October 5 - 7. Egypt. Cairo.
The Last Gambit · перевод (English) · раздел 12 из 17
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October 5 - 7. Egypt. Cairo.
In the morning Holmes flew to Cairo. Very attentive and courteous firm’s official Mahmud met him in the airport and immediately drove him to hotel Sheraton. Holmes got a number with a view on Nile at the ninth floor of the tower like house with an exotic name “Nefertiti”. The midday Sun warmed the air to +33?C (+91.4?F) but there wasn’t a feeling of stupefying heat at a balcony. High pressure and dry air provided good state of health. Underneath one could see an unstoppable car flow of the 16 millions strong megapolis.
The conference was held in one of numerous halls of the hotel. There was nothing unusual - simple modern event with dull reports, graphs illustrating firms’ tendencies to the bankruptcy, assurance charges, income decrease etc. Having chosen several booklets, which could probably be interesting for the firm’s heads, Holmes was going to leave for a cafe when Mahmud who took care of him leaded to him a tall full-bodied man of Arabian appearance. He was dressed in a light suit and a snow-white shirt with a tie.
– Mr. Holmes, let me introduce you Mr. Aleph Salem, an owner of the largest furniture fabric in Cairo and just extraordinary interesting man.
Holmes shook dried-up but strong hand of Salem.
– I was going to meet with you, Mr. Holmes, some day soon in London, where I should have gone for business. But there is one my good friend among the organisers of the meeting. He had seen a name Holmes in the participants list and graciously informed me of your visit to Cairo. So I decided to take occasion. Mr. Holmes, excuse me, I want to talk about not so usual problem, which is outside the conference matter.
Salem was a little bit anxious and because of that he spoke the perfect British English.
– Mr. Salem. You seem to have finished Cambridge?
– You’re quite right, Mr. Holmes. I’ve finished the department of law and for some time I studied the modern philosophy. I would like to invite you for a dinner tomorrow. If you don’t object I promise to serve a fine Indian cuisine.
– Why Indian if we’re in Egypt?
– Just because my wife is from India.
Holmes decided to stake one's all. An English word “picnic” has many meanings. So even if he had been wrong the prepared phrase would only have been a little contrast to Salem ’s impeccable English.
– You want to show me a “picnic”, don’t you?
The amazed Salem ’s face showed that he hit the nail on the head.
– Have you already been acquainted with the “picnics”? - He asked with a perplexity. - Has somebody let you know it in advance? But I’ve told of them to nobody. I have so many questions and, - he paused for a little choosing the words, - the most unexpected versions. But I wasn’t sure that you know the “picnics”, I mean the Russian “picnics”.
– Me too, I wasn’t sure that you know these Russian “picnics”. For two weeks I have been meeting them under the most mystical circumstances in England, in Switzerland and in Spain. That’s why I thought that the very “picnics” have been waiting for me in Egypt as well. I’m ready to discuss them during the tomorrow’s dinner.
Holmes had been in Cairo two years before on the same firm’s business. A little has changed during that time. Maybe more old cars, as if from an auto junkyard, had appeared. Cairo was the city of the fabulous contrasts of poverty and richness where nearly two million people live on the ancient burial place called “the city of the dead”. With all of exotics: the pyramids, Sphinx, old-times fashioned settlements on banks of Nile, young boys and girls in white tunics and black wigs, - he had got the acquaintance during his first visit to Egypt. That time he was just walking along the embankment of the river Nile, which doesn’t differ from any European city’s embankment but in that it is less kempt. But nonetheless though of the commonness of the city’s landscape with a touch of Arabian exotics Holmes felt the same strange feelings, which he had drown his attention to two years before. That time he had considered them to appear because of the abundance of new Egyptian exotic impressions. But why did it happen that day in the business atmosphere far from any mystics? Was it the feeling of the matrix of the past secretly connected with the present? Suddenly he remembered discoverers of pyramids and their strange fate. Then his thoughts returned to the Madrid talks where Verov and Riego discussed the ruling activity of twenty-two hierophants. It would be useful to nibble at this subject at the dinner.
In the morning Holmes went to the conference for a short time, made the necessary notes for company leaders and returned to his room. It was hot and stuffy. He turned the conditioner on phoned to order some food and opened the “picnics”. Each time he watching the Russian “puzzle’s” pictures he saw an expression of some new sides of the reality, which sometimes exceeded all the boldest fantasies. A waiter brought the cold “pharaoh’s drink” [60] and the ice cream. Slowly sipping slightly tart drink with a delicate flavour of ripe cherry, Holmes thought about the circumstances that seemed to happen on their own but in the way as if the story he needed told itself.
He was ready to go down the hall, where Mahmud was to wait him, when suddenly phone called.
– Good evening, Mr. Holmes, - the familiar voice of the deputy director Charles Harvey, - how do you do? What about the weather and pharaohs?
– All is nice, thank you, Mr. Harvey. The weather is fine, in the street it is thirty above zero but in the room it’s eighteen. I didn’t visit pharaohs this time but took to the cold “pharaoh’s drink”. It allays thirst well. The conference has finished and I’m going to London on Monday.
– I beg your pardon, buddy Holmes, but how do you like going a little bit southerner than Cairo?
– I wonder, Harvey, if you suggested me to fly to Cape Town?
– No, your guess is beside the mark, Holmes. We suggest you to visit Bombay. There are some troubles in our Indian affiliate and the Board decided that you’re the best to solve these questions. You’ve done well in Zurich and Madrid. We haven’t got but the positive reports.
– Harvey, it seems that your geography is rather shy. I’ve got an impression that the Board hankers after the colonial past. If it is so, they had chosen bad candidature for their imperial ambitions realization. It’s the third week I wander and I have a plenty of things to be done in London.
– It’s not the problem, Mr. Holmes. According to the covenant we cannot insist on trip to Bombay. But if your interests in India chime with “Ernst amp; Young’s”, we will appreciate it. Good bye, buddy Holmes. Call me if you change your opinion.
