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everywhere there is great demand at the present time for a great variety of
purposes; but its most common use is for a certain exceedingly odd purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The other contemporary community of your favourites is called 'England'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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It will do no harm, I think, to tell you now a little about the still-exist-
ing direct descendants of the beings of the mentioned Greek-Roman civiliza-
tions also.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Except for that specific being-impulse which first on that planet the ancient
Roman beings crystallized in their presences, and which subsequently spread
gradually to all the other three brained beings of that planet, scarcely any-
thing else had passed by herodity from their ancestors to those beings called
Italians.

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

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

Only they manifest this inherited need, that is to say, this 'being-giving-

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pleasure' not towards beings there like themselves, but to the beings of
other forms.

It must in fairness be said that the said special property came to the be-
ings of various parts of contemporary Italy not from the great Romans alone;
this inherited property became more naturalized by their ancestors of con-
siderably later epochs, namely, at the time when they began 'spreading' am-
ong other beings both of their own community and of the neighbouring weaker
communities, the doctrines, already changed for their egoistic purposes, of
a certain genuine 'sacred-Messenger-from-Above'.

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

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

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

Not let us talk about that particularly maleficent 'invention' of the an-
cient Greeks, which is being actualized there in practice at the present
time by the beings of the contemporary community, there called England, and
which invention they call 'Sport'.

Not only have the beings of the contemporary community, England, - namely,
those beings who chiefly actualize during the process of their ordinary
existence this particularly-maleficent invention of the Ancient Greeks -
thereby added thanks to its maleficent consequences, one more sure-fire fac-
tor, personally for them themselves, for the contraction of the duration of
their existence - already trifling enough without that - but also, in addi-
tion, that, experiencing in their turn the 'greatness' of their community,
which coincides with the present time, that are in consequence authorities
for other three brained beings there; and, furthermore, because they have
made the actualizing of the invention in practice their ideal, and its
spreading their aim - then in consequence of all this, they, at the present
time, by every possible means 'strongly' infect the beings of all other
both large and small communities of that ill-starred planet with that inven-
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The basis also for that very very serious misconception there was the dis-
appearance from the general presence of those favourites of yours of the
possibility of the crystallization in them of those factors from which
'logical-mentation' is actualized in the three-brained beings.

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

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

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

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

But later, when they began existing in a manner more and more unbecoming for
three brained beings and entirely ceased actualizing in their presences their
being 'Partkdolgduty', foreseen by great Nature, by means of which alone, it
is possible for the three brained beings to acquire in their presences the
data for 'coating' their said higher-parts, and when, in consequence of all
this, the quality of their radiations failed to respond to the demands of the
Most Great Common Cosmic Trogoautoegocratic process, - then it was that great
Nature was compelled for the purpose of 'equalizing-vibrations' gradually to
actualize the duration of their existence according to the principle called
'Itoklanoz', that is, the principle upon which in general and everywhere is
actualized the duration of existence of one-brained and two-brained beings
that have not the possibilities present in three brained beings, and are there-
fore unable to realize in their presences, the said - foreseen by Nature -
'Partkdolgduty'.

According to this principle, both the duration of being-existence and also
the whole of the contents of their general presences, are in general acquired
from the results arising from the following seven actualizations surrounding
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(1) Heredity in general

(2) Conditions and environment at the moment of conception,

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

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

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

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

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

The chief particularity of existence according to this principle Itoklanoz, consists in this, that in the presences of beings existing according to it, dependently upon the enumerated seven exterior actualizations, there are crystallized in their being - 'localizations', - representing in beings the central place of the sources of actualization of all the separate independent parts of their general presence, - or, as your favourites say, in their brains, -what are called 'Bobbin-kan-delnosts', that is to say, 'something' that gives in the given localizations or 'brains' a defined quantity of possible associations or 'experiencings'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As 'mechanical-watches' can act as long as the spring has what is called 'the-tension-of-winding', so the beings in whose brains the said 'Bobbinkandelnosts' are crystallized can experience and consequently exist until these 'Bobbinkandelnosts' formed in their brains - owing to the mentioned seven external conditions - are used up.

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

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

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

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

And these independent Bobbinkandelnosts having their three independent 'localizations' in three-brained beings generally, have the following names:

* The first - the Bobbinkandelnost of the 'thinking-centre'.

* The second - the Bobbinkandelnost of the 'feeling-centre'.

* The Third - the Bobbinkandelnost of the 'moving-centre'.

Even that fact which I have recently often repeated, namely, that the process of the sacred 'Rascooarno' is actualized for these favourites of yours by thirds - or, as they themselves would say, -they begin to die in parts - proceeds also from the fact that, arising and being formed only according to the

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principle of 'Itoklanoz', they, existing non-harmoniously, unequally use up
the contents of these three separate independent brains, namely, 'their
Bobbinkandelnosts', and hence it is that there frequently occurs to them such
a horrible 'dying', as is not proper to three brained beings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The character of the pernicious consequence of that 'maleficent-occupation'
there, you will well understand when I tell you that during my stay there
among these favourites of yours, I once prepared a special section of my
statistics for elucidating to myself how long those three brained beings there
can exist, who become what are called 'wrestlers' by profession, never once in
those statistics of mine, did I notice that any of them had existed longer than
forty-nine of their years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But in your favourites, specially in your contemporary favourites, who exist constantly passively under the direction of only one of the separate spiritualized parts of their general presence, and, in consequence, constantly manifest themselves entirely by their - factors for negative properties also lawfully arising in them, and hence by negative manifestations, only - in them there just proceeds that same unequal using up of the contents of their various 'Bobbinkandelnosts', that is to say, the possibilities, placed in them by Nature according to law, of action by one only or by two only of their brains are always experienced, in consequence of which, the contents of one or of two of their 'Bobbinkandelnosts' are prematurely exhausted; whereupon, just like those 'mechanical-watches' in which the winding is run down or the force of their 'regulator' is weakened, they cease to act.

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

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

You will then understand very well, that in the case of certain of your favorites even of recent times who, by some means or other find out and transubstatiate in the right way in their Reason concerning certain details of the law of association proceeding in the separate brains of beings, and also concerning the mutual action of these independent association, and who exist more or less according to what I have said, then in their case and in consequence of all this, the Bobbinkandelnosts formed in their separate being-brains are not used

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up, as they are among the other beings there, but their general presence
acquires the possibility of existing much longer than the other three brained
beings there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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mentation is step by step distorted and finally transformed almost into a
'Kaltusara'."

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

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

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

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

"If you should vouchsafe in your wisdom to take up that question in detail, then according to my understanding our dear Hassein will have perhaps the choicest material for his better elucidation of all the abnormal strangeness of the psyche of the three-brained beings, who, in most recent times, arise on that planet Earth which has interested him."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"This same now definite idea there, existing there already under the de-
nomination 'Art' is, at the present time for those unhappy favourites of
yours, one of those automatically acting data the totality of which already
by itself converts them - that is, beings containing in their presences
every kind of possibilities for becoming particles of a part of Divinity, -
gradually, and though almost imperceptibly yet very surely, into what is
called merely 'animated flesh.'

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

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

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

"Once when I was walking in a certain street of the city of Babylon not far
from our house, I saw on a large building by which I had already many times
passed, what is called an 'Ookazmotra', or, as it is now called on the Earth,
a 'placard', which had been just put up and which announced that a Club for
foreign learned beings, the 'Adherents of the Legomonism', had been newly
opened in that building. On the door was a notice to the effect that the
enrollment of members of the club was still going on, and that all the re-
ports and scientific discussions would be conducted in the local and Hellenic
conversational languages only.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"It must be remarked that among the learned beings of the planet Earth who were then in Babylon and who were gathered partly by coercion, from almost the whole of the planet, by the mentioned Persian king, and partly voluntarily on account of the already mentioned notorious question of the 'soul', there were several among the beings brought there by coercion who were not, like the majority, 'the learned of new format', but who with a sincerity already proceeding from their separate spiritualized parts, strove for High Knowledge only with the aim of self-perfection.

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

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

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

"They existed in the suburbs of the city of Babylon and scarcely met any of the learned beings from among the number of the general mass; and it was only several days before my admittance among them as a member of this

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club that they for the first time united for the purpose of organizing the Club of the 'Adherents of the Legomonism'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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abandoned his former caprice connected with those terrestrial learned beings.

"As I learnt after my entry as a member of that club, what is called a general meeting had been arranged on the very first day of its opening by all the learned beings, at which it was unanimously resolved to hold daily general meetings, at which reports and discussions on just the two following questions were to be made, namely, the measures to be taken by the members of the club on their return home for the collection of all the Legomonisms existing in their native lands, and for placing them at the disposal of the learned members of this Club which they had founded; and secondly, what was to be done in order that the Legomonisms might be transmitted to remote generations by some other means than through initiates only.

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

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

"This term was uttered in the following circumstances:

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

"As the report of that already very aged Chaldean learned being, the great Aksharpanziar, then served as the origin for all the further events connected with this same contemporary Art there, I will try to recall his speech and repeat it to you as nearly as possible word for word.

"He then said as follows:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I personally suggest that this transmission to future generations be made through the human what are called 'Afalkalna', that is, through various productions of man's hands which have entered into use in people's 'daily life', and also through the human 'Soldjinoha', that is, through various forms and

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ceremonies which have already been established for centuries in the social and family life of people and which automatically pass from generation to generation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"For the sake of convenience, the members of the club soon divided themselves into a number of groups, and each seventh part, — which they called a 'day', — of that definite period of time which they called a 'week', they gave over to the demonstration and exposition of their productions in one particular branch of knowledge.

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

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

(1) Adashsikra,

(2) Evoskkra,

(3) Gevorksikra,

(4) Midosikra,

(5) Maikosikra,

(6) Lookosikra,

(7) Soniasikra.

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

(1) Monday,

(2) Tuesday,

(3) Wednesday,

(4) Thursday,

(5) Friday,

(6) Saturday,

(7) Sunday.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"And in general it was just in all these 'otherwises', that the learned beings of that group indicated in the movements of the participants in the given religious ceremony, by a conventional what is called 'alphabet', those ideas which they intended should be transmitted through those ceremonies to the monbeings of their remote descendants.

"On Tuesdays, namely, on the 'day-of-architecture', the learned beings belonging to the second group, brought various models for such proposed buildings and constructions as could endure a very long time.

"And in this case, they set up these buildings not exactly in accordance with the stability derived from the Law of Sevenfoldness, or, as the beings there were mechanically already accustomed to do, but otherwise.

"For instance, the cupola of a certain construction had, according to all the data, to rest on four columns of a certain thickness and definite strength.

"But they placed this said cupola on only three columns; and the reciprocal thrust, or, as it is also expressed, the 'reciprocal resistance', derived from the Law of Sevenfoldness for supporting the surplanetary weight, they took not from the columns alone, but also from other unusual combinations

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derived from the same Law of Sevenfoldness with which the mass of the ordinary beings of that time were also already acquainted; that is to say, they took the required degree of resistance of the columns chiefly from the force of the weight of the cupola itself.

"Or still another example: A certain stone, according to all the established data there, both mechanically from long-conturied practice and also thanks to the fully conscious calculations of certain beings with Reason there, ought infallibly to have its definite firmness corresponding to a certain power of resistance; but this corner-stone they infallibly made and placed so that it did not correspond at all to the mentioned data; but the firmness and power of resistance for the support of the superimposed weight required on the basis of the Law of Sevenfoldness, they took from the setting of the lower stones, which in their turn they did not lay according to the established custom, but again they based their calculations on the manner of laying the still lower stones and so on.

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

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

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

"Utilizing this law, they indicated their various ideas in the following way:

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

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

"And it was just these deviations from the lawful sequence of sensations, that they placed whatever they wished in a certain way.

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

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materials as could last a very long time: namely, they brought 'carpets', 'stuffs', 'chinkrooaries', that is, drawings made in various colours on specially tanned leather capable of lasting many centuries, and things of a similar kind.

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

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

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

"I am speaking about what is called the 'General-Total-Vibration-of-all-the-sources-of-the-actualizings', namely, just about that which the learned being Aksharpanziar, of whom I spoke, called the 'white ray', and about just those perceptions of impressions from separate blendings of centre-of-gravity vibrations which are distinguished by beings as separate, what are called, 'tonalities-of-colour'.

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

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

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

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"And meanwhile concerning the given case you ought to know that when this said 'Common-Total-Vibration', that is, what the terrestrial three-brained beings call the 'white ray', enters with its proper presence into the 'spheres of-the-possibilities' for its transformation in the presence of an Insapalnian planet, there then proceeds also in it, just as in the case of every already 'definitized' cosmic arising, possessing the possibility of still further actualization, that cosmic process called 'Djartklom', that is, it itself remains as a presence, but its essence, as it were, disintegrates and produces processes for evolution and involution by the separate 'centre-of-gravity-vibrations' of its arising; and these processes are actualized thus: one of the 'centre-of-gravity-vibrations' is derived from the others and is transformed into a third, and so on.

"During such transformations, this said 'Common-Total-Vibration', that is, the 'white-ray', acts with its 'centre-of-gravity-vibrations' upon other ordinary processes proceeding nearby in intra-planetary and surplanetary arisings and decompositions, and, on the basis of the 'relativity-of-vibrations', its 'centre-of-gravity-vibrations' dependently upon and in accordance with the surrounding conditions, interblend and become a part of the whole general presence of these said definite intra-planetary or sur-planetary formations, in which the said processes proceed.

"So, my boy, during the periods of my personal descent to the planet Earth which has interested you, at first without any conscious intention on the part of my Reason, and later already quite intentionally, I noticed and finally came to realize definitely the progressive deterioration in all of them of this 'being-organ' also.

"Deteriorating century by century the 'sensibility-of-perception' of that organ also, namely, the organ just by means of which, there chiefly proceeds for the presences of the three-brained beings, what is called the 'automatic-satiation-by-externals', which just served as the basis for the possibility of natural self-perfecting, had reached such a point that at the time of our fifth stay there, just during the period called by the contemporary beings there, the period of the 'Greatness of Babylon', that organ of theirs could perceive and distinguish the interblendings of the 'centre-of-gravity-vibrations' of the 'white ray', at most up to the third degree only of what are called its 'seven-fold-strata', that is, up to only 343 different 'tonalities-of-colour'.

"Here it is interesting to note that quite a number of the three-brained beings of the Babylonian epoch themselves already suspected the gradual deterioration of the sensibility of that organ of theirs, and certain of them even founded a new society in Babylon that started a peculiar 'movement' among the painters of that time.

"This peculiar 'movement' of the painters of that time had the following programme: 'To-find-and-constate-the-Truth-with-only-the-tonalities-existing-between-white-and-black'.

"And they executed all their pieces already exclusively utilizing only the tonalities derived from the black up to the white colour.

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"When I got to know of that particular 'movement' of painting there in Babylon,
its followers were already using for their productions about 1500 very definite
shades of what is called the 'colour grey'.

"This new movement in painting there, among the beings who were also striving to learn the truth at least in something, made what is called a 'great stir'; and it was even the basis for the arising of another and still more peculiar 'movement', this time among what are called the Babylonian 'Nooxhomists', among just those beings of that time who studied and produced what are called new 'combinations-of-concentrations-of-vibrations' which act in a definite way on the sense of smell of the beings and which produce definite effects in their general psyche, that is to say, among those beings there who made it their aim to find the truth by means of smells.

"So, certain beings who were then crazy just about this, in imitation of the
followers of the said branch of painters, founded a similar society also and
the motto of their new movement was:

"To-search-the-truth-in-the-shades-of-smells-obtained-between-the-moment-of-the-action-of-cold-at-freezing-point-and-the-moment-of-the-action-at-warm-decomposition"

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1) red

(2) orange

(3) yellow

(4) green

(5) blue

(6) indigo

(7) violet

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

"In accordance with that definite property of the 'Common-Total-Vibration', that is, of the 'white-ray', during the process of its transformations about which I have just spoken and which was already then familiar to the Babylonian learned painters, namely, that one of its 'centre-of-gravity' vibrations is derived from the others and is transformed into a third and so on, - in other words, that said separate colours of the 'white-ray' are always derived one from the other and form a third, as for example, the orange colour is obtained from the red, and further the orange colour itself passes in its turn into the yellow colour, and so on and so forth - then, whenever the Babylonian learned painters move or embroidered with coloured threads or coloured their productions, they inserted the distinctions of the tonalities of the colours in the cross lines as well as in the horizontal lines and even in the intersecting lines of colour, not in the lawful sequence in which this process really proceeds, in accordance with the Law of Sevenfoldness, but otherwise; and in these also lawful 'otherwise' they placed the contents of some or other information or knowledge.

"On Thursdays, namely, the days which the learned beings of this group assigned for 'sacred' and 'popular' dances, there were demonstrated with the necessary explanations every possible form of religious and popular dances, either those already existing which they only modified, or quite new ones which they created.

"And in order that you should have a better view and well understand in which way they indicated what they wished in these dances, you must know that the learned beings of this time had already long been aware that every posture and movement of every being in general, in accordance with the same Law of Sevenfoldness, always consists of seven what are called 'mutually-balanced-tensions', arising in seven independent parts of their whole, and that each

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of these seven parts in their turn consists of seven different what are called 'lines-of-movement' and each line has seven what are called 'points-of-dynamic-concentration'; and all this that I have just described, being repeated in the same way and in the same sequence, but always on a diminishing scale, is actualized in the minutest sizes of the total bodies called atoms.

"So during their dances, in the movements lawful in their accordance with each other, these learned dancers inserted intentional inexactitudes also lawful, and in a certain way in them indicated the information and knowledge which they wished to transmit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The facial dimensions of every three-centred being in general and also the facial dimensions of the three-centred beings who please you of the planet Earth are the result of the dimensions of seven different fundamental parts of the whole of his body, and the dimension of each separate part of the face is the result of seven different dimensions of the whole face. For instance, the dimensions of the nose of any being are derived from the dimensions of the other parts of the face, and on this nose in its turn there are actualized seven definite what are called 'surfaces', and these 'surfaces' also have seven lawful dimensions down to the said atom itself of this face of theirs, which is one of the seven independent dimensions composing the dimensions of the whole planetary body.

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

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

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

"At the outset the learned beings of that group demonstrated before the other members of the club various forms of being-experiences and being-manifestations. Then, later, they collectively selected from all that was demonstrated, what was suitable for the various details for one or another already existing mystery, or for one newly created by themselves; and only after all this did they indicate what they wished, in those being-experiences and manifestations reproduced by them, by means of intentionally allowed deviations from the principles of the law of Sevenfoldness.

"Here it is necessary to notice that although in former epochs, mysteries occasionally containing many instructive conceptions now and again reached some of their generations mechanically, and sometimes passed from generation to generation to beings of very remote generations, yet those mysteries in the contents of which the learned members of the club of the 'Adherents of the Legomonism' then intentionally placed various knowledge, calculating that it would reach beings of very remote generations, have almost totally ceased to exist during recent times.

"These mysteries there incorporated in the process of their ordinary existence still centuries earlier already began gradually to disappear soon after the Babylonian period. At first their place was taken by what are called their 'Kesbaadji', or, as they are now called there on the continent Europe, 'Pup-pet-shows', (Petrushka), but, afterwards, they were already finally ousted by their still existing 'theatrical-shows' or 'spectacles' which are there now just one of the forms of that said contemporary Art of theirs which acts particularly perniciously in the process of the progressive shrinking of their psyche.

"These 'theatrical-spectacles' replaced the Mysteries after the beings at the beginning of the contemporary civilization - to whom only 'a-fifth-to-a-tenth' was passed down of the information about how and what those said Babylonian learned mysterists had done - began to think of imitating them in this also and set about doing, as it were, the same.

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"From that time on, the other beings there called these imitators of the mysterists, 'Players', 'Comedians', 'Actors' and, at the present time, they already call them 'Artists', of whom, I may say, very many have been bred during recent times.

"And these learned beings of that time belonging to the group of the mysterists indicated various useful information and the knowledge already attained by them, by means of what are called 'currents-of-associative-movements' of the participants in these mysteries.

"Although the three-brained beings of your planet, then already well known about the laws of the 'currents-of-associative-movements', yet absolutely no information whatsoever concerning these laws has passed to the contemporary three-brained beings.

"As this said 'current-of-associative-movements' does not proceed in the presences of the three-brained beings who please you, as in general it proceeds in the presences of other three-brained beings, and as quite other bases proper only to them were the causes there of this, I must therefore first of all explain this to you in rather more detail.

The process is the same as that which also proceeds in us, but it proceeds in us when we are intentionally resting in order to allow the whole functioning of our general presence freely to transform without hindrance by our will, all the varieties of being-energy required for subsequent all-round active existence, - whereas in them, these said various being-energies can now arise only during their total inactivity, that is during what they call their 'sleep', and then, of course, only 'after a fashion'.

Also consisting, like every other three brained being of the whole of our great Universe, of three separate independent spiritualized parts, each of which independent spiritualized parts has, as a central place for the concentration of all its functioning, a localization of its own, which they themselves call a 'braint', all the impressions in their general presence whether coming from without or arising from within, are also perceived independently by each of these 'brains' of theirs, in accordance with the nature of these impressions; and afterwards, it is also proper to proceed in the presences of every kind of being without distinction of brain-system these impressions together with previous impressions, compose the total material and evoke in each of these separate brains, thanks to occasional shocks, and independent association.

"So, my boy, from the time when those favourites of yours completely ceased consciously to actualize in their general presences the 'being-Partkodolg-duty', only from the results of which both what is called sane 'comparative-thinking' and also the possibility of conscious active manifestation can only arise in beings from various natural associations and furthermore from the time when their separate brains, associating now already quite independently, began producing in one and the same general presence three differently-sourced being-impulses, they then, thanks to this, began gradually, as it were, to acquire three personalities in themselves having nothing in common with each other, in the sense of needs and interests.

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"Rather more than half of all the anomalies arising in the general psyche of your favourites, particularly those of recent times, just proceed, because they have in their whole presence a process of three different kinds of independent associations that evoke in them the being-impulses of three localizations of a totally different kind and of different properties; and because there is a connection between these three separate localizations in them as there is also in general in the presences of every kind of three brained being pre-assigned by Great Nature for other what are called 'general-presence-functionings'; and because from everything perceived and sensed, that is, as I have already told you, from every kind of shock, associations of three different kinds of impressions proceed in the three said localizations in consequence of which three totally different kinds of being-impulses are evoked in one and the same whole presence: then, on account of all this, a number of experiences are nearly always proceeding in them at one and the same time, and because each of these experiences by itself evokes in the whole being a desire for a corresponding manifestation, a corresponding movement is thus actualized in accordance with separate parts of their total presence.

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

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

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

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

"For these demonstrations they constructed in one of the large halls of the Club a special raised place which they then called, the 'reflector-of-reality'. Beings of subsequent epochs to whom the information concerning these Babylonian learned mysterists chanced to be transmitted, and who began imitating them and as it were doing the same, called and still call their constructions of a similar kind 'estrada'.

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

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

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

"Having then made this 'Darthelhlustnian' psychic state and inclination of
his clear to his Reason, but at the same time, being on the one hand well
aware that in the existing conditions of external social existence it was
impossible for him to gratify his inclination completely, and, on the other
hand, being already perfected only in his reason and being well aware of
his dependence on the automatic functioning of the other parts of his general
presence, he clearly understands that on the gratification of this inclina-
tion of his, will depend the fulfillment of some prospective and important
being-duty of his, of great importance to those around him; and having thought
over everything in this way, he decides to gratify this urgent inclination
of his as best he can by at least doing a 'moral injury' to that 'Irodohahoon',
by evoking in him associations that would lead to unpleasant experiencings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"And the as yet non-crystallized 'Nirioonossian-vibrations' in general arise

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and later enter into the general presence of the beings, either by means of
what are called the vocal cords of every kind of being or by means of certain
'sound-producing instruments' which the beings have artificially invented.

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

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

"The learned musician-singers then in the city of Babylon, combined their
melodies in such ways that the sequence of the vibrations of the sounds should
evoke in the beings a sequence of associations, and therefore also impulses
for experiencing, not in the usual automatic order, that is to say, so that
the sequence of the vibrations, on entering into the general presence of the
beings, should evoke the 'vibroechonitanko' in the 'Hlodistomaticules', not
of just one brain, as it usually proceeds, namely, in just that brain in which
at the given moment the associations predominate - but now in one brain, now
in another, and now in the third; thus, for seeing also the quality or, as
they say, the numbers of the vibrations of the sounds which would affect one
or another brain.

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

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

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

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

"It happened in this way because as the sounds of their melodies which they
had combined in a definite sequence entered into my general presence, there
proceeded 'Djartklom' in them, or as it is otherwise said, the sounds were
'sorted out' and acted equally upon all my three variously caused 'Hlodisto-
maticules', with the consequence that the associations proceeding in me in the
three independent brains - though simultaneously and with an equal intensity
of similar but differently natured series of impressions, - produced in my
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"For instance, the localization of my consciousness, or, as your favorites would say, my 'thinking-centre', brought forth in my general presence, let us suppose, the impulse of joy; the second localization in me, or my 'feeling-centre' brought forth the impulse called 'sorrow', and the localization of the body itself, as once again your favorites would call it, my 'moving-centre', brought forth the impulse of 'religiousness'.

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

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

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

"When during the period of my sixth and last personal stay there I heard everywhere about this contemporary 'Art' of theirs and came in contact with its results, and when I made clear to myself just what it was all about, then having recalled about my Babylonian friends of that time and about their good intentions towards their remote descendants, and as opportunities offered, made clear to myself more in detail just which results were obtained from all that of which I happened then to be a witness, and about which I have just been telling you.

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

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

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"And as regards this word Art itself, upon which thanks to the strangeness of their reason, there has been 'piled up' during this time, as they themselves would say, 'devil-knows-what', I must tell you that my special investigations regarding to this word made it clear to me, that when this word among the other words and separate expressions used by the learned beings of that time, also began automatically passing, generation by generation, and it chanced to get into the vocabulary of certain three-brained beings there, in whose presences on account of various surrounding circumstances, the crystallizations of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer had proceeded in just that order and 'mutual-action', which by chance became of the kind that it predisposed the arising in their general presences of data for the Being of 'Hasnamus-Individuums', then this said word for some reason or other happened to please just that kind of three-brained being there, they began using it for their egoistic aims, and gradually they made from it that very 'something' which, although it continues to consist of, as it is said, 'complete vacuity', yet has gradually collected about itself a fairy-like exterior, which now 'blinds' every one of these favourites of yours who keeps his attention on it only a little longer than usual.

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

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

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

"If I now explain to you a little more in detail concerning this contemporary theatre of theirs, then possibly you will have enough material for the elucidation, first of all, concerning what came of all the good intentions and efforts of the learned beings of the Babylonian period; and secondly, what of all that had already been attained in respect of true knowledge passed from the times of that 'Babylonian-culture' to the beings of this contemporary 'European-culture', in which the said 'Art' has become mainly covered with the mentioned exterior; and thirdly, you will sense certain aspects of the maleficence of that said contemporary notorious Art of theirs.

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

"The three-brained beings of the contemporary civilization quite frequently assemble in considerable groups in these theatres of theirs and also to observe, and, nominally, to study the various prepared manifestations of their 'artists',

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as they have quite recently begun to call them, just as the other learned members of the club of the Adherents of Legomonism studied then in Babylon the reproductions of the learned beings of the group of Mysterists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"But later on, when, thanks as always to the same conditions of ordinary being-existence abnormally established by themselves, every kind of property

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proper to be possessed in the presences of the three-brained beings gradually deteriorated, this 'being-ableness' also deteriorated in them and at such a tempo that whereas the beings of the Babylonian period could now use for conversational intercourse among themselves, only seventy-seven definite consonants, the deterioration continued at such a tempo after the Babylonian period that after five centuries they could already use at the most only thirty-six definite 'letters', and the beings of certain communities could not reproduce even this number of separate articulate sounds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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gard themselves as his followers, then instead of the mentioned word, they
just invented the word 'Artists'.

"As we have seen, not every inheritance of the ancient Romans turned out to be maleficent for the beings of subsequent generations, but in the given case, this little letter 'h' of theirs has been even an inspiring factor for the bringing forth of that 'being-ableness' in the presences also of such beings of subsequent generations, to whom it became already definitely proper to have no initiative or ableness of their own, and they wished and succeeded in substituting for the already long-existing definite expression 'Orpheist' the new word 'Artist'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"For instance, the beings of the contemporary community called 'Russia', try as they may, already cannot pronounce these said two letters at all. But they already are very definitely aware of their difference, so that whenever

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they have to use these letters in words with definite notions, then although
the letters they pronounce do not correspond at all, they correctly sense
their difference and do not use one letter for the other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"You must know that thanks to the mentioned consequences of the properties
of the organ Kundabuffer, the majority of the contemporary beings acquire
in their presence a very strange need to evoke the expression in others
of the being-impulse called 'Astonishment' regarding themselves, or even
simply to see it on the faces of those around.

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

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

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

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

"As regards what these contemporary artists do with their 'swaggerings' in these theatres, to get a clear picture of this, you must first hear about this, still another exceedingly strange 'illness' existing there under the name of 'dramatisacring'; the predisposition to which illness arises in : the presences of certain of them thanks only to the carelessness of what are called their 'mid-wives'.

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

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

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

"When such a three-brained being there who has acquired at his first appearance the said predisposition to the illness 'dramatisacring' reaches the age of a responsible being, should he by that time know how to write and should wish to write something, then he suddenly gets this strange illness and begins

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wiseacreing on paper, or, as it is said there, to 'composing' various what are called 'dramas'.

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

"In addition to this, among the symptoms of this peculiar illness there appear in the general presence of the sick being, seven other very specific particularities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Thus you can now, from all I have just said, easily conclude that, besides many definitely maleficent consequences, the expounding of which I shall soon touch upon in more detail, these theatres cannot of course yield anything else for that lofty aim which the Babylonian learned beings then had in view when they created for the first time, such a form of conscious reproduction of perceptions and of the associative reactions to them of other beings similar to themselves.

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

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

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

"And this began to apply also to these terrestrial three-brained beings from the time, when, as I have already once told you, Great Nature was compelled to substitute for the 'Foolasnitanian' principle previously proper to their presences, the principle 'Itoklanoz.' Thereupon there was acquired and there is up till now in the process of their existence such a particularity, that if, as it is said among them, they 'sleep-well', then they will also be 'awake-well' and vice versa; if their waking-state is bad, then they will also 'sleep' badly.

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

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

"After the need to actualize the 'being-Partkdolgduty' in them themselves
had entirely disappeared from the presences of the majority of them, and
in the process of their 'waking-state' every kind of association of unavoid-
ably perceived shocks proceeded only from several already automatized what
are called 'series-of-former-imprints' consisting of endlessly repeated
what are called 'impressions-experienced long-ago', and there began in its
turn and has continued up till now, to disappear in them even the instinctive
need to perceive every kind of new shock which are the 'daily bread' for the
three-brained beings, and which issue either from their inner separately
spiritualized being parts or from corresponding perceptions coming from with-
out for conscious associations, namely, for just that being-association upon
which depends the intensity of transformation of every kind of 'being-
energy' in the presences of beings.

"During the latter mentioned three centuries, the process itself of their
existence became such, that in the presences of the majority of them during
their daily existence, that 'being-comparative-association' almost no longer
arises, which usually proceeds in the three-brained beings thanks to every
kind of their new perceptions, from which alone in the general presences of
the three-brained beings can data be crystallized for their own individuality.

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

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

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

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

"When they go to these theatres of theirs, and sitting quietly, look on at
every kind of varied and many-sided, even if senseless, 'manipulations' and
manifestations of their contemporary artists, then although they are in their
usual waking-state, every kind of association, both 'thinking' and 'feeling'
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complete passivity, or sleep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"A law was then established and strictly enforced that those petty criminals among them who, after trial and sentence by, in their turn, seven elderly beings of the given region, had been ascribed to one of the four already previously established categories of 'immorality' and 'crime' - with which beings all what are called their 'prisons' are now also usually crowded, - should for a definite term go about always and everywhere with one of the four corresponding sides of their heads shaved; and furthermore, any such convicted being was obliged to uncover his head whenever he met or spoke with others.

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

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

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were then considered there, for women, as the greatest laxity and immorality.

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

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

"And if, following the same procedure, it was established that a women manifested a disposition to avert the conception in herself of a new being for the purpose of the prolongation of her generation, then she was condemned to appear with her face made up and painted also with white and red, but this time only on the right half.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Just in regard to such unfortunate three-brained beings, the surrounding abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence are already so established, that there are bound to be crystallized in their general presences and to become an inseparable part of their general psyche, those of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer which they now themselves call 'swagger', 'pride', 'self-love', 'vanity', 'self-conceit', 'narcissism', 'envy', 'hate', 'offensiveness' and so on and so forth."

"These enumerated consequences are particularly conspicuously and strongly crystallized in just those contemporary 'representatives-of-Art' there, who are the 'manipulators' of the contemporary theatres there, and they are particularly strongly crystallized in them because, always performing the roles of beings similar to themselves, whose being-Being and significance in the process of their existence are ordinarily far superior to their own, and as I have already said, being themselves really almost nonentities, they with their already finally automatized reason, gradually acquire a false view of themselves."

"In other words, with such an already quite automatized 'consciousness' and finally 'nonsensical-feelings', they feel themselves to be immeasurably superior to what they really are."

"I must confess, dear Hassein, that though during our earlier visits to the surface of that planet of yours and also at the beginning of this lasy stay there, I was in many places, and had various dealings with those three-brained beings pleasing to you, I scarcely ever felt in my general presence a genuine impulse of being-pity, - pity, that is, for the infinitely unhappy Fate of every one of these favourites of yours, due to circumstances hardly depending upon themselves at all."

"But when, towards the end of that sixth stay there, certain of them were formed with the kind of inner presence, which is now possessed by all the representatives of almost all the branches of that Art of theirs, and those newly arisen 'types', among the number of three-brained beings there, taking part in the process of their ordinary being-existence on the basis of equal rights with the rest, began dropping into the field of the perception of my sight with their already now exaggeratedly innerly-abnormal, what is called

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'being-self-appreciation', - well, just then, they served as a shock for the beginning of the arising in me of the impulse of pity, not only in respect of them themselves, but also in respect of all these unfortunate favourites of yours in general.

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

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

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

"This practical advice of mine consists in this, that if for some reason or other you should have to exist, particularly before very long, among the three-brained beings of that planet Earth pleasing to you, - I say before very long, because both the presence of these three-brained beings who please you and all the already fixed exterior conditions of their ordinary being-existence frequently undergo degeneration - and if you should have there some affair or other proper to every conscious three-brained being, just such affairs as have as their basis the aim of attaining some benefit or other for surrounding beings and the fulfillment of which depends also on those same surrounding beings - then in whatever community of the contemporary civilization this may proceed, then if you should have to meet these contemporary terrestrial types, in what are called there the 'circles' you meet in the interests of these affairs of yours, oblige yourself never to fail to be very, very careful and take every kind of requisite measure to keep on good terms with them.

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

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

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

"That is just why I advise you to be very careful not to make enemies among them, and by that means to make a lot of trouble for yourself and in the carrying out of your affairs.

