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(3.98) | 5 | 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.… (more) |
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Among other convictions formed in my common presence during my responsible, peculiarly composed life, there is one such also—an indubitable conviction—that always and everywhere on the earth, among people of every degree of development and understanding and of every form of manifestation of the factors which engender in their individuality, all kinds of ideals, there is acquired the tendency, when beginning anything new, unfailingly to pronounce aloud or, if not aloud, at least mentally, that definite utterance understandable to every even quite illiterate person, which in different epochs have been formulated variously and in our day is formulated in the following words: "In the name of the Father and of the Son and in the name of the Holy Ghost, Amen." | |
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And as regards the real, indubitably comprehensible, genuine objective truths which will be brought to light by me in the third series, I intend to make them accessible exclusively only to those from among the hearers of the second series of my writings who will be selected from specially prepared people according to my considered instructions. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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This is the work for Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man, the First Book/First Series of the All and Everything series. Please do not combine with the Second and/or Third Book/Series, being respectively Meetings with Remarkable Men and Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am". | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (2)▾Book descriptions 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Dit boek is voor hen, die innerlijk weten of vermoeden dat het leven, dat ons is toevertrouwd naast het getrouw vervullen van onze uiterlijke verplichtingen en het nastreven van uiterlijke doeleinden - hoe nodig en zinvol dit ook als zodanig is - een veel en veel dieper zin moet hebben en die intens verlangen die zin te doorgronden en bereid zijn zich daarvoor in te zetten. | |
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