– But today is Saturday, Harvey, and I have an interesting evening, - Holmes answered slightly out of place.
– Holmes, you know that I don’t to keep the Sabbath. We are to decide on Monday, so call me. Have a nice evening.
Harvey hanged up. Holmes thought upon the firm’s suggestion for some time, but having glanced at the watch and realized that he was late quickly went to an elevator. Mahmud was reading a newspaper.
– Good evening, Mr. Holmes, - he rose to meet him. Then having seen the guest’s worried face he asked, - Any problems?
– No, Mahmud, all is right. Aren’t we late?
– At yours, in England, the punctuality is a kingly virtue. But here on the East if one invited you to six p.m. he waits you to seven.
They had been slowly dodging the confused traffic consisted of cars from all over the world until they left the Old City and entered the fashionable buried in verdure district on the bank of Nile. Several times Holmes noticed that Mahmud drove through a red light.
– Mahmud, why have you driven against the red light?
– It’s permitted, - he answered with coolness.
– And through the green? - Holmes asked with worry.
– Moreover, - smiled Mahmud.
The car turned to two-storey Mauritania-style mansion and stopped near tracery gates of the beautiful fence, decorated with garlands of white rambling rose. The master himself met them and introduced Holmes to nice swarthy woman dressed in blue Indian sari.
After the dinner that consisted of half a score of various mostly vegetarian Indian dishes master invited Holmes to his luxurious study. The coffee was served and Holmes asked a permission to smoke. Then he was ready to listen for Salem ’s story.
– Three years ago a small group from Russia came to Cairo for the restoration of the business relations between our countries, which had been broken after August of 1991. Until 1991 I’ve got a stable business in Moscow and some other USSR cities. My furniture found a market in certain circles. But after the USSR break-up in new Russia some half-bandit structures appeared. They laid my shops under crippling tribute and thus I decided to put an end to my business in that country realizing that I was going to loose the majority of my money. The new Russian government made wide declarations to the world that the controlled economy had been demolished and the society was building the market economy. Nonetheless all the serious businessmen watched only the economy destruction in the whole Former Soviet Union. My visits to Moscow and Petersburg assured me that the pompous proclamations of the new regime were far from the economical reality, which was forming in the country. That’s why I agreed to take part in the conversation with that group. I wished to understand what really was going on in Russia, which I had always been interested in, rather than to recover some lost business.
The negotiating group was quite miscellaneous. Obviously there were those who were always looking for making a good hand of their country’s troubles. But also there were some new, at first totally inapprehensible people. They neatly told about their view on the global historical process and the Russia ’s special place in it. The special place is not as an exclusive role of Russians, as for instance Hebrews understand their Peculiarity. But special since any nation’s culture, its history, traditions, customs are always unrepeatable and necessary for the integral culture of the futures united humanity formation. They also had their own view on the history of Ancient Egypt, which they considered to be the cradle of the modern Western civilization. They took a particular interest in the period of religious reforms of Ehnaton, the tenth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty. According to their opinion this pharaoh even in his childhood got an afflatus about the monotheism, which he expressed in the famed hymns to Aten (Aton). They earnestly argued this version comparing the hymns to Aten with the Koran’s lines and showed their identity not only in the contention but also in rhythmic; and that impressed me greatly. The conflict between Ehnaton and Amon-Ra’s hierarchy is described in details at many historical monographs. But public used to think that it had been a conflict between a person and a religious clan. I’ve never met the versions about such conflicts between hierophants themselves, who really exercised the stable ruling of the Egyptian civilization at least for three millennia. Moreover, clearly thinking one can hardly imagine that a single man without the certain clan’s support could accomplish such religious upheaval as Ehnaton did. Aldo it’s naturally to suppose that a man like Ehnaton should have followers whose deeds couldn’t be unnoticed in the history. Another matter is how historians, who always work for a certain social ruling, presented their activity to the public opinion.
Russians consider Moses to be one of the first Ehnaton’s followers. He attempted to realize the ideas, which the monotheist pharaoh, who openly opposed the Amon-Ra’s hierarchy, was devoted to. But also they think that Moses’ project failed because it had been in advance inserted into the global hierophants’ project of keeping the atheism in people minds. As a result Moses was most likely killed during the first year of the “Sinai picnic”, which became the initial - the advertising stage of the enclosing project. And the temple’s slaves who had been a usual tribe of Semitic nomads before their capture and had gone (or been expatriated?) with Moses found themselves in a specific concentration camp as a result of work of the enclosing script. There during forty-two years an inhuman (in the whole meaning) experiment on them was held. And Moses is connected with it only because they arrogated its realization to him. And after, they raised him to the rank of the creator of the Judaism-the-result-of-history that substituted the true Afflatus.
As you can see the story is quite involved and it’s really hard for understanding until exceeding the bounds of the limitations set on psyche by the culture we were born and grew in. But an attempt to remove these limitations opens the certain perspective for getting out of the dead-end, where does the modern civilizations stay in.
– Excuse me, Mr. Salem. What have you meant when told of the specific concentration camp and the inhuman experiment on Semitic nomads?
– Mr. Holmes, have you ever been in Sinai desert?
– Never.
– I’m strongly recommending you, moreover our travel agencies organise special picnics there for those who rests at Charm-al-Sheikh resorts. If you had been there it would be easier to explain many things. Be sure that noting has changed for the three millennia there. Try to imagine an absolutely lifeless rocky place where not only water but meal too is the problem. And you get to there from a lived-in oasis where they gather three crops of grain, fruits and vegetables a year. Do you really think that at those far times people were more ideological that today? Probably they had more strong links with environmental nature and thus the instinct of self-preservation was less depressed. And the slavery institute wasn’t something outgoing. May be temple’s slaves lived better than others. Because these ancient nomads being the property of the zhretses cast remained the united community and could keep a connection wit their tribesmen. Honestly, I didn’t understand why the temple let such liberties to be. Any other master would avoid getting slaves from one tribe since they could connive with each other. And as for work at quarries, building temples, pyramids or other ritual structures, peasants who formally were free were got to take part in it. And now just imagine that for some chimerical ideas about the God, who promises the inapprehensible freedom, you’re driven from the organised life with children, cattle and goods into the concentration camp. Water and food supplies finish soon. New food stocks arrival is not expected, and what then follows? - A revolt of the mad crowd, which is well described in the Bible at Numbers, 14. Could they return to Egypt? They must, but… didn’t and moreover for forty-two years voluntarily continued their own tortures. In the name of what was it? Did they consciously wait while one or two generations of those who had remembered Egypt and the road there would die? No, it doesn’t happen in the life, only in myths and legends. Another deal is much more interesting. Are these myths and legends a part of some folklore or a part of totalitarian ideology, a special type of PR pursuing the anti-popular goals? That’s what I’ve meant talking of the inhuman experiment.