"So, our dear Hassein, the very 'Tzimmeus' of my advice to you is this, that if you should indeed have to exist among the beings of that planet Earth and have dealings with these representatives of contemporary Art, then you must know first of all that you must never tell the truth to their face.

"Let Fate spare you this!

"Any kind of truth makes them extremely indignant, and their animosity towards others almost always begins with indignation.

"To such terrestrial types you must always say to their face only such things as may 'tickle' those consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer unfailingly crystallized in them and which I have already enumerated, namely, 'envy', 'pride', 'self-love', 'vanity', 'lying' and so on.

"And these means of tickling, infallibly acting on the psyche of these unfortunate favourites of yours are, as I noticed, among other things, during my stay there, the following:

"Suppose that the face of one of these representatives of Art resembles the face of a crocodile, then be sure to tell him that he's the spit and image of a bird-of-paradise.

"If one of them is as stupid as a cork, say that he has the mind of a Pythagoras.

"Suppose his conduct in some business is obviously 'lunatic,' tell him that even the great cunning fellow Lucifer couldn't have done better.

"Suppose that in his external appearance, you see signs that he has a number of terrestrial diseases from which he is progressively rotting day by day, then with an expression of astonishment on your face, ask him:

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

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

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marriage of her clients, or the proprietress of a Parisian fashion-workroom in what is called a 'high-life' cafe, began rearranging the folds of his tail.

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

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

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

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

To this question of his grandson Beelzebub said as follows:

"To the great sorrow of everything that exists in the Universe, scarcely anything has survived, my boy, from the results of their labours, and hence nothing has become the property of your contemporary favourites.

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

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

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

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

"It must also be noticed that, thanks to the second mentioned cause there, there also gradually diminished and finally almost entirely ceased, the em-

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ployment of that new form - which had been begun and established then from
Babylonian times - for the transmission of information and various fragments
of knowledge to subsequent generations, through the beings they called
'Initiates-of-Art'.

"About the disappearance there of just that practice of certain beings be-
coming 'Initiates-of-Art', I know very well, because just before my depart-
ure forever from that planet, I had to elucidate this very carefully for
another aim of mine.

"And for the purpose of making this clear, I even specially prepared a very
good 'Tiklunia' from among the beings there of the female sex and made these
elucidations of mine through her.

"'Tiklunias' were formerly called there by the name 'pythias' but the con-
temporary ones are already called now 'mediums'.

"So then, I made it clear that there in the most recent times, only four of
such beings, 'Initiates-of-Art', still remained, by means of whose, what is
called, 'immediate-line-of-inheritance' the keys to the understanding of the
ancient Art still continue to be transmitted, and this transmission by in-
heritance now proceeds there under very complex and arcane conditions.

"Of these four contemporary initiated beings, one comes from among those
who are called 'Redskins' who dwell on the continent America; another - from
amongst the beings dwelling on what are called the Philippine Islands; the
third, from the beings of the continent Asia, from the country called 'The
source of the river Pianje'; and the fourth and last, from amongst those
who are called 'Eskimos'.

"Now hear why I used the expression 'almost', when I said that at the end of three
of their centuries after the Babylonian period there 'almost' entirely ceased
to exist every kind of conscious and automatic reproduction of the 'being-
Afalkalno' and 'Soldjinoha'.

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

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

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

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

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branch of the knowledge of the Babylonian learned beings, which they called
the 'Combination-of-different-tonalities-of-colour' and which the contemporary
beings now call 'Painting'.

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

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

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

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

"It must in fairness be remarked that now and again certain beings also of
the contemporary civilization have suspected that 'something' was concealed
in the productions which chanced to reach them in the original, specially
created then in Babylon by the members of the Club of the Adherents of the
Legomonism, or in those copies which were made during their transmission
from generation to generation by various conscientious professionals, that
is, by such professionals to whom, as I have already said, it was still not
quite proper to 'plagiarize', and who therefore did not resort to the de-
tailed remaking of productions in order to give them out as their own, and
thereafter while searching very seriously for this 'something' certain of
those inquiring beings of that European civilization even found in them a
certain definite 'something or other'.

"For instance, at the beginning of the contemporary European civilization,
one of these beings, a certain monk named Ignatius, who had formerly been
an architect, attained even to the possibility of deciphering the hidden
knowledge and useful information in the productions of almost all the branches
of what was already named an ancient Art, which had reached him from the
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"But when this monk Ignatius was about to share what is called this said 'discovery' of his with other beings there like himself, namely, with two of his what are called, comrades, monks, - together with whom he as a specialist had been sent by his Abbot for the purpose of directing the laying of the what are called 'foundations' of a temple, which later became famous, then, for some trifling reason flowing from the consequences of one of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer crystallized in them, called 'envy', he was murdered while asleep and his planetary body was thrown into the water-space surrounding that small island on which it was proposed to erect the said temple.

"The said monk Ignatius sprang and was formed for the Being of a responsible being, on the continent Europe; but when he reached the age of a responsible being, then with the aim of enriching himself with information concerning the profession which he had made the aim of his existence, namely, the profession there called 'Architecture', he left for the continent of Africa. And just he it was who entered as a monk into the 'Fraternity' which existed on that continent Africa under the name the 'Truth-Seekers'; and afterwards when this fraternity migrated to the continent Europe and increased, and when its brethren began to be called 'Benedictines', he himself was already an 'All-the-Rights-Possessing-Brother' of this said brotherhood.

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

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

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

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

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

"This specific particularity of theirs consists in this, that whenever one or other of the mentioned beings, namely, of the beings who notice in various productions which have reached them from ancient times, some very 'lawful-illogicality' and begins to produce the given branch in a quite new manner, perhaps in order to make the said 'lawful-illogicality' practically clear to himself; then the majority of the beings around him, having the profession of the same branch, at once become his followers and begin doing supposedly the same thing but of course without either aim or sense.

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tives of contemporary Art, that brings it about that on the one hand, what are called new 'movements of Art' are always arising there among your favourites, and, on the other hand, those which, even if only 'after a fashion' are nevertheless somehow arranged rightly by the preceding generations, are constantly shrinking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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### THE SIXTH AND LAST DESCENT OF BEELZEBUB TO OUR PLANET

Beelzebub began as follows: "I was on that planet for the sixth and last time just before I received my full pardon and permission to leave this solar system, and return to my native country.

"During this sixth descent of mine I spent a considerable time amongst these Earth beings. I was there for a quarter of our year or according to their time calculation fifty years.

"As I have already told you, I used to observe the existence of these beings through my observatory, and, as I have also told you, I was particularly interested in their peculiarity of mutual destruction. After many centuries, and with all my efforts I was still unable to find a completely satisfactory explanation of this phenomenon of the psyche of those beings. Nevertheless, I hoped to understand it sooner or later, and I therefore always very attentively observed these processes of mutual destruction, whenever I happened to be on that planet, as well as from my observatory. At other times when I was a little free, I had for hours together made observations of the particular methods of these processes so that I already knew all the subtleties involved and had psychological explanations in every instance.

"Once, while, as was my custom, I was looking from Mars, through the 'Zuruaga' on one such process of mutual destruction, or, as they say, on their war, I saw what struck me as something entirely new, which nullified all my previous psychological explanations.

"I saw namely that without a being moving from his place, something was done, with something, with the result, that a puff of smoke appeared, and immediately after the smoke, a being on the opposite side, fell down quite dead. This method of destruction had not before existed, and it struck me, because the explanation I had already arrived at of how their psyche reaches such a state that they can, or, more correctly, that something in them can, destroy the life of another did not apply in this case. At the same time this method appeared to me the most improbable, as far as the possibility of destroying.

"I already knew that when beginning such actions formerly these beings did not decide to kill others. It was only afterwards, as the slain increased in number's, that they gradually became excited, and finally completed savage. I had explained this to myself previously; and it was more or less logically intelligible.

"My explanation was in fact, that seeing life so easily destroyed, everybody began to think for his own; and thus gradually the instinct of fear awoke. This feeling, in its turn, aroused the instinct of self-preservation; and

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with the realization that this preservation depended on others, everybody destroyed as many as possible, in order to increase his own chance of being saved. But those new means of mutual destruction, which I then saw, struck me very forcibly. Logic was quite excluded from the case, since the combatants stood quite a distance from each other, and among their own beings; and it was quite cold-bloodedly and as if from boredom, that by means of a certain something they destroyed the lives of others. Being wholly unable to understand it all, my interest was intensified; and I wished at all cost to discover in detail what could be the cause of this new means of destroying the lives of others. I therefore decided to descend to that planet and to find out on the spot.

"Some days after my decision I again flew down on the ship 'Occasion'.

"As the phenomenon was just then taking place on the continent Asia in the country called Afghanistan, I made up my mind to descend near the latter country and afterward to send my ship to be moored somewhere near the North Pole of that planet.

"For I must tell you that on this occasion it was difficult to find a mooring place for our ship, because among the beings of that planet, the number of ships had considerably increased on the surface of the waters, and they rushed around the continents in all directions.

"Although we could make our ship invisible to these beings, we could not annihilate its presence so as to enable it to remain safely beyond the chance of collision with other ships. And this was why we flew our ship so far, and where ships do not go.

"While our ship was on its way to the Earth, the war in Afghanistan ended; but I decided nevertheless to remain on the great continent of Asia, and in the country called Turkestan which is not very far from Afghanistan. This peculiarity of theirs manifested itself, from time to time, in the neighboring countries, and Turkestan, being centrally situated geographically, made it convenient for me to set off for any place where this peculiarity could be witnessed.

"I began not only to observe their actions very attentively, but to make every kind of experiment, medical, physico-chemical, and even hypnotic, upon the psyche of individual beings; but even then I could not learn the reason of this peculiarity at all.

"I spent thirty of their years on the continent of Asia in these experiments and observations.

"Besides Turkestan I visited during this time many of the countries great and small of that continent. I was in what are called China, India, Persia, Tibet and in many other smaller lands. I was several times also, of course, in the largest social organisation of that planet, namely, Russia, which is situated on the northwestern side of the continent Asia, and occupies the eastern portion of another continent called Europe. For this reason Russia is sometimes spoken of as Eurasian.

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"My observations during these thirty years, concerning this peculiarity, yielded however no results. But I did then make the discovery in the organization of these beings, of a singularity which not only no beings of other forms on that planet possess, but no beings of any other planet either.

"I discovered, namely, the fact that in these Earth beings there are two consciousnesses.

"Having discovered this singularity in their organisation, namely, this duality of their consciousness, these beings began to interest me still more, and I wished to learn the details of their peculiar psyche. I therefore did not return home to the planet Mars, but remained upon Earth in order to be able eventually to elucidate the mystery, perhaps, of the strange embodiment of the souls inhabiting that planet, which had interested me during so many centuries.

"I began to study more of the languages in which the beings of the various social organisations and continents converse, for the purpose of making possible observations of those beings who might prove suitable for my aim, but whose language I did not know.

"The multitude of languages for intercourse among themselves was another of their singularities.

"Everywhere else in the Universe, on every planet containing soul-bearing beings there is one language for everybody. But on that planet Earth, on every bit of land, among every small group however accidentally segregated, there was a different language, with the result that if by chance, one being should find himself in an unusual part of that planet, he could have no dealing with its inhabitants.

"In spite of my perfect knowledge of sixteen of their languages, I was sometimes so placed during my travels that I could not even get food for my horse, though my pockets were full of those objects for which everyone on that planet cheerfully gives you anything you wish.

"For instance, you live in a town, and know all the languages necessary for dealing with all the beings of that place. Suppose that for some reason it is necessary to go to another place, perhaps no more than a hundred miles away, nobody in this latter place would understand a word of what you wish to say, and you would not understand a word of theirs.

"Their numerous languages have moreover nothing in common. Some of them were even formed in such a way that they had no correspondence with the vocal chords provided by nature specially for speaking. Even I, who had unusual possibilities could not pronounce some words correctly. Regarding this idiocy, they eventually realised how awkward it was; and even while I was there the representatives of various social organisations met together to find a means of clearing up the confusion.

"They decided to make a common language for the whole planet Earth. As usual, however, nothing resulted from it owing to the same disharmony which is the cause of the failure of even their reasonable plans. The disagreement this time arose on the choice of a common language. One section wished that the

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language should be ancient Greek; another Latin, also ancient; while a third insisted on an 'Esperanto', invented by some absurd being. The result was that nothing was decided and now everything continues in the old way, that is that this small planet with a half dead terra-firma has a thousand gibberishes.

"Of those three languages, two were created long before, among two groups of Asiatic beings who almost simultaneously emigrated from the continent Asia to the neighboring continent Europe.

"The first group consisted of beings who followed the profession of fisherman, and who, on account of their profession, occupied the coasts and islands of the strait separating the continents of Asia and Europe.

"The second group was formed of shepherds and sheepfarmers who emigrated to the south coast of the continent Europe, because the nature of that place fully corresponded to their needs.

"Both these groups, fishermen and shepherds, afterwards multiplied and organised, and became strong and powerful social organisations, and their languages for intercourse were preserved and passed down to contemporary beings.

"The representatives of contemporary organisations chose neither of these languages for the universal language. Latin they found poor in vocabulary; and indeed it was not to be expected that shepherds with their limited needs could create a language rich in vocabulary; and though Latin became the language of the large social organisation called Rome, the Romans, beyond the special words needed for orgies, introduced nothing into the language to make it suitable for present needs.

"As regards the second language, namely Greek, its vocabulary is greater on account of the fact that from boredom, those fisherman, in ancient times, occupied themselves during bad weather in inventing all sorts of fantastic knowledge and coined a large number of new words which have remained; but the representatives of the chief powerful social organisation had no intention of selecting Greek, that language being nowadays spoken only by the present Greeks, who, although the descendants of the former great Greeks, have now neither a large, nor, what is more important, a powerful social organisation.

"These representatives, with their self-love and vanity, could not of course, choose Greek, for how could the world be expected to speak the language of such a trifling social organisation?

"As regards Esperanto, this language might possibly do for the cackle of hens, but not for the whole planet. Its inventor must surely have imagined that a language is like contemporary knowledge, which can be made up in a laboratory. He certainly could not have suspected that a language, whatever it may be, can be formed only by life, and during tens of centuries.

"For instance, on that planet there are many languages, which, owing to their being still young, are about as interesting as beetroot soup. In the English language, for example, though it has now existed for several centuries, it is impossible to say or to write anything essential. The impression left by writing would be, instead of New York, with all its objects and buildings, the hut of Robinson Crusoe with the properties of man-Friday.

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"While I was studying those languages, I began to think seriously what profession I should adopt as the best means of associating with those beings. This question is a very difficult one on that planet, because caste differences are very strongly developed there. You must belong to their caste to associate with them. For if they belong to a higher caste than your own, you may not approach them; and if to a lower, they are servile to the degree of increditable humiliation. To make the observations I wished was impossible in such conditions.

"I needed to be able to associate with beings of every caste, because as yet I did not know which beings I should find most suitable for my purposes.

Choice was made for several reasons. In the first place, I had already realized that the people of these beings do not live in their external and strictly conscious world in their inner, which can be understood only with the help of the beings themselves. It is necessary, however, that they should be frank; and they can be frank only with those or physicians.

I had no wish to become a priest, since in that profession I should almost have to set the hyperbole; and this is not necessary for the physician. And in the second place, under the forms of medical treatment, I could more easily carry out my experiments on beings. And although the case of physicians is, as a rule, very popular among many of the other castes, yet nevertheless many of the physicians happen to receive admittances everywhere to all castes.

"But you may not even know what a physician is! Really... No, still, a physician in general is one who is obliged to help other beings to discover their duty, those beings among whom he for some reason or other has some temporary derangement of bodily functioning, and cannot carry on their duty. But among beings of the planet Earth, the same physician is given as with those beings who make a business of collecting information about methods of healing - for example, those methods which certain beings, such as old men who have become children, (as it is usual for old women of the planet Earth to become) - are prescribed throughout the earth for healing the sick. The Earth physicians, in their turn, prescribe these methods for those beings who apply to them for treatment. They have many thousands of patients which they use for healing, but the most important and essential, which is the result, are only partly under the first, the influence of which the beings of Gobiada, that is, the people of elements, pass from the second, second oil; and the third, water, a substance which from a certain time, I shall also tell you about the significance of water of other of their needs. For the knows, you may know one for water that planet itself, and you will then know how to use them.

It will be much better, I think, if I give you not my external data, the explanations which certain beings of that planet give the visitors of other planets. But a very much higher class of men to be seen, except the profession and treated in what a manner might be at this time.

## Chapters XXXII & XXXIII

### THE HYPNOTISM, BEELZEBUB; PROFESSIONAL HYPNOTIST; OR THERMOSSES

"After much reflection I decided upon the profession of a physician. My choice was made for several reasons. In the first place, I had already realised that the peculiarities of these interesting beings do not lie in their external and visible consciousness but in their inner, which can be understood only with the help of the beings themselves. It is necessary, however, that they should be frank; and they can be frank only with priests or physicians.

I had no wish to become a priest, since in that profession I should always have to act the hypocrite; and this is not necessary for the physician. And in the second place, under the forms of medical treatment, I could more easily carry out my experiments on beings. And although the caste of physicians is also very popular among many of the other castes, yet nevertheless many of the physicians happen to receive admittance everywhere to all castes.

"But you may not even know what a physician is? Really...! No?..Well, a physician in general is one who is obliged to help other beings to discharge their duty, those beings namely, who for some reason or other have some temporary derangement of bodily functioning, and cannot carry on their duty. But among beings of the planet Earth, the name physician is given as well to those beings who make a business of collecting information about methods of healing - for example, those methods which certain beings, such as old women who have become childish, (as it is usual for old women of the planet Earth to become) - have prescribed throughout the ages for healing the sick. These Earth physicians, in their turn, now prescribe these methods for those sick beings who apply to them for treatment. They have many thousands of things, which they use for healing, but the most important and essential, which really affect results, are only three in number: the first, the flower the seeds of which the beings of Goblandia chewed, that is the poppy, or elements obtained from it; the second, castor oil; and the third, quinine, a substance obtained from a certain tree. I shall also tell you about the significance of thousands of other of their remedies. For who knows, you may happen one day to be on that planet yourself, and you will then know how to use them.

"It will be much better, I think, if I give you not my personal opinion, but the explanations which certain beings of that planet gave me regarding the importance of these remedies. He was a very queer fellow who first explained them to me. He was a priest by profession and belonged to what is called the Armenian religion. His name was Termosses.

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"I got to know this queer priest fellow in the following way. At the instance of a being with whom I was a little friendly, I wanted to get hold of a certain ancient Armenian Manuscript; and for this purpose I had to go to the country Trans-Caucasia, to the town of Alexanderople. This old Armenian priest Termosses was the very being to help me to get hold of this manuscript. He was a remarkably queer fellow compared with the other beings of that planet, and he was very amusing and witty. Of his numerous whims, I need only tell you one, from which you will understand the character of this Termosses.

"Special respect is shown on that planet Earth to those beings belonging, as a rule, to the profession of priest, and especially if they are old. You always bow before them and ask their blessing.

"As this Termosses was an old priest, everybody respected him quite without distinction of creed; and everybody regarded it as an honour to approach him and ask his blessing, and, of course, to kiss his hand. But Termosses himself could not bear this fussing. If anybody dared to come near him, without giving him a chance of beginning, Termosses would say, 'If you have anything important to say, out with it quickly, and if not, be off with you, there's somebody round the corner impatiently waiting to give you a free meal.' (Kelah, in Trans-Caucasia, is the name given to a dish, which the relatives of a deceased being distribute in honour of the dead soul of the deceased to all who wish it.)

"This was Termosses all over. In short, he was not like other beings, especially not like priests; yet in spite of this, all the Armenians of the town loved him.

"There were hundreds of other priests in that town, but none of them had such a following as he had. Yet he passed all his spare time in one cafe or other, where usually no priest of any faith is to be found.

"Well then, I became friends with this Termosses, and I always used to visit him while I lived in that town. He had a large family.

"One day his eldest son fell sick of a certain illness. The best known physician of the town was immediately sent for, and after having examined the invalid, made out a very long and complicated prescription. I happened to be in the sick room when the mixture arrived from the chemists, and I noticed that Termosses emptied the whole bottle into a big jug and gave it all at once to his sick son to drink. He then put the bottle back on the table where I was sitting. I glanced at the directions pasted on the bottle and was alarmed to see that a dessert spoon only of this medicine was to be taken three times a day; and here Termosses had given his son the whole of the fairly big bottle at once. Being greatly astonished, I expressed my concern to Termosses; he only said laughing: 'Don't be alarmed, my dear fellow, it's nothing serious'. Taking a seat beside me he explained as follows: 'The medicines of our physicians are of two kinds. You must always be a little careful with the first kind, because, although it very seldom occurs, and usually only by mistake, yet it does sometimes happen, that something poisonous to the organism is contained in it. Anybody, however, can instantly recognise this dangerous kind of medicine, because there is always a skull and cross-bones on the bottle. As for their other medicines, they are all alike. They have different

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names, but they are all taken from the same barrel, whatever the disease or
the dozens of learned words on the prescriptions; only sometimes, for variety,
something harmless is put into them to change the colour or taste. At worst,
you might get a little stomach ache on taking these medicines of the second
kind, that is, a quickened action of the bowels; but a purge, as everybody
knows, is absolutely necessary in every case. And, indeed, towards the evening,
his son got such a diarrhoea from this mixture that he was empty. He was quite
well, however, the following day, proving that his illness must have been due
to the clogging of the stomach. As the prescription was made, of course, in
ignorance of the precise cause of the illness and had nothing to do with the
real cause, it was only thanks to the system of this queer fellow Thermosses
that the young man was so quickly cured and out of bed.

"I was told about these medicines by another being whom I used often to meet
for various reasons in one of the capitals of the Russian social organisation,
where my business often took me during my sixth descent. He was a pharmacist.
Beings of this profession keep shops where they sell the numerous varieties of
medicines which these Earth physicians prescribe or advise for their patients.
This pharmacist was an old acquaintance of mine. He had no whims, but he was
a very good sort of being and very kind to everybody about him. By religion
he was Jewish. Nobody knows why, but on all the continents of that planet,
the profession of pharmacist is followed chiefly by beings of the Jewish faith.
When I happened to be in his town, I always used to go to his shop and chat
with him at the back, which room he called his laboratory.

"Once when I dropped in as usual, I found him in his laboratory pounding some-
thing in a mortar, and I asked him what he was doing. He said he was crushing
burnt sugar for a prescription; and he showed me a piece of paper, on which
was written the prescription of a certain remedy, very well known on that
planet, and called Dover's powder.

"On Earth this powder is used chiefly for coughs, and was invented by English
physician named Dover; hence its name.

"I read the prescription he gave to me, and saw that no sugar, and certainly
no burnt sugar was included in it. I looked a little puzzled, of course,
whereupon he laughingly said: 'Certainly there is no sugar in the prescription,
but a certain percentage of opium instead. But this Dover's powder happens to
be our most popular remedy, and it is used by nearly all the peoples of our
vast Russia. They use hundreds of thousands of packets every day. But the
opium which ought to be in it, is not, as you know, the cheap variety and if
real opium were used, the opium alone would cost from six to eight kopeks a
packet; and we pharmacists have to sell this powder for three or five kopeks
a packet. And again, suppose we could collect all the opium in the world, we
should be still in the same fix. There would not be enough for Russia alone.
So instead of the prescription of this Doctor Dover we pharmacists have invent-
ed another prescription, containing substances which are profitable and easy
for everybody to obtain. We make this power of soda, burnt sugar and a little
quinine. These substances are all cheap; though the quinine is a little ex-
pensive. But how much of that is necessary? Only one half percent of quinine
is used in the composition of these powders.'

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"I couldn't help asking him how he managed it. 'Won't anybody discover that you are giving him 'Solhanka' and not Dover's powders?'

"'Certainly not', laughed my amiable acquaintance. 'It could only be discovered by sight or by taste; and we make our Dover's powder exactly as it should be according to the genuine prescription, in colour and taste. You can use any magnifying glass you like and you will find our powder of exactly the same colour as if it were made with real opium. And as regards the taste, it cannot be distinguished from the real powder chiefly because of the amount of quinine we put in it.'

"'What about the analysis?' I asked him. 'What is analysis'? he replied sarcastically. 'A thorough analysis of one powder might cost enough to buy hundreds of pounds of this powder. You could probably open a whole pharmacy on it. And nobody would be so silly for the sake of three or five kopeks worth of powder. To tell the truth, moreover, you can nowhere get the analysis you are thinking of. There are, of course, analytic chemists in every town and even every municipality employs such analysts. But what do they amount to? Perhaps you do know what it is these specialists know and how they are trained and how they come to fill such responsible posts. I will tell you. For instance, there is some Mama's darling, a young man who has a pimpled face, because his Mama being cultured considered it immoral to tell her son about certain things. The young man, not having as yet any consciousness of his own, acts according to what acts in him; with the result that there appear on his face the pimples well known to medicine. He studies at some University or other to become a chemist; and he naturally reads the books manufactured by German savants.'

"'By the way these German drones have the habit of compiling books on all the branches of what they call science. As chemical analysis is one of them, these German savants have accumulated an enormous quantity of books on this subject. And most of the European nations, as well as, other countries, refer to them.'

"'So, my dear friend, these analyses are made by this young man who has completed his training and therefore, of course, studied these German books containing the composition of various substances and all the fantastic formulae of their elements.'

"'The appearance of those substances when they contain all their elements are described in these books, and also their appearance when some of their elements are missing.'

"'Though it is all, of course, a long way from the actual truth several homely methods of recognising substances are mentioned, as for instance, sight, taste, burning, and in fact those ways which our grandmothers heard from olden times.'

"'Having finished his training, our young man is entitled to call himself an analytic chemist; but sometimes, before taking a responsible post, he does some practical work, by which is usually meant that he serves a term at a slaughter house, as assistant to the local chemist. Mama's darling ascertains with a microscope, by means known only to himself, whether there is trichina in the pork; after which, as soon as a vacancy occurs he is given an official post.'

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"Suppose that such an official analytic chemist is given one of our Dover's powders to analyse. Having got it, looked at it, and tasted it, just like any ordinary mortal he at once recognises it as Dover's powder, or possibly the sender told him. The first thing he must do is to take from his table the pharmaceutical guide, also compiled by Germans, which every official chemist analyst must have; and here he looks for the place where the formulae of powders are given. As Dover's powder is known everywhere, he will certainly find it in the book. Our estimable chemist analyst then takes from the table a form, on which his official title is printed, and writes: 'The powder sent me for analysis, proves to be, from its composition, Dover's powder. During my analysis there were found in it.........' and he proceeds to copy the formula from his German Pharmaceutical guide. Of course, he takes care to raise or diminish the figures a trifle, so as not to give himself away altogether.

"And he does it all this way, firstly, in order to let every body know that he was written it, not just anyhow, but after a real analysis; and secondly, because the city pharmacist, whatever else he may be, is also an official. I imagine that few people like to make enemies in the town where they live. The completed form is dispatched to the sender of the powder, while the famous chemist analyst himself remains quite calm. He knows that nobody will know that he has made no analysis at all and no one will be able to check him, first, because he is the only official chemist analyst in the town; and secondly, even if the powder were taken to another town, to some other wonderful chemist, nothing terrible would happen. Are there no other Dover's powders in the world? And the particular one he analysed no longer exists; because he naturally had to destroy it in making his analysis. No, my dear fellow, I don't think you would find anybody who would kick up all that fuss for three kopeks worth of Dover's Powder.

"Anyhow I have been making these powders according to our prescription for thirty years, and naturally selling them; and so far there has not been a single case of trouble about them.

"There cannot be, because everybody knows Dover's powders, and that they are very good for colds. And that is quite enough. All that is required of a remedy is that it should be reputed to be a good remedy. As regards its composition and how it should be made, - what does it matter what is put into it? In any case, nobody can ever be helped. Faith only can help man; and if this powder is called Dover's, that is enough. You can cure anybody of anything only provided he believes in the remedy, or in whatever it is that is said to be good for his complaint. Besides, all our prescriptions now are really better than the originals, if only because they contain no harmful substance. The prescription of Doctor Dover, for instance, contains a very deleterious substance, namely, opium; and you know the peculiarity of opium. If a man takes it often, even in small doses, his organism will soon be so used to it that if he should stop taking it, he will suffer a good deal. But from the powder made according to our prescription, nothing like this can happen, because it contains neither opium nor any other injurious matter. It can be taken as often as you like without, any ill affects.

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"In fact, my dear fellow, everybody, so to speak, ought to shout it on the house-tops: 'Hurrah! for the new prescription of Dover's powders.

"So, my dear Hassein, I decided to become a physician; not, however, an ordinary physician, but what they call a physician hypnotist, there being a great demand for such physicians in most of the continents and amongst all classes. Ordinary physicians rarely inspire the confidence and sincerity which I required for my purpose; and besides, I had already had a wide experience in this speciality, having before practised among Earth-beings as a physician hypnotist."

"Grandfather, dear", said Hassein, "Please explain what hypnotism is".

"Hypnotism", began Beelzebub, "is the name these beings give to that property from which all their peculiarities proceed. This property is the feature which distinguishes their psyche from the psyche of all the other beings of the whole Universe."

"If these beings did not exist, then this property of hypnotism would also not exist in the whole Universe. Their whole life, moreover, moves, as it were, under a spell. The only difference is that in life the hypnotic condition moves slowly and gradually; and only when it is accelerated do the very obvious absurdities called 'hypnotism' arise."

"You can tell or show a being in his hypnotic state, anything you please, he will immediately believe it. He does not arrive at this belief in the usual gradual manner, but he at once becomes convinced for the rest of his life. Suppose, for instance, you show a flea to a being in that state and tell him it is a rhinoceros he will believe that is really a rhinoceros; and not only will this belief and understanding last while he is in that state, but afterwards when it has completely passed. Moreover, whenever they see a flea, it will really seem to them to be a rhinoceros. You can try all you like by ordinary means and logic to convince them otherwise, - they will always continue to think that the flea is indeed a rhinoceros, and never doubt it. The more you try to prove the contrary, the more positive and convinced they become. The only other thing of which they will be equally certain is that you are eager to deceive them; and they will probably get offended and angry."

"It is quite possible to bring these beings into this accelerated hypnotic state by artificial means. Indeed, having accidentally discovered this property of theirs and also accidentally how to induce this state in each other, they use it as a means of freeing themselves from certain too obvious and transparent absurdities. By chance, they also discovered that anybody in this state can be persuaded of the contrary of anything."

"For inducing this state, which as I have already said, they call 'hypnotism' they, by chance, found a certain means. The counter process of convincing others being called 'suggestion'. And those physicians who know how to induce this state in others, are called 'hypnotists' to distinguish them from ordinary physicians."

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"Information regarding this property, its process and significance, has become amongst them, at the present time, a very well known science; and, as about everything else, they have, of course, hundreds of fantastic theories about it. Equally, there are thousands of books written on the subject. So far, however, not one of them knows what kind of property hypnotism really is or how it is produced in them.

"If I explain why this special property is produced amongst these unfortunate beings and what it is, you must try your best to understand it, because, as I have already told you, this particular property is unique in the whole Universe. Well, the chief reason for their possession of this peculiarity is that these unfortunate beings have two kinds of consciousness resulting from the exceptional environmental conditions created on that planet in which they are developed and educated. These two kinds of consciousness are as follows: first, their real consciousness, common to all the beings in the whole Universe including the beings of all other forms on this same planet, for example, animals, birds, fish and so on; but in addition to this real consciousness, these strange biped beings have yet another, a secondary consciousness, not their own, but derived from outside and formed temporarily in them, an extraneous one, or how shall I say it, a consciousness foreign to them. Even their brains have been gradually adapted by Nature, and now contain independent regions in which are recorded every perception and impression for both these two kinds of consciousness.

"Their real consciousness, as in other beings, belongs to their essence; but the other consciousness is acquired during life. As I have already told you this is due to the established environmental conditions of their development and education. It is as if in the brains of these beings two kinds of thoughts exist,-- one, their real thoughts, proper to every being, that is, the thoughts of his essence, the other foreign thoughts which have nothing in common with him.

"Finding both these forms of consciousness in themselves, these beings call the first 'consciousness' and the other 'sub-consciousness' to distinguish them.

"But what they call their sub-consciousness is in reality just their real consciousness; while what they call their consciousness is something quite different, which has nothing in common with their own essence, being merely the totality of the perceptions which they have accidentally and automatically accumulated from their very first birthday. These impressions so collected begin to think the thoughts, not of their real essence, but by and of themselves; which thoughts being foreign, have no connection whatever with their essence nor with any of its real functions. They continue to be formed independently without any connection with their essence; and having been thus independently acquired and being foreign to their real essence, they can be easily displaced or changed by any chance event. This is why these beings acquire an entirely subjective character, independent of their essence, having, according to law, no connection with the common objectivity, that is with the Nature in which they exist. They have, in consequence, not as yet acquired even with their real consciousness, and in all the many centuries since their creation, any will of their own, nor any logical thinking; and even the ability to employ common-sense is quite absent in them.

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"Hence you tell such a consciousness that it is so; then with out either reflection or question, the being will take it on faith, and be firmly convinced that it is not only so but cannot be otherwise.

"Having, as I said," continued Beelzebub, "discovered this peculiarity of theirs, and accidentally found the means of inducing this hypnotic state in each other, they have recently begun to use it for healing; and the beings professionally so engaged, are called 'doctor-hypnotists'. I could be a very good Hypnotist, myself, because during my former experiments upon these beings I discovered several methods of which the ordinary practitioners have never even dreamed; although, it is true, they have recently discovered a few new methods, all, however, based on one and the same principle.

"They know only one principle for inducing this state. Their chief method consists in making their patients look fixedly on a shining object; and, in fact, by this method some beings really are cast into this hypnotic state. This happens because as the two kinds of consciousness are formed in these beings, a separate circulation of the blood for each consciousness is established in the organism, that is to say, two modes of blood circulation are formed: one mode, when the centre of gravity of the filling up of the blood vessels is in one part of the blood vessels, that is to say, where the filling of the stream is greatest; and the other mode when the center of gravity is in another part of the blood stream. Each form of blood circulation is produced by its particular consciousness, or vice versa, each form produces its own mode of consciousness. One form produces what they call consciousness, and the other, sub-consciousness. Strictly speaking these beings are only really conscious when they are sub-conscious.

"When a being looks fixedly on a shining object, certain muscles are tensed, and if, at the same time, a certain concentration of thought and feeling is brought about, the blood circulation is changed and the former mode passes into another, that is, into that of the waking state, or his customary acquired consciousness. When the form of blood circulation changed, the being's sub-consciousness, as they call it, is manifested, in short, passes into an unusual non-waking state. And since in their consciousness neither criticism nor comparison exists, both being acquired only by the essence of the beings from their former perceptions and impressions; it follows that beings in this state believe everything they are told and take it exactly as given. This state they sometimes call a trance, or it is sometimes otherwise said, the being becomes a 'medium'. He carries out in a waking state all that is suggested to him by beings as well as by inanimate objects.

"The whole trick of such a physician hypnotist lies in the skill with which he consciously or unconsciously changed the forms of the circulation of their blood. By practice I became skillful, in changing it simply by stopping the flow of the blood in certain of the vessels. This method of mine is the most uniformly successful. By means of their method, for instance, gazing on a shining object, and others, they do indeed attain concentration of thought and feeling, but they cannot induce the hypnotic state in everybody.

"It cannot be induced, for instance, in those beings called 'hysterical'. But by means of my manipulation of the blood vessels this state can be induced

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"She went away. Five more minutes passed. Eventually the doctor appeared. I briefly explained what I wanted, at which he began to laugh very heartily. Only when his hysterical laughter finally subsided, was he able to tell me that he regretted that was not a doctor of medicine, but of philosophy. It was as if for the second time, the judgement of Our Endlessness was passed on me. I immediately ran away from the house of this doctor of philosophy.

"A taxi happened to pass as I came into the street, and as I got into it, I thought, 'Where now'? I then remembered that in the cafe which I used to frequent, there was nearly always to be found a being whom everybody called doctor. I ordered the driver to hurry to this cafe, but there was a waiter I knew, told me that this doctor had just been and gone with acquaintances. The waiter had overheard them say that they were off to a certain restaurant, the name of which he told me. Although this restaurant was rather a long way off, I ordered the taxi to take me there, since I knew of no other doctor.

"It took us half an hour to get to this restaurant, where we very soon found the doctor. But on this occasion he turned out to be a 'doctor of jurisprudence'. I was now in a pretty fix. But at last I ventured to speak to the head waiter of the restaurant, and told him just what I wanted. He turned out to be a very good sort; and he not only explained things to me but even accompanied me to a certain doctor, but this time an accoucheur, whom we luckily found at home; and who, moreover, was kind enough to go with me at once. But before we arrived my poor neighbor had already given birth to her firstborn son - and with no help had managed to swathe the child and was already sleeping profoundly after her terrible pain.

"Ever since, I cannot bear to hear the word 'doctor'; and I advise everybody to use the word only in anger.

"Well, as I was saying, my dear Hassein, this elderly gentleman called me doctor, as everybody respectfully addressed me, without, of course, knowing how offensive it sounded in my ears, and how much I disliked it. And having addressed me by this odious title, he very amiably said 'perhaps you will allow me to accompany you on your walks? I have noticed' he continued, 'that you often walk alone in these places in the morning. As I also like walking here in the morning, and am quite lonely here in Egypt, I determined to ask if you would be kind enough to let me walk with you'.

"As this being seemed to be very kind and sympathetic, I began to take my morning walks with him. He turned out to be a Russian and a very important being in his native land.

"During our walks we chanced to talk mostly about the weak will of the beings on the Earth, and about those harmful vices into which they so readily fall, and which become imperative needs in the organism.

"During one of our walks, he suddenly said to me, 'My dear doctor, in Russia my native land, the passion for alcohol is so strong and has become so widely spread through recent years that, indubitably it will finally destroy the social forms established for centuries; and reduce my dear fatherland back to barbarism. Becoming aware of this, some far seeing Russians met together to

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consider how best to avert these consequences. And they decided to form a
society for the purpose and to call it, 'The Society for preserving Public
Sobriety'; and I was elected its President.

"The activities of this society, in organising methods for combating this state evil, are just now at their height. A great deal has already been done by the society in the direction of education, and it is hoped to do still more. All the same, my dear doctor, if you ask me my frank opinion of the probable results, I should have to confess that, although I am at the head of this work, there is nothing good to say about it. My only hope personally nowadays is that a miracle may happen.

"The whole trouble, in my opinion, is that this society is public. It organisation and the solution of its problems depend on a number of groups of people, all of which have their own aims and wishes regarding them. The result is that there is a great deal of discussion at the expense of actual work and my fatherland naturally suffers for it.

"There in Russia I naturally thought a good deal about it, but I could get no light on the situation; and here, where I came especially to rest, I cannot escape my gloomy thoughts, neither by day or by night. I consulted many people in Russia and made enquiries where I could find people who knew something on the subject of alchoholism. I heard, in fact, about you during my enquiries, and that you were an authority on the cure of alchoholism and other forms of weakness of will; and I intended to consult you. Having met you by accident, and had many talks with you about the evil habits of men, an idea occurred to me yesterday, which I considered the whole evening and finally decided to put to you today. My idea was to ask whether you would consent to come to my fatherland. I am sure you will not refuse. You have convinced me during your talks of your philanthropy, and I am sure, therefore, that you will come and perhaps save millions of men. You shall go with me and see everything for yourself. Then perhaps your experience will enable us to organise in such a way that our society will accomplish for my fatherland the object for which it was founded.

"After thinking a while I replied to what the friendly being had said, as follows: 'It was quite possible that I may accept your invitation to go to Russia, since Russia may be more suitable for my aim.

"At the present time', I continued, 'I have only one aim, that is to know more about the psyche of man, not only of men individually, but of men collectively. And Russia seems to be very favourable since the disease alchoholism is spread amongst almost the whole population, and in such a way as to afford opportunities for experimenting upon men in masses.

"After my talk with this important being, I prepared for my journey, and some days later, we left Egypt together. After a few weeks traveling we arrived in the capital of Russia, the city of St. Petersburg. My new acquaintance at once, threw himself into his affairs which during his long absence had greatly accumulated, for, in addition to his other affairs in St. Petersburg, he was busy preparing for the inaugural opening of a big building, now nearly finished, which had been erected by the Society for Combating Alcoholism.

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"I decided to use my time to become acquainted with the beings of that town, and also to arrange a chemical laboratory where I could make my chemical-physical experiments on the psyche of these incomprehensible beings. This latter plan of mine could not unfortunately be carried out on account of the idiotic regulations then in force. The trouble on that planet is that you can do anything, and have even a thousand laboratories, but if any proposal could jeopardise the smug social tranquility upon which the quietude of the small group of beings exercising power at the moment depends, then it is almost impossible to carry it out.

"At the same time, a laboratory was impossible without official permission, since 'laboratory' also described the rooms in which revolutionaries manufactured bombs against their oppressors, that is, against those in power. Not realising how difficult it was to get a laboratory of one's own on that planet, and seeing that a laboratory was very necessary for me, I began to take steps to get official sanction.

"I made the great mistake of trying to obtain this permit according to rules as such permits are obtained on all the other planets. Unfortunately I only realised much later that this permit could be obtained not according to the rules, but like everything else done on that planet, that is, without rules. Rules do, of course, exist on that planet, but the psyche of the beings themselves being peculiar, the rules must be obeyed in a peculiar way, and not after the usual fashion. In short, one must act, not according to rule, but according to custom, or according to the manner laid down by some cunning beings for their personal profit.

"My failure to obtain my permit arose in the following way. According to the rules laid down, it was necessary to obtain permission to have a private laboratory, and this permission was given at the discretion of a government department. I made the mistake of applying to the department, whose business it was to issue such permits. The trouble began when it turned out that nobody in the department knew what the procedure was. Naturally nobody knew, seeing that nobody had ever applied to them; and they had not acquired by practice the routine of the procedure. Yet there were thousands of laboratories in that town; and all of which must certainly have obtained the permit required by law, since the police inspection of permits in that town was organised, and in certain social organisations the sole duties of the police consist in such inspection. I learned afterwards that such a phenomenon is quite in the order of things on that planet: even their own functions, such as thought, feeling, the sexual function and so on.

"When I came to this department and applied for this permission, all the clerks looked at each other in bewilderment. They began to rummage in books and to question each other. Eventually the heads of the department requested me to bring them certain information from some other department, and upon which began an endless perambulation from one department to another, and from one office to another. For instance, from the police I went to the parish priest, thence

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almost to the town's midwife, from the police headquarters to the medical department, and so on and so forth. Every where it was necessary to answer certain questions and to sign certain papers. In one place one

and in another I was advised how to handle equipment in a laboratory so as not to poison myself. In a third they tried to dissuade me from setting up a laboratory at all because, during work in laboratories, explosions or something similar always occur.

I don't know how the business of getting the permit would have ended if, after having wasted nearly three months of my time I had not given up the whole absurd affair. And I was compelled to do so for a very amusing reason. Owing to the same senseless delay, a certificate from a doctor was required, testifying that my presence in the laboratory would not endanger my personal health, and for this purpose I had to see a doctor. He proposed at once to examine me very thoroughly, and insisted that I should undress, so that he could tap me everywhere with his little hammer. But I could not agree to that for worlds. On no account would I show myself naked, since in that case, I should have revealed the tail which I usually ingeniously concealed in the folds of my dress.

"Had anybody seen my tail they would certainly have concluded that I was not a being of their planet; and I should never have been able to remain amongst them at all to satisfy my curiosity concerning their psyche. So I left the doctor and thenceforward ceased trying to get a permit.

"During all that time my acquaintance, the important Russian used to come to see me, and I was also at his house several times. We always discussed Russian alcoholism and the measures for combating the evil. I also had had time to become well acquainted with the peculiarities of the psyche of the Russian beings, and would often give him my opinion on the organisation of the work. He attached great importance to my advice and observations, both on the future as well as on the past, and was very pleased with my comments and with the justice of my remarks. In turn, he reported my suggestions to the general council of the society, by whom they were almost unanimously adopted.

"But the doctors, who also had a voice in the work of carrying out these decisions, opposed the majority of useful measures. More particularly later, when they learned that the initiative in certain cases proceeded from me, a physician not of their association. They persistently organised the opposition to all my suggestions. As I have already told you, it seems that the associative spirit is very strongly developed among them. I was not a Russian physician, that is, one who had the official diploma of the Russian School in his pocket; and hence, I could not belong to their association. However good the advice I might give or the suggestions I might make they meant nothing to them. As I was not a Russian doctor, all my advice was, in their opinion, quackery.

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"In spite of the fact that the head of the society was heart and soul devoted to me, and saw hope only in following my advice, he could do nothing. My suggestions were all defeated and nothing was decided in their place. When I was finally convinced that there was no further need for me to remain there, I prepared to leave, much to the regret of my acquaintance, this important Russian, and some other beings who wished their country well.

"During those days they prepared to open the newly built house. This house was named after their Czar, and was called 'The People's House of Nicholas II'. My acquaintance begged me to wait a little so that after the inauguration and formal opening, he would be free to accompany me for a little rest after the worries of the preceding days. For this reason I delayed my departure for several days.

"On the day of the opening, at which the Czar himself was present, my acquaintance spoke to him about me, with the result that it was arranged that I should be presented to the Czar. My acquaintance was particularly delighted with this, because on that planet, a presentation to a sovereign is considered a very great honour. And my acquaintance obviously desired to do me this great favour, as a sop to his conscience, since he considered himself alone responsible for my visit in that capital.

"Some days after the opening of the 'People's House', on looking out of the window of my apartment one morning, I saw an unusual activity in the street. All the residents were cleaning and sweeping up everywhere and there were many police about. When I asked my servant the cause of it all, he explained that an important general was expected that day; and later in the day, while I was talking to a friend of mine, the concierge came running to me in a very agitated state, to say that this important general wished to see me.

"When this important general entered my room, he sat down, leisurely, and began to talk at first about trifles, as these beings usually do. We discussed the weather, the attitude of a certain king to some question or other, and of course we discussed the nightingales of Kursk. Afterwards, also without haste, he said: 'You are soon to be presented to the Czar, and as I superintend these affairs, I have come to explain what you must do on that occasion.'

"He then described for me the necessary movements, after which he also informed me that, in the Tsarkoe Selo, he would accompany me everywhere and show me everything in detail on the spot. He over and over again insisted that I should say nothing to the Czar, but what he himself would write. Having explained all this, his super-excellency departed.

"On the day of the presentation, the same important general met me as soon as I stepped out of the train and from that moment, as Mullah Nassr Eddin would say in such a case: 'I began to dance to his tune'. Walking by my side the whole time, he instructed me and told me, in every case, what I should do and how I must act; how to move, how to turn, how to speak, ask, and do everything else, and, in short, he entirely took the place of my 'I' in me. Of what happened in the apartment itself, where I had my meeting with the Czar, there is nothing to say. In short, my every step and every word were shown me. Only when at last I got into the train, did that

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important general leave me in peace. I was so busy the whole day performing the innumerable stupid antics demanded of me, that I grew so weary, on account of my age, that I did not even notice how the Czar looked on that day, or how he behaved in the comedy.

"From the station, I naturally went straight home. The next day the fun commenced. The result of my presentation was, - how can I tell you - as if I had been reborn and had become another being. My whole external life, as well as my importance, changed for absolutely everybody. I was at once important, clever, remarkable, powerful, extraordinary and so on and so forth. For instance, the proprietor of the shop where I bought my provisions every morning before I went to business, insisted on delivering my purchases for me. All the policemen on duty in the street, and who already knew that I was a foreign physician, saluted me from a distance as if I were a great general.

"When I returned home the same day, one important official brought me, for my unfortunate laboratory, the permit for which I had pined for three months. On the same day I received four more permissions from various ministries and departments, and ultimately, from all the departments to which I had applied during the period of my troubles. The proprietors, shop-keepers, children, and all the neighbors, became as attentive to me as if I proposed to leave each of them a fortune. I afterwards discovered, this unfortunate Czar had himself to be prepared whenever he was to meet some strange being; and such meetings occurred almost every day, and sometimes several on the same day. It might be a parade, or an ambassador from some other king, or a delegation in the morning; in the evening, presentations like mine; and then discussions with the representatives of the people and so on and so forth.

"On every occasion he must talk or make a speech. At the same time every word he uttered, had to be carefully weighed from every aspect, because the least word of the Czar might have important consequences, not only upon his own subjects but also upon all the subjects of all the other kings of the whole planet. Not having enough facts to go on, and not having a mind capable of dealing with unforeseen cases, these Czars employ beings whose duty it is to instruct them, what and how, they must speak and act. The Czar must certainly remember everything told him; and in order to remember he must practice. The meaning of practice I quite understood when I had to prepare for my own presentation to this Russian Czar.

"But for me, this preparation was only once necessary during the whole of my existence, and

> I personally have not the slightest desire in the world to stand in the shoes of an Earth king, nor should I wish my worst enemy, or the enemy of my nearest relatives, to be an Earth king under the conditions which now exist, least of all if he has not a mind capable of getting at the truth for himself whenever necessary.

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"All the beings of that planet, for instance, know that among these ancient Egyptian beings were twenty-four dynasties. Ask any child you please and the reply would be that the Egyptians had twenty-four dynasties, because the History of Egypt is studied in all their schools at the present time. But why just so many dynasties? None of the contemporary beings so much as thinks about this; and if anybody should perhaps think of it and try and picture it to himself, he would imagine something like this:

"Among the Egyptians there were twenty-four dynasties. A dynasty is a name given to a family of kings, reigning according to the monarchic law, that is, by the law of inheritance from father to son. As beings of the same generation bear the same name, there must have been as many dynasties, because there were twenty-four families of kings in Egypt.

"Thus contemporary beings are limited by these reflections and by nothing else. If you ask why there were so many families of kings, then again the picture at best would be something as follows:

"In ancient Egypt was a certain king, Mr. John, who having tired of governing called another Mr. John and addressed him thus:

"My very honorable and highly respectable Sir John, this social organization over which I am ruling wearies me very much, and I am tired. Loving my son, I have no desire that he should also become tired. I therefore entreat you to be good and kind enough not to refuse my request, namely, to free me and my son and to undertake the government yourself."

"This second Mr. John, being very kind and polite, was unable to refuse the request and from the following day began to rule over that social-organization. As his family name was different, the number of the Egyptian dynasties was increased by one, and so on. The kings of Egypt often becoming tired, often gave up their kingdom to others, which is why in Egypt these dynasties so often changed. In reality however, these dynasties were not changed so simply. On the contrary between one dynasty and the next, there were such upheavals that in comparison with them contemporary Bolshevism is child's play. Contemporary beings, for instance, are indignant that Bolsheviks shot a certain Peter Petrovich. If it was surely known that Peter Petrovich had been shot and not somebody else, then it would mean that thins had become normal on that planet and that contemporary beings had suddenly become so strong in character that they could act deliberately and justly by their former persecutors. In order that you may better understand what was done during such revolts, I will relate two events taken from the History of Egypt, and of which I was a witness. You will perhaps understand the difference between the former phenomena of this kind and those which happen today on Earth, and about which you will learn by the reports of our governor on Mars.

"During one of the intervals between the dynasties, and order was issued by the central committee of the revolutionaries to the population, announcing that in the forthcoming elections for the chiefs of the towns and villages, those contributing the greatest number of croans in his sacred cup would be elected. In one of the religious customs of that period, during certain

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ceremonies a cup was placed before every being; and every time certain prayers were uttered some vegetable or fruit, specially designated by the priests for that day was put into it. This ceremony was obviously invented by the priests themselves as a means of living, though it had the appearance of an offering; and these fruits and vegetables were called by the Egyptians 'croans'.

"In the order of which I am speaking, the croans to be contributed were the eyes of 'monsters'; and by the latter word was meant those who belonged to the former governing class, not excluding women, children and old men. It was further stated in the proclamation, that the citizen with the greatest number of croans in his cup would be appointed as governor of the capital; and that the rest of the governors of other towns and villages would be appointed according to their croans. You can imagine what took place.

"On another occasion, I saw the following picture in this same Egypt. You must know that in every town in Egypt, there used to be a big public place, in which every kind of religious and military ceremony was held, and where masses of beings without difference of caste assembled.

"As the humble castes interfered with these ceremonies, a certain Pharaoh ordered a rope to be drawn around those public places, to keep the crowds out. Some of these ropes were broken under the pressure of the people, whereupon the Pharaoh became angry and ordered them to be made of metal; and for greater security the Egyptian priests consecrated them and called them sacred. In the big towns these ropes were sometimes of enormous length, being as much as from six to eight miles long. I once witnessed how the crowd spitted on these 'sacred' ropes just like Asiatic 'shishlik' beings of the governing class with out difference of sex or age; and in the evening of the same day, with the help of ten pairs of buffaloes, this peculiar 'Shampour' (spit) was dragged and thrown into the river Nile.

"Many of these acts of summary justice I saw; yet today beings of the whole planet Earth are indignant that a certain Peter Petrovich was shot.

"Grandfather dear, please tell me whether, even though these Earth-beings have no objective mind, it is not possible that even in the absence of established customs, their common existence has, nevertheless, become more or less tolerable since they have existed for so many centuries", asked Hassein.

"Certainly", replied Beelzebub, "During the centuries it sometimes happens that very good customs are formed by life, but owing to their weakness of will and suggestibility, habits and customs acquired during tens of centuries can be utterly destroyed in half a century. The desire to influence and to be influenced by another as well as by a whole social organization, is strongly developed in them. For instance, whole peoples of an old social-organization on the continent Asia, which had existed for many centuries and had during that time acquired many good customs, have today, owing to new conditions, fallen under the influence of beings belonging to the neighboring continent of Europe. Those ancient Asiatic social-organizations, which only six months before had been distinguished by their morality, the fruit of the customs acquired

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during centuries, had already, when I finally left that planet, fallen under
the influence of those European beings. The state of morality amongst them
when I was last there was such that they could give ten points start to their
European teachers. Those who only the day before lived without locking up
their property and who possessed a strong sense of shame - that lever of mor-
ality - and other things of a similar nature, had become robbers and phenom-
cially immoral. Why so quickly? I think the reason of it chiefly lies in
the drink which the beings of Europe had brought them together with their in-
fluence. A very good example are those Russians about whom I have just told
you, and among whom this Bolshevism occurred. The country where they dwell,
is adjacent to those old Asiatic social-organizations, and from constant con-
tact with these, many good customs gradually passed thence to those Russians,
customs acquired by those old social-organizations during many centuries.
Existence among those Russians, was largely influenced by these Asiatic peo-
ples, but during the later centuries, owing to new conditions, the Russians
fell under the influence of European beings, chiefly those of the social-or-
ganization called France. France began to have a very strong influence on
Russia, and Russia aimed at imitating France very precisely.

"Russia, having taken many good customs from the people of Asia, then gradually began to lose these customs, and to acquire the new French ones. Among the customs which Russia had taken from the Asiatic beings were thousands of good ones. As an example, let us take two, namely, the custom of chewing 'keva' and hot air baths; and after eating to chew mastic. This mastic prepared from different roots does not decompose however long it is chewed but on the contrary becomes more elastic. It was invented by a very wise being to aid the digestion. The chewing of this keva produces a great deal of saliva and many other necessary substances which enable the food introduced into the organism to digest more quickly and easily. It also helps very much to clean the teeth and the cavity of the mouth from the remains of the food and does not allow the latter to decompose in the mouth. By this means also the teeth are left clean and strong owing to the friction and exercise.

CHAPTERS XXXVI, XXXVII

JUST A WEE BIT MORE ABOUT THE GERMANS, AND FRANCE

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(GERMANY AND PARIS)

At this point Beelzebub finished his story and put the curl of his tail in order. A little later he turned to old Ahun and said: "Eh! Ahun, are you again sitting with cocked ears listening to me like the prosecution on the planet Earth to the witnesses in a trial? You also now tell our Hassein something."

"How can I do that, your Reverence?" answered Ahun, "You know yourself how I was all the time very busy there serving your Reverence. And even when I was occasionally free, I was too much interested in the food and drink prepared by those beings. Nowhere on other planets do they spend so much time on it, and nowhere do they serve so many kinds of food and drink as on that planet; especially drinks. I tasted them all everywhere and compared their merits."

"Well then, tell us about food and drink, and on which continents of the planet Earth they were best prepared." said Beelzebub.

Upon this Ahun smacked his lips with pleasure and answered: "As regards food, the continent Asia is beyond comparison above the other continents. In Asia one can say, the mouth waters at some dishes. But as regards drink, it would be a crime to say a bad word about the continent Europe. As regards... beer... how is it called...? I have forgotten its name... Eh! Surely my memory is beginning to get weak from old age. Perhaps your Reverence remembers the name of that big social organization which was situated almost in the centre of the continent Europe, where pipe smoking was popular?"

"Is it Germany?" asked Beelzebub.

"Yes, yes, your Reverence, just Germany. To say anything bad about the German beer would be a crime."

"Tell us, Ahun, your opinion about these Germans," persisted Beelzebub.

"What is my opinion worth? These German beings are not so bad when they sit in their beer houses with hot sausages on the table. But one of their passions does not please me at all, that is, their craze for collecting all kinds of rubbish belonging to beings of other social organisations. They

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collect every sort of thing, stories, proverbs, porcelain and clay objects,
carpets, all kinds of drawings, dead butterflies and much other superfluous
lumber. They collect as they persuade everybody for knowledge of some kind
or other. As regards their other qualities, it is difficult for me to form
an opinion. I think that Hassein can get a pretty complete idea of their
psyche if I tell him just this, that when these German beings gather togeth-
er for feasting or any such purpose they always sing:

'Stumpfsinn, stumpfsinn, du mein Vergnugen,
Blodsinn, blodsinn, du mein Lust."

"By the way, my dear Hassein, note well that many of the words of that song
are to be found in no other language, although on that planet there are
thousands of languages."

When Ahun finished, Beelzebub continued to relate as follows. He began thus:
"Owing to the turkey-reasoning of the beings of that planet, they form opin-
ions quite contrary to reality. Their understanding of everything is decid-
edly subjective, and they have no objective understanding. A very good ex-
ample is the understanding the beings of that planet have of the French, in
whose country I finally arrived when I left St. Petersburg to travel in Europe.
I told you that present-day Russia is much under the influence of these
French, and takes example from them. So although I had never been in that
France, and had never seen those French beings, I thought I knew them fairly
well from the stories told by other beings who had been among them. Most of
these stories I obtained from Asiatic beings and from the beings of the big
social organisation Russia; and I formed the opinion from them that these
French were the most depraved and dishonest beings amongst all the beings
inhabiting the continent Europe. Quite naturally, therefore, when I arrived
on business in France, and began to live in one of their provincial towns, I
expected from them nothing but swindling and immorality. You can judge my
surprise when they turned out to be not depraved and corrupt, but the most
patriarchal, modest, and honest beings of all those populating the continent
Europe.

"I wondered how such a deeply rooted, yet false idea had been formed amongst
the beings of that planet: But I understood the answer only when I arrived
in the capital of France, the city of Paris, and began to make close obser-
vations. I went straight to the hotel recommended to me in Russia; and the
first thing I noticed was that, although this hotel was in France, the staff
spoke only English. I afterwards learned that some years previously the
staff had spoken only Russian. I made further inquiries of a Persian, to
whom I had an introduction from one of my Persian friends. During the even-
ing my new Persian acquaintance suggested going to the Grand Cafe on the
Boulevard des Capucines, where we sat at one of many tables, occupying half
the pavement, as is the custom there.

"Cafes in Europe are very like the tchai-kanes of Asia. the only difference
is that in the tchai-kanes of Asia they give you a red liquid to drink, the
juice of a certain flower, while in European cafes they serve a liquid which
is quite black, the origin of which nobody knows, except the proprietor of
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visiting these suspicious places of Paris, the guides spoke of the 'Tournee de Grand Duc,' or in English, 'The Grand Duke's Tour.' And so it is still called.

"Having taken one of these guides we went to see the wonders of this con-
temporary Tiklandia. We visited many different places,-- for instance the
cafe frequented by homo-sexuals and the club of the Lesbians. We also went
to many other places where various abnormalities are practiced and imitated
from time to time amongst these unfortunate beings in all the centres of
that unfortunate planet. At last we arrived at what is called Montmartre.
This is not on the Montmartre itself, but on the lower slope of the dis-
trict of that name. Here are many dubious establishments and restaurants,
catering especially for visitors from other social organisations. The whole
district wakes up only at night since during the day foreigners never visit
it. Most of its restaurants have stages on which are shown marvels supposed
to be drawn from other lands of that planet, as for example, the stomach
dance of the African beings, Caucasians with their dances, a mulatto with
her snakes, in a word, all the so-called special attractions of the season.
I was much interested to see all there was to be seen in order to understand
everything concerning the beings amongst whom I was living. But certainly I
had never seen anything like them in the places where I had been, where these
marvels were supposed to have originated. And even if I had seen something
like them, they had nothing in common with what was shown in these fashion-
able places. In this Montmartre, many Russian restaurants had been recently
opened. In these, and in the majority of others, the so-called 'artists' are
chiefly Russians, whose fathers had previously in this same Montmartre, low-
ered human dignity by squandering the money collected by the sweat of peas-
ant's. Their children were now, in their turn, being humiliated before other
people who had money. In such a case, Mullah Nassr Eddin would say: 'If
fathers will ride sons must drive.'

"While I was sitting in a restaurant with my Persian friend, he was called away by some of his other Persian friends, and I was left alone at a table with champagne, the ordering of which, in Montmartre, was usually obligatory. My solitude aroused in me reflections upon the surprising things done in the world of Our Endlessness. Here are souls, apparently the same as on the innumerable other planets of the Universe! Why had such a misfortune befallen the planet Earth that it had been necessary to add to the bodies of the first Earth-souls the Kundabuffer? Even now, when that Kundabuffer no longer exists and only a few of its consequences remain, those unhappy souls, in spite of the hundreds of centuries which have passed, have still not been able to make the little effort required to be free of those consequences, and to become souls like all the rest of the Universe.

"I looked around and asked myself if there was any difference between the be-
ings sitting and conversing there, and those who existed nearly a hundred
centuries before then in Tiklandia, amongst whom also I sat in their 'Kal-
tanes,' as the restaurants of that day were called in Tiklandia.

"There in front a fat man was sitting with two street girls. Put him in the costume of a Kafirian, and there would be no difference. Over there is a squeaky-voiced young man talking with intense conviction about the causes of

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they sightsee not to learn anything, but to be able in conversation, to say that they have been in Europe, and seen this, that, and the other. Do you know how they go sightseeing? Well, listen ! Here in Paris, there is a very convenient establishment for this purpose, called Cook and Son. A dozen or so of our Americans are rounded up like a flock of sheep, and the whole party is put aboard a huge Cook motorbus, which then sets off. On the car, beside the Chauffeur, there is a sleepy person with a weak voice, who talks almost to himself, calling out the names, learned by heart, of places and other sights along the route, which has been mapped out by Cook himself. This sleepy person has a very weak voice and looks consumptive, because he is obviously very tired. It is not easy to live in Paris with a family, and many of these men receive very small wages from Cooks, and certainly have to work at night in another place, in order to make enough to live. But that does not concern our tourists.

"If you think that the passengers either understand or remember anything, you are mistaken. It is all the same what they see or what it means. They care nothing about that, but what they do want, is to be able to say non-chalantly: 'I was in that place, and saw that thing,' and that is enough for them; they are satisfied, since they can now say, as I have told you with a clear conscience, 'I was there,' whereupon all Americans will know that they are not talking with a nobody, but with somebody who was in Europe and saw the sights.

"Eh! My dear doctor, do you think that I am the only one who lives on the vanity of my poor compatriots? What am I? I am a little man, only a dancing teacher. But did you notice in the restaurant, a fat man? He is one of the sharks, of which there many in America; he is an Americanised English Jew, a director of a certain substantial firm with branches in many countries. He is the director of the Paris branch. They make their pile, not just on the stupidity of their compatriots, but by the addition of a little trickery into their business. For example, the branch in Paris has quite a good reputation and is well known by the American beings. Many Americans, owing to this same vanity, and other weaknesses, write for fashionable dresses from this Paris branch, and real Paris models are sent from here all quite straight and above-board. There's no harm in it. But, no, these fellows are not such fools as to divide their profits with other people. The French get a profit out of it, but only what they collect from the postage stamps, which the business and its customers use.

"How does this firm make its money? Their branch, here, gets an order from America. This order is sent directly to Germany, where this firm has also a branch, and materials and labour are very much cheaper than they are in Paris. The German branch quietly carries out the order, sticks a Paris label on it, and sends it by steamer straight to New York from Hamburg. The customer there, having received her order, is happy and proud that she can wear on the morrow, a dress really made in Paris itself. In short, everybody is apparently satisfied, and everybody is pleased; and, after all, without international exchange, countries could not exist. But what am I but a small dancing teacher?"

"It was late, and having said goodbye to this amusing American, I went home. On the way, I began to think and to ponder the question why such a false idea

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is formed of the French. It was evident, that beings of other lands, who come to Paris, see and taste, not French life, but a special life for foreigners, organised by foreigners. As all this goes on in French territory and everybody speaks French, everything that is seen and heard is attributed by foreigners to the French beings. A foreign being, after having been in Paris, on returning to his own country, relates what he has seen as if it were French. And so, little by little, people get an idea of the French, from the stories of these travellers, as false as the opinion I gathered from the beings, mostly Asiatics and Russians, who had seen in Paris only what had been prepared for foreigners.

CHAPTER XXXVIII

RELIGION
OR
JESUS CHRIST

"After this fifth descent of mine it was a long time before I was on that planet again, but as before, I watched it very attentively through my observatory. Only just before my departure from that solar system, I was there for the sixth and last time.

"On the occasion of this last descent of mine I stayed amongst its beings a considerable time, a quarter of a year in fact, or according to their time calculation, fifty years.

"In the interval three messengers of our Endlessness appeared on that planet, but in each case I was advised to be absent from the Earth during their visits, in order not by chance to hinder the course of events.

"All three saints appeared on the continent Asia. The first appeared among the Jews and was called Jesus Christ; the second amongst the Arabs, under the name of Saint Mohamed; and the third, Saint Lama, amongst the people of the most elevated place called Thibet. All three saints left to the beings of the Earth their holy teachings, which exist until the present day.

"As usual, these men-beings soon distorted all the three doctrines and to such a degree, that, at the present time their Saintly authors would certainly not recognize their own teachings. Although the doctrine of the first, that of Jesus Christ, spread quickly on the Earth, and almost a third of all the beings of the planet took up the doctrine, and called themselves Christians, yet unfortunately, with their customary peculiarity, they transformed his doctrine of resplendent love into some jumble. The first thing they did was to split up into different sects, on account of some trifle or other, and to call themselves, not Christians but orthodox, heterodox, and psylodox, hamylodox, and other 'doxes'; and next into this doctrine of verity and truth they inserted other doctrines, which had nothing in common with the doctrine of Jesus Christ, and which even contradicted those truths which the Divine Teacher had taught.

"A great deal was taken from the doctrine of Saint Moses. Although it is true that he also was a messenger sent by our Creator, yet his teaching was already out of date for that time, it having been created for beings in other epochs and in other conditions of a possible unconscious evolution; and, moreover, other bases then existed, which afforded the sacredmine-fold octave the possibility of flowing on.

"But the chief thing which they inserted into the doctrine of Jesus Christ whether for convenience or for something else I do not know, was the fantastic

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theory invented by one or another of their half mad 'learned', the doctrine
namely of the Babylonian dualists. The elders of the Church, as they were
called in the middle ages, took particular advantage of the Babylonian theory
with its Paradise and Hell, in order to frighten the credulous masses and in
this manner sell their own wares. And from this theory of pardon by Our
Creator, who suffered for all beings, doctrines are still current concerning
His mockery and temptations

"Who are the Elders of the Church, dear Grandfather"? asked Hassein.

"They call Fathers of the Church those officials of the highest rank who pro-
fess some religious doctrine or other", replied Beelzebub, and continued to
relate further.

"Only a small group of beings called the Essene Fraternity knew how to apply
the doctrine of Jesus Christ to their own life, as well as to the life of their
descendants as a means for their deliverance from the consequences of the prop-
erties of the organ Kundabuffer, possessed by their ancestors.

"Still later and as the teaching of Jesus Christ became still more widely
spread, it was divided into a still greater number of streams. In my opinion,
however, there will very soon be an end of this Christianity altogether. I
have come to this conclusion after reflecting on recent reports from the planet
Mars. I do not seem to have told you that I receive everyday from Mars daily
reports by etherography of the events occurring on the planets of that solar
system, where I passed the greatest part of my existence. I receive more de-
tailed reports of the happenings on the planet Earth, because it is very near,
and also because the details can be easily observed from my observatory. These
reports are made for me by our governor of the planet Mars.

"You remember that I told you that one of our young countrymen had a disagreeable experience on that planet Earth, for which I descended there, and that afterwards he returned with us to Mars not wishing to remain there any longer. This same young fellow later became governor on Mars, and he is still governor at the present time. And so, when I finally left that solar system, I presented him with my observatory, and in gratitude he reports to me all that goes on there, and, knowing my interest in the beings of the planet Earth, he tries to keep me in touch with the events occurring amongst them. By the way, in one of his daily reports he informed me that a University for Jewish youth had just been founded in the city of Jerusalem. The opening of this University tells me that Christianity has come to its end.

"Until quite recently", continued Beelzebub, "all the countries of the follow-
ers of Christ were engaged in great wars or Crusades on account of this very
city of Jerusalem. They wished that this town, in which this holy being, the
Divine Teacher, Jesus Christ, lived, suffered, and died, should be wholly
Christian. During the struggles towards this end almost half the beings of
the planet Earth were destroyed. And now, in this same city of Jerusalem, by
these same Christian states, and certainly with their common consent, a Univ-
ersity for Jewish youth has been opened.

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"Jew is the name given to certain beings who were already in existence when Jesus Christ appeared on that planet; and it was in this city of Jerusalem that they dwelt, those very beings who tortured Him to death, and crucified Him on a cross.

"Although these Jews are not today enemies of Jesus Christ, they all consider Him to have been just a visionary. This is enough to understand what will happen in Jerusalem now that a University has been opened there. This establishment - a University - is a stove in which everything acquired by beings of that planet during tens of centuries is burned up and where that day and a half lentil soup is cooked to take its place.

"I can already picture to myself that before many years have passed on that very spot where the body of that Divine Jesus Christ was buried there will be a stand for automobiles - for those machines which are the greatest mechanical locomotive miracle of contemporary civilisation. These beings have not only destroyed the divine doctrine of Jesus Christ, but they are now destroying His Memory. This is quite characteristic of the beings of that planet Earth.

"The second doctrine, that of Saint Mahomed, - a home of reconciliation and hope, also spread very widely. But, unfortunately, into this also a great deal of the Babylonian doctrine was interwoven, and many pleasant things concerning Paradise were added of which, even Archangel Algematant, the governor of the planet Purgatory has never dreamed.

"This doctrine, too, was split up into many branches. Its followers were mainly divided into two parties, called the 'Sunites' and the 'Shiites'. Their mutual hatred is very intense; and its intensity was further increased at the instigation of certain states, which observing the growing animosity of the two parties, rubbed their hands with glee at the prospect it offered for their own prolonged security, since the reunion in peace and concord between the followers of Saint Mahomed's doctrine, who together form almost half of the population of that planet, would be a menace to the existence of other states.

"As regards the third doctrine, that of Saint Lama, it spread less widely than the rest, owing to the geographical conditions of its origin. For the same reason, however, it more or less entered into the essence of those beings resident there; and for some centuries, it began actually to be realised amongst them, and especially amongst a certain group who were isolated on account of the inaccessibility of their locality, and thus could work without disturbance. This group, and their descendants gradually assimilated the objective doctrine of their teacher and began to apply it to the purpose for which it was created, that deliverance from the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer. Some of them attained this deliverance and many wore on the path to it. But when the environment necessary for productive work in this direction was arranged, that same singularity of theirs, that is war, again, it seems, completely destroyed what had already been adjusted; and the complete adjustment was delayed for many years owing to this war. I know very well about this war because I happened to be on that planet at that period, and amongst the beings of this very Thibet.

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"This peculiarity, war, occurred in the following manner. A certain King from the continent Europe, taking advantage of the civil dissensions of the Indian princes, and owing to a method invented by one of his people gradually conquered India and the neighboring lands.

"One fine day the thought entered his warlike head, why should he not conquer Thibet also. He thereupon assembled troops from his own state, and from the newly conquered lands and advanced towards that inaccessible place.

"The expedition over awkward routes was very difficult and cost the king a great deal; but eventually after considerable exertions and sacrifices, he succeeded in ascending with his troops.

"The Thibetans knew nothing of this march upon their country. They only learned of it when the king had already arrived with his troops. Having heard of the strange event, however, they became anxious, because they had become accustomed to the idea during centuries that their country was inaccessible to other beings, and they were so certain of this that they had never even been aware of the preparations made to reach their land. As this situation was very serious, since the result might be the destruction of all their preparations, the Thibetans became exceedingly anxious and the members of the fraternity of 'those who are delivering themselves' became very sad. They were sad chiefly because they saw that their preparations were in danger. They therefore met to confer and many of those took part in the meeting who had almost delivered themselves from the consequences of the properties of Kundabuffer, and many of those who had just started on the right path of deliverance.

"Having met and deliberated amongst themselves, they became convinced that it would be impossible by ordinary means of persuasion to induce the king to return home; and they had seriously to consider how to prevent this uninvited entrance into a stranger's house. Many methods were suggested, but one method in particular was favoured by the majority present at the meeting, namely, to destroy entirely the king with his troops. And this was in fact much the easiest method, the nature of the place where Thibet is situated being such, that one unarmed being could destroy hundreds of enemy beings by dropping stones on them.

"Among the beings present however, some were strongly opposed to this plan, proving that such action would be a little displeasing to Our Creator, to whom all creatures are dear. They succeeded in convincing the meeting, and the proposal was rejected by the majority. It was decided not to hinder events but to let them take their course. The king, meeting with no resistance, then began to advance further. One of the beings who had opposed the suggestion to slaughter the king and his troops, set off to the places where they must pass to persuade the masses to follow the decision of their leaders. In a town through which these troops passed, an accidental or intentional bullet from one of the soldiers killed the being whose intervention had saved many thousands of lives.

"When the king heard of this murder, do you think he felt any remorse? No, he only became proud, that owing to his lofty mind and force of arms, no obstacles could stand in his way, and he could go where ever he wished. He reached the

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interior of Thibet without having met any resistance. How it all ended is not important; what is important is, that after the events I mentioned, the core of this doctrine became like all the rest.

"Dear Grandfather please explain to me, how the social organisations were formed amongst them"? asked Hassein.

"At first they had no social organisations" Beelzebub continued to relate." Everybody lived his own life within the life of his family. Afterwards they began to unite; at first several families, and then a greater number. Of these united families, one of the eldest became the chief; and later they chose, to direct their lives, one of the honoured members of the newly arrived families. Still later, some of these already united families began to unite with each other; and when dissensions began on account of elections, they made the leadership hereditary, with the condition that the leader's heir should succeed him at death,

"On many occasions attempts at other methods of electing a leader were made, but as they never led to anything, but prolonged quarrels the earlier practice was resumed.

"At the present time there are many united groups on that planet each having its leader. These leaders are chosen in various ways. There are hereditary leaders and elective, some for life and some for a prescribed period. Their social organisations at the beginning, as well as ever since, resembled each other very much. As Mullah Nassr Eddin would say:

"If you understand even approximately the kind of organisation they have in themselves at the present time, you can apply the same understanding to their social organisation. Otherwise you have to live a very long time amongst them and perforce have very friendly relations with the police district inspector, the parish priest, the city accoucheur, and the town mid-wife; then perhaps you will understand their social organisation; but as regards their organising.

"In former times it was understandable on account of their special organ Kundabuffer that they should seem strange in comparison with other beings. But now when there is no Kundabuffer, it is impossible to call them merely strange. Nothing in them is as it is amongst beings in general. It would be comprehensible if there were any reason for it. But the peculiarity consists just in this that there is no reason. Neither His Endlessness, Nature, nor even the Archangel Louisos, has anything to do with the fact that they are now so strange, and at the same time not such beings as they

CHAPTER XXXIX
THE HOLY PLANET PURGATORY

The next day, the ship set off for its final destination in the direction of the Planet Karatas, where Beelzebub is now dwelling. Shortly after the ship had started, Hassein sat down as usual at Beelzebub's feet, and said, "Grandfather, dear grandfather, please explain to me, why, as we have been told, on this holy planet Purgatory, on which we have just been, Our All-Comprehensive Endlessness so often appears?"

At this question, Beelzebub thought a little longer than usual and then said: "It is a pity, my dear Hassein, that it is impossible at the moment to reply at length to this question of yours, because we shall soon be arriving on our planet. For a complete understanding, that is, such an understanding as I would like to give you of this holy planet, Purgatory, I should be obliged to talk a very long time. But do not fail to remind me of it, on a more convenient occasion when I may be able to explain it all to you. The understanding of the holy planet Purgatory is the most important thing for your education, and sooner or later, it will become decidedly necessary for every being, of whatever nature or form, to know of it.

"Nevertheless, my dear boy, as we shall not be arriving home at once, in order to shorten the time, I will try my best to reply in brief to your question, "Why Our Endlessness appears so often on that holy planet?" Then Beelzebub spoke as follows:

"Our Endless Creator appears so often on that planet, only because, there dwell the most unfortunate souls from among all the souls existing in the Universe. The souls who are on this planet Purgatory suffer as nothing and nobody suffers in the whole Universe. And for this reason Our All-Loving Boundlessly Compassionate Creator, His Endlessness, having no other possibility of helping them with anything, appears often on that planet, to soothe these souls in their terrible inevitable state and grief, by his presence. "To understand these souls, it is first and absolutely necessary for you to know, in general, what a soul is. But even before you can understand this, you should understand why souls exist in the Universe at all, and why souls, as well as the whole of the Universe, were created by Our Almighty Creator.

"So listen attentively and try to assimilate these ideas into yourself.

"Our Creator was compelled to create the Universe for the following reason:

"When nothing else as yet was in the World, in the whole of the Universe, only the Sun-Absolute existed, and there on this Sun-Absolute, Our Almighty God existed with only His Cherubim and Seraphim.

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"Our Endlessness, Almight God, once observed that the Sun-Absolute, itself,
on which He existed was, owing to Time, diminishing gradually but percep'tibly
in volume, and He decided immediately to review all the Laws maintaining the
existence of the Sun-Absolute.

"In the course of this search, He discovered that the cause of the dimunition of the Sun is the Heropass, that is to say, Time, which gradually diminished the substance of every force.

"As this question was very serious, He became thoughtful, and in these Divine reflections of His, He saw clearly, that, if this Heropass should continue to reduce the volume of the Sun-Absolute in this way, then sooner or later, it would eventually be to its complete destruction. Our Endlessness was then compelled to undertake several appropriate measures, so that this destruction of the Sun-Absolute from the Heropass should be averted.

"After great labours, He completely averted the whole of the threatened danger;
and He accomplished this, in the following way:

"You must know that up till then the Sun-Absolute had in itself, for its existence, only the force of the 'Autoegokrat'; that is, an independent force depending on nothing external itself. This same force, in its turn, was formed only of two Laws, namely, the Law of 'Triamonia' and the Law of 'Eftologodiksis'. To these two Laws, Our Creator added the third force, called 'Fagolgiria', by means of which the 'Autoegokrat' became the 'Trogoautoegokrat', that is, a force depending on other forces exterior to itself. Or, as it might be said, after the addition of the Fagologiria, the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis could function only by feeding on the substances and forces coming from without.

"When I shall explain later, pay special attention, and try to understand very clearly these Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis, since a complete understanding these two Laws will enable you to understand completely all other Laws, both of the Creation, as well as of the maintenances of the Universe.

"I have already told you that the Sun-Absolute formerly existed only owing to these two independent Laws.

"The first of these two laws was just the Triamonia, or as it is also called,
the law of 'Threefoldness'. This Law of Threefoldness, in its turn consists
of three forces, called 'Surpotheos', 'Supakiros', and 'Surpathanatos'. But,
for convenience, mathematics calls these three forces of the Law of Threefold-
ness, the force 'Plus', the force 'Minus', and the force 'Neutralising'; or
'Pushing', 'Resisting', and 'Equilibrium'. On certain planets, these three
forces are also called 'God the Father,' 'God the Son' and 'God the Holy Ghost'.

"The second Law maintaining the Sun-Absolute is the law of Eftologodiksis;
and this law is a force constantly evolving and involving in itself. The high-
est physico-chemical knowledge formulates this force as follows: 'The flowing
of the line of a force which constantly deflects according to the law, with
its ends meeting again.'

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"When Our Endlessness decided to make the existence of the Sun-Absolute, Trogoautoegocratic, since forces, or substances, coming from outside were necessary for such an existence, He decided first of all to create the sources whence these forces and substances could come.

"He created them in the following way: He directed the action of the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis, which had been in the Sun-Absolute itself, from within the Sun-Absolute to without, and from this resulted what is now called, 'The Word God' or 'Emanation'. From that moment, the Sun-Absolute began to emanate from itself the action of the forces of the Triamonia and the Eftologodiksis, and this same emanation began to spread everywhere in the Universe.

"It is necessary to tell you, that when Our Creator directed the forces of the Sun-Absolute from within out, the emanations obtained from this had not at first, for a reason which I shall afterwards explain, the possibility of containing all three forces of the Triamonia in a vivifying state. Only two of these were vivifying, namely, the Positive Force and the Negative Force. Our Almighty Endlessness was therefore obliged to vivify the third force, the Neutralising Force, during the First Creation by the force of His Own Will. And having concentrated this, His force of Will, He created from the emanations issuing from the Sun-Absolute certain fixed points. And later, at these fixed points, again by the force of His Will, and with the help of the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis, which were already formed in these fixed points, Our Endlessness began to create gradually the 'corresponding', as the result of which the Suns were formed which exist at the present time. After the creation of all that was necessary on these suns, the latter began to emanate also. They became as the Sun-Absolute, but as Absolute of the 'Second Grade'.

"The emanations of the Absolutes of the second grade having been established, everything thereafter was created without the Will of Our Creator taking part in it. Further creations began to be formed automatically owing only to the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis and chiefly because these laws were now 'fagolished', that is, could everywhere function only owing to the forces coming from without. From that time forward, the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis began to make their cycles in all their octaves, both inside the suns and outside.

"The automatic creation of the suns proceeded further in the following way; the emanations of the newly-created suns became to each other as positive and negative, and the emanations of the Sun-Absolute itself became neutralising for these emanations of the newly created suns. Owing to this established Law of Triamonia, and like-wise to the Law of Eftologodiksis, which already began to make its outer chief cycle, there began to concentrate around each newly created sun, further new fixed points, in which and upon which again, owing to the same laws. 'The corresponding' gradually began to be created. As a result, suns again were formed, but suns of the third grade.

"Further, upon these suns of the third grade, on the basis of the chief cycle of the Law of Eftologodiksis, and on the basis of the greatest deflection contained in this law, the smallest likenesses of the Megalocosmos began to be formed; and, still further, owing to a law, also cosmic, called the 'Accumulation of Similarities', forms of these smallest similarities of the Megalocosmos were grouped together. Having thus accomplished its chief outer cycle.

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the Law of Eftologodiksis thenceforward entered quite within the cosmoses created on different scales, and began to make its evolutions and involutions in them.

"The part subsequently played by these cosmoses of differing scales, consisted, how shall I tell you, in their becoming something like machines in the Universe, in which machines, owing to these two fagolised laws, that is Triamonia and Eftologodiksis, the cosmoses began to convert, or as it is said, to transform all the substance-matters of the Universe of all densities and all rates of vibration; that is to say, those machine-cosmos began to convert substance-matters from one degree to another degree in the chief octave of the cosmic substances.

"Thus, owing to these machine-cosmos, all substances began to evolve and involve and from this arose the exchange of substances owing to which a reciprocal feeding resulted in all the cosmoses. In this reciprocal feeding, the Sun-Absolute also took part. In this manner Trogoautoegokrat was established in the Universe and all the cosmoses began to maintain the existence of each other by this reciprocal feeding.

"Each cosmos itself began, either to serve as food, or to prepare matters through itself for other cosmoses. And by this Trogoautoegokrat that constant equilibrium was established which now deprives the Heropass of the possibility of doing anything unexpected to our Sun-Absolute.

"Names were then given to these cosmoses, and these names exist even to the present day.

"Thus our whole Universe had been called 'Megalocosmos' since then; and this Megalocosmos consists of seven cosmoses, these seven cosmoses are called as follows:

(1) The Sun-Absolute itself: 'Protocosmos'.

(2) All the newly created suns together: 'Mecrocosmos'.

(3) Each newly-created sun individually: 'Defterocosmos'.

(4) The third grade suns called: 'Messacosmos'.

(5) Those smallest similarities of the Megalocosmos, which were formed on the Messacosmoses were called 'Microcosmoses'.

(6) Those forms accumulating from these Microcosmoses were called: 'Tritacosmoses'.

"By the way, you must know that the Messacosmos are just those points of the Universe, which we now call planets, and Tritacosmos are just those forms, now called beings, which inhabit the planets.

"Names were given then also to the emanations and radiations of the suns of all three grades. The Emanations of the Sun-Absolute was called, 'Ayalogos'; the emanation of the newly-created suns, 'Okidonos'; and the radiations of the planets were called 'Dinamodonis'.

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"When all had become regulated in these cosmoses and their harmonious mechanical reciprocal maintenance, through reciprocal feeding had been finally established, then, my dear Hassein, in one of these cosmoses, namely, in the Tritacosmos, owing to the fact that this Tritacosmos had received its form on the surface of the Messacosmos, that is, of the planets, and owing to the fact that this surface by chance afforded several suitable possibilities and conditions, and, of course, also, owing to the fact that this cosmos was a part of the fulfilment of the Trogoautoegrat, that is, could exist owing to the support of other cosmoses, and in turn served to produce substances for support of other cosmoses, - owing to all these reasons, on certain planets, among these Tritacosmoses, the possibility of mechanical movement on the surface of those planets was obtained.

This mechanical movement was specially helped by the fact that the need of food of this, as well as of all other cosmoses, was not continuous but periodic.

"When Our Endlessness observed this unforeseen phenomenon, the idea first arose in Him for the governance of the enlarged Universe, to create for Himself from these Tritacosmoses, a certain help.

"We can clearly see that this idea then first arose in Our Endlessness from the words of the hymns with which our Cherubim and Seraphim still extol the works of Our Creator, during all the festivals.

"In short, when Our Creator, His Endlessness, decided to prepare help for Himself, He first began to organize on certain planets conditions of such possibilities for Tritacosmoses, that, among them, in a certain manner of existence, in their bodies, formed of Microcosmoses, another body could also be formed, of similar shape, but from substances of a higher rate of vibration, namely, from substances of atmosphere already formed around each planet in which such corresponding substances were present; that is, substances formed through the radiations of any solar system, during the action of the Trogoautoegrat of the chief cycle of cosmic Eftologodiksis. The forming of this second body was necessary in order that the process of the Triamonia should be obtained in these Tritacosmoses, and from the result of the process of the Triamonia the possibility of having 'Instinct', as it is called, is obtained.

"Afterwards when this second body was formed in certain Tritacosmoses. Instinct began to function in them.

"These Tritacosmoses were then named 'beings, which means 'those who feel'.

"Later on, after these Tritacosmos-beings had become two-bodies and the Instinct began to adapt itself entirely for functioning, a third body, also an exact copy of the first body which was formed of Microcosmoses, gradually began to be formed in this new second body of theirs, from substances still more vivifying.

"These substances were of emanations of almost all the Defterocosmoses, that is, of the Suns-Absolute of the second grade. In these substances, the 'corresponding' entered by means of emanations from the Sun-Absolute itself, that is, Our Protocosmos.

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"These third bodies of the beings-Tritacosmos began afterwards to be called 'Souls'.

"Owing to this third body, Pure Reason began to be formed among the Trita-cosmos from that time. This Pure Reason can also be formed at the present time, but only in those beings, in whom their third body, that is, the soul has been perfected.

"And this forming of the second and third bodies in the beings Tritacosmos was brought about in the following way. Try to understand very well that I am now going to tell you, because at present, our second and third bodies are also formed and improved in the same manner as was done in the first beings. It was as follows:

"When all the seven cosmoses had become machines for our Universe, and through these machines all the substance-matters of the Universe had begun to evolve and involve, that is to say, to pass from one density to another: or as it is said, when the atomic elements began to acquire in themselves the greatest and least vibrations, then in each cosmos, according to the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis, there began to become transformed three kinds of substance matters, which are present in three independent centres of gravity, composing the chief octave of substance-matters present in all our Megalocosmos, that is, in all our Universe.

"By the way, you must absolutely know, that all beings Tritacosmos, then as well as now, besides being independent individuals for the forming and improving of their souls, were and are also machines, through which evolve and involve corresponding cosmic substance-matters for the feeding and maintaining of this, that or the other cosmos. Briefly, they form the existing Trogo-autoegokrat of the Universe.

"These beings, being also cosmoses, evolutions and involutions could also begin to proceed through them for the Trogoautoegokrat of the corresponding degree of substance-matters, forming the chief octave of the Triamonia and the Eftologodiksis, of the substances of the whole of our Universe.

"And as in every atmosphere of every planet, there are substances derived from all substances emanated or radiated by all the cosmoses of our Megalocosmos, it follows that through these Tritacosmoses, substances of all cosmoses could evolve and involve.

"Generally through every cosmos, three kinds of substances, that is, substances from the three grades of the chief octave of the Triamonia of all substances of the Universe, mechanically evolve or involve, according to the law of the Triamonia. And therefore also through these Tritacosmos-beings, substances of three degrees also evolve and involve.

"The first were substances formed from the radiations of their own planet. The second were substances emanated and radiated, both from their own sun, and from all the other planets of their particular Solar System. And the third matter is that which is formed from the emanation of all the suns of our Universe, among which, is even our own Sun Absolute.

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"Although all the machine-cosmos of the Megalocosmos in the Universe having nothing in common with each other in regard to size, or by exterior form, nevertheless the processes of the evolution and involution of matter proceed as I have already told you, equally in all cosmoses, according to the Laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis.

"It will be best, I think, if we take as an example your contemporary beloved beings of the planet Earth.

"In the Universe there are also machine-beings for transmuting substances upwards and downwards; and they also have in themselves the same organization as other cosmoses, that is, they are also similar to the Megalocosmos.

"Although the planet Earth was not yet in existence when the first Tritacosmos - beings appeared, yet the processes of evolution and involution then proceeded through the first Tritacosmos-beings, just as at present, the same evolutions and involutions of cosmic substances proceed through these favorites of yours.

"By the way, you will remember that amongst your beings there is an expression somewhere: "That we are made in the image of God'. This is quite true, and really they are similar in everything to the Megalocosmos. These words, it seems, are the only thing in which they are not mistaken. But unfortunately these words also, like everything else amongst them, have only the outer form; that is to say, these words are for them only empty, like words learned by heart, meaningless and not understood. For instance, supposing that they should really wish to realize the sense of the words uttered by them that we are in the image of God, they would at best, in order to understand them have to argue as follows: 'If we are in the image of God, then God must be like us; hence God must have the same appearance as we have; the same moustache, the same nose, the same character; He dresses Himself in the same way, and so on, and so forth, all in the same manner. Pretty certainly they would represent God with a comb sticking out of His left pocket, for combing His beard. They do, in fact, picture Him to themselves as an old man with a long grey beard, and for some reason or other, He has to look like an old Jew.

"These words however, that they are made in the image of God, that is to say, like the Megalocosmos are really very just. The organization and functions of their bodies are similar to the Megalocosmos in everything, down to the tiniest trifle in every detail. For instance, they have in the head, a brain; by its function this brain exactly corresponds to the role which our Proto-cosmos, that is, the Sun-Absolute, fulfills for the Megalocosmos, and the cells of the brain of the Earth-beings fulfill the same role as the souls who are at present on the Sun-Absolute.

"In the marrow of the spine, they have spinal nodes, which are the same fixed points for the brain as the Defterocosmos, are for the Protocosmos. And in the brain, these nodes are similarly resistant in the Law of the Triamonia, just as all the Defterocosmoses, that is, the newly created suns of the Universe, are resistant to the Sun-Absolute.

"In the trunk, your favorites have certain nervous nodes, which they call the solar plexus. In these nervous nodes there settle to the bottom, just those forms of all the results of the strong perceptions and impressions which arise

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only when, intentionally or accidentally, friction or a struggle takes place between the affirming of the brain and the denying of the spinal marrow, as it always occurs between the Protocosmos and the Defterocosmoses. And the results of these struggles are for their Triamonia neutralising; as for the Triamonia of the Megalocosmos, all the creations of the Universe are neutralising-those creations arising from the positiveness of the Protocosmos and the negativeness of the Defterocosmoses.

"In a word, just as amongst your beings the Triamonia is formed by the substances of their head-brain, spinal marrow, and the accumulated results in the nervous nodes of their trunk, so also, for the Megalocosmos, the Triamonia is formed by the emanations as follows: the positive are the emanations of the Protocosmos, the negative, the emanations of the Defterocosmoses, and the neutralising - all the creations of the whole Universe.

"For the maintenance and renewal of the sources of all the three parts of their Triamonia, your favorites have also three kinds of food, the substances of which are derived from three different places, having three different densities, corresponding to the three different degrees of the matter of the fundamental octave of substances of the Triamonia of our Megalocosmos.

"The substances of the first kind of food of the Earth-beings are those which they obtain through their ordinary food and drink. These are derived from the planet itself, that is to say, they are obtained from substances which are formed from the minerals and 'centrovodi' of their planet, and chiefly during the passing of the substances from one density to another.

"Their second food, they obtain, as they say, by breathing air. This same air, as I have already told you, is composed of substances radiated by their own planet, as well as by the other planets of their system. There are in the same air, substances derived from emanations of all the suns also, and even from the emanations of the Sun-Absolute itself; but as yet, these substances cannot be assimilated consciously by your favorites, but enter only as their nature demands, and to serve as the highest neutralising substances for the possibility of continuing their race, and for the maintenance of the general cosmic harmony of the Trogoautoegokrat.

"They have no necessity, at present, of a conscious assimilation of these substances, because they have also no need to form consciously, and to improve in themselves, the body of the conscience - 'Kesdjan' and the body of Pure Reason, namely the body of the soul. On the other hand, for mere existence and the continuation of their race, these same substances automatically enter all the beings without their consciousness and will, and to the degree necessary for the cosmic Trogoautoegokrat. And for this unconscious assimilation, it is not at all necessary for your beings to ruffle and upset their undivine self-complacency.

"The conscious assimilation of these matters is for the beings of that planet at the present time, a quite superfluous luxury. Only at the beginning, for the beings of the continent Atlantis, was the use of this third food considered the most important aim of one's existence. This food was called 'Helkdonis' and the process of nourishment by this food was called, 'Helping God'. But

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the Tritacosmos, that is, they cease to be definite crystallisations, which
can generally exist beyond the cosmoses as long as they please.

"I will say here that in the Universe there are three kinds or three classes of crystallised matter only. At the same time, there exist in the Universe, at every moment, substances of hundreds of different densities and vibration-rates, because these latter are part of the process of the Law of Eftologodiksis, and since at every moment they can pass into greater or lesser densities, they cannot exist a long time in this state. Only such crystallized substances as are a part of the fundamental cosmic Triamonia can exist for a long time. These same definite crystallisations evolve and involve only through cosmoses which are present in the Universe, among which are just the Tritacosmos, that is to say, beings. Through the evolutions of the crystallisations of substances of the Universe in these cosmoses, a universal cosmic harmonious Trogoautoegokrat is obtained.

"Thus the negative cosmic crystallisation, composing the first food of your Earth-beings is broken down. Each crystallisation decomposes again into those seven independent crystallisations of which it consisted before, that is to say, of which it was formed during its former evolutions or involutions, and which were able to be crystallised into their present density.

"Thereupon these former crystallisations, having now entered into the machines of the Tritacosmos beings, must evolve again into the former ones, and become positive cosmic substances.

"Always, in the Tritacosmos-being, and also in your favorites this evolution as a rule, proceeds in the following manner: The crystallisation of substances of which their first food consists, is broken down as I have already told you, or decomposed, the process beginning from their mouth. It is transformed in the stomach into substances having a density or vibration-rate corresponding to the first centre of gravity of cosmic active substances, that is, to positive crystallised substances, which exist on the surface of the Messacosmos in their radiations, and which generally keep to their circuit, that is to say, they remain around the planets. The evolution of substances in the machine Earth-beings, as well as in all the other beings of the Universe usually proceeds through the mixing of some substances with others.

"And this mixing proceeds in the following way: substances of the first food, introduced into these machine-beings as negative, are mixed with the positive, which have already been acquired and are in the beings. And there enter into this mixture the substances, firstly of 'Abrustdonis' and then 'Helkdonis', that is to say, in general, neutralising substances of the fundamental cosmic octave of the Law of Triamonia. These substances, by the way, are acquired in your favorites at the present time, chiefly by their voluntary or involuntary, but only acute psychic experiences, which mechanically become in them a means for the perception of this third force, necessary for their machines and for their own Triamonia. By means of all this, they fulfill, of course, unconsciously, a part of their duty to Nature. Thus the mixing of substances passing from one centre of gravity to the other, finally forms in these machines, crystallisations of positive substances of the fundamental cosmic octave.

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"In beings, as also in all the cosmoses, the Law of Eftologodiksis makes its full cycle of this particular octave; that is it transfers substances from one crystallisation to another of a higher or lower degree of the octave of the Triamonia - in short to such a crystallisation, as can exist beyond the cosmoses and have in itself all the properties of both of the chief cosmic laws of Triamonia and Eftologodiksis. Here it is very important to notice well in your consciousness that in the Law of Eftologodiksis, during the process of movement from one centre of gravity to another, to the final completion of the whole process, there are gaps, or as they are called 'intervals', in two places, at which intervals there was 'all', when Our Endlessness made the existing, self-supporting and independent forces for the existence of the Sun-Absolute dependent on the foreign forces from without; that is to say, He transformed the Autoegokrat into the Trogautoegokrat. Well, then, Our Endlessness made, but only in this Law of Eftologodiksis, two gaps or intervals through which forces or substances coming from without should enter. From the time of this change the Law of Eftologodiksis could no longer completely evolve or involve without foreign help coming through its two intervals. And thus according to this property of the Law of Eftologodiksis, by means of these two intervals, it now effects the evolution and involution of substances in the beings composing the Tritacosmoses. That is to say, during the transition of substances from one centre of gravity to another, substances of the fundamental cosmic Triamonia of quite other densities, must, without fail, help in two places. And in those organic machines, such a help proceeds in the following way.

"I have already told you that the substances of the first food of beings, gradually change, beginning from the mouth and are transformed in the stomach into substances corresponding to the first centre of gravity of the next higher degree of substances of the fundamental cosmic octavity; the substances of this centre of gravity are called 'Protoehary'.

"Proceeding from the stomach, the substances named Protoehary are mixed in the same manner and pass into the second center of gravity, the central place of which is the twelve-fingered intestine; the densities of substances obtained here are called 'Defterohary'. A part of this Defterohary is used for the maintenance of the machine itself and for the fulfillment of the Law of the local Triamonia for the new-coming foods; the other part continues its evolution further.

"The substances named Defterohary arising in the twelve-fingered intestine evolve further through various mixings and are transformed into substances of the third centre of gravity of the Eftologodiksis. They are called 'Tritoehary', and their central place is the liver. And here in this very place of the centre of gravity in the Law of Eftologodiksis which exists in beings is the first interval. When the substances reach this centre of gravity, there is an end for all of them to the possibility of their further evolution, according to the new Law of Eftologodiksis. Other substances having densities of other and higher vibrations, must, without fail, come from outside to help these substances of Tritoehary to pass into the next centre of gravity.

"Now, my dear Hassein, you can very well understand the difference between the forces Autoegokrat and Trogautoegokrat.

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"For instance, if there existed only the old force Autoegokrat maintaining the existence of the Sun-Absolute, then by the former Law of Eftologodiksis, when the food of the beings entered into the cosmos-machines and began its evolution, encountering no obstacles, it would assuredly pursue its evolution through successive transformations into higher densities. But owing to the New Law of Eftologodiksis the substances derived from this first food and arising in the third centre of gravity of the Law of Eftologodiksis, can no longer continue to evolve independently. They can evolve further only with the aid of help from outside. And this foreign aid for substances of the first food, at this point, is the food which Earth-beings call 'air' and which, as I have already said, is formed from substances radiated from the various Messacosmoses of the given Solar System.

"These substances derived from air, beginning from the nose of the beings, are also broken down or decomposed. They too are transformed in their lungs into the Protoehary, but into substances of the first centre of gravity of the next class of substances, namely into positive substances of the fundamental cosmic octave of the Triamonia; that is, into the crystallisations formed from the radiation of various Messacosmoses.

"This second Protoehary of the second Law, having in itself all the possibilities in the cosmoses, mixes without any hindrance with the matters of Tritoehary of the first food; and both together are transferred higher, that is, are transformed into substances Tetartoehary.

"These substances Tetartoehary have their central place in the Earth-beings in both hemispheres of their head brain. And these substances Tetartoehary thus obtained from the first food, have according to the Law of Eftologodiksis, the possibility of continuing their evolutions further without outside help alone and independently. Part of these substances Tetartoehary is spent as before for the maintenance of the machine itself, while the other part after several admixtures with substances of the same class, already present and previously formed, is finally collected in the cerebellum, as it is called, which is also situated in their head. Substances arising in this place are named 'Pentoehary' or as they are still sometimes called, 'The salt of the essence'; the quintessence.

"A part of this 'salt of essence' or Pentoehary, in the cerebellum is, once again spent in the corresponding working of the machine itself, while the other part passes through the brain centres of the spinal marrow and through the nervous ganglia of the breast, and is eventually collected in the ovaries as they are called. Here, they come to the second interval of the Law of Eftologodiksis that is to say, they attain here the ultimate possibility of the automatic evolution of substances within the law of Eftologodiksis only; that is, without the aid of the Pure Reason or Pure Will, in the present case, of the beings of your planet themselves. These same substances, collected in the ovaries, are named 'Exloehary', or as the Earth-beings call them 'sperma'.

"It will not trouble you if I tell you that in the spinal marrow of your favorites, among the fixed points about which I have told you, there is a certain fixed point, a spinal centre, situated at the extreme end of the vertebral column.

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"This is that very place, where formerly in their ancestors, the famous organ Kundabuffer, was placed. When this organ was destroyed this very brain centre had just been formed in them in this very place; and from that time it began to pass by heredity from generation to generation. Today, they call this spinal centre Kundalini, and it now plays a very strange part in their Indian Philosophy as it is called; as if there were in this very organ the lost key to the means of self-development, invented by those Indian Psychopaths.

"It is also interesting to notice that one of the functions of this same spinal centre is to act as agent by means of which the tempo of their blood circulation is changed: that is to say, of the filling of the blood-vessels about which you remember I recently told you when I said that such filling of blood-vessels induces in the Earth-beings their well-known hypnotic state.

"Well, enough about this. Let us continue. We were saying that the substances named Pentoehary pass from the cerebellum through the spinal centres of the spinal marrow and the nervous ganglia of the breast, are collected in the ovaries and transformed into the substances Exloehary or saliva.

"Either owing to the cosmic Triamonia for the formation of a new being, or, owing to the Pure Reason or Pure Will, for the forming of and perfecting of the second body of being, called 'Kesdjan', the substances of this saliva or Exloehary can pass to the next octave.

"But in the absence of either of these two conditions the matters Exloehary, begin to involve and to crystallise into their prime crystallisations, usually in the same order in which they have been evolved.

"The forming and perfecting of the Kesdjan is brought about by means of the substances called 'Helkdonis'.

"Thus owing to the Law of Eftologodiksis in the machine-beings the substances of the first food of the Earth-beings, gradually evolving from their definite crystallisations from one centre of gravity to another, are eventually transformed into substances of the final centre of gravity of the Law of Eftologodiksis and can be crystallised into permanent active matters and fulfill the cosmic Troggoautoegokrat, that is, serve either for the formation of a new being or for the formation and perfecting of the second body Kesdjan.

"But unless they receive the required help, they begin, on account of that same Eftologodiksis, to involve back again and eventually they pass into these negative crystallisations, from which they began their evolutions to the positive ones.

"By the way, you must know that at the present time the substances of the Exloehary do not serve at all among your favorites for conscious use. Of course without their consciousness and desire, they are used only for the cosmic Troggoautoegokrat, that is, for the formation of new machines which replace them and which are required by Nature for the continuation of their race. They are also used as a means of satisfying the consequences of the properties