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A-FIELD-OF-HOPE...................1
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| "'Although you were created for the purpose of the common-cosmic existence on planets, and although you were created also as "a-field-of-hope" for the future expectations of our COMMON ALL-GRACIOUS CREATOR — that is to say, created with the possibilities of coating in your presence that "Higher-Sacred" for the possible arising of which the whole of our now existing World was just created — and in spite of the said possibilities given to you, that is to say, in spite of your having been created three-brained with possibilities of a logical mentation, yet you do not use this sacred property of yours for the purpose for which it was foreordained, but manifest it as "cunning" towards HIS other creations, as, for instance, towards your own-donkey. | BTG XIX B195 |
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A-FIFTH-TO-A-TENTH................1
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| "These 'theatrical spectacles' replaced the mysteries after the beings at the beginning of the contemporary civilization — to whom only 'a-fifth-to-a-tenth' was passed down of the information about how and what these said Babylonian learned mysterists had done — began to think of imitating them in this also and set about doing, as it were, the same. | BTG XXX B479 |
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A-REAL-MILL-FOR-NONSENSE..........1
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| "The Greeks were the cause why the Reason of the three-brained beings there began gradually to degenerate and ultimately became so degenerate that among contemporary beings it is already as our dear Mullah Nassr Eddin says, 'a-real-mill-for-nonsense.' | BTG XXIX B417 |
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A-STRANGER........................1
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| "When, after several days, it became clear that these uninvited guests would not consent to return, but as a consequence of this request even hastened to move forward more deeply into the country, the members of the first council became even more alarmed, arranged a second council and began to deliberate what to do to prevent these beings from entering, as it is said, 'a-stranger's-house-without-invitation.' | BTG XXXVIII B722 |
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A-TAKEN...........................1
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| "Many impressions were a-taken in me and data crystallized for a subjective opinion, when having become interested in this story, I began among other things to make my researches and to make clear to myself also the story of the arising and formation of this same Makary Kronbernkzion. | BTG XLIV B1129 |
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A-THINK...........................1
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| "When these power-possessing beings of your planet are seated on their soft divans, subjects like the following a-think in them. | BTG XLIII B1060 |
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A-THINKING........................1
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| "Things of which I have never before thought are now a-thinking in me. | BTG VII B76 |
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ABANDON...........................2
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| "'"But in consequence of the fact that in the instinct of each of these women the data proper to all women for the impulse of 'shame' are not atrophied suddenly and at once, and none of them, with all her mental wishing, can endure to become such a woman in her own native country, every one of them always instinctively and half consciously tries to get away to some other country where, far from her native land, without any inner discomfort, and also without doing anything, she can abandon herself entirely to this profession personally pleasant for her in almost every respect. | BTG XLII B985 |
| "'The ideas expressed by the great Hertoonano so astounded and agitated all the members of that Kelnuanian council that the commotion made it impossible for the great Hertoonano to continue speaking, and he was compelled to abandon his speech and descend from the rostrum. | BTG XLII B1022 |
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ABANDONED.........................1
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| "And on the day when new members ceased to be admitted, the number of those enrolled amounted to a hundred and thirty-nine learned beings; and it was with this number of members that the club existed until the said Persian king abandoned his former caprice connected with those terrestrial learned beings. | BTG XXX B456 |
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ABARANIAN.........................1
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| If for example when learning to catch a ball with the right hand, my brother, sisters and neighbors' children who came to play with us, threw the ball in the air, I, with the same aim in view, would first bounce the ball hard on the ground, and only when it rebounded would I, first doing a somersault, catch it, and then only with the thumb and middle finger of the left hand; or if all the other children slid down the hill head first, I tried to do it, and moreover each time better and better, as the children then called it, "backside-first"; or if we children were given various kinds of what are called "Abaranian pastries," then all the other children, before putting them in their mouths, would first of all lick them, evidently to try their taste and to protract the pleasure, but . . . I would first sniff one on all sides and perhaps even put it to my ear and listen intently, and then though only almost unconsciously, yet nevertheless seriously, muttering to myself "so and so and so you must, do not eat until you bust," and rhythmically humming correspondingly, I would only take one bite and without savoring it, would swallow it — and so on and so forth. | BTG I B30 |