According to the Russian’s version, those who escaped the Sinai desert should have differed greatly from other their contemporaries on the psychological level by their particular adaptability to any changes of the external sociological environment. In other words, the hierophants in the “Sinai walking-tour” created an instrument of the futures world-domination. They did it so as to make this instrument believe in such a mission and so as to make all surrounding tribes and folks believe in the instrument’s mission. Thus the hierophants on their own created conditions for forming the myth of the "zid-masonic [61]" plot. And behind the curtain of that easy-exposable myth they being untroubled could realize the concentration of different powers and productive forces of the mankind.
By literature sources I’m acquainted with your great-grandfathers works, Mr. Holmes, and I know that he had his own view on the role of Hebrews and secret organizations, like Masonic lodges, in the History. But from the talks with the Russians I had got a new understanding of the processes of ruling, starting from which my view on the power hierarchy in the society has changed. I don’t know why the very Russians have understood that what for a long time had stared us in the face. There is a whole library of the eminent persons’ utterances about the negative role of Hebrews in the other nations’ histories from Egyptians and Romans to Russians and Germans. Were Julius Caesar, Nero, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and Churchill the fools? Or were they as all others a product of the culture, where such opinions are directly formed for hiding the highest level of the power hierarchy in the society? There is a phrase of Greek historian Plutarch, who was the zhrets of the Delphi ’s Oracle at once: “You rule, but you too are ruled”. Just this phrase should have made “the ruling” circles to search for that what the Russians called “the Global Predictor”, the conceptual power based on knowledge, not on force. Your famous philosopher Beckon with his single utterance: “Knowledge is power”, which on some languages is understood in two ways [62], could encourage on looking for this hidden, and thus very effective power.
Then Salem told of that what Holmes had already heard from Verov in Spain. He told of the conceptual power, about the highest level of power hierarchy in the society, which already for many millennia not changing the contention of the conception of ruling has been providing the stability of the crowd-“elitist” pyramid. But there was something new in his words, which apparently neither Andrew nor Paolo had known of.
– A conceptual power, the highest level of the power hierarchy in the society as the power institute was born by Ancient Egyptian civilization. But the “mother” didn’t survive this birth. It means that Egyptian civilization came to naught and it became a simple state. So Greeks and later Romans conquered it and after the Rome ’s fall it became a part of the Islamic world. Frenchmen and Englishmen tried to make it a part of the biblical world. But probably the substantial unity of the hymns to Aten and the Koran played the main part and one can say that Ehnaton’s ideas won at least in Egypt. By the way, Mr. Holmes, have you noticed the strange repeating of some events separated by two centuries? We Egyptians haven’t forgotten how on the beginning of the 19th century Napoleon’s army occupied it self with the same thing as the “Taliban” forces in the beginning of the 21st. They shot the ancient cultural monuments with the field guns. The mark of the French terrorists is at the ancients Sphinx’ face. They failed to destroy it completely only because it the Napoleon’s times there were not missiles used by the talibs for Buddha’s monument demolishing. How do you think, what can connect these two events?
– I think that the same clans, purposing the same aims, financed them. The mankind loses its consciousness after having lost its cultural heritage, - answered Holmes.
– It’s the most probable, - agreed Salem and opened the picnics already familiar to Holmes. - As you see, Mr. Holmes, the origins of the Russian, and hence the global, puzzle belongs to the Egyptian civilization. And it’s not accidentally that the authors placed 22 hierophants on the first picture of the “Historical Picnic” and the television of the August Putsch’s times is called after the XVIII dynasty. Though there really were not any confrontation between Ehnaton and Tutanhamon, since Tutanhaton (it was his name in the beginning of his ruling) became the pharaoh three years after Ehnaton’s death and for some time tried to follow his father-in-law’s strategy. But later the zhretses of Amon-Ra made him leave the new capital Akhetaton and change his name on Tutanhamon. But all of this wasn’t too essential, because in Egypt the real power, under which primarily the property inheritance was understood, was transferred through women’s line. That’s why many pharaohs’ daughters’ husbands became the pharaohs automatically. More important is that there also was the power of ideas that not always could be handed down. That’s why it’s easy to trace the power of ideas during the global historical process, but it’s extremely hard to trace the power of property, which at first glance caused all the wars. Here, as you can see, it’s told of the four millennia struggle of two party religions of Aten and Amon (Amen). Seemingly these ideas were worthy of it since they have founded their followers for forty centuries. And the Russians are in the certain way right when they connected the events occurring in their country with the worldview split in the Ancient Egyptian society. I thought and assured that nearly all pictures from the first “picnic” had been taken from the monographs of Maspero, Mattier and Breasted. But the Russians interpreted those symbols of our ancient culture in their own way. Moreover they attach great importance to the process of symbols interpretation and call it with the strange term unable to translate on other languages.
Salem took a sheet of paper and showed the two words written in English - “tihaya sapa”. Then he continued his story.
