Today, even a non-church person is familiar with some of the concepts found in the Bible. All of them have quietly taken root in everyday life in the form of sayings and phraseological units. Take, for example, phrases such as: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”, “Doubting Thomas”, “Thou shalt not kill”, “Thou shalt not steal”, etc. The last two phrases refer to the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament.
Despite the Beatitudes, which the Lord Jesus Christ himself left to humanity in the New Testament, every Christian believer is obliged to know about the origin of the Decalogue, or Ten Commandments. For a secular person, such information will not be superfluous, since it is educational in nature.
Break the tablets of the Covenant
Let me draw your attention to the concept of “breaking the tablets,” the fragments of which are still scattered throughout the universe to this day, and new ones are hidden in the ark.
This only means that a person needs to collect these fragments of divine laws within himself, and then the ark of the laws of the Covenant will be revealed to all humanity for reading (understanding) and acquisition.
Jesus Christ, in all likelihood, knew about this and collected the broken fragments of the tablets of the Old Testament and the laws (commandments) of the New Testament were revealed to him.
“Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets; I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”
Namely, this statement points to the opening of the tablets of the New Testament as the ark of salvation, and this ark is now open to every person through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who is ready and able to use the key that is the New Testament.
All the holy fathers and followers of Christ tell us about the great sacrifice that a person must pay in order to get into the kingdom of heaven. No, dear readers, the sacrifice of Jesus is the only sacrifice in opening the gates of the Ark of the Covenant of the tablets of truth. Namely, this statement opens the gates and gives an understanding of the sacrifice of Jesus as a savior for all humanity.
The gates do not open twice and the sacrifice of Jesus is a sacrifice in the name of all humanity, and not part of it.
To break the tablets of the Testament means to find the tablets of the New Testament, which were hidden until the time of the Great Sacrifice in the ark of salvation in the mines of King Solomon. In the mines of King Solomon - that means in the bowels of the mountain, in the depths of a human being.
- The tablets are the gates on which the laws of passage to the “kingdom of heaven” are inscribed, that is, the highest laws of life for life in the Highest, these are the gates to absolute reality, eternal and infinite, in essence.
Stone tablets of history
When you look through historical chronicles about unusual phenomena, someone’s amazing abilities and achievements, you notice an interesting pattern. As soon as any idea establishes itself as the dominant state ideology, human life loses the element of the presence of a miracle, a fairy tale. Mermaids, gnomes and goblins seem to be hiding in their most secret refuges, fearing that people will dub them fiends of hell. Reports of wizards also disappear, as if they cease to be born, although at the same time more and more reports appear of “servants of the devil” being punished and executed for heresy.
Magic or amazing art remain outside the boundaries of such a society, and news of a miracle is brought only by the stories of travelers who have visited distant “pagan” countries. Sometimes the missionaries of the Christian Church themselves, unable to resist the charm of mystery, described with surprise what they saw there.
At the end of the 17th century, Catholic monks who visited China spoke about an unusual aquarium, which consisted of a glass vessel and a special transparent liquid. He didn't need anything else, not even fish. When the liquid was poured into the vessel, it seemed to be filled with them. When the liquid was poured out, it turned out to be empty. So the Chinese filled this aquarium several times so that the monks could verify the unusual phenomenon many times. Whether it was a miracle of optics or chemistry, we will never know.
A description of other wonders of the East is given by Abbot Hak, a sincere and tireless missionary, in a book about his wanderings, which he called “Journey to Tibet.” It contains a story about an unusual painting in a Lamaist monastery in Tibet. It was painted on a simple canvas, and consisted only of this canvas and a frame, as the abbot himself personally verified. She depicted a landscape with the moon, and there would have been nothing unusual in the picture if the moon in it had not perfectly repeated the behavior of the real Moon in the sky. New moon, full moon or newly born moon, everything is as it really is.
“You see in the picture this planet in the form of a crescent, crescent or full moon, shining brightly, hiding in a cloud and again looking out of it exactly like its celestial sister. In short, the most accurate and radiant reproduction of the pale queen of the night, whom so many people worshiped in the old days.”
It can be assumed that the Tibetans knew special plant substances that subtly reacted to the changing phases of the moon, and knew how to make paints from them. But how did the painted moon know about the cloud in the sky covering its prototype, and still react to it?
...During the reign of Pope Paul III (1534-1549) in Rome, on the Appian Way, the ancient tomb of the daughter of Cicero, a Roman statesman who lived in the first century BC, was discovered. The body of a young girl floated in some transparent liquid and, thanks to it, was so well preserved that the deceased seemed to be sleeping even after fifteen centuries had passed since her death. But the most interesting thing was the burning lamp standing at her feet. When the tomb was opened, it went out.
This lamp was one of the “unquenchable lamps” that are mentioned in the works of many historians and writers of antiquity. Augustine (354-430), a saint of the Catholic Church, described such a lamp burning in the temple of Venus. Neither wind nor rain could extinguish it. The writer Pausanias (2nd century) saw the same in the temple of Minerva in Athens, and the historian Plutarch (46-120) - in the Egyptian temple of Jupiter Ammon. He, like Augustine, argued that the elements were not capable of extinguishing it*.
The Roman scientist Pliny the Elder (23-79) reports that the wick of such a lamp was made of asbestos, the name of which came from the Greeks and meant “unquenchable.” They said that if you manage to light it, it can no longer be extinguished. Gold was often used in the construction of an inextinguishable lamp, this was explained by the fact that it is capable of absorbing fuel vapors, which during normal combustion are spent more not on the flame itself, but on evaporation under the influence of heat. And the most important thing in such a lamp is the oil, purified in a special way, which has undergone repeated distillation and filtration with special substances.
The Roman historian Titus Livy (59 BC -17) wrote that many such lamps in his time were found in the underground temples and tombs of ancient Memphis in Egypt. These lights, which burned perhaps not forever, but for an unusually long time, protected the peace of the mummies. When the tombs were opened, they went out. - From desecration, as the legends explain it.
It was the Egyptians who were credited with the invention of these unquenchable lamps, from whom Moses, a student of their priests, learned the secret. According to the Bible, he used such a lamp in the camp temple-tabernacle, when, during many years of walking in the desert, he curbed the passions of his people: “And you must command the children of Israel to bring pure oil churned from olives for light, in order to make the lamp always burn " (Exodus, xxvii, 20).
There were other advances in chemistry.
During the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (42 BC - 37 AD), one wanderer brought a glass bowl to his palace and claimed that it could not be broken. Tiberius threw it onto the marble floor and, to the surprise of everyone, not a single piece broke off. Only a small dent was formed, which was immediately straightened with a hammer**. In this regard, the emperor was told that there is a method of special processing of ordinary glass, with which it can be made not only malleable, but also viscous like resin, capable of being stretched into a thin long thread. But the secret of such technology remained a mystery. Perhaps because the memory of the unfortunate master was still fresh, whom Tiberius ordered to beheaded for the discovery and production of a metal as white and shiny as silver, but extremely light. Tiberius was afraid that the new metal would displace silver and gold and undermine the financial well-being of the empire. _______ *»Lib. de Defectu Oraculorum.” **Wendell Phillips, "On Lost Knowledge."
Pliny the Elder wrote about this*. What was that metal? Maybe magnesium? Or aluminum? Or maybe this is fiction? There is a tomb in China of the commander Zhou-Zhu, who died at the beginning of the 3rd century. The relief decorations on it, according to the results of spectral analysis, contain 85 percent aluminum**. And on the territory of Poland near the city of Kielce, during the extraction of limestone, workers dug up a well-preserved sword, the handle of which was decorated with inlay from an alloy of 10 percent copper, 5 percent magnesium and the same 85 percent aluminum. The sword was made, according to archaeologists, in 400 BC. Both metals - magnesium and aluminum - are considered new in science. Magnesium as a metal was “first” discovered in 1808 by the English scientist Humphry Davy, and aluminum as something new made a splash at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1855, when many years of attempts to isolate it from alumina were crowned with success. “Silver from clay,” as it was then called, could only be obtained with the invention of electricity and electrolysis. There is still no other way to extract aluminum from a natural material. So, they already owned electricity two and a half thousand years ago?
In modern Iraq, during excavations of the ancient city of Seleucia, archaeologists found clay vessels in which copper cylinders with iron cores were built, soldered with the same alloy of lead and tin that is used in modern electrical engineering. Based on the model of these time-damaged vessels, the same new experimental models were made, and when an electrolyte - copper sulfate - was poured into them, they began to produce an electric current of six volts. By connecting many of these vessels into batteries, it was possible to obtain a current of any voltage. The antiquity of these batteries is two thousand years.
