Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson
Chapter 39 – The Holy Planet Purgatory
“In the beginning, when nothing yet existed and when the whole of our Universe was empty endless space, with the presence only of the prime-source cosmic substance ‘ethernokrilno,’ our Most Great and Most Most Holy Sun Absolute existed alone in all this empty space, and it was on this sole cosmic concentration that our Uni-Being Creator …had the place of His Most Glorious Being.
“It was just during this period of the flow of time that there appeared to our Creator All-Maintainer the imperative need to create our now-existing ‘Megalocosmos,’ that is, our ‘world. ‘
..the Sun Absolute, on which He dwelt …was almost imperceptibly, yet steadily, diminishing in volume.
…the cause of this gradual diminishing of the volume of the Sun Absolute was simply the ‘Heropass,’ that is, the flow of Time itself
“And in view of this, our Endlessness was compelled to take certain corresponding measures, so that this merciless Heropass could not bring about the eventual destruction of our Most Most Holy Sun Absolute.
“…after this divine ascertainment …our Endlessness devoted Himself entirely to finding some way of averting this inevitable end …and …after long deliberations, He decided to create our now existing ‘Megalocosmos.’
“In the beginning, …our Most Most Holy Sun Absolute was maintained solely by means of …two primordial sacred laws (Heptaparaparshinokh and Triamazikamno)… that …functioned quite independently without the help of any forces whatever coming from outside, and this system was called ‘Autoegocrat.’
“…when our All-Maintaining Endlessness decided to change the principle of functioning of both these fundamental sacred laws, He made their hitherto independent functioning dependent on forces coming from outside.
“Since this new system of functioning …required the existence of corresponding sources outside the Sun Absolute, where such forces could arise …our Almighty Endlessness was then compelled to create our existing Megalocosmos with all the cosmoses of different scales and the relatively independent cosmic formations contained in it, and since then the system for maintaining the existence of the Sun Absolute has been called ‘Trogoautoegocrat. ‘
“And so, …when in the beginning our Common Father Creator Almighty changed the functioning of both these primordial sacred laws, He directed the action of their forces from within the Most Most Holy Sun Absolute into the space of the Universe, whereupon there came into being the ‘Emanation of the Sun Absolute,’ which is now called ‘Theomertmalogos’ or ‘Word-God.’
“…all your favorites, even the contemporary ones, are …just such apparatuses for the Great Cosmic Trogoautoegocrat, as were the original tetartocosmoses from whom arose the first ancestors of the beings now existing on the planet Earth, as well as of those on all the other planets of our Universe.
…For indeed, each three-brained being arising on this planet of yours represents in himself …an exact similarity to the whole Megalocosmos.
“The difference between each of them and our Great Megalocosmos is only one of scale.
…”And indeed, each of them is the ‘image of God’—not of that ‘God’ they picture with their bob-tailed Reason, but of the real God, as we sometimes call our common Megalocosmos.
“Each of them, down to the smallest detail, is exactly similar, though in miniature, to the whole of our Megalocosmos, and in each of them there are all the separate functionings which actualize in the Megalocosmos the cosmic … ‘exchange of substances,’ maintaining the existence of everything existing as one whole.
The Reality of Being
28. The radiance of Presence
…I feel another force, not a power that I possess but one in which I am. At this moment there appears an energy coming from a higher emotional current, irresistible so long as it is obeyed. It is this energy, a cosmic force passing in us, that all traditions call “love.”
140. To know means to be
…I am touched by a wish, a will, that is the very essence of the feeling of “I” in all its purity. It is a will to be what I am, awakening to my true nature—“I am” and “I Am.” With this consciousness there is love. But this love is impersonal, like the sun radiating energy. It illuminates, it creates, it loves. It is attached to nothing and yet draws everything to it.
Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson
Chapter 26 – The legomonism …”The Terror of the Situation”
” ‘…for a long time now none of the ordinary men-beings here has ever had any sensation of the sacred being-impulse of genuine Love. And without this “taste” they cannot have the faintest idea of that sacred being-impulse, the most beatific in the presence of every three-centered being of the Universe, which, in accordance with the divine foresight of Great Nature, forms in us such data that, when we experience their results, we can rest in bliss from the meritorious labors we have fulfilled for the purpose of self-perfection.
Views From the Real World
Prieuré, February 13, 1923 – Liberation leads to liberation…
Actually, …we do not possess ourselves nor do we possess genuine self-love. Self-love is a great thing. If we consider self-love, as we generally understand it, as reprehensible, then it follows that true self-love—which, unfortunately, we do not possess—is desirable and necessary.
Self-love is a sign of a high opinion of oneself. If a man has this self-love it proves what he is.
As we have said earlier, self-love is a representative of the devil; it is our chief enemy, the main brake to our aspirations and our achievements. Self-love is the principal weapon of the representative of hell.
But self-love is an attribute of the soul. By self-love one can discern the spirit. Self-love indicates and proves that a given man is a particle of heaven. Self-love is I—I is God. Therefore it is desirable to have self-love.
Self-love is hell, and self-love is heaven. These two, bearing the same name, are outwardly alike, but totally different and opposite to one another in essence…
There exists a saying: “He who has self-love is halfway to freedom.” …Our aim must be to have self-love. If we have self-love, by this very fact we shall become free of many enemies in us. We can even become free of these principal ones—Mr. Self-Love and Mrs. Vanity.
How to distinguish between one kind of self-love and another? We have said that on the surface it is very difficult. This is so even when we look at others; when we look at ourselves it is still more difficult.
Thank God we, who are sitting here, are safe from confusing the one with the other. We are lucky! Genuine self-love is totally absent, so there is nothing to confuse.