That is why I now, also, setting forth on this venture quite new for me, namely, authorship, begin by pronouncing this utterance and moreover pronounce it not only aloud, but even very distinctly and with a full, as the ancient Toulousites defined it, "wholly-manifested-intonation" — of course with that fullness which can arise in my entirety only from data already formed and thoroughly rooted in me for such a manifestation; data which are in general formed in the nature of man, by the way, during his preparatory age, and later, during his responsible life engender in him the ability for the manifestation of the nature and vivifyingness of such an intonation. 4 BTG I

In the present case, as always in similar as yet indefinite life cases, there immediately comes to my brain — which is for me, constructed unsuccessfully to the point of mockery, and is now as is said, "running through" it — that saying of popular wisdom which existed in the life of people of very ancient times, and which has been handed down to our day formulated in the following words: "every stick always has two ends". 47 BTG I

In this respect, the extraordinarily curious fact and one even in the highest degree worthy of your love of knowledge, perhaps even higher than your usual conception, is that from my earliest childhood, that is to say, since the birth in me of the need to destroy birds' nests, and to tease my friends' sisters, there arose in my, as the ancient theosophists called it, "planetary body", and moreover, why I don't know, chiefly in the "right half", an instinctively involuntary sensation, which right up to that period of my life when I became a teacher of dancing, was gradually formed into a definite feeling, and then, when thanks to this profession of mine I came into contact with many people of different "types", there began to arise in me also the conviction with what is called my "mind", that these languages are compiled by people, or rather "grammarians", who are in respect of knowledge of the given language exactly similar to those biped animals whom the esteemed Mullah Nassr Eddin characterizes by the words: "All they can do is to wrangle with pigs about the quality of oranges". 65 BTG I

This kind of people among us who have been turned into, so to say, "moths" destroying the good prepared and left for us by our ancestors and by time, have not the slightest notion and have probably never even heard of the screamingly obvious fact that, during the preparatory age, there is acquired in the brain functioning of every creature, and of man also, a particular and definite property, the automatic actualization and manifestation of which the ancient Korkolans called the "law of association", and that the process of the mentation of every creature, especially man, flows exclusively in accordance with this law. 66 BTG I

I do not know on which data he based his political convictions and ideas, but I very well remember that in all the conversations of this Greek priest, even while explaining to me the difference between the words of exclamation in the ancient and in modern Greek, there were indeed always very clearly discernible his dreams of getting as soon as possible to the island of Crete and there manifesting himself as befits a true patriot. 144 BTG I

At the same time, in the whole region of my spine there began a strong almost unbearable itch, and a colic in the very center of my solar plexus, also unbearable, and all this, that is these dual, mutually stimulating sensations, after the lapse of some time suddenly were replaced by such a peaceful inner condition as I experienced in later life once only, when the ceremony of the great initiation into the Brotherhood of the "Originators of making butter from air" was performed over me; and later when "I", that is, this "something-unknown" of mine, which in ancient times one crank — called by those around him, as we now also call such persons, a "learned man" — defined as a "relatively transferable arising, depending on the quality of the functioning of thought, feeling, and organic automatism", and according to the definition of another also ancient and renowned learned man, the Arabian Mal-el-Lel, which definition by the way was in the course of time borrowed and repeated in a different way by a no less renowned and learned Greek, Xenophon, "the compound result of consciousness, subconsciousness, and instinct"; so when this same "I" in this condition turned my dazed attention inside myself, then firstly it very clearly constated that everything, even to each single word, elucidating this quotation that has become an "all-universal life principle" became transformed in me into some special cosmic substance, and merging with the data already crystallized in me long before from the behest of my deceased grandmother, changed these data into a "something" and this "something" flowing everywhere through my entirety settled forever in each atom composing this entirety of mine, and secondly, this my ill-fated "I" there and then definitely felt and, with an impulse of submission, became conscious of this, for me, sad fact, that already from that moment I should willy-nilly have to manifest myself always and in everything without exception, according to this inherency formed in me, not in accordance with the laws of heredity, nor even by the influence of surrounding circumstances, but arising in my entirety under the influence of three external accidental causes, having nothing in common, namely: thanks in the first place to the behest of a person who had become, without the slightest desire on my part, a passing cause of the cause of my arising; secondly, on account of a tooth of mine knocked out by some ragamuffin of a boy, mainly on account of somebody else's "slobberiness"; and thirdly, thanks to the verbal formulation delivered in a drunken state by a person quite alien to me — some merchant of "Moscovite brand". 174 BTG I

"From investigations I had to make for quite different needs of mine, it turned out that he then further deliberated as follows: " 'Am I any worse than those ancient barbarians, Mathew, Mark, Luke, and Johnnie? 632 BTG XII

"Everybody today looks upon his writings with the same veneration with which the ancient Kalkians there listened to the predictions of their sacred 'Pythoness '. 652 BTG XII

"As I learned much later — owing to a very ancient surviving monument — the great King Konuzion then returned to his chamber and for eighteen days neither ate nor drank but only very seriously thought and thought. 1336 BTG XX

"These ancient terrestrial Astrologers made these matches successfully because even if they were very far from the knowledge of many cosmic Trogoautoegocratic truths, yet they at least already very well knew the laws of the influence of different planets of their solar system on the beings breeding on their own planet, namely, the influence of these planets on a being at the moment of his conception, for further formation, as well as for his complete acquisition of the Being of a responsible being. 1760 BTG XXIII

"Here it is interesting to remark that this kind of procedure for undertaking this being-duty, took place among the ancient three-brained beings of your planet also, and even reached your contemporary favorites, though these latter, just as in everything else, take only the external form of this serious and important procedure. The beings who undertake, as it were, these duties, are called by your contemporary favorites 'godfathers' and 'godmothers'. 1887 BTG XXIII

Beelzebub looked at his grandson with a very strange look and shaking his head, said as follows: "Concerning this, which being-manifestations are there on your planet considered good and which bad — two independent understandings, having nothing in common with each other, have existed from the most ancient times up to the present period, having passed from generation to generation. 2056 BTG XXIV

"In certain inscriptions which have survived from ancient times and have reached the contemporary beings of that planet, there is, however, some information that there once existed on their planet, what is called a special kind of 'state-organization' and that at the head of every such state were beings of the highest attainments. 2273 BTG XXVII

"But what constituted this priest-organization, how and why it was? . . . is it not all the same to the contemporary beings of the planet Earth what ancient savages did!!! . . ". 2275 BTG XXVII

"I must warn you, my boy, that my story of the history of their arising and of everything later connected with those ancient communities called Greeks and Romans is not based on the results of my personal investigations; no, I shall only give you the information about them which I got from one of those beings of our tribe who wished to remain to exist forever on that planet of yours. 2399 BTG XXIX

"As it later became clear, these ancient fishermen amused themselves at first with such games as children now play there — but children, it must be remarked, who have not yet started contemporary schooling — because the children there who do go to school have so much homework to do, consisting chiefly of learning by rote the 'poetry' which various candidate Hasnamusses have composed there, that the poor children never have time to play any games. 2421 BTG XXIX

"It turned out that among those ancient bored fishermen, there were several so 'bright' and 'ingenious' that they became expert in inventing, according to the principle of that peculiar 'game', very long explanations. 2425 BTG XXIX

"Concerning the ancient shepherds who later formed the great powerful community called 'Rome', their ancestors also were often forced, on account of bad weather, to put their flocks into sheltered places, and to pass the time together somehow or other. 2431 BTG XXIX

"And thus, little by little, these 'inventions' of those two ancient communities have brought it about that already, at the present time, the psyche of your favorites — shaky enough already before then — has now become so unhinged in all of them, without exception, that both their 'world outlook' and the whole ordering of their daily existence, rest and proceed exclusively on the basis of those two said inventions of the beings of that Greco-Roman civilization, namely, on the basis of fantasying, and of striving-for-sexual-gratification'. 2449 BTG XXIX

"Here it is very interesting to notice that although, as I have already told you, thanks to the inheritance from the ancient Romans, 'organic-self-shame' — proper to the three-brained beings — has gradually and entirely disappeared from the presences of your favorites, nevertheless there has arisen in them in its place something rather like it. In the presences of your contemporary favorites there is as much as you like of this pseudo being-impulse which they also call 'shame', but the data for engendering it, just as of all others, are quite singular. 2450 BTG XXIX

"The 'bliss' prepared there by the ancient Romans has in recent times already so penetrated the nature of your favorites breeding on all the continents of that ill-fated planet, that it is even difficult to say which beings of which contemporary communities have inherited most from these 'obliging' Romans. 2453 BTG XXIX

"But as regards the inheritance passed down from the ancient Greeks, namely, the passion for inventing various fantastic sciences, this has not become inherent to all the three-brained beings of contemporary times equally, but it has passed down only to certain beings arising among the beings of all the contemporary large and small communities breeding on all the terra firma parts of the surface of that peculiar planet. 2454 BTG XXIX

"Proportionately, this passion, namely, 'to-invent-fantastic-sciences', has passed down from the ancient Greeks mainly to the beings of the contemporary community existing there under the name of 'Germany'. 2455 BTG XXIX

"Unfortunately, my boy, the beings of that contemporary community Germany have in many respects, as it is said surpassed the beings of ancient Greece. 2457 BTG XXIX

"Thanks to the sciences invented by the ancient Greeks, only the being-mentation of other beings was spoiled and still continues to be spoiled. 2458 BTG XXIX

"For your clear representafion and better understanding, how these contemporary direct heirs have surpassed their 'legators', I must now explain to you also about certain widely used means existing there at the present time, which owe their existence exclusively to these 'Nature-helping' direct heirs of ancient Greece. 2461 BTG XXIX

"I should like first to emphasize, by the way, one very odd phenomenon, namely, that these contemporary 'substitutes' for the ancient Greeks give names to their said maleficent inventions, names which for some reason or other all end in 'ine'. 2463 BTG XXIX

"I must also say that the beings of the contemporary community Germany have been the cause not only that thanks to this maleficent aniline the productions of all the contemporary beings of this planet are quickly destroyed, but also that productions from ancient times have almost ceased to exist on that ill-fated planet. 2474 BTG XXIX

"This latter occurred because for various Hasnamussian purposes and for their famous, as they call them, 'scientific aims', they collected the surviving ancient productions from all countries and, not knowing how to preserve ancient objects, they only hastened their speedy destruction. 2475 BTG XXIX

"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 Nassr Eddin has the following wise expression: 'Better-pull-ten-hairs-a-day-out-of-yourmother's-head-than-not-help-Nature'. 2489 BTG XXIX

