CHAPTER 26
The Legomonism concerning the
deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash under the title of "The Terror of the
Situation"
"THE
LEGOMONISM," Beelzebub continued, "through which the deliberations of
the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash
were transmitted began with the following prayer:
'In the name of the
Cause of my arising, I will always strive to be just toward every already
spiritualized source and toward all sources of future spiritualized
manifestations of our Common Creator, Almighty Autocrat Endlessness Amen.
"
'To me, a trifling particle of the whole of the Great Whole, it was commanded
from Above to be coated with the planetary body of a threecentered
being of the Earth in order to help all other such beings arising and existing
upon it to free themselves from the consequences of the properties of that
organ which, for great and important reasons, was implanted in the presence of
their ancestors.
" 'All the
Sacred Individuals before me who were intentionally actualized from Above, while
striving for this same aim, have always endeavored to accomplish the task laid
upon them through one or another of the three sacred ways for self-perfecting
foreordained by our Endless Creator Himself, that is, through the sacred ways
based on the being-impulses called "Faith," "Hope," and
"Love. "
'When I had completed
my seventeenth year, I began, as commanded from Above, to prepare my planetary
body in order, during my responsible existence, to be able to be impartial.
'During this period
of my self-preparation it was also my intention that as soon as I reached
responsible age, I would carry out the task laid upon me through one or another
of these three sacred being-impulses.
"
'But when during this period of self-preparation I chanced to meet many beings
of almost all "types" who existed here in the city of Babylon, and
when in the course of my impartial observations I became aware of various
traits of their being-manifestations, there crept into me and progressively
increased an essence-doubt as to the possibility of saving the three-centered
beings of this planet by any of these three sacred ways.
" 'The different
manifestations of the beings I encountered not only increased my doubt, but
gradually convinced me that the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer, having passed by heredity through many
generations over a very long period, had ultimately so crystallized in their
presence that they have reached contemporary beings as a lawful part of their
essence, and thus these crystallized consequences of the properties of the
organ kundabuffer are now, as it were, a "second
nature" of their common presence.
" 'So, when I
finally became a responsible being, before making my choice of one of the three
sacred ways, I decided to bring my planetary body into the state of the sacred
"ksherknara," that is, into the state of
"all-brains-balanced being-perceptiveness," and only in that state to
choose the way for my future activities.
'With this aim I then
ascended "
" 'For a second
forty days and nights I neither ate nor drank, but recalled and analyzed all
the impressions present in me of everything I had perceived during my existence
here in the period of my self-preparation.
"
'A third forty days and nights I remained on my knees and neither ate nor
drank, and every half hour I plucked two hairs from my breast.
'And it was only when
I had finally attained complete freedom from the influence of all bodily and
spiritual associations linked with the impressions of ordinary life that I
began to ponder what I was to do.
'This pondering of my
purified Reason then brought me to the certainty that it was already too late
to save the contemporary beings by any of the three sacred ways.
'This pondering of
mine also made it categorically clear to me that all the genuine functions
proper to men-beings —as they are proper to all threecentered
beings of our Great Universe—had already degenerated in their remote ancestors
into quite other functions, which were included among the properties of the
organ kundabuffer, and were very similar to the
genuine sacred being-functions of Faith, Hope, and Love.
'And in all
probability this degeneration was due to the fact that when the organ kundabuffer had been destroyed in their ancestors, and they
had acquired in themselves factors for the genuine sacred being-impulses, then,
as the taste of many of the properties of the organ kundabuffer
still remained in them, these properties resembling the three sacred impulses
gradually became mixed with the genuine ones, and as a result, factors were
crystallized in their psyche for the impulses of "faith,"
"hope," and "love," which although similar to the genuine
were somehow or other quite peculiar.
" 'The
contemporary three-centered beings also at times believe, love, and hope both
with their Reason and with their feelings, but how they believe, how they love,
and how they hope—in this lies all the peculiarity of these three being-properties
of theirs!
" 'They also
believe, but in them this sacred impulse does not function independently, as it
does in general in all the three-centered beings with the same possibilities on
the various other planets of our Great Universe, but its arising is dependent
upon certain factors that have been formed in their common presence, owing as
always to the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer—as,
for instance, those peculiar properties arising in them which they call
"vanity," "self-love," "pride,"
"self-importance," and so forth.
"
'In consequence of this, the three-brained beings of the Earth are
particularly subject to the perception and fixation in their presence of all
sorts of "sinkrpoosarams" or, as it is
expressed here, they "believe any old twaddle."
" 'It is very
easy to convince a being of this planet of anything you like, provided that
during his perception of this nonsense there is evoked in him, either
consciously from without or automatically by itself, the functioning of one or
another corresponding consequence of the properties of the organ kundabuffer crystallized in him from among those forming
what is called his "subjectivity," as for instance
"self-love," "vanity," "pride,"
"swagger," "presumptuousness," "arrogance," and
so on.
"
'If these influences act upon their degenerate Reason and upon the equally
degenerate factors in their localizations— factors that actualize beingsensations—not only is a false conviction
crystallized in them concerning the aforementioned nonsense, but they will
even, in all sincerity and faith, prove vehemently to those around them that it
is just so and can in no way be otherwise.
"
'In an equally abnormal form data have been molded in them for evoking the
sacred impulse of Love.
" 'In the
presence of the beings of contemporary times there is as much as you please of
that strange impulse they call "love", but this "love" of
theirs is also the result of certain crystallized consequences of the
properties of the organ kundabuffer, and this
impulse arises and manifests itself in the presence of every one of them
entirely subjectively— so subjectively and so differently that if ten of them
were asked to explain how they sense this inner impulse of theirs, all of
them—if, of course, they for once replied sincerely, and frankly acknowledged
their genuine sensations and not those they had read about somewhere or heard
about from someone else—all ten would reply differently and describe ten
different sensations.
" 'One would
explain this sensation in the sexual sense, another in the sense of pity, a
third as a desire for submission, a fourth, a common interest in outer things,
and so on and so forth, but not one of the ten could describe, even remotely,
the sensation of genuine Love.
" 'And none of
them could describe it, because for a long time now none of the ordinary
men-beings here has ever had any sensation of the sacred beingimpulse
of genuine Love And without this "taste" they cannot have the
faintest idea of that sacred being-impulse, the most beatific in the presence
of every three-centered being of the Universe, which, in accordance with the
divine foresight of Great Nature, forms in us such data that, when we
experience their results, we can rest in bliss from the meritorious labors we
have fulfilled for the purpose of self-perfection.
'Nowadays, if one of
these three-brained beings "loves" somebody or other, it is either
because this somebody always encourages and undeservedly flatters him, or
because this one's nose is very like the nose of that female or male with whom,
thanks to the cosmic law of "polarity" or "type," a
relationship has been established that has not yet been broken, or finally, he
"loves" someone only because this
someone's uncle is in business
in a big way and may one day give him a boost, and so on and so forth.
"
'But never do men-beings here love with genuine, impartial, and non egoistic
love.
" 'Thanks to the
kind of love that exists in the contemporary beings here, their hereditary
predisposition to the crystallization of the consequences of the properties of
the organ kundabuffer now proceeds in them without
hindrance, and becomes definitely fixed as a lawful part of their nature.
'And as regards the
third sacred being-impulse, Essence-Hope, its plight in the presence of the
three-centered beings here is even worse than that of the first two.
"
'Not only has this being-impulse, in its distorted form, finally adapted itself
to the whole of their presence but this newly formed, maleficent
"hope," which has taken the place of the being-impulse of sacred
Hope, is now the principal reason why factors can no longer be acquired in them
for the functioning of the genuine being-impulses of Faith, Hope, and Love.
"
'In consequence of this newly formed, abnormal "hope" of theirs,
they always hope for something, and this constantly paralyzes all the
possibilities that appear in them, whether evoked intentionally from without or
arising accidentally within them—possibilities that could perhaps still
destroy in their presence their hereditary predisposition to the
crystallization of the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer.
"
'When I returned from
" 'And in the
course of a year of special observations of all their manifestations and
perceptions, I made it categorically clear to myself that although the factors
for engendering in their presence the sacred being-impulses of Faith, Love, and
Hope have completely degenerated in the beings of this planet, nevertheless,
the factor that should engender that being-impulse on which, in general, the
whole psyche of beings of a three-brained system is based, namely, the impulse
existing under the name of "Objective Conscience," is not yet
atrophied in them, and remains in their presence almost in its primordial
state.
" 'Thanks to the
abnormally established conditions of ordinary external being-existence here, this
factor gradually sank into that consciousness of theirs which they call the
"subconscious," and as a result, it takes no part whatever in the
functioning of their ordinary consciousness.
" 'Well, I then
understood beyond all doubt, with all the separate ruminating parts making up
the whole of my "I," that only if this being-factor still surviving
in their common presence were to participate in the general functioning of the
consciousness under whose direction they pass their daily, as they call it,
"waking existence"—only then would it be possible to save the
contemporary terrestrial three-brained beings from the consequences of the
properties of that organ which was intentionally implanted in their first
ancestors.
'My further pondering
confirmed that this could be attained only if their ordinary being-existence
were to flow for a long time under fully foreseen, corresponding conditions.
'When these
deliberations had been completely transubstantiated in me, I decided to
consecrate the whole of myself from that time forward solely to the creation of
such conditions here that the functioning of sacred Conscience, still surviving
in their subconscious, might gradually pass into the functioning of their
ordinary consciousness.
"
'May the blessing of our Almighty, Infinitely Loving Common Father, Uni-Being, Endless Creator be upon my decision. Amen!'
"Thus
ended the legomonism concerning the deliberations of
the Very Saintly and Incomparable Ashiata Shiemash, under the title of 'The Terror of the Situation.'
"So, my boy,
when early in my last sojourn on the surface of your planet I first learned the
details of this legomonism which I have just
repeated, I at once became interested in the deductions of this later Most
High, Very Saintly Common-Cosmic Individual, Ashiata Shiemash, and since there existed no other legomonism nor any other source of information concerning
his further very saintly activities among those favorites of yours, I resolved
to investigate in detail and make entirely clear to myself what measures he had
taken and how he had carried them out in order to help these unfortunates to
free themselves from the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer, which had passed to them by heredity and were
so maleficent for them.
"And so, as one
of my chief tasks during this last sojourn of mine on the surface of your
planet, I made a detailed investigation and elucidation of the further very
saintly activities among your favorites of the Great EssenceLoving,
now Most High, Very Saintly Common-Cosmic Individual, Ashiata Shiemash.
"As regards the
'marble tablet' that by chance remained intact since the time of the very
saintly activities of the Great Ashiata Shiemash, and is today the principal sacred relic of the
brotherhood of initiated beings called the 'Olbogmek
Brotherhood,' I happened, during this last stay of mine on your planet, to see
and read what was engraved on it.
"In the course
of my subsequent investigations it turned out that, later on, when this Very
Saintly Ashiata Shiemash
had established the particular conditions of ordinary being-existence he had
planned, several of these tablets, on his advice and initiative, were set up in
appropriate places in many of the large towns, and upon them were engraved all
kinds of precepts and counsels for a corresponding existence.
"But later, when
their big wars began again, all these tablets were destroyed by these strange
beings themselves, with the exception of that one which has somehow remained
intact, as I have already told you, and is now the
property of this brotherhood.
"On this
surviving marble tablet was engraved an inscription concerning the sacred
being-impulses called 'Faith,' 'Love,' and 'Hope,' which was as follows:
FAITH, LOVE, AND HOPE
Faith of
consciousness is freedom Faith of feeling is weakness Faith of body is
stupidity Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling
evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity Hope of
consciousness is strength Hope of feeling is slavery Hope of body is disease "Before
telling you more about the activities of the Very Saintly Ashiata
Shiemash for the welfare of your favorites, I must, I
think, clarify for you at somewhat greater length the inner impulse they call
'hope,' about which the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash remarked that its case is even worse than that of
the other two.
