By G. I. Gurdjieff
Publish yr note: First released in 1950
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The instructing of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has become famous as essentially the most unique, enduring, and penetrating of our century. whereas Gurdjieff used many various skill to transmit his imaginative and prescient of the human predicament and human hazard, he gave detailed significance to his said masterwork, Beelzebub's stories to His Grandson.
Beelzebub's stories is an ocean of tale and of principles that one could probe for a life-time. it truly is majestic in scale and content material, challengingly artistic in prose type, and, for these very purposes, usually approached with apprehension. the 1st English language variation of the Russian unique seemed in 1950. given that then, readers have famous the necessity for a revised translation that may make clear the verbal floor whereas respecting the author's personal notion and magnificence.
This revised edition, in instruction for a few years less than the course of Gurdjieff's closest student, Jeanne de Salzmann, meets this desire. initially released in 1992, this translation deals a brand new event of Gurdjieff's masterpiece for modern readers. it's awarded in a robust textile version that echoes its unique e-book.
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Beelzebub, who, as everyone realizes, has means and knowledge enough and to spare. Hold on, old fellow! Joking, even philosophical joking, aside, it seems that with all these digressions, you have violated one of the chief principles that you had made the basis of the system you planned for actualizing your dreams through this new profession: the principle to remember and always take into account the weakening of the function of 40 BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON thinking in the contemporary reader, and not to fatigue him with the perception of numerous ideas over a short period of time.
Thereupon the salesman, putting on the "oleaginous" face proper to all salesmen, replied that indeed the book cost only forty-five kopecks, but had to be sold for sixty because fifteen kopecks were added for postage. At this reply our Russian merchant was greatly perplexed by these two quite contradictory but obviously reconcilable facts, and something visibly began to proceed in him; and gazing up at the ceiling he again began to ponder, this time 34 BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON like an English professor who has just invented a capsule for castor oil; then, suddenly turning to his friend, he delivered himself for the first time on Earth of the verbal formulation which, expressing in its essence an indubitable objective truth, has since assumed the character of a proverb.
46 BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON Well now, patient reader, I must really conclude this opening chapter. It has only to be signed. He who ... Stop! Misconceived formulation! With a signature there must be no joking. Otherwise the same thing will happen to you as happened once before in one of the countries of Central Europe, when you were forced to pay ten years' rent for a house you occupied for only three months, simply because you had signed a paper obliging you to renew the lease for the house each year.