by Robin Bloor | Jan 28, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Instability of Reason Hamolinadir’s speech (The Tales p335) is worth reading and rereading. “The notice announced that the reporter had taken as the theme of his report the ‘Instability-of-Human-Reason.’ “Thereupon, this terrestrial friend of mine first expatiated...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 1, 2025 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Leo Tolstoy, An Artist’s Impression From Photographs The chapter from Beelzebub’s Tales entitled “The First Growl” paints a satirical portrait of an author’s attempt to write a new version of the “Gospel” for fame and profit....
by Robin Bloor | Nov 26, 2024 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Purgatory, An Artists Conception In The Tales, the Holy Planet Purgatory serves as home to a unique category of beings – the higher being-bodies or “souls” who have achieved remarkable levels of objective reason but nevertheless find themselves in a...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 28, 2024 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Gurdjieff – A Sketch The text below is an excerpt from The 1931 Manuscript of Beelzebub’s Tales. It is unusual ast there is no parallel text to be found in the final published version of the Tales. It could perhaps be argued that this topic is treated in...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 29, 2024 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Ether Permeates The Universe We intend, in a series of articles to investigate fundamental aspects of Gurtdjieff’s description of the Universe according to the text of The Tales. In particular, we intend to examine Etherokrilno and Okidanokh. Gurdjieff...
by Ronald Jones | Aug 30, 2024 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
A Stag with a Full Set of Horns – A Pirmaral perhaps Why Do We Ignore The Exercise at the Climax of The Tales? 1 Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is Gurdjieff’s towering masterpiece. 2 He spent years writing and refining it as he watched students listen to it...