was with just this same 'King Appolis' that our young, inexperienced countrymen had become involved.

"And it was in this city of 'Samlios' itself that I learned all the details of this affair.

"I learned, namely, that before this incident our unfortunate countryman had for some reason been on friendly terms with this King Appolis, and was often at his house.

"As it transpired, our young countryman once, in the course of conversation, during a visit to the house of King Appolis, made a 'wager' which was just the cause of all that followed.

"You must first of all know that both the community of which King Appolis was the head, and the city of Samlios where he existed were at that period the greatest and richest of all the communities and cities then existing on the Earth.

"For the upkeep of all this wealth and grandeur King Appolis certainly needed both a great deal of what is called 'money' and a great deal of labour from the ordinary beings of that community.

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"It is necessary to premise just here that at the period of my first de-
scent in person onto this planet, the organ Kundabuffer was no longer in
three-brained beings who interest you.

"And it was only in some of the three-brained beings there that various consequences of the properties of that for them maleficent organ had already begun to be crystallized.

"In the period to which this tale of mine refers, one of the consequences of the properties of this organ which had already become thoroughly crystallized in a number of beings there, was that consequence of the property which, while the organ Kundabuffer itself was still functioning in them had enabled them very easily and without any 'remorse-of-conscience' not to carry out voluntarily any duties taken upon themselves or given them by a superior. But every duty they fulfilled was fulfilled only from the fear and apprehension of 'threats' and 'menaces' from outside.

"It was in just this same consequence of this property already thoroughly crystallized in some beings of that period there, that the cause of this whole incident lay.

"And so, my boy, this is how it was. King Appolis who had been extremely conscientious in respect of the duties he had taken upon himself for the maintenance of the greatness of the community entrusted to him had spared neither his own labour nor wealth, and at the same time he demanded the same from all the beings of his community.

"But, as I have already said, the mentioned consequences of the organ Kundabuffer having by that time been thoroughly crystallized in certain of his subjects, he had to employ every possible kind of 'threat' and 'menace' in order to extract from everybody all that was required for the greatness of the community entrusted to him.

"His methods were so varied and at the same time so reasonable that even those subjects-beings in whom the said consequences had already been crystallized could not help respecting him, although they added to his name, of course behind his back, the nick-name 'Arch-cunning'.

"And so, my boy, these means by which King Appolis then obtained what was necessary from his subjects for the maintenance of the greatness of the community entrusted to him seemed to our young countryman, for some reason or other, unjust, and, as it was said, he often became very indignant and restless whenever he happened to hear of some new device of King Appolis for getting what was necessary.

"And once, while talking with the King himself, our native young countryman could not restrain himself, but expressed to his face his indignation and his views of this 'unconscionable' conduct of King Appolis towards his subjects.

"Not only did King Appolis not fly into a temper, as usually happens on the planet Earth when somebody pokes his nose where he has no business,

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nor did he pitch him out by the scruff of his neck, but he even talked it over with him and discussed the reasons for his 'severity'.

"They talked a great deal and the result of the whole of their conversation was precisely a 'wager', that is to say, they made an agreement and set it down on paper, and each of them signed it with his own blood.

"Among other things there was included in this agreement that for the obtaining from his subjects of all that was necessary King Appolis should be obliged to employ thereafter only those measures and means which should be indicated by our countryman.

"And in the event that all the subjects should fail to contribute all that which according to custom was required, then our countryman would become responsible for everything, and he pledged himself to procure for the treasury of King Appolis as much as was necessary for the maintenance and further aggrandizement of the capital and of the whole community.

"And so, my boy, King Appolis did indeed, already from the following day fulfill very honorably the obligation which according to the agreement he had assumed; and he conducted the whole government of the country exactly according to the indications of our young countryman. The results of a government of this kind, however, very soon proved to be quite the opposite of those expected by our simpleton.

"The subjectsof that community -- principally, of course, those in whom the sad consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer had already been crystallized -- not only ceased to pay into King Appolis' treasury what was required, but they even began gradually snatching back what had been put in before.

"As our countryman had undertaken to contribute what was needed, and furthermore, had signed his undertaking with his blood, -- and you know, don't you, what the voluntary undertaking of an obligation, especially when signed with his blood, means to one of our tribe,-- he had of course soon to begin making up to the treasury all that was short.

"He first put in everything he had himself, and afterwards everything he could get from his nearests, dwelling also there on the planet Earth. And when he had drained dry his nearests there, he addressed himself for assistance to his nearests dwelling on the planet Mars.

"But soon on the planet Mars also everything ran dry and still the treasury of the city of Samlios demanded more and again more; nor was the end of its needs in sight.

"It was just then that all the kinsmen of this countryman of ours became alarmed and thereupon they decided to address themselves to me with the request to help them out of their plight.

"So, my boy, when we arrived in the said city I was met by all the beings of our tribe, both old and young, who had remained on that planet.

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"In the evening of the same day a general meeting was called to confer together to find some way out of the situation that had arisen.

"To this conference of ours there was also invited King Appolis himself with whom our elder countrymen had already previously had many talks on this matter with this aim in view.

"At this first general conference of ours, King Appolis, addressing himself to all, said as follows:

"I Impartial friends!

"I personally am deeply sorry for what has occurred and what has brought about so many troubles for those assembled here; and I am distressed in all my being that it is beyond my power to extricate you from your prospective difficulties."

"You must know, indeed" King Appolis continued, "that the machinery of the government of my community which has been wound up and organized during many centuries, is at the present time already radically changed; and to revert to the old order is already impossible without serious consequences, namely, without those consequences which must doubtless evoke the indignation of the majority of my subjects. The present situation is such that I alone am not able to abolish what has been created without provoking the mentioned serious consequences, and I therefore beg you all in the name of Justice to help me to deal with it."

"Still further", he then added, "I bitterly reproach myself in the presence of you all, because I also am greatly to blame for all these misfortunes."

"And I am to blame because I ought to have foreseen what has occurred, since I have existed in those conditions longer than my opponent and your kinsman, namely, he with whom I made the agreement known to you."

"To tell the truth it was unpardonable of me to risk entering into such conditions with a being who, although he may be of much higher reason than I, is, nevertheless, not so practiced in such affairs as I am."

"Once more I beg all of you, and Your Reverence in particular, to forgive me and to help me out of this sad plight, and enable me to find some issue from the situation that has been created."

"With things as they now are, I can at present do only what you will indicate."

"After King Appolis had left, we decided the same evening to select from among ourselves several experienced elderly beings who should weigh together, that same night, all the data and draw up a rough plan for further action.

"The rest of us then departed on the understanding that we should assemble the ensuing evening at the same place; but to this second conference of ours King Appolis was not invited.

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"When we assembled the next day, one of the elder beings elected the night before, first reported as follows:

"We pondered and deliberated the whole night upon all the details of this lamentable event, and as a result we have unanimously come to the conclusion first of all that there is no way out but to revert to the former conditions of government.

"Further, we all, and also unanimously, agree that to return to the former order of government must indeed inevitably provoke a revolt of the citizens of the community, and, of course, that there will certainly follow all those consequences of revolt which have already become inevitable in such circumstances during recent times on Earth.

"And of course, as it has also become usual here, many of those called 'power-possessing' beings of this community will suffer terribly, even possibly to the degree of their complete destruction; and above all, it seemed impossible that King Appolis could escape such a fate.

"Thereafter we deliberated in order, if possible, to devise some means of diverting the said unhappy consequences at least from King Appolis himself.

"And we had every wish to devise such a means because at our general conference yesterday evening King Appolis himself was very frank and friendly towards us, and we should all be extremely sorry if he himself should suffer.

"During our further prolonged deliberations we came to the conclusions that it would be possible to divert the blow from King Appolis only if during the said revolt the exhibition of the fury of the rebellious beings of this community were directed not against the King himself but against those around him, that is, those who are there called his 'administration'.

"But then the question arose among us, would those near the King be willing to take upon themselves the consequences of all this?"

"And we came to the categorical conclusion that they certainly would not agree, because they would assuredly consider that the King himself had been alone to blame for it all, and that therefore he himself should pay for it.

"Having come to all these aforesaid conclusions we finally also unanimously decided as follows:

"In order at least to save King Appolis from what is inevitably expected, we must with the consent of the King himself replace all the beings in this community who now hold responsible posts, by beings of our tribe, and each of these latter, during the climax of this 'psychosis' of the masses must take upon himself a share of the consequences anticipated."

"When this elected being of ours had finished his report, our opinion was quickly formed; and a unanimous resolution was carried to do just as the elder beings of our tribe had advised.

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"And thereupon we first sent one of our elder beings to King Apollis to put our plan before him, to which the latter agreed, once more repeating his promise, namely, that he would do everything according to our directions.

"We then decided to delay no longer and from the following day to begin to replace all the officials by our own.

"But after two days it turned out that there were not sufficient beings of our tribe dwelling on the planet Earth to replace all the officials of that community; and we therefore immediately sent the 'Occasion' back to the planet Mars for our beings there.

"And meanwhile King Apollis guided by two of our elder beings, began under different pretexts replacing various officials by our beings, at first in the capital of Samlios itself.

"And when several days later our ship 'Occasion' arrived from the planet Mars with beings of our tribe, similar replacements were made in the provinces also, and soon everywhere in that community what are called the responsible posts were filled by the beings of our tribe.

"And when all had been changed in this way, King Apollis, always under the guidance of those elder beings of ours, began the restoration of the former code of regulations for the administration of the community.

"Almost from the very first days of the restoration of the old code, the effects upon the general psyche of the beings of that community in whom the consequences of the mentioned property of the maleficent organ Kundabuffer had already been thoroughly crystallized, began as it was expected, to manifest themselves.

"Thus the expected discontent grew thereupon from day to day, until one day, not long after, there occurred just that which has ever since been definitely proper to be present in the presence of the three-brained beings there of all ensuing periods, and that is, to produce from time to time the process which they themselves nowadays call 'revolution'.

"And during their 'revolution' of that time, as it has also become proper there to these three-brained phenomena of our Great Universe, they destroyed a great deal of the property which they had accumulated during centuries, much of what is called the 'knowledge' which they had attained during centuries also was destroyed and lost forever, and the existences of those other beings similar to themselves who had already chanced upon the means of freeing themselves from the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, were also destroyed.

"It is extremely interesting to notice here one exceedingly astonishing and incomprehensible fact.

"And that is that during their later 'revolutions' of this kind, almost all the three-brained beings there or at least the overwhelming majority who begin to fall into such a 'psychosis', always destroy for some reason or other, the existence of just such other beings like themselves, as have for some

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reason or other, chanced to find themselves more or less on the track of the
means of becoming free from the crystallization in themselves of the conse-
quences of the properties of that maleficent organ Kundabuffer which un-
fortunately their ancestors possessed.

"So, my boy, while the process of this 'revolution' of theirs was running
its course, King Apollis himself existed in one of his what are called sub-
urban palaces of the city of Samlios.

"Nobody laid a finger on him, because our beings had arranged by their prop-
aganda that the whole blame should be placed not upon King Apollis but upon
those surrounding him, that is as they are called his administration.

"Moreover, the beings who had fallen into the said 'psychosis' even 'suffered
grief' and really pitied their king saying that it was because their 'poor
King' had been surrounded by such unconscionable and ungrateful subordinates
that these undesirable revolutions had occurred.

"And when the revolutionary psychosis had quite died down, King Apollis re-
turned to the city of Samlios and again with the help of our elder beings,
gradually began replacing our countrymen either by those of his old subor-
dinates who were still alive, or by selecting absolutely new ones from among
his other subjects.

"And when the earlier policy of King Apollis towards his subjects had been
re-established, then the citizens of this community resumed filling the
treasury with 'money' as usual and carrying out the directions of their King,
and the affairs of the community settled again into the former already es-
tablished tempo.

"As for our naive, unfortunate countryman who was the cause of it all, it was
so painful to him that he would no longer remain upon that planet that had
proved so disastrous for him, but he returned with us to the planet Mars.

"And later on he became there an even excellent bailiff for all the beings
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CHAPTER XVI

THE RELATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF TIME

After a short pause Beelzebub continued thus:

"Before telling you more about the three-brained beings who please you, breeding on the planet 'Earth', I think that for a clear prospect of the strangeness of their psyche and, in general, for a better understanding of everything concerning the peculiarity of that planet, it is indispensably necessary for you to have, first of all, an accurate conception of their time-calculation and of how the being-sensation of what is called the 'process-of-the-flow-of-Time' in the 'presence' of the three-brained beings of that planet has gradually undergone change and of how this process now flows in the 'presence' of the contemporary three-brained beings there.

"It must be made clear to you because only then can you have a clear view and understanding, both of those events there which I have already related and those I have still to relate.

"You must first know that for the definition of Time, the three-brained beings of that planet, just as we do, take the year as the fundamental unit of their Time-calculation, and also just as we do, they define the duration of their year by the time of a certain movement of their planet in relation to another definite cosmic concentration; namely, they take that period in the course of which their planet, during its movement - that is, during the process of 'Falling' and 'Catching Up' - makes what is called its 'Krentenalnian' revolution in relation to its sun.

"It is similar to our reckoning of a year for our planet 'Karatas', which is the period of time between one nearest approach of the Sun 'Samos' to the Sun 'Selos' and its next similar approach.

"A hundred of such years of theirs, the beings of the 'Earth' call a 'century'.

"And they divide this 'year' into twelve parts and each part they call a 'month'.

"For the definition of the duration of this 'month' of theirs, they take the time of the complete period during which that larger fragment - which was separated from their planet and which they now call 'Moon' - makes, owing to the same cosmic law of 'Falling' and 'Catching Up', its full 'Krentenalnian' revolution in relation to their planet.

"It must be noticed that the twelve 'Krentenalnian' revolutions of the said 'Moon' do not correspond exactly to a single 'Krentenalnian' revolution of their planet round its sun and therefore they have made some compromise or

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other when calculating these 'months' of theirs so that in the sum-total
these may correspond more or less to reality.

"Further, they divide these 'months' of theirs into thirty 'diurnities', or,
as they usually say, 'days'.

"And a 'diurnity' they reckon as that period of time during which their planet makes its appointed rotation during the operation of the said cosmic law.

"Bear in mind, by the way, that they also call that 'day' - when in the
atmosphere of their planet - just as in general upon all the other planets on
which, as I have already told you, the cosmic process called 'Ilnosoparnian'
is actualised - that 'Trogoautoegocratic' process which we call 'Kachtavacht'
periodically proceeds; and they also call this cosmic phenomenon 'day-light'.

"And concerning the other process, the opposite one, namely, that which we call 'Koldazachty', they call it 'night' or speak of it as 'the dark'.

"And thus the three-brained beings breeding on the planet 'Earth' call the greatest period of the flowing of Time a 'century', and this century of theirs consists of one hundred years.

"A 'year' has 'twelve months'.

"A 'month' has an average of thirty 'diurnities'.

"Further they divide their 'diurnity' into twenty-four 'hours' and an 'hour'
they divide into sixty 'minutes'.

"And a 'minute' in its turn they divide into sixty 'seconds'.

"But as you are aware in general, my boy, of the altogether exceptional peculiarity of this same cosmic phenomenon Time, you must first be told that genuine objective Science formulates this cosmic phenomenon thus:

"Time in itself does not in general exist; there is only the totality of the
results arising from the cosmic phenomena of every kind present in the given
place.

"Time in itself no being can either understand by reason, or sense by any
outer or inner being-function. It cannot even be sensed by any gradation of
instinct which arises and is generally present in every kind of more or less
independent cosmic concentration.

"It is possible to judge Time only if one compares some or other of the real cosmic phenomena which proceed in the same place and in the same conditions where Time is being ascertained and investigated.

"It is necessary to notice that in the Great Universe all phenomena in general without exception wherever they arise and manifest, are simply successively lawful fractions of some whole phenomenon which receives its prime arising on the Most Holy Sun Absoluto.

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"And owing to all this, all cosmic phenomena wherever they proceed to receive
a 'sense of objectivity'.

"And these successively lawful fractionals are actualized in every respect,
and even in the sense of their evolution and involution, very strictly accord-
ing to the chief cosmic law, the sacred 'Eptaparabarshinoch'.

"Only Time alone has no 'sense of objectivity', because it is not the
consequence of the fractioning of any definite cosmic phenomenon; and as it
does not issue from anything, but blends always with everything, and becomes
predominantly independent; therefore, alone in all the Universe, it can be
called and lauded as the 'Ideal Unique Subjective Phenomenon'.

"Thus, my boy, uniquely Time alone, or, as it is sometimes called, the
'Heropass', has no source from which its arising should depend, but like Di-
vine Love alone flows always, as I have already told you, independently by
itself, and blends proportionately with all the phenomena present in the
given place and in the given arisings of Our Great Universe.

"Again I tell you, you will be able clearly to understand all that I have just
told you only when I shall, as I have already promised you, specially explain
to you sometime later all about the fundamental laws of World-creation and
World-existence.

"Meanwhile only remember this also, that since Time has no source of its
arising and cannot like all other cosmic phenomena in every cosmic sphere es-
tablish its exact 'presence', the already mentioned objective Science has
therefore for its investigations a standard unit, similar to that used for an
exact definition of the density and quality - in the sense of the vivifying-
ness of their vibrations - of all cosmic substances in general, present in
each and every place and in every sphere of our Great Universe.

"And for the definition of Time this standard unit has from long ago been
reckoned as the moment of what is called the sacred 'Egokoolnatstnarnian-
sensation', which 'Egokoolnatstnarnian-sensation' always appears in the Most
Holy Sun Absolute whenever the vision of our Endless Uni-being is directed
into space and touches their 'presence' immediately.

"Such a standard unit is established in Objective Science as a means to exact
definition and to the comparison both of the difference between the gradations
of the processes of the subjective sensations of separate conscious
Individuums, and also of what are called 'differing tempos' among various ob-
jective cosmic phenomena which are manifested in various spheres of our Great
Universe and which actualize all cosmic arisings both large and small.

"The chief particularity of the process of the flow of Time in the 'presence'
of cosmic arisings of various scales consists in this, that all of them
perceive it in the same way and in the same sequence.

"In order that you may meanwhile have, if only an approximate conspectus of
what I have just said, let us take as an example the process of the flow of
Time proceeding in any drop of water contained in that decanter standing there
on the table.

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"Every drop of water in that decanter represents in itself also a whole in-
pendent World, namely a World of 'Microcosmoses'.

"In that little world also, exactly as in other cosmoses, there arise and ex-
ist relatively independent infinitesimal 'individuums' or 'beings'.

"For the beings of that infinitesimal World also, exactly as in other cosmoses,
there arise and exist relatively independent infinitesimal 'individuums'
or 'beings'.

"For the beings of that infinitesimal World also, Time flows in the same se-
quence in which the flow of Time is sensed by all individuums in all other
cosmoses; these infinitesimal beings also, like the beings of cosmoses of
other 'scales' have their experiences of a definite duration for all their
perceptions and manifestations; and also, like them, sense the flow of Time by
the comparing of the duration of the phenomena around them.

"Exactly like the beings of other cosmoses, they are born, grow up, and unite
and separate for what are called 'sex results'; they also fall sick and suffer,
and finally, like everything existing in which Objective Reason has not been
conceived, they are, as such, destroyed forever.

"For the whole process of the existence of these infinitesimal beings of this
smallest World also, Time of definite proportionate duration is also required,
and this duration just as in other Worlds also flows from all the surrounding
phenomena which are manifested in the given 'cosmic scale'.

"For them also, Time of definite length is required for the processes of
their arising and formation as well as for various events in the process of
their existence down to their complete final destruction.

"In the whole course of the process of existence of the beings of this drop
of water also, corresponding sequential definite, as they are called, 'stages'
of the flow of Time are also required.

"A definite time is required for their joys and their sorrows and, in short,
for every other kind of indispensable being-experiencings, down to what are
called 'runs-of-bad-luck', and even to the 'periods of thirst for self per-
fection'.

"I repeat, among them, too, the process of the flow of Time has its harmon-
ious succession also, and this succession flows from the totality of all the
phenomena surrounding them.

"By all the aforementioned cosmic individuums and by the already definitely
formed, as they are called, 'instinctivized' units, the duration of the
process of the flow of Time is generally perceived and sensed in the same
way, but with only this difference, namely, that which in final sum depends
on the difference in the 'presence' and states at the given moment of these
said cosmic arisings.

"It must be noticed, however, my boy, that though for separate individuums
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time is not objective in the general sense, yet nevertheless for them themselves it acquires a 'sense of objectivity' because it is perceived by them according to the completeness of their own 'presence.'

"The same drop of water which we have taken as an example can serve for a clearer understanding of this thought of mine.

"Although, in the sense of general Universal Objectivity, the Whole period of the process of the flow of Time in that same drop of water, is for the whole of it subjective, yet for the beings existing in it - that is, in the drop of water itself - the said given flow of time is already perceived by them as objective.

"For the clarification of this, the beings called 'Hypochondriacs' can serve who exist among those three-brained beings of the planet Earth who please you.

"To these terrestrial 'hypochondriacs' it seems very often that time flows infinitely slowly and long, and, as they express themselves, 'it drags marvellously tediously'.

"So exactly in the same way, it might also sometimes seem to some of the infinitesimal beings existing in that drop of water - assuming, of course, that there happens to be such hypochondriacs among them - that Time drags very slowly and 'marvellously tediously'.

"But actually from the point of view of the sensation of the duration of Time by your favourites of the planet Earth, the whole length of the existence of the beings, the Microcosmos, is only a few of their 'minutes' and sometimes even only a few of their 'seconds'.

"Now in order that you may still better understand Time and its peculiarities, we may as well compare your age with the corresponding age of a being existing on that planet Earth.

"For this comparing of ours also, we must take the same standard unit of Time, which as I have already told you, Objective Science employs for such calculations.

"Bear in mind first of all that according to what also you will learn when I shall specially explain to you later the fundamental laws of World-creation and World-existence, it is also established by the same Objective Science that in general all normal three-brained beings, and amongst them certainly even the beings arising on our planet 'Karatas', sense the sacred 'Egokoolnatstnarnian' action for the definition of Time forty-nine times more slowly than the same sacred action is sensed by the sacred Individuums dwelling on the Most Holy Sun Absolute.

"Consequently the process of the flow of Time for the three-brained beings of our 'Karatas' flows forty-nine times more quickly than on the Sun Absolute, and in this manner it should flow for the beings breeding on the planet Earth also.

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"But, nevertheless, it is also further calculated that in the period of Time during which the Sun 'Samos' actualizes its most near approach to the Sun 'Selos' - which period of the flow of Time is considered a 'year' for the planet 'Karatas' - then during this period of the flow of Time the planet Earth actualizes in relation to its Sun 'Ors' three hundred and eighty-nine of its 'Krentonalnian' revolutions.

"As a deduction from this then, our 'year', according to the conventionally objective Time-calculation, is three hundred and eighty-nine times longer than the period of time which your favorites consider and call their 'year'.

"It may not be without interest for you to know, that all these calculations were explained to me partly by the Great Arch-Ergineer of the Universe, His Measurability Archangel Algematant.

"May he be perfected unto the Sacred Anklad!...

"He explained this to me just when he had come to the planet Mars as one of the sacred members of the third Most Great Commission, on account of the first great misfortune to the planet Earth; and the captain of the trans-space ship 'Omnipresent', with whom I had several friendly talks during that journey also explained it in part to me during my journey home.

"Now concerning this it must be noticed that you, as a three-brained being who arose on the planet 'Karatas', are at the present time still only a boy of twelve years, and in the sense of Being and Reason, you are exactly the same boy of twelve, not yet formed and not yet cognizant of himself, which being-age all the three-brained beings arising on the planet Earth also experience during the process of their growing to the being of a responsible being.

"All the 'features' of the whole of your psyche - what are called your 'character', 'temperament', 'inclinations' and, in short, all the particularities of your psyche which are manifested exteriorly are exactly the same as those of a still immature and pliant three-brained being there of the age of twelve years.

"And thus on the basis of all that has been said, it happens that, although according to our Time-calculation you are still only the same boy of twelve who is also there on the planet Earth and who is not yet formed and not yet cognizant of himself, yet according to their subjective understanding and their being-sensations of the flow of Time, you have already existed, according to their Time-calculation, not twelve years but all of four thousand six hundred and sixty-eight years.

"In all the aforesaid you will have in this connection material for the clarification of certain of those factors which later became the causes that the average normal duration of their existence began gradually to be shortened and has now already become in the objective sense almost 'nothing'.

"Strictly speaking, for this gradual contraction of the average length of the existence of the three-brained beings of that ill-starred planet, not one cause but many and very varied causes have finally brought the whole of the duration of their existence to 'nothing'.

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"And among these many and varied causes the first and the chief one is of
course that Nature herself had to adapt herself correspondingly to change
gradually their 'presence' to that which they now have.

"And concerning all the other various causes, Justice demands that I should
first of all emphasize that on that ill-starred planet these many other
causes might never have arisen had that first cause not occurred there from
which, at least in my opinion, all the rest of the causes chiefly arose,
though of course very gradually.

"Concerning all this you will understand in the course of further talks of
mine about these three-brained beings, and meanwhile I will tell you only
of the first and chief cause, namely, why and how great Nature herself was
compelled to take stock of their 'presence' and to form it into such a new
'presence'.

"You must first be told that there exist in the Universe generally two kinds
or two 'principles' of the duration of being-existence.

"The first kind or first 'principle' of 'being-existence' which is called
'Foolasnitammian' is proper to the existence of all three-brained beings
arising on any planet of our great Universe, and the fundamental aim and
sense of the existence of these beings is that there must proceed through
them the transmutation of cosmic substances necessary for what is called
the 'common-cosmic-Trogoautoegocratic-process'.

"And it is according to the second principle of being-existence that all
one-brained and two-brained beings in general exist wherever they may arise....

"And the sense and aim of the existence of these beings also, consists in
this, that there are transmuted through them the cosmic substances required
not for purposes of a common cosmic character, but only for that solar sys-
tem, or even only for that planet alone, in which and upon which these one-
brained and two-brained beings arise.

"In any case for the further elucidation of the strangeness of the psyche of
those three-brained beings who please you, you must know this also, that in
the beginning, after the organ 'Kundabuffer' with all its properties had
been removed from their 'presence', the duration of their existence was ac-
cording to the 'Foolasnitammian' principle, that is to say, they also were
obliged to exist until there was coated in them and completely perfected by
Reason what is called the body 'Kesdjan', or, as they themselves later began
to name this being-part of theirs - of which, by the way, contemporary beings
know only by hearsay - the 'Astral body'.

"And so, my boy, when afterwards for reasons of which you will learn in the
course of my further tales, they began to exist already too abnormally -
that is to say, entirely unbecomingly to three-brained beings - and having
on the one hand in consequence of this ceased to emanate the vibrations need-
ed by Nature for the maintenance of the separated fragments of their planet,
and, on the other hand, having begun on account of the chief peculiarity of
their strange psyche to destroy beings of other forms of their planet, there-
by diminishing gradually the number of sources necessary for the same pur-

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pose, it was just then that Nature herself was compelled gradually to actualize the 'presence' of these three-brained beings according to the second principle, namely, the principle 'Itoklanoz', that is, in the same way in which Nature actualizes one-brained and two-brained beings in order that the equilibrium, in quality and quantity of necessary vibrations, should be attained.

"And concerning the significance of the principle 'Itoklanoz' I shall also specially explain it to you sometime.

"And meanwhile remember that although the fundamental motives for the diminution of the duration of the existence of the three-brained beings of this planet were causes not depending on them, yet nevertheless, subsequently the main grounds for all the sad results were and particularly now continue to be the abnormal conditions of external ordinary being-existence established by them themselves, owing to which, down to the present time, the duration of their existence continues to become shorter and shorter, and is already contracted to such a degree that, at the present time, the difference between the duration of the process of the existence of the three-brained beings of other planets in the whole of the Universe and the duration of the process of the existence of the three-brained beings of the planet Earth has become similar to the difference between the real duration of their existence and the duration of the existence of the infinitesimal beings in that drop of water we took as an example.

"You understand now, my boy, that even the Most Great Heropass or Time has also been compelled to actualize such plain absurdities in the 'presence' of these unfortunate three-brained beings arising and existing on this ill-starred planet Earth.

"And owing to all I have just explained to you, you can put yourself in the position and understand the although merciless yet always and in everything, just Heropass."

Having said these last words Beelzebub became silent; and when he again spoke to his grandson he said with a heavy sigh:

"Eh....my dear boy!"

"Afterwards when I shall have told you more about the three-brained beings of that ill-starred planet Earth you will yourself understand and have your own opinion about everything."

"You yourself will very well understand that although the fundamental causes of the whole chaos that now reigns on that ill-starred planet Earth were certain 'oversights' coming from Above on the part of various sacred Individuums, yet nevertheless that the chief causes for the developing of further ills are only those abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence which they themselves gradually established and which they continue to establish down to the present time."

"In any case, my dear boy, when you learn more about these favourites of yours, not only, I repeat, will you clearly see that the duration of the ex-

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istence of these unfortunates has gradually become so pitiably small in com-
parison with that normal duration of existence which has already long ago
been established as a Law for the three-centred beings of every kind of the
whole of our Universe; but you will also understand that in these unfortunates
for the same reasons, there began gradually to disappear and at the present
time are quite absent in them, any normal being-sensations whatever concern-
ing any cosmic phenomenon.

"Although the beings of that ill-starred planet had their rising according
to conventionally objective Time-reckoning already many tens of years ago,
not only have they not as yet any being-sensation of cosmic phenomena such
as is proper to all three-centred beings of the whole of our Universe, but
in the reasonings of these unfortunates there is not even an approximate
notion of the genuine causes of these phenomena.

"They have not an approximately correct conception even of those cosmic
phenomena that occur on their own planet round about them."

## CHAPTER XVII

### THE ARCH-ABSURD

### IN THE OPINION OF BEELZEBUB, OUR SUN, IT APPEARS, NEITHER LIGHTS NOR HEATS

"In order, my dear Hassein, that you may meanwhile have a fair representation also of just how far that function called 'instinctive-feeling-of-reality', which is proper to every three-brained being of the whole of our Great Universe, is already completely lacking in the 'presence' of the three-centred beings breeding on the planet 'Earth' and especially in those of the most recent periods, it will be enough to begin with, I think, if I explain to you only about this, - how they understand and explain to themselves the causes why there periodically proceed on their planet those cosmic phenomena which they call 'daylight', 'darkness', 'heat', 'cold', and so on.

"All, without exception, of the three-brained beings of that planet who have attained the age of a responsible being, and even those many and various 'wise-acreings' existing there which they call 'sciences', are categorically certain that all the said phenomena arrive on their planet, so to say, absolutely-ready-made, directly from their own Sun...and...no more hokey-pokey about it!

"What is most peculiar, in this case, is that absolutely no doubt whatever concerning this persuasion of theirs has ever as yet crept into a single one of them.

"Not only no single one of them, having a Reason which, though strange has nevertheless some resemblance to sane logic, has ever yet doubted the causes of the said phenomena, but not a single one of them has manifested, concerning these cosmic phenomena, even that strange special property of their common psyche which also has become proper to the three-brained beings of that planet alone, and which is called 'to fantasy'."

Having said these last words, Beelzebub, after a little while, with a bitter smile, continued to talk as follows:

"You, for instance, have the normal 'presence' of a three-brained being; and within your 'presence' an intentionally externally 'grown' oskiano, or, as they say there on the 'Earth', 'education', which is founded on a morality based solely on the commandments and indications of the Uni-Being Himself and the Most Holy Individuums nearest Him. And yet, if you should chance to be there among them, you would be unable to prevent the process in yourself of the 'being-Nerhitrogool', that is, the process, which, again there on the 'Earth' is called 'choking-with-mirth'; in other words, you could not...

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restrain yourself from such laughter, if only it were to come about that they should suddenly clearly sense, in some way or another, and understand without any doubt whatever, that to their planet from their Sun itself, not only does nothing of any such thing as 'light', 'darkness', 'heat', and so on, come, but that their supposed source of heat and light is itself almost always freezing with cold like the hairless dog of our highly esteemed Mullah Naasr Eddin.

"In reality, this surface of their 'Source of Heat', like that of all the ordinary suns of our great Universe in general, is perhaps more covered with ice than the surface of what they call their North Pole.

"Surely this 'hearth of heat' itself would like to borrow, if only a little heat, from some other source of cosmic substances, rather than send a part of its own heat to any planet whatever, and especially to that planet which, although it belongs to its system, yet in consequence of the splitting off from it of a whole side became a 'lop-sided monstrosity' and is now already the occasion of 'offensive shame' for that system 'Ors'.

"But you yourself, my boy, do you know in general how and why in the atmosphere of certain planets during Trogoautoegocratic processes, there proceed those 'Kchtazavaht', 'Kldazaht', 'Dainoler', 'Beichakir', and other such phenomena, which, your favourites call 'daylight', 'darkness', 'cold', 'heat' and so on?" Beelzebub asked Hassein.

"If you don't clearly understand, I shall explain this also to you a little.

"Although I have promised to explain to you later in every detail all the fundamental laws of World-creation and World-maintenance, yet the necessity has here arisen, to touch upon, if only briefly, the questions concerning these cosmic laws, without waiting for that special talk I promised.

"And this is necessary in order that you may be able better to take in all that we are now talking about, and also in order that what I have already told you may be transubstantiated in you in the right way.

"It is necessary to say, first of all, that everything in the Universe, both the intentionally created and the later automatically arisen, exists and is maintained exclusively on the basis of what is called the common-cosmic-Trogoautoegocratic process.

"This Most Great common-cosmic-Trogoautoegocratic process was actualized by our Endless Uni-Being when there already existed Our Most Great and Most Holy Sun Absolute, on which Our All-Gracious Endless Creator had and still has the fundamental place of His existence,

"This system, which maintains everything arisen and existing, was actualized by Our Endless Creator in order that there might proceed in the Universe what is called the 'exchange of substances' or the 'Reciprocal-feeding' of everything that exists, and thereby that the merciless 'Heropass' might not exert its maleficent influence upon the Sun-Absolute.

"This same Most Great 'common-cosmic-Trogoautoegocratic process' is actualized always and in everything on the basis of the two fundamental cosmic laws,

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the first of which is called the fundamental first-order sacred Eptaparabarshinoch, and the second the fundamental first-order sacred Triamazikamno.

"Owing to these two fundamental sacred cosmic laws, there first arise from the substance called 'Ethernokrilno', under certain conditions, what are called crystallizations; and from these crystallizations, but later, and also under certain conditions, there are formed various large and small more or less independent cosmic definite formations.

"It is just within and upon these cosmic 'definite formations' that the processes of what are called the involution and evolution of both the already formed concentrations and of the said crystallizations take place -- of course also according to the two said fundamental sacred laws; and all the results obtained from these processes both in atmospheres and also, further, by means of these atmospheres themselves, blend and go for the actualizing of the said 'exchange of matters' for the purposes of the Most Great common-cosmic-Trogoautoegocrat.

"Ethernokrilno is that prime-source substance with which the whole Universe is filled and which is the basis for the arising and maintenance of everything that exists.

"Not only is this Ethernokrilno the foundation of the arising of, without exception, all cosmic concentrations, both large and small; but also all cosmic phenomena in general proceed, during any transformation both within the same fundamental cosmic substance and from the process of the involution and evolution of various crystallizations - or, as your favourites say, from those active elements - which have obtained and still continue to obtain their prime arising from this same fundamental prime-source cosmic substance.

"Bear in mind here, that it is just because of this that the mentioned Objective Science says that 'Everything in the Universe without exception is material'.

"You must also know, further, that only one cosmic crystallization, existing under the name 'Omnipresent Okidanoch', although it also is crystalized from Ethernokrilno, owes its prime arising to the three Holy sources of the sacred Theomertmalogos, that is, to the emanation of the Most Holy Sun Absolute.

"Everywhere in the Universe this 'Omnipresent Okidanoch' or omnipresent active element, takes part in the formation of all both great and small arisings, and is in general the fundamental cause of most of the cosmic phenomena and, in particular, of the phenomena proceeding in the atmospheres.

"In order that you may be able to understand, at least approximately, concerning this 'Omnipresent Okidanoch' also, I must tell you first of all that the second fundamental cosmic law - the sacred Triamazikamno - consists of three independent forces, that is to say, this sacred law manifests in everything without exception and everywhere in the Universe, in three separate independent aspects.

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"And these its three aspects exist in the Universe under the following de-
nominations:

The first, under the denomination, the Holy Affirming.

The second, the Holy Denying.

The third, the Holy Reconciling.

"And this is also why, concerning this sacred law and its three independent forces, the said Objective Science has the following among its other formula-
tions specially concerning this sacred law:

"A law which always flows into a consequence and thereby becomes the cause of further consequences, and always functions by three independent and abso-
lutely opposite characteristic manifestations concealed within it in in-
visible and non-sensible properties'.

"Our sacred Theomertmalogos also, that is, the prime emanation of our Most Holy Sun Absolute, acquires just this same legitimacy at its prime arising; and during its further actualizations gives results in accordance with it.

"And so, my boy, the 'Omnipresent Okidanoch' receives its prime arising al-
ready in space, outside of the Most Holy Sun Absolute itself, from the blend-
ing into one, of these three independent forces, and during its further in-
volutions, it is correspondingly changed in respect of what is called the
'Vivifyingness of Vibrations' just according to its passage through what are
called the 'Stopinders' or 'gravitational centres' of the fundamental 'common-
cosmic-sacred Eptaparabarshinoch'.

"I repeat, among the number of other already definite cosmic crystallizations, the 'Omnipresent 'Okidanoch' unfailingly always participates in both large and small cosmic formations, wherever and under whatever external surround-
ing conditions they may arise in the Universe.

"This 'common cosmic unique crystallization' or 'active element' has several peculiarities proper to this element alone, and it is chiefly owing to these, its proper peculiarities, that the majority of cosmic phenomena proceed, in-
cluding, among other things, the said phenomena that take place in the at-
mospheres of certain planets.

"Of these proper peculiarities of the 'Omnipresent Active Element' there are several, but it is enough for the theme of our talk if we become acquaint-
ed with just two of them.

"The first peculiarity is this, that when a new cosmic unit is being concen-
trated, then the 'Omnipresent Active Element' does not blend in such a new
arising, as a whole, nor is it transformed as a whole in one definite cor-
responding place - as happens with every other cosmic crystallization in all
the said cosmic forms - but immediately on entering any cosmic unit as a
whole, there at once occurs in it what is called 'Djartklom', that is, it
scatters into the three fundamental sources from which it received its prime
arising, and only then do these its sources, each separately, give the begin-
ning for an independent concentration of three separate corresponding forma-
tions within the given cosmic unit. And in this way, the 'Omnipresent Active

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Element' actualizes, at the outset, in every such new arising, the sources
for the possible manifestation of its own also sacred law of Triamazikamno.

"It must not fail to be noticed also, that in every cosmic formation the said separated sources, both for the perception and further utilisation of this peculiar property of the 'Omnipresent Active Element' for the purpose of the corresponding actualizing, exist and continue to be able to function as long as the given cosmic unit exists.

"And only after the said cosmic unit has been completely destroyed do these holy sources of the sacred Triamazikamno, localized in the 'Omnipresent Active Element Okidanoch', re-blend and are again transformed into 'Okidanoch,' but having now another quality of the 'Vivifyingness of Vibrations'.

"Concerning the second peculiarity of the 'Omnipresent Okidanoch', equally proper to it alone, and which it is also necessary for us to elucidate just now for the given theme of our talk, you will be able to understand about that, only if you know something concerning one fundamental cosmic second-order law existing in the Universe under the denomination of the 'Sacred Aieioiuoa'.

"And this cosmic law consists in this, that there proceeds within every arising large and small, when in immediate touch with the emanations either of the Sun Absolute itself or of any other Sun, what is called 'Remorse'; that is, such a process, when every part that has arisen from the results of any one Holy Source of the sacred Triamazikamno, revolts, as it were, and criticizes the former unbecoming perceptions and contemporary manifestations of another part of its whole, - a part obtained from the results of another Holy Source of the same fundamental sacred Cosmic law Triamazikamno.

"And this sacred process 'Aieioiuoa' or 'Remorse' always proceeds within the 'Omnipresent Active Element Okidanoch' also.

"The peculiarity of this latter during this sacred process consists in this, that while the direct action either of the sacred Theomertmalogos or the omanation of any other ordinary Sun is round about the whole of its 'presence', this 'active element' scatters into its three prime parts which then exist almost independently, and when the said immediate action ceases these parts blend again and then again exist as a whole.

"Here It will do no harm, I think, to tell you, by the way, an interesting fact concerning the strangeness of the psyche of the ordinary three-brained beings of that planet that pleases you, which occurred in the history of their existence and concerns what they call the 'scientific speculations'.

"And that is, that during the period of my many-centuried observation and study of their psyche I had occasion to ascertain several times that although science appeared among them almost from the very beginning of their arising, - and, it may here be said, periodically, like every-thing else there, rose to a more or less high degree of perfection - yet, though during those periods and others, many millions of three-brained beings called there 'scientists' must have arisen and been again destroyed, yet - with the single

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exception of a certain Chinaman named Choon-Kel-Tez, about whom I shall tell
you later in detail - not once has the thought entered the head of a single
'scientist' there that between these two cosmic phenomena which they call
'emanation' and 'radiation' there is any difference whatever.

"Not a single one of those 'sorry scientists' has ever thought that the difference between these two cosmic processes is just about the same as that which the highly esteemed Mullah Nassr Eddin once expressed in the following words:

"They are as much alike as the board of the famous English Shakespeare and French Armagnac, no less famous."

"For the further clarification of the phenomena taking place in the atmos-
pheres, and concerning the 'Omnipresent Active Element' in general, you
must know and remember this also, that during the periods when, owing to
the sacred process 'Aieioiuoa', there proceeds 'Djartklom' in the 'Okida-
noch', then there is temporarily released from it the proportion of the
pure - that is, absolutely unblended - Ethernokrilno which unfailingly
enters into all cosmic forms and there serves, as it were, for connecting
all the active elements; and afterwards when its three fundamental parts
re-unite, then the said proportion of Ethernokrilno is re-established.

"It is necessary to touch also, though again only briefly, on another ques-
tion, namely, what effect the Omnipresent Active Element Okidanoch has
upon the common 'presence' of beings of every kind, and what are the cosmic
results actualized owing to it."

"It is chiefly necessary to touch upon this question because you will then
have still another very striking and illuminating fact for the better under-
standing of the difference between the various brain-systems of beings,
namely, the systems called one-brained, two-brained, and three-brained."

"Know first that, in general, every such cosmic formation called 'brain'
receives its formation from those crystallizations for whose arising - ac6
cording to the sacred Triamazikamno - the Affirming source is one or other
corresponding holy force of the fundamental sacred Triamazikamno localized
in the 'Omnipresent Okidanoch.' And the further actualizings of the same
holy forces proceed in the 'presence' of the beings just through these three
localizations."

"Sometime in the future I will specially explain to you about the 'process
itself of the arising of these corresponding bein-brains in the 'presence'
of a being; but meanwhile let us talk, though not in detail, about this,
namely, what results the 'Omnipresent Okidanoch' actualizes by means of
these being-brains."

"The Omnipresent Active Element Okidanoch, enters into the 'presence' of
beings through all the three kinds of being-food."

"And this proceeds because, as I have already told you, this same 'Okida-
noch' obligatorily participates in the formation of products of every kind -
which serve the purpose of all three being-feedings and is always contained
in the actuality of these products."

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"And so, my boy, the chief peculiarity of the 'Omnipresent Okidanoch consists, in the given case, in this, that the process of Djartklom proceeds in it, in the 'presence' itself of every being also, but not from being in touch with the emanations of large cosmic concentrations, but as factors, there are either the results of the conscious processes of Partkdolgduty on the part of the beings themselves - about which processes I shall also explain to you in detail later - or that process of Great Nature herself which exists in the Universe under the name 'Kerkoolnonarnian actualization', by which is meant the 'Obtaining-the-Necessary-Sum-Total-of Vibrations-by-Adaptation'.

"This process proceeds in beings absolutely without the participation of their consciousness.

"In both cases when Okidanoch enters into the 'presence of a being, and the process of Djartklom proceeds in it, then each of its fundamental parts blends with those perceptions contained in the being at that moment which correspond with it according to what is called 'Kindred-Vibrations', and then is further concentrated upon the corresponding localization, that is, upon the corresponding brain.

"And just such blendings are called 'Being-Impulsakri'.

"It is necessary to notice further that these localizations or brains in beings serve not only as apparatuses for the transformation of corresponding cosmic substances for the purposes of the Most Great Common Cosmic Trogoautoegocrat, but also as the means for beings whereby their conscious self-perfecting is possible.

"Just this latter aim depends upon the quality of the 'presence' of the Being-Impulsakri concentrated, or, as it is otherwise said, deposited, upon the said corresponding being-brains.

"Concerning the qualities of Being-Impulsakri, there is among the direct commandments of Our Endless All-embracing even a special commandment, which is very strictly carried out by all the three-brained beings of our Great Universe, and which is expressed in the following words:

"Always guard against such perceptions as may impair the purity of your brains'.

"The possibility of a personal self-perfecting by the three-brained beings exists because three such centres of three such being-brains are localized in their common 'presence', upon which afterwards, when the process of Djartklom proceeds in the Omnipresent Okidanoch the three holy sources of the sacred Triamazikamno are deposited and acquire the possibility for their further, this time, independent actualizings.

"Just in this is the point, that the beings having this three-brained system can, by the conscious and intentional fulfilling of Being-Parktdolgduty, utilize from this process of Djartklom in the Omnipresent Okidanoch, its three holy sources for their own 'presence', and lead this their 'presence' to what is called the 'Sekronoolanzaknian state'; that is to say, they can become such Individuums as have their own sacred law of Triamazikamno and

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thereby the possibility of consciously perceiving and coating in their common 'presence' all that 'Holy' which, incidentally, also aids the actualizing of the functioning of Objective or Divine Reason in these cosmic units.

"But the great terror of it, my boy, lies just in this, that although in those three-brained beings who have interested you, breeding on the planet 'Earth', there arise and are present in them, up to the time of their complete destruction, these three independent localizations or three being-brains, through which are transformed and go for the further corresponding actualizations separately all the three holy sources of the sacred Triamazikamno, which they might also utilize for their own self-perfecting, - yet, chiefly on account of the irregular conditions of ordinary being-existence established by them themselves, these possibilities beat their wings in vain.

"It is interesting to note that the said being-brains are found in the same parts of the planetary body of those three-brained beings arising on the planet 'Earth' as in us, namely:

"The brain assigned by Great Nature for the concentration and further actualizing of the first holy force of the sacred Triamazikamno, denominated the Holy Affirming, is localized and found in their head.

"The second brain, which transforms and crystallized the second holy force of the sacred Triamazikamno, namely, the Holy Denying, is placed in their common 'presences', also as in us, along the whole of their back in what is called the 'spinal column'.

"But as regards the place of concentration and source for the future manifestation of the third holy force of the sacred Triamazikamno, namely, the Holy Reconciling, - the exterior form of this being-brain in the three-brained beings there, bears no resemblance whatever to ours.

"It must be remarked that in the earliest three-brained beings there, this said being-brain was localized in the same part of their planetary body as in us, and had an exterior form exactly similar to our own; but for many reasons which you will be able to work out for yourself during the course of my further talks, Great Nature was compelled little by little to regenerate it and to give it the form which this brain now has in the contemporary beings.

"This being-brain in the contemporary three-brained beings there is not localized in a common mass, as it properly is in the 'presence' of all the other three-brained beings of our Great Universe, but in them it is localized in parts, according to what is called 'Specific Functioning', and each such part is localized in a different place of their whole planetary body.

"But although, in its exterior form, this being-centre of theirs has now such variously placed concentrations, nevertheless all these its separate functionings have corresponding connections among themselves, so that the sum-total of these scattered parts can function exactly as in general it is proper for it to function.

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"They themselves call these separate localizations in their common 'presence'
'nerve-nodes'.

"It is interesting to notice that most of the separated parts of this being-
brain are localized in them just in that place of their planetary body where
a normal being-brain should be, namely, in the region of their breast, and
the mass of these 'nerve-nodes' contained in their breast they call the
'Solar Plexus'.

"And so, my boy; in the 'presence' of each of these favourites of yours also,
there proceeds the process of Djartklom in the Omnipresent Okidanoch; in
them also, all its three holy sources are blended independently with other
cosmic crystallizations, and go for the corresponding actualizations, - but
because, owing chiefly to the already mentioned abnormal conditions of being-
existence gradually established by them themselves, they have completely
ceased to fulfill the Being-Partkdolg duty, - then, as a consequence of this,
of all those three holy sources of everything existing, with the exception
of the denying force alone, no other is transubstantiated for their own
'presence'.

"The crystallizations arising in their 'presence' from the first and from
the third holy sources go almost entirely for the service only of the common
cosmic Trogoautoegocratic process, while for the coating of their own 'pre-
sence' there only serve the crystallizations of the second part of the Omni-
present Okidanoch, namely, of the Holy Denying; and hence it is that the
majority of them remain with a 'presence' consiting of the planetary body
alone, and thus they are for themselves destroyed forever.

"As regards all the peculiarities proper to the omnipresent everywhere-pene-
trating Active Element Okidanoch alone, and also as regards the further re-
sults which these peculiarities actualize, you will have a complete repre-
sentation of them only after I have sometime explained to you, as I have
already promised I would in more or less detail, about the fundamental laws
of World-creation and World-maintenance.

"But meanwhile I will tell you about some elucidating experiments which were
concerned with this Omnipresent cosmic crystallization and at which I was
personally present,

"But I must tell you that I was an eye-witness of these said elucidating ex-
periments, not on that planet 'Earth' which pleases you, nor did your fa-
vourites make them, but on the planet 'Saturn' where just that three-brained
being performed them who during almost the whole period of my exile within
that Solar System was my real friend, and about whom I recently promised to
tell you a little more in detail."

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THE ARCH-PREPOSTEROUS.

Beelzebub continued further thus:

"The following served as the cause of my first meeting with that three-centered being who subsequently became my essence-friend, and through whom I saw the said experiments with the Omnipresent Okidanoch.

"That you may have a better understanding concerning the events of this tale of mine, you must first know this also, - that at the beginning of my exile in that solar system, by certain correspondent essence-friends of mine, who had not taken part in those events from which had also issued the causes of my exile in that solar system, that sacred process concerning my personality had also been enacted which exists in the Universe under the name of the Sacred VZNOOSHLITZVAL, that is to say there was implanted in the 'presence' of those three-brained beings concerning my personality by means of other sacred cosmic processes called ASKALNOOAZAR, that certain 'is-ness' which objective science defines by the conception 'Other-Self-Trust'.

"So, just after my arrival in that solar system Ors, when I began visiting its various planets and first descended upon the surface of the planet Saturn, it turned out in connection with the aforesaid, that one of the beings who had undergone the Sacred Action of VZNOOSHLITZVAL regarding my person, was also what is called there the Harahrahoohry himself of all the three-centered beings arising and existing on the planet Saturn.

"On the planet Saturn a being is called the Harahrahoohry who is the sole head over all the other beings on that planet.

