"What occurred was as follows: "The ordinary beings of the said community, seeing the fuss made about this writer by the power-possessing beings, became very greatly interested in him and avidly bought and read not only this new 'Gospel ' of his but also all the books he had written before. 646 BTG XII

"And this occurred because some of the power-possessing beings of this community, usually with pockets full of money, still continued in their turn to go to other communities, where 'roulette ' and 'baccarat ' proceeded, and carrying on their discussion there concerning this writer, they gradually infected the beings of other communities also with this affair. 649 BTG XII

"And at times if the offended one had greater physical strength, and an important power-possessing being with whom he was not on very good terms was not watching him, he would simply maul the offender as the Russian Sidor once mauled his favorite goat. 1408 BTG XX

"This Menitkel then became a learned being, firstly because his childless aunt was an excellent what is called matchmaker and mixed a great deal with power-possessing beings, and secondly, because when by age he was approaching the 'threshold of the being' of a responsible being, he received on his birthday a gift of a book entitled Manual of Bon Ton and Love Letter Writing. Being materially secure and therefore quite free, thanks to an inheritance left him by his uncle, a former pawnshop proprietor, he out of boredom compiled a massive and erudite work in which he 'spun out', concerning the origin of these apes, an elaborate theory with every kind of 'logical proof', but of course with such 'logical proofs' as could be perceived and crystallized only in the Reasons of those freaks who have taken your fancy. 1677 BTG XXIII

"The same day, he gave appropriate instructions to his nearest corresponding assistants, and the latter already began to 'examine', after the manner that had already long before been the way of power-possessing beings to examine ordinary beings. 1954 BTG XXIV

"And all this then so happened because when the actions of the data of the Divine being-impulse began to participate in the functioning of their ordinary waking-consciousness, and the three-brained beings began manifesting themselves towards each other, solely in accordance with conscience, the consequence was that masters ceased to deprive their slaves of freedom, and various power-possessing beings of their own accord surrendered their unmerited rights, having become aware by conscience and sensing that they possessed and occupied these rights and positions not for the common welfare but only for the satisfaction of their various personal weaknesses, such for instance as 'vanity', 'self-love', 'self-calming', and so on. 2253 BTG XXVII

"And I first began thinking about it when I learned that the power-possessing beings also of that no less great contemporary community were already utilizing that maleficent means of theirs, sport, for their own Hasnamussian aims, exactly as the power-possessing beings of the community Russia had, for their similar aims, utilized what is called 'the-question-of-Russian-vodka'. 2571 BTG XXIX

"Just as the power-possessing beings of the community Russia then tried, by every kind of artifice, to instill into the weak wills of the ordinary beings the necessity of the intensive use of the said 'Russian vodka', so also the power-possessing beings of that community England are now already also maneuvering to intrigue the ordinary beings of their community with this same sport and to urge them to it by every means. 2572 BTG XXIX

"And I conclude this from the etherogram I recently received from the planet Mars, in which among other things, it was said, that though there are more than two and a half millions of what are called 'unemployed-beings' in that community England, yet the power-possessing beings there take no measures concerning this, but endeavor to spread still more widely among them that same famous sport of theirs. 2574 BTG XXIX

"During our further acquaintanceship, it transpired that this foreigner was a subject of that large community called 'Russia', and that among his compatriots he was an important power-possessing being. 3335 BTG XXXIV

"From the information I obtained, I learned that in order to set up such a laboratory there, it was obligatorily required first of all to have a permit from the local power-possessing beings, and that is why I quickly began to take steps to get this permit. 3399 BTG XXXIV

"Here it must in general be noticed that there during the last centuries almost every 'being-manifestation' for the fulfillment of their being-duty in the presences of those beings who become power-possessing is already actualized, thanks exclusively only to the functioning of the data which are formed in them from manifold automatic repetitions of the same thing. 3403 BTG XXXIV

"As regards the power-possessing beings of this community, the crystallization of these peculiar automatic 'being-data' at this period of the flow of time, proceeded in them much more intensely than anywhere else, and was expressed so sharply that sometimes it even seemed as if there were completely absent in them in general all data whatsoever for the immediate bringing forth of being-impulses proper in general to beings. 3404 BTG XXXIV

"The point is that, owing to the insistence of certain hereditary power-possessing beings, there were among the number of the permanent chief participants of this new institution several what are called 'learned physicians. 3433 BTG XXXIV