"Strictly speaking, the capacity to cook up 'fantastic sciences' and to devise new methods for ordinary being-existence there, did not pass from the ancient Greeks to the beings of that contemporary Germany alone; the same capacity was perhaps no less also inherited by the beings of another contemporary community, also an independent one, and also in her turn enjoying dominion. 2490 BTG XXIX

"There has even passed from ancient Greece to the beings of that second contemporary community England, and directly to them alone, one of their most maleficent inventions which the beings of that contemporary community have most thoroughly adopted and now actualize in practice. 2492 BTG XXIX

"This particularly maleficent invention of theirs the ancient Greeks called 'Diapharon', and the contemporary beings call 'sport'. 2493 BTG XXIX

"Except for that specific being-impulse which the ancient Roman beings were the first on that planet to crystallize in their presences, and which subsequently spread gradually to all the other three-brained beings of that planet, scarcely anything else has passed by inheritance from their ancestors to these beings called Italians. 2510 BTG XXIX

"Now let us talk about that particularly maleficent invention of the ancient Greeks, which is being actualized in practice at the present time by the beings of the contemporary community there, called England, and which invention they call 'sport'. 2517 BTG XXIX

"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, added, thanks to its maleficent consequences, one more sure-fire factor for shortening the duration of their existence — already trifling enough without that — but also, experiencing in their turn at the present time the greatness of their community, they are in consequence authorities for the 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, they, at the present time, by every possible means, strongly infect the beings of all other large and small communities of that ill-fated planet with that invention of theirs. 2518 BTG XXIX

"Here it is interesting to notice that when one of your contemporary favorites already partially dies for good in this way, then their contemporary Zerlikners, or as they are called 'physicians' look upon such a death as most certainly a disease, and with every kind of wiseacring that has become proper to them, start treating it; and they give these supposed diseases every sort of name consonant with an ancient language utterly unknown to them, called 'Latin'. 2544 BTG XXIX

"For instance, a one-third death on account of the Bobbin-kandelnost of the moving-center 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 practice, thanks to the maleficent invention of the ancient Greeks, and which maleficent occupation they now call sport. 2547 BTG XXIX

"The beings of that brotherhood, it seems, partly elucidated for themselves the mentioned laws of association in being-brains, and in part such information reached them from ancient times through genuine initiates there. 2568 BTG XXIX

"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 the other communities with the 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'. 2569 BTG XXIX

"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 wiseacring 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 called him, 'Orpheus', a figure invented by the ancient Greeks, they then decided to invent a new word defining their 'vocation' more exactly. 2798 BTG XXX

"This mentioned written compromise was that instead of the signs or letters which they could not pronounce although they understood the sense of this pronunciation they decided to employ a slightly similar letter of their alphabet at the time, and in order that everybody should understand that it was not that letter but quite another, they always wrote by its side a letter of the ancient Romans, now existing but already meaningless, called in English 'h' and among the contemporary French 'ahsh'. 2803 BTG XXX

"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 with the increase of their wiseacring, 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 'h', 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'. 2805 BTG XXX

"And it was the basis because it appeared 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 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 bobtailed reason, thought that it was nothing more than the word indicating 'the-followers-of-this-historical-personality Orpheus', and as many of them did not regard themselves as his followers, then instead of the mentioned word they just invented the word artist. 2807 BTG XXX

"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 engendering that 'being-ableness' in the presences 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. 2808 BTG XXX

"The point is that the tempo of the deterioration of this being-capacity does not proceed in the common presences of beings in the psychic and organic functioning of their planetary bodies in everyone in every generation uniformly, 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 and used among almost all the contemporary beings who breed on all parts of the surface of your planet, and which passed to them through the ancient Greeks from times long past. 2810 BTG XXX

"The said two letters were called by the ancient Greeks 'theta' and 'delta'. 2811 BTG XXX

"Here it is interesting to notice that your favorites of very ancient times specially used just these two letters for giving distinct names to two quite opposite meanings. 2812 BTG XXX

"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, and without the least embarrassment employ, for words of entirely opposite meanings, one and the same conventional sign in the form of their famous 'th'. 2816 BTG XXX

"For instance, when beings of the contemporary England utter their favorite 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 also frequently use — the word 'there' — you hear quite distinctly and definitely the ancient letter 'delta'; but, all the same, for both these letters they use without any what is called remorse, the same 'universally paradoxical' 'th'. 2817 BTG XXX

"So then, I made it clear that there in 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 inheritance now proceeds there under very complex and arcane conditions. 2912 BTG XXX

"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. 2928 BTG XXX

"This specific particularity of theirs is 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 begin to produce the given branch in quite a new manner, perhaps in order to make the said lawful illogicality practically clear to himself, then most of the beings around him belonging to 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. 2932 BTG XXX

"The first of the said three languages was the one which was worked up and which served for the 'spoken relations' of the beings of that ancient community there, which, as I have already told you, arose from a small group of Asiatic fishermen and which group later become a solid community, the beings of which were during a long period specialists there in the 'invention of sciences'. 2991 BTG XXXI

"From the beings of this community, that is from these said ancient Greeks, not only many different sciences but likewise their language reached contemporary beings. 2992 BTG XXXI

"But the second language which they proposed to make a common planetary language, namely, 'Latin', was the language spoken by the beings of that ancient solid community formed, as I have also told you, from a small group of Asiatic shepherds, whose descendants were later the cause of the fact that in the presences of all the beings there of subsequent generations there was gradually formed and ultimately in the contemporary beings became already definitely fixed and obligatorily inherent in them, that perverted function thanks to which all impulses arising in them, in the sense of striving for evolution, are already automatically paralyzed at their very roots, and which they themselves call 'sexuality'. 2993 BTG XXXI

