Ahoon: Beelzebub’s Personality

Statue of an old man – By Alfred Molon. 

In a study group quite a while ago, one of the groups suggested that Ahoon was actually Beelzebub’s personality. It seemed to be a good suggestion – one which has only seems to get stronger the more you think about and read about Ahoon in The Tales. For example when the “devoted old servant” Ahoon speaks, he preserves the style and even entire expressions of Beelzebub himself.

One might have formed the opinion that Ahoon is always present with Beelzebub. Certainly, he is found at the beginning of the book when Beelzebub seizes the opportunity to begin telling Hassein the many and varied tales he has up his sleeve. But from the perspective of time, all those tales refer to a time before the Karnak began its journey in 1921 (time in Earth years) or alternatively year 223 after the creation of the World by objective time calculation.**

In The Beginnning

If we go back to the earliest point in the Tales, when the comet Kondoor collides with the Earth there is no mention of Ahoon at all.

And later, on Beelzebub’s first descent to Earth, to fix the problem in Atlantis, Ahoon is entirely absent. Indeed, Beelzebub describes himself as being of a relatively low stature, depending upon the elders of his tribe to solve the Atlantean problem.  In the second descent to Tikliamish there is also no evidence of Ahoon.

Ahhon’s Appearance

At the beginning of the third descent there is no evidence of Ahoon. Hhowever Ahoon definitely appears some time during this descent. Beelzebub recounts:

“Well, then, as we walked along the streets of the city Gob and saw the citizens flopping down at the braying of every donkey, we had to flop down likewise so as not to be distinguished from the others; and it was just this comical custom, I see now, that tickled our old Ahoon so much.

From then on, Ahhon is ever present.

Third Flight: “Soon after this decision, I sailed with Ahoon to the mouth of this river,… p226

In India: “I and Ahoon then passed through indeed very unusual places, unusual even for the general nature of this peculiar planet, certain parts of which, by the way, only became so because before that period this ill-fated planet had already undergone two what are called Transapalnian-perturbations, almost unprecedented in the Universe. p228

In Tibet: “Having procured everything necessary, I set off, accompanied by Ahoon. p252

A Possible Theory

A possible theory for all of this is that one of the arcs of The Tales is Beelzebub’s gradual perfection of himself, which culminates in the final chapter with his “beatification.” So in the early chapters it may be that Beelzebub is gradually taming and perfecting his personality and only when he has achieved this is the character of Ahoon established as a loyal servant.

Footnote: **Objective time is explained with the words: ,,, Objective Science therefore has, for its examination of Time, a standard unit, similar to that used for an exact definition of the density and quality—in the sense of the vivifyingness of their vibrations—of all cosmic substances in general present in every place and in every sphere of our Great Universe.

“And for the definition of Time this standard unit has from long ago been the moment of what is called the sacred ‘Egokoolnatsnarnian-sensation’ which always appears in the Most Holy Cosmic Individuals dwelling on the Most Holy Sun Absolute whenever the vision of our UNI-BEING ENDLESSNESS is directed into space and directly touches their presences.

This standard unit has been established in Objective Science for the possibility of exactly defining and comparing the differences between the gradations of the processes of the subjective sensations of separate conscious Individuals, and also of what are called ‘diverse-tempos’ among various objective cosmic phenomena which are manifested in various spheres of our Great Universe and which actualize all cosmic arisings both large and small.