"They happened to be among the leaders of this Trusteeship, in consequence of the fact that in the presences of the hereditary power-possessing beings of that period there had again already become finally fixed and had become the inviolable part of their essence always the same 'inner overlord' of theirs, maleficent for the terrestrial three-brained beings, named by them 'self-calming', which by itself became for those unfortunates the sense and aim of their existence. And therefore in order not to make any being-effort at all, they insisted that these learned physicians should also unfailingly take part in this important institution of great social significance. 3434 BTG XXXIV

"It is further also necessary to tell you here that when from among these learned beings of 'new format' some become power-possessing and happen to take up important responsible posts in the process of ordinary existence, they then often serve much more as the sources of every kind of subsequent misunderstanding than the hereditary power-possessing beings. 3436 BTG XXXIV

"And they serve as these sources of misunderstandings obviously in consequence of this, that in the common presences of these beings there are acquired and in a particular way are interwoven the characteristic inherencies which had already become proper to your favorites of three quite different contemporary types, namely, power-possessing beings, learned beings of 'new format', and the contemporary 'professional physicians'. 3437 BTG XXXIV

"And so, my boy, on the initiative and insistence of several hereditary power-possessing beings of that community, especially on that of those who, although they outwardly still continue to be power-possessing yet in inner significance are only as they are celled 'emptied sand boxes' ( deflated gasbags ), there were called to power for the business of actualizing such a serious task as the 'relative saving' of many millions of beings similar to themselves, those genuine 'stuffed turkeys', or, as they would be called there, 'upstarts'. 3438 BTG XXXIV

"And so, my boy, as long as I did not yet know that to be occupied with 'intrigues' and dodges, or, as sometimes they themselves still express it, 'mutually-to-get-rid-of-each-other', is already unavoidably inherent in power-possessing beings of this community, I still hoped for and patiently awaited that time when eventually the corresponding conditions would give me the possibility of actualizing my fundamental aim, namely, the possibility of proceeding with the 'elucidatory experiments' on the psyche of the terrestrial beings en masse. But when it became definitely clear to me that here in this community under the existing conditions of reciprocal relationships it would be impossible for me to succeed in this, and I also became convinced that it was impossible to get one's own chemical laboratory there honestly, i.e., strictly according to the laws fixed in this community, I decided to remain there no longer, but to depart, in order to seek suitable conditions for my said aim, to some other European community. 3443 BTG XXXIV

"But His Noble Excellency himself, with a very friendly smile, although with a shade of what is called 'hauteur' characteristic of all the power-possessing beings of that community at that time, came towards me, at the same time examining with great curiosity the 'antiques' which were in my room, and, shaking me in a special way by the wrist, sat down in my favorite armchair. 3458 BTG XXXIV

"The manifestations of the mentioned 'Vietro-yretznel' personally in relation to my person began to have their action already from the very morning of the following day, in this sense that every data for 'being-notion' about my personality which had been before this already soundly fixed in the presences of all the beings there who knew me, suddenly sharply changed, thanks only to this 'objectively maleficent' official presentation of me to their highest power-possessing beings. 3481 BTG XXXIV

"And further, thanks on the one hand to this clamor and, on the other hand, thanks to the action of always the same cosmic law Solioonensius, which action is always combined abnormally in the presences of all of them, others also begin to clamor. When these 'clamorers' among the ordinary beings begin already, excessively cacophonically, to act upon what are called 'the-effeminate-nerves-of-the-left-half' of several of the power-possessing beings of the given community, and these latter order those whose job it is to grease with what is called 'Scottish cream' the navels of several particularly loud-voiced clamorers, then there begin these excesses of theirs which, progressively increasing, reach their zenith, yet to their misfortune ultimately always lead to nothing. 3521 BTG XXXIV

"To these terrestrial beings who become impromptu power-possessing and who have not any hereditary data at all in themselves even for the automatic ability to rule, one of the sayings of our dear Teacher can well be applied, which he expresses in the following words: "'I never yet met that idiot who, accustomed to shuffle in a pair of old shoes, would feel comfortable in smart new ones'. 3526 BTG XXXIV

"While telling you about this separate grouping of the three-brained beings, that is about France, I must also tell you for the fullness of its characterization that in France there are also beings of the ruling class, who also invented very 'good means' for the calming of the minds of the ordinary beings of their community, just as the power-possessing beings of the big community Russia employ such a means for the encouragement of the use of the famous Russian vodka, and the power-possessing beings of the community England at the present time attain the same by their not less famous 'sport'. 3858 BTG XXXVII