"Similar head-beings exist also on all the other planets upon which three-brained beings breed; they are differently named on different planets; and upon your planet Earth such a head is call a 'king'.

"The only difference is that while everywhere else, even on all the other planets of the same system, there is one such king for the whole of the given planet, on your peculiar planet Earth there is one such king for every acci--dentally segregated group of these favourites of yours and sometimes even several.

"So--------------------

When I first descended on the surface of the planet Saturn and mingled with the three-centered beings there, it chanced that I had occasion the next day to meet the Harahrahoohry himself of the planet Saturn; and during what is called our 'Exchange-of-Subjective-Opinions' he invited me to make his own

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Harhoorhy, that is, his own palace, the fundamental place of my existence
during the whole of my stay on their planet.

"And this I did.

So, my boy, when we were once talking, simply according to the flow of what
is called 'being-associative-mentation', and happened to touch on the question,
among other things, of the strange results realized in the manifestations of
the particularities of the Omnipresent Okidanoch, it was just then that the
venerable Harahrahoohry of the planet Saturn first mentioned that one of his
learned-being-subjects, by name Harharh, had recently devised for the elucida-
tion of many of the previously unexplained properties of that cosmic substance,
an exceedingly interesting contrivance which is called a 'Rhaharahr', the
chief demonstrating part of which he called the Hrhaharhtzaha.

"And further, he offered to make if I wished, the necessary arrangements for
showing me all these new inventions and for giving me every possible explana-
tion of them.

"The result of it all was that the following day, escorted by one of that
venerable Harahrahoohry's court, I went to the place of existence of that
Gornahoor Harharh and there it was that I first saw those novel elucidatory
experiments with the Omnipresent Okidanoch.

"Gornahoor Harharh, who afterwards, as I have already told you, became my
essence-friend, was then considered one of the foremost scientists among the
ordinary three-brained beings of the whole Universe, and his ascertainment
of all kinds as well as the elucidatory apparatuses he invented, were every-
where spread, and other learned beings on the various planets planets were
more and more using them.

"Here it will do no harm to remark that I also, thanks only to his learning,
had later in my observatory on the planet Mars that Teskooano which, when
it was finally established, enabled my 'sight' to perceive, or, as it is
said, to 'approach the visibility' of remote cosmic concentrations, seven
million two hundred and eighty-five times.

"Strictly speaking, it was owing to just this Teskooano that my observatory
was afterwards considered one of the best artifacts if its kind in the whole
Universe; and, most important of all, it was by no means of this Teskooano
that I myself thereafter could, even while staying at home - that is, on the
planet Mars - relatively easily see and observe the processes of existence
occuring on the surfaces of those parts of the other planets of that solar
system which in accordance with what is called the 'Common-systen-harmonious-
movement' could be perceived by 'being-sight' at the given moment.

"When Gornahoor Harharh was informed who we were and why we had come, he ap-
proached us and forthwith very amiably began his explanations:

"Before repeating his explanations I think it not inadvisable to warn you
once and for all that all my conversations with various three-centered beings
arising and existing on various planets of that system, where I was obliged
to exist for the 'sins of my youth', as, for instance, in the present case,
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relate to you as we travel on the space-ship 'Karnak', - all proceeded in
verbal dialects you have never heard, and in soem cases whose consonance is
utterly unassimilable by the normal being-functions assigned for this prupose.

"So, my boy, in view of all this I shall not repeat these talks word for word,
but will give you only their 'sense' in our 'common speech', continuing of
course to employ those terms and 'specific names' of every kind, or rather
those consonants produced by what are called the 'being-vocal-chords' which
are used by your favourites of the planet Earth and which have now become
for you, owing to the continued repetition during my former tales about them,
habitual and easily perceived.

"Yes ..... it must be notcied here that the word Gornahoor is used by the
three-brained beings of the planet Saturn in courtesy; they pronounce it
before the name of one whom they are addressing.

"It is the same with your favorites on the planet Earth. They also have
invented the addition to the name of every other person the word 'mister'
or sometimes a whole meaningless phrase expressing such a conception as
our honourable Mullah Nassr Eddin has the following sentence for:

"And namely, he says:

'All the same, there's more reality in it than in the wise-acreings of an
expert in monkey-business.'

"So, my boy ..."

when this subsequent essence-friend of mine, Gornahoor Harharh, was informed
of what was required of him, he invited us by a sign to approach one of the
separate special appliances of the whole he had created and which was named
by him, as it later turned out, the Hrahaharhtzaha.

"When we were nearer the said special and very strange construction, he said,
pointing to it with a particular feather of his right wing:

"Just this special appliance is the principal part of the whole of my new
invention; and it is just in this that the results are brought out and
shown of almost all the peculiarities of the Omnipresent World-substance
'Okidanoch'."

"And then, pointing to all the other separate special appliances also
present in the 'khrh', he added:

'I succeeded in obtaining extremely important elucidations concerning the
omnipresent and everywhere penetrating Okidanoch because, thanks to all
these separate special appliances of my invention, it became possible, first
to obtain all three fundamental parts of the Omnipresent Okidanoch from
every kind of sur- and intra-planetary process, and artificially to blend
them into a whole, and secondly, also artificially, afterwards to dissociate
them for the prupose of elucidating the specific properties of each part sep-
arately in its manifestations."

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"Having said this, he again pointed to the Hraharhtzaha and added by means of the elucidating apparatus, not only can any ordinary being clearly understand the details of the properties of the three absolutely independent, and in their manifestations, uniquely different parts of the whole 'Unique Active Element', whose peculiarities are the chief cause of everything existing in the Universe, but furthermore, that any ordinary being can become categorically convinced that results of every kind, normally obtained from the processes occurring through this Omnipresent World-substance, can never be perceived by beings or sensed by them; but only those results of the said processes can be perceived by certain being functions, which proceed, for one reason or other, abnormally on account of causes coming from outside and due either to conscious sources or to accidental mechanical results.

"The part of Gornahoor Harharh's new invention which he himself called the Hraharhtzaha and regarded as the most important, was in appearance very much like the 'tirzikiano' or, as your favourites would say, a 'huge-electric-lamp'.

"The interior of this special structure was rather like a smallish room with a door that could be hermetically closed.

"The walls of this peculiar construction were made of a certain transparent stuff which looked like what on your planet is called 'glass'.

"As I learned later, the chief particularity of this said transparent stuff consisted in this, that although by means of the organ of sight, beings could perceive through it the visibility of cosmic concentrations of every kind, the stuff nevertheless admitted no passage through it, from within or from without, of any rays arising from any causes whatsoever.

"As I looked at this part of this said astonishing being-invention, I could clearly distinguish through its transparent walls that inside, in the middle, stood something, like a table and two chairs. Above the table hung what is called an 'electric lamp', and underneath were three somethings exactly alike and each resembling the 'Momonodocari'.

"Upon and around the table, stood or lay several different apparatuses and instruments previously unknown to me.

"It subsequently also proved that the said objects contained in this Hraharhtzaha as well as everything we had later to put on were made of special materials invented by the same Gornahoor Harharh.

"However, as regards these materials also, I shall explain it a little more in detail at the proper point in the course of my further explanations concerning Gornahoor Harharh.

"And meanwhile bear in mind that in the enormous Khrh or workshop of Gornahoor Harharh there stood, besides the already mentioned Hraharhtzaha, several other large independent appliances, and, among them, two quite special ones called 'Lifechaken' which Gornahoor Harharh himself called 'Khrhrrhihirhi'.

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"It is interesting to note that your favourites also have something like
this 'Lifechakan' or 'Krhrrhihirhi'; and they name such an apparatus a
'Dynamo'.

"There also stood there separately another independent large contrivance
which as it afterwards appeared, was a special 'Soloonnorahoona' of a
special construction, or as your favourites would say, a 'pump of-complex-
construction-for exhausting-atmosphere-to the point-of-an-absolute-vacuum'.

"While I was looking over all this with surprise, Gornahoor Harharh himself
approached the said pump of a special construction and with his left wing
moved one of its parts, owing to which a certain mechanism began to work
in the pump. He then approached us again, and pointing with the same special
feather of his right wing to the largest Lifechakan or Krhrrhihirhi or,
finally, dynamo, continued his explanations.

"And namely, he said that by means of this special appliance there are first
'drawn' separately from the atmosphere or from any intra- or sur-planetary
formation, all the three independent parts of the Omnipresent active element
Okidanoch present in them, and only afterwards, when in a certain way, these
separate independent parts are artificially reblended in the Krhrrhihirhi
into a single whole, Okidanoch, now in its usual state, flows and is collect-
ed there ---- in that 'container' - saying which, he again with the same
special feather pointed to something very much like what is called a
'Generator'.

"'And then from there', he said, 'Okidanoch flows here into another Krhrrhihirhi
or Dynamo where it undergoes the process of 'Djartklom', and each of its sep-
arate parts is concentrated, -look! - in those other 'containers', - and this
time he pointed to what resembled 'accumulators' - 'and only then do I take
from the containers of the second order, by means of various artificial appli-
ances, each active part of Okidanoch separately for my elucidatory experi-
ments'.

"I will first demonstrate to you', he continued, 'one of the results occur-
ing when, for one reason or other, one of the active parts of the Omnipresent
Okidanoch is absent during the process of their striving to be re-blended
into a whole.

"At the present moment this special construction contains a space which is
indeed a vacuum; obtained it must be said, only owing firstly to the special
construction of the suction pump and to the materials of special quality of
which the instruments are made, which alone make experiments possible in an
absolute vacuum, and secondly, to the property and rigidity of the stuff of
which the walls of this part of my new invention are made.'

"Having said this, he shifted still another lever and again continued:

"'Owing to this present shifting of one of the levers, that process has be-
gun in this vacuum whereby in the separate parts of the Omnipresent Okidanoch
there proceeds what is called the 'striving-to-be-reblended-into-a-whole'.

"But because, intentionally by an 'able-Reason' - in the present case by my-
self - there is artificially excluded from the said process the participation
of that part of Okidanoch existing under the name of 'Parijrahatnatioose'.

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the said process proceeds there just now between only two of its parts, namely, between those two independent parts which science names, the one Anodnaticus, and the second Gathodnaticus. And on account of all this, instead of the obligatory lawful results of the said process, that nonlawful result is then actualized which exists under the denomination of 'the result-of-the-process-of-mutual-destruction-of-two-opposite-forces', or as ordinary beings express it, 'the-cause-of-artificial-light'.

'Proceeding there at the given moment, that is to say, in this vacuum, the 'striving-to-be-reblended-into-a-whole' of two active parts of the Omnipresent Okidanoch has a force, as calculated by Objective Science, of what is called 3,040,000 'volts' and this force is indicated by the needle - look! - of that special appliance.'

"He pointed to a 'something' very much like the apparatus existing also on your planet and there called a 'volt-meter' and said as follows:

"One of the advantages of this new invention of mine for the demonstration of the given phenomenon consists in this, that in spite of the unusual power of the process of the 'force-of-striving' now proceeding there, nevertheless the, as they are called, 'Salnichizinooarnian-momentum-vibrations' which, by the way, the majority of beings consider also to be 'rays', and which ought to be obtained and to issue from this process ... do not issue out of the place of their arising, that is, out of this artificial-construction in which just the particularities of the Omnipresent Okidanoch are elucidated.

"And in order that beings outside this part of my invention may nevertheless also have the possibility of elucidating the force of the given process, I purposely made the composition of the stuff of the wall in one place such that it has the property of permitting the passage through itself of the said 'Salnichizinooarnian-momentum-vibrations' or 'rays'."

"Having said this, he approached nearer to the Hrhahrarhtzaha and pressed a certain button. The result was that the whole of the enormous Khrh or 'workshop' was suddenly so strongly lit up that our organs of sight temporarily ceased to function and only after a considerable time had passed could we with great difficulty raise our eyelids and contrive to look around us.

"When we had recovered and Gornahoor Harharh had shifted still another lever, the result of which was that the whole surrounding space was restored to its former usual appearance, he first, with his customary angel-voice, again drew our attention to the 'volt-meter' the needle of which indicated the same figure constantly, and then continued thus:

'You see that although the process of the clash of two opposite integral parts of the Omnipresent Okidanoch of the same power of 'force-of-striving' still continues, and the part of the surface of the construction which has the property of admitting the passage of the said 'rays' is still open, yet, in spite of all this, the phenomenon which ordinary beings define by the phrase, 'the causes of artificial light' is no longer there.

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clash of two integral parts of Okidanoch a current of the third independent integral part of Okidanoch which began to blend proportionately with its other two parts, owing to which the result derived from this kind of blending of the three integral parts of the Omnipresent Okidanoch, unlike the process of the non-lawful blending of its two parts, cannot be perceived by any of the functions of beings.'

"After all these explanations of his, Garnahoor Harharh then invited me to venture to enter with him into that demonstrating part itself of the whole of his new invention, in order that I might become, there within, an eyewitness of many particular manifestations of the Omnipresent and everything-penetrating active element.

"Of course without thinking long about it, I decided at once and gave him my consent.

"And I decided at once chiefly because I expected to obtain thereby for my being a changeless and imperishable 'objective-essence-satisfaction'.

"When this future essence-friend of mine had my consent, he at once gave the necessary order to one of his assistants.

"It appeared that for the realization of this, various preparations had first to be made.

"Namely, his assistants first of all put on both myself and Gornahoor Harharh some special very heavy costumes resembling those which your favourites call 'diving-suits', but with many small heads of what are called 'bolts' projecting.

"And when these extremely peculiar costumes had been put on us, his assistants screwed up the heads of these bolts in a certain order.

"On the inner side of these said 'diving-suits', and at the ends of the said bolts, there were, it appeared, special plates which pressed against parts of our planetary body in a certain way.

"It later also became quite clear to me why this was necessary, namely, that there might not occur to our planetary bodies what is called 'Taranooranura' or, as it might otherwise be said, in order that our planetary bodies should not fall to pieces as usually occurs to sur- and intra-planetary formations of every kind when they happen to find themselves in a vacuum.

"In addition to these special costumes, they placed on our heads a 'something' also resembling what are called 'diver's helmets', but with very complicated, as they are called, 'connectors' projecting from them.

"One of these 'connectors' was called the 'Harhrinhrarh', which meant 'supporter-of-the-pulsation', and was a long thing like a rubber tube, one end of which, by means of complicated appliances on the helmet itself, was hermetically attached to the corresponding place of the helmet for the breathing organs, while the other end, after we had already entered that

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strange Hrhaharhtzaha, was screwed to an apparatus, there present, which was connected in its turn with the space, the presence of which corresponded to the second being-food.

"Between myself and Gornahoor Harharh a special connector also led, through which we could easily communicate with each other while we were inside the Hraharhtzaha, from which the atmosphere was pumped out to make a vacuum.

"One end of this connector also, by means of appliances present on the helmets, was fitted in a certain way to what are called my organs of 'hearing' and 'speech', and the other end to the same organs of Gornahoor Harharh.

"Thus, by means of this connector between myself and my subsequent essence-friend, there was set up, as again your favourites would say, a peculiar 'telephone'.

"Without this artificial appliance we could not communicate with each other in any way, and chiefly because Gornahoor Harharh was at that time still a being with a presence perfected only up to the state called the 'Sacred Inkozarno'; and a being with such a presence not only cannot manifest himself in a vacuum, but he cannot even exist in it, even though the products of all the three being-foods should be artificially introduced into him in such a space.

"But the strangest and, as it is said, most 'cunningly-ingenious' of all the 'connectors' present for various purposes on those strange diving-suits and helmets, were the connectors created by that great scientist Gornahoor Harharh to enable the organ of sight of ordinary beings to perceive the visibility of surrounding objects of all kinds in 'absolutely empty space'.

"One end of this astonishing connector was fitted in a certain way, also by means of appliances present on the helmets, to our 'temples', while the other end was joined to what is called the 'Amskomoutator', which in its turn was joined in a certain way by means of what are called 'wires', to all the objects within the Hrhaharhtzaha as well as with those outside, namely, with those objects whose visibility was needed during the experiments.

"It is very interesting to notice here, that to each end of that artificial appliance-- a creation almost incredible for an ordinary three-centred-being-Reason -- in their turn, two independent connectors also of wire were led, through which what are called special magnetic currents flowed from outside.

"As it was afterwards explained to me in detail, these connectors and the said special magnetic currents had, it seems, been created by that truly great scientist Gornahoor Harharh in order that, in the case of learned three-centered beings not perfected even to the Sacred Inkozarno, thanks to one property of the 'magnetic current', their own presence might be 'reflected' for their own essence; and thanks to another property of the 'magnetic current' there might be 'reflected' the presence of the mentioned objects; and so that thereby the perception of the reality of the said objects might be realized by their imperfect organs of being-sight also, in a vacuum containing none of those factors or those results of various cosmic concentrations which have received such vibrations, from the realization of which alone, the functioning of any being-organ whatsoever is possible.

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"Having fitted upon us the said very heavy artificial appliances for enabling beings to exist in a sphere not proper to them, the assistants of this then still great all-universal scientist Gornahoor Harharh, with the help once again of special appliances, carried us into the Hrhahahrtzaha itself; and having screwed up all the free ends of the artificial-connectors projecting from us to the corresponding apparatuses present in the Hrhahahrtzaha itself, went out, hermetically closing behind them the only way by which it was still possible, if at all, to have any communication with what is called the 'From-everything-one-representing-World'.

"When we were alone in the Hrhaharhtzaha itself, Gornahoor Harharh after shifting one of the so-called 'contacts' present in that strange artifact said:

'The work of the 'pump' has already begun and soon it will have pumped out all without exception of the results present here of those cosmic processes whatever they may be, the totality of whose results is the basis and significance, as well as the process itself, of the maintenance of the existence of everything existing in the whole of this 'From-everything-one-representing-World'.

"And he added in a half sarcastic tone: 'Soon we shall be absolutely isolated from everything existing and functioning in the whole of the Universe; but, on the other hand, owing firstly to my new invention, and secondly, to the knowledge we have previously obtained for ourselves, we have not only now the possibility of returning to the said world, to become again a particle of all that exists, but also we shall soon be worthy to become non-participating eyewitnesses of certain of those World-laws, which for ordinary uninitiated three-centered beings are what they call the great inscrutable mysteries of Nature, but which in reality are only natural and very simple 'one-from-the-other-automatically-flowing-results'.

"While he was speaking, one could feel that this pump, that is, another and also very important part of the whole of his new invention, was perfectly realising the work assigned to it by the being-Reason.

"To enable you to represent and understand better the excellencies of this part also of the whole of this new invention of Gornahoor Harharh, I must not fail to tell you also about the following:

"Although I personally, as a three-brained being also, on account solely of certain quite particular reasons, had had occasion many times before to be in atmosphereless spaces and had had to exist, sometimes for a long time, by means of the Sacred 'Kreemboolazoomara' alone; although from frequent repetition a habit had been acquired in my presence of moving from one sphere to another gradually and almost without feeling any inconvenience from the change in the presence of the second being-food, occurring with the change of the presences of cosmic substances undergoing transformation and which are always around both large and small cosmic concentrations; although the causes themselves of my arising and the subsequent process of my being-existence were arranged in an entirely special way, in consequence of which the various being-functions contained within my general presence had perforce gradually become also special, - nevertheless in spite of it all, the pumping out of the atmosphere by the said pump proceeded then with such force, that such sensa-

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tions were impressed on the separate parts of the whole of my presence,
that even today I can very clearly experience the process of the flow of my
then state and relate it to you almost in detail.

"This extremely strange state began in me shortly after Gornahoor Harharh
had spoken in a half-sarcastic tone about our prospective situation,

"First, in all my three 'being-centres', namely, in the three centres usual-
ly localized in the presence of every three-centered being, which exist under
the names of the centres of Thinking, Feeling and Moving, in each of them
separately and independently I had very definite impressions, in a very strange
and unusual way, that there was taking place in separate parts of my whole
planetary body an independent process of the sacred Rescooerno, and that the
cosmic crystallizations composing their 'presence' were again dissolved into
the 'void'.

"At first, what is called by 'initiative-of ascertaining' proceeded in the usual way, that is, according to what is called the 'centre-of-gravity-of-associative-experiencing'; but, later, as my said 'initiative-of-ascertaining' of everything proceeding in me gradually and almost imperceptibly became the function of my essence alone, my essence not only became the unique all-embracing initiator of everything proceeding in me, but everything, without exception, of that which newly proceeded, began to be perceived by and fixed in my essence alone.

"From the moment that my essence began to perceive impressions directly and to ascertain independently that from what was proceeding, there was being entirely destroyed, as it were, in my general presence, first, the parts of my planetary body, and then, little by little, the localizations of the 'second' and 'third' being-centres also, - at the same time, the ascertainment was definitely made that the functioning of these latter centres passed gradually to my 'thinking-centre' and became proper to it, with the consequence that the thinking-centre, with the increasing intensity of its functioning, finally became the 'unique-powerful-perceiver' of everything realized outside of itself, and the autonomous initiator of the ascertaining of everything proceeding in the whole of my presence as well as outside of it.

"While this strange and still retionally incomprehensible being-experiencing
was proceeding in me, Gornahoor Herharh himself was occupied in shifting cer-
tain 'levers' and 'contacts' present in great numbers at the edges of the
table at which wee were placed.

"An incident which happened to Gornahoor Herharh himself changed all this be-
ing-experiencing, and in my general presence the usual 'inner-being-experienc-
ing' was resumed.

"The following is what happened:

"Gornahoor Herharh with all those unusual heavy appliances which had been
put on him as well, suddenly found himself at a certain height above the chair,
where he began to wriggle, as our dear Mullah Nassr Eddin says, 'like a puppy
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"As it afterwards proved, my friend Gornshoor Harherh had made a mistake dur-
ing the shifting of the mentioned levers and contacts, and had made certain
parts of his planetary body more tense than was necessary. As a consequence,
his presence together with everything on him, having received a shock and
afterwards the momentum given by the shock, and thanks to the 'tempo' proceed-
ing in his presence from the perception of the' second being food' and to the
absence of any resistance in that absolutely empty space, he began to drift,
or, as I have already said, to wriggle like a 'puppy in a well'."

Having said this with a smile, Beelzebub became silent; a little later he
made a very strange gesture with his left hand, and with an intonation not
proper to his voice, he continued thus:

"While I am gradually recalling and telling you about all this concerning the
events of a period of my existence now long since past, the wish arises in
me to make an admission frankly to you, - just to you, to one of those my
direct heirs who must inevitably become the resultant of all my deeds during
the periods of the process of my past being-existence; and namely, I wish to
confess to you frankly that just while I was inside that principal demonstrat-
ing part of that novel invention of my subsequent essence-friend Gornshoor
Harherh, - even although my essence itself, with the participation of the sub-
ordinate parts of my presence subject to it alone, had independently decided
to take part in those scientific elucidatory experiments with the demonstrat-
ing part of the new invention of Gornahoor Harherh, and I had entered into
this demonstrating part without the least compulsion from outside - neverthe-
less, in spite of all I have said, my essence allowed to creep into my being
and to be developed side by side with the said strange experiencings, a crim-
inally egoistic anxiety for the safety of my common personal existence.

"All the same, my boy, in order that you may not at this moment grieve too
much, I see no harm in adding that this happened in me then both for the
first and for the last time during all the periods of my being-existence.

"It is better, however, not to touch on questions that concern only our
family exclusively.

"Let us return to the tale I began concerning the Omnipresent Okidano and my
essence-friend Gornshoor Harherh, who, I must say, though once everywhere con-
sidered among ordinary three-brained beings as a 'great-scientist', is now,
though he still continues to exist, not only not considered as even great,
but thanks to his own result, that is to say, to his own son, is what our
deear Mullah Nassr Eddin would call a 'has-been', or, as he sometimes says in
such cases, 'He is now sitting in old American galoshes'.

"So, while thus wriggling, Gornshoor Harherh with great difficulty and only by
means of a special and very complicated manoeuvre which he made, managed fin-
ally to get his planetary body, burdened with the various unusual heavy ap-
pliances, down on to the chair again; and this time he fixed it all with the
aid of special screws which were on the chair for that purpose; and when we
were both more or less arranged and communication was possible between us by
means of the said artificial-connectors, he first drew my attention to those
apparatuses hanging over the table which I told you were very much like the
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"On close inspection all these were alike in appearance and resembled three identical 'sockets'.

"From the end of each of these sockets 'carbon candles' projected, such as are usually to be found in the apparatuses which your favorites call 'electric-arc-lamps'.

"Having drawn my attention to these three socket-like Momonodooari, he said:

'Each of these externally similar apparatuses has a direct connection with those 'containers' of the second order, which I pointed out to you, while we were still outside, in which each of the active parts of Okidano, after the artificial Djartklom, collects into a general mass.

"I have adapted these three independent apparatuses in such a way that here in this vacuum, we can obtain from those second-order 'containers', which I also pointed out to you, as much as you like for the required experiment, of every active part of Okidano in a pure state, and also we can at will change the 'force-of-the-striving-to-be-blended-again-into-a-whole', which is acquired in them and is proper to them in the degree of density of the concentration of the mass.

'And here within the vacuum, I will just show you the same non-lewful phenomenon which we recently observed while we were outside the place of its origin. And namely, I will again demonstrate to you this World phenomenon which occurs when after some lawful Djartklom, the separate parts of the whole Okidanoch meet in a space outside of some lawful arising, and without the participation of one part, 'strive-to-be-reblended-into-a-whole'.'

"Having said this, he first closed that part of the surface of the Hrহাহর্ত্যহাশ whose stuff had the property of admitting 'rays' to pass through it, and then he shifted two 'contacts' and pressed a certain button, from the pressing of which the small plate lying on that table, also composed of a certain special matter, automatically moved towards the mentioned 'carbon-candles'; and then having again drawn my attention to the 'ampere-meter' and the 'volt-meter' he added:

'I have again admitted the confluence of parts of the Okidanoch, namely, the Anodnations and the Cethodnations of equal 'force-of-striving-to-be-reblended'.'

