Kundabuffer

References from Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson

CHAPTER 9 The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon

... suddenly, on one of the very busiest days, the whole planet Mars was shaken,

... Only after a considerable time had passed ... did we recover and gradually make out what had
happened ...

... this solar system was then still being formed and was not yet ‘blended’ completely with what
is called ‘The-Harmony-of-Reciprocal-Maintenance-of-All-Cosmic-Concentrations.’ ... there had
also to function in this system ... the comet ‘Kondoor.’ ... the line of the path of the said comet
had to cross the line on which the path of that planet Earth also lay; but as a result of the
erroneous calculations of a certain Sacred Individual concerned with the matters of World-
creation and World-maintenance, the time of the passing of each of these concentrations through
the point of intersection of the lines of their paths coincided, and owing to this error the planet
Earth and the comet ‘Kondoor’ collided...

...this Most High Commission, having then calculated all the facts at hand, and also all that might
happen in the future, came to the conclusion that although the fragments of the planet Earth
might maintain themselves for the time being in their existing positions, yet in view of certain
so-called ‘Tastartoonarian-displacements’ conjectured by the Commission, they might in the
future leave their position and bring about a large number of irreparable calamities ...

...“Therefore the Most High Commission decided to take certain measures to avoid this
eventuality. And they resolved that the best measure in the given case would be that the
fundamental piece, namely, the planet Earth, should constantly send to its detached fragments,
for their maintenance, the sacred vibrations ‘askokin.’

... three-brained beings ... afterwards arose and were formed on this planet ... the results of the
consequences of the properties of that organ called ‘Kundabuffer’ ... had begun to be crystallized
and to become part of their common presences...

CHAPTER 10 Why “Men” Are Not Men

... in spite of the measures they had taken, of which I have told you, there had not yet crystallized
in the Reasons of the majority of its sacred members a complete assurance of the impossibility of
any undesirable surprise in the future, and they now wished to verify on the spot the results of
those measures.

... the Most High Commission decided in any event, if only for the sake of their own reassurance,
to actualize certain further special measures, among which was also that measure, the
consequences of which ... turned into a stupendous terror...
... there had already gradually been engendered in them — as is proper to three-brained beings
— what is called ‘mechanical instinct.’ “The sacred members of this Most High Commission
then reasoned that if the said mechanical instinct in these biped threebrained beings of that planet
should develop towards the attainment of Objective Reason ... it might quite possibly happen that
they would prematurely comprehend the real cause of their arising and existence and make a
great deal of trouble; it might happen that having understood the reason for their arising, namely,
that by their existence they should maintain the detached fragments of their planet, and being
convinced of this their slavery to circumstances utterly foreign to them, they would be unwilling
to continue their existence and would on principle destroy themselves.
... in view of this the Most High Commission then decided ... to implant into the ... the three-
brained beings there a special organ with a property such that, first, they should perceive reality
topsy-turvy, and, secondly, that every repeated impression from outside should crystallize in
them data which would engender factors for evoking in them sensations of ‘pleasure’ and
‘enjoyment.’ ... “And this ‘something’ they then first called the ‘organ Kundabuffer.’

...it is indispensable that you should know about the various manifestations of the three-brained
beings of that planet, not only during the period when this organ Kundabuffer existed in their
presences, but also during the later periods when, although this astonishing organ and its
properties had been destroyed in them, nevertheless, owing to many causes, the consequences of
its properties had begun to be crystallized in their presences.

...when it was made clear ... that for the maintenance of the existence of those said detached
fragments there was no longer any need to continue to actualize the deliberately taken
anticipatory measures, then among the other measures there was also destroyed ... the said organ
Kundabuffer

... at the period of my first descent in person onto this planet, the organ Kundabuffer was no
longer in the three-brained beings ...

... it was only in some of the three-brained beings there that various consequences of the
properties of that for them maleficent organ had already begun to be crystallized.

... one of the consequences ... was that consequence of the property which, while the organ
Kundabuffer itself was still functioning in them, had enabled them very easily and without any
‘remorse-of-conscience’ not to carry out voluntarily any duties taken upon themselves or given
them by a superior. But every duty they fulfilled was fulfilled only from the fear and
apprehension of ‘threats’ and ‘menaces’ from outside.