Текст книги "The Last Gambit"
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I need to turn over it in my mind, count. Thinking so, you can discharge Herostratus and even anybody. By your extraordinary version you’ve nonplussed me. Though I’m not able to object to you thoroughly, I have an intuitive disagreement. In other words, I’m a child of the classical West culture; and that, which you try to lead me to by your argumentation, looks like accusing a certainly innocent of a hardened evil.
I understand you, Holmes. The point is the words “certainly innocent”. An intuition is without controversy a powerful thing, but there is something subjective in it, so it often misleads when it’s ruled by a subjectivism. What can we say of Herostratus? – He had burned one of the seven Great Wonders – Artemis’s temple in Ephesus – and the Wonder was irretrievably lost. But since we investigating something and have touched Herostratus, we are to find out his motives. Those, for whom this name tells something, knows that he was extremely vain and decided to immortalize his name by destroying the temple. But we know it only from ancient historians’ statements. And, by the way, one of them, Plutarch, was the supreme zhrets, indeed znakhar he was, of the Oracle of Delphi. So we have started and returned to the Delphi’s Oracle ones again.
Moreover, looking on the European culture, one can find that it’s far not so harmless, as one accustomed to it can think. The ecological crisis is in full view. And there are a lot of other things. Have you noticed the associative relation between “sensual appeal – cripples – armless Venus – Nica without head” in this fragment?
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And many others haven’t noticed. But in the meanwhile, since the end of the 19th century, when the surgery had become a craft, guarantying patient’s survival well (in Napoleon’s times nearly 1/3 of all surgical patients died of sepsis), the special subculture became to form on the West. Women with stumps have for some reason become erotic and sensual in it. And this subculture enlarges its influence: legless models with artificial limbs come on podium; one of the “Beatles” participants – Paul McCartney – is contracted with one-legged woman; in “Titanic” film, watched all over the world, in one dialog the main character all of a sudden and inappropriately mentions a one-legged prostitute, who had been his model in Paris; and so on. All is going of itself: some need to raise their busyness ratings and editions, and others are just bored and don’t know what to do. Finally the first group states the amputated-women to be a beauty ideal[40] and second without thinking it over “eat” this “exotics”. Whether we like it or not, but the cult of bodily injuries aesthetical appeal is formed.
Of course, he who was injured but not broken, who tries to live a normal life, to be useful for humanity and who have a success in it is worthy of respect. And the society should support him in it. It means that ramps and wheelchair elevators in the streets, at houses and in transport, the development of prosthesis, sport for invalids and all of a kind is necessary in the society with cripples. Let the relations of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, who some time still having two legs posed for “erotic” magazines, be really pure. Let Amy Mullens, who has lost legs in an early childhood, live as others, go into track and field athletics for his pleasure and health and feel himself normal, not defective one…
But the question appears: how will an empty-headed crowd-man, looking only for pleasure, unconsciously react to the cult of injuries, if those who have them have reached something desirable for him, without what he really or imaginary suffers? Including special feelings in sex, which healthy one cannot get? Many people think, “All can be given for sex”, – and if an amputation helps to become more sexual attractive and opens a way to exotic experience in sex, then wait: the unconscious, and particularly conscious, behaviour algorithm of jaded and perverted crowd will react to the cripple-cult with growth of amputation statistics. It will correspond to the medical testimony, but naturally will be based on morally psychological hidden motive – one wants an “exotics”. If it seems for woman that to become sensual and get sexual power she needs to lose her leg – she will “lose” it, but essentially the leg will be torn away by unconscious psychological levels, which would provoke the corresponding injury or psychosomatic disease.
Whatever we think of scientology, but using its terms, this associative relation in the article I‘ve read is very bad “Ingram”, activated today by mass media and cultural workers. And so-called “body-art”, also actively cultivated, has begun from face and ear pricking, but now it becomes a “decorative-aesthetical” maiming and amputations oriented on satisfaction of low egoistic wills.
Don’t think, however, that we have digressed from a theme of matrix algorithms in myths and works of art appearance. What do we know of Artemis cult?
