Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
G. I. Gurdjieff - Author
ISBN 9781585424573 | 1152 pages | 23 Mar 2006 | Tarcher | 9.25 x 6.25in | 18 - AND UP
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The teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has come to be recognized as one of the most original, enduring, and penetrating of our century. While Gurdjieff used many different means to transmit his vision of the human dilemma and human possibility, he gave special importance to his acknowledged masterwork, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson.
Beelzebub's Tales is an "ocean of story" and of ideas that one can explore for a lifetime. It is majestic in scale and content, challengingly inventive in prose style, and, for those very reasons, often approached with apprehension. The first English language edition of the Russian original appeared in 1950. Since then, readers have recognized the need for a revised translation that would clarify the verbal surface while respecting the author's own thought and style. This revised edition, in preparation for many years under the direction of Gurdjieff's closest pupil, Jeanne de Salzmann, meets this need. Originally published in 1992, this translation offers a new experience of Gurdjieff's masterpiece for contemporary readers. It is presented in a sturdy cloth edition that echoes its original publication. 1. The Arousing of Thought 2. Introduction: Why Beelzebub Was in Our Solar System 3. The Cause of the Delay in the Falling of the Ship Karnak 4. The Law of Falling 5. The System of Archangel Hariton 6. Perpetual Motion 7. Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty 8. The Impudent Brat Hassein, Beelzebub's Grandson, Dares to Call Men "Slugs" 9. The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon 10. Why "Men" Are Not Men 11. A Piquant Trait of the Peculiar Psyche of Contemporary Man 12. The First "Growl" 13. Why in Man's Reason Fantasy May Be Perceived as Reality 14. The Beginnings of Perspectives Promising Nothing Very Cheerful 15. The First Descent of Beelzebub upon the Planet Earth 16. The Relative Understanding of Time 17. The Arch-absurd: According to the Assertion of Beelzebub, Our Sun Neither Lights nor Heats 18. The Arch-preposterous 19. Beelzebub's Tales About His Second Descent onto the Planet Earth 20. The Third Flight of Beelzebub to the Planet Earth 21. The First Visit of Beelzebub to India 22. Beelzebub for the First Time in Tibet 23. The Fourth Personal Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth 24. Beelzebub's Flight to the Planet Earth for the Fifth Time 25. The Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash, Sent from Above to the Earth 26. The Legominism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Under the Title of "The Terror-of-the-Situation" 27. The Organization for Man's Existence 28. The Chief Culprit in the Destruction of All the Very Saintly Labors of Ashiata Shiemash
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