"When I looked at the 'ampere-meter' and the 'volt-meter' and saw indeed that their needles moved and stopped on the same figures I had noticed the first time while we were still outside the Hrহাহর্ত্যহাশ, I was greatly surprised, because in spite of the indications of the needles and the reminder of Gornahoor Harherh himself, I had neither noticed nor sensed any change in the degree of my perception of the visibility of the surrounding objects.

"So without waiting for his further explanations, I asked him:

"But why then is there no result from such non-lewful 'striving-to-be-reblended-into-a-whole' of the parts of the Okidenoch?

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"Before replying to this question, he turned off the only lamp which worked from a special magnetic current. My astonishment increased still more, because in spite of the darkness which instantly ensued, it could clearly be seen through the walls of the Hrhaharhtzaha, that the needles of the Ampere-meter and Volt-meter still stood in their former places.

"Only after I had somehow got accustomed to such a surprising ascertainment, Gornahoor Harharh said:

'I have already told you that the composition of the stuff of which the walls of this artifact in which we are at this moment are made, possesses the property of not allowing vibrations arising from any sources whatever to pass through it, with the exception of certain vibrations arising from concentrations nearby; and furthermore, these vibrations can be perceived by the organs of sight only of three-brained beings, and even then only, of course, of normal beings.

'Further, according to the law called 'Heteratogetar', the 'Salnichizinooarnian-momentum-vibrations' or 'rays' acquire the property of acting on the organs of perception of beings only after they have passed a limit defined by science in the following formula, 'the-result-of-the-manifestation-is-proportionate-to-the-force-of-striving-received-from-the-shock'.

'So because the given process of the clash of the two parts of the Okidanoch has the strength of high power, the result of the clash is manifested much further than the place of its arising.

'Now Look!'

"Having said this, he pressed some other button, and suddenly the whole interior of the Hrhaharhtzaha was filled with the same blinding light which, as I have told you, I experienced when I was outside the Hrhaharhtzaha.

"It appeared that the said light was obtained because by pressing this last button, Gornahoor Harharh had again opened that part of the wall of the Hrhaharhtzaha which had the property of permitting rays to pass through itself.

"As he explained further, the light was only a consequence of the result of the 'striving-to-be-reblended-into-a-whole' of the parts of Okidanoch proceeding in that entirely empty space within the Hrhaharhtzaha and owing to what is called 'reflection', it is manifested back to the place of its arising.

"After this he continued as follows:

"'I will now demonstrate to you how and by what combinations of the process of 'Djartklom' and 'striving-to-be-reblended-into-a-whole' of the active parts of Okidanoch there arise in planets, from what are called the 'minerals' which compose their interior presence, definite formations of varying densities, as for instance, 'mineraloids', 'gases', 'metalloids', 'metals', and so on; and how these latter are afterwards gradually transformed owing to the same factors one into another, and how thereby the vibrations flowing from these transformations form just that 'totality of vibrations' which gives the planets themselves the possibility of stability in the process called the 'Common-system-harmonious-motion'.

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"For the demonstration I propose, I must obtain the necessary materials as I always do, from outside; and these materials my people will give me by means of appliances which I have prearranged."

"It is interesting to remark that at the same time that he was speaking, he was tapping with his left foot on a certain 'something' very much like what your favorites call the famous Morse transmission apparatus - famous, of course, only to the planet Earth.

"And a little later there slowly ascended from the lower part of the Hrsharhtzahe a small 'something' like a box, also with the transparent walls, within which, as it proved later, were certain 'minerals', 'metaloids', 'metals', and various 'gases' in liquid and solid states.

"Then with the aid of various appliances already present on one side of the table, he with complicated manipulation first took out from the 'box' some, what is called 'red Copper' and placed it on the mentioned plate, and then said:

"This metal is a definite intra-planetary crystallization and is one of the densities required for the said stability. It is a formation from preceding processes of the action of the parts of the Omnipresent Okidanoch and at the given moment I wish to allow the subsequent transformations of this metal to be produced artificially and acceleratedly by means of the particularities of the same factors.

"I wish to assist artificially the evolution and involution of its elements towards a greater density or, on the other hand, towards their transformation back to their primal state.

"To make the picture of the further elucidatory experiments clearer to you, I find I must inform you, even if only briefly, of my first personal scientific conclusions concerning the evidence of the causes and conditions from and under which there proceeds in the planets themselves the crystallizing of separate parts of the Okidanoch in these or the other mentioned definite formations.

"Evidently, first of all, from some non-lawful 'Djertklom' of the Omnipresent Okidanoch contained also in the presence of every planet, its separate parts are localised in the medium of that part of the presence of the planet, that is to say, in just that mineral which was just then properly in that place where the said non-lawful Djertklom occurred.

"So, if what is called the 'vibration-of-the-density-of-the-element' of the said medium has an 'affinity-of-vibration' with the said active part of the Omnipresent Okidanoch, then according to the World-Law called Symmetric-entering', this active part blends with the presence of the said medium and becomes an inseparable part of it. And from that moment the given parts of the Omnipresent Okidanoch begin, together with the said elements of the said medium, to represent the corresponding densities required in planets, namely, various kinds of metalloids or even metals, as for instance, the metal I have placed in this sphere, and in which there will proceed artificially at this moment, at my wish, the action of 'striving-to-be-reblended-into-a-whole' of the parts of the Okidanoch, and which metal, as I have already said, exists under the name of 'red copper'.

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'And further, having arisen in the planets in this way, the said various metalloids and metals then begin, as it is generally proper to arise of every kind in which Okidanoch or any of its active elements participates, and according to the common universal law called the 'Reciprocal-feeding-of-everything-existing', to radiate from their presence the results of their inner 'Interchange-of-matters'. And as is proper to radiations of every kind issuing from sur- and intra-planetary formations that have acquired in their vibrations the property of Okidanoch or of its active parts, and which reside in what is called the 'centre-of-gravity' of each such said formation, the radiations of these metalloids and metals possess properties almost similar to the properties of Okidanoch itself or of one or another of its active parts.

'When the said masses of different densities that have thus arisen in planets under normal surrounding conditions proceed to radiate from their presences the vibrations required for the said World-Law - the 'Reciprocal-feeding-of-everything-existing' - then, among these vibrations of various properties, there is established on the basis of the World-Law 'Troemedechfe', a 'contact-of-reciprocal-action'.

'And the result of just this contact is the chief factor in the gradual change of the various densities in planets.

'My observations over many years have almost fully persuaded me that it is owing only to this said contact and its results that there is realised the 'Stability-of-harmonious-equilibrium-of-planets'.

'The element of the metal 'red copper' which I have placed in this sphere where I anticipate my artificial realisation of the action of the active parts of the Okidanoch, has at this moment what is called a 'specific density', reckoning from the unit of density of the sacred element 'Theomertmalogos', of 444; that is to say, the atom of this metal is 444 times more dense, and as much less vivifying, than the atom of the sacred Theomertmalogos.

'Now see in what order its artificially accelerated transformations will proceed.'

"Having said this, he first fixed before my organ of sight the automatically moving 'Teskooano', and then switched on and off various 'contacts' in a certain sequence; and he explained to me as follows as I looked through the Teskooano:

'At this moment I admit the 'confluence' of all three parts of Okidanoch into the sphere containing this metal; and because all three parts have the same 'density' and, hence, the same 'force-of-striving', they reblend into a whole in this sphere, without changing anything in the presence of the metal; and the Omnipresent Okidenoch thus obtained flows through a special connection in its usual state out of the Hrhaharhtzahe and is re-concentrated in the first container which you have already seen.

'Now look:

'I deliberately increase the 'force-of-striving' of one only of the active parts of the Okidenoch for example, I increase the force called Gathodnatic.

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In consequence of this, you see that the elements composing the presence of
that 'red copper' begin to involve towards the quality of the substances that
compose the usual presence of planets.'

"As he explained this, he at the same time switches on and off various con-
tacts in a certain sequence.

"Although, my boy, I then looked very attentively at everything proceeding,
and everything I saw was impressed in my essence 'Pestolnootiary', that is,
indelibly, - all the same, not even with my best wish could I now describe
to you in words a hundredth part of what then proceeded in that small frag-
ment of a definite intra-planetary formation.

"And I will not try to put into words for you what I then saw because, also,
I have just thought of a possibility of soon actually showing it all to you
when you also can be an eye-witness of so strange and astonishing a cosmic
process.

"But I will tell you meanwhile that there proceeded in that fragment of 'red
copper' something rather like those terrifying pictures which I occasionally
observed from Mars through my Teskooano among your favorites on the planet
Earth.

"I said 'rather like' because what occasionally proceeded among your favour-
ites had a visibility only possible of observation at its beginning, whereas
in the fragment of 'red copper', the visibility was continuous to the final
completion of transformation.

"A rough parallel can be drawn between the occasional proceedings on your
planet and the proceedings in that small fragment of copper, if you imagine
yourself high up and looking down on a large public square, where thousands
of your favorites, under the most intense form of their chief psychosis,
are destroying each other's existence by every means they have invented, that
in their places there immediately appear what are called their 'corpses',
which 'corpses' on account of the outrages done to them by those who were
not yet destroyed, change colour very perceptibly, with the consequence that
the general visibility of the surface of the said square is gradually changed.

"Then, my boy, this subsequent essence-friend of mine, Gornahoor Harharh, by
means of switching on and off the confluences of the three active parts of
Okidanoch and changing their forces of striving, also changed the density of
the elements of the said metal and thereby transformed the 'red-copper' into
all the other also definite intra-planetary 'metals' of lower or higher degree
of vivifyingness.

"And here, for the elucidation of the strangeness of the psyche of the three-
brained beings who please you, it is very important and interesting to note
that while Gornahoor Harharh was artificially and deliberately, with the aid
of his new invention, producing the evolution and involution of the density
and vivifyingness of the elements of 'red copper', I noticed very clearly
that this metal was once transformed upon the said plate into just that same
definite metal about which the 'sorry savants' of your planet have been 'wise-
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hope of transforming other metals into this metal - thereby constantly leading astray their already sufficiently erring brethren.

"This metal is called there - 'gold'.

"Gold is no other than the metal we call 'Przarhalavr' whose 'specific weight', reckoning from the element of the sacred Theomertmalogos, is 1439; that is to say, its active element is three and a fraction times less vivifying than the element of the metal 'red copper'.

"Why I suddenly decided not to try to explain to you in detail in words all that then took place in the fragment of the said 'red copper', in view of my suggestion of the possibility of soon practically showing you in definite intra-planetary formations the processes of various combinations of the manifestations of the active parts of Okidanoch, was because I suddenly remembered the all-gracious promise given me by our All-Quarters-Maintainer, the Most Great Arch-Cherub, Peshtvogner.

"And this all-gracious promise was given me, as soon as I had returned from exile and had to present myself first of all to His All-Quarters-Maintainer, the Arch-Cherub Peshtvogner, and had prostrated myself to produce before him what is called the 'Essence-Sacred-Aliamisoornakalu'.

"This I had to do on account of the same sins of my youth. And I was obliged to do so because, when I was pardoned by His Endless Uni-Being, and allowed to return to my native land, certain sacred Individuums decided to demand of me, in order to provide for any eventuality, to produce over my essence, this sacred process, so that I might not manifest myself, as in the days of my youth, and that the same might not thereby occur again in the reasons of the majority of the Individuums dwelling here at the centre of the Great Universe.

"You probably do not know yet what the Sacred Aliamisoornakalu over an essence means? I will explain it to you in detail some time; but meanwhile I shall simply use the words of our dear Mullah Nassr Eddin who explains this process as 'giving-one's-word-of-honour-not-to-meddle-in-the-affairs-of-the-authorities'.

"Briefly, when presenting myself to his All-Quarters-Maintainer, he was good enough to ask me, among other things, whether I had taken with me all the being productions which had interested me and which I had collected from various planets of that solar system in which I had existed during my exile.

"I replied that I had taken almost everything, except those cumbersome apparatuses which my friend Gornahoor Herharh had constructed for me on the planet Mars.

"He at once promised to give orders that everything I should indicate should be taken at the first opportunity on the next trip of the space-ship Omnipresent.

"That is why, my boy, I hope that everything necessary will be brought to our planet Karatas, and that when we return there, you will be able to see with your own eyes, and I shall be able to explain practically everything in detail.

"And meanwhile, during our travelling here on the space-ship Karnak, I will as I have already promised you, tell you in their order about my descents there to your planet, and also about the causes of what is called my 'appearance there in person'."

## CHAPTER XIX

### BEELZEBUB'S TALE ABOUT HIS SECOND DESCENT ON THE PLANET EARTH

Beelzebub began thus:

"I descended upon your planet Earth for the second time, only eleven of their centuries after my first descent upon it.

"It was shortly after my first descent on to the surface of that planet that the second serious catastrophe just occurred to it; but this catastrophe was local in character and did not threaten disaster on a large cosmic scale.

"During the second serious catastrophe to that planet, the continent Atlantis, together with other large and small terra firmas also, which had been the largest continent and the chief place of the being-existence of the three-brained beings of that planet during the period of my first descent, was en-gulfed within the planet both with all the three-brained beings existing upon it, and with almost everything they had attained and acquired during their many preceding centuries.

"In their place there then emerged from within the planet, other terra firmas which formed other continents and islands, most of which still exist until now.

"It was just on the said continent of Atlantis that the city of Samlios was situated, where existed—do you remember? I once told you—our young countryman on whose account my first, as it is called, 'personal-descent' took place.

"During the mentioned second great disaster to that planet, many of the three-brained beings who please you, survived, owing to a great variety of accidents and their now already excessively multiplied posterity just descended from them.

"By the time of my second 'personal-descent', they had already multiplied so greatly, that they were breeding again upon almost all the newly formed terra-firmas.

"And as regards the question, namely what legitimately derived causes resulted in this excessive multiplication of theirs, you will also understand in the course of my further tales.

"There is no harm, I think, in noticing here, in connection with this terrestrial catastrophe, something about the three-brained beings of our own tribe, namely, why all the beings of our tribe, existing on that planet during the mentioned catastrophe to it, escaped the inevitable what is called 'Apocalyptic end'.

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"They escaped it, for the following reasons:

"I told you once, in the course of our previous talks, that the greater num-
ber of the beings of our tribe who had chosen this planet of yours as their
place of existence, existed during my first descent chiefly on the continent
of Atlantis.

"It appears that a year before the said catastrophe, our, as she is called,
'Party-Pythoness' there, when prophesying, had required that we should all
leave the continent of Atlantis and migrate to another small continent not
very far away, where we should exist on that definite part of its surface
which she indicated.

"This small continent was then called 'Grabontzi' and the part the 'Pythoness'
indicated did indeed escape the terrifying perturbation which then occured
to all the other parts of the general 'presence' of that ill-starred planet.

"In consequence of the said 'perturbation' this small continent 'Grabontzi',
which exists until now under the denomination of 'Africa' became even much
larger, because other terra-firmas emerging from the water spaces of the
planet were added to it.

"So, my boy, the 'Party-Pythoness' there was able to warn those beings of
our tribe, who had been obliged to exist on that planet, and thereby to save
them, as I have already told you, from the inevitable 'Apocalyptic fate',
only owing to one special being-property which I must say, in this connection,
can be acquired by beings only intentionally, by means of what is
called 'Being Partkdolgduty', about which I will tell you later.

"I descended personally to the surface of that planet for the second time
for reasons that arose from the following events.

"Once, while on the planet Mars, we received an ethero-gram from the centre
announcing the impending reappearance there on the planet Mars of certain
most High Sacred Individuums; and indeed, within half a Martian year, a num-
ber of Archangels, Angels, Cherubim and Seraphim did appear there, most of
whom had been members of that most great Commission, which had already appear-
ed on our planet Mars during the first great catastrophe to that planet of
yours.

"Among these most High Sacred Individuums there was again His Conformity,
the Angel—now already an Archangel—Louisos, of whom, do you remember, I
recently told you that during the first great catastrophe to the planet
Earth he had been one of the chief regulators in the matter of averting the
consequences of that general cosmic misfortune.

"So, my boy! The day following this second appearance of the mentioned
Sacred Individuums, His Conformity, escorted by one of the Seraphim, His
second assistant, made His appearance in my house.

"After Te Deums with His Conformity and after certain inquiries of mine con-
cerning the Great Centre, His Conformity then condescended to tell me among
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Earth, He, or other responsible cosmic Individuums, superintending the affairs of 'Harmonious-World-Existence', had frequently descended to this Solar System to take stock of the actualizing of those measures they had put into operation for averting the consequences of that general cosmic accident.

"And we descended", His Conformity continued, 'because although we had then put into effect every possible measure and had assured everybody that everything would be quite all right, we ourselves nevertheless were not perfectly convinced that no unexpectedness might not occur there unforeseen.

"Our apprehensions were partly realized, but, by Good Luck, not in a serious form, that is, on a general cosmic scale, since this new catastrophe affected only the planet Earth itself.

"This second catastrophe to the planet Earth', continued His Conformity, 'occurred owing to the following:

"When during the first disaster two considerable fragments had been separated from this planet, then for certain reasons, the so-called "centre of gravity" of the whole of its "presence" had no time to shift immediately into its corresponding new place, with the result that right until the second catastrophe, that planet had existed with an erratic "centre of gravity", owing to which, its motion during that time being not "equally-harmonious", there often occurred both within and upon it a number of commotions and considerable displacements.

"But when the "centre of gravity" of the planet recently finally shifted to its true centre, it was then that the said second catastrophe just occurred.

"But now', added His Conformity with a shade of self-satisfaction, 'the existence of this planet will run already quite normally in Conformity with the common cosmic harmony,

"This second catastrophe to the planet Earth has finally quite quieted and convinced us also that a catastrophe on a great scale cannot again occur on account of that planet.

"Not only has this planet itself now reacquired a normal movement in the general cosmic balance, but its two detached fragments also, as I have already told you, of the now called "Moon" and "Anoolios" have also reacquired a normal movement and have become, although small, yet independent 'Kofenshanian', that is, additional planets of that solar system Ors'.

"Having thought a little, His Conformity then told me:

"Your Reverence, I have appeared to you just for the purpose of discussing the future welfare of the large fragment of that planet which exists at the present time under the denomination of Moon.

"This fragment', His Conformity continued, 'has not only become an independent planet, but there has now begun on it a process of the formation of an atmosphere, necessary for every planet, which serves for the realization

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of the most great common cosmic Trogoautoegocrat.

"So, Your Reverence, the regular process of the formation of the said atmosphere on this small, unforeseenly arisen planet, is just now being hindered by an undesirable circumstance caused by the three-brained beings, arisen and existing on the planet Earth.

"Concerning what I have just said, I decided to apply myself to you, Your Reverence, and to ask you to consent to take upon yourself, in the name of the Uni-being Creator, the task of trying to spare us the necessity of resorting to some extreme sacred processes, unbecoming to be used for any three-centred being whatsoever, and to remove this undesirable phenomenon, in some ordinary way through their own "being-reason" contained in their "presence"."

"And in his extended detailed explanations, His Conformity then said among other things further, that after the second catastrophe to the Earth, the chance-surviving biped three-brained beings had again multiplied, and that now, the whole process of their being-existence was concentrated on another, newly formed, also large continent called 'Ashhark'.

"Three independent large groups had just been formed on this same large continent 'Ashhark', the first of which existed in the locality then called 'Tikliamish', the second in the place called 'Maralpleisi', and the third in the still existing locality then called 'Gemchania'.

"The matter is', continued His Conformity, 'that in the general psyche of the beings, belonging to all those three independent groups, certain peculiar 'Havatveronony' have been formed, that is, certain psychic strivings, the totality of the process of which they themselves have named "Religion".

"Although these "Havatveronony" or "Religions" have nothing in common with each other, yet, nevertheless there is very widely spread among the beings of all three groups in those peculiar religions of theirs the same custom called among them "Sacrificial-Offerings".

"And this custom of theirs is founded on the notion, recognized by their strange reason alone, that if they destroy the existence of beings of other forms in honor of their gods and idols, these gods and idols would find it very agreeable, and always in everything unfailingly help and assist them in the realization of their various fantastic and absurd whims.

"This custom is at present so widely spread there, and the destruction of the existence of beings of various forms for this maleficent purpose has reached such dimensions there, that already there is a surplus of the 'Sacred Askokin' required from the planet Earth for its former parts, that is to say, a surplus of those vibrations which arise during the sacred process of 'Rascouarno' with beings of every exterior form, arising and existing on that planet, from which the said sacred cosmic arising is required.

"For the normal formation of the atmosphere of the newly arisen planet 'Moon', the said surplus of the 'Sacred Askokin' has already begun seriously to hinder the regular exchange of matters between the planet Moon itself and its atmosphere, and the fear has already arisen that its atmosphere may be formed in-

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regularly on account of this and later become an obstacle to the harmonious movement of the whole Ors system, and perhaps again give rise to the memory of a catastrophe on a general cosmic scale.

"So, Your Reverence, my request to you consists in this, as I have already told you, that you should consent, since you are in the habit of often visiting various planets of that solar system, to undertake the task of descending on the planet Earth specially, and of trying there on the spot to instill into the consciousness of these strange three-brained beings some idea of the senselessness of this notion of theirs."

"Having said a few more words, His Conformity ascended and having risen sufficiently high, he added in a loud voice already from on high: 'Thereby, Your Reverence, you will be rendering a great service to our Endless Unbeing'.

"After these sacred Individuums had left the planet Mars, I decided at whatever cost to carry out the said task, and if only by this explicit aid to our Unique-Burden-Bearing Endlessness, to be worthy to become a particle, but already an independent one, of everything existing in the Great Universe.

"So, my boy, imbued with this, I flew the next day for the second time to your planet Earth on the same ship Occasion.

"This time our ship Occasion alighted on the sea called there in that period of the flow of time, 'Kolhidious'. This sea was also a new formation that had been caused by the perturbation during the second great disaster to that planet of yours.

"The said sea was situated on the north-west of that newly formed large continent Ashhark, which at that period was already the chief centre of the existence of the three-brained beings there.

"The other shores of this sea were composed of those newly emerged terra firmas which had become attached to the continent 'Ashhark', and which all together were first called 'Fryanktzanaralli', but a little later 'Kolhid-shissi'.

"It must be remarked that both the said sea and the enumerated terra firmas exist until now, but naturally they now already have other names; namely the continent Ashhark is now called 'Asia', the sea 'Kolhidious', the 'Caspian' sea, and all the 'Fryanktzanaralli' together exist now under the name 'Caucasus'.

"The Occasion' alighted on this sea 'Kolhidious' or 'Caspian' Sea, furthermore, because this sea was the most convenient, both for mooring our Occasion, and for my further travels.

"And it was very convenient for my further travels because from its Eastern side a large river flowed into it, which watered almost the whole country of 'Tikliamish', and just on the banks of which there stood the capital of that country, the city 'Koorkalai'.

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"As the greatest centre of the existence of these favourites of yours was then the country 'Tikliamish', I decided to go there first.

"Here there is no harm in noticing that although the mentioned large river then called 'Oksoseria' also still exists, yet it no longer flows into the present Caspian Sea. After a minor planet-quake at almost about the middle of its course, it turned to the right and flowed into one of the hollows on the surface of the continent Ashhark, where it gradually formed a small sea, still existing and called the 'Aral Sea'; but the old bed of the former half of that large river, now already called the 'Amou-daria' can be seen by close observation even at the present time.

"During the period of this second personal descent of mine, the country Tikliamish was considered to be and indeed was the richest and most prosperous of all the terra-firmas, good for the ordinary being-existence then existing on that planet.

"But when a third great catastrophe occurred to that ill-starred planet, this then most prosperous country on the surface of your planet, along with other more or less prosperous terra-firmas, was covered by 'Kashmanoon', or, as they say, by 'Sands'.

"For long periods after this third catastrophe, this country Tikliamish was simply called 'bare desert'. At present its parts have various names; and its former principal part is called 'Karakoon', that is, 'Black-Sands'.

"On this same continent during that period there also dwelt the second, equally quite independent group of three-brained beings of your planet. And that part of the continent Ashhark was then called 'The Country Marelpleisi'.

"When this second group later on also had a central point of their existence which they called the 'City Gob', the whole country was for a long time called 'Goblandia'.

"This locality also was afterwards covered by 'Kashmanoon', and at present the former principal part of this also once flourishing country is called simply 'The Gobi Desert'.

"And as for the third group of the three-brained beings then of the planet Earth, this also quite independent group had the place of its existence on the South-Eastern side of the continent Ashhark, in the direction opposite to Tikliamish, quite on the other side of those abnormal projections of the continent Ashhark which also were formed during the second perturbation to this ill-starred planet.

"Just that region of the existence of this third group was then called, as I have already told you, 'Gemchania'.

"The name of this locality also changed many times afterwards and the whole of this terra-firma region of the surface of the planet Earth exists at the present time under the name of 'Hindoostan' or 'India'.

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"It is quite necessary to notice also, that at that period, that is, during this second 'Personal descent' of mine on the surface of your planet there was present and already thoroughly crystallized in all these three-brained beings who please you, belonging to each of the three-enumerated independent groups, in place of that function called 'the need-to-strive-to-be-perfected', which should be in every three-brained being, a very strange, also a 'need to strive', but towards this, that all the other beings of their planet should call and consider their country as the 'Culture-centre' for the whole planet.

"This strange 'need to strive' was then present then in all three-centred beings of your planet and was for each of them, as it were, the principal sense and aim of his existence. And in consequence, among the beings of these three independent groups at that period, bitter struggles, both material and psychic, were constantly proceeding for the attainments of the mentioned aim.

