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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series (Compass)
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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series (Compass) Paperback - 1999

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  • Title Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series (Compass)
  • Author Penguin Books
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing U
  • Condition New
  • Pages 1248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1999-08-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # OTF-S-9780140194739
  • ISBN 9780140194739 / 0140194738
  • Weight 1.84 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 2.33 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 5.92 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Human beings
  • Dewey Decimal Code 197

Summary

With Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to "destroy, mercilessly . . . the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world." This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, personal philosophies, and lessons learned from his own life.The reader is given a detailed discussion of all matters physical, natural, and spiritual, from the creation of the cosmos to man's teleological purpose in the universe. This edition of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson--the first single-volume paperback to appear in English--restores the original, authoritative translation.

From the publisher

G. I. Gurdjieff was born in 1887 in Alexandropol. After studying with spiritual masters in the Near East and Asia, he founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France.

First line

Among other convictions formed in my common presence during my responsible, peculiarly composed life, there is one such also-an indubitable conviction-that always and everywhere on the earth, among people of every degree of development of understanding and of every form of manifestation of the factors which engender in their individuality all kinds of ideals, there is acquired the tendency, when beginning anything new, unfailingly to pronounce aloud or, if not aloud, at least mentally, that definite utterance understandable to every even quite illiterate person, which in different epochs has been formulated variously and in our day is formulated in the following words: "In the name of the Father and of the Son and in the name of the Holy Ghost. Amen."

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About the author

G. I. Gurdjieff was born in 1887 in Alexandropol. After studying with spiritual masters in the Near East and Asia, he founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France.