That Greek language, the spirit and essence of which were transmitted to me by heredity, and the language now spoken by contemporary Greeks, are as much alike as, according to the expression of Mullah Nassr Eddin, "a nail is like a requiem". 58 BTG I

"Among the number of those independent communities, there were during those periods, owing to those cosmic laws which I have once mentioned to you, those two large and, as they say there, 'most-powerful' communities, that is to say, well organized and possessing more means for the processes of reciprocal destruction, the Greeks and Romans. 2396 BTG XXIX

"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

"And having during my investigations repeatedly constated that a fundamental cause of the various abnormalities of the general psyche of the contemporary beings was what is called 'civilization' sown by those two large groups of beings called Greeks and Romans, I was obliged to inquire into certain details about them also. 2401 BTG XXIX

"The Greeks were the cause why the Reasons of the three-brained beings there began gradually to degenerate and ultimately became so degenerate that among contemporary beings it is already as our dear Mullah Nassr Eddin says, 'a-real-mill-for-nonsense'. 2418 BTG XXIX

"At first these 'sowers-of-evil' for all the three-brained beings there of all the succeeding generations, arising on the continent Europe, and especially the Greeks, moving into the interior of the continent Asia, acted if slowly nevertheless effectively. 2442 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

"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

"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

"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

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

"But though the descendants of the former great Greeks, namely, the Greeks of the present time, have lost the trick of being what is called an 'imagined-authority' for other three-brained beings there, they have now perfectly adapted themselves there on almost all the continents and islands to keeping what are called 'shops', where without any haste, slowly and gently, they trade in what are called 'sponges', 'halva, ''Rahat-Lokoum', 'Turkish delight', etc., and sometimes 'Persian-dried-fruit', never forgetting the dried fish called 'Kefal'. 2507 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

"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

"One of these two initiated learned beings of the Earth who had his arising among, as they are called, the Moors, was named Kanil-EI-Norkel. The other learned initiated being was named Pythagoras, and he arose from among, as they are called, the Hellenes, those Hellenes who were afterwards called Greeks. 2611 BTG XXX

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

'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 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

"He made the further supposition that it was obviously convenient for the Chinese to have the rectorial of the voice, that is, the 'center of gravity' of the voice also on these half notes, and therefore they divided their octave not into five whole notes like the Greeks, but into seven, and so on in this way. 5087 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

"'During these "Christian fasts" which passed to them from the Orthodox Greeks, they all eat the flesh of fish. 6146 BTG XLII

"'I find it incomprehensible because the Orthodox Christians from whom they took this religion, namely, the Greeks, neither in the past nor in the present have ever eaten or do eat the fiesh of fish during fasts. 6149 BTG XLII

"'Even the Greeks of today eat fish during Lent only on one day, and even then in accordance with the code of the Orthodox Church in memory of a day associated with the Divine Jesus Christ. 6150 BTG XLII

"It is interesting to notice that this same word was used also by the Romans; but having taken it from the Greeks not by its sense but by its sound, they later imagined that the roots of this word belonged to their own language. 6501 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

Reference: Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson