September 27 - October 4. Spain. Madrid - El Escorial
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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 [45], 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 amp; 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 [46] 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.
– How could it be that having in their disposal such mighty methods of ruling Atlantes weren’t able to defend their civilization against the ruin after it had obtained the crowd-“elitist” pyramid stability? - Asked Holmes.
There are many different theories. One of them is based on the difference between the roles of conceptual categories and the generic memory in the human evolution. Its followers consider that in those ancient times people weren’t able to think by conceptual categories yet and got their own experience only thanks to their generic memory. The superior stage was achieved when one managed to transmit his own memory to his descendents as some “hereditary blood memory”. People redid ancestors’ actions as fluently as they remembered their own lives events. The ancestors’ cult developed in a form similar to that, which for many millennia existed in Ancient China. However, it was the very force of the memory that led to the destructive demonic cult of personality. The more power, which increased automatically during the succession of generation, obtained some hierarch the more he wanted to use it. And the conceptual system and the cultures of mutual understandings were either undeveloped or so perverted that they couldn’t help to avoid abusing the automatic generic power. But since Atlantes could magically influence on the nature governors’ abuses of their power created the terrible catastrophes, which lead to the ruin of the whole continent.
Nevertheless, since the society in Atlantis become stable, and thus in a certain sense untroubled, this fact should have been reflected in the culture of the modern civilization which also aspires to the stability and solving the problems. And it’s really reflected, but in two ways: one in the myths and legends of Ancient Greece and second in the Russian writer Ivan Efremov’s novel “Bull’s Hour”. The first reflection is well known on the West. It’s light and bright memory of the lost “Golden Age” of the biogenic civilization. According to this reflection on the top of the crowd-“elitist” pyramid called Olympus the immortal demonic gods sat. At its bottom were mortal men (slaves - speaking “animals”, free people - “biorobotic zombies” or just powerless mental-psychological cripples). Everything seems to be fine, but only for those, who see themselves between the future “Olympians”. But for those, who hasn’t reached the “Olympic” standard, the hopeless inferno - the endless Hell circles on the Earth, although probably passing by in the pleasant intoxication. Do you remember? “If people don’t find a way to the holy truth, long live to that madman who will evoke the Golden dreams over mankind!”
And now many people idealize this way of life and wish to return it. They choose a place in the “Olympic” elite and go in for “mental body-building”, developing their strength of mind and willpower using different mental practises.
As for me, though I know this doctrine, I don’t idealize such way of life. However this theory is interesting because it shows that each individual saves the freedom in choosing. In other words, it doesn’t lay on God the responsibility for the disasters and catastrophes, which people, deviating from the righteousness and abusing their abilities, cast on them themselves.
– Sorry for interrupting you, Mr. Verov, - entered the attentively hearing host. - But as long as we are speaking of the pretenders to the new “Olympians”, I should say that I’ve just read the John Coleman’s book “The Committee 300”. He writes about some mighty group calling itself the “Olympians”. They ignore the borders, control all the banking and insurance business in the world and account only to the members of their group. They sincerely believe that their status and abilities make them equal to the legendary Olympus gods. Probably they are the very “world’s government”, of which they write so much in the last time. In the book there are all of their names and even the names of the secret societies they join to.
– No, Pedro, - rejoined Verov. - This is just the screen that hides the real masters of the project of the Atlantis dead body’s galvanization for a new life. The enumerated bankers and businessmen only imagine themselves to be the “Olympians”, but those, who really globally rule the world, play up to them with pleasure, keeping themselves as a secret. Moreover, they consider secret societies to be their instrument of ruling, probably not the best since they know well that any initiation, either open or passing over one’s mind, is the fetters on the initiate’s psyche. They constructed the system of initiations in such way. But I want to continue the analogy with the Greek mythology. When demonic gods condescended to ordinary people the heroes were born, who became either the demons, i.e. raised to Olympus, or the zombies as time went by. If one analyses the Greek mythology from these positions and gets rid of modern culture stereotypes, everything will look like this.
The second reflection of the myth I told about is practically unknown on the West. It’s hard and gloomy reminding of a possible mankind burial under the sorrowful legacy of Atlantis in the conditions of our technocratic civilization. Ivan Efremov expressed it in “Bull’s Hour”. As you see the two moral appraisals of the reflection of the same myth in modern culture are quite mutually exclusive.
– Andrew; and what is the essential principle of the matrix method of ruling itself?
– As usual everything genius is quite simple. The method is based on a good knowledge of one’s psyche, which is an informational system of the maintenance of his or her activity. This system consists of instincts inherited from ancestors as a certain informational heritage; habits obtained as a result of external cultural influence on one’s psyche; an intellect as a system of processing information got from inside and outside; and an intuition which works as a special informational bridge in the system of mutually enclosed ruling matrixes tending to the God’s Predetermination Matrix. Depending on what component dominates in the psyche of a person, one can distinguish four types of psychical structure of an individual: animal, zombie, demonic and human accordingly [47]. Intellect as a system of processing information maintains both conscious and unconscious psychical levels and it has two speeds of processing information. For the conscious level it doesn’t exceed 15 - 18 bits per second (the technology of cinematography is based on this: with a picture frequency of 16 or more pictures per second all stable pictures merge to moving image, though pictures themselves are static). On the unconscious levels it’s billion times higher. The modern psychology says that information as visual and sound images comes to unconscious psychical levels omitting the consciousness. And only then as a result of verbalization, i.e. bringing of certain images into accord with certain words, it becomes the common property of one’s consciousness. But with all this going on one should distinguish the matrix of objective reality, which is called God’s Providence or God’s Predetermination, and the subjective matrixes, created by people on the basis of their own sense of proportion, which are the peculiar tracings of the objective reality matrix. Thus a tracing-matrix is a conception of ruling expressed in images; and a conception is a tracing-matrix of ruling expressed in words.
