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Celestial Bodies in Beelzebub’s Tales

Map of the observable universe. (Pablo Carlos Budassi/Wikimedia/CC BY 4.0)

“I shall this time begin to actualize not by following the practice of all writers, established from the remote past down to the present, of taking as the theme of their various writings the events which have supposedly taken place, or are taking place, on Earth, but shall take instead as the scale of events for my writings—the whole Universe.“ (BT p. 40)

What follows is a roughly hierarchical compilation of celestial bodies found in G.I. Gurdjieff’s magnum opus, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. Some are simply named and not described; others have extensive descriptions (for example, the Holy Planet Purgatory, Earth, the Most Holy Sun Absolute, etc.) beyond what is mentioned here.

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