Objective Reason in Beelzebub: Indicative Usages
A review of instances of indicative uses of the term objective reason. In these cases, the term casts light on its meaning by means of association with other important principles or cosmic actions.
According to my anaylsis of the text, there are six instances where mention of the word is indicative rather than definitive.
"'This Most Great Foundation of the All-Embracing of everything existing constantly emanates throughout the whole of the Universe, and on the planets it coats from its particles certain three-centered beings who have attained in their common presence the capacity to have their own functioning of the two fundamental cosmic laws of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh and the sacred Triamazikamno, so that these particles form a definite unit, in which alone divine Objective Reason has the possibility of becoming concentrated and fixed.
"'And this has been foreseen and created in this manner by our Common Creator so that when these particles of the Great All-Embracing return, now spiritualized by divine Reason, and reblend with the Prime Source of the All-Embracing, they should compose that Whole which, in the Hope of our Common Endless Uni-Being, may actualize the sense and striving of everything that exists in the entire Universe.' (p. 245-246)
—Indicative
Chapter 27
"One of these two terrestrial beings who had become genuine initiates was named Poundoliro and the other, Sensimiriniko.
"You should know, by the way, that in the common presence of both of these genuine terrestrial initiates their highest being-parts had already been coated to the gradation called 'completion,' and that, during their further existence, they succeeded in perfecting these highest parts of theirs to the required gradation of sacred Objective Reason; thus today, their perfected highest being-parts have become worthy to have, and in fact do have, the place of their existence on the Holy Planet Purgatory.
"My further exhaustive investigations showed that in all the separate spiritualized parts of the common presence of both of these three-brained beings, Poundoliro and Sensimiriniko, there arose and was continuously sensed the suspicion, which later became a conviction, that owing to some obviously nonlawful causes, 'something very undesirable' for them had been acquired and was functioning in their general organization and that, moreover, it was impossible for this very 'undesirable something' to be removed simply by means of the data present within them. (P. 367)
—Indicative
Chapter 32
"Perhaps, my boy, you still do not know about the cosmic process of the sacred 'antkooano'?
"The sacred 'antkooano' is the name given to the process of perfecting Objective Reason in three-centered beings, which takes place by itself simply from the 'flow of time.'
"As a rule, on all the planets of our Great Universe where three-brained beings breed, the perfecting of Objective Reason can proceed only from personal conscious labor and intentional suffering.
"This sacred 'antkooano' can take place only on those planets on which all cosmic truths have become known to all the beings there.
"And all cosmic truths become known to everyone on those planets because those beings who by their conscious efforts learn some truth or other share it with others, and in this way, little by little, all the cosmic truths become known to all the beings of that planet, whatever may be their striving for self-perfecting.
"Thanks to this sacred process, intentionally actualized by our All-Foreseeing Common Endless Father in the three-brained beings of these planets, it has been foreseen that during the action in their presence of the fundamental holy cosmic law of Triamazikamno, the excess of its third holy force, namely, the 'Holy Reconciling,' obtained during the assimilation of cosmic truths of that order, should by itself crystallize in them the data for engendering that 'something' which is called 'egoaitoorassian being-will.' (p. 563)
—Indicative
"As for the sacred data put into them by Great Nature for genuine being-consciousness--the consciousness which they ought to have from the very beginning of their preparation for responsible existence, along with the properties inherent in them for engendering the genuine sacred being-impulses of Faith, Hope, Love, and Conscience--these data also gradually become isolated in their presence and, remaining apart, evolve independently of the intentions of the responsible beings surrounding them as well as of the beings themselves, who come to consider these data as the 'subconscious.'
"It is solely on account of this behavior toward their offspring--maleficent in the objective sense, but 'benevolent' according to their naive subjective understanding--that all the sacred data put into them by Great Nature for forming their real being-consciousness become isolated and remain during the entire period of their existence in an almost primitive state. And all the impressions inevitably perceived by means of the six 'being-skernalitsioniks' or, in their terminology, 'sense organs,' existing in their presence specifically for the perception of externals, and which by the way they count as five, come to be localized and, acquiring their independent functioning, gradually become predominant in the whole of their common presence.