"And the special
observations and investigations I made later in regard to this strange and
abnormal impulse clearly showed me that the factors engendering it in their
presence are, in truth, most maleficent for them
"Thanks to this
abnormal hope of theirs, a singular and very curious disease, with the property
of evolving, arose and exists among them even until now—a disease called
'tomorrow.'
"This strange
disease, 'tomorrow,' has brought the most terrifying results, particularly for
those unfortunate three-brained beings there who chance to learn, and become
categorically convinced with the whole of their presence, that they possess
some very undesirable consequences, and that in order to be delivered from
these consequences it is indispensable for them to make certain efforts, which
they even know just how to make but never succeed in making, on account of this
maleficent disease, 'tomorrow.'
"And indeed,
that is just the maleficent part of this terrifying evil which, owing to
various causes great and small, is concentrated in the process of the ordinary
being-existence of these pitiable three-brained beings—that by putting off
'from tomorrow till tomorrow,' even those unfortunate beings who do by chance
learn about all that I have mentioned are also deprived of the possibility of
ever attaining anything real.
"This disease,
'tomorrow,' so maleficent for your favorites, has become an obstacle for
contemporary beings not only because it totally deprives them of all
possibility of removing from their presence the crystallized consequences of
the properties of the organ kundabuffer, but also
because it hinders most of them in honestly discharging even those
being-obligations of theirs that are quite indispensable in the established
conditions of ordinary being-existence.
"Thanks to this
disease, 'tomorrow,' the three-brained beings there, particularly the
contemporary ones, almost always put off 'until later' everything that needs to
be done at the moment, being convinced that 'later' they will do better and
more.
"Even those
unfortunates who, either by chance or owing to a conscious action from outside,
become aware through their Reason of their complete nullity and begin to sense
it with all their separate spiritualized parts, and who happen to learn what
being-efforts must be made, and how to make them, in order to become such as is
proper for three-brained beings to be—even these beings, by putting off 'from
tomorrow till tomorrow,' almost all arrive at the point that one sorrowful day
there arise and are manifest in them those forerunners of old age called
'feebleness' and 'infirmity,' which are the inevitable lot of all cosmic
formations, great and small, toward the end of their completed existence.
"Here I must not
fail to tell you about the strange phenomenon I noted during my observations
and studies of the almost entirely degenerate presence of those favorites of
yours—that is to say, I definitely established that in many of them, toward the
end of their planetary existence, most of the consequences of the properties of
the organ kundabuffer crystallized in their common
presence atrophy of their own accord, and some of them even entirely disappear,
thanks to which these beings begin to see and sense reality a little better.
"In such cases
there appears in the common presence of these favorites of yours a strong
desire to work upon themselves—to work, as they say, for the 'salvation of
their souls.'
"But needless to
say, nothing can result from such desires of theirs simply because it is
already too late, the time allotted them for this purpose by Great Nature
having already passed, and although they see and feel the necessity of making
the required being-efforts, yet for the fulfillment of these desires they now
have only 'ineffectual yearnings' and the 'lawful infirmities' of old age.
"Well, my boy,
my research and investigations concerning the further activities of the Very
Saintly Ashiata Shiemash for
the welfare of the three-brained beings arising and existing on this planet of
yours made the following clear to me.
"When this
great, and as regards his Reason almost incomparable, Sacred Individual became
definitely convinced that the sacred ways that exist for the purpose of self-perfection
for all three-brained beings of the Universe were no longer suitable for the
beings of the planet Earth, then, after his year of special observation and
studies of their psyche, he again ascended that same Mount Vezniama,
and for several terrestrial months contemplated and pondered how to carry out
his decision, that is, to save the beings of this planet from their inherited
predisposition to the crystallization of the consequences of the properties of
the organ kundabuffer, by means of those data which
remained intact in their subconscious for the fundamental sacred being-impulse,
Conscience.
"This pondering
of his definitely convinced him that it would indeed be possible to save them
by means of the data in their common presence for engendering this sacred
being-impulse, but only if the manifestations of these data surviving in the
subconscious were without fail to participate in the functioning of the
consciousness under whose direction their daily waking existence flows, and
furthermore, only if this being-impulse were to be manifested over a long
period through every aspect of this consciousness of theirs.