In outward appearance everything seems to be easy. Create the image system according to your sense of proportion and so to the goals of ruling; bring these images into accord with necessary words; and your consciousness will combine images with adequate words by itself. As a result the certain events happen without any your efforts. And why does it work? Because a crowd-“elitist” society lives relying on some ideas; and one usually doesn’t think how the ideas are formed and if they are contrary to fact. An idea is formed in process of combining images with adequate (or inadequate) words. While words are adequate to images a society lives and develops relying on the ideas. But as soon as words become inadequate to images a society falls down into a crisis, which finishes either with a catastrophe or with thinking over the ideas and bringing images into accord with adequate words. The conceptual and terminological system in any culture is formed in such way. Bu any culture is limited and, moreover, secondary towards the conception of ruling. And it follows, that the conceptual and terminological system, a society during its existence relies on, is the basis of the unstructuralmethod of ruling within the certain conception.
In a crowd-“elitist” society everything is going more or less “fine” and the crowd behaviour, including its “elitist” part, is rather predictable while there is no alternative conception of ruling. Otherwise, the symbolism and the images and thus the matrix based on them remain unchanged. But the new terminological system connects the old matrix with the new conception’s words and images and starts to form new ideas. In other words, the matrix methods of ruling are rather efficient until the appearance of another subject with another sense of proportion who defines other goals, which may be mutually exclusive with the goals of ruling of the first subject. And this is the weak side of the method because the crowd activities become unpredictable and the period of the conceptual indeterminacy starts. Think over, the ruling based on what matrix will be more efficient during the period of the conceptual indeterminacy? Evidently on the matrix that agrees more with the matrix of objective reality - the matrix of God’s Predetermination.
I can hardly say that I’ve understood all of my Russian guest explanations. But when in America the events of September 11 had started I automatically remembered “picnics” and instantly noticed the time: 8.45. I remembered the last year discussions, my own thoughts connected with some pictures of the third “picnic”; and on September 12 “El Pais” published this strange map of Madrid with this wrench. Can you see, Mr. Holmes, this monkey on the third “picnic”? It can be an occasional coincidence, but you know, “an adjustable
wrench” is also called “a monkey wrench”. Moreover,
“a wrench” and the verb “to wrench” also mean “a twitching”, “a distortion” and “to distort” (facts or truth). Shortly, on the map of Madrid there is a “monkey hand”. Before you came we had been discussing if the publishing of this map was the warning of an act of terrorism, which was being prepared in Madrid.
– Everything you’ve told is quite interesting, Andrew. But how do you think, who can organize an act of terrorism in Madrid? Bask nationalists [48]? Or some united international terrorist organisation that has already organized the acts in the USA?
– Do you mean our Trotskyites? - Paolo entered the discussion. - But they didn’t show any activity in Spain for a long time. Although, according to the political situation in our country and in the whole Europe their positions grow stronger; and it seems to me that they don’t need any action of the kind. The Socialistic International unites Europe into the European Union even without such acts. Today almost in all European countries socialists are in power.
– Paolo, what’ your opinion, the Trotskyites are closer to the socialists or to the communists? - Holmes asked.
– They don’t understand the difference in party masses, but the Trotskyites bosses are obviously closer to the socialists. For them the permanent socialistic revolution is not an abstraction but the reality, they want to make the whole world to reckon with. However, one should notice that since the second half of the last century they essentially changed their tactics, though still keeping their adherence to the ideas of the permanent socialistic revolution. Having approved the new methods on Japanese “red armies” and Italian “red brigades” in the conditions of the East and the West they decided to globalise the permanent revolution process. But to make the process work by itself they needed to overcome one obstacle, however, though it may seem strange, Trotsky himself was its bearer.
– What obstacle do you mean? -Verov asked.
– Do you know Trotsky’s testament? - Paolo asked others.
– No, - Holmes answered. - But does it really exist?
– I can’t say for sure, since nobody saw it in facsimile. Nonetheless, this document exists in hand-written copies; and its spirit and style looks similar to the Trotsky’s pompous style, moreover, it conveys the Trotskyite ideas. If nobody minds, I can familiarize all of you with this text.
– Very interesting, - responded Holmes.
Paolo searched his papers for the necessary one and read it aloud.
Testament
My high (and still rising) blood pressure is deceiving those near me about my actual condition. I am active and able to work but the outcome is evidently near. These lines will be made public after my death.
I have no need to refute here once again the stupid and vile slander of Stalin and his agents: there is not a single sport on my revolutionary honour. I have never entered, either directly or indirectly, into any behind-the-scenes agreements or even negotiations with the enemies of the working class. Thousands of Stalin's opponents have fallen victims of similar false accusations. The new revolutionary generations will rehabilitate their political honour and deal with the Kremlin executioners according to their deserts.
I thank warmly the friends who remained loyal to me through the most difficult hours of my life. I do not name anyone in particular because I cannot name them all.
However, I consider myself justified in making an exception in the case of my companion, Natalia Ivanovna Sedova. In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.
For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
L. Trotsky
February 27, 1940
Coiyoacan [49]
The listeners silenced for some time waiting Paolo to make some commentaries.
– There is a small addition written on March 3, 1940, - he continued. - It deals with this phrase: “My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth” and sounds in the following way: “This belief can be given by no religion”.
It’s known that Trotsky died in the Mexico hospital on August 21, 1940, after Mercader has split his skull with an alpenstock (an ice-axe) on August 19. But nearly three months before this murder and three months later his testament writing on May 24, 1940, a murderous assault on Trotsky was committed. It was made by a group of 22 persons lead by that time still unknown artist David Alfonso Siceiros. The operation had the code name - “the Duck”. It is still considered that the murder was organised by Trotsky’s main enemy - Stalin. But the outward attributes let to think that somebody just made Stalin out an organiser of this in many respects ritual action.
– And who is its customer by your opinion? - Holmes asked him.
– As I’ve said, I think the customer can be determined because of the outward attributes of the crime. Agree that an alpenstock is not the most convenient instrument of murder. It’s hard to hide it and it’s rather impossible to stab accurately without a practise. Even an ordinary hammer is more opportune. By the way, because of such unsuitable instrument Trotsky’s agony lasted for longer time and he died only on the third day. But nonetheless, somebody insisted on using an alpenstock. It should be regarded as the greetings from Swiss Alps. And for the initiates into such doodads, the group of 22 terrorists should associate either with football-players or with Old Egypt hierophants [50].
– Paolo, explain please, who are these hierophants? - The host questioned.
– Look here, - Paolo opened the first “picnic”. - Do you see on the top picture four rows of Egyptian figures? Each of them consists of five figures. And on above there are two more similar figures that drive a pair of bulls. A bull was a symbol of the Amon-Ra, a divinity of Ancient Egypt. Per se it’s the symbolic representation of the social system of ruling of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. Literally, the hierophants “ploughed” on Amon-Ra posing him as the god for the crowd. If one of you read the novel “Pharaoh” by Boleslav Pruss, he should have noticed how the zhretses used the Sun god cult for their selfish ends. The milestone of the whole novel is the scene of the crowd’s revolt, which was organised by the zhretses themselves a little time before the solar eclipse they had counted to take place. The crowd refused to obey and then the hierophants promised to “darken the Sun”. When the nerve-strain had reached its top-point, the Sun started to “grow dim” and the crowd felt down on the square before the temple in horror. They believed tat the hierophants had power over the Sun and thus over the whole life on the earth. After the crowd had become obedient its energy could be used for anything the zhretses liked.
The word “hierophant” means “one who knows the future, who reads the fate”, i.e. the matrix scenario of possible events development. They entered the two groups of eleven high zhretses with a supreme hierarch on the top of each. One ruled over the northern and another over the southern part of Ancient Egypt [51]. The opinion exists, that they were the first people who got an understanding of the conceptual power, as the highest level of the hierarchy of power in the society. It is the power that Andrew told of - the power of the certain ideas and the people ruling the ideas.
Some ideas live much longer then people do, thus the conceptual power just couldn’t be autocratic at all; in this sense it is out of any democratic electoral procedures, but nevertheless it is on the top of the crowd-“elitist” pyramid indeed. One cannot reach this top using the democratic elections; but one can reach it if he remembers that the scheme of the pyramid’s construction is quite simple. Everybody works for himself in compliance with his measure of understanding; and in compliance with his measure of misunderstanding he work on those, who understand more. The conceptual power just doesn’t exist for modern crowd-“elitist” society, which discerns only three branches of power - legislative, executive and judicial. But if somebody in the crowd doesn’t know and understand something, things unfamiliar to him don’t stop to exist. And to make the crowd not to search for the conceptual power, even unfamiliar to it, the conceptual power itself invented the convenient way to hide itself. They told that the highest power in the society belongs to people. One can hardly imagine more cynical idea, because “people” is a “collective noun”, but not a “proper or common noun”, and any power in the society is somehow personified.
By the way, have you ever though about in whose honour does our Spanish town Al-Hesiras named? “Al” is an Arabic article, a heritage of Arabic dominion over Spain. And “Hesi-Ra” was one of the hierophants name. He was the leader of one of the high zhretses tens in the time of Pharaoh Josser. Thus we pay a tribute of memory to ancient hierophants, whose conceptual power reached even our times. But sorry, I have digressed a little. Let’s return to Trotsky and Trotskyites.
Have you paid attention to one the last testament’s words? “I will die being a revolutionist, Marxist, dialectical materialist and thus atheist”. I think that Trotsky’s materialistic atheism, which he put in the window, caused his death. In the middle of 20th century the fashion on the materialistic atheism become to come to naught, moreover it gave rise to the aversion between the common people. Thus it wasn’t promising for creating a crowd scenes and the conceptual power ruled the crowd during the whole global historical process using swing of peculiar “pendulum” from materialism to idealism and backwards. The crowd couldn’t notice such swings since its memory doesn’t exceed two weeks; and hierophants understanding its nature used this “pendulum” for maintenance of stability of ruling with the crowd-“elitist” conception. The main what they inserted into this process and what allowed them to be on top of the pyramid so long was the keeping of the atheism in society in any form. The deep understanding of objective processes in the Nature and society provided the knowledge monopoly. And they used not to force the society with knowledge and preferred keeping it in ignorance and urging it to this or that choice unnoticeably, each time giving the necessary leaders.
And they managed to save this monopoly while the full oscillation period of the “pendulum” included the live of whole generations, i.e. lasted for thousands or hundreds years. In the 20th century it evidently became being estimated by decades and entered the limits of live of one generation. This event caused the appearance of people, who could not just notice such phenomenon but even investigate and understand it, between those whom hierophants considered to be dunces from the crowd. The conception alternative to the crowd-“elitist” one has appeared as naturally predetermined consequence of this objective process.
– And why couldn’t another crowd-“elitist” conception appear? - Pedro Colyado, the host, asked again.
– You’re right, my friend, - continued Paolo. - In that period a great amount of crowd-“elitist” conceptions pretending to be new should have appeared. And they really appeared. The mass media became to promote them, since they understand that “…foolish people use to humbly follow the novelty [52]”. But I hope you understand that any kind of crowd-“elitism”, even the most exotic, was instantly adopted by global conceptual power, since it had the widest practical experience of ruling. The two alternative conceptions existence period was rightly called a period of conceptual indeterminacy by Andrew. And it is very dangerous period, because it can entail different catastrophes. By the main goal of the hierophants at the same time remains unchanged: maintain the stability of the crowd-“elitist” pyramid in any way.
The geopolitical evaluations of events happening in the world show that since the second half of 20th century the conditions were more propitious for the idealistic atheism. In other words, on the West as well as on the East there was everything necessary for successful progress of Trotskyism cleansed of the materialistic atheism, in which Trotsky had stagnated. But particularly promising situation for developing the Trotskyism based on the idealistic atheism arose in the Islamic world.
In this context Spain is interested by that it has gone through the conflict of the Islamic and Christian idealistic atheisms. I think that Trotskyites, who had time to change their face many times during the history, use so-called “Arabian terrorists” for the realization of ideas of permanent revolution. It isn’t a secret that in 1492 not only Arabs but also Jews [53], who under a cover of nominal Arabian power lent money lead the Spanish people to the public war, were driven out of Spain too. And if Islam had had real power in Spain there would not have been a place for usury in it. Koran prohibits usury and protections of usurers. And Spain could still have been an Islamic state, if Arabs hadn’t turned their backs on moral ethical norms, given them by Muhammad, and which are similar to the moral ethical norms taught by Christ.
After all of this it becomes simple to understand that Afghan Taliban, and Muamar Cadaffi’s socialism, and Islamic revolution in Iraq are just the different sorts of Islam-the-result-of-history, which, in spite of the variety of his forms, substantially doesn’t exceed the bounds of the idealistic atheism and easily fits in the permanent revolution process. As you see, the Fourth International is in a march.
Silence reigned among the presents. Everybody was reflecting upon what Andrew and Paolo had said.
– The three “puzzled” from Russia are already familiar to me, - Holmes broke the silence at last. - But what do these strange calendars from “Chas Pick” mean?
– We consider them to be the third “picnic’s” continuation, - commented Andrew. - Look here, - he moved the “Post Historical Picnic” nearer and marked its low right corner with his forefinger. - Do you see seven birds and an arrow showing their course? Together with the arrow there are eight “birds”. And now look to the calendar with the star falling into black water. There are the Moon and stars on the sky; there is moonlight trace on the sea, but it’s a bright day on the shore. A man sitting on the bench is feeding birds. How much are they? Eight as well as on the third “picnic”! Four of them have already landed and the fifth is just about to land. And as you know actually four aeroplanes tragically “landed” in the United States. And look on the stars: they have five, six or seven points. But on the ground and water there are only seven-point stars. The seven-point star is a symbol of Sufism. Two palms on the first and third “picnics” are Sufi symbols as well. These symbols link calendars and “picnics” together. Moreover, one seven-point star with wreckage and burning trace already has stuck into the ground; another is falling down the sea and third, reserved one, lies in the open bag of the strange person on the bench. I think that this picture is an original warning or omen of the past and future catastrophes. Since the last catastrophes were connected with airplanes, it seems to me that this picture predicts some aviation accident near some seaside resort: it follows from the promenade and the bench the strange person is sitting on. The date of the supposed catastrophe is hard to be determined, though… if to follow the same method one can see that the month of the catastrophes in New York and Washington is pointed by the number of stars in the sky. They are nine. The catastrophes took place in September - the ninth month. The pointer of the day one can see in the calendar. September 11 keeps within the width of the embankment fence. Together with the “black Tuesday”, which was on Sunday in 1994, it includes also September 18, 25 and October 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31. Today is October 3, if nothing happens until the end of the day, one should wait for the catastrophe to happen on any other day indicated here.
– But the year. Are there any signs to get know the year of the catastrophes? - Holmes asked.
– The year on such pictures is specially encoded but… using the principle that the most obvious is the most unnoticeable. On the very centre of the picture there is a specific gesture of the person on the bench. In Russia one shows the number 21 with this gesture, on the West - number 3, but 2 plus 1 is 3 indeed. The first year of the third millennia without two zeros is 21. The calendar is published in “Chas Pick” number 1(201), so again 21 without zero. And at last look at the eye of the man, which glass is precisely on the 21st fence space (from left), including the one hidden beyond that man. Of course, having a sound scepticism one can consider this just a morbid imagination of a decipherer, who can see in any casual pictures everything he would like to see. But don’t you think that there are too many coincidences linked with “Chas Pick” paper?
– As for me, I think the day of the suggested catastrophe to be October 4, - Paolo suddenly entered the discussion.
– Why? -Andrew asked.
– You’ve told that October was the month of probable catastrophes, as the largest round object in compare with nine stars in the sky. But there are other round objects on the picture. They are thirty times lesser than the Moon - the ornamental balls of the embankment fence. They are actually four. If the year as you’ve said is repeated four times in different variants, then the day is also repeated four times: there are four bull's-eyes of the steamboat; the house on the hill has four windows, and the dock too as well as whether the observatory or the church has four windows too.
– Well, this is one of the probable versions, - agreed Andrew. - We shall see what we shall see. Though, this device near the church-observatory seems to be rather a missile launcher than a telescope.
– Andrew, - Holmes turned to the speaker. - And what can strange picture in the calendar for 1994, printed in the last “Chas Pick” issue of 1993, mean? On the background a cart is moving to the left, and on the foreground a jade is carrying Santa Claus to the right. But her head is turned to the left; and her tail is at once Santa’s beard. Probably, it could be understood within special Russian symbolism?
– We tried to interpret this picture somehow, - after a short pause answered Andrew. - In the initial period of the Soviet power formation in Russia, which still hadn’t calmed down after the revolution, there was very popular symbolist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. In one of his poems called “The Left March” there are such words: “We’ll drive too hard the jade of history! Left! Who’s going right? Left! Left!” - or something of a kind, I don’t remember precisely. Look at the horse on the background. Yes, it is going left, but… steps with its right leg. And this horse on the foreground moves right, but… steps with its left leg. It’s hard to me to explain the associations this picture arises, but it seems to me, that it very exactly reflects the two periods of Russia ’s development. Before the Perestroika the USSR government, and especially in Stalin’s times, declared the Marxist slogans and the movement to the left but used right (righteous) methods. After the August putsch of 1991 the movement to the right was declared for the external world, but they used left, really Trotskyites’ methods. They at one moment pulled down all working strata of society of the richest state in the world (to dispossess, swindle with the property distribution). It was possible only under the genius guidance of the Trotskyites, who always say one and do another. The impression appears that in August 1991, fifty-one year later the murder, Trotsky returned to live and tried to finish that, what Stalin had prevented him to do. It’s not a secret today that the reforms began with Trotskyites rehabilitation held by descendants of persecuted and murdered Trotskyites. By the way, this strange 51st anniversary is shown in the jubilee paper number: 51(200), December 29, 1993. And the sum of figures in 29 is 11, and in 1993 - 22. This also is linked via the numeric measure with hierophants.
Holmes took the paper and began to examine it thoroughly. Then he turned it over and looked at the backside. The phone number of some firm called BCL - 311-1488 caught his eyes. Holmes noticed for himself that the combination of ciphers was similar to the number of “Chas Pick” issue 151(880) by October 14, 1997. He also drew his attention on the word “Грабли” [54] (it was a title of some small comic story), asked Andrew to translate it and only after it returned to the pictures of the “picnics”.
– Mr. Verov, you’ve told of the “birds” drawn at the third “picnic”, as if they were the kamikaze-airplanes. What grounds do you have for such interpretation of this “feathered” symbolism, except the fact that airplanes fly as well as birds? - Holmes asked Andrew.
– Well, Mr. Holmes, - Andrew continued. - I’ll try to tell you my version of the third puzzle solution taking into account my understanding of the matrix methods of ruling I’ve already told earlier. I’m not interested in its author’s name or the technology of their creation. I take these three “picnics” as the matrix-scenarios of possible events in Russia and the World. The realization probability of them is determined not so much by the symbols they consist of as by people minds condition, which takes place in the modern society. I sincerely believe God [55] and live in a permanent attempt to have a talk with the Almighty, who only doesn’t make any mistake in any case. The morality for me is not a relative thing, as cultural workers use to tell to people, but it is substantially determined, i.e. I consider the morality to be absolute and same for everybody: for people and for God too. The difference is that God Himself has established moral “standards” called the “righteousness” for Him, but for people these criteria are the ideal the should aim at in any circumstances. Thus is my attitude to all events, including tragic as well. In the modern society all is going in the best way in view of the objective (and far from righteous) morality that people have. This means that everything could be much worse ore better depending on how far does the real people’s morality deviate from or how near does it approach to the righteousness ideals, established by the Almighty.
What thoughts had he, who created this puzzle, what morality does he have - all of this is his own problems. He is responsible for them to God. The much more important is the reaction of people whose subconscious psychical levels got these pictures. With all this I of course mean the conscious, sensible reaction, which mostly is expressed in certain words. And now imagine that these pictures appeared before the look of half million Leningrad-Petersburg inhabitants. How do you think, during the two years between first and third “picnics” has just the city’s name changing change somehow the psyche of its inhabitants, their attitude to events in Moscow, in Russia at whole, in the world? I think that it has. Though, the majority of people don’t even think of this.
Well, what do we see at the pictures of the “Post Historical Picnic”? First of all the two main symbols of Russia: Kremlin’s Spasskaya tower and Vasily Blazhenny’s cathedral’s cupola, i.e. the symbols of the temporal and spiritual powers. On the right from them the “birds” fly, and their direction marked with the arrow is beyond any doubts. I won’t talk about the day’s length (7.52) corresponding to every January 20 on Moscow’s longitude, since you, Holmes, are well informed about it, as I could understand.
– Yes, we discussed it with my friend Watson in London on September 22, when I left to Zurich. Moreover in Liechtenstein on a villa in Vaduz one of your compatriots has shown me the “History’s password” on the teeth of the fellow with an axe. After it I understood why the acts of terrorism took place on September 11, on the day “John the Baptiser’s Decapitation”. But I still wonder why do the “birds” associate to the planes?
– He, who showed you the “History’s password” - an axe, which is really useful for John the Baptiser’s tragedy causes understanding (though he himself provoked this tragedy) - seemingly doesn’t know that this person’s face is similar to the cartoon of the last USSR Minister of Defence - Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov.
– - As I know, Marshal Dmitri Yazov was the last Minister of Defence who joined GKChP in August 1991, - interrupted Paolo.
– You’re right, Paolo. Yazov really was the last Minister of Defence before the Putsch. But immediately after it the General Secretary Gorbachev returned from Foros and appointed Air General Shaposhnikov to be the last USSR Minister of Defence, after what he gave him a rank of marshal. So the air force was to play the role of blind axe cutting down the towers in Moscow or in New York. The last depended on where the ruling matrix would turn. At least in 1992 this climber and upstart dealt the finishing blows to the Soviet Army that even after the great power’s destruction was still strong and unified, and thus were very dangerous for the West and for the USSR and Russia partition as well. And who knows, may be under other circumstances he could do much more evil. And somebody else on his place could save the armed forces unity and the unity of the state and we’d have another history…
Well, let’s continue. When I was talking of the matrix methods of ruling explained by my friend from Russia I told, that when some alternative conception of ruling appears however all matrix symbols and images remain unchanged. And all the evil planned in matrix-scenario can be realized but towards those who has planned it.
– So do you think that God is unable to clear the adversarial matrixes from evil? - Asked Paolo again.
– That, what is called God’s Providence, always shows itself in the mutually enclosed matrixes action. It’s harder to understand how it happens. Any matrix is filled by people’s thoughts consisting of images and their own energetic. Thoughts could be vicious or righteous and are the reflection of people’s sense of proportion. Vicious thoughts could be expressed by righteous words, but this doesn’t make them righteous. American government wanted to punish Iraq and Yugoslavia but told about the charity and mercy. Kamikaze terrorists wanted to punish America and told about the righteous retribution. Today the USA is going to punish the terrorists and carry out an anti-terrorist operation against Afghanistan with a code name “Operation Infinite Justice”. Though, it was their own words that fifteen of nineteen terrorists were Saudi nationals. This words: justice, revenge, mercy are understood as something good and righteous. I mean that the good and righteousness of any thoughts is expressed not by words, but by deeds instead. “…He is not the God of disorder but of peace [56]”. This Gospel’s phrase tells that God isn’t somehow connected to people’s evil. He wished the good dominated between people. But he gave the right of choose to people. And it means that a human (if he is human indeed) should exterminate the evil between humans himself. This way the Almighty can use only one way to assist the evil’s extermination: not to prevent any evildoers from destroying other scoundrels thus clearing the place for the righteous ones.
– Andrew, you’re always talking about the alternative conception of ruling. But you hold back the today’s dominating conception. Or have I wrongly understood?
– I thought, Mr. Holmes, that it’s no need to discuss the existing conception since all of us, at least on the West, live under it. Thus we don’t take it as the conception of ruling, like a child doesn’t know about the air he’s breathing. For me the today’s conception is Bible and the culture born by it with their conceptual and terminological systems. Today this culture is near to dominate over the whole world because of the technologies created by it. And it doesn’t matter what other cultures think of it. Radio, television, car, plane rocket, modern ship - all of this is the production of the biblical culture under the mask of Christianity-the-result-of-history. The Arabian world with its Islam, Japan with its Shinto, China with Confucianism or India with Hinduism can shame and defame West culture. But they just aren’t able to manage without its technocratic attributes, applying which they “erode” their own cultures via the unconscious people’s perception of western technical “toys”. And I even don’t talk about the technologies of their creation, which other countries are trying to become proficient in. Whether they like it or not, but this is a one-way process. You’d ask me why? If other cultures have no defence against the biblical culture, you wonder? I can easily say: no they don’t. And this is because though they seem to be quite different they have something common, what unites them - the crowd-“elitism”. One can endlessly discuss advantages and disadvantages of Christian, Judaic, Islamic, Shinto’s, Hinduism’s, Confucian and even Marxian or scientological crowd-“elitisms”, but a crowd-“elitism” will remain a crowd-“elitism” until any alternative will appear. But this alternative should be not just a dream of ideal life of everybody on the Earth. There were enough of such dreams and one can see it in different tales, legends, songs or ballads. At first it should consist of a harmonious system of views on every part of crowd-“elitist” society’s life expressed in certain words.
– And do you consider such an alternative to exist already? -Holmes asked?
– Yes, it exists in Russia, and its symbol one can see at the third “picnic”.
– Do you mean this laughing child in a washbasin?
– You’re quite right, Mister Holmes. And that’s why bearded Marx seized his head in horror. It exists for ten years and is called the Conception of Social Security. In Russian it has an abbreviation COB or COBa - it was Stalin’s pseudonym in the first years of his revolutionary activity. One French journalist has told: “Stain didn’t become a thing of the past; he has dissolved in our future” [57]. Today one can say that he has crystallized back, though not as a single person. But… a person, so to speak, called by the conception matrix can appear. May be there will be many persons. You know, Stalin just proclaimed Marxian slogans, but ruled in compliance with some expediency. And very this expediency was the conception of ruling in images, on the basis of which worked Stalin. It wasn’t expressed in words but it has created its own culture. When in the last year they bring 37 soviet films of Stalin’s times and of the sixties to New York all the elite cinema critics told: “This is some alien civilization!” That’s why people from Russia who expressed this matrix in certain words consider that the appearance of the conception alternative to the biblical was predetermined as the alternative to the suicidal crowd-“elitism”. This conception has the proper name - “Dead Water” [58].
Through this title the stable relation to Russian folk epos, which tells about the dead and live waters, is maintained in the conception. According to Russian tales and legend a hero cut by enemies at first is washed with the dead water and his body grows together and knits. And then he is washed with the live water and he returns to live. Look at the second “Defence Picnic”. There is a tale “Three sons”. It tells about two brothers attempting to revive the third, killed by enemies. And here, - Andrew showed the phrase on the bottom, - is said of the “live water” being searched by brothers, and not a single word about the “dead water”. The tale is reprinted from “Modern Russian Tales” collection, which belonged to the Trotskyites magazine “Ogonyek” library. Why did the authors of “picnic” forget of the “Dead water” symbolism? On August 5, 1991, when “Chas Pick” with the “Defence Picnic” was published, the conception with epic title “Dead Water”, which had been the first to express precisely and definitely the alternative to the crowd-“elitism”, had already existed. The active process of forming the terminological and conceptual systems on its basis actively went on, and therefore an aggregor of its followers formed. The alternative aggregor behaviour algorithm distortion - or scientifically: the introducing the hidden inversions to the algorithm - is one of the meanings of the collective intellect. To wash a dead body with the live water without the dead one means to revive stumps, i.e. to revive a freak, cripple, probably even a monster. So the negative reaction on the “Dead Water’s” symbolism is just a defence of crowd-“elitism” against the alien alternative conception invasion. And this stereotype is very stable in our society. It exists as long as the crowd-“elitism” itself exists.
– It’s rather clear with the alternative. And are there the crowd-“elitist” conception and its symbolism in “picnics”? - Holmes asked again.
– Yes, - answered Andrew. - This dead fish on the black waters of the Swan Lake symbolizes the end of the “Pisces epoch” (the epoch of the biblical conception domination) and beginning of the “Aquarius (Water-Carrier) epoch”. The Pisces (the Fishes) are the symbol of the Bible. The word “water” exists in the alternative conception as the symbol of information. The “Aquarius epoch” is the epoch of an informational society. The alternative conception’s new conceptual system turned the negative matrix against its masters, thus after September 11 one can see on television people with respirator-helmets, great amount of dust, the World Trade Centre’s ruins with facing pieces sticking out which resemble the Pisa’s Tower silhouettes. But one can see the same symbolically shown at the third “picnic”.
– Whether you think, Andrew, that something similar to the American events was planned to be realized in Russia? - Holmes interrupted Andrew.
– I think, Holmes, that you wouldn’t object that there was a real treat to the President of the USA on September 11. All the mass media was shouting of it and Bush himself looked as an exhausted hair, not as the mightiest armed forces in the world chief-commander. He was rather searching for the place, from which he could continue to rule the state, than organizing the repulse to terrorists. But you hardly know that immediately after Putin’s election there were many rumours of the possible murderous assault on Russia ’s head, January 20 was called as the date of that event. Moreover, one TV program showed recently that the assassins’ sect member’s assault dated for Putin’s visit of Shahid’s valley on January 8, 2001, in Azerbaijan capital - Baku.
– But who are the assassins? - Paolo entered the discussion.
– Assassins didn’t start from scratch. Their sect founder Khassan, son of Sabbakh, or differently the Mountain Elder, got his worldview basis in Ishmaelite’s sect. This secret Shiites organisation (appeared in Caliphate in 8th century) managed to release Ubeidallah, whom they considered to be the descendant of Ishmael the seventh Imam starting his family from Fatima, Muhammad’s daughter, from prison during the endless series of intestine strives and coups d’Etat. They brought him to power in Tunis founding thus the Fatimides dynasty (by the beginning of the 12th century - the time of their decay - Caliphs Ishmaelite dynasty ruled nearly the whole north Africa, Sicily, Egypt and Syria). The monarchs not just favoured the doctrine, which had brought them to power, but they shared its ideas and masterfully used this instrument for their power consolidation.
Having conquered Egypt, Fatimides created a lodge called “Doyal-Doat” in Cairo. Notice, that the supreme preacher shared the power with Caliph. Nearly each mentors of the “Wisdom House” had a high position in the court. And there was no end of those, who wanted to study there. Outwardly Cairo ’s lodge looked much more like a university than as a secret society. In the wonderful apartments it got they kept valuable writings, books, science facilities and instruments. Moreover Caliph annually gave quarter million gold pieces for enlightenment’s needs. But there was another hidden aim besides the education - the complete changing of pupil’s inner substance.
Thus, as it is, assassins are zombies created under the conditions of Islam-the-result-of-history crowd-“elitist” system. And hierophants brilliantly use them on such principle: “Everybody works for himself according to his understanding, and according to his misunderstanding for that who understands more”. It is useful to remember, that Ishmaelites’ orders still works. I don’t consider assassins or any other Arabian terrorists to understand the globalisation processes better than Trotskyites, so they together pull chestnuts out of the fire for biblical project realization.
Again it was a long pause. Everybody was reflecting on Andrew and Paolo’s words. The mistress, old woman with nice strict face, invited people to the wide terrace with served table. Earlier when he was approaching the four-storey house Holmes put an attention on its original architecture. From the street it looked as multi-deck ship. Every terrace was a small home garden: everywhere there were flowers, exotic southern bushes and even small trees with oranges and lemons on them. And since the lower floors terraces protruded far forward, from the third floor terrace one could get a nice view on blooming many-tier gardens. Rays of the falling Sun lighted shapes of far Madrid, which were seen in the dwindling evening haze. The guests sat at the table but Holmes couldn’t take his eyes off of the ancient city’s panorama in front of him.
When he had come to the hotel and checked the last events he tried to put to system all heard during the day and made the appropriate notes in his notebook computer. During the supper Andrew told a lot from the main “Dead Water’s” document: the Sufficiently Universal Theory of Ruling”. And at parting Mr. Verov gave him the copies of missing “Chas Pick” papers and promised to send an e-mail if there would something new. Paolo supplied him with large bibliography of history of Trotskyism and copies of some documents he possessed. All of them including Antonio relied on Holmes’s and his friend Watson’s analytical talents.
The next day Holmes spent walking about in old Madrid, long sitting in small comfortable cafes, which in abundance were in Madrid, looked at careless tourists. So, outwardly he just did nothing, but really he intensively thought, comparing all he had heard in Vaduz or El Escorial. His still uncertain understanding of the matrix methods of ruling was formed. But at the same time he got the feeling that something important was missing. And about it he could neither read nor hear from somebody; only guess. Yet he foresaw that this something important stays just around the corner. With such thoughts he returned to his room. At the moment Holmes was going to call Watson to tell about his futures plans the phone called.
– Mr. Holmes, for God's sake forgive us for late call. We call you for the third time! - He heard familiar Antonio’s voice.
– Has something important happened? - Holmes asked anxiously.
– Turn the TV on, in five minutes the last news will be shown. Pedro Colyado, our yesterday’s master was right. Today at 13:44 by Moscow time (GMT +3:00) not far from resort town Sochi Russian airliner Tu-154 making the flight number 1812 from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk fell down the Black Sea. Everybody on board, i.e. passengers and crew, perished. The causes are ascertaining.
Holmes turned the TV-set on. All is certain. The “picnics” matrix works on. He almost mechanically wrote down the collapse coordinates: latitude 42.11 North, longitude 37.37 East. He opened the calendar with a person feeding birds and counted the shown, i.e. not hidden, fence spaces. They were 37 indeed. Could one predict the catastrophe coordinates seven years before? This just couldn’t be! Holmes remembered the notes on probabilistic methods he had left to Watson. In the commentaries to them, as he could remember, they were called the “God’s games”. No, Andrew was right: the Almighty doesn’t play the dices. All of this is just the elements of the matrix ruling; and matrixes are often formed by thoughtless people who later step on their own rake [59]. Wait, but it was just the previous day when Andrew had translated the story placed in “Chas Pick” at the backside of the “Jade of History”. It was a funny story called “The Rake”. The similar sounding of the words “a rake” and “to rob” was played up in it. So, Holmes wondered if somebody had robbed himself that day.
Holmes called to London. Watson was at home and it seemed that he had been waiting for the call. He obviously was alarmed by something and told that he already had heard of Tu-154 tragedy but he couldn’t say anything specific or definite about that. Holmes reminded him about September 7 and promised to return to London in a week.