Beelzebub's Tales Book Two

<p>The second in this series of three books enables direct comparison of Book Two of The Tales with Gurdjieff's earlier draft <em>The 1931 Manuscript</em>. Readers will notice many differences between the two versions. In some chapters the differences are minor but in the following they are significant:</p><p>•In the 1950 version the chapter <em>Hypnotism</em> included significant changes to some of the text and much new text was added. </p><p>•In the chapter <em>Beelzebub as Hypnotist </em>a substantial amount of text was added with Gurdjieff creating much new material.</p><p>•The chapter <em>The Change in the Appointed Course of the Falling of the Transspace Ship Karnak</em> is missing entirely from <em>The 1931 Manuscript.</em></p><p>•The short chapter <em>Just a Wee Bit More about the Germans</em> is substantially different.</p><p>•The chapters on <em>Russia France </em>and <em>Religion</em> there is some missing text and the text is substantially different in places.</p><p>•The chapter <em>The Holy Planet Purgatory</em> is substantially different. It was reorganised with three sections of text being moved and most of the text being substantially rewritten.</p><p>The study of these changes reveals to some degree Gurdjieff's creative process and will likely prove useful to those who are trying to fathom the gist of <em>The Tales</em>.</p>