"And so, my boy.

"We then set off from the sea 'Kolhidious', or as it is now called, 'Caspian Sea', on 'Selchans', that is to say, on rafts of a special kind, up the river 'Oksoeria', or as it is now called, the 'Amou-Daria'. We sailed for fifteen Earth-days and finally arrived at the capital of the beings of the first Asiatic group.

"On arriving there and after arranging the place of our permanent existence there, I first began visiting the 'Kaltaani' of the city 'Koorkalai', that is, those establishments there which later, there on the continent Ashhark, came to be called 'Chaihana', 'Ashhana', 'Caravansary', and so on, and which the contemporary beings there, especially those breeding on the continent called 'Europe', call 'Cafes', 'Restaurants', 'Clubs', 'Dance-halls', 'Assembly-rooms' and so on.

"I began visiting just these establishments of theirs first because there, on the planet Earth, at present, just as formerly, nowhere else so well as in just such gatherings of theirs is it possible to observe and study the specific peculiarities of the psyche of the beings of the locality; which was just what I needed for clearing up for myself their real inner essence-attitude to the custom of sacrifice and to enable me more readily and more easily to draw up a plan of action for the attainment of that aim for which I had made that second 'Personal-stay' of mine there.

"During my wanderings around the 'Kaltaani' there I met a number of beings, among whom was one whom I happened to meet rather often.

"This three-brained being there, whom I chanced to meet frequently, belonged to the profession of 'priest' and was called 'Abdil'.

"As, my boy, almost all my personal activities during that second descent of mine were connected with the external circumstances of this priest Abdil, and as I was obliged to have during this descent of mine a great deal of trouble on his account, I shall tell you more or less in detail about this three-brained being there; and, moreover, you will at the same time understand from

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these tales about him what, namely, were the results I then attained for my aim of uprooting from the strange psyche of your favourities the need to destroy the existence of beings of other forms for the 'appeasing' and 'pleasing' of their Gods and revered idols.

"Although this terrestrial being, who afterward became for me like one of my intimates, was not a priest of the highest rank, yet he was familiar with all the details of the teaching of the religion then dominant in the whole country Tikliamish; and he also knew the psyche of the followers of that religion, particularly, of course, the psyche of the beings belonging to his 'flock' for whom he was a 'priest'.

"Soon after we had become on good terms with each other, I discovered that in the Being of this priest Abdil, owing to very many external circumstances, among which there were also heredity and the conditions under which he had been prepared for a responsible being, the function called 'conscience' which ought to be present in every three-centred being was not yet quite atrophied in him, so that after he had cognised with his reason certain cosmic truths I explained to him, he immediately acquired in his 'presence' towards the beings around him, similar to him, almost that attitude which is proper to be present in all normal three-brained beings of the whole Universe; that is to say, he became as it is also said there, 'compassionate', and 'sympathetic' towards the beings surrounding him.

"Before telling you more about this priest Abdil, I must clear up for your reason, that there, that is on the continent of Ashhark, the mentioned cruel custom of 'sacrificial offerings' was, as it is said, at its 'height' at that time, and the destruction of various 'one-brained' and 'two-brained' weak beings proceeded everywhere in incalculable numbers.

"At that period, if anybody had occasion in any house to appeal to one or other of their imaginary Gods, or fantastic 'Saints', they invariably promised, that in the event of good fortune, they would destroy in honor of their Gods and Saints the existence of some or other being, or of several at once. And if by chance good fortune befell them, then they fulfilled their promise with the utmost veneration, while, if it were otherwise, then they multiplied their slaughters in order eventually to win the favour of their said imaginary patron.

"With the same aim, these favourites of yours of that period even divided the beings of all other forms into 'clean' and 'unclean'.

"'Unclean' they called those forms of being, the destruction of whose existence was not pleasing, as it were, to their Gods, and 'clean' — those beings, the destruction of whose existence, was, as it were, extremely agreeable to those various imaginary idols whom they revered.

"These sacrifices they made not only in their own houses, nor only as private beings, but they were made by whole groups, and sometimes even, in public. There even existed then special places for slaughterings of this kind; these were situated mostly near buildings in memory of something or somebody, chiefly of 'Saints' — naturally, of course, of the 'Saints' they themselves had elevated to 'Sainthood'.

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"Several such special public places, where the destruction of the beings of different exterior forms was carried out, then existed in the country of Tikliamish; and among them was then one most celebrated, situated on a small mountain, whence, as it were, a certain thaumaturgist Aliman had once upon a time been 'taken' alive up to 'some' Heaven.

"In that place, just as in others like it, especially at defined times of year, an innumerable number of beings called 'oxen', 'sheep', 'doves' and so on were destroyed, and even beings similar to themselves.

"In the latter case, the strong usually sacrificed the less strong, as, for instance, a father his son, a husband his wife, an older brother his younger brother and so on. But for the most part, 'sacrifices' were offered up of 'slavos', who then as now were usually what are called 'captives'; that is, beings of a conquered community, or beings of that caste, which, according to the law of what is called 'Saliconensious', had at the given period a lesser value in respect of their chief particularity, namely, when their needful tendency to mutual destruction there is more intensely manifested in their 'presence'.

"The custom of pleasing their Gods by destroying the existence of other beings is followed there, on your planet, until now, only not on the same scale upon which this same abominable custom was practised by your favours then, on the continent Ashhark.

"So, my boy, during the early days of my stay in the town 'Koorkalai', I often talked on various subjects with this mentioned friend of mine, the priest Abwil, though, of course, I never spoke with him about such questions as might reveal my real nature.

"Like almost all the three-brained beings of your planet during all my descents he also took me for a being of his own planet and looked upon me as very learned and as an authority on the psyche of beings similar to himself.

"During our earliest meetings, whomever we chanced to speak about other beings similar to himself, his responsiveness and experiences about them touched me deeply, but when my Reason cleared up definitively that the function of 'conscience', fundamental for three-centred beings, which had passed to his 'presence' by heredity had not yet become quite atrophied in him, then there began gradually from that moment to arise, -- and in the end to be crystallized in my 'presence' -- a really-functioning-needful 'striving' towards him as towards an intimate of my own nature.

"Thereafter, he also, according to the cosmic law 'every-cause-gives-birth-to-a-corresponding-result', naturally began to have towards me 'Silnooyogordpane', as your favours would say there, a 'feeling-of-other-self-trust'.

"So, my boy.

"No sooner was this clearly ascortained in my reason, than the idea just then occurred to me to realize through this first Earth-friend of mine, the task, on account of which this second 'Personal descent' of mine had been made.

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"I therefore intentionally directed all our conversations towards the question of the custom of sacrifice-offering.

"Although, my boy, a very considerable 'flow of time' has passed since I talked with that Earth friend of mine, I could, perhaps, now recall word for word and repeat one of our talks then.

"I particularly wish to recall and repeat just that talk of ours which was our last, and which served as a starting point of all further sad events which brought the existence, though only the planetary existence, of this Earth friend of mine, to a painful end, nevertheless to the beginning of the possibility of an oxtornal universal existence.

"This last talk took place in his house.

"I explained to him already openly at that time the utter absurdity and stupidity of this custom of sacrifice-offerings.

"I said to him as follows:

"GOOD....

"You have a religion, a faith in something!!! It is excellent to have faith in something, no matter in what; and even if you don't exactly know in whom or in what, nor can represent to yourself the significance and the possibilities of what you believe, to have a faith, whether consciously or even quite unconsciously, is very necessary and desirable for every being.

"And it is desirable because, owing to faith and to faith alone, there appears in the being, an intensity of being-self-consciousness necessary for every being, and the valuation of personal being-hood, as of a particle of the All existing in the Universe.

"But what has the existence of another being, which you destroy, to do with this, and, above all, one whose existence you destroy in the name of its Creator?

"That life, for the Creator both of its and of your life, is just the same as yours.

"Thanks to your psychic strength and cunning, namely, to those functions, proper to you, which our same Common Creator has granted you for the perfecting of your reason, you profit by the psychic weakness of other beings and destroy their existence.

"Do you understand, you wretch, what — in an objective sense — an indeed evil deed you commit in this?

"Firstly — by destroying the existence of other beings, you reduce for yourself the number of factors in that totality of results which alone can form the necessary conditions for the perfectioning of beings similar to yourself.

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"And secondly, you thereby definitely diminish or completely destroy the hopes of our Common Father Creator, based on those possibilities which have been put into you, yourself, as a three-brained being and upon which He counts, as a help for Him later.

"The patent senselessness of such a terrible being action is clear already merely in this, that you imagine that by destroying the existence of other beings you do something pleasing just to that One who has intentionally credited those beings also.

"Can it be that even the thought has never entered your head, that if our Common Father Creator has created that same life also, then he probably did so for some definite purpose?

"Think, I told him further, think a little, not as you have been accustomed to think during the whole of your existence, like a 'Khorassanian donkey', but think a little honestly and sincerely, as it is proper to think, for a 'God-like being' as you call yourself.

"When God created you and these beings, whose existence you destroy, could our Creator then have written on the foreheads of certain of His creatures, that they were to be destroyed in His honor and glory?

"Anybody, if he thinks seriously and sincerely about it, even an idiot from 'Albion's Isles', can understand that this could never be.

"It was invented by men only, by men who call themselves 'Godlike', but only not by Him, who created men and these other beings of different form whom men destroy, as it were, for His pleasure and satisfaction.

"For Him there is no difference between the 'life' of man and the 'life' of beings of any other form.

"Man is 'life', and the beings of other exterior forms are 'life'.

"It is most wisely foreseen by Him, that Nature should adapt the difference of exterior form of beings in accordance with those conditions and circumstances, under which the process of existence of this or the other form of 'life' is designed to flow.

"Take yourself as an example; with these your internal and external organs, could you go and jump into the water and swim like a fish?

"Of course not, because you have neither the 'gills', 'fins', nor 'tail' a fish has, that is, 'the life' for which it is designed to exist in that sphere which is the 'water'.

"If it occurred to you to go and jump into the water, you would at once choke and drop to the bottom for the meal of those same fishes, who, in that sphere, appropriate for them, would naturally be infinitely stronger than you.

"In a similar situation are the fishes themselves.

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"Could one of them come now to us, and sit with us at this table and drink in our 'company' the 'Green tea' we are now drinking?

"Also, of course not! Because it has not the appropriate organs for manifestations of this kind.

"It was created for the water and both its internal and external organs are adapted for the manifestations required in the water. It can manifest itself effectively and successfully, and fulfill the purpose of its existence, pre-designed by the Creator, only in the sphere appropriate to it.

"In exactly the same way, your external and all your internal organs are also created by our common Creator in a corresponding manner. You are given legs to walk, you are given hands to prepare and take the necessary food; your nose and the organs connected with it are so adapted that you may perceive and transform in yourself those World-substances by means of which there are coated in the three-brained beings, similar to yourself there, both the higher being-bodies, on one of which the hope of our Common All-Embracing Creator is placed for help in His needs, for the purpose of realizations foreseen by Him for the good of everything existing.

"In short, the corresponding principle is foreseen and given to Nature by our Common Creator, so that it might coat and adapt all your internal and external organs, in accordance with that sphere, in which the process of the existence of such a brain-system as yours is pre-ordained to flow.

"A very good example for the clarification of this is your 'own donkey' standing tied up in your stable.

"Even as regards this 'own donkey' of yours, you abuse the possibilities given you by our Common Creator, since if this donkey now stands under slavish compulsion there in your stable, it does so only because it is created two-brained; and this again is because just such an organization of the whole of its 'presence' is necessary for the common cosmic existence upon planets.

"And therefore, there is absent from the 'presence' of your donkey, according to law, the possibility of 'logical mentation', and consequently, according to law, he must be what you call 'senseless' - 'stupid'.

"And although you are created both for this and for still another purpose also, namely, as a 'field of hope' for the hopes of the future of our Common All-Gracious Creator, — that is to say, you are created with the possibilities of coating in your 'presence' that 'Higher Sacred' for the possible arising of which the whole of our now existing World was just created; yet in spite of the said possibilities given to you, that is to say, in spite of your having been created three-brained with the possibilities of a 'logic-mentation', you do not use this sacred property of yours for the purpose for which it was designed, but you manifest it as 'cunning' towards His other creations, as, for instance, towards your 'own donkey'.

"Apart from the possibilities present in you of consciously coating in your 'presence' the mentioned 'Higher Sacred', this donkey of yours is of the same value for the common cosmic process, and consequently for our Common Creator,

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as you yourself, since each of you is designed for some definite purpose, and
these separate definite purposes, in their totality, just realize the sense
of everything existing.

"The difference between you and your 'own donkey' is merely in the form and quality of functioning of the internal and external organization in your general 'presence'.

"For instance, you have two legs only, whereas the donkey has as many as four, any one of which, moreover, is infinitely stronger than yours.

"Can you, for instance, carry on those two weak legs of yours as much as that donkey can?

"Certainly not, because your legs are given you only for carrying yourself and the little that is necessary for the normal existence of a three-brained being as foreseen by Nature.

"Such a distribution of forces and strength which at first sight appears a piece of injustice on the part of a Most Just Creator through great Nature, is made simply because the surplus of cosmic substance foreseenly given you to use by the Creator and by Nature for the purpose of your personal perfection, is not given to your donkey; but in place of this, great Nature herself transforms the same surplus of cosmic substances in your donkey's 'presence' for the forces and strength of certain of its organs, only for its present existence, but of course without the personal cognition of the donkey itself; thus enabling it to manifest the said strength more and better than you.

"And these differently-powered manifestations of beings of diverse forms realize in their totality, just those exterior conditions in which alone there is possible for those similar to you, -- that is, for three-brained beings --, the conscious perfecting of the 'germ of Reason' placed in their 'presence', to the necessary gradation of the pure Objective Reason.

"I repeat, all beings, of all brain systems, without exception, large and small, arisen and existing on the Earth or within the Eart or in the water or in the air are all equally necessary -- for our Common Creator -- for the general harmony of the existence of everything existing.

"And as all the enumerated forms of beings actualize in their common totality the form of process required by our Creator, for the existence of everything existing, the essences of all beings are equally valuable and dear to Him.

"For Our Common Creator all beings are only parts of the existence of a whole essence, spiritualized by Himself.

"But what do we see here now?

"One form of beings created by Him, namely, that form of being just in whose 'presence' He has placed all His hope for the future welfare of everything existing, taking advantage of their privileges, lord it over other forms and destroy their existence indiscriminately, and, what is more, they do this, as it were, 'in His name'.

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"The horror of it is that although these phenomenal anti-god actions take place here in every house and on every square, nevertheless it never enters one of these wretches' heads to think that these beings whose existence I or we are now destroying, are equally dear to that One, who has created them, and that if He created these other forms of beings as well as ourselves, it must have been also for some purpose.

"Having said all this to my friend, the priest Abdil, I said further:

"And what is most distressing is that the very man who destroys the existence of other beings, in honor of his honoured idols, does so with all his heart, and in the complete persuasion that he is doing a 'good' deed.

"I am quite sure, that if one of them should become aware, that in destroying another's existence, he is not only committing a crime against the true God and every genuine Saint, but even causing thereby sorrow and grief in their essence that there exist in the great Universe God-like being-monsters who can manifest towards other creations of our Common Creator so heartlessly and pitilessly; if, I repeat, any of them should become conscious of this, then certainly not one among them, could with all his heart, ever again destroy the existence of beings of other forms for sacrificial offering.

"Then perhaps on the Earth also, would begin to run the 18th personal commandment of our Common Creator, which declares: 'Love every breathing thing.'

"This offering to God of sacrifices by destroying the existence of His other creations is just the same as if somebody from the street should now break into your house and wantonly destroy all the 'goods' there, which have taken you years to collect, also cost you years of labour and suffering.

"Think, and once more, think sincerely, and represent to yourself what I have just said, and answer: would you like it and thank the impudent thief who broke into your house?

"Certainly not!!!... A thousand times not!!!!!

"On the contrary, your whole being would be indignant and would wish to punish this thief, and with every ounce of your psyche, you would try to find a means of revenge.

"In all probability, you would now reply, that although it is indeed so, however, I am only a man.........

"That is true, you are only a man. It is good that God is God and is not so vindictive and base as man.

"Certainly he will not punish you nor will He revenge Himself upon you, as you would punish the mentioned robber who destroyed the property and goods it had taken you years to collect.

"There is no question about it, God forgives everything, -- this has even become a law in the World.

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"But His creations, - men in this given case, - must not abuse this all-gracious and everywhere penetrating Goodness of His; they must not only care for, but even maintain all He has created.

"Here on Earth, however, men have even divided beings of all other forms, - into the 'clean' and the 'unclean'.

"Tell me what led them, when they made that division?

"Why, for instance, is a sheep 'clean', and a lion 'unclean'? Are they not equal beings?

"This was also invented by men... And why have they invented this, and made this division? Simply because a sheep is a very weak being and moreover, stupid, so that they can do just what they like with it.

"But men call the lion 'unclean' simply because they can't do what they like with it.

"A lion is cleverer and, above all, stronger than they.

"A lion will not only not allow itself to be destroyed, but will not even permit men to come near it. If any man should once venture to approach it, then this 'Mister Lion' would give him such a smack on the sconce that our valiant's life would at once take wings where the Russian Makkar has not yet driven his flocks.

"No... a lion is 'unclean' simply because men are afraid of it.

"It is a hundred times higher and stronger than they; a sheep is 'clean' merely because it is much weaker than they and moreover -- I repeat --, much more stupid.

"Every being according to its nature and to the gradation of its reason attained by its ancestors and passed to it by heredity, occupies its definite place among beings of other forms.

"A good example for clarifying what I have just said, is the difference between the already definitively crystallized 'presences' of the psycho of your dog and of your cat.

"If you pet a dog a little and get it used to anything you please, it will become obedient and affectionate to the point of humiliation.

"It will run after you and cut every sort of caper before you just to tickle your fancy.

"You can be familiar with it, you can beat it, you can aggravate it; it will never turn on you, but will always humiliate itself still more before you.

"But try the same on your cat.

"What do you think? Will it respond to your indignities as your dog did, and cut the same humble capers for your amusement? Not much.....

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"Indeed he spoke so well and so sincerely, and cited in his beautiful speech so many persuasive and picturesque examples that as he spoke many of the beings of 'Koorkalai' present there, even began sobbing bitterly.

"What he said produced so strong an impression on all his flock, that although his sermon lasted, instead of the usual custom, half an hour or an hour, until the next day, nevertheless even when it was over, nobody wanted to leave and everybody stood for a long time as if spell-bound.

"Thereafter fragments from his sermon began to be spread among those who had not personally heard it.

"It is interesting to notice, that it was the custom then, for priests to exist simply on the gifts of their parishioners; and this priest Abdil had also been in the habit of receiving from the parishioners every kind of product for his ordinary existence, - gifts of the roast and boiled 'corpses' of beings of various exterior forms, for instance, 'chickens', 'sheep', 'goose', and so on. But, after this famous sermon of his nobody brought him any of those customary gifts; they brought or sent him only fruits, flowers, handiwork, and so on.

"The day following his sermon, this Earth friend of mine, at once found himself what is called the 'fashionable priest' for all the citizens of the town 'Koorkalai'; and not only was the temple where he officiated always crammed with beings of the town 'Koorkalai', but he was also in demand to speak in other temples.

"Such sermons concerning Sacrificial offerings he delivered many times, and every time the number of his admirers grew and grew, so that he became popular not only among the beings of the town 'Koorkalai', but also of the whole of Tikliamish.

"How it would all have ended I do not know, if the whole priesthood, that is, men-beings of the same profession as my friend, had not become alarmed and anxious on account of his popularity, and had not opposed everything he preached.

"These colleagues of his were obviously afraid, that if the custom of 'sacrifice' should disappear, their own excellent incomes would go with it, and that their authority would first totter and finally shake all to nothing.

"As day by day the number of this priest Abdil's enemies thereupon increased, fresh slanders and innuendoes appeared, designed to lower or destroy his popularity and significance.

"His colleagues began delivering addresses in their temples, conclusively proving the opposite of all that the priest Abdil had said in his sermon.

"At last it came to the point that the priesthood already began paying various beings with 'Hasnamuss' properties to plan and carry out every kind of outrage upon this poor Abdil; and in fact, these earth mullities with the properties mentioned, came to such a point, that they even tried on several occasions to destroy his existence by sprinkling poison on the various edible gifts brought to him.

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"Notwithstanding all this, the number of sincere admirers of his preaching also daily increased.

"Finally, the whole corporation of the priesthood could stand it no longer and on a sad day for my friend, a general ecumenical trial was held, which lasted four days.

"By the sentence of this general ecumenical trial, this Earth friend of mine was not only absolutely excommunicated from the priesthood, but at the same council, his colleagues also organized his further prosecution.

"Little by little, all this, of course, had a strong effect upon the psyche of ordinary beings, so that even those around him, who had formerly esteemed him, then also began gradually avoiding him and repeating every kind of calumny about him. Those who only a day before had been sending him flowers and various other gifts and almost worshipping him, owing to the constant gossip, even they also soon became his bitter enemies. It was as if he had not only injured them personally, but had cut the throats of and slaughtered all their kith and kin.

"Such is the psyche of the beings of that peculiar planet. In short, thanks to his sincere good-will to those around him, this good friend of mine underwent a great deal. But even this might have been nothing, if the climax of baseness on the part of the colleagues of my friend and his other Earth 'god-like' beings around him had not put the lid on it; namely, they killed him.

"And this occurred in the following way:

"My friend had no relatives at all in the city 'Koorkalai', having been born in some distant place.

And as for the hundreds of servants and other ordinary terrestrial ciphers who surrounded him when he was important, they of course trickled away from him during this period, since my friend was important no longer.

"Towards the end there remained with him only one very old being who had been with him for a very long time.

"To tell the truth, this old man had remained with him only on account of that old age which, owing to the abnormal being-existence most of the beings there reach, that is to say, on account of his complete uselessness for anything required under the conditions of being-existence there.

"Having no other place to go to, he did not desert my friend, but stayed to exist with him even during the time when he had lost his importance and during his persecution.

"This same old man on going into my friend's room one sad morning saw that he had been killed and that his planetary body had been hacked to pieces.

"Knowing that I was friends with him, he at once ran to me to tell me about it.

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"I have already told you, that I had begun to love him as one of my nearest, so that when I learned about this terrible event, there almost occurred in my whole 'presence' a 'Skinikoonartzino', that is to say, the connection between my separate being-centres was almost shattered.

"But during the day I felt afraid that the same or some similar unconscionable beings like them might commit further outrages on the parts of my friend's planetary body, so I decided at least to prevent the possibility of this fear being realized.

"I therefore, unbeknown to anybody else, immediately hired several suitable beings for a great sum of money and had his planetary body removed and placed temporarily in my 'Selchan', that is, on my raft which was moored not far away on the river 'Oksoeria'. I had not disposed of it because I had it in mind to sail on it from there to the Sea Kolhidious to our ship 'Occasion'.

"This sad end of my friend's existence did not prevent his preachings and persuasions about the cessation of sacrifices having a strong effect upon many, even upon very many.

"And indeed, the quantity of such slaughterings began very perceptibly to diminish and one could see that with time even if the custom were not abolished completely, at least it would be considerably mitigated.

"And that was enough for me for the time being. As there was no reason for me to stay there any longer, I decided to return immediately to the Sea Kolhidious and there to consider what further to do with the planetary body of my friend.

"When I arrived on our ship 'Occasion', an etherogram from Mars awaited me in which I was informed of the arrival there of still another party of beings from the planet Karatas, and that my earliest return there was desired.

"Thanks to this etherogram a very strange notion came into my mind, namely, I thought that instead of disposing of the planetary body of my friend on the Planet Earth, I might take it with me and return it to the 'presence' of the planet Mars.

"I decided to carry out this idea of mine as I was afraid that my friend's enemies who hated him might make a search for his planetary body, and if they should chance to learn where it had been returned to the 'presence' of that planet, or as your favourties say - 'buried', then doubtless they would find it and perpetrate some or other atrocity upon it.

"Soon from the Sea Kolhidious I indeed ascended to the planet Mars on the ship 'Occasion'.

"Already there on the planet Mars, our beings and several kind Martians, having learned of the events which had taken place on the planet Earth, paid due respect to the planetary body I had taken with me.

"They 'buried' him with the ceremonies customary on the planet Mars, and over the spot they erected a suitable construction.

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CHAPTER XX

THE THIRD FLIGHT OF BEELZEBUB TO THE PLANET EARTH.

After a brief pause Beelzebub continued to speak further thus......

He said:......

"This time I remained at home, that is, on the planet Mars, only a short while, just long enough to see and talk with the newly arrived, and to give certain directions of a general tribal character.

"Having disposed of the said affairs, I descended again to your planet with the intention of continuing the pursuit of my aim, that is, the uprooting from among these strange three-centered beings, of their horrible custom of doing good as it were, by destroying the existence of beings of other brain-systems than their own.

"On this third descent of mine to the planet Earth our ship Occasion landed not on the Sea 'Kolhidious', which, in contemporary times is there called the Caspian Sea, but on the Sea, called at that period, the 'Sea of Beneficence'.

"We decided to land on this sea, because I proposed to visit this time the capital of the beings of the second group of the continent Ashhark, then named the 'City Gob', which was situated on the south eastern shore of that sea.

"At that time, the 'City Gob' also was a considerable city, and it was well known over the whole planet as a place that produced the best fabrics and the best as they are called 'precious ornaments'.

"The 'City Gob' was situated on both banks of the mouth of a large river called the 'Keria-chi' which flowed into the Sea of Beneficence and which had its rise in the eastern heights of this country.

"Into this Sea of Beneficence, on its western side, still another large river called the 'Naria-chi' flowed.

"And it was just in the valleys of these two large rivers that the beings of the second group of the continent Ashhark mainly existed.