As I remember, she was a goddess of hunt and her totem (spiritual, sacred) animals were a fallow-deer and a bear; she considered to be a protector of child-bearing; her Roman name was Diana. She was a virgin and was much more punctilious in this question than many other Olympus goddesses.
You are right, Mr. Holmes; and one can read of it in myths about Artemis. But very few know that the special significance in her cult was given to eunuchs – forced guarantors of the virginity of those maidens, who hadn’t been defiled before meeting them. Ephesus, where was one of the main cult temple, wasn’t an exclusion.
The castration is one the most ancient and mysterious phenomenon in the human history. Men serving Artemis during the rites exited themselves to the highest degree and castrated one another. After it they continued to “serve the goddess” but in women’s clothes. The history of the religious castration counts several thousand of years, and still can be found in the religious community of chiggers in India. This strange sect consists of pseudo-Muslims and Hinduists who esteem Bharukara-Mate – the goddess from Gujarat. Eunuchs serve to her as well as to Artemis or to Phoenician Astarta.
Count, how do you think, what are the causes and goals of such a strange ritual as a castration?
I think that this is a reaction on hypertrophied feeling of sexual instincts pressure, which men cannot resist. The castration is an attempt to escape this pressure.
In another even more tense case, this is a will to be saved from a psychological subordination to a woman through uncontrollable instincts, excited by so-called “demoniacal” women. Because of these traits of character and the behaviour of some women many cultures considered and consider women to be a social source of evil. But, as I see it, so-called men who can’t free themselves from the dictates of “demoniacal” women through the instincts are the evil as well. And this evil is even more dangerous because a “demoniacal” woman can easily arrest one's attention and a man is her captive and obedient servant. He plays dirty tricks on the quite, either disguising himself as a delicate and tolerant one (like Gorbachev did) or (like Hitler) plainly venting his angriness upon everybody who seems week to him.
In other words, the religious castration can express not only the weak will to struggle against the instincts. But as well a very strong demonism, pretending to something more than small demons busy with everyday routine pretend to. And what for the women with amputations claiming to an erotic appeal and a power based on sexual instincts – this is an answer of demonism. After an amputation some nervous system resources become completely free of controlling the lost parts of a corpse. And they now can be used for some kind of mystical psychological activities. Anyway, the Celtic epos researcher Shkunaev reports, that some characters of the myths “…had studied the secret knowledge and the druidic wisdom for seventeen years and after their right legs and left hands were cut off. It was a stable feature of one connected with the demonic incarnation of the other world”.
For an ordinary man of that time such injuries were incompatible with life. Even today the vast majority of people with amputations live thanks to medicine. And according to it just a look to these “devoted to the secret knowledge of cripples” was a signal of danger for all healthy of their tribe. But before they were maimed they were taught. And stirring up the instinct of self-preservation they were able to build some other superstructures in the psyche of their tribesmen while their will was depressed by the activated instinct. By the way, the cripple admirers are ridiculously called “devotee”, and it’s so near to “devoted”, isn’t it?
Dear Holmes, we have remembered all of this in connection with social mystics and human’s mystical abilities. Let’s return to 356 B.C. and imagine the conflict of the demonisms of two kinds that has a result of something similar to the incident in the Hermitage June 15, 1985. It was much easier for the historians of the past to justify the burning of the Temple on the basis of Herostratus’s vanity. They had no need to explain all the mystical motivation of his doing and thus undermine the power of different programming oracles, which they worked for. Even if Herostratus was vain and conceited and had no other causes, hidden by ancient investigators, he became a Providence’s instrument concerning the Artemis cult. After the destruction of the Temple of Ephesus it has never raised so high once again. The rating has gone down, as one can say today.
So, Holmes, how do you think, why is the “Historical Picnic” called “in a name of Artemis”?
Yes, count. It’s very hard. The amount of possible answers is so large that anybody can find an answer convenient to him.
And this is the main basis of the Delphi’s Oracle’s power as well as any other oracle power too. Do you remember the story of Lydian tsar Croesus? When he had asked the Oracle, if he should begin a war with Persians, it answered: “When Croesus crosses the river Halis[41] he will destroy the great realm”. Croesus has lost the war and the Persians conquered Lydia. Croesus tried to accuse an Oracle of deceiving him, but the znakhars answered that prophesy had completely fulfilled since no one had told Croesus what realm was going to be destroyed.
But this coin has two sides. From one hand the Croesus’s morality inspirited him to begin a war and, finally, his country was conquered. If he had another morality he would have conducted himself in another way… From the other hand, having understood Croesus’s objective morality and feeling the matrix-scenarios of the future events, Oracle programmed the behaviour of Croesus for the destruction of his own realm without any alternative. It didn’t say, “If Croesus crosses the river Halis he will destroy the great realm”. In Oracles words there isn’t a word “if”; so great and small “croesuses” can either oppose the whole “oracles” culture (including the modern Gypsy fortune-tellers) or execute the program without any alternatives.
And this is the answer to the questions about the “prophesies” to Lai, Oedipus, Acrisius: everything is coming true because they try to flee from their destiny instead of comprehending and changing their morality and world understanding and thus becoming independent from the fate – the program of the without a alternative “prophesy”.
After the discussion of the mechanism of oracles infliction on people and the society, we can return to the “picnics”. On the pictures of this “picnic”, as you can now make sure of, – count put the first “picnic” on the table, – in a symbolic form the matrix-scenario of the August 1991 putsch is shown. The titles of films written on the reverse side of paper determine the algorithm of development of the event in Moscow from 18 till 22 of August. Of course nothing was spontaneous and in itself, as all the mass media tried to show to the rest of the world. Preparations to the Russia’s dismemberment were hold the whole 19th and 20th centuries. In August 1991 two untalented musicians – Eltsin and Gorbachev, simply played the last accord of the Requiem for the Great State. From that time the real cutting of the Russian Empire began. It was realized with the help of the West, but first of all the financial and intellectual resources of the United States were equipped. In other words, rich and prosperous America put her head under an axe of the History when it let the building of the World Trade Centre towers on the land of New York. Holmes, do you want to look at the History’s password?
The count gave Holmes a big magnifying glass in a massive bronze frames and asked him to look at low left edge of the third “picnic”.
On the teeth of a person with a heavy jaw and an axe on his right shoulder he read the word “ПАРОЛЬ” (parole). Holmes interrogatively glanced at count.
You are completely right; – he answered having read the question about the password meaning in Holmes’s eyes. – This is only a sign to the password. The password itself is on the shoulder of this fellow dressed as Gutsul – this is the self-given name of the Western Ukrainians.
After these words count invited his guests to his library, switched on his computer and they saw Bible texts catalogue. Count had Bibles on Russian, in English and on French. He searched through the English one for the word “axe” with special search-system. He chose one verse, printed it and solemnly read it with his low slightly cracked voice:
“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire (Matthew, 3:10)”.
How do you think, why did I choose very this verse between all other including the word “axe”? – He applied to his guests and continued without getting a response.
John the Baptiser’s relics that are hold in the Saint-Pantheleimons monastery in Greece on the Mount Aphon are especially respected today. This verse was a warning to him from above for his unrighteous mission, which he unthinkingly followed trying to make Christ follow the way paved by another thoughtless prophet Isaiah eight hundred years before. By the way, Isaiah’s death was even more terrible than John’s one. Judaic tsar Manasia ordered to saw him with a wooden saw. But before it happened, Isaiah had written his death pact similar to one that John The Baptiser unthinkingly proclaimed a short time before his death:
“Will the axe boast against him who hews with it? Will the saw exalt itself above him who wields it? As if a rod could sway him who lifts it, or a staff him who is not wood! (Isaiah, 10:15)”
You may ask why was the prophet, so respected in the Christianity, so cruelly punished. It’s a long talk and I can’t explain you all what I’ve understood now. All I can precisely say is that told the Great Russian writer Lev Tolstoy. The modern historically formed Christianity is far from the real teaching of Christ. And it’s because of “selfless” doings of the apostles and first of all of ex-Pharisee Saul who had “magically” turned into the apostle Paul.
Have you ever thought, Holmes, why in that story when Saul was on his way to Damask somebody called himself “Christ” behaved himself not as any Christian should?
Pardon, count, I have rather superficial knowledge of “the apostles’ deeds” but your question isn’t used to be discussed. If Saul himself assured that he had seen Christ… And what was a contradiction between doings of this “somebody” and Christian moral?
But look, Holmes! True Christ cured ills and cripples but Saul was blinded, though temporarily. Agree that God and his missioners can manage without such “side” effects!
True Christ has never compelled to follow him neither by the force, nor by the fear, nor by the “blackmail”. However, Saul was frightened and confused when he submitted to one, who had called him for service. In other words, he didn’t choose to follow Christ consciously and this is another proof that he became a victim of some delusion.
Even in the episode of banishment of merchants from the cathedral when Christ, if to believe the Gospels, used the rude strength, nobody was injured, nobody was in terror, and nobody’s will was replaced by the will opposite to his psyche.
True Christ frightened nobody, injured nobody and made nobody defective, blackmailed nobody (and especially blackmailed not by the words, but by his reticences as well), compelled or perverted nobody’s will[42] and he didn’t create any ambiguous situations, so no one can accuse him or God of such deeds!
But who was that “somebody” whom Saul saw on his way to Damask?
I consider the two incompatible moralities to appear in true Christ’s activity and in the activity of “somebody” who showed himself to Saul. Holmes, agree that such a conversion to “Christianity”, which Saul went through, would not have taken place, if true Christ had called him for a service.
It’s so unusual to me, count, that I really don’t know what to say. I’m just an ordinary man, not a theologian. Why don’t you go to theologians?
Are you serious, Holmes? For hat purpose should one ask theologians about such things? For God’s sake, they live not on the truth but on its perversion. I talk to you as to an average man – average thinking man of the beginning of the third millennium.
Count, how do you think, how much thinking people asking questions that can puzzle the professional theologians can one find today – in the beginning of the third millennium?
Pfanfaltz silenced reflecting upon something and excused himself. He went to his library and retuned with newspapers copies.
Here, Holmes, listen:
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock’n’roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me”.
And some more:
“I’m not against the Lord, Christ or religion. I don’t say that we are higher or better. I believe in God, but not as in an old man on the skies. I believe that all what did Christ, Muhammad, Buddha preached was right, but their interpreters did many mistakes”[43].
Count, who did say it?
This is the interview of youth’s idol of the sixties, John Lennon, which he gave to Maureen Cleave, a reporter of the London’s paper “Evening Standard” in 1966.
How surprising for simple “rock musician” and even for a popular one! I should say, I’ve never heard something of a kind in England; but even if I had heard it, it would hardly have attracted me without your unusual commentaries to the episode with Saul. However, Lennon was murdered. Were these words a cause, I wonder?
I don’t know it. After his death the command came apart. One of them, as I remember, Harris studied Hinduism and, if to believe the press, was hardly ill. It’s a consequence of a worldview crisis, as I see it, or may be of those tasks, which were entrusted to them passing over their minds.
I’m surprised not by this, count. But how you manage to trace all of this and, moreover, to have your own opinion on the questions seemed to go without saying?
It’s considered, that in my age people use to sink into dotage. Russians call it “sink into a childhood”. May be it’s so, but very in childish age one is free of delusions and mistakes of youth and middle ages. So the systemic limits on psyche we discussed earlier could be overcome in the easiest way and thus the possibilities to get some new knowledge appear, of course if the senile brains haven’t completely depredated yet. Unfortunately it’s really hard to save the childish perception until the declining years living in our defective civilization, but… – here the teller paused and cheerfully smiled to his guests. – May be I’m the very rare specimen who “has fallen into childhood” just in proper time?
The count was far more than eighty, but he looked hale and hearty enough, his speech was connected and he thoroughly chose the words of the foreign language trying to express his thoughts very precisely and neatly. Some his thoughts seemed to be far from sensible but each time this feeling went away because of a vivid shine of his eyes strengthened by well-composed speech and a little reticence. Simply speaking, he made a wonderful impression upon a listener, may be even some kind of hypnotism. All this Holmes decided later, when he and Renier were far from “Askania-Nova”; and now Holmes attentively listened to count’s story.
So, gentlemen, I am sure that the acts of terrorism in New York and Washington were hold in the “John the Baptiser’s Decapitation” not occasionally. Everybody should pay his checks: the circle has been enclosed. The Acrisius and his grandson Perseus myth algorithm, which first part was the seemed to be harmless photo in “Trud”, has finished sixteen years later with the bloody final that anyone could see. The west civilization considering itself to be a Christian one is a biblical civilization per se; however, it is started not from the crucifixion of Christ as the church canons and the official history assure the people, but from the act of “John the Baptiser’s Decapitation”[44].On September 11, 2001, the time of this civilization has ended. The epoch of Pisces has lasted for two millennia; it is followed, as one knows, by the epoch of Aquarius. Pisces (looking as fishes) is a symbol of the biblical civilization and we found such a symbol – “the dead fish” – on the third “Post Historical Picnic”. What does it mean? Just the fall of the biblical civilization. For an ordinary western man, who fights back all unpleasant “mystics”, it’s hard to believe in it. But if one don’t believe and don’t think about it, I would not like to say, there will be other signs, and unfortunately also tragic. Gentlemen, I see in your eyes that you are waiting for some clear explanations of my version or some proofs.
No use: there can be no logical proof on the basis of some axioms in the solution of these problems. God always talks with people on the language of life’s circumstances. And using the whole historical experience one can see that it is the life’s axiom, though somebody may express it more precisely than I did. One either accepts it on trust or doesn’t accept it “on trust” as well. Nevertheless, how the history’s oppressiveness shows, the majority of people want neither to hear nor to understand the sentences of this language.
Dear Mr. Holmes, you are young and have a certain experience in solving puzzles of such kind. My old friend Lois Renier told me of your visit to Zurich and I asked him to arrange our meeting. Obviously, you have expected to hear something else but I can’t help you any more. Yes, I know and understand something what I’ve told you of relying on my family traditions and legends. But the noble aristocracy in a majority of it has lost its creative potential; notwithstanding the fact that there are some its strange and curious representatives, who still is interested by new information or fresh ideas. What I have told you is not just my thoughts. For the last year I was studying the works published at the site www.dotu.ru. It is Russian[45] and I have no problems with it, since each and every idea can be interpreted unambiguously. And if you are interested where does the worldviews like one you’ve heard here come from, you should visit this site. You will find there many things that will help you to turn over a new leaf in your worldview and to escape the prison of old stereotypes. I also hope that you, Holmes, will help us to solve this riddle. I’m ready to give you all assistance I can give. Feel free to use any material I have.
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Everybody felt himself overfilled by the impressions. Moreover it’s darkening quickly in the mountains and Renier wanted to reach Zurich before dark. The parting was natural and sincere. The master followed the car until it turned. Silver BMW seemed to drive by itself as if Renier had only helped it. Holmes was thoughtful and kept silence. Something told by Pfanfaltz proofed his hypothesis but much was so uncommon, new and unexpected that goes far beyond the worldview with which he had entered “Ascania-Nova”. And he needed a time and an intimate knowledge of the “picnics” symbolism to comprehend everything heard.
September 27 – October 4. Spain. Madrid – El Escorial
The whole next day Holmes spent in Geneva and on Thursday, September 27, left for Madrid by a morning flight. Imagine how he was surprised when installing himself in his room in the hotel[46], situated opposite to the world-known museum “El Prado”, he switched on a TV set and heard a report about the act of terrorism in the parliament of canton Zug. Some person dressed like a policeman freely entered the conference building and coolly shot eleven members of parliament and three members of government and then he committed a suicide. It was told that the “kamikaze” had been on the books of local mental health service and had got some claims for the members of parliament. An act of terrorism once again and once again a “maniac”. Moreover, there were eleven victims and Holmes, remembering Pfanfaltz’s words about the language of life’s circumstances, considered this event to be somehow symbolic and fatalistic.
For nearly the whole week Holmes was busy with the firm’s business in Madrid and rarely opened the “picnics” for thinking once again. His version was filling by new details but still was unstable. He was near to call Watson when the firm’s leaders suggested him to fly to Cairo on Friday, October 5. There the two-day conference of “Ernst & Young” representatives devoted to the nationalization of several big private companies was going to take place. Some tendency in the sphere of medium-sized and large businesses observed by Holmes for the last ten years showed that the International positions in the world are growing stronger. Interested for meeting some persons participating in the International’s world strategy development he agreed to continue his journey.
Holmes got two free days and apparently to vary his trip his satellite Mr. Antonio Ugarte, the firm’s Spanish official, suggested visiting El Escorial, the calm town where in the 16th century the official royal residence[47] was for some time situated. Holmes talked to Ugarte about the Spanish civil war and made a suggestion that the result of those events of 1936 was predetermined. Somebody, ruling the global historical process, wanted to see the developments variant alternative to that, which had taken place in Russia in 1917. And though some historians say that “the History doesn’t tolerate any conjunctive mood”, in the real history there are some forces that would like to see how the “conjunctive mood” is realized on practice.
By his views Antonio was far from the Trotskyites followers. He was still respecting General Franco who by his opinion didn’t let Hitler to engage Spain into the World War II. Attentively hearing Holmes’s version of the causes of the civil war he promised to make a meeting in El Escorial with interesting people. They were able to answer many questions about hidden motives of the events of 1936. Holmes took his suggestion with pleasure, since it was first time when he had a chance to visit a residence of Spanish kings. Situated 50 kilometres away from Madrid El Escorial was just buried in verdure. It was a nice sunny day and the air was uncommonly clean and clear. Tourists overfilled the public green space and the famous square.
Holmes and Antonio parked their car and for a long time walked down the narrow streets of the old town. After the midday they came to a house were small company had gathered. Antonio introduced Holmes to the master Pedro Coliado, full-bodied man with coal-black hair. Right away he invited his guests to the sitting room where two other guests had already sat and actively discussed something on Spanish.
Andrew Verov, – introduced himself not tall stocky man who was about forty.
Are you Russian? – For some reason asked Holmes.
Yes, Mr. Holmes, – answered Verov in English. – But I’ve been living in Spain for ten years.
Paolo Riego, – socially smiled the second one and added. – Spanish, but lived in Russia for some time.
When Holmes looked on the table they were sitting at he could hardly believe his eyes. There were three “picnics” and the copies of calendars on 1994 with some strange pictures from already-known Russian paper “Chas Pick”.
The guests looked at Holmes so as if they were sure that the “picnics” were familiar to him. He himself suddenly thought that he was a go-between in the discussion of some grandiose and formidable mysterious plot. The master served coffee and the talk, interrupted by arrival of the new guests, continued. Only that moment Holmes noticed that the guests weren’t discussing the picnics. They looked at the map of Madrid with a big wrench-looking hand crossing the city cornerwise and having its palm on the very central square. Holmes asked Antonio to translate him the discussion, but Andrew apologized and started to retell the matter of the discussion on good English.
My friend brought these picnics and some attendant pictures to me last year. He told about the matrix ruling methods that even in the extreme antiquity were used by zhretses in Atlantis. He told they were znakhars, I hope you understand the meaning of the word. They ruled the race of slaves using their monopoly on knowledge. Evidently these methods were efficient enough, since znakhars managed to form the crowd-“elitist” pyramid stable during the change of generation.
On the top of the pyramid sat the race of masters that consisted of nearly immortal demonic beings. And at its bottom was the race of slaves – half-animal–half-zombies. One could never escape this vicious infernal circle to the humaneness neither from the high nor from the low social level. Thus Atlantis ceased to exist as the dead state of the evolution that made a possibility of the next development impossible.