But there is still something that everyone can touch with their hands if they wish, that is not buried under sediments of river silt and desert sands, that is not locked in the repositories of museums and scientific laboratories. And it stands for thousands and thousands of years, indestructible before the very passage of time. These are megaliths, structures made of giant stones. Ideas about them as primitive sowing calendars and clumsy traps for rhinoceroses are already a thing of the past, and the more we learn about them, the more magnificent the appearance of their unknown creators becomes for us.
Their size and weight are incomprehensible, their geography is planetary. In Europe, the territories of their distribution are Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, the Caucasus, Crimea, North-West Russia; In the Caucasus alone, archaeologists from the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, during research in 1967-1976, counted more than two thousand***. In the Mediterranean Sea these are the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, Balearics, Malta, Mallorca. In Asia - Jordan, Turkey, India, Japan, the Russian Far East, Tuva and Khakassia. In Africa - Palestine, Algeria, Morocco, the Sahara Desert, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt. In South America - Peru and Bolivia, in North - the USA. _______ *Venetsky S.I., “Stories about metals.” **Igor Tsarev, “Encyclopedia of Anomalous Phenomena.” ***Chernobrov V.A., “Encyclopedia of Mysterious Places on Earth.”
These structures, although different in detail, represent several basic types that builders adhered to equally throughout the world. These are menhirs, rows of vertical stones stretching over long distances; cromlechs - circular concentric buildings; dolmens are structures in which stone slabs are placed and laid into walls and ceilings like “houses of cards”, only the parts in them are precisely adjusted to each other, which makes them extremely stable. And there are simply boulders, placed on their own center of gravity so that they are able to sway at the touch of a finger, despite their enormous weight. In our time, they tried to move one of the dolmens in the Caucasus to another place. They transported it using the most powerful cranes, but no matter how hard they tried, they were unable to fit the stones together as tightly as was done in ancient times. Who built them then? For what? And what kind of power must have been the creators of all these buildings?
The ancient peoples definitely associated single rocking stones with the art of divination. Among the Celts, the ancient people who inhabited Western Europe, they were called “stones of fate”, “stones of judgment”, “prophecy stones”, “oracle stones”; The Phoenicians spoke of them as animate stones. The fact that with their help it was possible to obtain predictions was written in their works by Photius (810-890s), Patriarch of Constantinople, an expert on ancient literature, Damastius (458-538), Greek philosopher, Asclepiad (128-56 BC). AD), ancient Roman physician. Arnobius (3rd - early 4th century), a Christian Latin writer, admitted that he could never pass by such a “talking” stone and not ask it a question, “to which sometimes the answer was received in a clear and distinct quiet voice”*. And all legends agree that these stones are endowed with special energy and are capable of reacting to the influence of even human thoughts. You just need to be able to call them to talk. The oldest dating of megaliths dates back to the fourth millennium BC. And although six thousand years is already a huge age in itself, archaeologists admit that it may be inaccurate, since it is determined only by the age of the fires left near them by ancient people, and the fires could have been lit by anyone, at any time. In addition, the creators of the megaliths themselves, who endowed them with some kind of cult meaning, would hardly have organized a dinner under the arches of their sacred buildings. The ancient names of megalithic buildings are in themselves indicative. In Sweden they were called “grave with corridors”, in Russia, Siberia, Peru and Bolivia “burial places”, in Germany “graves of giants”, in the same way - “graves of giants” - in Spain, Palestine, Algeria, Sardinia. In India these are “the graves of the Giants Daityas and Rakshasas.” The Cromlech of Stonehenge in England was called the “dance of the giants.” In a word, there are “burials” and “graves” everywhere, and “giants” everywhere. _______ *Quoted by Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2.
No remains of giants are usually found under them, but, meanwhile, the most ancient and widespread method of burial was burning, and if burning was the burial practice of the megalith builders, then their names may indicate who exactly the builders were. And it is not for nothing that the legends of many peoples speak of eras when the planet was inhabited by giants - “titans”, “Atlanteans”, “daityas”, “asuras”. As the Book of Genesis (VI, 4) says, “Giants lived on the earth in those days.” Even in the times of the ancient Greeks, according to the historian Diodorus Siculus (c. 90-21 BC), there lived such people of enormous stature. And, apparently, as an exception, some material evidence of their existence can sometimes be found. Thus, Abbot Pegus, who lived in the 19th century, wrote in his work “Volcanoes of Greece”: “Next to the volcanoes of the island of Thera, giants with huge skulls were found, buried under colossal stones, the construction of which, in any case, must have required titanic forces.” *. And in different places on the planet there are stones into which huge imprints of a human foot or hand are pressed. In Altai, the Katun River is blocked by a huge piece of rock, in which the mark of the giant’s hand is imprinted as if for him the block was a volleyball. On the island of Ceylon, such a stone with a footprint is revered as the footprint of Buddha. On the Weld plateau in South Africa, a footprint pressed 15 centimeters into granite rock is 1 meter 30 centimeters long and 76 centimeters wide. The imprint of this foot even shows lumps of soil stuck between the toes**.
The trace seems to have been melted and this suggests that there was some way to give the body the properties of hydrofluoric acid, which softens the stone. At first glance, this is incredible, but there are plants whose juice dissolves stone. In Tibet, such grass is called aua duti; an animal that eats it, stepping on a stone, leaves a mark on it forever. And in South America, among the Indians, knowledge of such a plant was one of the ancient secrets that helped them build structures from stones that fit perfectly together. Stones treated with plant sap temporarily acquired the properties of clay, and then it was possible not only to press them tightly together, but also to make convex and concave shapes on the touching faces, as in modern children's construction sets, which made the buildings incredibly resistant to earthquakes. Now, when we see concrete or asphalt that has not yet hardened, it is difficult to resist the temptation to imprint the imprint of our foot or hand on it for many years. Probably, the giants of antiquity were familiar with this feeling, and even more so they did not deny themselves such pleasure if they knew how to perpetuate their mark even in granite. But the question is: why are such finds an exception? Why are the ancient layers of the Earth not sown with the utensils of giants and their autographs, like the sites of our not very large ancestors with broken shards and arrowheads? The same majestic stones of the ancients - dolmens, menhirs and cromlechs - will help us figure it out. _______ *Quoted by De Mirville in Pneumatology, Des Esprits, III, 46-48. (Blavatsky E.P., “The Secret Doctrine”, vol. 2). ** Magazine “Incredible. Legendary. Obvious” No. 4, 1998, p. 4, Viktor Nikitin, article “10-meter people lived on Earth.”
It has been noticed that they seem to gravitate towards the sea, towards the coastline, and the closer to the ocean, the greater their size and antiquity, as if their creators, moving deeper into the continents, gradually became smaller and lost strength. And legends lead megalith researchers even further - to the bottom of the ocean. According to Celtic legends, Britain - the “land of Dowry” * - used to be much larger and extended far into the sea, but the waters swallowed up the land, and with it most of its inhabitants. Then, if you believe the legend and follow the logic of the placement of megaliths, at the bottom of the sea they can be even larger than the famous Stonehenge. And all material traces of the life of giants must be looked for there. Floods, antediluvian giant peoples, are the main, main layer in the myths of most ancient peoples, telling about the creation of the world and human history. In myths, giant ancestors die during terrible earthquakes and floods, and entire countries become the bottom of the sea. The few who escape give rise to a new human race and rule as divine kings.
But can this happen in nature? And what does science say about this? But science is an interesting thing. Science is hundreds of thousands of people living in constant search. Therefore, it would be more correct to define science with the word “process” rather than “knowledge.” Scientists have accumulated a colossal stock of facts and discoveries. At the same time, the opinion of science is the point of view of the majority of scientists on a certain subject or problem. The first - the accumulation of facts and discoveries - can be compared to a courier train rushing at full speed. And the second is the opinion of the majority - with a huge, clumsy cart, which not only moves with difficulty along the rails, but also slowly, slowly turns towards new observations and discoveries. This slowness is most likely explained by the narrow specialization of most scientists, in which understanding and covering the problem from the points of view of different fields of knowledge is a difficult task. The more global the new truth, the longer the period required for its acceptance. It took half a century for Einstein's theory of relativity to be recognized. The theory of the extinction of dinosaurs due to the collision of a large cosmic body with the Earth ten years ago was discussed as a controversial hypothesis, although it was based on an obvious fact - the presence of an “iridium anomaly,” a thin layer of cosmic matter in the earth’s layers. Now this theory is already voiced in textbooks and popular scientific publications as a self-evident truth. It also took some time for its adoption. And always, at any time, we live in a moment when the process of birth and growth of some theories, and the aging and death of others, takes place. What is already dying out as a delusion or is being transferred as part of a more general theory, for us represents the past in the worldview of science and all of humanity. That which has not yet had time to pave its way and break through the heap of old concepts takes the name of “innovative”, “crazy”, “fantastic” hypotheses. In youth, a person is inclined to bold, decisive innovation, in adulthood and, especially, in old age - to conservatism. The opinion of science as a whole is determined by people of respectable age who have managed to acquire solid scientific titles and have acquired authority in the eyes of the majority, but by this age conservatism becomes part of their worldview and determines a biased attitude towards everything new. Due to these psychological reasons, science as a whole shows great sluggishness, not having time to assimilate the powerful flow of new observations. _______ *Tsarev I., “Esoteric knowledge, where does it come from?”
In discussions about floods, facts and discoveries are now attacking the old theory of global plate tectonics, which began to pave the way for recognition at the beginning of the 20th century. Over the course of a century, it has gained weight and enormous inertia and now, with its globality, it closes for many scientists the possibility of any other major movements and shifts in the earth’s crust, except for those that it allows.
This theory was born from the simple observation that the continents of planet Earth, if their profiles are added to each other, converge well, forming one whole. There was an assumption that many, many millions of years ago there was one continent, which subsequently split into several parts and gradually spread in different directions, forming modern continents. Figuratively, this can be imagined as pieces of foam plastic that break off from one large piece and spread across the water in different directions. From a purely speculative point of view and taking into account the modern slow “drift” of continents, the theory is beautiful. But what if we make this speculativeness more accurate, punctual and more suitable for experimentation, even if only in the mind? It will take a little time, but it will reveal some surprises. Usually, when we talk or think about land and water, and in relation to the size of the planet, we imagine lakes and seas as large depressions, holes and cracks in the earth’s firmament, and mountains as large massifs rising above the surface. But let’s imagine that we want to build a large-scale relief model of the planet - a globe, in which we will accurately observe all the proportions. We will make mountains from papier-mâché, and seas from some transparent material. And first, we need to find out the exact proportions and correspondence of the paper mountains to the real ones, and the thickness of the transparent substance is thicker than the oceans.
What size globe should we choose? A meter, two meters, and even five meters will be a very inconvenient size. Why will soon become clear. We will choose the size that most easily correlates with the size of the planet to facilitate calculations.
So. The average radius of the Earth is 6371 km. The diameter, respectively, is 12742 km.
For convenience of calculations, we will accept the size of our globe in the same figure, only not in kilometers, but in millimeters - 12742 millimeters. In meters it is 12 meters plus 74 centimeters and 2 millimeters. And the exact ratio of our globe and the Earth will be one to a million. One millimeter on the globe is equal to one kilometer on the planet. With such a scale, you won’t even need to recalculate anything. The eleven-kilometer Mariana Trench, the deepest chasm in the world's oceans, is an eleven-millimeter dimple on our globe, and the nine-millimeter hill on it is 8 kilometers, 848 meters of the largest Himalayan peak.
And here in front of us is a globe the height of a four-story building. And, imagining it in precise, precise proportions, we see the following picture: An ideal ball the height of a four-story building. The flattening at the poles in this huge sphere, which is talked about so much, will be only 10 millimeters, and we will not even notice it. The surface of the globe is slightly uneven, with roughness ranging from 2 to 9 millimeters thick - these are our mountain systems and the highest peaks. Most of the globe is covered with water (or its imitation) with an average thickness of 4-6 millimeters, that is, the size of window glass. Under this layer there are several scratches, the deepest of which is 11 millimeters - the Mariana Trench.
And all this “trifle” is on a ball the size of a four-story building. These are the proportions. Let's go further. Let's take a piece out of our globe, like from a watermelon, so that we can look inside. And then we will see: the solid shell of the planet - the lithosphere - has a thickness of 15-30 centimeters, it is divided into pieces (lithospheric plates), which float on the semi-liquid asthenosphere - a layer that separates the solid shell from the rest of the densest contents of the planet - the mantle and core. Multi-meter pieces 15-30 centimeters thick float on the surface of a ball the size of a four-story building, move, shift, crawl under each other and crawl out from under each other. And on them there is a thin, thin layer of water of 5 millimeters.
Let us now imagine that we, in the role of cosmic forces, put our hand on these pieces on the globe and begin to slowly shift them. What will happen to our five-millimeter ocean? Something incredible. How to move the plates so slowly, even over millions of years, so that the land does not change its shape, and the ocean does not splash and overflow its banks? This is an incredible task. You can take any encyclopedia on geology, carefully study all these plates and their movement and make sure that the profiles of the continents coincide when combined, not because they originate from one common piece, but for some other reasons. But for us now it doesn’t matter. Another interesting thing is to imagine whether the outlines of land and oceans can change when plates move?
For such changes, pieces of the lithosphere on our globe will need to rise or fall a little, just a couple of millimeters or even a millimeter. Not even the pieces themselves, but their edges, that is, some of their edges will rise slightly, while others will fall. Just a millimeter. And in order for the bottom of the oceans to be exposed and the land to become the sea, this rise and fall for the full effect must occur by just a centimeter. For example, an African plate, which occupies an area of 9.5 by 11 meters on the surface of the globe, will have to raise one edge by a centimeter and lower the other. And this despite the fact that, according to proven scientific data, plates are capable of creeping onto each other, colliding, moving up and down, forming mountain systems and ocean basins.
We also need to take into account tsunamis - waves tens and hundreds of meters high that wash away everything in their path during earthquakes in marine areas. For such a wave to appear, two lithospheric plates need to move relative to each other by only a meter. This happens when they move slowly, when, over hundreds of years, gigantic stress accumulates at the junction of the plates and, having reached a critical point, the earth’s crust collapses or rises in an instant. On the scale of our globe, one meter of this shift will be equal to a thousandth(!) of a millimeter. The same African plate measuring 9.5 by 11 meters and 15-30 centimeters thick will lower or raise one of its edges by a thousandth of a millimeter, and this will cause a destructive tsunami wave - a “global flood” - to spread across the planet.
Based on this model, it is easier to accept mountain ranges that “calmly” sank under water than diverging continents—the tops of lithospheric plates, uncovered by water. If we clearly imagine such an accurate model, it becomes clear that we live in an amazingly calm, incredibly calm geological time with its recorded 10,000 tremors per year. The planet is simply breathing, or has a slight chill. But if she becomes seriously ill and her trembling becomes stronger, then we - the microorganisms inhabiting the folds of her skin - will not be happy. From these reasonings and calculations, let us go back in time, four thousand years ago. At a time when Hellas, familiar to us from the statues of Phidias and the writings of Herodotus, did not yet exist, when Homer had not yet been born, but the events described in his poems were already taking place - during the heyday of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea. A rich, beautiful country lies under an azure sky. ...That day, just as always, the waves carried the gifts of Poseidon onto the sun-warmed stones. Shells and algae blown by the wind gave him the aromas of the sea, and he picked them up and carried them to the fields, vineyards, city streets and markets, where he generously shared his cool breezes with the residents.
It seemed that nothing could interrupt this idyll of paradise on an island far from the shores of the warlike barbarians of the Greeks, who were just beginning their path to civilization. The Minoans had friendly trade relations with powerful Egypt, and there was no need even to build impregnable defensive fortresses, since there was no one to defend against. The life of the islanders took place among nature, fragrant and blooming with all the colors of eternal spring. They grew rich harvests, the whole world built spacious, light-filled palaces of rulers and temples of goddesses, relaxed in contemplation of sports competitions and basked in the comfort of bathrooms. But life is structured in such a way that the seeds of a person’s troubles and suffering begin to germinate within himself—in soil richly fertilized with prosperity and pleasure. Behind the sunny façade of life, decorated with colorful frescoes with birds, flowers and dolphins, lurks and has long been gaining strength in the dark reality of new cults, impressing the sophisticated, pleasure-filled imagination of the Cretans.
The elaborate houses of some wealthy Minoans hide strange objects. Vases for ritual ceremonies are kept in special rooms. Some are empty, ready to be filled with blood again in due time; in others, already used children's bones - knuckles, vertebrae - lie interspersed with sea shells. In the basements on the floor you can see the same sinister attributes of the cult. The bones of teenage children bear marks of cuts from a sharp knife and traces of the removal of meat from them; cuts on the cervical vertebrae indicate that the victims were killed in the same way as sheep, by cutting their throats. In the richest and most beautiful city of Crete, Knossos, temples were hidden behind high walls, in which human sacrifices replaced the old fertility rites. The servants of the new gods and goddesses recruit followers from the local nobility, who carry new symbols of the cult and rituals into their homes and families. On that day, as had happened more than once, a sacrifice ceremony took place in one of these temples.
The fire in the oil lamps plays with living reflections on the large stone slabs that serve as the walls of the temple. In the central room, on a raised platform, there is a wooden idol of the goddess the size of a man. His clothes seem to flutter in the glow of the fire, and he himself seems to be trembling, impatiently waiting for the moment when he can again inhale the sweet smell of fresh, still warm blood.
In the next room, on a low altar, lies an eighteen-year-old youth tied up, gloriously a bull before slaughter. He watches as the gods of the night, who have inhabited the bodies of three priests, inexorably approach him. He was scared when the clergy - two men and a woman - fought in a frenzied dance, surrendering to the power of the gods, but now, under the gaze of distraught people, in whose dilated pupils the shadows of death and tongues of flame jump, the feeling of fear turns into a feeling of hopelessness. His naked body is already in the power of the kingdom of the dead, it is shaking in chills, and his thoughts are confused, going over the names of the gods, mixing them with the names of dear, beloved people. Those whose thought made life filled with warmth and sunshine. Who can help, who is closer, people or gods? Where are they all? Cold, freezing cold, fear and unearthly melancholy. The last feeling of life is the touch of the cold bronze of a ritual dagger on the throat, the crunch of cut cartilage, the warmth flowing over the skin... The priest puts the knife aside and quickly places a bowl with an image of a bull under the stream. The other two look tiredly and detachedly at the blood flowing into the vessel. The cup is filled, the priest slowly gets up and carries it, heading to the chambers of the deity. Now he is already in the corridor, two steps from the idol’s dwelling, and sees his face, illuminated by the trembling flame of the lamps. Everything froze before the finale, not a single sound, not a single breath...
And suddenly the floor disappeared from under my feet. A terrifying roar shook the entire island. The bowl falls from the hands, the walls collapse - blocks of stone. The fire of oil lamps spreads under the rubble of the ceilings, engulfing in flames the blood-soaked belly of the sanctuary, like the stomach of a crushed insatiable beast with its contents - the bodies of priests, pieces of a wooden god and ritual objects. Under the burning ruins of the temple of darkness, both the victim and the executioners were buried in an instant.
Houses, temples, cities of Crete turned into ruins. The groans and desperate cries of the crippled people are heard louder and louder. And more roar and impacts of the earth... And more. It was as if the earth itself had gone mad from these crazy rituals. And, unable to endure them any longer, he takes revenge on the person for the humiliation of the life she gave him... Such events are not a page from a fiction novel. This exactly happened on the island of Crete three and a half thousand years ago. An earthquake during human sacrifice is a fact established by archaeologists Sakellarakis during excavations on the island in 1979*. Bloody rituals were resumed over and over again, as soon as the life of the Cretans returned to their usual course, and over and over again the island was shaken by earthquakes, until the Minoan civilization finally fell under the blows of the elements and the invasion of warlike barbarians.
Natural disasters have always been one of the main causes of the death of civilizations. Flooding or, conversely, the withdrawal of water flows into the thickness of the earth. Desert invasion or devastating earthquakes. Hordes of nomads, armies of foreigners only helped the work of nature, ruining cities that had grown lazy amid luxury, sweeping away empires torn apart by the intrigues of greedy rulers. Traces of such catastrophes are numerous. And the most enormous catastrophe, which left an indelible mark in the memory of peoples and in the annals of nature, was the death of Atlantis. _______ *Encyclopedia “Vanished Civilizations. Amazing Aegean Kingdoms"
Maltsev Sergey Alexandrovich
The history of the emergence of the concept of “tablets”
We continue our research. From ancient biblical sources it is known that Moses, to whom the tablets of the Covenant of God were handed over, broke them in anger when he saw that people were worshiping a material god - the “Golden Calf”. I draw attention to the phrase “material god”, which speaks only of one thing – the heavenly outline of the Testament, and not the material one.
And other tablets were written, more worldly, but placed in a wooden ark so that no one else could destroy them. They have become a symbol of the presence of the highest in the life of every day, as a determining factor of protection for those who are able to open and read the tablets of the laws of life.
Let's give a definition:
- The Tablets are the laws of the Highest and, in the highest sense, the Spirit of Truth, hidden in the Ark of the Covenant from the human mind.
Remember the expression - “Granite of science”. Granite (stone) means the very ark of the tablets of the Covenant, which cannot simply be found or acquired, it must be opened, understood and accepted.
In later interpretations, expressions are often found that this or that statement for people is inscribed on the tablets of the Testament, that is, as an immutable fact or law of life.