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ABASEMENT.........................1
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| "'If you pet your dog a little and get it used to anything you please, it will become obedient and affectionate to the point of abasement. | BTG XIX B199 |
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ABBOT.............................12
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| "But when this monk Ignatius was about to share what is called this said 'discovery' of his with other beings there like himself, namely, with two of his what are called comrades, monks — together with whom he as a specialist had been sent by his Abbot for the purpose of directing the laying of what are called the 'foundations' of a temple, which later became famous — then, for some trifling reason ensuing from the consequences of one of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer crystallized in them called 'envy,' he was murdered while asleep and his planetary body was thrown into the water-space surrounding that small island on which it was proposed to erect the said temple. | BTG XXX B521 |
| "A certain Italian abbot, Pedrini by name, was in his town what is called a 'confessor' for a convent. | BTG XXXII B573 |
| "To this abbot confessor there often came for confession a nun named Ephrosinia. | BTG XXXII B573 |
| "During confession she complained to the abbot Pedrini that at times she was unmistakably under the influence of 'diabolical suggestions.' | BTG XXXII B573 |
| "Everything she herself said and the stories circulated about her interested the abbot Pedrini and he became very desirous of convincing himself personally about them. | BTG XXXII B573 |
| "All this told frankly by the nun still further excited the interest of the abbot Pedrini and he decided at all costs to find out the cause of it, and with this aim in view he first of all asked the nun Ephrosinia to be sure to bring with her to the next confession the portrait of her sweetheart together with the frame. | BTG XXXII B574 |
| "While the abbot and the nun were together examining the portrait in the frame, the abbot suddenly noticed that something particular began to proceed with the nun. | BTG XXXII B574 |
| "While the abbot and the nun were together examining the portrait in the frame, the abbot suddenly noticed that something particular began to proceed with the nun. | BTG XXXII B574 |
| "After all this, the abbot Pedrini desired still more to make clear to himself all the causes of such an unusual manifestation. | BTG XXXII B574 |
| "As the abbot Pedrini himself alone could not unravel this phenomenon, he turned for help to his acquaintance, a certain 'Doctor Bambini.' | BTG XXXII B574 |
| "Well, when the abbot Pedrini told everything in detail to the doctor Bambini, the latter also became very much interested, and from then on they both began to occupy themselves with the elucidation of it all. | BTG XXXII B575 |
| "It is lucky that they still do not know — and it must be hoped that they never will know — other methods besides the one first discovered by the beings of the community Italy, the abbot Pedrini and the doctor Bambini, namely, the gazing at a shining brilliant object, by means of which method, as I have already told you, certain of them can indeed be brought into such a mentioned 'concentrated state.'" | BTG XXXII B578 |
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| "The beings of most of the groups on the continent Asia are safeguarded against many venereal diseases as well as against any other 'sexual abnormalities' if only, for instance, by such customs known there by the names 'Sooniat' and 'Abdest.' | BTG XLII B977 |
| "The second custom I mentioned, namely, abdest, which by the way is called differently by the beings of different groups on the continent Asia, is nothing else than the obligatory ablution of the sex organs after every visit to what is called the 'toilet.' | BTG XLII B978 |
| "The present theme of our conversation has reminded me of a certain very interesting conversation, which I had there during my sojourn in France, with a young sympathetic three-brained being. I think that perhaps it would now be best for your understanding of all that has just been said, if I repeat to you that conversation in full, all the more so as, besides explaining the meaning of the custom abdest or ablution, this conversation will enlighten you on many further questions concerning the peculiar psyche of these favorites of yours. | BTG XLII B978 |
| "'In this manner I continued to reflect for a whole week, until I suddenly remembered a certain habit of mine which here in Europe I always scrupulously concealed from my acquaintances; I remembered, namely, about that habit of mine which is called among us in Persia, abdest. | BTG XLII B998 |
| "'The custom of abdest which, according to the notions here might be called ablution, is one of the chief customs among us in Persia. | BTG XLII B998 |
| "'Just at that time, among other customs, they established and laid particular stress on the customs you mentioned of sooniat, abdest and polygamy, the beneficial results of which we can see even now in practice. | BTG XLII B1010 |
