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"The SLUGS"

On G. I. Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

 

Section II

3.  On Pleasure, Sperm, Sex & Abstinence

In the Tales, Beelzebub explains the unfortunate events which happened on planet Earth–the cosmic disruptions that led to the implanting and removal of the organ Kundabuffer–and how these events brought about the degeneration of the human psyche:
 “... when various consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer had already begun to be crystallized in their presences, a being impulse began to be formed in them which later became predominant.
    “This impulse is now called ‘pleasure’; and in order to satisfy it they had already begun to exist in a way unbecoming to three-centered beings, namely, most of them gradually began to remove this same sacred being-substance from themselves only for the satisfaction of the said impulse. ... most of them ceased to utilize this sacred substance consciously for coating their higher being-bodies ... .”  (p. 276)
The three-centered beings squander their “sacred being-substance”–of sperm and comparable substances in women–simply to satisfy the impulses of pleasure.  Further, they know nothing of the importance of these substances for their own evolution–and the crystallizing of the higher being-bodies.
     Beelzebub explains to Hassein that the three-brained beings do know of the “being-Exioehary,” which they call sperm, but they perform all kinds of “manipulations” with it–wasting and squandering it whenever possible.  Beelzebub describes such misuse of sexual energies as the “chief vice of contemporary three-brained beings,”–part of the “phenomenal depravity” which began during Greek and Roman times, with the invention of orgies, varied ‘sexual turns’ and the “passion-for-depravity.”  However, such practices were imitated by others, and passed on from generation to generation through to contemporary European and American life. The pervasive misuse and squandering of sexual energies is a chief abnormality characterizing the life of humanity, and this serves the further degradation of the human psyche.
    Beelzebub explains that because of the “perverted function,” that sexuality became, then:
“... all the impulses arising in them, in the sense of striving for evolution are already automatically paralyzed at their very roots, and which they themselves call ‘sexuality.’”  (p. 534)
The three-centered beings on planet Earth, through the wastage of their sacred sexual substances, would paralyse even the impulses to strive towards their own self-perfection.
    Beelzebub also depicts some of the pathologies that results “when they do not remove it from themselves.” In this case, they will experience the sensation of “Sirklinianmen,” or what “your favorites” would call being “out of sorts”–likely grumpy and irritable at the best of times.  At the worst of times, when several of their years pass without beings of the opposite sex, Beelzebub describes the men-beings as turning to “onanism” (masturbation) and “pederastry.”  The history of the church and other ‘sexual psychopaths’ certainly verifies the difficulties arising when the slugs do not consciously transform the sacred sexual substances, and are dominated by the crystallization of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer.   Beelzebub describes onanism one of humans’  means of self calming, of putting oneself to sleep and maintaining the life of a slug.
    Beelzebub offers very interesting teachings about the role of sexual energies in the process of acquiring a soul.  The transmutation of these sexual energies is an essential part of the inner alchemy by which the Kesdjan body and the highest being-bodies are crystallized:
    “This sacred substance which arises in the presences of beings of every kind is almost everywhere else called ‘Exioehary’; but your favourites on the planet Earth call it ‘sperm.’
    “... this sacred substance arises in the presences of all beings without distinction of brain systems and exterior coating, chiefly in order that by its means they might, consciously or automatically, fulfill that part of their being-duty which consists in the continuation of the species; but in the presences of three-brained beings it arises also in order that it might be consciously transformed in their common presences for coating their higher being-bodies for their own Being.”  (p. 276)
Contemporary “men-beings” still have no idea of how the inner alchemy of being is dependent upon the refinement of these sacred sexual substances.

    Further, because your favorites do not actualize their ‘being-Partkdolg-duty,’ these sexual substances begin to “involve back ... towards those crystallizations from which their evolution began.”  This involution of the sexual substances tends to “‘deperfect’ their previously established essence-individuality,” leading to innumerable “illnesses” and diminishing the “thirst for Being.” (pp. 793-794)   And so, the slugs do not use the substances of the ‘Exioehary’ for their own self-perfection, to coat and perfect the higher being-bodies, or even to consciously reproduce themselves.  Without such an inner alchemy, the beings are described as “strongly sensing the emptiness of their existence.”
    Beelzebub explains that the knowledge of the origin and significance of the “being-Exioehary’ was known among some of the inhabitants of Atlantis, and afterwards among various groups of genuine initiates.  However, after periods of war and other catastrophes, this ancient knowledge was lost.  Fragments of such understanding survived but without any precise understanding of what was involved.  This led some of the three-brained beings to strive for self-perfection by “abstaining from the ejection from oneself in the customary manner of these substances formed in them called sperm ... .”  (p. 807)  Unfortunately, the beings did not understand the necessity of the fulfilling of their being-Partkdolg-duty, if this abstinence was to have its desired effect–in terms of quenching the thirst for being.
    Instead, they began “to imitate” the practices of the genuine initiates and began to organize themselves in various groups and sects, putting this abstinence into effect.  Thus, “monasteries” were established and various “monks” began to refrain from the ejection of sperm, but little was ever achieved as the brothers did not understand the importance of fulfilling one’s being obligations, or of “intentionally absorbing” the second and third being-foods.  These practices led to varied pathologies and perversions according to Beelzebub
    Beelzebub elaborates upon two ill-effects of such ill-advised abstinence–characterizing humankind in his surrealistic and humorous fashion:
 
    “The first kind of action of this definite substance consists in this, that it promotes the depositing of superfluous what is called ‘Karatsiag,’ or, as they call it there “fat.”  And its second kind of action promotes the arising and the dispersing over the whole planetary body of what are called ‘Poisonioonoskirian-vibrations.’
    “... one indeed meets among them these fat monks specimens with such an abundant deposit  of fat, that they could give many points to that form of being there which they expressly fatten in order to increase this same fat in their planetary bodies, and this form of being they call there ‘pig.’
    “And in the second case, on the contrary, these abstaining monks become, as it also usually said there, ‘meagre-thin’; and the action of the ‘Poisonioonoskirian-vibrations’ which penetrate through them is chiefly evident in their general psyche which becomes sharply dual and the manifestations of which are divided into two diametrically opposite kinds–the outer, visible and for show, sensed by everyone around them, and the inner and hidden, which the ordinary beings there, especially the contemporary, are entirely incapable of ascertaining or perceiving–namely, in their outer visible manifestations, these ‘Poisonioonoskirian-monks’ appear to what your favorites would express as ‘bigots’ of a high degree; and in their hidden inner manifestations, not shown to others, what your favorites would call ‘expert cynics,’ also of a high degree.
    “As regards the causes why ‘Poisonioonoskirian-vibrations’ are obtained among certain of the abstaining monks from the involutionary process of the Exioehary instead of the deposit of fat, there even exists one detailed theory ... that this proceeds because in the first year of their existence these same ‘thin monks’ very zealously occupied themselves with that occupation from which ‘pimples’–known even to medicine there–generally appear on the faces of young beings there.”  (pp. 808-810)
Beelzebub is referring to masturbation as that activity which give youth pimples, and which predisposes the monk to either the accumulation of fat or the formation of their bigotry and cynicism. Beelzebub offers shocking portraits of humankind–the misuse and squandering of the sacred sexual energies, and the involution of these substances into poisons. The lack of being-partkdolg-duty and the striving towards self-perfection, and the failure to consciously absorb all three being-foods,  leads to various forms of degeneracy common among “your favorites.”
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