"If you wish, my dear boy, I will also tell you a little of the history of the rise of this group of beings of the continent Ashhark", Beelzebub asked Hassein.

"Yes, Grandfather, yes ..... I shall listen to you with great interest and great gratitude", replied his Grandson.

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Then Beelzebub began thus:

"A very long time before that period there to which my present tale relates, namely, long before that second great catastrophe to that ill-starred planet, and while the continent Atlantis was still existing and flourishing, a certain one of the ordinary three-centered beings of that continent 'invented', as my latest detailed investigation and researches cleared up, that the powdered horn of a being of a particular exterior form, then called a 'Pirmaral' was very effective against what they called 'diseases' of every kind; and his 'invention' afterwards was widely spread by various 'freaks' there on your planet, and also there was gradually crystallized in the reason of the ordinary beings there, an ephemeral governing factor, of which factor, I must here say, there is just formed in the whole of the 'presence' of every one of your favours, especially of the contemporary ones, the Reasonability of what is called their 'waking existence', and which factor is the chief cause of frequent change in the convictions forming in them.

"Owing just to this factor, crystallized in the presences of the three-brained beings of your planet of that period, it became the rule that anyone, as they say, falling ill of this or that disease, should invariably be given this powdered horn to swallow.

"It is not without interest to remark that 'Pirmarals' breed there at the present time also; but, since contemporary beings look upon them merely as one of the species of being they call collectively 'deer', they have no special name for them.

"So, my boy, as the beings of the continent Atlantis destroyed very many beings of that form for the sake of these horns, very soon they became extinct,

"A number of the beings of that continent who had by this time already made a profession of such hunting, then went hunting for these beings on other continents and islands.

"This hunting being very difficult, because for the capture of these deer a host of these hunter-beings was required, these professional hunters always took their whole families with them for assistance.

"It happened once that several of these hunter families, having joined together, set off for hunting the 'Pirmaral-beings' to a very remote continent then called 'Iranan' though later, after having been changed, owing to the second catastrophe, it was called 'the continent Ashhark'.

"This was just the continent which your contemporary favours now call Asia.

"For my further tales concerning these three-brained beings, who please you, it will be very useful for you I think, if I emphasize here that on account of various disturbances during the second terrestrial catastrophe, several parts of the continent 'Iranan' entered within the planet, and there emerged in their place, and attached themselves to it other terra firma,

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whereby the continent was considerably changed and became almost the equal
in size of the continent Atlantis, before the catastrophe.

"So, my boy, this said group of hunters while once with their families
pursuing a herd of these 'Pirmarals', came unawares upon the shores of the
water-space that afterwards was called the Sea of Beneficence.

"Both the sea itself and its rich and fertile shores so greatly de-
lighted this group of hunters that they had no wish to return to the continent
Atlantis, but from that time on they remained to exist there.

"That country was indeed so excellent in those days and so
'Scoptaninalna' for ordinary being-existence, that no being who could think
at all could help liking it.

"On that terra firma part of the surface of your planet, not only at
this period did there exist among others, multitudes of the 'two-brained'
beings of the said exterior form, namely, 'Pirmaral', but around this water-
space multitudes of various kinds of 'fruit trees' were also formed, whose
fruit then still served for your favourites as the principal product of their
'first-being-food'.

"There bred there then, also, so many of the one-brained and two-
brained-beings which your favourites call 'birds', that when they flew in a
drove, it became, as your favourites say, 'quite dark'.

"The water-space situated in the middle of that country and then named
the Sea of Beneficence, so abounded with fish, that they could almost be taken,
as they also say, with bare hands.

"As for the soil both of the shores of the Sea of Beneficence and of
the valleys of the two large rivers flowing into it, any part of it could be
adapted for growing anything you like.

"In short, both the climate of this country and everything else so
delighted the hunters and their families, that not one of them, as I have
already said, had any desire to return to the continent Atlantis, and from
that time on they remained there, and were soon adapted to everything and
existing and multiplying as it is said, 'like a merry-go-round'.

"At this place in my tale I must tell you about an extraordinary coin-
cidence of events, which later had great consequences both for the first
beings of this second group and for their remotest descendants.

"It seems, that at the time when the said hunters from the continent
Atlantis reached the Sea of Beneficence and decided to settle there for good,
there was already existing on the shores of the same sea a being from the
continent Atlantis and a very important one for those times, who was a member
there of a 'learned society', the like of which there has never again been on
that planet Earth and probably never will be.

"This 'learned society' existed then under the name of 'Akhaldan'.

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"And this 'Akhaldan' member had gone there to the shores of the Sea of Beneficence for the following reason:

"Just before the second great catastrophe those genuine learned beings then existing on the continent Atlantis who had organized that truly great learned society there, once became aware that something very serious was about to happen in nature, and they set themselves to observe very carefully all the natural phenomena occurring on their continent; but however hard they tried, they could in no way find out what precisely it was that was impending.

"A little later on and with the same object, they sent numbers of their members to other continents and islands, in order, if possible, by means of these common observations, to be able perhaps to learn what awaited them.

"The members who were so sent were to observe not only nature on the planet Earth, but also every kind, as they expressed themselves there, of 'celestial' phenomenon.

"One of their members, namely, the mentioned important being, had chosen as a place for his observations the continent Iranan and having migrated there with his servants, had settled on the shores of just the said water-space later called the Sea of Beneficence.

"It was just this same learned member of the society Akhaldan who once chanced to meet certain of the mentioned hunters on the shores of the said Sea of Beneficence, and having learned that they also had come from the continent Atlantis, he was naturally very glad and began to associate with them.

"And when, shortly afterwards, the continent Atlantis was engulfed in the planet and this learned Akhaldan member had no longer any place to return to, he remained to exist with these hunters in that future 'Maralpleisi'.

"A little later this group of hunters chose this learned being, because of his greater reason, to be their chief, and still later ..... this member of the great society Akhaldan married the daughter of one of the hunters, by name 'Rimala', and afterwards shared fully in the lives of the founders of the beings of that second group of the continent Iranan, or, as it is called at the present time, 'Asia'.

"A long time passed.

"The beings of this place on the planet Earth were also born and again destroyed; and the general level of the psyche of this group of Earth-beings was also naturally changed thereby, now for the better, now for the worse.

"Multiplying, these beings spread gradually over this country - widely and ever more widely, although always preferring just the shores of the Sea of Beneficence and the valleys of the two said large rivers flowing into it.

"Only much later a place of common existence was formed on the south eastern shore of the sea; and this place they called the 'City Gob'. This

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city just became the chief place of existence for the head of this second
group of beings of the continent Ashhark, whom they called a 'king'.

"The duties of this king became hereditary here also; and this in-
heritance began with the first chosen chief, who was just the said member of
the learned society Akhaldan.

"At the time to which the tale I beagn refers, the king for the beings
of that second group was already the grandson of his grandson. His name was
'Konuzion'.

"My latest detailed investigations and researches showed that there
had been put into operation by that same King Konuzion exceedingly wise and
most beneficent measures for uprooting a 'shocking' evil which had arisen
among the beings, who by Fate, had become his subjects. And these said most
wise and beneficent measures he had actualized for the following reason.

"This same King Konuzion once constated that the beings of his com-
munity were becoming less and less capable of work, and that hitherto unknown
crimes, robberies and violence were on the increase among them, and many
other such things as had never occurred before, or, if they had occurred, had
formerly been quite exceptional.

"These constatements both surprised and at the same time grieved
King Konuzion, who after thinking deeply about it, decided to find out the
causes of the said sorry state of affairs.

"After long observations he finally cleared up for himself that the
cause of the phenomenon lay in a new habit of the beings of his community,
namely, their habit of chewing the seeds of a plant then called 'Gulgulian'.
This surplanetary formation also aries on the planet Earth at the present
time, and those of your favourites who consider themselves 'educated' call
it 'Pivaveroon', but the ordinary among them simply call it the 'poppy'.

"Here it must without fail be noticed that the beings of Maralpleisi
then developed a passion for chewing the seeds of the mentioned surplanetary
formation, and these seeds were necessarily gathered at a certain moment of
what is called 'ripeness'.

"In the course of his further close observations and impartial re-
searches the King Konuzion clearly understood that these seeds contained
'something' that could completely change for the time being, all the estab-
lished habits of the psyche of those beings who introduced it into themselves,
with the result that they saw, understood, felt, sensed and acted quite other-
wise than they were previously accustomed to see, sense, act and so on.

"For instance, a crow would appear to them to be a peacock; a vessel
of water - a sea; a harsh clatter - music; good will they would take for
enmity; insults for love; and so on and so forth.

"When King Konuzion became clearly convinced of all this, he immediate-
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"Thanks to these measures of his, the use of the said seeds for chewing showed signs of diminishing in the country of Maralpleist.

"But it soon afterwards turned out that the number of those who chewed had diminished only apparently; in reality, they were more than before.

"Having understood this, the wise King Konuzion thereupon resolved to punish still more severely those who should continue chewing; and at the same time he strengthened both the surveillance of his subjects and also the strictness of the enforcement of the punishment of the guilty.

"And he himself began going everywhere in the city Gob itself, personally examining the guilty and impressing them by various punishments both physical and moral.

"In spite of it all, however, the desired result was not obtained; the number of those who chewed continued to increase in the city Gob itself; and the returns from other places also in the territories subject to him, correspondingly increased daily.

"It was shown, moreover, that the number of those who chewed had increased still more, because many of the three-brained beings who had never chewed before, then began chewing out of what is called 'curiosity', which is one of the peculiarities of the psyche of the three-brained beings of that planet that pleases you; curiosity, namely, to try the effects of those seeds whose chewing was forbidden and punished by the king with such insistence and relentless severity.

"I must emphasize here that though that said particularity of their psyche was crystallized in your favourites immediately after the perishing of the continent Atlantis, yet in none of the beings of former epoche did it function so blatantly as it does now in the contemporary three-brained beings there; they have more of it perhaps, than there are hairs on a 'Toosook'.

"So, my boy ...

"When the wise King Konuzion became finally quite convinced that by the described measures it was impossible to uproot the passion for chewing the seeds of 'Gulgulian', and saw that the only result of his measures was the death of several who were punished, he abandoned all the measures he had previously taken and again pondered on the search for some other real means for destroying this evil, lamentable for his community.

"As I learned much later, - and I learned it through a very ancient surviving monument - the great King Konuzion then returned to his chamber and for eighteen days neither ate nor drank but only very seriously thought and thought.

"You must notice here, in any case, that those latest researches of

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mine showed that King Konuzion was then particularly anxious to find a means of uprooting this evil, also because all the affairs of his community were going from bad to worse.

"The beings who abandoned themselves to this passion almost ceased to work; what is called the money revenue, entirely ceased flowing into the communal treasury; and the ultimate ruin of the community seemed to be inevitable.

"Finally the wise king decided to deal with this evil indirectly, namely, by playing on the weaknesses in the psyche of the beings of his community; and he then first invented for that purpose that which later existed under the denomination 'Religion'. Namely, he invented and formulated a certain what is called 'religious doctrine' adapted to the psyche of the beings then; and this invention of his he spread broadcast among his subjects by every means at his disposal.

"In this first of 'religious doctrines' on the planet Earth, it was said, among other things, that far from our continent Ashhark was a large island where existed our 'Mister God'.

"I must tell you that in those days not one of the ordinary beings was as yet aware that besides their planet Earth still other cosmic concentrations existed.

"The beings of the planet Earth of those days were even certain that the scarcely visible 'white points' far away in space were nothing more than the pattern on the veil of the 'world'; that is to say, just of their planet; since in their notions then the 'whole world' consisted, as I have said, of their planet only.

"They were also convinced that this veil was supported like a canopy on special pillars, whose ends rested on their planet.

"In that ingeniously strange 'religious doctrine' of the wise King Konuzion it was said, that 'Mister God' had intentionally attached to our souls these organs and limbs we now have to protect us against our surroundings, and to enable us efficiently and profitably to serve both himself personally and the 'souls' already taken to that island of His.

"At our death, our soul is liberated from these specially attached organs and limbs and becoming what it should really be, is just then immediately taken to this island of His, where our 'Mister God' according to how our soul has existed with the added parts here, on our continent Ashhark, there assigns to it an appropriate place for its further existence.

"If the soul has honestly and conscientiously fulfilled its duties, 'Mister God' leaves it, for its further existence, on his island; but the soul that here on the continent Ashhark has loafed or has discharged its duties idly and negligently, that has in short, existed only for the gratification of the desires of the parts attached to it, or, finally, that has not kept his commandments, - such a soul our 'Mister God' sends for its further existence to a neighboring island of smaller size.

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"Here, on the continent Ashhark, exist many 'Spirits' attendant upon Him, who walk among us in 'caps of darkness', thanks to which they can constantly watch us and either inform our 'Mister God' of all our doings or report them to Him on the day of 'Judgment'.

"We cannot by any means conceal from them, either any of our doings, or any of our thoughts either.

"It was still further said that just like our continent Ashhark, all the other continents and islands of the 'world' were created by our 'Mister God' and now exist as I have said, only to serve Him and the deserving 'souls' already dwelling on His island.

"The continents and islands of the 'world' are all places, as it were, of preparation, and storehouses for everything necessary for this island of His.

"That island on which 'Mister God' Himself and the deserving souls exist is called 'Paradise', and existence thereon is just 'Roses, Roses'.

"All its rivers are of milk, their banks of honey; nobody needs to work or toil there; everything necessary for a happy, carefree, and blissful existence is there, because everything demanded is supplied there from our own and the other continents and islands of the 'world' in superabundance.

"This island 'Paradise' is full of young and lovely women, collected from all the peoples and races of the world; and each of them belongs for the asking to the 'soul' that fancies her.

"In certain public squares of that superb island mountains of various articles of adornment are always kept, from the most brilliant diamonds to the deepest turquoise; and every 'soul' can take anything he likes, also without the least hindrance.

"In other public squares of that beatific island are piled huge mountains of sweetmeats specially prepared with essence of 'poppy' and 'hemp'; and every soul may take as much as he pleases at any time of the day or night.

"There are no diseases there; and, of course, none of those 'lice' or 'flies' that give us all no peace here, and blight our whole existence.

"The other island, that rather small island, to which our 'Mister God' sends for their further existence the souls whose temporary physical parts have been idle here, have loafed and failed to exist according to His commandments, is called 'Hell'.

"All the rivers of this island are of burning pitch; the whole air stinks like a skunk at bay. Swarms of horrible beings blow police whistles in every square; and all the 'furniture', 'carpets', 'beds' and so on there present, are made of fine needles with their points sticking out.

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"To every soul on this island a single very salt cake is given once a day; and there is not a drop of drinking water there. Still many other things also are there of the kind, that the beings of Earth would not only wish not to encounter, but not even to imagine.

"When I first came to the country of Maralpleisi, all the three-brained beings of that country were followers of the 'religion' based on the just mentioned ingenious 'religious-doctrine', and this 'religion' was then at its zenith.

"To the inventor himself of this ingenious 'religious-doctrine', namely, the wise King Konuzion, the sacred 'Roskooarno' had long before occurred, that is to say, he had 'died' already long previously.

"But owing once again to the strangeness of the psyche of your favourites, his invention had naturally taken such deep hold there, that not a single being in the whole country of Maralpleisi then doubted the truth of its peculiar tenets.

"Here also in the City Gob, from the first day of my arrival, I began visiting the 'Kaltaani' - or, as they were now called, 'Chai-Hana'.

"It must be noticed that although there also, in the country Maralpleisi, the custom of sacrificing was flourishing at that period, it was not on the large scale on which it had flourished in the country Tikliamish.

"There in the City Gob I began deliberately looking for a suitable being, in order to make friends with him, as I had in the city Kurkalai.

"And indeed I soon found such a friend here also, but this time he was not a 'priest' by profession.

"My friend here turned out to be the proprietor of a large 'Chai-Hana'; and although I became, as it is said there, on very good terms with him, nevertheless I never felt that strange 'tie' with him which my essence had experienced toward the priest Abdil in the city Kurkalai.

"Although I had already existed a whole month in the City Gob, I had neither decided upon nor undertaken anything practical for my aim. I simply wandered about the City Gob, visiting first the various 'Chai-Hana', and only later the 'Chai-Hana' of my new friend there.

"During this time I became familiar with the manners and customs of this second group and also with the niceties of their religion; and in the course of a month I decided to attain my aim here also, through their religion.

"After careful pondering I decided to add something to the 'religious-doctrine' existing there, and like the wise King Konuzion, I counted on being able to spread this addition of mine effectively among them.

"Just then I invented as follows: that those spirits with the 'cap of darkness' who, as it was said, in that great religion, observe our deeds

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and thoughts, to report them later to our 'Mister God', are none other than just those beings of other forms, which exist among us.

"It is they who watch us and report everything to our 'Mister God'.

"But we people, not only fail to pay them proper honour and respect, but we even destroy their existence, both for our food and as sacrifices.

"I particularly emphasized in my preaching that not only ought we not to destroy the existence of the beings of other forms in honour of 'Mister God', but that on the contrary, we ought to try to earn their favour and to beseech them not to report to 'Mister God' at least those petty evil acts of ours which we involuntarily do.

"And this addition of mine I began to spread by every possible means, of course, very cautiously.

"At first, I spread this invention of mine through my said new friend there, the proprietor of the 'Chai-Hana'.

"I must tell you that his 'Chai-Hana' was almost the largest in the whole City Gob; and it was very famous for a certain reddish liquid of which the beings of the planet Earth are very fond.

"So there were always a great many customers there, and it was open day and night.

"Not only the residents of the city itself went there, but also all the visitors from the whole of Maralpleisi.

"I soon became quite expert in talking with and persuading both single customers and also any company of them present in the 'Chai-Hana'.

"My new friend himself, the proprietor of the 'Chai-Hana' was so deeply impressed by my invention, that he didn't know what to do with himself for remorse for his past.

"He was in constant distress and bitterly deplored his previous contemptuous attitude and his treatment of the various beings of other forms.

"Becoming day by day a more enthusiastic preacher of my invention, he thereby helped to spread it not only in his own 'Chai-Hana', but he even began of his own accord visiting other 'Chai-Hana' in the City Gob, in order to spread the truth which had so impressed him.

"He preached in the market places, and several times made special visits to the holy places, of which there then already were many in the outskirts of the City Gob. They also had been established in honor of somebody or in memory of something or other.

"It is very interesting to remark here that the information that serves on the planet Earth for the rise of a holy place is usually due to certain Earth beings called 'Humbugs'.

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"This disease of 'Humbugging' also is very widely spread there.

"On the planet Earth, consciously and unconsciously, they lie.

"And they consciously lie there when there is some personal material advantage to be got by lying; and, unconsciously they lie there when they fall ill of the disease called 'hysteria'.

"In addition to the proprietor of the 'Chai-Hana' there in the City Gob, I was very soon unconsciously assisted by still a number of other beings, who, like the proprietor of the 'Chai-Hana', had in the meanwhile become ardent supporters of my invention; and soon, all the beings of that second group of Asiatic beings were spreading this invention of mine and persuading each other of it as an indubitable truth that had been suddenly revealed.

"The result of it all was, that there in that country of Maralpleisi, not only indeed were 'sacrifices' diminished, but they even began giving unprecedentedly good treatment to the beings of other forms.

"Such comic farces very soon began there that though I was myself the author of the invention, I nevertheless found it very hard not to laugh.

"Such comic farces, for instance, as the following, began: a highly respectable and wealthy merchant of the City Gob would be riding in the morning on his own donkey to his own shop; on the way a motley crowd of beings drag this respectable merchant off his ass and maul him thoroughly because he has dared to ride upon it; whereupon the said crowd, with profound bows, escort the ass on which the merchant had been riding, wherever it chooses to go.

"Or, what is called a 'woodcutter', with his own oxen, is hauling wood to market from the forest to the town.

"A mob of citizens drag him also off his cart and after mauling him, very tenderly unyoke the oxen and escort them where they wish to go.

"And if the cart should be met in a part of the city where it might hold up the traffic, the mob of citizens itself would drag the cart to the market and leave it there to its fate.

"Thanks to this invention of mine, very soon various quite new customs were created in the City Gob.

"So, for instance, the custom was established there of placing troughs in all the squares and public places and at the cross-roads of the town, where every morning, every resident of the City Gob could throw his choicest morsels of food for dogs and other stray beings of various forms; at 'sunrise', of throwing into the Sea of Beneficence every kind of food for the beings called 'fishes'.

"But most peculiar of all was the custom of paying attention to the voices of beings of various forms.

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"As soon as they heard the voice of a being of any form, they began immediately to praise the names of their gods and to invite their blessing.

"It might be the crowing of a cock or the barking of a dog, or the mewing of a cat, or the squeal of an ape, or so on ..... it always brought them to attention.

"Here it is interesting to notice that for some reason or other they always raised their heads on these occasions and looked upwards, even though, according to the teachings of their religion, their god and his assistants were supposed to exist on the same level with themselves, and not where they directed their eyes and prayers.

"It was extremely interesting at these moments to watch their faces."

"Pardon me, Your Right Reverence", at that moment interrupted Beelzebub's old devoted servant Ahun who had also been listening with great interest to his tales.

"Do you remember, Your Right Reverence, how many times, we ourselves, in that same City Gob had to flop down on its streets during the cries of beings of different forms?"

To this remark Beelzebub said:

"Certainly I remember, dear Ahun.

"How could I forget such comic impressions."

"You must know", he then continued, turning to Hassein again, "that the beings of the planet Earth are inconceivably proud and touchy, and if someone does not share their views or agree to do as they do, or criticizes their manifestations, they are, Oh, very, very indignant and offended."

"If one of them had the power, he would order whoever had dared not to do as he does, or who criticized his conduct, to be immured in the sort of room which is usually infested by unnumerable what are called 'rats' and 'lice'.

"And sometimes if he happened to be stronger, and a superior power-holding being with whom he is not on very good terms is not watching him, he will simply maul the offender, as the Russian Seedor once mauled his favourite goat."

"Knowing thoroughly this aspect also of their strange psyche, I had no desire to offend them and to incur their wrath; furthermore, I was always profoundly aware that to outrage anybody's religious feeling is contrary to every morality. When existing among them, therefore, I always tried to do as they did, in order to avoid attracting their attention."

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indeed among your favourites, the three-brained beings of that strange
planet Earth, and especially during recent centuries, become notorious and
consequently honoured by the rest, who manifest themselves, not as the
majority of them do, but somehow or other, more absurdly; and the more
absurd their manifestations and the more stupid, mean, and insolent the
tricks they perform, the more notorious and famous such beings become, and
the greater the number of the beings on the given continent and even on
other continents who know them personally or at least by name.

"On the other hand, no honest being, without ridiculous manifestations, will ever become famous among other beings or even barely noticed, however good natured and sensible he may be in himself.

"So, my boy, that about which our Ahun so mischievously reminded me concerned just that custom, established there in the City Gob, of attaching significance to the voices of beings of various forms and particularly to the voice of what are called 'donkeys', of which, for some reason or other, there were a great many in the City Gob.

"The beings of all other forms of that planet also manifest themselves by voice, but at a definite time. For instance, the cock cries at midnight, an ape in the morning when it is hungry, and so on, but donkeys there bray whenever it enters their heads, in consequence you may hear the voice of that silly being there at any time of the day or night.

"So, my boy, it was established there in the City Gob that as soon as the sound of the voice of the donkey brayed out, all who heard it had at once to flop down and offer up prayers to their god and to the idols they revered; and these donkeys, I may say, usually have a very loud voice by nature, and their voices carry a long way.

"So, as we walked along the streets of the City Gob and saw the citizens flopping down at the bray of every donkey, we had to flop down too, in order not to be distinguished from the rest; and it was just this comic custom, I see now, that gave our old Ahun so much relish.

"You noticed, dear Hassein, with what wicked satisfaction our old man, after so many centuries ... reminded me of that comic situation of mine then?"

Having said this, Beelzebub, smiling, went on with the tale he had begun.

"It is needless to say that there also, in this second culture-centre of the three-brained beings of your planet, breeding there on the continent of Ashhark, the destruction of beings of other forms in sacrifice entirely ceased; and, if isolated instances occurred, the beings of that group themselves settled accounts with the offenders without compunction.

"Having thus become convinced that there also, among that second group of beings of the continent Ashhark, I had succeeded so easily in uprooting, for a long time, the custom of 'sacrifices', I decided to leave;

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but I had it in mind, in any event, to pay a visit to the nearest large
centres also where the beings of the same second group were breeding; and
I chose for this purpose the region of the course of the river 'Naria-Chi'.

"Soon after this decision, I sailed with Ahum to the mouth of this river, having become persuaded that there had already passed from the beings of the City Gob to the beings of this group populating these large centres the same new customs and the same notions concerning sacrifices by the destruction of the existence of other beings.

"We arrived at length at a small town called 'Arguenia', which in those days was considered the most remote town of the country Maralpleisi.

"Here also there existed a fair number of beings of this second Asiatic group; they were engaged in mining what is called 'turquoise' from Nature.

"There in the small town of 'Arguenia' I began, as usual, visiting their various 'Chai-Hana', continuing there also my usual procedure.

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Beelzebub continued to speak as follows:

"Sitting in a 'Chai-Khana' in this small town of 'Arguenia', I once overheard a conversation among several beings seated not far from me.

"They were talking and deciding when and how they should go by caravan to 'Pearl-Land'.

"Having listened to their conversation, I gathered that they intended to go there for the purpose of exchanging their 'turquoises' for what are called 'pearls'.

"I must here, by the way, draw your attention also to the fact that your favourites of former as well as of contemporary epochs liked and still like to wear 'pearls' and also the said 'turquoise', as well as many other what are called 'precious-trinkets' for the purpose, as they say, of 'adorning' their exteriors. But if you would like to know my opinion, they do so of course, instinctively, in order, if only by this, to increase, so to say, the 'value-of-thoir-inner-insignificance'.

