As a result of the whole totality of the effects of this happening, at which time my poor "wisdom tooth" became a complete sacrifice, not only did my consciousness begin, from that time on, constantly absorbing, in connection with everything, the very essence of the essence of my deceased grandmother's behest — God bless her soul — but also in me at that time, because I did not go to a "qualified dentist" to have the cavity of this tooth of mine treated, which as a matter of fact I could not do because our home was too far from any contemporary center of culture, there began to ooze chronically from this cavity a "something" which — as it was only recently explained to me by a very famous meteorologist with whom I chanced to become, as is said, "bosom friends" owing to frequent meetings in the Parisian night restaurants of Montmartre — had the property of arousing an interest in, and a tendency to seek out the causes of the arising of every suspicious "actual fact"; and this property, not transmitted to my entirely by heredity, gradually and automatically led to my ultimately becoming a specialist in the investigation of every suspicious phenomenon which, as it so often happened, came my way. 154 I

I must, of course, also make the various what are called "heroes" of these writings of mine not such types as those which in general the writers of all ranks and epochs on Earth have drawn and exalted, that is to say, types such as any Tom, Dick, or Harry, who arise through a misunderstanding, and who fail to acquire during the process of their formation up to what is called "responsible life", anything at all which it is proper for an arising in the image of God, that is to say a man, to have, and who progressively develop in themselves to their last breath only such various charms as for instance: "lasciviousness", "slobberiness", "amorousness", "maliciousness", "chickenheartedness", "enviousness", and similar vices unworthy of man. 182 I

"'This offering to God of sacrifices by destroying the existence of His other creations is just as if somebody from the street should now break into your house and wantonly destroy all the "goods" there, which have taken you years to collect, and cost you years of labor and suffering. 1199 XIX

"In that ingeniously original 'religious doctrine' of the wise King Konuzion it was said that Mister God had intentionally attached to our souls the organs and limbs we now have to protect us against our environment, and to enable us efficiently and profitably to serve both himself personally and the 'souls' already taken to that island of His. 1343 XX

"And when we die and our soul is liberated from all these specially attached organs and limbs, it becomes what it should really be, and is then immediately taken just to this island of His, where our Mister God, in accordance with how our soul with its added parts has existed here on our continent Ashhark, assigns to it an appropriate place for its further existence. 1344 XX

"If the soul has fulfilled its duties honestly and conscientiously, Mister God leaves it, for its further existence on His island; but the soul that here on the continent Ashhark has idled or discharged its duties indolently and negligently, that has in short, existed only for the gratification of the desires of the parts attached to it, or finally, that has not kept His commandments — such a soul our Mister God sends for its further existence to a neighboring island of smaller size. 1345 XX

"Here, on the continent Ashhark, exist many 'spirits' attendant upon Him, who walk among us in 'caps-of-invisibility', thanks to which they can constantly watch us unnoticed, and either inform our Mister God of all our doings or report them to Him on the 'Day-of-Judgment'. 1346 XX

"It was still further said that just like our continent Ashhark, all the other continents and islands of the world had been created by our Mister God and now existed as I have said, only to serve Him and the deserving 'souls' already dwelling on His island. 1348 XX

"That island on which Mister God Himself and the deserving souls exist is called 'Paradise', and existence there is just 'Roses, Roses'. 1350 XX

"The other, smaller island, to which our Mister God sends for their further existence the 'souls' whose temporary physical parts have been idle here and have not existed according to His commandments, is called 'Hell'. 1356 XX

"Just then I invented that those spirits in 'caps-of-invisibility' who, as it was said in that great religion, watch our deeds and thoughts, in order to report them later to our Mister God, are none other than just the beings of other forms, which exist among us. 1370 XX

"It is just they who watch us and report everything to our Mister God. 1371 XX

"I particularly emphasized in my preaching that not only ought we not to destroy the existence of the beings of other forms in honor of Mister God, but that, on the contrary, we ought to try to win their favor and to beseech them at least not to report to Mister God those little evil acts of ours which we do involuntarily. 1373 XX

