"Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson" has 3 reading plans. The first is the "literal" one, the second is called "analogical", while the third is the "allegorical" level. The three floors overlap harmoniously without one excluding the other. When we become aware of how a principle of the law of three can equally manifest itself in totally distinct phenomena, such as the noble gases of the periodic table and the human being who has achieved the state of "all balanced brains", we realize that these parts of Gurdjieff's work concern the principle of analogy. To do this, Gurdjieff must necessarily deal with scientific arguments, and whoever can understand will see the wonderful analogies that manifest themselves between distinct phenomena, which are the clear universality of the laws explained. By literally speaking to us about matter and the secrets of the universe, Gurdjieff wants to show us that the same law-compliant results are produced in nature and in us at the same time. Man is a miniature universe created in the precise image of the great universe.
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