"Although this 'localization' of accidentally perceived impressions exists in them and they are aware of its action, it plays no part in any functioning inherent in their planetary body or in the acquisition in their common presence of Objective Reason.
"All these impressions, intentionally or accidentally perceived, from which this localization is formed and which should serve only as material for the confrontative logic of that real being-consciousness which they ought to have in themselves, produce accidental results which they, in their naivete, now confidently regard as mere reflexes of their what is called 'animal instinct,' quite insignificant in their opinion. (p. 566)
—Indicative
Chapter 34
"First of all you must be told that all the three-brained beings, on whatever planet they arise and whatever exterior coating they receive, always await the manifestations of the action of this law with impatience and joy, somewhat as your favorites look forward to their feasts of 'Easter,' 'Bairam,' 'Zadik,' 'Ramadan,' 'Kaialana,' and others.
"The only difference is that your favorites look forward to these feasts of theirs with impatience because on these 'holy days' it has become customary for them to abandon themselves to merrymaking and drunkenness; whereas the beings of other planets await the action of Solioonensius with impatience because thanks to it the need for evolving, in the sense of acquiring Objective Reason, increases in them by itself.
"As for the causes that give rise to the action of this cosmic law, they are different for each planet, but always flow from and depend upon what is called the 'common-cosmic harmonious movement'; and as regards your planet Earth, what is called the 'center of gravity of causes' is brought about by the 'periodic tension' of the sun of its system, brought about in its turn by the influence upon this sun of a neighboring solar system, existing under the name of 'Baleaooto.'
"In this latter system, however, the 'center of gravity of causes' is determined by the presence, among the number of its concentrations, of a great comet, 'Solni,' which, in accordance with certain combinations of the 'common-cosmic harmonious movement,' comes at times in its falling very near to its sun Baleaooto, which is thereby forced greatly to increase its 'tension' in order to maintain the path of its own falling. This tension provokes the same in the suns of the neighboring systems, among which is the system Ors; and when in its turn the sun Ors increases its tension in order not to change the path of falling proper to it, it provokes the same tension in all the concentrations of its own system, among which is also the planet Earth.
"The 'tension' in each of the planets acts also on the common presence of all the beings arising and breeding on it, always engendering in the beings, besides desires and intentions of which they are not aware, the feeling called sacred 'iabolioonozo' or, as your favorites would say, 'religious feeling,' namely, that 'being-feeling' which, as I have already said, appears at times in the desire and striving for more rapid self-perfecting as regards Objective Reason. (p. 622-23)
—Indicative
Chapter 39
"Now when everything corresponding to it was acquired in the new coating of these two-natured formations and all the functioning proper to such cosmic arisings was finally established, these new formations in their turn, on exactly the same basis as in the first case, and also provided there was a certain change of functioning, began to absorb and assimilate cosmic substances issuing directly from the Most Holy Theomertmalogos, after which, similarities of a third kind began to be coated in them.
"These coatings, which are the 'highest sacred parts' of beings, we now call 'highest being-bodies.'
"Only later, these 'highest being-bodies,' when they were finally coated, could acquire all the corresponding functions as well as the possibility for the crystallization of data for engendering the sacred function of 'Objective Reason'--data that can be crystallized exclusively in the presence of cosmic arisings of this order. And only at the moment when what is called 'rascooarno' occurred to these 'tetartocosmoses,' or 'beings,' that is, the separation from each other of these differently natured 'three-in-one formations,' did this 'highest being-part' receive the possibility of uniting itself with the Cause of Causes of everything now existing, our Most Holy Sun Absolute--and began to fulfill the purpose on which our All-Embracing Endlessness had placed His hope. (p. 765)
—Indicative
All quotes from Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G.I. Gurdjieff, Viking Arkana Edition, 1999, from various chapters as indicated.