Kitabı oku: «The Last Da Vinci», sayfa 9
Legend of the Antichrist
“Noble Ninette, I offer you a small conspiracy.”
“Can’t it be a big one?”
“Small, but with big consequences!”
from the film “31 June”, episode 2, time 0:39:30.
I studied the material about this fantasy character with extreme caution and take it all rather as a warning to be aware of the dangers of close communication with people on religious topics.
In mid-May 2019, when I was once again from the East to the sea, in the morning, before going for a swim, I was looking through the latest information provided by the Internet, and came across material about Moshiach. The headline was about the fact that very soon (finally!)—the Antichrist will come, he is already nearby. When I went to swim on our deserted beach, I heard from the depths of the water, as if calling: “Ma-shi-ah”. Naturally, I immediately “closed myself” psychologically, because I thought that this was bad, and when I returned to my room and carefully studied the material on the Internet, I of course realized that Moshiach is just the Messiah, which means a person with a specific mission (task) and no more. But with the help of this incident, I felt well that I was not at all attracted by the development of my destiny in this direction, and I believe that nature was also checking whether this path was of interest to me.
I have repeatedly noticed similar “checks” in other situations. Their essence is that first false information is given, the reaction is checked, and then the information is updated, and after my instinctive reaction I learn a different, often opposite, meaning.
East and I, several times – 4 seasons in a row (from 2016 to 2019), went to the same place on the warm sea coast for vacation, to the same mini-hotel, where we were accommodated in the same room on the last third floor, this hotel had about 15–20 rooms. I don’t remember how the initial choice of room took place; they probably just showed us one of the best rooms, and we naturally chose it. We went out of season; there were almost no other guests in the hotel except us, and this room was always free. In May 2019, I finally saw the faded number written long ago in blue pen on a piece of paper that was inserted into the key tag. This number turned out to be 161. East took a photo of the keychain; in the phone, the file with the image accidentally received the name IMG_4919.
I wondered why the number was 161, although the number of rooms in the hotel did not exceed 15–20. In the summer of 2022, I began to carefully study the photo of the keychain and discovered that the number 161 was actually the number 16, repeated on both sides of a thin translucent piece of paper, as a result it began to seem that it was number 161, in fact it was the numbers 16 and 61 on the reverse side, where the 6 went in the center and was combined.
In June 2022, after a forced break in travel due to the coronavirus epidemic, we visited this hotel for the 5th time. The 3-story building in which we were previously accommodated was demolished, and in its place the hotel owners built a new 4-story building.
Let's look at the whole Christian story about the Antichrist in three words. It can be read like this: don't do this. Don't unite people with a common ideology, don't lead them somewhere. People know everything very well, they have known all the commandments for a long time, and if they violate them, it means that it is to their advantage now.
If people are seduced in any way, then they can very well hold you accountable if they don't like something (i.e. it’s not to their liking), or if they can’t get the profit (income) they need. from investments. This is quite in the spirit of man’s modern path towards “personal comfort and the common good” in a consumer society.
Despite my aversion to religions, I have spent enough time studying this fantasy image to understand that my reluctance to communicate with people has an objective basis.
30 Easter eggs and references in the TV series Good Omens (link in Russian)
https://www.mirf.ru/serial/blagie-znameniya-otsylki-pashalki/
“And in the third episode, Aziraphale tells Crowley that Jesus was crucified because he only advised people to be kinder to each other. In ‘The Hitchhiker’ Adams wrote exactly the same thing.”
Episode 1, time 19:40:
The red King of Hearts card is covered with a picture of the Devil.
(link in Russian)
https://kogdavyydet.ru/blagie-znameniya-2-sezon-data-vyhoda.html
“Aziraphale and Crowley understand that they can prevent the massacre, knowing who will become the Antichrist, they can influence the child in childhood to raise the boy neutral to good and evil. Initially, a newborn does not have the intention of starting an apocalypse, so if the young man does not have a penchant for good or evil deeds, nothing terrible will happen.”
“Great, now get up and let’s go to the pub. They said they won't tear down your house until they've had a beer.”
“Can they be trusted?”
“Personally, I’m ready to trust them until the End of the World.”
“How much is this?”
“About 12 minutes.”
from the film “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”
(dir. by Garth Jennings, 2005) time 6:35.
“Earthman, understand that your planet was ordered, paid for and controlled by mice…”
“Mice… you mean the little white furry animals that are obsessed with cheese?”
Same place, time 1:29:11.