| "Exactly the same end is served by this seemingly stupid custom as by the Persian custom of ablution or abdest. This gypsy tribe is regarded as the lowest and filthiest of all the tribes existing on the Earth; and indeed they are so filthy that their clothes are always swarming with the insects called lice. | BTG XLII B1024 |
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| "'Evidently in olden times in this Egypt it often happened that the kings, or as they are named there Pharaohs, grew tired of reigning and abdicated their power — and this abdication in all probability proceeded in the following way and approximately under the following circumstances. | BTG XXXIV B634 |
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ABDICATION........................1
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| "'Evidently in olden times in this Egypt it often happened that the kings, or as they are named there Pharaohs, grew tired of reigning and abdicated their power — and this abdication in all probability proceeded in the following way and approximately under the following circumstances. | BTG XXXIV B634 |
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| "This three-brained being there, whom I chanced to meet frequently, belonged to the profession of 'priest' and was called 'Abdil.' | BTG XIX B187 |
| "As almost all my personal activities, my boy, during that second descent of mine were connected with the external circumstances of this priest Abdil and as I happened to have during this descent of mine a great deal of trouble on his account, I shall tell you more or less in detail about this three-brained being there; and moreover, you will at the same time understand from these tales about him, the results I then attained for the purpose of uprooting from the strange psyche of your favorites the need to destroy the existence of beings of other forms in order to 'please' and 'appease' their gods and revered idols. | BTG XIX B187 |
| "Soon after we were on 'good terms' with each other, I discovered that in the Being of this priest Abdil — owing to very many external circumstances among which were also heredity and the conditions under which he had been prepared for a responsible being — the function called 'conscience' which ought to be present in every three-centered being, had not yet been quite atrophied in him, so that after he had cognized with his Reason certain cosmic truths I had explained to him, he immediately acquired in his presence towards the beings around him, similar to him, almost that attitude which should be in all normal three-brained beings of the whole Universe, that is to say, he became as it is also said there, 'compassionate,' and 'sensitive' towards the beings surrounding him. | BTG XIX B188 |
| "Before telling you more about this priest Abdil, I must make clear to your Reason, that there on the continent of Ashhark, the mentioned terrible custom of Sacrificial-Offerings was at that time, as it is said, at its 'height,' and the destruction of various weak one-brained and two-brained beings proceeded everywhere in incalculable numbers. | BTG XIX B188 |
| "Well, then, my boy, during the early days of my sojourn in the town Koorkalai, I often talked on various subjects with this mentioned friend of mine, the priest Abdil, but, of course, I never spoke with him about such questions as might reveal my real nature. | BTG XIX B190 |
| "Having said all this to my friend, the priest Abdil, I said further: | BTG XIX B197 |
| "In short, the final outcome of it all was that this priest Abdil eventually began to cognize and sense concerning the custom of Sacrificial-Offerings almost as in reality he should have done. | BTG XIX B201 |
| "Several days after this conversation of ours, there occurred one of the two large religious festivals of the whole of Tikliamish, called 'Zadik'; and in the temple where my friend Abdil was the chief priest, instead of delivering the usual sermon after the temple ceremony, he suddenly began speaking about Sacrificial-Offerings. | BTG XIX B201 |
| "It is interesting to notice, that it was the custom then, for priests to exist simply on the offerings of their parishioners, and this priest Abdil had also been in the habit of receiving from parishioners all kinds of food for his ordinary existence, as for instance, roast and boiled 'corpses' of beings of various exterior forms, such as 'chickens,' 'sheep,' 'geese,' and so on. But after this famous speech of his nobody brought him any of these customary offerings but brought or sent him only fruits, flowers, handiwork, and so on. | BTG XIX B202 |
| "Day by day the number of this priest Abdil's enemies increased, and they spread new slanders and innuendoes about him in order to lower or destroy his popularity and significance. | BTG XIX B202 |
| "His colleagues began delivering addresses in their temples proving exactly the opposite of all that the priest Abdil had preached. | BTG XIX B203 |
| "At last it came to the point that the priesthood began to bribe various beings who had 'Hasnamuss' properties to plan and commit every kind of outrage upon this poor Abdil; and, indeed, these terrestrial nullities with the properties mentioned even tried on several occasions to destroy his existence by sprinkling poison on the various edible offerings brought to him. | BTG XIX B203 |
| "My friend here turned out to be the proprietor of a large Chaihana; and although I became, as it is said there, on very good terms with him, nevertheless I never had that strange 'tie' with him which arose in my essence towards the priest Abdil in the city Koorkalai. | BTG XX B219 |