"However, it must be admitted that although the power-possessing beings of the community France also adopt these 'good means' and successfully attain their egoistic aims, yet these means, though, be it said, to no credit of the power-possessing beings of the communities of England and Russia, bring scarcely any harm to the planetary bodies themselves of the ordinary beings. 3859 BTG XXXVII

"The power-possessing beings of certain communities there gradually mixed into this divine teaching, for their said Hasnamussian aims such 'spices' of their own invention, that a 'Sherakhoorian-combination' resulted, the secret of which would 'oe the envy of all the contemporary famous European as they are called 'pastry cooks' and 'chefs'. 3950 BTG XXXVIII

"Judging by the latter half of the contents of this etherogram, the process of the entire destruction of this second great religion is bound to proceed or had already proceeded there, on account of that order mentioned in the etherogram promulgated by the power-possessing beings of the community Turkey. 3952 BTG XXXVIII

"And therefore, although the teaching of this religion was gradually changed under the influence of the power-possessing beings there, nevertheless, among these same certain beings there, this teaching of Mohammed passed from generation to generation in an unchanged form. 3955 BTG XXXVIII

"Inasmuch as the production, importation, and consumption of what are called 'alcoholic liquids' have recently been strictly prohibited to the ordinary beings by the power-possessing beings of this group, and corresponding injunctions have also been given to those beings there upon whom the power-possessing beings rest their hope for their own welfare, it is now supposed to be almost impossible for the ordinary beings there to obtain such liquids. At the same time, in these New York restaurants, various alcoholic liquids called 'Arrack', 'Doosico', 'Scotch whisky', 'Benedictine', 'Vodka', 'Grand Marnier', and many other different liquids, under every possible kind of label, and made exclusively only on what are called 'old barges' Iying at sea off the shores of that continent, are to be had in any quantity you please. 5611 BTG XLII

"This same American prohibition of the consumption of alcohol can serve us yet again as an excellently illuminating example for understanding to what degree the possibilities for the crystallization of data for being-reflection are atrophied in these contemporary responsible power-possessing beings, in respect of the fact that such an absurdity is being actually repeated there. 5634 BTG XLII

"In short, my boy, the same is being repeated on this continent America as also took place quite recently in the large community called Russia. There the power-possessing responsible beings also prohibited the consumption of the famous 'Russian vodka' with the consequence that these beings very soon adapted themselves to consume, instead of this 'vodka', the no less famous 'Hanja', from the effects of which thousands of these unfortunate beings are still dying there daily. 5646 BTG XLII

"The difference will be only in the process of the destruction itself. The process of the destruction of the large community 'monarchic Russia' proceeded in consequence of the abnormalities of, so to say, the Reason of the power-possessing beings there, whereas the process of the destruction of this community America will proceed in consequence of organic abnormalities. In other words, the 'death' of the first community came from, as they say, the 'mind' whereas the death of the second community will come from the 'stomach and sex' of its beings. 5761 BTG XLII

"So long as the previous relatively normal system still prevailed among the beings there for the said being-functions, everything went along very peacefully and quietly, but as soon as certain what are called power-possessing and wealth-possessing beings of that time had invented for this purpose the mentioned 'comfortable beds' which came to be called 'if you wish to enjoy felicity then enjoy it with a bang', there then began among the ordinary beings of that time that which led to the said serious and deplorable consequences. 5819 BTG XLII

"'After serious reflections and deliberations, these rulers of the various independent groups of Asiatic peoples, or their representatives, together of course with the representatives of medicine of that time, then came to the conclusion that it was possible to deal with the situation which had arisen, only if what is called prostitution should be established everywhere on the continent of Asia, as is now the case on the continent of Europe, and only if the power-possessing people should deliberately encourage its development and co-operate in its success. 5945 BTG XLII

"'And it was held in secret because the followers of the teaching of Jesus Christ were then everywhere rigorously persecuted by the power-possessing people. 6156 BTG XLII

"'The power-possessing people persecuted them because they greatly feared that if people lived according to this teaching, then although they themselves, namely the power-possessing people, could also live vely well, yet all the motives for displaying their power would disappear, and thereby those shocks would cease, the satisfaction of which evoke the tickling of their inner god named "Self-Love". 6157 BTG XLII

"Only certain beings there who are called 'important' and power-possessing have the possibility of being satisfied to satiety; in truth, it is precisely these terrible beings who it would seem could, owing to their position, do something for the eradication of this evil, or at least diminish it to a certain extent. 6386 BTG XLIII

"But just these 'important' and power-possessing beings who have the possibility of filling themselves to satiety and who could perhaps do something toward this end, in reality do nothing at all for still quite other reasons. 6387 BTG XLIII

"This maleficent means is adopted there for all the young during their preparatory age, but especially adopted everywhere in relation to those young beings who later almost always, as a rule, become power-possessing. 6389 BTG XLIII

"Well then, when these same young beings, who almost always become power-possessing, become responsible beings and begin to bear responsible obligations, they of course do not have any data at all for manifesting what is called 'logical reflection', owing to the fact that they have not used the time destined by Great Nature exclusively for the purposes of preparing in themselves being-data for a worthy and responsible existence, but waste it only for developing in themselves the properties which flow from the totality of the results of this celebrated education of theirs, which, as a rule, dictates to them how better to give oneself up to what is called 'self-calming'. 6390 BTG XLIII

"For such power-possessing or important beings there, our wise Mullah Nassr Eddin also had a very interesting definition, and, namely, he says: "'The degree of the importance of these people depends only on the number of their corns'. 6393 BTG XLIII

"For instance, when after gorging and satisfying themselves these important and power-possessing beings of the Earth are seated on their said divans, the associative thoughts which ought inevitably to flow in them receive shocks from the reflexes of their stomach and sex organs and wander freely in all directions, as they say there, 'to their heart's content', and so pleasantly free and easy, as if they, that is these thoughts of theirs, were 'strolling of an evening in Paris along the Boulevard des Capucines'. 6398 BTG XLIII

"When these power-possessing beings of your planet are seated on their soft divans, subjects like the following a-think in them. 6399 BTG XLIII

"Or this 'digesting' terrestrial power-possessing or important being thinks: 'Why did not my horse come in first yesterday at the races as I expected, but some other?' 6401 BTG XLIII

"Still, it does occasionally happen there, that some power-possessing or important being of the Earth suddenly chances to think not under the influences of the reflexes of his stomach and sex organs, but thinks sincerely and quite seriously about these or other questions, with particular regard to this terrifying terrestrial question. 6404 BTG XLIII

"And in these cases, when the power-possessing beings there sincerely ponder about this phenomenal horror which proceeds on their planet, they are always greatly agitated by it, and of course in this state of theirs they make a vow to undertake at all costs and to actualize everything necessary to put an end to this increasing evil. 6406 BTG XLIII

"As a rule, in consequence of the fact that these power-possessing or important beings there do not use the time foreseen by Great Nature for preparing themselves to become worthy responsible beings — owing chiefly to which during their responsible existence, even in their waking state, all kinds of associations in their common presences almost always flow automatically-therefore they themselves without any individual intentions and at times even half-intentionally try to do everything in such n way that the next process of reciprocal destruction should occur sooner, and they even hope that this next process should proceed on as large a scale as possible. 6408 BTG XLIII

"It even sometimes happens there, my boy, that certain of the power-possessing and important beings among your favorites unite and form a special society with the aim of jointly finding out and actualizing in practice some possible means for the abolition of this archcriminal property of theirs. 6410 BTG XLIII

"But owing to their various personal egoistic and vainglorious aims, the ordinary terrestrial important and power-possessing beings who had then assembled, very soon quarreled among themselves and went their ways home without accomplishing anything. 6416 BTG XLIII

"Above all, from this society something effective might have resulted because there was not a single power-possessing being among them, since on account of their same egoistic and vainglorious aims these beings sooner or later always dispatch all the accomplishments of any society whatsoever of a common planetary character of which they happen to be members — and moreover dispatch them with 'musical accompaniment' — to the famous swine of our Mullah Nassr Eddin, which always gobble up everything, without what are called 'parlor manners'. 6426 BTG XLIII

"These terrestrial power-possessing and important beings, particularly the contemporary ones, at times do not frustrate such national affairs from which they might expect considerable gain personally for themselves or for the beings of their own caste. 6427 BTG XLIII

"From the tasks of such a society good results might be obtained for all the beings of their planet without distinction of caste, but then, as soon as the affairs of this society begin to be somewhat difficult, or, as it is said, a crisis arises, these tasks instantly bore the terrestrial power-possessing beings and even at the mention of them or when by association they themselves remember about them, expressions of martyrdom immediately appear on their faces. 6428 BTG XLIII