“In Douglas Adams’s book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ the answer to ‘The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything’ should was decide All Problems of Universe. All intelligent races were eagerly awaiting this answer. It was obtained as a result of seven and a half million years of continuous calculations on a specially created computer – ‘Deep Thought’. According to the computer, the answer has been checked several times for correctness, but it may upset everyone. It turned out that the answer to the question is ‘42’.
The reaction was this:
‘Forty two!’ Lunkkuool squealed. ‘And that’s all you can say after seven and a half million years of work?’
‘I checked everything very carefully,’ said the computer, ‘and I declare with all certainty that this is the answer. It seems to me, if I’m being completely honest with you, the whole point is that you yourself didn’t know what the question was.’
‘But this is a great question! The ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!’ Lunkkuool almost howled.
‘Yes,’ said the computer in the voice of a sufferer enlightening a complete fool. ‘And what kind of question is this?’”
Secrets of the number 42 (links for amateurs, I'm not interested, in Russian)
https://masterok.livejournal.com/3854916.html
The answer to the “ultimate question of life, the universe and everything” is 42 years old (link in Russian)
https://habr.com/ru/news/t/584022/
“Nominative—a mouse,
Genitive—of a mouse,
Dative—to a mouse,
Accusative—a mouse,
Vocative— O, Mouse!”
“’Would it be of any use, now,’ thought Alice, ‘to speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in trying.’ So she began: ‘O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!’ (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, ‘A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—A mouse—O mouse!’) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
‘Perhaps it doesn't understand English,’ thought Alice.”
Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/nvfruu/reading_alices_adventures_in_wonderland_for_the/
(Discovered July 18, 2022 at 9:40 am, article dated November 21, 2003)
Mickey Mouse has been named as the Antichrist (link in Russian)
https://www.pravda.ru/society/37402-miickymouse/
“In 1935, the League of Nations designated Mickey Mouse as an ‘international symbol of goodwill’. And during the Second World War, many military units made Mickey Mouse their mascot, newspapers published comics in which Mickey bravely fought the enemy, and, finally, it was he who gave the command for the landing of allied forces in Normandy: by decision of the Allied command, the signal to begin landing on June 6, 1944, the name became Mickey Mouse. One of the most fanatical admirers of Mickey Mouse was Adolf Hitler. Having first seen him in early 1937, the Fuhrer declared himself a fan of his talent, and from then on he was always given several Mickey cartoons for Christmas.
But the most cruel insult was inflicted on him,calling this cute mouse the Antichrist. It turns out that on the eve of the Apocalypse, he subjugates human souls.”
The sinister cult of Mickey Mouse and the dark secrets of the music industry (Article dated June 15, 2014, I do not recommend reading, negative emotions, in Russian)
http://piseczdruzja.mypage.ru/zloveshaya_sekta_mikki_mausa_i_tmnie_tayni_muzikalnoy_indus.html
“Ritual Masonic symbols are also widely used, Egyptian symbols and all kinds of demonic signs (horns, blood, etc.) are especially popular. ‘Mickey Mouse ears’ or its display are used to the fullest.”
We got to the mice. The image of Mickey Mouse as Christ is considered extremist (article dated August 19, 2011, in Russian)
https://www.gazeta.ru/social/2011/08/19/3739541.shtml
“Mickey Mouse may offend the feelings of believers. This conclusion was reached by the city court of Tarusa (Kaluga region), which, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, recognized Alexander Savko’s film ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ in which a Disney character replaced Jesus Christ, as extremist. If Savko does not appeal the court decision, exhibiting the painting or reprinting its image in the media in the future will be prohibited.”
Mickey Mouse is recognized as a cynical extremist who incites religious hatred (link in Russian)
https://plucer.livejournal.com/456589.html
(An article dated August 31, 2004, in it about “The Da Vinci Code”, which is also interesting; Mickey Mouse appears only in the title, apparently meant as an allegory.)
Mickey Mouse, heir to the Templars (link in Russian)
https://vad-nes.livejournal.com/10089.html
Grandfathers of The Da Vinci Code (link in Russian)
https://vad-nes.livejournal.com/79216.html
SATOR AREPO TENET or Inheritance
“I recommend switching to a raw food diet.”
<…>
“Yeah… Everything raw is recommended. All! Jelly from pureed nettles, puree from raw…”
“Doctor! Don't make an eidiot out of me!”
“Eidetism is taking on a violent character…”
from the film “31 June”, episode 1, time 0:36:41.
September 1, 2020, Tuesday evening, sitting in the kitchen with East, we drank tea and discussed that the idea of having a certain person remember and compare the dates of his personal event (the explosion of his room) with an external event that occurred at another time and quite far from him (the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant), with completely different spacetime coordinates, then one of the available options is to make it seem to him that the explosion of the room occurred on his birthday, and the external explosion actually took place in the coming days to this date (or on the date of birth), because it is human nature to remember and compare events that happen to him and around him on the date of his birthday. I noted that this comparison can be a beginning, a starting point for a person’s further reflection. And all this is certainly a external manipulation.
For many years I forgot the exact date of the explosion of my room in the apartment where we lived; for decades I believed that this date coincided with my birthday, until in May 2017 my mother informed me about the real date of the explosion.
East added an interesting thought that I remembered the date of the explosion as the Date of Birth, since people probably told me that I was “born again”.
We decided to go to the cinema the next day to watch the film Inception (dir. by Christopher Nolan, 2010).
September 2, 2020, Wednesday, in the evening there was an extraordinary scandal with the return of goods by a customer. The product was of good quality, cost about 300 rubles [$5], but the client screamed about the crime and called the police. As a result, this case lasted for about six months, the buyer won the case, and we incurred expenses of 9 times the cost of the goods (about 2800 rubles [$42]). This was the largest conflict with the buyer in more than 10 years of our work. The intensity of passions simply went off scale. So this day was definitely memorable for us.
Late in the evening we went to a movie. This was the last day of its screening in our city.
Sergei Lukyanenko – about how to look beyond the horizon (link in Russian)
https://aif.ru/culture/person/prishelec_iz_budushchego_sergey_lukyanenko_o_tom_kak_zaglyanut_za_gorizont
“If you read many literary works that have been written over the past two years, you can find in them this feeling of impending disaster, of world conflict. Something that politicians refused to believe, saying: ‘No, this will never happen!’ But art, to one degree or another, felt this and reflected it long before the world changed. Because art catches such things much faster than science.”
Inception (dir. by Christopher Nolan, 2010)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception
“The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. <…>
Their latest target, Saito, is impressed with Cobb's ability to layer multiple dreams within each other. He offers to hire Cobb for the ostensibly impossible job of implanting an idea into a person's subconscious; performing ‘inception’ on Robert Fischer, the son of Saito's competitor Maurice Fischer, with the idea to dissolve his father's company. <…>
Nolan has said that the film “deals with levels of reality, and perceptions of reality which is something I'm very interested in. It's an action film set in a contemporary world, but with a slight science-fiction bent to it”, while also describing it as ‘very much an ensemble film structured somewhat as a heist movie'.”
When on the evening of September 1, 2020 I talked with East about my childhood, we had already decided that we would go to the cinema the next day to see this film; we learned about its showing on September 1, when we were walking in the shopping center. However, I planned this conversation “over tea” several days in advance; I mentally worked through the problem that became the purpose of the discussion. And I didn’t remember the plot of the film at all, although I had watched it earlier, in 2011.
According to the plot of the film, the goal of the scammers is to divide the global corporation, which has come to dominate the energy market of the entire Earth, thereby upsetting the balance of interests of opposing groups.
After watching the film, I remembered that in June 2018 I went to Rechitsa to formalize the abandonment of half of my father’s house; then I made a deed of gift to my distant relative, who was a complete stranger to me. My father had only one house and I had no other dealings with the property other than receiving it as an inheritance about 20 years ago.
Throughout my life, I have received real estate ownership several times, and this was the only time I gave something heritage to a stranger.
On June 27–28, 2018, I drew up a deed of gift and clearly realized that this was just a small wooden house in a deplorable condition. Of course, I then felt that this was close to some kind of fantasy fictional situation, because just a week before, on June 19, 2018, I finished the book 19+. It’s interesting that a relative got in touch in the middle of summer or autumn 2017 with a request to give him half of the house, and only a year later I was able to go to Rechitsa.
One interpretation is that the Spirit is simply fooling me, acting out various scenes in my life for the sole purpose of entertaining me and/or itself. But I don’t tend to view my life solely as entertainment; a pragmatic approach suits me more and I consider such events as seriously and responsibly as possible.
The film Inception was shown in theaters to promote the premiere of a new Christopher Nolan's film, which we watched two weeks later. It's worth noting that these were all the films we watched in 2020 and the first half of 2021.
September 17, 2020, Thursday, when leaving the cinema, after watching the premiere of Christopher Nolan's film Tenet, East and I felt a sharp cold snap that lasted 2–3 days.
September 18, 2020, Friday, I learned about the SATOR square (appears in the names of the characters and in the title of the film Tenet), the next day I assumed that it was a “weapon”. How did I come to such an unexpected conclusion? And what weapon, a sword or a shield?
This is what it looks like:
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
“What does this phrase mean? The problem is that the word arepo is not found in Latin; it was most likely invented to make a palindrome, or borrowed from another language. If we assume that Arepo is a name, then it comes out something like ‘The sower of Arepo works with the help of wheels [a wheeled plow].’ Apparently, the meaning here is not as important as it often happened with magic formulas; the palindrome attracted with its mystery and perfection.
The oldest square with such a palindrome (though the word order was slightly different) was discovered on one of the columns in Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.”
The very first surviving image of the Square is on the wall of a column in the city of Pompeii, buried under a layer of ash. Not a bad way to archive an image… And its dating (50–79 AD) is somehow suspiciously close to the dating of another document – “The Revelations of John the Theologian” (60–96 AD). In other words, for us these two documents are located at the same point in time. This can be compared to a safe deposit box in a bank.
“Irenaeus of Lyons dates the Revelation to the end of the reign of Domitian (81–96), a version shared by many modern biblical scholars. In the 19th century, a version arose about the creation of the book in the 60s of the 1st century (‘early dating’); in the 19th century, most researchers adhered to this version, but in the 20th century, most biblical scholars again began to adhere to ‘late dating’, that is, the period of the reign of Domitian.” (Wiki)
“The words SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS performed by the ensemble ‘Singing family’ sound in the theme of evil spirits (music by Igor Kornelyuk) in the TV series by Vladimir Bortko ‘The Master and Margarita’ (2005). Also, the words SATOR AREPO TENET are pronounced in three voices by satyrs at the moment of Margarita’s ‘dedication’ before the ball of a hundred kings.” (Wiki)
Discs with songs by Igor Kornelyuk (the first and one of the last):
1988 – “Ticket to the Ballet” (that was the name of the first album and one of the first hits of this composer).
2010 – “The Master and Margarita” (actually performed in 2005, in the TV series).
Of course, the fact that I noted his authorship of the song “Ticket to the Ballet” is a pure coincidence. Igor Kornelyuk worked on the soundtrack for the series The Master and Margarita, with the central “Woland’s theme” for a whole year. It was in this “theme of Satan” that the SATOR square was noted:
“The words of the choir on the theme of evil spirits: Sator arepo tenet opera rotas. Sator arepo tenet opera rotas. Igne natura renovatur integra. Igne natura renovatur integra. INRI, INRI, Abracadabra, INRI, INRI. INRI, INRI, INRI, INRI, Abracadabra. INRI, INRI, Abracadabra, INRI, INRI. INRI, INRI, INRI, INRI, Abracadabra.
Decoding words in text: INRI – ‘Iesus Nasareus Rex Iudaeus’ (‘Jesus Nazarene Tsar Jewis’) or ‘Igne natura renovatur integra’ (‘By fire nature updated all’). In the second meaning, this word ‘INRI’ served as the motto of the Rosicrucian school (Masons-Satanists). Abracadabra is a term of Persian origin, magic word-spell.”
(A bit of conspiracy theory, for fans…)
I came up with the idea that the SATOR square resembles some kind of “temporal weapon” (or “artifact”) due to the flow of different time streams in it, i.e. if you pronounce it and visualize it, then you launch several copies of one phrase, which “flow” at different speeds and even in the opposite direction (inversely, back to the past).
If you actualize this square in some closed space in which the law of the flow of time works – consistently, evenly and in one direction, and you actually manage to send these phrases to different, conflicting time streams, then the space, no matter how “infinite” it may be it was, after a certain time, it will simply crumble into several warring pieces, which will probably continue to self-destruct further. Naturally, the force of your influence must be of the same nature and identity as the force that was used in the creation of this spacetime.
In this case, you need to be inside this Infinity, and most likely, for this you need to be born into it.
Tenet (dir. by Christopher Nolan, 2020)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenet_(film)
“Priya reveals that she is a member of Tenet, and the man who inverted her bullets, Russian oligarch Andrei Sator, is communicating with the future. Sator's estranged wife Kat Barton is an art appraiser who authenticated a forged Goya by her friend Arepo. Sator purchased the Goya at auction believing it to be legitimate, later using it to blackmail Kat into staying with him. To earn Kat's help, the Protagonist and Neil try to steal the Goya from Sator's freeport facility at Oslo Airport.”
Good Omens (TV series, 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens_(TV_series)
“Good Omens is a fantasy comedy television series created by Neil Gaiman based on his and Terry Pratchett's 1990 novel of the same name. <…>
Like the novel, Good Omens features various Christian themes and figures and follows various characters all trying to either encourage or prevent an imminent Armageddon, seen through the eyes of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley.
All episodes of the first series were released on Amazon Prime Video on 31 May 2019.”
In my opinion, one of the central ideas of this TV series is the replacement of the father with some “other uncle”, which echoes the philosophical message of the film Tenet—what happens if you “kill your grandfather”?
Christopher Nolan (selected filmography, for the period 2009–2022)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan
“<…>
2010 – Inception
2012 – The Dark Knight Rises
2013 – Man of Steel
2014 – Transcendence
2014 – Interstellar
2016 – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2017 – Dunkirk
2020 – Tenet”
Director C. Nolan is clearly trying to “excavate a black hole” and of course, what he will encounter in doing so will be terrible and horrible paradoxes of time…
Interstellar (film, 2014)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)
”Christopher Nolan met with Thorne, then attached as executive producer, to discuss the use of spacetime in the story.”
Kip S. Thorne “Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy” (translated from English – M.: Fizmatlit, 2009, 616 pages, ISBN 978-5-94052-172-3)
(I found out about this book on May 14, 2021 at 3:22 pm, I note that in the Russian translation of the book616 pages).
Spacetime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
“In physics, spacetime, also called the space-time continuum, is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Spacetime diagrams are useful in visualizing and understanding relativistic effects, such as how different observers perceive where and when events occur.
Until the turn of the 20th century, the assumption had been that the three-dimensional geometry of the universe (its description in terms of locations, shapes, distances, and directions) was distinct from time (the measurement of when events occur within the universe). However, space and time took on new meanings with the Lorentz transformation and special theory of relativity.
In 1908, Hermann Minkowski presented a geometric interpretation of special relativity that fused time and the three spatial dimensions into a single four-dimensional continuum now known as Minkowski space. This interpretation proved vital to the general theory of relativity, wherein spacetime is curved by mass and energy. <…>
In ordinary space, a position is specified by three numbers, known as dimensions. In the Cartesian coordinate system, these are often called x, y and z. A point in spacetime is called an event, and requires four numbers to be specified: the three-dimensional location in space, plus the position in time. An event is represented by a set of coordinates x, y, z and t. Spacetime is thus four-dimensional.”
What is the “murdered grandfather paradox” and how to solve it (link in Russian)
https://pikabu.ru/story/chto_takoe_paradoks_ubitogo_dedushki_i_kak_ego_reshit_7856959
The paradox is happily resolved if time has a property that prevents one from being able to influence one's past when traveling through time. This is either the inability to get to the “starting point” or traveling strictly within the limits of what is permitted.
Dunkirk (film, 2017, quote partly from Russian wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_(2017_film)
“Premiere: July 21, 2017, start of filming: May 15, 2016 in the places of the events described.
In 1940, during the Battle of France, allied soldiers retreat to Dunkirk encircled by the enemy.
The film has a non-linear structure and is divided into three time lines: the pier (one week), the sea (one day) and the air (one hour).
In the finale, all timelines converge into one.”
This film visualizes streams of time flowing in parallel, but at different “speeds”.
To explain any phenomenon, you can come up with at least three “possible” explanations. Returning to the events described in this book:
The first option, “all coincidences are random” also has a right to exist.
The second option is “influence on the situation by third forces”.
The third option is “the influence of one’s own personality, one’s personal temporary existence”.
I would like to note, and I write this more than once, that for an event to happen, there must be an observer. This is a key point; if it weren’t for me as an observer, some of these events would not have happened, no matter how strange it may sound. And I'm definitely proud of it.
I am absolutely not interested in the reader’s position; I am indifferent to any option if he chooses it or does not choose it in order to “put together the puzzle” in his head. I myself periodically put myself “in another place” and work through one of these options, which enriches my worldview and does not allow the thinking process to stop.
The only thing is that if I work through the first option, I always do it in “transaction mode”—this means that I set myself the goal of returning to the perception of the 2nd or 3rd option after a short continuous period of time, and not getting stuck on option 1. This is due to the fact that I have respect for the external side – the Spirit, and if you get stuck on option 1, then he can simply “get offended” and stop “bringing gifts”, and this is unacceptable.
Sometimes I do something interesting. I mentally ask myself one of these (or other) options and, replaying the events in my head, at the same time I evaluate my own internal reaction to them, which I remember, and then, at another time, I begin to analyze the thoughts that come to mind.
This book does not, I hope, contain answers to questions. Its goal is different—to raise the problems that interest me as high as possible in order to better consider them and even find new questions.