"At that period to which my present tale refers, the said 'pearls' were a great rarity among the beings of the second Asiatic group and commanded a high price among them. But in the country 'Pearl-Land' there was at the same time a great number of these pearls, and there, on the contrary, they were very cheap, because pearls at that time were exclusively obtained only from the water spaces surrounding that country.

"The mentioned conversation of the beings sitting near me in the 'Chai-Khana' in the small town 'Arguenia' then at once interested me because at that time I had already had the intention of going to that same 'Pearl-Land' where the three-brained beings of the continent Ashark of the third group bred.

"And the conversation I then heard at once evoked in my mentation an association to the effect that it might be better to go to the country 'Pearl-Land' directly from here with this large caravan of those beings, rather than return by the way we had come to the 'Sea of Bonoficonce', and from there, by means of the same ship 'Occasion', to reach this country.

"Although this journey which in those days was almost impossible for the beings of the Earth would take us a good deal of time, yet I thought that the journey back to the 'Sea of Beneficence' with its unforeseeable contingencies, would perhaps not take much less time.

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"This association then arose in my mentation chiefly because I had long before heard a great deal about the rare peculiarities of those parts of the nature of that peculiar planet through which the proposed route of the caravan lay, and in consequence, what is called a 'being-love-of-knowledge' already formed in me, having received a shock for functioning, from all that had been overheard, immediately dictated to my common presence the need to be persuaded of everything personally, directly through my own perceptive organs.

"So, my boy, owing to what I have said, I purposely sat with the conversing beings and joined in their deliberations.

"As a result of it all, we also were then included in the company of their caravan, and two days later we set off together with them.

"I and Akhoon then passed through indeed very unusual places, unusual even for the general nature of this peculiar planet, certain parts of which, by the way, only became so because before that period, this ill-fated planet had already undergone two, what are called 'Transapalnian-perturbations', almost unprecedented in the Universe.

"From the first day we had to pass exclusively through a region of various 'terra-firma-projections' of unusual forms, which had conglomerations of all kinds of 'intra-planetary-minerals'.

"And only after a month's travel, according to their time-calculation, did our caravan from Arguenia come to places in whose soil the possibility had not yet been quite destroyed, of Nature's forming surplanetary formations and creating corresponding conditions for the arising and existing of various one-brained and two-brained beings.

"After difficulties of every kind we at last, one rainy morning, on ascending a height, suddenly saw on the horizon the outline of a large water-space bordering the edges of the continent Ashark, which just then was called 'Pearl-Land'.

"And in four days more we came to the chief place of the existence of the beings of that third group, then the city 'Kaisamon'.

"Having arranged there the place of our permanent existence, we did nothing else during our first days there but stroll about the streets of the town, observing the specific manifestations of the beings of that third group in the process of their ordinary existence.

"It cannot be helped, my dear Hassein, - having told you the history of the arising of the second group of three-brained beings of the continent Ashark, I must already tell you also the history of the arising of the third group."

"You must indeed tell me, my dear and beloved Grandfather", exclaimed Hassein eagerly; and this time with great reverence, extending his hands upwards, he sincerely said:

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"May my dear and kind Grandfather be worthy to be perfected to the degree of the sacred 'Anklad'!"

"Without saying anything to this, Beelzebub only smiled and continued to re-
late as follows:

"The history of the arising of this third group of Asiatic beings begins only a little later than that period when the families of hunters for Pir-marals first came to the shores of the 'Sea-of-Bonficence' from the con-tinent Atlantis and, having settled there, founded the second group of Asiatic beings.

"It was just in those, for your contemporary favourites, infinitely remote
days, that is, not long before the second 'Transapalnian-perturbation' oc-
curred to this ill-fated planet, that there had already begun to be crystal-
lized in the presences of the three-centred beings then of the continent
Atlantis certain consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer,
on account of which the need - among other needs unbecoming to three-brained
beings - began to arise in them to wear, as I have already told you, various
trinkets as it were for their adornment, and also a kind of famous what is
called 'Talisman' which they had invented.

"One of these trinkets, then on the continent Atlantis, just as now on the other continents of the planet Earth, was and is this same 'pearl'.

"The said pearl is formed in one-brained beings which breed in the 'Salia-
kooriap' also of your planet Earth, that is to say, in that part of it which
is called 'Hantralispana', or, as your favourites might express it, the blood
of the planet which is present in the common presence of every planet and
which serves the actualizing of the process of the Most Great Common Cosmic
Trogoautoegocrat; and this part, there on your planet, is called 'water'.

"This one-brained being in which the said 'pearl' is formed, used to breed
in the 'Saliakoorpnian' - or water-areas surrounding the continent Atlantis;
but in consequence of the great demand for the said pearl and therefore of
the great destruction of these one-brained 'pearl-broeding' beings, there
were soon none left near this continent. Thereupon, when those beings there
who made the aim and sense of their existence the destruction of these 'pearl-
bearing' beings; that is to say, who destroyed their existence only in order
to procure that part of their common presence called 'pearl' merely for the
gratification of their quite absurd egoism, found no more of these said
'pearl-bearing' beings in the water-area nearest to the continent Atlantis,
they, that is these 'professionals', then began to look for them in other
water-areas and gradually moved further and furthor away from their own con-
tinent.

"Once during these searches of theirs, their rafts, because of what are called 'Saliakooriapnian-displacements', or as they say, prolonged 'storms', came unexpectedly upon a place where there proved to be a great number of these pearl-bearing beings; and the place itself was extremely convenient for their destruction.

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chanced to come and where these beings bred in large numbers, were just those water-areas which surround the place then called Pearl-Land and now called 'Hindustan' or 'India'.

"For the first days the mentioned terrestrial professionals of that time who had chances to arrive there did nothing but gratify to the full their in- clinations, which had already become inherent to their presences in respect of the destruction of these one-brained beings of their planet; and it was only later, after they had also by chance found out that almost everything roquired for ordinary existence arose in abundance on the neighboring terra- firma, that they decided never to return to Atlantis but to settle there for their permanent existence.

"A few of these destroyers of pearl-bearing beings then sailed to the con- tinent Atlantis, and having exchanged their pearls for various articles which were still lacking in the new place, they returned, taking with them their own families as well as the families of those who had remained.

"Later several of these first settlers of this - for the beings then at that time - 'new' country, visited their native land from time to time for the purpose of exchanging 'pearls' for articles required by them there; and each time they took back with them a further number of beings, either their relatives or their kinsmen or just labourers indispensable to their big work.

"So, my boy, from that time on, that part also of the surface of the planet Earth became known to all the three-brained beings there under the name of 'Land-of-Beneficence'.

"In this way, before the second great catastrophe to the planet Earth, many beings of the continent Atlantis already existed on this part of the con- tinent Ashark also, and when that second catastrophe occurred to your planet, then many of the beings who chanced to be saved from the continent Atlants, chiefly those who already had relatives and kinsmen in that Pearl-Land, also gradually collected there.

"Owing as always to their 'fecundity' they gradually multiplied there and began to populate this part also of the terra-firma surface of their planet, more and more.

"At first they populated there in Pearl-Land only two definite regions, namely, the regions around the mouths of the two large rivers which flowed from the interior of Pearl-Land into the large water-space, just in those places near which many of the mentioned pearl-bearing-beings bred.

"But when the population there was greatly increased, they began populating also the interior of that part of the continent Ashark; but nevertheless their favourite regions continued to be the valleys of the two mentioned rivers.

"Well then, my boy, when I first arrived in Pearl-Land, I decided to attain my aim there also by means of the 'Havatvornoni' existing there, that is, through their 'Religion'.

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"But it turned out that amongst the beings of this third group of the con-
tinent Ashark, there were at that time several peculiar 'Havatvernonis'
or 'Religions' all based on different, quite independent, what are called
'religious-teachings', having nothing in common with each other.

"In view of this, I first began seriously studying these 'religious-teach-
ings' existing there, and having in the course of my studies constated
that one of them - founded on the teaching of a genuine Messenger of OUR
COMMON ENDLESS CREATOR, afterwards called Saint Buddha - had the most fol-
lowers, I, on becoming acquainted with it, devoted most of my attention
to its study.

"Before continuing to tell you merely about the three-brained beings breed-
ing just on that part of the surface of the planet Earth, it is, I think,
necessary to remark, even if briefly, that there existed and still exist,
ever since the time when the custom of having peculiar being 'Havatvernoni'
or 'Religions' began to arise and exist among your favourites, two basic
kinds of 'religious-teachings'.

"One kind was invented by those three-brained beings there themselves, in
whom for some reason or other, there arises the functioning of a psyche
proper to Hasnamusses; and the other kind of religious teaching is founded
there upon those detailed instructions which have been preached, as it were,
by genuine Messengers from Above, who indeed are from time to time sent by
certain nearest helpers from OUR COMMON FATHER, for the purpose of aiding
the three-brained beings of your planet in destroying in their presences
the crystallized consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer.

"The religion whose followers were then the majority of the beings of the
country Pearl-Land and to become acquainted with which I then devoted my
attention and about which I find it necessary to tell you a little, arose
there in the following way:

"As I later learned, with the multiplication of the three-brained beings
of that third group, many beings among them with the properties of Hasna-
musses were formed into responsible beings; and when these latter began
spreading more than usually maleficent ideas among the beings of that group,
there was crystallized in the presences of the majority of three-centred
beings of that third group, that special psychic property, which, in its
totality, already engendered a factor very hindering to the normal 'exchange-
of- substances' actualized by the 'Most-Great-Common-Cosmic-Trogoautoegocrat!
Well then, as soon as this lamentable result, also issuing from this planet,
was noticed by certain most most Sacred Individuals, it was sanctioned
that a corresponding Sacred Individual should be sent there, specially to
that group of beings, for the more or less tolerable regulation of their
being-existence in accordance with the existence of the whole of that solar
system.

"It was just then that the aforementioned Sacred Individual was sent to
them who, having been coated with the planetary body of a terrestrial being,
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restrial three-brained being was actualized there several centuries before
my first visit to the country 'Pearl-Land'."

At this point in Beelzebub's tales, Hassein turned to him and said:

"My dear Grandfather, during your tales you have already many times used the expression 'Hasnamuss'. I have until now understood only from the intonation of your voice and from the consonance of this word itself, that by this expression you defined those three-brained beings whom you always set apart from others as if they deserved 'objective-contempt'.

"Be so kind as always and explain to me the real meaning and exact sense of this word."

Whereupon Beelzebub, with a smile inherent to him, said as follows:

"Concerning the 'typicality' of the three-brained beings for whom I have adopted this verbal definition, I will explain it to you at the proper time, but meanwhile know that this word designates every already 'definitized' common presence of a three-brained being, both those consisting only of the single planetary body as well as those whose higher being-bodies are already coated in them, and in which for some reason or other, data have not been crystallized for the Divine impulse of 'Objective-Conscience'."

Having said only this in defining the word Hasnamuss, Beelzebub continued to speak:

"During my detailed studies of the mentioned religious teaching I also clari-
fied that after this Sacred Individual had become finally coated with the
presence of a three-brained being there and had seriously pondered how to
fulfill the task that had been laid upon him from Above, he decided to at-
tain this by means of the enlightenment of their Reason.

"Here it must without fail be noticed that by that time there had already been crystallized in the presence of Saint Buddha, as the same detailed researches of mine made clear, a very clear understanding that in the process of its abnormal formation, the Reason of the three-centred beings of the planet Earth results in a Reason called 'instinct-to-terebelnian', that is, a Reason which functions only from corresponding shocks from without; yet in spite of this, Saint Buddha decided to carry out his task by means of this peculiar Reason of theirs, that is, this Reason peculiar to the three-centred beings there; and therefore, he first of all began informing their peculiar Reason with objective truths of every kind.

"Saint Buddha first assembled many of the chiefs of that group and told them the following:

"'Beings possessing presences similar to that of the ALL-CREATOR himself:

"'By certain all-enlightened and all-justly guiding most most sacred final
results of the actualization of everything existing in the Universe, my
essence has been sent to you to serve as a helping factor in the striving
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being-properties which, in view of highly important common cosmic needs, were implanted in the presences of your ancestors, and, passing by heredity from generation to generation, have reached you also'!

"Saint Buddha spoke again about this a little more in detail but only to certain beings there initiated by him.

"This second time, as it turned out, he then expressed himself in the following words:

"'Beings with presences for actualizing the hope of our COMMON FATHER'.

"'Almost at the beginning of the rise of your race, there occurred in the process of the normal existence of the whole of our solar system, an unforeseen accident which portended serious consequences for everything existing.

"'For the regulation of that common universal mishap there was then required, among other measures, according to the explanations of certain Most High, Most Most Sacred Individuals, a certain change in the functioning of the common presences of your ancestors, namely, there was implanted into their presences a certain organ with special properties, owing to which everything external was perceived by their whole presence, transformed for their own coating, and afterwards manifested, not in accordance with reality.'

"'A little later, when the normal existence of your solar system was stabilized and the necessity for certain intentionally created abnormal actualizations had passed, our Most All-Gracious COMMON FATHER did not fail to give the command immediately to annul certain artificial measures among which was the removal from the common presences of your ancestors of the now already superfluous organ Kundabuffer with all its special artificial properties, and this command was immediately executed by corresponding Sacred Individuals, who superintend such cosmic actualizations.

"'After a considerable time had passed, it was suddenly brought to light that although all the properties of the said organ had indeed been removed from the presences of your ancestors by the mentioned Most Sacred Individuals, yet nevertheless, a certain lawfully flowing cosmic result, existing under the name of 'predisposition', and arising in every more or less independent cosmic presence owing to the repeated action in it of any function, had not been foreseen and destroyed in their presences.

"'And so, it turned out that owing to this 'predisposition' which began to pass by heredity to the succeeding generations, the consequences of many of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer began gradually to be crystallized in their presences.

"'No sooner was this lamentable fact which proceeded in the presences of the three-brained beings breeding on this planet Earth first made clear, than, by the All-Gracious sanction of our COMMON FATHER, a suitable Sacred Individual was immediately sent here, so that, being coated with a presence like your own and having become perfected by Objective Reason under the conditions already established here, he might better explain and show you the way of

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outrooting from your presences the already crystallized consequences of the
properties of the organ Kundabuffer as well as your inherited predisposi-
tions to new crystallizations.

"During the period when the said Sacred Individual, coated with a presence like your own and who had already attained to the age of a responsible three-centred being similar to yourselves, directly guided the ordinary process of the being-existence of your ancestors, many of them did indeed completely free themselves from the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, and either thereby acquired 'Being' personally for themselves or became normal sources for the arising of normal presences of succeeding beings similar to themselves.

"But in consequence of the fact that before the period of the said Sacred Individual's appearance here, the duration of your existence had, owing to very many firmly fixed abnormal conditions of ordinary existence created by yourselves, already become abnormally short, and therefore the process of the 'Sacred Rascoarno' had also very soon to occur to this Sacred Individual, that is to say, he also had, like you, to die prematurely, then after his death, the former conditions were gradually re-established there owing on the one hand to the established abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence and, on the other hand, to that maleficent particularity in your psyche, called 'Wiseacreing'.

"Owing to this said particularity in your psyche, the beings here already of the second generation after the contemporaries of the mentioned Sacred Individual who had been sent from Above, began gradually to change everything he had explained and indicated, and the whole of it was finally completely destroyed.

"Again and again the same was actualized by the Most Most High Common Cosmic Final Results, and each time the same sterile results were obtained.

"In this present period of the flow of time, when the abnormal being-existence of the three-brained beings of your planet, particularly of the beings arising and existing on that part of the surface of the Earth which is called Pearl-Land, is already beginning seriously to hinder the normal harmonious existence of the whole of this solar system, my essence is manifested among you from Above, in order that here on the spot, it may, together with your own essences, find ways and means under the conditions already fixed here of freeing your presences from the said consequences. now present in them, owing to the absence of foresight on the part of certain Most Saintly Final Cosmic Results.

"After having said all this, Saint Buddha thereafter, just by means of talks with them, first cleared up for himself and afterwards explained to them how the process of their existence must be conducted and the order in which their positive part should consciously guide the manifestations of their unconscious parts, so that the crystallized consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer and also the inherited predisposition to them might gradually disappear from their common presences.

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"As the same detailed researches of mine made clear to me - at that period when the inner psyche of the beings of that part of the surface of the Earth was guided by this genuine Messenger from Above, Saint Buddha, the said, for them very maleficent, consequences indeed again began gradually to disappear from the presences of many of them.

"But to the grief of every Individual with Pure Reason of any gradation whatsoever and to the misfortune of the three-brained beings of all succeeding generations who arise on that planet, the first succeeding generation of the contemporaries of this genuine Messenger from Above, Saint Buddha, already also began, owing once again to that same particularity of their psyche, namely, of wiseacreing, which until now is one of the chief results of the conditions of the ordinary being-existence abnormally established there - to wiseacre with all His indications and counsels, and this time to 'supernwiseacre' so thoroughly that there reached the beings of the third and fourth generations no more than what our Honourable Mullar Nassr Eddin defines by the words:

"'Only-information-about-its-specific-smell'.

"Little by little they so changed these indications and counsels of His that if their Saintly Author himself should chance to appear there and for some reason or other should wish to make himself acquainted with them, he would not be able even to suspect that these indications and counsels were made by him himself.

"Here I cannot refrain from expressing essence-grief at that strange practice of these favourites of yours there, which in the course of many of their centuries during the process of their ordinary existence has gradually become, as it were, conformable to law.

"And in the given case also the same established and already fixed peculiar practice there served for the modification of all the true indications and exact counsels of Saint Buddha and for the creation thereby of yet another factor for a still greater dilution of their psyche.

"This already long established practice there consists in this, that a small, sometimes an almost trifling, cause, is enough to bring about a change for the worse or even the complete destruction of any and every objectively good outer and inner previously established what is called, 'tempo-of-ordinary-existence'.

"Because, my boy, the clarification of certain details of the arising of such a trivial cause, which served in this instance as a basis for the distortion of all the true explanations and exact indications also of this genuine Messenger from Above, Saint Buddha, may provide you with excellent material for a better sensing and understanding of the strangeness of the psyche of those three-brained beings who have taken your fancy, I shall tell you about this in as great detail as possible and shall explain to you just in what sequence the said practice then arose there which led to the following sad misunderstanding which began to exist there and which is still manifested particularly clearly.

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"I must inform you first of the two following facts:

"The first is this: that I cleared up this misunderstanding much later than the period to which my present tale refers; among other things I made it clear to myself only during the period of my sixth descent there, when in connection with a question concerning the Saint Ashiata Shiemash, about whom also I shall soon tell you in detail, it became necessary for me to find out about the activities of that genuine Messenger from Above, Saint Buddha.

"And the second fact is this; that unfortunately the basis of the lamentable misunderstanding was certain authentic words contained in one of the ex-planations of Saint Buddha himself.

"It turned out, indeed, that Saint Buddha himself had in the course of his explanations to some of his closes initiates, initiated by himself, very definitely expressed himself concerning the means of the possible destruc-tion in their nature of the mentioned consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer transmitted to them by heredity.

"He then, among other things, told them very definitely the following:

"'One of the best means of rendering ineffective the pre-disposition pre-sent in your nature for the crystallization of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer is 'intentional suffering'; and the greatest 'intentional suffering' can be obtained in your presences if you compel yourself to be able to endure the 'displeasing manifestations of others towards yourself'!

"This explanation of Saint Buddha together with other definite indications of his was spread by his nearest initiates among the ordinary beings there; and after the process of the sacred 'Rascooarno' had occurred to him, it also began to pass from generation to generation.

"So, my boy, when, as I have already told you, those three-centred beings there among the second and third generations of the contemporaries of Saint Buddha in whose psyche, already from the time of the loss of Atlantis, there had been fixed that peculiarity called the 'organic-psychic-need-to-wiseacre', began unfortunately for the ordinary three-centred beings of that period and unfortunately also for the beings of all succeeding generations and even for those of the present time - to 'wiseacre' and 'superwiseacre' concerning these counsels of Saint Buddha, then as a result a very definite notion became fixed and also began to pass from generation to generation, that this same 'endurance' should without fail be produced in complete solitude.

"Here that strangeness of the psyche of your favourites then manifested it-self just as it now manifests itself, in this, that they did not consider and do not consider the obvious fact - obvious, that is, to every more or less sane Reason - that the divine Teacher, Saint Buddha, in advising them to em-ploy that kind of 'endurance' while existing among other beings similar to themselves, in order that by frequently producing in their presences this sacred being - actualization towards the manifestations displeasing to them of other beings similar to themselves, there might thereby be evoked in them

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what are called those 'Trendtroodianos', or, as they themselves would say, those 'psychic-chemical-results', which, in general, in the presence of every three-centred being form those sacred being-data, which actualize in the common presences of the three-centred beings, one of the three holy forces of the sacred being - 'Triamazikamno'; and this holy force in beings always becomes affirming towards all the denying properties already present in them.

"So, my boy, from that time when the mentioned definite notion had begun to exist, your favourites began leaving those already established conditions of being-existence on account of which the predisposition to the crystallization of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer became intense in their presences, and in which conditions, as the Divine Teacher Buddha supposed, the said 'endurance towards others' manifestations displeasing to oneself, could alone crystallize in their common presences that 'Partkdolgduty' which in general is necessary for all three-centred beings.

"So, for the purpose of this famous 'suffering' of theirs, many of the three-centred beings of that planet of yours, either singly or in groups, that is to say, with others who thought as they did, began from then on, to go away from amongst beings similar to themselves.

"They even organized special colonies for this purpose, where although existing together, they nevertheless arranged everything so as to produce this 'endurance' of theirs in solitude.

"It was just then that their famous what are called 'monasteries' came into existence, which exist down to the present time and in which, as it were, certain of your contemporary favourites, as they say, 'save their souls'.

"When I first visited that 'Pearl-Land', most of the three-brained beings there, as I have already said, were followers of that same religion which was based, as it were, on the exact counsels and indications of Saint Buddha himself, and the faith of everyone of these beings in this religion was unshakably firm.

"At the outset of my investigations into the doctrinal subtleties of that religion there, I had as yet come to no definite decision how exactly to utilize it to attain my aim; but when in the course of my investigations I clarified one very definite comprehensing - proper to all the followers of that religion - which arose there again owing to a misunderstanding, from the words that had indeed been spoken by Saint Buddha himself, I then at once decided how just to act there through this peculiar 'Havatvernoni' or 'Religion' of theirs.

"It transpired that in his explanations to them about cosmic truths, Saint Buddha had, among other things, told them also that in general the three-centred beings existing on various planets of our Great Universe - and of course the three-centred beings of the Earth also - were in result nothing else but part of that Most Great Greatness which is the All-embracing of all that exists; and that the foundation of this Most Great Greatness is there Above, for the convenience of the embracing of the essence of everything existing.

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"This Most Great Foundation of the All-embracing of everything that exists, constantly emanates throughout the whole of the Universe and coats itself from its particles upon planets - in certain three-centred beings who attain in their common presence the capacity to have their own functioning of both fundamental cosmic laws of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh and the sacred Triamazikamno - into a definite unit, in which alone Objective Divine Reason acquires the possibility of becoming concentrated and fixed.

"And this had been foreseen and created in this manner by Our COMMON CREATOR in order that when these certain parts of the Great All-embracing, already spiritualized by Divine Reason, return and reblend with the great Prime Source of the All-embracing, they should compose that Whole which OUR COMMON ENDLESS UNI-BEING has the hope may just actualize the sense and the striving of all that exists in the whole of the Universe.

"Further it seems Saint Buddha had also told them:

"'You, three-centred beings of the planet Earth, having the possibility of acquiring in yourselves both chief fundamental, universal sacred laws, have the full possibility also of coating yourselves with this most sacred part of the Great All-embracing of everything existing and of perfecting it by the required Divine Reason.'

"'And this Great All-embracing of all that is embraced, is called 'Holy Prana'."

"This quite definite explanation of Saint Buddha was well understood by his contemporaries and many of them began, as I have already said, to strive with eagerness, first to absorb and to coat in their presences the particle of this Most Great Greatness and afterwards to 'make-inherent' to it, Divine Objective Reason.

"But when the second and third generations of the contemporaries of Saint Buddha began 'wiseacreing' with his explanations of cosmic truths, they just wiseacred with their peculiar 'Reason' and fixed - for its transmission- a very definite notion to the effect, that that same 'Mister Prana' already begins to be in them immediately upon their arising.

"Thanks to this misunderstanding, the beings of that period and of all subsequent generations, including the contemporary, have imagined and still imagine, that without any being-Partkdolgduty they are already parts of that Most Great Greatness, which Saint Buddha himself had personally very definitely explained.

"So, my boy, as soon as I had made this misunderstanding clear to myself and had clearly constated that the beings of that country Pearl-Land were all, without exception, convinced that they were already particles of 'Mister Prana' himself, I then at once decided to use this misunderstanding, and there also to attain my aim through that religion of theirs.

"Before saying more about this, it must without fail be noticed that, concerning these same explanations of Saint Buddha's, namely, that he, as it were, had said that beings already have in themselves a particle of the Most

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Great Greatness at their very arising, my personal detailed investigations quite clearly showed me that he never could possibly have said just that.

"And he could not have said it because, as the same detailed investigations of mine have cleared up to me, that when Saint Buddha once happened to be among his devoted disciples in the locality 'Senkoo-ori', he definitely said:

"'If this most sacred Prana is crystallized in you, consciously or unconsciously on the part of your 'I', you must without fail bring the perfecting of the individual Reason of the totality of its most holy atoms to the required gradations; otherwise this most holy coating will, changing various exterior coatings, suffer and languish eternally.'

"Here it is interesting to notice that concerning this they were warned by still another Saint-Individual, also a genuine Messenger from Above, namely, the Saint Kirmininasha.

"And this Saint and genuine Messenger gave this warning to them in the following words:

"'Blessed is he that hath a soul; blessed also is he that hath none; but grief and sorrow are to him that hath in himself its conception.'

"So, my boy, when I made this clear to myself there in Pearl-Land, I at once decided to use this error of theirs for the accomplishment of my aim.

"There in Pearl-Land also just as in the city Gob, I first 'invented' a detailed addition to the mentioned religious teaching, and afterwards by every possible means I began spreading this invention of mine.

"I began to spread there in Pearl-Land that that 'Most-Sacred-Prana', about which our Divine Teacher Saint Buddha had explained, is already present not only in people, but in all the other beings that arise and exist on our planet Earth.

"A particle of that fundamental Most Great Great All-embracing, namely, the 'Most-Sacred-Prana', has already from the very beginning settled in every form of being of every scale, breeding both on the surface of the planet itself and within it, and in the water as well as in the atmosphere.

"I regret to have to say here, my boy, that I was then constrained more than once to emphasize that these words had been uttered by the very lips of Saint Buddha himself.

"These several beings there with whom I had meanwhile established 'friendly' relations and whom without any discussion I first of all persuaded there of that invention, immediately not only completely believed it, but afterwards also very effectually helped me, of course unconsciously, in spreading this new invention of mine.

"Here also these friends of mine always and everywhere very zealously and passionately proved to other beings like themselves, that this was just so and could not possibly be otherwise.

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"In short, there in Pearl-Land, owing to this second invention of mine, the desired results were unexpectedly rapidly brought about.

"And there in Pearl-Land, owing simply to my invention, your favourites so greatly changed their essence-relations towards the beings of other forms, that they not only ceased to destroy the existence of these beings for their famous 'sacrifices', but even began very sincerely with the whole of their Being to regard these beings of other forms as beings like themselves.

"If only it had all continued like that, it would have been good; but here as well, just as in the country Maralpleicee, they soon began, as is proper to them, to 'wiseacre' and to manifest all kinds of comical aspects of their 'Havatvernoni'.

"For instance, only a quarter of their year after the commencement of my preaching, strolling down the street of the city Kaimon you could see, almost at every step, beings there walking on what are called 'stilts'.

"And they walked on 'stilts' in order not to risk crushing some insect or other, a 'little being', as they thought, just like themselves.

"Many of them were afraid to drink water that had not been freshly taken from a spring or stream, because they thought that if the water had been a long time out of the spring or stream, 'little-beings' might have got into it, and without seeing them, they might suddenly swallow these 'poor-little-creatures-like-themselves.'

"Many of them took the precaution to wear what are called 'veils', lest poor little beings like themselves, found in the air, might chance to enter their mouths or noses, and so on and so forth.

"From that time on there began to arise there in Pearl-Land, both in the city Kaimon and in its outskirts, various societies whose aim was to protect 'defenceless' beings of various form, both those existing among them and those they called 'wild'.

"Rules existed in all such societies prohibiting not only their destruction for 'sacrifices' but also the use of their planetary bodies for the 'first-being-food'.

"Eh-h-h-h-j-kh!...my boy.

"Owing once again merely to the strangeness of their psyche, the intentional sufferings and conscious labours of this Sacred Individual Saint Buddha, who had been specially actualized for them with a planetary presence similar to theirs, have hovered ever since and still hover in vain; nor have they yet actualized any lawfully expected real results whatsoever, but have engendered and until now continue to engender only all kinds of 'pseudo-teachings' there, like those existing there in recent times under the names of 'Occultism', 'Theosophy', 'Spiritualism', 'Psycho-analysis', and so on, which, before as now, are means only for the obscuring of their already, without this, obscured psyche.

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"It is needless to say that from the truths indicated by Saint Buddha himself, absolutely nothing has survived and reached the beings of the present time.

"Half of one of the words, however, managed to reach even the contemporary beings of that unparalleled planet.

"And this half of a word reached them in the following way:

"Saint Buddha among other things explained to the beings of Pearl-Land, how and to what part of the body of their ancestors the said famous organ Kundabuffer had been attached.

"He told them that the Archangel Looisos had by a special means made this organ grow in their ancestors at the extremity of that brain which in them, just as in you, Nature has placed along their back in what is called the 'spinal-column'.

"Saint Buddha, as I also made clear, then also said that though the properties of this organ had been absolutely destroyed in their ancestors, yet the material formation of this organ had remained at the lower extremities of this brain. And this material formation, being transmitted from generation to generation, had also reached them.

"This material formation', he said, 'now has no significance whatever in you, and it can be completely destroyed in the course of time, if your being-existence proceeds as is becoming to three-centred beings'.

"It was just when they began 'wiseacreing' and inventing various forms of that famous 'suffering' of theirs that they also played their usual 'tricks' with this word.

"Namely, first of all, as the root of the second half of this word chanced to coincide with a word in the language of that time which meant 'Reflection' and as they had also invented a means for destroying this material formation rapidly, and not merely in the course of time as Saint Buddha had told them, they also wiseacred about this word according to the following rumination of their bob-tailed Reason. Of course, when this organ is in action, it ought to have in its name, also the root of the word to 'reflect'; now, since we are destroying even its material basis, the name must end with a word whose root means 'former'; and because 'former' in their current language was then pronounced 'lina', they changed the second half of this word, and instead of 'reflection', they stuck in the mentioned 'lina', so that instead of the word Kundabuffer, they obtained the word 'Kundalina'.

"Thus it was that a half of the word Kundabuffer survived, and being transmitted from generation to generation, finally reached your contemporary favourites also, accompanied, of course, by a thousand and one different explanations.

"Even the contemporary 'learned-beings' also have a name for that part of the spinal-marrow, made up of very abstruse Latin roots.

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"The whole of what is called 'Indian-philosophy' now existing there, is based also on this famous 'Kundalina', and about the word itself there exist thousands of various occult, secret and revealed 'sciences' which explain nothing.

"And as regards the way in which the contemporary terrestrial learned beings of what are called the exact 'sciences' define the significance of this part of the spinal marrow, that, my dear boy, is a profound secret.

"And it became a secret because several centuries ago, this 'explanation' suddenly for no reason whatever, entered the favourite mole of the famous 'Scheherazade' which that incomparable Arabian fantasist chanced to have on the right side of her adorable navel.

"And there this 'learned-explanation' remains perfectly preserved down to the present day.

"When I was quite convinced that I had succeeded so easily in the destruction, perhaps for a long time, of that terrible practice among the beings of that group there in Pearl-Land, I decided to stay there no longer but to return to the 'Sea-of-Beneficence' to our ship 'Occasion'.

"When we were quite ready to leave that Pearl-Land, the intention suddenly arose in me not to return to the 'Sea-of-Beneficence' by the way we had come, but by another way quite unusual in those days.

"Namely, I decided to return through the locality which was later called 'Thibet'.

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"As the mode of travel then planned was still quite uncommon in those days for the three-brained beings there, we could not count on the chance of joining some 'caravan'. So, having to organize my own 'caravan' I began the same day preparing and procuring everything necessary for this purpose.

"I then procured some tens of the quadruped beings called 'horses', 'mules', 'asses' and 'chami-anian goats', and so on, and hired a number of your biped favourites to look after the said beings and to do the semi-conscious labour required on the way during this mode of travel.

"Having procured everything necessary, accompanied by Ahun, I set off.

"This time we passed through places still more peculiar, and still more un-
common parts of the general Nature of that ill-starred planet; and we also
encountered this time, or there came within the sphere of our sight, a
greater number of the one-brained and two-brained beings of various forms,
which are there called 'wild' and which in those days came there from very
remote parts of the continent Ashhark for the purpose, as it is said there,
of 'hunting'.

"The said 'wild' beings there were at that period particularly 'dangerous'
both for the three-brained beings there, and also for those forms of
quadruped beings which your favourites, with the 'cunning' proper to them,
had already been able to make their slaves, compelling them to work exclusive-
ly for the satisfaction of their egoistic needs.

"And the said 'wild beings' were particularly dangerous then only because
there was being crystallised just at that period, in the presence of such
'wild beings', that special function which arose in them also owing to the
abnormally established conditions of being-existence of the three-brained
beings there, and about which special function I shall explain to you in
detail.

"The places through which our way went this time were at that period almost inaccessible for the three-brained beings then, chiefly on account of such 'wild beings'.

"In those days it was perhaps possible for the three-brained beings to pass through these places only, as they say, during the 'day', that is to say, when in the atmosphere of their planet there, the process of 'Aieioiuoa' proceeds with the active element 'Okidanoch'.

"And they could pass during the 'day' because during this time of
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sun almost all the 'wild' terrestrial beings are in the state called 'sleep', that is to say, in a state of the automatic elaboration in their presence of that energy, which is necessary to their ordinary existence and which elaboration of energy just then proceeds in them; whereas, on the contrary, in the three-centred beings there, the same is elaborated only when the said sacred property is not proceeding in the atmosphere, the period of the diurnity which they call 'night'.

"So, my boy, for the said reason it was possible for your favourites in those days to pass through these places only by 'day'. At night, great vigilance and the use of various artificial shelters were required as a defence against these wild beings, both for themselves and for their 'goods'.

"During the period of the mentioned 'Krentonalnian' position of the planet Earth, those 'wild' beings there are wide awake and take their first being-food; and because, by that time, they had already become accustomed to use for this purpose almost only the planetary bodies of weaker beings of other forms arising on their planet, they were always trying, during that period, to get hold of such a being in order to use his planetary body to satisfy that need of theirs.

"These 'wild' beings, particularly the smallest of them, were already at that time, owing also, of course, to the abnormally established conditions of the ordinary being-existence of the three-brained beings, perfected in point of ruminating and cunning up to the ideal.

"In consequence of this, throughout our whole route, we, and especially our workmen for the semi-conscious work, had to be extremely careful and on the watch in order to guard ourselves, our quadruped workers and our supplies.

"A whole 'meeting' of these 'wild' beings would form around our camp at night, that had come there to provide themselves with something suitable for their first food, a gathering rather like an 'assembly' of your favourites during what is called the 'quotation of stock prices' or during their 'election' of representatives to some society or other whose nominal purpose is the joint pursuit of a means to the happy existence of all beings like themselves without distinction of their notorious castes there.

"Although we kept logs burning brightly all night, to scare these 'wild' beings, and although our biped workers, notwithstanding that they were forbidden, destroyed with the help of the so-called poisoned arrows of 'Kilnapara', those beings that came too near our camp, yet not a single night passed upon which what are there called 'tigers', 'lions' and 'hyenas' did not carry off one or more of our quadruped beings; whose number in consequence diminished daily.

"Although, my boy, this way back to the 'Sea of Beneficence' then took us far longer than the way by which we had come there, all that we then saw and heard during our passage over those places, concerning the strangeness of the psyche of your favourites, fully justified the extra time spent.

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"We travelled under these conditions more than a month of their time, and finally we came upon a small settlement of three-brained beings, who, as it appeared later, had only recently migrated there from Gemchania.

"As we afterwards learned, this settlement was called 'Sinceratorza'; and when this region was subsequently populated and this same place became the principal centre for all the beings of that region, the whole country was called by the same name.

"The name of this place was afterwards changed several times and at present it is called 'Thibet'.

"As we chanced to meet the said beings just as night was coming on, we asked them for, as it is said, a 'night's lodging'.

"And when they gave us permission to pass the night under their shelter we were very glad at the prospect of a night's rest, since, indeed, we were all so exhausted by the constant warfare with these wild beings, that both for ourselves and especially for our biped workers, it was already urgent to pass at least one night in peace.

"In the course of the evening talk, it was made clear that all the beings of this settlement belonged to the sect known then in Gemchania under the name 'The Self-tamers', which had been formed from among the followers of just that religion which, as I have already told you, purported to be based on the direct instructions of Saint Buddha.

"There is no harm in noticing in this connection that the beings of that planet had still another peculiarity which had long before become proper to them alone; it consists in this, that no sooner does a new common 'Havatvernoni' or 'religion' arise among them, then its followers immediately begin to split up into different parties, each of which very soon creates its own, as it is called, 'sect'.

"The particular strangeness of this peculiarity of theirs consists in this, that those who belong to a sect never call themselves 'sectarians', the name being considered offensive; they are named 'sectarians' only by those beings who do not belong to the same sect.

"And the adherents of any sect are sectarian for other beings only as long as they have no 'guns' and 'ships'; but as soon as they get hold of a sufficient number of 'guns' and 'ships' their particular sect at once becomes the dominant religion.

"The beings both of this settlement and of many other regions of Gemchania became sectarians, having separated just from the religion, the doctrine of which, as I have already told you, I studied in detail and which later was called 'Buddhism'.

"These sectarians of the Buddhist religion who called themselves the 'Self-tamers' arose owing to the same misconception, which, as I have already told you, they 'wise-acred' and named 'suffering-in-solitude'.

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"And those beings with whom we passed the night, had settled so far away from their own people, in order to produce upon themselves the said notorious 'suffering', without hindrance from others like themselves.

"Because, my boy, everything I learned that night and saw the next day of the followers of that sect, then produced so painful an impression upon me that for very many of their centuries I could never recall it all without what is called 'shuddering', it was not until already long afterwards that I made perfectly clear to myself all of the causes of the strangeness of the psyche of those favours of yours. It is for this reason that I wish to tell you all I then saw and learned in greater detail.

"As I then cleared up during the night-talk, even before the migration of the followers of that new sect there of the Buddhist religion, there had been invented by its leaders in Gemchania a 'suffering' of a special form, namely: they had decided to settle somewhere in some inaccessible place where other beings like themselves, not belonging to the sect and not initiated into its 'arcana', might not prevent them from producing upon themselves this same 'suffering' of special form which they had invented.

"When after long search they finally found this same place to which we also had chanced to come - a place well suited for such a purpose as theirs, they, already solidly organized and materially secured, migrated with great difficulties, together with their families, there to that place almost inaccessible to their ordinary countrymen; and this place they then at first called, as I have already told you, 'Sincratorza'.

"While they were still only settling in this new place, they more or less agreed among themselves; but when they began practically carrying into effect the special form of 'suffering' they had invented, their families and especially their wives, having learned of what it consisted, protested, and made a great outcry about it, with the result that schism arose among them.

"The said schism had taken place among them shortly before our chance encounter with them.

"Although at that time when we arrived in that 'Sincratorza', all these migrants from Gemchania still existed there together, yet they had already begun little by little to migrate to other places which they had newly found and which were suitable for an isolated existence.

"For a clear understanding of what follows, you must know about the fundamental cause of the schism among those sectarians.

"It seems that the leaders of that sect, while they were still in Gemchania, had agreed among themselves to leave the beings like themselves, and to stick at nothing in order to attain their deliverance from the consequences of that organ of which the divine Teacher Saint Buddha had spoken.

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their death, in order that, as they said, their 'soul' might be cleansed
by this special form of existence of alien growths of every kind, due to
that organ Kundabuffer which, as Saint Buddha told them, their ancestors
had, and, being freed from these consequences, to acquire thereby, the
possibility, as the divine Saint Buddha had said, of reblending with the
'All-embracing Holy Prana'.

"But when, as I have already said, they, being settled, set about practically effecting the special form of 'suffering' which they had invented, and their wives, having learned its true nature, protested, then many of them, having fallen under the influence of their wives, declined to carry out the obligations they had undertaken while still in Gemchania, with the result that they just divided into two independent parties.

"Thereafter these sectraians, before called the 'Self-tamers', began already to be called by various names, namely; those of the 'Self-tamers' who remained faithful to the obligations they had taken upon themselves were called 'Orthodoxhydooraki', while the rest, who had renounced the certain obligations they had undertaken there in their native country, were called 'Katoshkihydooraki'.

"By the time of our arrival in 'Sincratorza' those of the sectarians who were named 'Orthodoxhydooraki' had their well-organized so-called monastery not very far from their original settling-place, and therein the said special form of 'suffering' was in full process.

"On resuming our journey the next day after a restful night, we passed quite near the monastery of these sectarians of the Buddhist religion of the 'Orthodoxhydooraki' doctrine.

"As we made our usual halt at this time of the day, for feeding our quadruped workers, we asked the monks to allow us to make our camp under the covers of their monastery.

"Strange and unusual as it may seem, the beings there bearing the name monks, did not refuse our objectively-just request, but at once, without any of the 'swaggering' that had become proper to the monks there of all centuries and of all doctrines, admitted us, whereupon we unexpectedly then entered the very centre of that region which, from the very beginning of their arising, the beings of the planet Earth have, from time to time, become very skilful in concealing from the observation and understanding oven of Individuums of pure Reason -- in the present instance, into the sphere of the arcana of this doctrine. In other words, they had become skilful in 'wise-acreing' something and in making what they call a 'mystery' of it, and in so thoroughly concealing this mystery of theirs from others by every means, that even beings with pure Reason could not discover it.

"The monastery of this sect 'Orthodoxhydooraki' of the Buddhist religion occupied a large square with a strongly fortified wall around it, that protected everything within both from beings like themselves and from 'wild' beings.

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"In the middle of this enormous walled enclosure stood a large, also strongly boarded, construction, which constituted just the main part of the monastery.

"In one half of this large edifice their ordinary being existence was carried on, and in the other, they practised those special manipulations of theirs which were just the peculiarity of the form of belief of the followers of their sect and which were arcana to the rest.

"Around the outer wall on its inner side stood, in a row, small, strongly boarded sections like cells.

"It was just these same cells that represented the difference between this monastery and other monasteries on the planet Earth in general.

"These sentry box shapes were entirely boarded in on all sides, save that near the bottom was a small opening through which, with great difficulty, a hand could be thrust.

"These strong constructions, of sentry box shape, were for the perpetual immurement of those already deserving beings of that sect whose occupation until the complete destruction of their planetary existence, was a certain manipulation of what they call their emotions and thoughts.

"And it was when the wives of these 'sectarian-self-tamers' learned of this that they just made the said great outcry.

"In the fundamental religious teaching of this sect, there was a complete explanation of how long a time and namely which manipulations it is necessary to produce upon oneself in order to merit being immured in one of those strongly constructed cells, there to receive every diurnity a morsel of bread and a small jug of water.

"On our visit to that enclosure of that terrible monastery, all these monstrous cells were already occupied; and the care of the immured, that is giving them once a diurnity, through the mentioned tiny openings, a morsel of bread and a small jug of water, was discharged with great reverence by the sectarians, who were candidates for that immurement, and who, while waiting their turn, existed in the said building that stood in the middle of the monastery square.

"Your immured favourites did indeed exist in the said monstrous sepulchres until their half-starved motionless existence, full of deprivations, came to an end.

"When the companions of the immured learned of the ceasing to exist of one of their number, his planetary body was removed from the improvised sepulchre and immediately in the place of the self-destroyed being, another similar unfortunate fanatic of that maleficent religious doctrine of theirs was immured, their ranks being filled up by other members of that peculiar sect, dribbling in from Gemchania.

"In Gemchania itself all the adherents of that sect already knew of the

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existence of that 'special 'convenient' place for the actualization of the
finale of their 'religious doctrine', purporting to have been based on the
exact instructions of the Saint Buddha; and in every big centre they even
had what are called agents who helped them to get there.

"Having rested and fed our biped and quadruped workers, we left that melan-
choly place of sacrifices to that same wretched organ which, in the
ruminations of certain most high cosmic individuums had had for some reason
or other, without fail, to be introjected into the presence of the earliest
three-brained beings of that ill-starred planet.

"Eh! Eh! Eh!, my boy, we left there, as you can well believe, scarcely with
agreeable sensations and happy reflections.

"Continuing our route in the direction of the 'Sea-of-Beneficence', we
again passed through terra-firma of very many different forms, also with
conglomorations of introplanetary minerals, but which had oozed to the sur-
face of the planet from still greater depths.

"Here I must say something about an exceedingly strange thing, which I con-
stated, closely connected with just that part of the surface of your planet
which is now called Thibet.

"At that period when I was passing through Thibet for the first time, its
elevations were indeed also unusually far above the surface of the Earth,
but they did not differ particularly from similar elevations on other con-
tinents and on the same continent Ashark or Asia, of which Thibet was a part.

"But when during my sixth and last personal stay on the planet Earth there,
my way again took me through these, for me, extremely memorable places, I
just then constated that in the interval of the few tens of their centuries,
the whole of that locality had projected so far from the planet that no
heights on any of the other continents could even be compared with them.

"For instance, the chief range of that elevated region through which we had
then passed, namely, the range of elevations which the beings there call a
'mountain range', had in the interval projected so far from the planet that
some of its peaks are now the loftiest among all the abnormal projections
of that vainly-long-suffering-planet. And supposing you could climb them,
you could possibly with the aid of a Teskooano, 'see clearly' the centre of
the opposite side of that peculiar planet.

"When I first constated that strange phenomenon occurring on that remarkably
peculiar planet of yours, I at once thought that in all probability it con-
tained the germ for the arising of some subsequent misfortune on a great
common cosmic scale, and when I afterwards collected statistics concerning
that abnormal phenomenon, this first apprehension of mine very soon more and
more grew in me.

"And it grew chiefly, because, in my statistics one item concerning that
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"The said item concerning those Thibetan elevations referred just to this, which of the terrestrial, as they are called, 'planetary-tremors', or as they are otherwise called 'earthquakes', occur to that planet, and when, on account of these excessively lofty elevations.

"Although 'planetary-tremors' or 'earthquakes' frequently occur to that planet of yours from other intra-planetary disharmonies also, that have arisen in consequence of the two already mentioned great Transapalnian-perturbations, the causes of which I shall sometime explain to you, nevertheless most of the planetary-tremors there, and especially during recent centuries, have occurred solely on account of those excessive elevations.

"And they occur because, in consequence of those excessive elevations, the atmosphere also of that planet has acquired and continues to acquire in its presence the same - that is to say, what is called the 'Blastegoklornian-circumference' of the atmosphere of the planet Earth has acquired in certain places and continues to acquire an excessively projecting materialized presence, for what is called the 'reciprocal-blending-of-the-results-of-all planets-of-the-given-system'; with the result that during the motion of that planet, and in the process of what is called 'common-system-harmony', its atmosphere at certain times 'hooks on', as it were, to the atmosphere of other planets or comets of the same system.

"And owing to these 'hookings on' there occurs in the corresponding places of the general presence of that planet of yours just those said 'planetary tremors' or 'quakes'.

"I must also explain to you that the region of the general presence of the planet where such 'planetary tremors' occur on this account, depends upon the position occupied by the planet itself in the process of the common-system-harmonious-movement, in relation to other concentrations belonging to the same system.

"Be that as it may, if this abnormal growth of the Thibetan mountains continues thus in the future, a great catastrophe on a general cosmic scale is sooner or later inevitable.

"However, when the menace I foresee becomes already evident, no doubt the most high, most sacred cosmic Individuality will, at the proper time, take the proper precautions."

"If you please, if you please, your Right Reverence", Ahun thus interrupted Beelzebub, and rattled off the following:

"Allow me to report to you, Your Right Reverence, some information which I happened to pick up concerning just that growth of those same Thibetan mountains about which you have deigned to speak.

"Just before our flight from the planet Karatas", continued Ahun, "I had the pleasure of meeting the Archangel Viloyor, the Governor of our solar system, and His Splendiferousness condescended to recognise me and to speak with me.

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"Perhaps you remember, Your Right Reverence, that while we were existing on the planet Zernakoor, His Splendiferousness, Archangel Viloyor, was still an ordinary angel, and used often to drop in to see us.

"So when His Splendiferousness, during our conversation, heard the name of that solar system where we were exiled, he told me that at the last most high and most sacred reception of final cosmic results who had returned, a certain Individuum, Saint Lama, had had the privilege of personally presenting at the feet of our Endless Uni-Being, in the presence of all the most high Individuums, a certain petition regarding the abnormal growth of some elevations of some planet - it seems just of that solar system - and having received this request our All-gracious Endlessness immediately ordered Archangel Louisos to be dispatched to that solar system where, as one familiar with that system, he might there on the spot clarify the causes of the manifestation of the said projections and take appropriate measures.

"That is why His Conformity Archangel Louisos is at the present time hastily winding up his current affairs in order to set off there."

"So, dear Ahun..." commented Beelzebub; and he added, "Thank you for this information...Glory be to our Creator... what you have just said will probably help destroy in my presence the anxiety which arose in me when I first stated the abnormal growth of those said Thibetan mountains, namely, my anxiety for the complete disappearance from the Universe of the precious memory of our Endlessly Revered Wise of the Wise, Mullah Nassr Eddin."

"Having said this and giving his face its usual expression, Beelzebub continued thus:

"Through that region at present called Thibet, we then continued our route, encountering hardships of every kind; and finally we came to the source of the river called the Keria-Chi and a few days later, sailing down it to the Sea of Beneficence, we came to our ship Occasion.

"Although after this third descent of mine to your planet Earth, I did not go there in person for a considerable time, nevertheless, from time to time, I attentively observed those favourites of yours, through my big 'Teskooano'.

"And I had no reason for a long time to go there personally on account of the following.

"After returning to the planet Mars I soon became interested there in a work which the three-brained beings of the planet Mars were just then carrying out on the surface of their planet.

"Clearly to understand in what work there it was that I became interested, you must know, first of all, that the planet Mars is for the system Ors, to which it belongs, what is called a 'Mdnoloutian-link' in the transformation of cosmic substances, in consequence of which it has, what is called, a 'Keskestasantrian-firm-surface", that is to say, one half of its surface consists of land-presence and the other of 'Saliskooriapnian' masses; or, as your favourites would say, one half if it is land or one continuous continent,