– When I asked them to explain the meaning of this term, they at first told that these words came from the field engineering: so in the past was called an undermining of enemies positions where explosives were set and after suddenly detonated. But seeing the perplexity at my face they began to explain how the matrix methods of ruling work. They think that hierophants were proficient in them more than any other. That time I understood next to nothing from their story because they used some new terminology. But after the film “Matrix” something became clear, for me at least. In their story it was told of the Universe as of the process of the triunity [63] of information, measure and matter. So they called the primary philosophical categories, which the hierophants’ worldview was founded on. I’ve already told you, Holmes, that I had studied the modern philosophy at Cambridge. But that, what I’ve heard from the Russians, was exceeding the borders of all studied in England under the direction of your professors. I failed to rely on knowledge got during my independent lessons.
With all this the Russians rather convincingly with the examples taken from a life showed me, that the European public philosophy makes everybody, who deals with it at the first time, to choose: either materialism or idealism - there isn’t another choice. As it happens there is. And this third alternative is defined by the objective measure of being. Moreover they showed that using the symbiosis of the Russian Tradition and the Koran knowledge one can understand the objectivity of the categories of information and measure. “There is no thing without its image” - does the Russian proverb say. “Allah created all things and measured it” - is said in Koran. You, Holmes, would probably ask me what it was for - maintaining the oscillation of the public mind from materialism to idealism and back. I discussed this question with the Russians and they answered me, that there always were two systems of knowledge about the world and hence two educational system. The first was for wide masses; the second was for the small circle, which had chosen the mission to rule.
Historically it’s traced in all cultures types, the educational systems of which we are familiar to. Already in Ancient Egypt the education for officials and for lesser clerical casts differed greatly from what the small chosen circle that formed the highest znakharstvo and pharaohs’ court were let to. In Ancient Mesopotamia one can see the same difference. In Ancient Judea the knowledge for people (Torah, Talmud and chronicles) also differed greatly from Levites’ knowledge. Finally the Christian church during its domination over the minds of Middle-Aged Europe also had one true for people and regular clergy and another one for the initiated.
But if to ask one what did Levites, who had inherited the culture and knowledge of Ancient Egyptian highest “zhrechestvo” (they were zhretses some time), knew and understood? And what didn’t others understood, even probably knowing it? Then one can find an answer in the occult literature.
Salem took a thick folio with big letters on its cover: “The Sacred Book of Thoth. The Major Arcana of Tarot” - opened a page marked with gilded rope and read:
“With thirty two ways - wonderful, wise - inscribed (designed) IA, IEBE, Sabaoph, God of Israel, God Alive and the Eternal King, El Shadday, Merciful and Forgiving, Sublime and Staying in Eternity, - sublime and holy is His Name, - created His world with three sipherims: Sephar, Sipur and Sipher.
The first of these terms (Sephar) should mean the numbers, which only give us a possibility to determine necessary purposes and relations of each and a thing for understanding the goal, which it was created for; and MEASURE of length, and MEASURE of capacity, and MEASURE of weight, motion and harmony - ALL THESE THINGS ARE RULED BY NUMBERS. The second term (SIPUR) expresses word and voice, because it the God’s Word and Voice, because it is the God’s Word, it is the Voice of God Alive, Who gave birth to creatures under their different FORMS, either external or internal; it should be mentioned in these words: “God said: «Be the Light» and «the Light became»”. Finally, the third term (Sipher) means the writing. The Writing of God is the PRODUCT OF CREATION. God’s Words are His Writing; God’s Thought is the Word. Thus thought, word and writing are the one in God; while in a man they are three (put in capitals by the authors when citing)” [64].
As you see, Holmes, many people like me read this text. But it’s dead without the corresponding explanation. It means that it excludes the uniqueness of its understanding by the majority of arbitrary true seekers out of the devotion system.
And the Russians consider this inability of understanding because of intentional expression of mutual exclusive meanings ambiguity to be the main peculiarity of the education for “the small circle, which mission is to rule”, and precisely: for the small circle that pretends to dominate completely and unpunished.
But nonetheless under the “God’s Writing” (product of God’s creation) one can recognize the matter in all its forms, under the “God’s Thought” - the objective information, the life’s sense, and under the “God’s Word” - the measure. And all of this forms the triunity of matter-information-measure in the Universe. Thus it goes that the philosophy based on the triunity of matter-information-measure really existed for a historically long time. And relying on it somebody swung the public mind from “idealism” to “materialism” and back like a pendulum and didn’t let it stop and think over the question: “What is the Truth?”
However the Russians consider that all cited from “The Sacred Book of Thoth” are just retellings, but not the basis of the true worldview of the triunity of matter-information-measure that in the biblical civilization isn’t intended for expressing in the public philosophy. As for the Koran, they think that the worldview nearest to the worldview of Triunity is given in it. This worldview underlay the philosophy usurped during the “Sinai picnic” by biblical “esotericists” who had patronized historically real Moses. I was to agree with their argumentation since there is direct indication in Koran: “And when We gave Musa [65] the Book and the distinction that you might walk aright” (Sura 2:50) [66].
From this ajat one can understand that Moses get some knowledge gathered into the Writing (true Torah, later made disused and substituted for the redaction perverted by the biblical project curators). And also something called “Distinction” was given to him.
What is called the “Distinction” in the Koran, after Moses’ elimination was simply hidden from the crowd and usurped for internal use by the supreme hierarchs of the biblical “esotericists”. I wouldn’t like to discuss the problem of Distinction today. It should be a topic for special big discussion. I can only refer to the Koran texts where the problem of Distinction arises more than once [67]. Reading the Koran’s ajats you will find the word “Furkan” translated on other languages either “Distinction” or “Salvation”. Thus you will be able to find two conceptual levels, this word points out.
With all this at first conceptual level the question will arise about what exactly is given in the Koran for the Distinction as the primary conceptual categories, from which should one develop his or her process of Life’s understanding and re-understanding. And at the second conceptual level you will be to solve the question of your ability to Discern “this” from “not this”, “one” from “another” in the flow of Life’s events.
Together with the Russians we have thoroughly studied the Suras where it is told of the Distinction. And I’ve understood that in the Koran the doctrine of triunity of matter-information-measure - the limit generalizations and the primary differences in the Universe - is openly expressed. This worldview is for everybody, not only for “esotericists’ elite”. Moreover opened for people during the last thirteen centuries it could be the stable basis for developing the philosophy, which will be alternative to one that maintains the public mind’s oscillation from materialism to idealism and back. However, the public philosophy nowadays is still expressing the defective worldview that is more corresponding to pharaohs’ times.
– How do you think, Mr. Salem, why could it be possible? -Holmes asked.
– I asked the same. As the answer the Russian showed me the “Book for Elementary Reading” by Vodovozov, published in St-Petersburg in the end of 19th century and used for the Russian Empire nationals’ self-education. The matter concerns ancient Egyptians’ views on the objective reality. I’ve made an extract. I hope it would slightly open you the secret of maintaining the biblical worldview stereotypes stability.
Holmes took the paper and absorbed in reading the English text.
“The main cast that ruled everything was the cast of clerics or zhretses. They directed even the tsar (i.e. pharaoh) how to live and what to do… The supreme divinity of Egyptians was AMON. Four divinities united in him. The substance, which everything in the world consists of, - goddess NET; the spirit enlivening the substance or the force making it be composed, change and act - god NEPH; the endless space occupied by the substance - goddess PASHT; the endless time, which we imagine during the constant changes of the substance - god SEBEK. Everything in the Universe according to Egyptian doctrine origins from the substance via the action of invisible force, occupies the space and changes with time. And all of this mystically combines in the tetraune [68] being AMON”.
Holmes finished reading and for some time silently looked at the landscape behind the window. It began to darken, quickly as always in these latitudes. Salem suggested going outside. Freshness of the near water was felt in the air. They entered the wide terrace buried in verdure and descending to Nile. The first stars appeared on the unfamiliar skies. In a comfortable gazebo, which too was decorated with garlands of rambling rose, the table with refined engraved silver dishes with fruits and sweets was served. Hot coffeepot made of Dresden Meissen china exhaled the aroma of the just made coffee. Salem invited Holmes to the gazebo and their conversation continued under the sky of Cairo.
– As you see, Mr. Holmes, if we put aside the names of Ancient Egyptian gods, the substance will correspond to the modern “substance”; spirit - mostly to “force fields”; and “space” and “time” will remain unchanged from that time. That what Vodovozov told about Ancient Egypt shows, that the primary differences and generalizing categories taken as basic categories of the Universe in the modern civilization during the millennia remains unchanged. “Matter” understood as “substance”; “spirit” understood as “energy”, “force” and the ruling law, i.e. “information” and “measure”; and also “space” and “time” sometimes divided and sometimes united first in four-person Amon, then in “two-person” unnamed “space-time continuum” from theory of relativity, which is the unknowable container of the matter in any aggregative state.
And though, if to describe in details the word, meaning this primary differences, and interpretations of concepts connected with it changed many times during the Western civilization history, the one remained unchanged. “Information” was secretly hidden and unable to be separated among the primary differences from “spirit”, “energy” and “force”, which were equated in the Western worldview.
As for “matter”, it was equated to “substance”. And when working out in detail, divided into four elements or on the modern science language - states of aggregation of matter: “Earth” - solid substance; “Water” - liquid matter; “Air” - gaseous matter; “Fire” - plasma. And the natural force fields, which carry ordered energy and are invisible for the majority of people, merged with the information in the “non-material spirit”. What concerns the vacuum, which according to the modern ideas is far from the emptiness but is one of the states of aggregation of matter, it became “space-container”. And “time” turned into some sigh to indicate some impalpable incomprehensibility. In other words, everybody knows what the time is, but nobody can say something definite about it.
How does the historical experience show, during the history of after-Egyptian regional civilizations the worldview based on the four-person Universe remains itself. It only changed its forms of appearing before the society. And this worldview had done the way from the theological doctrine of ancient Egyptians about four-person Amon to the space-time continuum of the 20th century materialists. And the regional civilization, where it dominated the people’s minds, led the planet to the global biospherical-ecological crisis, in which the intrasocial crisis had been reflected.
But for all that one finds that some ideas obvious inside the worldview of triunity just become imperceptible, incomprehensible and indescribable within the categories of the four-personal Universe by the “languages” developed in culture.
Thus after conversations with the Russians and reading the attendant literature it became clear to me, that the categories of space and time are secondary concerning the measure. And so, time is simply a ratio measure of full oscillation periods of all the mutually enclosed processes in the Universe. Probably it became clear to me because the image of the mutually enclosing has existed in Russia and Egypt among their cultural heritage from the old times. For instance world-famous Russian doll “matreshka [69]” and pharaohs’ sarcophaguses one can see in the Cairo museum are the same constructions as they are. They differ only by size and purpose. If one has no measure he won’t be able to distinguish an enclosed construction from the enclosing one. That’s why during the history they only told about the space, but really measured it with subjectively chosen etalons.
Excuse me, Holmes, I seem to be carried away by new philosophical theories and probably have tired you. But thanks to them I was able to penetrate into the secret of Russian “picnics” and to understand how matrix methods of ruling work. It would be simpler to me to indicate the information, which these pictures contains; to refer the certain words, which are the code - the measure; and to show the defined result, which becomes a natural consequence of the objective process of the Universe - the triunity of matter-information-measure. But you understand, that without such wordy philosophical introductions my words would remain another hypothesis, which the press after September 11 is full of. May be my statement was somehow confused, but it was the first time I tried to retell and expound coherently that, what I used to reflect on when I was alone with my thoughts.
– I beg you, Mr. Salem. You should not apologize. I listened to your story rich in new terminology very attentively, and it was quite useful for me, I assure you. Point is that I’ve heard some odds and ends, single theses, fragments of the new philosophy being born in Russia at different places and under different circumstances. Russia as the civilization has its own mission. And I wanted to understand it for a long time. We used to talk of civilization within the terminology East-West or North-South. Hearing you I tried to abstract my mind from biblical culture stereotypes, i.e. to overstep the limits of binary code: materialism-idealism, capitalism-socialism, plan-market, East-West and so on. Within the worldview alternative to the binary one (as I’d like to call it) Russia for me seems to be the civilization of measure; and the West directed on unlimited consumption of material comforts is the civilization of matter; as for the East closed on spirit practices created by “esotericists” for the crowd-“elitism” stability maintaining, it is the civilization of information.
– But I’ve told of the worldview of triunity as of an alternative to the worldview of four-person Amon, - Salem tried to object.
– It’s right, but in part. You told of the energy as of some stable transition state of matter when it changes its aggregation state. Moreover, in your discussions the matter concerned the space-time continuum. That’s why the quadruple matter-energy-space-time could be divided into two pairs: matter-energy and space-time. And I consider the conversion from plain alternativeless binary to the worldview of triunity, which it encloses, to be a step forward because we are still living in the three-dimension space. In addition, in very Cairo I’ve heard the logical and coherent account of the worldview, which the matrix methods of ruling are based on, as it seems to me. I avoid the term “weapon” expressly, since many people, met with the matrix methods of ruling, would try to add the adjective “matrix” with the noun “weapon”, taken from the biblical culture, and drag it into the 21st century. But if to examine the process of ruling from the position of mutual enclosing of matrixes then the mankind has a chance to stop all the wars. It needs that these methods become a common property not just of the “elite”, but of everybody, who wishes to increase his measure of righteousness of understanding the general current of events. In this case, when some conflict appears, a manager proficient in the matrix methods will need simply achieving a higher level of understanding the general current of events and solving out the conflict from a position of enclosing matrix.
– But if it would be more profitable for him to aggravate the coming conflict, well, to cause a clash between the enemies for achieving the desired result? - Salem tried to object again.
– It would be unrighteousness from his side. And the day will come when he wishes he hadn’t done it. One should remember of the mutual enclosing of matrixes, which in the limit go to the matrix of God’s Predetermination. Such actions or evil thoughts will return to the aggressor, since they could not be dictated by the higher measure of understanding the general current of events. Quite the contrary his aggressive intentions, whatever he thinks of them himself, will objectively mean that he had gone down an enclosed matrix instead of rising his measure of understanding to the level of enclosing matrix. And it seems to me, that all what his happening with the USA, or precisely with their government, demonstrates just the same algorithm of the matrix ruling. And I’m thankful to you, Mr. Salem, because I needed your account for understanding of some details, linking the matrix methods of ruling with the two worldviews. Surely, I haven’t understood everything. Something has left because of many translations from language to language, but I seem to have caught the main. The Most High controls this weapon, in the sense that its use for the sake of some clan is rather dangerous for this clan. Since the weapon possesses the reflexive ability, which is known as an effect of “monkey’s paw” to the Western civilization. And the Russian “picnics”, which were the matrix-scripts of the possible variants of events development in Russia, demonstrates us this effect.
Leaving for here I tried to realize my role in these intricate processes, for which the whole world is a scene. And now, when I’m trying to solve the Russian riddle and am occupied with business unlinked with the “picnics”, I got the necessary information from all over the world from people completely unfamiliar to me! This is possible, as I now understand, only in one case: the whole my activity aimed to solving the mystery of “picnics” and their connection with the “black Tuesday’s” events, is going inside the course of matrix enclosing these events. And for not committing follies I was to understand how those two worldviews differ one from another. But I’ve got one doubt after all I’d heard here.
– Please, Mr. Holmes, I’m ready to help you resolve your doubt. By I ask you to take my retelling of the information with leniency.
– Well, I’ll try to state my case. Since the discussed information should be available for everyone, I think that for an abundance of complicated terms there should be simple images. And when one needs, he or she should be able to expand and rebuild with these images all necessary attributes of the two worldviews in his or her memory.
– Quite right, Mr. Holmes. Such simple images exist. And the Russians told of them a lot. They are a mosaic and a kaleidoscope. Everyone is able to understand how a “mosaic” differs from a “kaleidoscope”. All pieces of glass in mosaic are connected one with another. If one moves or rotates one of them it causes the movement of not only nearest but also of rather far pieces. And though some picture’s fragments can be somehow distorted, its whole substance remains the same; no matter how does one turn the very picture. One is able to examine a mosaic picture in details up to necessary scale, to choose, remember and visually recall the whole picture as well as its single fragment.
But a kaleidoscope is a horse of a different colour. Any slight turning or a simple jog will change the substance of the picture appearing in a kaleidoscope, and every time a picture will be new and charmingly fantastical. But in contrast to a mosaic picture, a next picture of “kaleidoscope” can be neither predicted nor visually recalled. Why? - Because all the pictures in kaleidoscope are substantially empty. One sees the same unformed heap of glasses, but reflected by the system of mirrors. This system also catches any the slightest changes in the order of glasses observed in a kaleidoscope.
Since the phenomenon called a “worldview” belongs to the unconscious psychical levels, the words “mosaic” and “kaleidoscope” are just symbols, indicating its two types, which possess all the above-listed properties of “mosaic” and “kaleidoscope” accordingly. Any other types of worldview could be brought to these two. The world understanding is the creation of the worldview type, which one’s psyche is devoted to. But it belongs to the consciousness, thus it’s expressed in certain words. It means that a mosaic world understanding corresponds with a mosaic worldview. As well as a kaleidoscopic world understanding corresponds with a kaleidoscopic worldview. One can conclude from this that a mosaic worldview is unified and whole, and everything is cause-and-effect related within it. Within such worldview the world is predictable, i.e. it is stable in predictability under the influence of external, internal factors and ruling. In other words, any new facts, event, phenomena or processes, become possessions of a mosaic worldview, just complete or make more exact the substance of the already formed whole picture of the world. From here the mosaic world understanding naturally develops an idea that the objective reality is cognisable.
In difference to a mosaic worldview, a kaleidoscopic one is a list of unconnected casual facts, events, phenomena and processes. Within such worldview the world doesn’t possess stability in predictability. It means that any new facts, event, phenomena or processes, become possessions of a kaleidoscopic worldview, changes beyond recognition the whole picture of the world. This fastens a stereotype that the world is incognisable. That’s why when it comes to worldview the consciousness labels with words only some primary maximally generalizing categories discussed earlier. These categories could be divided into two groups:
· matter, information, measure;
· matter, energy, space, time.
With all this the second group of images essentially is secondary regarding the first one (something like a reflection or “echo” of the first group). But those, whose worldview is nearer to the kaleidoscopic vision of the world, mistakenly take it as the primary.
From this, those, who operate with the first group of images at unconscious levels of psyche, take the endless Universe as the process of the triunity of matter, information and measure. And the world appears for them as a whole mosaic picture, in which everything is cause-and-effect conditioned. And those, who operate with the second group of images (matter, energy, space and time) at unconscious levels of psyche, take the surrounding world as a kaleidoscope of unconnected casual events.
These words - “matter, information, measure, energy, space, time” - are just “fingers” indicating objective phenomena, which appear in a form of images at the unconscious levels of psyche and are hard to distinct even because they are taken as the maximum, primary and generalizing everything. And everybody, to whom these images appear on the level of consciousness, is free to call them with his own words relying on the conceptual and terminological system available to their professional level. You should know how people in Russia respect Pushkin, Mr. Holmes.
– Yes, Mr. Salem, on the day of my departure from London my friend Watson and I spoke much about Pushkin. We get to conclusion that his creation is somehow mystically connected with the “picnics”.
– I’d like to say more, - Salem took up the new topic and opened a paper-case taken from the study. - The Russians claim that Pushkin genetically was proficient in the knowledge rather equal to the knowledge of the Ancient Egyptian hierophants. His mother’s father belonged to the noble Ethiopian family that could be traced to one of the Ancient Egypt ruling dynasties. In addition one of Moses’ wives was an Ethiopian and even Freud wrote that Moses had belonged to Egyptian zhrechestvo. I.e. Pushkin was able to distinguish historically real Moses from Moses described in the Bible on the basis of the information proceeded through the family aggregors. And an extract from his early poem “Gavriliada” can prove it. - With these words Salem took some sheets from the paper-case. - I don’t warrant the rhythmical similarity, but the conceptual part is completely reproduced as appreciated by Russian specialists who speak English perfectly.
I wouldn't agree my narration
With that what Moses was recounting:
He tried to charm a Hebrew with a fantasy,
He grandly lied and they were hearing him.
The Lord awarded him for style and duteous mind,
Moses became a famous gentleman,
But as for me, I'm not a court historian,
And I don't need a haughty prophet rank!
Having read the poem Salem settled back and attentively looked at his interlocutor waiting for any objections. Holmes silently looked at the heart of dark garden.
– Well, what you can say about this poem, Mr. Holmes?
– Only one: I wish I knew Russian. So I’m looking forward to the commentaries.
– I think in this poem Pushkin didn’t say what was historically real Moses, but tried make a reader know that biblical figure of Moses didn’t suit him. In the beginning of the 19th century many people in Russia considered this poem to be a “mistake of youth” [70] of the young talent. But these “youth’s mistakes” were a dangerous sign for the devoted to the skill of ruling social processes. The poem told that somebody had appeared in Russia, who under certain circumstances was able to distinguish the true Afflatus given through the prophet from the tale about the afflatus, created by those for whom such righteousness was unacceptable. This “somebody” was ready to show the mankind real aims of “the owners of Scripture” [71]. And he could continue the work started by Ehnaton three millennia ago, as his enemies thought.
That’s why it isn’t surprising that Pushkin was able to distinguish the two groups of images, we have just discussed, as some entity. The Russians presented me his astonishing story in verses “A House at Colomna”, written in octanarians [72]. We started translating it on Arabian and English, since even in the first strophe of the foreword the poet expressed his attitude to the two worldviews using the vocabulary of poets’ guild.
Iambic tetrameter makes me tired,
Since everyone so writes. For children’s fun
It's time to leave it.
This is about “Amon’s quaternion”, which is taken through habit even today as the maximal generalizing categories of Universe [73] and is the basis of kaleidoscopic worldview. Even that time Pushkin thought that the majority of people have such a worldview (Since everyone so writes). For them the charming change of impressions is just a fun [74]. On your language it could be called a “picnic”, translated on Russian as “a pleasant pastime”. And so it goes that the word “picnic”, which had come into Russian from English lexicon, encodes the kaleidoscopic worldview on the unconscious psychical levels. And the Russian “puzzle’s” pictures say about it.
But what could Pushkin those times oppose to kaleidoscopic worldview within which the life is incognisable? - The eternity’s cognition.
Well, I have desired
For long to write in octonarians
Salem took a seemed to be fine gold “Parker” pen from a pocket of his white jacket. He cursed out Americans for that the metal screw cap was screwed on plastic body thread and thus the thread pair was quickly worn out. And a pen possessed the quality to fall to pieces in the very hands the most inappropriately. When he had coped with uncomfortable “Parker”, which he cared for something, Salem wrote a symmetrical eight on a napkin. Then he rotated in to 90? and continued his narration.
– Look, Mr. Holmes, the octave is the eight. But from another side it’s the sign of infinity - the unified and whole Universe where everything is cause-and-effect conditioned. But the world is taken in such way only within the mosaic worldview, in which the Universe is the process of triunity of matter, information and measure. I think that Pushkin didn’t distinguish the images of the three appearances of the objective reality. But he took them as the whole triple consonance and told about it poetically:
Though I can really get the better of the triple
Consonance - I'll start the first-rate one.
The rhymes have always been the friends of mine:
The two will come then they’ll bring the third line.
And indeed, the triunity is the triple consonance of matter, information and measure. In other words, there could not be a matter as it is: any thing has its material, informational and measural [75] components and they all are equal from the point of their perception. None of them is primary towards the others and none of them is able to do without the rest in a certain thing. Moreover these three components so are mutually connected that none of them could be separated from the others - they are always together. Just during the cognition of objective reality the “division of the triple consonance” into the categories of matter, information and measure occurs.
In this case Pushkin in my opinion mentioned some “”technologies”, yet unknown to the biblical technocratic culture, by the words: “the two will come then they’ll bring the third line”. Probably the certain representatives of the antediluvian civilization were proficient in them, so the rest took them for the gods. If one is able to imagine in his mind an image of a thing (information) and its measure (an order at not only molecular and atomic levels but even at vacuum or etheric level [76]), then the material part of the thing should appear. It’s because in the Universe created by God everything comes out the vacuum and returns to it.
– Mr. Salem. You speak of these technologies so earnestly, that I involuntarily want to ask: whether you yourself are proficient in them? - Holmes asked.
– Unfortunately, - smiled Salem, - these technologies are inaccessible for me. But my wife says that a person known in modern India as Sai Baba [77], whom many people consider to be an incarnated god, wields such technologies, though visually they are indistinguishable from illusions. Sai Baba doesn’t consider himself to be a god. But nonetheless he think that anyone can create things from “nothing”, or precisely from vacuum, using the power of his or her imagination.
– How surprising… Just before visiting you I’ve got the suggestion to fly from Cairo to Bombay to make my firm’s business.
– If you have never been in India, Mr. Holmes, I strongly recommend you to take occasion and visit Sai Baba’s residence at once.
– And how far is Sai Baba’s place from Bombay?
– The small town, Puttaparthi is situated to the south from Bombay. But there is an airport, where two times a week pilgrims are ferried from Bombay in one hour. If you really want to visit India, my wife will give you all required information about the trip.
– Thank you, Mr. Salem. If I’m going to India, I will surely consult with your wife. And now before the evening’s end I would like to ask you some questions, which seem to be connected with the Russian puzzles.
– Please, Mr. Holmes. I’m at your service.
– How do you think, Mr. Salem, what can this phrase mean? - Holmes took the napkin with the infinity sign and engrossed: “Sunlight everywhere”.
– Sunlight everywhere? Where is this from, Mr. Holmes?
– It’s taken from Trotsky’s testament. Did the Russians mention this figure in their conversations?
– Yes they did many times, Mr. Holmes. But they were speaking of the Trotskyism as of the special type of psyche structure, when one says and does different things. In Islam it’s called “possession”, and according to the Russians’ opinion Trotsky was in full measure possessed. As regards the phrase, the Ancient Egyptian znakhars used to finish any ritual event in crowd’s presence with it. Understanding the monotheism in their own way and maintaining the crowd-“elitism”, they considered their task to be in assuring the crowd that the Sun was the God.
– Do you want to say, that in that times this phrase was something like modern Christian “Amen”?
– Quite right. “Amen” is the proper name of the Lord, whom indeed does the church of Christ worship. But it isn’t a name of Christ - Jesus, - whom does the church openly call its Lord. One can make sure that Amen is the real Lord of those, who had given the articles of faith to Christians, by looking to the Revelation to John: “To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write this: “The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this” [78].
Amen, Amin (orthodox), Amun, Amon are the variations of the same name of the god of Sun - Amon-Ra, whom did ancient Egyptians worshiped. Even if he is really “the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation”, nevertheless he is neither God the Almighty, nor Jesus Christ, who had come under his own name rather then under a pseudonym.
– And the last I’d like to ask, Mr. Salem. Are you familiar to Albert Reville’s book “Jesus the Nazarene”?
– Yes I do, Mr. Holmes. I’ve got it among my books, which even my grandfather, who for some time lived in France, began to collect. But what has attracted you in Reville’s book?
– The matter is that Albert Reville in his book [79] for some purpose mentioned that after nearly 230 B.C. a pair of rabbis headed the Great Synagogue of Ancient Judea. However he didn’t explain this surprising fact. May be you, Mr. Salem, can make clear this fact.
– It’s amazing, but the topic of ruling the Great Synagogue was also touched during our discussions with the Russians. And let it not surprise you, but the same Reville’s phrase stimulated it. As they explained me, the matter concerns a tandem principle of activity, which Ancient Egyptian hierophants successfully relied on. Later my friend from Russia sent me a detailed note on this theme and if you wish, I’ll make a copy for you.
– Yes, Mr. Salem. I would like to better examine this method. As I understand, my grandfather used it in his practice. So I will be quite grateful to you if I get its detailed description.
A south night fell on Cairo. Lamps fired in the garden and along the Nile ’s banks. Salem went to see his guest off and promised to send the note and translations of “Gavriliada” and “House in Colomna” with Mahmud at the next day.
Holmes sat at his notebook computer about an hour making the necessary notes about the meeting with Salem. Only after it he phone to London.
– Good evening, Harvey. I call, as I’ve promised.
– How did you spend the evening, Holmes? I hope that “belly dance” improved your mood. They say that Egyptian women bring round even the staunchest bachelors, like you, Holmes. Well, are you going to Bombay?
– Yes, I’m going, Harvey, - Holmes passed off the cutting remark about belly dances. Moreover he really watched it sailing down river Nile on a special boat during his previous visit to Cairo. - But with a clause. I am to go to Puttaparthi.
– All right, Mr. Holmes. But where is it? I haven’t heard of such Indian town.
– It’s slightly to the south of Bombay, about an hour if going by air. There is the residence of Sai Baba. I will need a firm representative’s help. But after it, Harvey, I want no Colombo or Singapore.
– I promise you, Holmes, the back flight from Bombay to London is guaranteed. If it wasn’t a secret, answer, isn’t this Sai Baba a rival firm?
– Be quite, Harvey. He is the god in India and I want to see myself how was the world created.
– I always liked your of humour. The firm’s representative Prakash Kumar will meet you at Bombay. All necessary information about our Indian affiliate you can get at our Egyptian office. Let Kumar know the day and number of your flight. If you need he will go with you to Putah…
– Puttaparthi, Harvey.
– Let it be Puttaparthi. Send my greeting to Sai Baba. See you in London. Good night.