"Still, I must remark that these contemporary important and power-possessing beings who are or will be members of this contemporary society will achieve personally for themselves by this new contrivance of theirs one 'most formidable' and 'most useful' result, namely, thanks to this 'official society' of theirs, they will have still another as it is said very plausible excuse for drawing wool over the eyes of their what are called 'proprietesses',who are for these terrestrial contemporary power-possessing beings either their 'wife', 'mistress', 'mother-in-law', or finally, the 'assistant' in some large store, and so on. 6432 BTG XLIII

"Whereupon, thanks to this new official society of theirs, they will have the opportunity of passing the time tranquilly among their friends, important and power-possessing beings like themselves, and at these official 'five o'clocks' which without doubt will be very often arranged ostensibly for affairs connected as it were with the aims of this important official society of theirs, they will be able to pass the time without the silent though terrifying glances and watchfulness on the part of their 'proprietresses'. 6433 BTG XLIII

"Such societies of power-possessing beings usually arise there at the beginning of the end of the great processes of reciprocal destruction. And almost each time they arise in the following way: "A number of them, namely, from among those power-possessors, personally suffered during their last process of reciprocal destruction such 'heavy losses' — the 'momentum of the action' of which had not yet ceased in their common presence and had engendered for the general functioning of their psyche a certain combination — that the data in their subconsciousness for the arising of the being-impulse named 'conscience', had begun by itself to take part in the functioning of that 'automatic consciousness' of theirs, which had already long ago become habitual to them; that is to say, there was obtained by itself in their general psyche that combination about which the Most Saintly Ashiata Shiemash had dreamed for all the three-brained beings of that ill-fated planet. 6434 BTG XLIII

"Well then, my boy, owing to this, when the said power-possessing beings meet together and discuss a great deal about this terrible property of theirs, they gradually begin to see it almost in its true light and a genuine sincere desire just begins to appear in them to do everything possible to attain to the abolition of this appalling horror proceeding on their planet. 6435 BTG XLIII

"And so, if it happens that several such terrestrial power-possessing beings with so to say 'resurrected conscience' should chance to meet, and, thanks to a long mutual influence, see and feel reality almost in its true light, then they unite in order jointly to find some possibility or other of actualizing these sincere wishes of theirs. 6436 BTG XLIII

"These beings might, perhaps, somehow or other achieve good results, but the evil lies in this, that, as a rule, other of these terrestrial important and power-possessing beings very soon enter such societies and begin to take part in them. 6438 BTG XLIII

"These latter enter and take part in the tasks of such societies not because their conscience also begins to speak — far from it. They join only because, according to all those same abnormally established conditions of ordinary being-existence, they, being important and power-possessing, must as a matter of course be members of and participate in every 'important society. 6439 BTG XLIII

"When these other terrestrial important and power-possessing beings enter such societies and also begin to participate in their affairs, then they, with their personal egoistic and vainglorious aims, as a rule not only very soon send all the tasks of the society and everything that has been done by the beings with 'resurrected consciences' as is said 'flying up the chimney', but as a rule, they also very soon, as it is also said there, 'put genuine spokes into the wheels of the first founders of these societies'. 6440 BTG XLIII

"That is why the beings with Pure Reason there never have had and never will have the possibility of taking part in the societies of beings who are formed of important and power-possessing beings. 6446 BTG XLIII

"But the misfortune for all the other ordinary favorites of yours is that these power-possessing and important beings assembled from the whole of the planet do not begin to occupy themselves with these questions, considering them to be beneath their dignity. 6459 BTG XLIII

"Here it might as well be remarked that when some of these democrats for some reason or other occasionally occupy the places of the power-possessing beings, then a very, very rare cosmic phenomenon sometimes occurs from their actions, namely, as Mullah Nassr Eddin says, 'the very corns turn pedicures'. 6534 BTG XLIII

"And this rare phenomenon occurs in my opinion because when the democrats there chance to occupy the places of the power-possessing beings, they have in themselves no inherited aptitudes at all for instinctively being able to direct others and in consequence they are quite unable to direct the existence of beings who happen to be in their power. 6535 BTG XLIII

"It was further conveyed in the same etherogram that the power-possessing beings of the community Russia had applied to the beings of another European community to undertake the destruction of the existence of those small beings — mice and rats — which had multiplied among them, in return for which they promised to pay them as much money as it would cost. 6729 BTG XLIII

Reference: Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson