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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: - Paperback, by Gurdjieff G. I. - Acceptable
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780140194739
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140194738
ISBN-13
9780140194739
eBay Product ID (ePID)
756194
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson : All and Everything, First Series
Number of Pages
1248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Mysticism, Religious, General, Metaphysics
Genre
Religion, Philosophy
Book Series
Compass Ser.
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
2.1 in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Table Of Content
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson First Book 1. The Arousing of Thought 2. Introduction: Why Beelzebub Was in Our Solar System 3. The Cause of the Delay in the Falling of the Ship Karnak 4. The Law of Falling 5. The System of Archangel Hariton 6. Perpetual Motion 7. Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty 8. The Impudent Brat Hassein, Beelzebub's Grandson, Dares to Call Men "Slugs" 9. The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon 10. Why "Men" Are Not Men 11. A Piquant Trait of the Peculiar Psyche of Contemporary Man 12. The First "Growl" 13. Why in Man's Reason Fantasy May Be Perceived as Reality 14. The Beginnings of Perspectives Promising Nothing Very Cheerful 15. The First Descent of Beelzebub upon the Planet Earth 16. The Relative Understanding of Time 17. The Arch-absurd: According to the Assertion of Beelzebub, Our Sun Neither Lights nor Heats 18. The Arch-preposterous 19. Beelzebub's Tales About His Second Descent onto the Planet Earth 20. The Third Flight of Beelzebub to the Planet Earth 21. The First Visit of Beelzebub to India 22. Beelzebub for the First Time in Tibet 23. The Fourth Personal Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth 24. Beelzebub's Flight to the Planet Earth for the Fifth Time 25. The Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash, Sent from Above to the Earth 26. The Legominism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Under the Title of "The Terror-of-the-Situation" 27. The Organization for Man's Existence 28. The Chief Culprit in the Destruction of All the Very Saintly Labors of Ashiata Shiemash Second Book 29. The Fruits of Former Civilizations and the Blossoms of the Contemporary 30. Art 31. The Sixth and Last Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth 32. Hypnotism 33. Beelzebub as Professional Hypnotist 34. Russia 35. A Change in the Appointed Course of the Falling of the Transspace Ship Karnak 36. Just a Wee Bit More About the Germans 37. France 38. Religion 39. The Holy Planet "Purgatory" Third Book 40. Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Againt Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh 41. The Bokharian Dervish Hadji-Asvatz-Troov 42. Beelzebub in America 43. Beelzebub's Survey of the Process of the Periodic Reciprocal Destruction of Men, or Beelzebub's Opinion of War 44. In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man's Understanding of Justice Is for Him in the Objective Sense an Accursed Mirage 45. In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man's Extraction of Electricity from Nature and Its Destruction During Its Use, Is One of the Chief Causes of the Shortening of the Life of Man 46. Beelzebub Explains to His Grandson the Significance of the Form and Sequence Which He Chose for Expounding the Information Concerning Man 47. The Inevitable Result of Impartial Mentation 48. From the Author
Synopsis
With Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson , G. I. Gurdjieff intended to "destroy, mercilessly . . . the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world." This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life.The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man's teleological purpose in the universe. This edition of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson --the first single-volume paperback to appear in English--restores the original, authoritative translation., A landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one's daily life With Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson , G. I. Gurdjieff intended to "destroy, mercilessly . . . the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world." This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life.The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man's teleological purpose in the universe. This edition of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson --the first single-volume paperback to appear in English--restores the original, authoritative translation., With Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to "destroy, mercilessly the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world. " This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life. The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man's teleological purpose in the universe. This edition of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson - the first single-volume paperback to appear in English - restores the original, authoritative translation.
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