"Let them! Let them be occupied with this! God bless them! 1773 XXIII

"When the man dies, these spirits leave his physical body on the Earth and take his soul to God who exists somewhere 'up-in-Heaven'. 2042 XXIV

"There up-in-Heaven this God sits surrounded by his devoted archangels and angels, and suspended in front of him is a pair of scales. 2043 XXIV

"The spirits which have sat on the man's shoulder all his life bring his soul after death to God and God then takes from their hands the notebooks in which the notes have been recorded of all the man's actions; and He places them on the 'pans of the scales'. 2045 XXIV

"On the right pan He puts the notebook of the angel: and on the left pan the notebook of the devil, and, according to the pan which falls, God commands the spirits on duty standing on the given side to take this soul into their charge. 2046 XXIV

"In this teaching by the terrestrial Hasnamussian candidates of that time, it was stated that there is no God in the world, and moreover no soul in man, and hence that all those talks and discussions about the soul are nothing more than the deliriums of sick visionaries. 2063 XXIV

"'If all that our chiefs and counselors tell us is true and their own way of living here on the Earth really corresponds to what is required of their souls for the other world, then of course God ought, and even must, in this world also, give more possibilities to them than to us ordinary mortals. 2319 XXVIII

"He speaks of them thus: 'For our sins, God has sent us two kinds of physicians, one kind to help us die, and the other to prevent us living'". 3148 XXXI

and in various cases expressed the hidden meaning of them and also their longing to have a beneficent effect from them for their own individuality, by the following prayers: 'Sources of Divine - Rejoicings, revolts and sufferings, - Direct your actions upon us'. or 'Holy-Affirming, Holy-Denying, Holy-Reconciling, Transubstantiate in me For my Being'. Or 'Holy God, Holy Firm, Holy Immortal, Have mercy on us'. 4207 XXXIX

"And indeed, each of them is the image of Cod, not of that 'God' which they have in their bobtailed picturings, but of the real God, by which word we sometimes still call our common Megalocosmos. 4412 XXXIX

"As for those higher cosmic substances of which a certain quantity must, as I have already said, necessarily be transformed through them for the continuation of their species and for the maintenance of the general harmony of the common-cosmic Ansanbaluiazar, your favorites at the present time have no need at all to trouble their inner God self-calming about it, since this is already done in them, as I have already said, quite spontaneously, without the participation of their own cognized intention. 4472 XXXIX

"'"Merely the names alone of these our givers of good and felicity are already for us the greatest gift of God. 6138 XLII

"'"Had I not also been interested in this question for many years and had I not reached certain entirely different definite conclusions, then after all that our Brother in Christ Veggendiadi has said here, I should not hesitate a moment but should urge and conjure you all not to delay until tomorrow, but without looking behind to hasten back to your towns, and there in the public squares to cry aloud: 'Stop! Stop! People! Consume no more meat for food! This practice of yours is not only contrary to all the commandments of God, but is the cause of all your diseases'. 6168 XLII

"This society existed there with the motto: 'Love one another and God will love you'. 6417 XLIII

"This ingenious and energetic Persian dervish Assadulla Ibrahim Ogly, here, there, and everywhere, very cleverly persuaded these other dervishes of the 'truth' of his idea and these in their turn now everywhere persuaded the ordinary beings of the continent Asia that the destruction of the existence of beings of other forms is not only not pleasing to God, but that the destroyers would even be obliged to bear 'in another world' in hell, a double punishment, one for their own what are called 'sins' and one for the 'sins' of the beings destroyed by them, and so on. 6651 XLIII

A man whose world view is founded on the dogmas of religion would say that the world is everything existing, visible and invisible, created by God and depending on His Will. Our life in the visible world is brief, but in the invisible world, where a man receives reward or punishment for all his acts during his sojourn in the visible world, life is eternal. 7297 XLVIII

Nor is the necessity of resurrection our appearance before the awful Judgment of the Lord God, as we have been taught by the Fathers of the Church. 7402 XLVIII

Reference: Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson