Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

Informationen zum Autor Gurdjieff was born in Alexanderpol in 1877 and trained both as a priest and physician. For some twenty years he travelled in the remotest regions of Central Asia and the Middle East, moulding his thought. On his return he began to gather pupils in Moscow, and from this base his ideas began to spread worldwide. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of beings belonging to a distant world, led by the 'all-wise Beelzebub'. This title demonstrates a methodology for the spiritual growth of mankind. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Na...

Autorentext

G. I. Gurdjieff was born in 1887 in Alexandropol. After studying with spiritual masters in the Near East and Asia, he founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Beelzebub's Tales to His GrandsonFirst 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. Bee…