What I propose instead is an approach at all levels, a total approach, which would also be suggested by the title itself "All and Everything", but above all by the content itself that we find in the work. A total approach in which the literal sense is simultaneously coexistent with the allegorical sense, without one ever excluding the other, and connected together through the analogy between the three-brained-beings and God. Analogy allows, not only the connection between the two dimensions, external and internal, factual ...
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What I propose instead is an approach at all levels, a total approach, which would also be suggested by the title itself "All and Everything", but above all by the content itself that we find in the work. A total approach in which the literal sense is simultaneously coexistent with the allegorical sense, without one ever excluding the other, and connected together through the analogy between the three-brained-beings and God. Analogy allows, not only the connection between the two dimensions, external and internal, factual and allegorical, but it even allows the translation, the passage, from one dimension to another. Analogy is like a "tunnel" that connects the two dimensions, which coexist exactly as in the universe each scale coexists with the other, the large one contains another of smaller dimensions... one dimension inside the other ... nothing other than the Inner Octaves. A total approach, like the one I proposed, not only neutralizes the external possibility of splits among students, but also involves a more relevant internal aspect: those who study Beelzebub should do so with all parts of its totality... in other words: with all its centers. Beelzebub's unilateral interpretative approaches can only be typical of those who do not have balanced centers... therefore of a sleeping man. In some of those rambling fanatics who dogmatically dictate that "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" is only an allegory, the imagination has accidentally given rise to another imaginative interpretation defined by their own unconscious misunderstanding as "allegorical interpretation". The result of this other "brain fart" is that the planets of the solar system mentioned by Gurdjieff in Beelzebub correspond to "emotional states". Nothing could be further from the truth. It would be enough just to consider the exact description it provides on the planet Mars regarding its conformation between highlands and lowlands that give rise to a single large continent and a single large and unique ocean. This detailed information about the planet Mars, which Gurdjieff wrote in his book in the 1920s, was learned only many years later after the sending of space probes. The planet Venus is only mentioned so in passing, without giving details, so how could it be a suggestion of an emotional state? In short, nonsense... if one wants to go astray it is sufficient to follow the suggestions given by the "allegorists" of Beelzebub. Beelzebub contains the allegorical aspect, but is accessible only when the literal aspect has first been accessed, because the interweaving between the "Literal sense" and the "Allegorical sense" is united through the exact "Analogy" between man and the megalocosm ("Man created as the image of God"; referring to his internal structure and not his external appearance as some foolishly understand). Again through this analogy Gurdjieff states: "By studying man we study the universe, and by studying the universe we study man". But here come the "allegorists" who banish and mock the literal interpretation, so when Beelzebub is explaining some phenomenon that occurs in the universe and the laws related to it, the allegorists will not take it literally, and therefore will not be able to translate the same process from the universe to the interior of man, thus following the exact path of the analogy that leads to the real allegorical sense, and they will be forced to invent another one of their own. In "Beelzebub" the literal sense and the allegorical sense coexist without ever excluding each other, and both are connected by the third force, which is that of analogy. Beelzebub is an "All", and as such contains within itself all the plans and all the scales of the universe as well as all the same scales within man. From the literal sense, through analogy, up to allegory, everything coexists simultaneously, without one aspect ever annihilating the other.
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