The TALES OF BEELZEBUB as compiled by G. I. GURDJIEFF can be read , at least in 2 English Versions, on several different levels, depending on several things and conditions.
Those far more familiar and experienced from years of reading, both word-for-word; page-by-page; chapter-by -chapter, are usually those who have undertaken this task as a result of some possible, even minimal 'group work'.
Actually, intensive group work, study, and exposure may impede or influence one's understanding of the work as some have found out. We see the same thing in groups and persons who have also devoted endless hours, classes, services, etc to read, if not preach, scriptures, Bibles, even novels, and the results are often on a scale from zero to ten (0-10), no matter how high or low the level of effort to do such.
When one is eager to become 'CONSCIOUS' merely reading such a work as 'BEELZEBUB' or THE FIRST SERIES of ALL AND EVERYTHING, by 'GEORGE IVANOVITCH GURDJIEFF, becomes tedious and disappointing when one has not reached higher levels of 'BEING'.
Of course, nothing is promised and, despite strenuous effort(s) initially, many abandon what has become known as 'THE FOURTH WAY', 'THE WORK', or 'THE SYSTEM', very unsatisfying terms and words used by various persons and groups to designate the ways or sources of some of their ideas, especially if they happen to write on such, as I am doing now.
'THE TALES OF BEELZEBUB TO HIS GRANDSON' have been mentioned and described in various ways from 'a grand epic', 'an ancient myth', ' a science-fiction story', 'a revelation for contemporary peoples' to 'an incomprehensible mixture o f manufactured/artificial words that 'twist the tongue' and 'create great fatigue'.
All attempts to interpret, 're-translate', 'clarify' or 'smooth-out' these TALES fail and never, of themselves, go beyond a certain barrier that everyone who reads them, these TALES, brings to the work and through which few can penetrate, which insures that ,for the most part, these unusual and somewhat intriguing TALES continue to go unread by the greater literary enthusiasts and literate peoples of today's INTERNET/ELECTRONIC world that has become 'globalized' beyond recognition for those in tribal areas and situations.
I have added some videos of BEELZEBUB readings but these are not anything that I agree on or disagree with, per se. They are there merely as indicators of the subject I am blogging about. My writings are independent of these videos which may well change over time.
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