"Well, when these representatives of various contemporary 'powerful' communities met in order collectively to choose one or another of the mentioned three languages, they could not settle upon any one of the three languages owing to the following considerations: "Latin they found poor in the sense of the number of words. "And indeed, my boy, the shepherds with their limited needs could not create a many-worded language; and although Latin became later on the language of a large community, yet beyond the special words required for orgies, they did not introduce into it anything that could suit the contemporary beings of your planet. "And as regards the Greek language, then although by the wealth of its vocabulary it might indeed serve as a universal language for their whole planet, because these former fishermen, in 'inventing' every possible kind of fantastic 'science', happened also to devise very many corresponding words which remained in that language, yet these representatives of the contemporary powerful communities could not fix their choice upon it owing to a peculiar particularity which also flows from this same strange psyche of theirs. "The point is that all the beings assembled to select a common planetary language were representatives of communities which had become at the period of their contemporary civilization powerful or, as they also say, 'great'. "But this ancient Greek language continues at the present time to be spoken by the beings of a contemporary small community called 'Greece', who, though they are descendants of the former 'great Greeks', have not now at their disposal as many of what are called 'guns' and 'ships' as those 'important communities' whose representatives were just then assembled in order unanimously to select one common language for the whole planet. "Therefore, in all probability each of these representatives deliberated somewhat as follows: "'Heavens above! can anybody use a language which is spoken by the beings of such a trifling community? It hasn't even guns to entitle its representatives to equal participation in our "international five-o'clocks".' 2994 BTG XXXI

"'It is also explained in these books what appearance these substances have in which are present all the elements which should be in them, and how their external appearance changes if these elements are not in them. Several homemade meons for recognizing the substances are also given in these German books, as for instance, by sight, by taste, by burning, and by certain means that ancient grand mothers of olden times had heard tell of, and so on and so forth. 3072 BTG XXXI

"This branch of their science has perhaps come to be for them more maleficent than the fantastic inventions of the ancient Hellenic fishermen and of the contemporary beings of the community Germany. 3249 BTG XXXII

"This definite sacred something would have remained for untold centuries in its pristine state among these three-brained beings who have already long ago no reverence in their essence; but as in the presences of these contemporary, as it is possible to call them, 'unconscious sacrilegists', a criminal passion has arisen that evokes in them a need to despoil even the sanctuaries of beings of past generations, they dug down even into this chamber which ought to have been for them a profoundly revered sanctuary, and they committed that blasphemous deed whose result is now the cause of my becoming aware with all my being of my mistake — of just that mistake I made when I so confidently assured you that nothing whatever had reached the beings of the contemporary civilization from the beings of epochs long past; whereas this said contemporary Egyptian event is a consequence of one result which reached them of the attainments of these ancient ancestors of theirs who used to exist on the continent Atlantis. 3322 BTG XXXIII

"Having said this, he suddenly stood up and approaching what is called a china figure of old Chinese workmanship which stood in a corner of my room, he exclaimed with impulsive rapture which thrilled his whole presence: 'How charming! . . . Where did you get this marvel of ancient wisdom . . . ?' 3460 BTG XXXIV

"And not ceasing to look at the said figure and giving himself up to the feeling of his rapture, or, more strictly speaking, with all his feelings coursing together through him, he further continued: "'I myself am very much interested in all ancient art, but chiefly in Chinese, and that is why, of the five rooms given up to my collection, three are filled with productions of ancient Chinese work alone'. 3461 BTG XXXIV

"Continuing to speak in this strain about his adoration for the production of ancient Chinese masters, he without ceremony again sat down in my armchair and began to enlarge upon antiques in general, their value and where they are to be found. 3462 BTG XXXIV

"Almost every one of them 'knows' that among ancient Egyptians there were twenty-four dynasties. But if any one of them is asked, 'Why are there so many dynasties among them?' it would then appear that he had never even thought about it. 3542 BTG XXXIV

"Further if one continues to insist on an answer, then this same being who up to now knew and was sure with all his being that there were twenty-four dynasties among the ancient Egyptians, he at best — of course on the condition if one helps him to be able to be sincere and to express aloud associations flowing in his mentation — reveals his logical mentation in some such way: "'Among the Egyptians there were twenty-four dynasties.... 3543 BTG XXXIV

"And if any of the beings of contemporary 'culture' infallibly desires and will continue to 'pant' in order to explain well to his Reason why among these ancient Egyptians the family name of their kings changed so often, then again, at very best, his being-mentation will associate approximately in the following sequence. He will say: "'Evidently in olden times in this Egypt it often happened that the kings, or as they are named there Pharaohs, grew tired of reigning and abdicated their power — and this abdication in all probability proceeded in the following way and approximately under the following circumstances. 3546 BTG XXXIV

"In consequence of the fact that the existence of beings which had been put as a basis of the formation of this large contemporary community there and of their subsequent generations, proceeded in the course of many centuries in the neighborhood of beings who belonged to those Asiatic communities, who, thanks to various events, existed so relatively long a period in consequence of which in the process of their ordinary existence — as this in general happens from a long existence — very many good customs and 'moral habits' were gradually formed by themselves and became fixed in the process of their ordinary existence, then these Russians, after meeting with the beings of these, for terrestrial beings, ancient communities and even at times having friendly mutual relationships with them, gradually adopted and began to use in the process of their ordinary existence, many of the useful customs and 'moral habits'. 3596 BTG XXXIV

"Since the beings of this community France began automatically to influence the psyche of the beings of the community Russia, and these latter began even to strive to imitate the beings of this community France in everything, thus all the good customs among them which were already present in the process of their existence and those moral habits which had become inherent in them, either half-consciously or automatically taken by them from the beings of ancient Asiatic communities, were gradually forgotten, and new ones-French-acquired. 3599 BTG XXXIV

"And the second custom, namely, the washing at times in special rooms of theirs called the 'hammam' was also invented by a certain ancient Asiatic being. 3606 BTG XXXIV

"Well, my boy, when still in, as your contemporary favorites say, the 'dim ancient past', a wise and learned being by name 'Amambakhlootr', also from the continent Asia there, once clearly constated during his conscious observations of various facts proceeding around him, that this 'oily-something' which collects in the pores of the skin, has also a maleficent influence on the general functioning of the whole planetary body, he began to elucidate and seek for means for wiping out at least this evil. 3613 BTG XXXIV

'In view of the fact, as I have once already told you that the beings of this contemporary grouping are the direct substitutes of the ancient Greeks in respect of 'inventing' every possible kind of 'science' and in view of the fact that your deductions from the problem I have set you, might be diametrically opposite to confrontative-logical possibilities, I find it necessary to help you a little and to inform you further concerning two facts. 3673 BTG XXXVI

"The first fact is that certain words of this song have no corresponding words in any other language, in spite of the fact that this planet of yours is called, in respect of the existence there of an innumerable number of languages, a 'thousand-tongued-hydra'; and the second fact is that when it finally became inherent to the beings of this grouping, just as to the ancient Greeks, to invent every maleficent means for 'disintegrating' what is called 'logical-being-mentation', already sufficiently disintegrated without this, they also invented among other things for their language, a certain so-called 'grammatical-rule', according to which they always during any kind of 'exchange of opinions', even to the present day, place the particle of negation after the affirmative, as for instance, they always, instead of saying 'I-do-not-want-this', say 'I-want-this-not'. 3674 BTG XXXVI

"And after Atlantis had perished, and many, many centuries had passed, when I was on the continent Asia in the city of Koorkalai, their new center-of-culture of that ancient community there called Tikliamish, and sat at times among them in their Kaltaan which were similar also to contemporary restaurants, was I not witness of similar 'scenes'? 3748 BTG XXXVII

"Moreover as the beings of the female sex of both these communities there began voluntarily to deprive then? selves of that part of themselves which is adapted also by Great Nature for certain exchanges of cosmic sub stances, Nature did not fail to react and began to produce corresponding results, which will certainly take the forms, as had already occurred twice on this planet: the first time, in the country 'Uneano', now 'Kafiristan', where there appeared what are called 'Amazons', and the second time in ancient Greece, where there was created the 'religion of the poetess Sappho'. 3850 BTG XXXVII

"Your favorites of already the first generation of the contemporaries of Saint Moses, evidently found it profitable for their special aims to insert in these religious teachings almost the entire fantastic teaching which I already told you when I related that among the ancient three-brained beings of the second grouping on the continent Ashhark or contemporary Asia, there was a king named Konuzion, a subsequent Saint, who, for the purpose of saving his subjects from the pernicious habit of chewing the seed of the poppy first invented his fantastic 'religious doctrine'. 3892 BTG XXXVIII

"During the last century one of these favorite places on another continent for the beings of this peculiar planet, was the country of ancient Gemchania or as contemporary beings say there 'India'. 3992 BTG XXXVIII

"And these sacred cosmic substances, formed in them in such a manner, serve either only for the purposes of the Most Great cosmic Trogoautoegocrat entirely without the participation of their own being-consciousness and individual desire, or for the involuntary conception of a new being similar to themselves, who is without their cognized wish a distressing result for them frnm the mixing of these sacred substances of the two opposite sexes, who actualize in themselves two opposite forces of the Sacred Triamazikamno, during the satisfaction by them of that function of theirs which has become, thanks to the inheritance from the ancient Romans, the chief vice of contemporary three-brained beings. 4557 BTG XXXIX

"As regards the first of the enumerated three fragments of the practical results attained by the Reason of three-brained beings of this ancient China and which reached to your contemporary favorites, it is necessary to tell you that in consequence of the fact that certain of the constituent parts of this whole product called there opium became from then on — thanks to the special properties of their agreeable action on the abnormal general-psyche of the beings — to be continuously used by them, therefore the knowledge of many methods of getting certain of its independent active elements began to be transmitted from generation to generation and reached down to your contemporary favorites. 4964 BTG XL

"But as I had already become convinced before this that the contemporary 'scientists' of that community, firstly, for the most part only fantasy, and, secondly, like the beings of ancient Greece, do not prepare anything good or beneficial for future generations, I therefore did not interest myself in these, as it were new, as they also call them 'scientific attainments' and do not know the names of these new active elements of the present day. 4978 BTG XL

"As regards the second fragment of the practical results attained by the Reason of the same beings of ancient China and which has reached down to contemporary beings, namely, the knowledge relating to the law of the combination of colors', then all the information concerning this has been handed down almost all the time from generation to generation, but each year it always underwent a greater change for the worse, and was only two centuries ago ultimately forgotten. 4980 BTG XL

"And as regards the 'seven-toned scale of sound' which had reached them from the ancient Chinese beings, then you must be informed about this as detailedly as possible, because first of all, thanks to this information, you will better understand about the laws of vibrations in which all the peculiarities of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh can be constated and cognized; and secondly, because, among those things intentionally reproduced by those same three-brained beings of yours, who have taken your fancy, for daily use in their general existence, I brought home from there also one 'sound-producing instrument' named there 'piano' on which the vibration-engendering 'strings' were placed which could be arranged just as on the Dzendvokh, that is the second special part of the famous experimental apparatus Alla-attapan, which was created by the great twin brothers and on which, when we return on to our dear Karatas, I shall be able to explain to you by demonstration, what is called, the 'successiveness-of-the-processes-of-the-mutual-blending-of-vibrations'. Thanks to these practical explanations of mine you will more easily be able to represent to yourself and approximately to cognize just how and in which successiveness in our great Megalocosmos the process of the Most Great Trogoautoegocrat proceeds and in what way the large and small cosmic concentrations arise. 4984 BTG XL

"Relating about how such a fragment of 'practical result' from the ancient true knowledge survived and automatically reached down to your contemporary favorites, I shall first of all elucidate to you with more accuracy about this same definite law of vibrations which was first formulated by the great brothers as the 'seven-gravity-center-vibrations-of-sound'. 4986 BTG XL

"And so, my boy, this apparatus, Lav-Merz-Nokh, and also the detailed theory of this ancient conscientious learned being King-Too-Toz suffered the same fate as the incomparable apparatus Alla-attapan and the whole totality of true information cognized by the brothers. 5034 BTG XL

"And so, my boy, the basis for the arising of such terrestrial misunderstandings was that various fragments of information concerning the 'law of vibrations' reached the contemporary beings from two independent sources, namely, from those same ancient Chinese and from those ancient Greeks, about whom, you remember, I have already told you that their community was formed there long ago between the continents of Asia and Europe, by those Asiatic fishermen, who, out of boredom during bad weather, invented various 'sciences' among which was just this 'science of the vibrations of sound'. 5075 BTG XL

"All subsequent misunderstandings began with this, that in the information which had reached them from the ancient Chinese it was shown that the 'whole octave of vibrations' has seven 'restorials', that is to say, that the octave consists of seven 'gravity center sounds'; while in the Greek information it was said that the 'whole octave of vibrations' has five 'restorials', that is to say, that the octave consists of five centers of gravity or five whole notes. 5079 BTG XL

"After a great deal of, as they still sometimes say, 'drying of saliva', they finally decided, in order that no one should be offended and at the same time in order to have also this branch in their science, to unite into one both of these theories which had reached them from ancient times and which had nothing in common with each other. And a little later when one of them, named Gaidoropoolo, thought out a very long 'mathematical' explanation of this misunderstanding, namely, why in one theory there is mentioned the division of the octave into seven 'whole sounds', while in the other, into only five 'whole sounds', and why and how such an important contradiction had occurred, then these mathematical explanations of his entirely pacified all the corresponding representatives of contemporary civilization so that now, with a quiet conscience, they produce all their wiseacring concerning vibrations on the basis of the 'mathematical explanations' of this obliging Gaidoropoolo. 5083 BTG XL

"Your contemporary favorites of course cannot understand that however hard these same ancient Greeks tried, or, so to say, 'however conscientious their attitude toward this matter', they could not with all their wish find in the division of the octave of sound into definite tones either more or less than these five whole notes, since the totality of all the conditions not depending on them, both inner and outer, gave them the possibility at the reproduction of their chanting to rely only on their five restorials of voice. 5101 BTG XL

"The Nirioonossian-World-Sound is just that sound the vibrations of which have been taken from ancient times — and even at the present time there, is still taken, it is true, for a very small number of your favorites, of course, of this same China — for their sound-producing instruments as the 'absolute vibrations' of the note 'do'. 5133 BTG XL

"This science is nothing but fragments of the above mentioned totality of true information concerning the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh cognized by the great Chinese twin brothers and by other genuine ancient scientists and then called by them the 'totality of true information about the law of Ninefoldness'. 5169 BTG XLI

And so, my boy, once when I was talking with this dervish Hadji-Zephir-Bogga-Eddin about the ancient Chinese science Shat-Chai-Mernis, he, in the course of conversation, proposed that I should go with him to another dervish, a friend of his, a great authority on this ancient Chinese science, to talk about it with him. 5177 BTG XLI

"'It began in this way: "'I must first tell you that before this I already very well knew that half the length of any string gives twice the number of vibrations of a whole string of equal volume and density, and in accordance with this principle I arranged on the zimbal what are called "bridges" for the strings and then began correspondingly to tune all the strings for a certain ancient sacred melody in "oneeighth-toned" sounds, of course according to my "Perambarrsasidaan" or, as it is called in Europe, "tuning fork", producing the vibrations of the Chinese absolute note "do". 5304 BTG XLI

"'And we made apparatuses exactly similar to those with which all these ancient sages made their experiments, and we even made an addition to one of their apparatuses, which is now the chief one for my experiments. 5338 BTG XLI

"'When we had placed this grand piano here, we tuned its strings exactly according to those laws of vibrations indicated in the ancient Chinese science Shat-Chai-Mernis. 5370 BTG XLI

"'For the correct tuning of the strings we there not only took the absolute sound of the ancient Chinese note "do", but also, as that same science recommended, took into account the local geographical conditions, the pressure of the atmosphere, the form and dimensions of the interior, and the mean temperature of the surrounding space as well as of the interior itself and so on, and we even took into consideration from how many people human radiations might issue in this interior during our proposed experiments. 5371 BTG XLI

"'And if I can still somehow reconcile myself today, it is only because I very well remember the words of our ancient great prophet "Issi-Noora" who said that "an individual is not responsible for his manifestations only when in death agony". 5430 BTG XLI

"'The outcome of that exclamation, then, was that on the next day, with the help of several hired Tadjiks, there were removed from various ancient and deserted mines lying near by, "lumps" of three kinds of "ore" as large as could be removed; and these were placed in a certain order in the bed of our underground stream. 5551 BTG XLI

"I remember very clearly one of those periods when the beings of that time, who, by the way, according to the notions of your contemporary favorites, were nothing but ancient 'savages', invented every possible kind of convenience for performing this same although prosaic yet indispensable being-need, on account of which these contemporary Americans, who in their naivete consider themselves already civilized to the ne plus ultra, have invented these comfortable seats in their water closets. 5812 BTG XLII

"But there on your planet, thanks to the common presences of your favorites having become so odd, from a variety of causes both proceeding from outside of them and arising through their own fault, the result of the action of this common-cosmic actualization does not proceed in them as it proceeds in the presences of the three-brained beings arising on other planets during 'Chirnooanovo'; that is to say, instead of this remorse of conscience, there usually arise there and become widespread certain specific processes, called the 'reciprocal destruction of Microcosmoses in the Tetartocosmos', which processes, when proceeding in them, they themselves look upon as what are called among them 'epidemics' and which in ancient times were known by the names 'Kalunom', 'Morkrokh', 'Selnoano', etc., and in present days by the names 'Black Death', 'cholera', 'Spanish influenza', and so on. 5822 BTG XLII

"And this is obviously because in most of them as direct descendants of the beings of long-existing ancient communities, thanks to the possibilities which have reached them by inheritance, the crystallizing of data for the instinctive sensing of reality proceeds much more intensively in them than in most of your other contemporary favorites. 5868 BTG XLII

"The cause of the absence of this disease as well as of many other evils in the said parts of the continent of Asia is in my opinion that the majority of the beings of the continent Asia have several very good customs for their everyday existence, which have reached them likewise from their ancient ancestors. 5909 BTG XLII

"'Are there not? On the contrary; in that religion there were many more good customs than in any of the religions of today; in none of the ancient religious teachings were so many good regulations for ordinary everyday life laid down as in just that teaching on which this same Christian religion was founded. 6057 BTG XLII

"'And why the Great Moses introduced this custom into the religion of the Judaic people I learned from a very ancient Chaldean manuscript. 6070 BTG XLII

"'As regards just what measures the Great Moses took for eradicating that evil, I learned not from the aforementioned book Tookha Tes Nalool Pan, but from the contents of an also very ancient papyrus. 6086 BTG XLII

"'According to the information which has come down to us from ancient times and also according to our own common sense, it is plain that the Great Moses, who as we learn from another source was a very great authority on medicine, wished by this means to secure that the totality of substances accumulating in the said places might of itself be mechanically removed owing to all kinds of accidental contact and thus cease to become a factor for the arising of the mentioned maleficent itching. Concerning the vast learning of the Great Moses in the province of medicine, many diverse historical sources agree that he obtained his medical knowledge during his stay in Egypt as a pupil of the Egyptian high priests to whom this knowledge had come down from their ancestors of the continent Atlantis, the first and last genuinely learned beings of the Earth, the members of the society then called Akhaldan. 6090 BTG XLII

"'And this custom together with many other ancient Judaic customs also reached the followers of the Christian religion, who at first observed it very strictly in their everyday life; but very soon, both this custom itself and even the information about its adoption among them similarly quickly disappeared from among the followers of this then still new religion. 6098 BTG XLII

"'In confirmation of what I have just told you, you I might as well, my young friend, listen to what I once chanced to read about Christian fasting in an ancient Judaic-Essenian manuscript. 6152 BTG XLII

"'In this ancient Judaic-Essenian manuscript it was stated that the custom established for the followers of the teaching of Jesus Christ, of fasting at certain times of the year, was instituted long after His death, namely, in the two hundred and fourteenth year after His birth. 6153 BTG XLII

"Concerning the destruction and transformation by contemporary beings of these good customs which were handed down from the ancient days of their wise ancestors, our incomparable Mullah Nassr Eddin has also a very apt and wise sentence. 6194 BTG XLII

"These good customs for ordinary existence reached your contemporary favorites from ancient three-brained beings of your planet, and very many now still exist there among the beings of various communities of the continent Asia. 6205 BTG XLII

"In my opinion, this is the outcome entirely of that custom of theirs, which some ancient clever being there invented for the welfare of the people of his epoch, and which passing afterwards from generation to generation, chanced to reach these contemporary filthy beings of the tribe of Kolenian gypsies. 6211 BTG XLII

"This unpardonable lack of thought is all the more strange in that they themselves admit the existence of many, as they now call them, ancient sages, and also do not deny the great amount of most varied information which has come down to them concerning the many objective truths elucidated by these sages, which information, by the way, certain of your favorites at the present time are, without any remorse of conscience, giving out as having been thought of by themselves and exploiting to the full for their various egoistic aims, without at all suspecting that the totality of the results of these wiseacrings of theirs will inevitably lead their descendants sooner or later to total destruction. 6336 BTG XLII

"And, of course, these members of the contemporary society, the League of Nations, will endeavor to attain this abolition by all kinds of regulations and various agreements devised by them, by which means those ancient beings also endeavored to attain it, that is to say, by those ways and means by which in my opinion it is now already absolutely impossible there to attain anything 'effective'. 6449 BTG XLIII

"The word intelligentsia is also taken from the ancient Greek language. 6500 BTG XLIII

"But among the ancient Greeks this word denoted a being so perfected that he was already able to direct his functions as he wished, and not for instance as occurs with every what is called inanimate cosmic formation, every action of which proceeds only as a reaction to external causes. 6502 BTG XLIII

"I must here tell you further that certain of those terrestrial 'intelligentsics', in whom during the period of their responsible existence certain already established forms of their inner functioning have, for various reasons, become definitely changed, are no longer called by the other terrestrial beings 'intelligentsics' but are given other names composed of different words, or, more exactly, of the roots of the words of ancient Greek. 6508 BTG XLIII

"As I have already told you, during the last twenty-five centuries there every suspicious notion and every suspicious thing has for some reason or other been called by ancient Greek words; likewise these names, as bureaucrats, aristocrats, democrats, and so on, which express in themselves suspicious notions, are also composed of two ancient Greek words. 6514 BTG XLIII

"Although these types already existed in ancient Greece, also, yet they were then called there 'plusiocrats'. 6519 BTG XLIII

"As the title of these terrestrial types had of course also to be composed of two ancient Greek words and as all such names have the ancient Greek word 'crat' as their second half, then, in order that the new word might not strike anyone's eye, they left in it this same ancient Greek consonance. 6524 BTG XLIII

"The first half, however, of this word was not taken from the ancient Greek as was usually done, but from the what is called 'Russian language', namely, they took the Russian word 'plus' — in Russian 'plus' means 'rogue' — and in this way obtained plutocrat. 6525 BTG XLIII

"In the very beginning, this same Kurd, Atarnakh, perseveringly studied during many Earth-years every possible question which it seemed to him might give him an answer to the question, 'what in general is the sense of man's existence', and during his study of these questions it seems that by some means there fell into his hands a very ancient but well-preserved what is called 'Sumerian manuscript'. 6597 BTG XLIII

"As my investigation made clear to me, the contents of this manuscript, inscribed by some ancient being, extremely interested the philosopher Atarnakh who was particularly struck by that place of the manuscript where, as presupposed by this ancient learned being, it was said: 6599 BTG XLIII

"This idea expressed in the ancient manuscript so captivated the philosopher Atarnakh that thereafter he devoted himself whole-heartedly to the study of only this aspect of the question which had interested him. 6602 BTG XLIII

"'And it will be quite possible to attain to this if all the members of our society continue to work with the same intensity, only not with the aim of realizing our former program, but of reviving upon the Earth on a larger scale than before the ancient custom among men of offering sacrifices to their gods and saints by destroying the lives of other forms'. 6633 BTG XLIII

"Having learned in this way that the aforesaid Aisorian priest possessed the half I referred to of the copy of the original Boolmarshano created personally by Makary Kronbernkzion, and likewise having learned that the same Aisorian priest existed on the continent Asia in the locality called 'Urmia', I went there and, having found him, soon made it clear that indeed he had a very ancient and, as he expressed it, 'shapeless large ivory mass' which he himself considered very antique and valuable. 6845 BTG XLIV

While I was reading that first chapter, which I wrote only six years ago, but which seems to me by my present sensing to have been written long long ago, a sensing which is now in my common presence obviously because during that time I had to think intensely and even as might be said, to "experience" all the suitable material required for eight thick volumes — not for nothing is it stated in that branch of genuine science entitled "the laws of association of human mentation", which has come down from very ancient times and is known to only a few contemporary people, that the "sensing of the flow of time is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of the flow of thoughts" — well then, while I was reading just that first chapter, about which, as I said, I thought deeply from every aspect and which I experienced under the most exclusive action of my own willed self-mortification, and which, moreover, I wrote at a time when the functioning of my entire whole — a functioning which engenders in a man what is called "the-power-to-manifest-by-his-own-initiative" — was utterly disharmonized, that is to say, when I was still extremely ill owing to an accident that had not long before occurred to me, and which consisted of a "charge-and-crash" with my automobile at full speed into a tree standing silently, like an observer and reckoner of the passage of centuries at a disorderly tempo, on the historic road between the world capital of Paris and the town of Fontainebleau — a "charge" which according to any sane human understanding, should have put an end to my life — there arose in me from the reading of that chapter a quite definite decision. 7131 BTG XLVIII

Each of them puts his own subjective sense into all the words that have become gravity-center words in the said so to say "symphony of words without content", and to the ear of this impartial observer it is all perceived only as what is called in the ancient Sinokooloopianian tales of The Thousand and One Nights, "cacophonousfantastic-nonsense. " 7284 BTG XLVIII

The expression which has reached us from ancient times, "the first liberation of man", refers to just this possibility of crossing from the stream which is predestined to disappear into the nether regions into the stream which empties itself into the vast spaces of the boundless ocean. 7395 BTG XLVIII

Proceeding from this and acting according to the wise saying of ancient times affirming that "in order to be in reality a just and good altruist it is inevitably required first of all to be an out and out egoist", and also profiting by the good sense given us by Great Nature, each one of us must set for his chief aim to become in the process of our collective life a master. 7417 BTG XLVIII

Reference: Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson