calling him an " incomparable teacher ", particularly in his book Beelzebub's Tales.

Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson.

The first volume, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, is a lengthy allegorical work that recounts the explanations of Beelzebub to his grandson concerning the beings of the planet Earth.

He was appointed by Gurdjieff as his representative to publish Beelzebub's Tales, and then to lead the Work in North America.

In Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson ( see bibliography ), Gurdjieff expresses his reverence for the founders of the mainstream religions of East and West and his contempt ( by and large ) for what successive generations of believers have made of those religious teachings.

Three books by Gurdjieff were published in the English language in the United States after his death: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson published in 1950 by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., Meetings with Remarkable Men, published in 1963 by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., and Life is Real Only Then, When ' I Am ', printed privately by E. P. Dutton & Co. and published in 1978 by Triangle Editions Inc. for private distribution only.

** Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G. I. Gurdjieff ( 1950 )

* Gurdjieff, Astrology and Beelzebub's Tales, Sophia Wellbeloved, Solar Bound Press, N. Y., 2002

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson or An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man is the first volume of the All and Everything trilogy written by the Greek-Armenian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff.

The plot of Beelzebub's Tales primarily revolves around the ruminations of an extraterrestrial known as " Beelzebub " to his grandson Hassein, as they travel through space towards Beelzebub's home planet " Karatas " on the spaceship Karnak.

Beelzebub's Tales is included in Martin Seymour-Smith's 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, with the comment that it is "... the most convincing fusion of Eastern and Western thought has yet been seen.

# Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson.

:: FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of ' An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man ,' or, ' Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson.

Bennett learnt of Gurdjieff's writings, and read " Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson " for the first time.

Bennett wished to execute Gurdjieff's last directives literally, by disseminating his ideas and writings as widely as possible, especially Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson, which Madame de Salzmann wanted to keep away from the public eye.

* Talks On Beelzebub's Tales ( From Bennett's talks on Gurdjieff's series ' Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson '.

Proponents of the continued viability of Gurdjieff's system, and its study through the use of groups, however, point to Gurdjieff's insistence on the training of initiates in interpreting and disseminating the ideas that he expressed cryptically in Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson.

This, combined with Gurdjieff's almost fanatical dedication to the completion of this text ( Beelzebub's Tales ), suggest that Gurdjieff himself intended his ideas to continue to be practiced and taught long after his death.

* Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson ( 1950 ), by G. I. Gurdjieff, presents Judas in accordance with his depiction in the Gospel of Judas

Fictional descriptions of memetic engineering include Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation Trilogy ( New York: Bantam Books, 1991 ), George Gurdjieff's artificial mythology Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson ( New York: Penguin USA, 1999 ); Neil Stephenson's novels Snow Crash ( New York: Bantam Spectra, 1993 ) and The Diamond Age ( New York: Bantam Spectra, 1996 ); and Robert W. Chambers ' unearthly The King in Yellow ( Buccaneer Books, 1996 ) tome, which influenced seminal horror author H. P. Lovecraft.

:: FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of “ An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man ,” or, “ Beelzebub ’ s Tales to His Grandson .”