Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by GI Gurdjieff.pdf

G.I.GURDJIEFF

Beelzebub's

Tales to His

Grandson

An Objectively Impartial

Criticism of the Life of Man

ALL AND EVERYTHING / FIRST SERIES

Ten Books in Three Series

FIRST SERIES Three books under the title of Beelzebub's

Tales to His Grandson. An Objectively Impartial Criticism

of the Life of Man.

SECOND SERIES Two books under the common title of

Meetings with Remarkable Men.

THIRD SERIES Five books under the title of Life Is Real Only

Then, When "I Am. "

All written according to entirely new principles of logical

reasoning and directed toward the accomplishment of the

following three fundamental tasks:

FIRST SERIES To destroy, mercilessly and without any

compromise whatever, in the mentation and feelings of the

reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him,

about everything existing in the world.

SECOND SERIES To acquaint the reader with the material

required for a new creation and to prove the soundness and

good quality of it.

THIRD SERIES To assist the arising, in the mentation and in

the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, nonfantastic

representation not of that illusory world which he now

perceives, but of the world existing in reality.

F R I E N D L Y A D V I C E

(Written impromptu by the author on delivering this

book, already prepared for publication, to the

printer)

According to the numerous deductions and conclusions resulting from my

research concerning the profit contemporary people can obtain from new

impressions coming from what they read or hear, and also according to the

thought of one of the sayings of popular wisdom I have just remembered,

handed down to our days from very ancient times,

"Any prayer may be heard and granted by the Higher Powers only if it is

uttered thrice:

First—for the welfare or the peace of the souls of one's parents,

Second—for the welfare of one's neighbor, And only third—for oneself

personally," I find it necessary on the first page of this book, now ready for

publication, to give the following advice "Read each of my written

expositions thrice First—at least as you have already become mechanized to

read all your contemporary books and newspapers,

Second—as if you were reading aloud to another person, And only third—try

to fathom the gist of my writings Only then will you be able to count upon

forming your own impartial judgment, proper to yourself alone, on my

writings And only then can my hope be actualized that according to your

understanding you will obtain the specific benefit for yourself which I

anticipate, and which I wish for you with all my being.

FIRST

BOOK

CHAPTER 1

The arousing of thought

AMONG ALL the convictions formed in my "common presence" during my

responsible, peculiarly composed life, there is one unshakable conviction that

people—whatever the degree of development of their understanding and

whatever the form taken by the factors present in their individuality for

engendering all kinds of ideals—always and everywhere on the Earth feel the

imperative need, on beginning anything new, to pronounce aloud, or if not

aloud at least mentally, that particular invocation understandable to even the

most ignorant person, which has been formulated in different ways in different

epochs, and in our day is expressed in the following words "In the name of the

Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen."

That is why I now also, in setting forth on this venture quite new for me,

namely authorship, begin by pronouncing this invocation, and pronounce it

not only aloud but even very distinctly and, as the ancient Toulousites used to

say, with a "fully manifested intonation"—of course only to the extent

permitted by data already formed in my whole presence and thoroughly rooted

in it for such a manifestation, data, by the way, which are generally formed in

man's nature during his preparatory years, and which later, during his

responsible life, determine the character and vivifyingness of such an

intonation.

Having begun thus, I can now be quite at ease and should even, according

to contemporary notions of "religious morality," be completely assured that

from now on everything in this new venture of mine will proceed, as is said,

"like a pianola."

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