Objective Reason in Beelzebub: Definative Usages
A review of all instances of definitive uses of the term objective reason. In these cases, the term casts a direct light on its meaning.
According to my analyses, approximately five of the uses of the term throughtout the book can be considered definitive in one way or another. The matter is, however, open for further debate.
Chapter 39
The Three kinds of being-reason
"Here I think you might as well be told about the sources of various kinds in the common presence of all three-brained beings for the manifestation of being-reason.
"In every three-brained being, irrespective of the place of his arising and the form of his exterior coating, data can be crystallized for three independent kinds of being-mentation, whose results as a whole express the degree of reason proper to him.
"Data for these three kinds of being-reason are crystallized in the presence of every three-brained being to the extent that there are coated and perfected in him--by means of being-partkdolgduty--the corresponding higher being-parts that should compose his common presence as a whole.
"The first and highest kind of being-reason is the pure or Objective Reason proper only to the presence of the highest being-body or to the common presence of those three-brained beings in whom this highest part has already arisen and perfected itself, and then only if it has become the 'initiating center of gravity' of the individual functioning of the whole presence of the being.
"The second kind of being-reason, which is named 'okiartaitokhsa,' can appear in the presence of those three-brained beings in whom the second being-body, or kessdjan body, is already completely coated and functions independently.
"As regards the third kind of being-reason, this is nothing but the automatic functioning proceeding in the common presence of all beings in general and also in the presence of all surplanetary formations, thanks to repeated shocks coming from outside, which evoke habitual reactions from data crystallized in them corresponding to previous accidentally perceived impressions. (P. 770)
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"Be that as it may, my little Hassein, each of your favorites in his whole presence is, in every respect, the exact image of our Megalocosmos.
"I once told you that in them as in us the head is the place of concentration of special cosmic substances, the total functioning of which corresponds exactly to the totality of functions that our Most Holy Protocosmos fulfills for the entire Megalocosmos.
"This concentration of substances, localized in their head, they call the 'head brain.' The separate 'ossaniakis' or 'protoplasts' of this localization or, as terrestrial learned beings call them, 'brain cells,' are destined to fulfill exactly the same purpose for the whole presence of each of them as is fulfilled for the whole of our Great Universe by the perfected highest bodies of three-brained beings that have already united themselves with the Most Holy Sun Absolute or Protocosmos.
"When these highest parts of three-brained beings, perfected to the corresponding gradation of Objective Reason, attain this union, they fulfill precisely that function of the 'ossaniakis' or 'cells of the head brain' which our Uni-Being Common Father Endlessness foresaw at the creation of the now existing world, when He graciously decided to make use in the future of those coatings that obtained independent individuality in the 'tetartocosmoses' as an aid for Himself in the administration of the enlarging world.
"Further, in each of them, in what is called their 'spinal column,' another concentration is localized, called the 'spinal marrow,' which contains those 'denying sources' that in their functioning fulfill the same role in relation to the head brain as the second-order newly arisen suns of the Megalocosmos fulfill in relation to the Most Holy Protocosmos.
"It must be noted without fail that in former epochs on your planet your favorites knew something about the specific functioning of different parts of their 'spinal marrow,' and even knew and adopted various 'mechanical means' for acting upon corresponding parts of it, during periods when some disharmony or other appeared in their 'psychic state,' as they expressed it; but little by little the information relating to this sort of knowledge also 'evaporated' and, although your contemporary favorites know that there are certain concentrations in this spinal marrow of theirs, they have not the slightest notion for what function they were designed by Great Nature, and simply name them 'nerve nodes of the spinal marrow.'
"It is these nerve nodes of their spinal marrow that are the sources of denial in relation to the shades of affirmation in their 'head brain,' precisely as the second-order suns are the sources of denial in relation to the various shades of affirmation of the Most Holy Protocosmos.
"And just as in the Megalocosmos all the results issuing in the course of the flow of the fundamental process of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh--on the one hand from the affirmation of the Most Holy Protocosmos and on the other from the various shades of denial of the newly created suns--thereafter serve as a 'reconciling principle' for everything newly arising and already existing, so in your favorites also there exists a corresponding localization for the concentration of all results issuing from the affirmation of the 'head brain' and from all the shades of denial of the 'spinal marrow'; and these results thereafter serve as a 'regulating' or 'reconciling principle' for the functioning of the whole presence of each of them.
"As regards the place of concentration of this localization, which serves the common presence of terrestrial three-brained beings as a 'regulating' or 'reconciling principle,' it should be noted that in the beginning, in them as in us, this third concentration existed in your favorites in the form of an independent brain, localized in the region of what is called the 'breast.'
"But after the process of their ordinary being-existence began to change markedly for the worse, Great Nature, thanks to certain causes flowing from the common-cosmic trogoautoegocratic process, was compelled to change, without destroying its actual functioning, the system of localization of this brain of theirs.
"That is to say, Great Nature gradually dispersed this organ, which had been concentrated in one place, into small localizations over their whole common presence, but chiefly in the region of what is called the 'pit of the stomach.' They themselves at the present time call the totality of these small localizations in this region the 'solar plexus,' or the 'complex of nodes of the sympathetic nervous system.'
"In these nerve nodes scattered over the whole planetary body, all the results obtained from the affirming manifestations of their 'head brain' and denying manifestations of their 'spinal marrow' accumulate. And these results, once they are fixed in the nerve nodes scattered over the whole of their common presence, serve as the 'neutralizing principle' in the further process of affirmation and denial between the head brain and spinal marrow, in the same way as in the Megalocosmos the sum of all the results of the affirming manifestations of the Protocosmos and the various shades of denial of the newly arisen suns serve as the 'neutralizing force' in their further process of affirmation and denial. (p.780)
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"Now let us talk about the perfected 'highest being-bodies,' or 'souls,' who came to this Holy Planet Purgatory, to which all my explanations have referred.
"Well. . .
"At the beginning, when all the higher being-parts arose and were perfected in beings up to the required sacred gradation of Objective Reason, that is to say, when in accordance with the 'lower mdnel-in' of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh the 'kessdjan body' was formed in beings, thanks to the second being-food, and in accordance with the 'higher mdnel-in' of the same sacred law the third and 'highest being-body' was coated and perfected, thanks to the third being-food, then these completely perfected highest being-parts, after their separation from the lower being-parts, were deemed worthy to be immediately united with the Most Holy Prime Source and began to fulfill the purpose divinely foreordained for them.
"And thus it continued right up to the time of that frightful cosmic event which, as I have already told you, is now called the 'chootboglitanical period.'
"Before that common-cosmic misfortune, all the 'highest being-bodies' that arose and were perfected in certain tetartocosmoses and in their first descendants were immediately united with the Most Holy Protocosmos itself, because their common presence was still actualizing the results fully corresponding to it.
"Before this terrible cosmic event, the sacred Theomertmalogos that issued from the Most Holy Sun Absolute was still in a pure state, without any admixture of extraneously caused arisings having their own subjective properties, and when this sacred Theomertmalogos entered the spheres of those planets on which the sacred crystallizations arose, whose transformations through 'beings-apparatuses' served for the coating and perfecting of higher being-bodies, these latter acquired a presence exactly corresponding to the required conditions of existence in the sphere of the Most Holy Sun Absolute.
"But after that common-cosmic misfortune, on account of which the sacred Theomertmalogos began to issue from the Most Holy Sun Absolute with the admixture of subjective properties coming from extraneously caused arisings, from that time on, the sacred 'highest being-bodies' no longer had the possibility of corresponding to the required conditions of existence in the sphere of the Most Holy Prime Source. (P. 798)
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The Essence of Divinity
"In order that you may approximately represent to yourself and understand how these exceptions occur, you must above all remember that, although after the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer had begun to be crystallized in them their reason became quite automatic, nevertheless the presence of each one of them has always contained, from their arising and the beginning of their formation, the germ of all the possibilities for the crystallization, during their further formation into responsible beings, of corresponding being-data which could later serve for the engendering and functioning of Objective Reason--that Reason which should be in the common presence of three-brained beings of all natures and all external forms, and is none other than the 'representative of the Very Essence of Divinity.' (p. 815)
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Chapter 43
"Here I think it will be opportune for you to know that, during my long centuries of attentive observation of the three-brained beings of the planet Earth, I never once noticed, among the members of the societies founded from time to time for devising means to assure the happy existence of the masses, any beings with more or less Objective Reason; although, as I have already told you, a certain number of your favorites did attain this result by their persevering efforts toward self-perfection.
"In the course of the observations I made during my last sojourn there I cleared up, among other things, why it is that beings with Objective Reason never belong to such societies.
"The point is that to belong to one of these societies a being must of necessity be 'important' and, in the abnormally established conditions of being-existence, only he is considered 'important' among them who has either a great deal of money or who becomes what is called 'famous.'
"And since during recent times only those can become famous and important in whom the sacred function called 'being-Conscience' is entirely absent, and since this sacred function in the presence of beings is always connected with everything that represents and is Objective Reason, those three-brained beings who have Objective Reason always have Conscience as well, and therefore will never be 'important' among the other beings there.
"And that is why beings with Pure Reason never had and never will have the possibility of taking part in societies consisting of 'important' power-possessing beings. (p. 1069)
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All quotes from Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G.I. Gurdjieff, Viking Arkana Edition, 1999, from various chapters as indicated.