title: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: an Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man, 3rd Book
author: G.I. Gurdjieff
description: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: an Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man, 3rd Book
zlib_text: A.R. Orage  - Aphorisms
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  The purpose of the Gurdjieff method is to produce men - not 'men' in quotation marks. Monstrous
  genius is ruled out.
  Beelzebub: the actualized, ideal objective man. His function has ceased. He has a critique. He has put
  down his conclusions impartially, without prejudice, constructively, and hands them on to Hassein.
  Sons of God: they who understand and consciously co-operate.
  A normal man is one who has not only actualized his potentialities but has freed himself from his
  subjectivity.
  A real man is one who understands why he is alive, what his body is for and what he must do.
  The real man is he who can, at will, in any circumstances play the reasonable part.
  Consider the 'sly' man; he tries to be aware always.
  Ordinary man is at the mercy of his organism: of the instinctive center - impressions received by the
  senses, of appetites, inertia, disease; of the feelings - associations connected with people and places
  past and pr