About one vague story, which still stays vague...
( a manuscript, pulled from under the pillow )
...Russia came across an issue of foretelling-where should
we anticipate problems from?
Anyone who is interested in our history knows about
mysterious trips to Tibet, arranged by the Russian Main Political
Bureau. What were Russian spies looking for? The thing is that
not all the agents of MPB knew it as such. For the close circle
of the informed this governmental body was known as the State
Foretelling Bureau. Its profile was far from foretelling weather.
By the way, The State plan of the USSR of the Brezhnev's time was
a weak attempt to recreate similar historical body, but we will
talk about it later. If we look from this perspective at the
expeditions, then we will see without a doubt that their efforts
were targeted at gathering ancient mystic knowledge about the
structure of the universe and the possibilities of foretelling
its pace.
At that particular time the young country was practically
left without any information about the ways which were used for
such purposes in the Czar Russian Empire. Due to the
understandable secrecy of this procedure the circle of the
informed would be always narrow; they form a close community
where you can be only recommended as a successor to its members,
if you wish to get there. So the information about the
predecessors was virtually unavailable except for some report
documents addressed to the name of the Emperor and by their
contents one could guess about the existence of such service.
(These documents are still classified).
By the way, a very interesting situation looms out.
Everyone knows that in any medieval European country there were
always court astrologists, who gave counseling on, either state
affairs or family issues of the monarchs. Everybody is familiar
with the name of Nostradamus. We all know about the famous
horoscope of Wagenstein made by Kepler. The same thing could be
said about ancient China. It is not a secret what power native
shamans had on the American Continent. Not lesser role was given
to priests-foretellers in ancient Greece and Egypt. These people
always stayed by the side of the authorities, in fact never
mixing with them. But in Russian practice there were sagacious
elders, monks, "God's fools" always staying by the side of grand
dukes and the authority asked their blessing for each important
event .. By the way, these people almost never took important
postings in church hierarchy. And if we take a look at Russian
fairy tales, we will be able to notice, that they often
introduced some characters of roaming elders who precisely
foretold how and what should happen. They couldn't just appear in
fairy tales if they didn't exist in real life. And suddenly these
characters start to disappear.
We don't hear much about them. Only rarely some snippets
of information sneak out like, for example, the fact, that Hitler
had a personal astrologist. Nevertheless, astrology and fortune
telling with Taro cards and many other foretelling practices
exist and flourish up till now. And it is an interesting fact,
that we don't get surprised when we see a serious businessman
resorting to the help of a fortune teller, but for some reason in
our conscious we can't relate it to state structures. However,
this theme line would be more ideal for a psychological research.
And after the flourishing of mysticism and maximum of
freedom of thinking of the first post revolutionary years (it
becomes obvious from looking at the tendencies in the painting
art, poetry of those years) the young Soviet Russia moves to such
a primitive form of materialism, surprise as it may seem (what by
the way doesn't get reflected in the same art of painting and
poetry). In fact, Stalin who was at the country' rule at those
times wasn't a stranger to mysticism, in fact practiced it to
some certain extent. It is a well known fact, that he changed his
birth date and from some rather delicate, but comprehensive facts
we could assume that he applied the principles of cabbalistic
practices in his long-term strategy.
So what was it? Perhaps, the distracting maneuver and
Stalin was a master of these things. Or maybe he was putting to
practice the thesis of Dao De Czin:
"In ancient times, those who followed Dao didn't inform
people about it, but made them ignorant. It is difficult to rule
people, if they have a lot of knowledge..." (N 65).
But let's get back to the 20-s. There were always tight
deadlines for a specific task to combine ultra contemporary
methods with the most ancient traditions. Unique manuscripts had
been brought from Tibetan expeditions as well as people who'd
been passing on the knowledge (at those times there were a lot of
people who sympathized with a young republic). Nowadays we have
access to some information about the mystic circles of the 20-s,
and one of its initiators was a high official, spy Gleb Bokiy,
who at the same time was in charge of keeping the state's secrets
and high clearance cable correspondence. There was some testing
being done in those circles and the future candidates for the
role of the main political foretellers would drop out or pass. We
can't ignore the fact that Stalin was the main initiator and idea
inspirator for these works. But he stayed behind the scene, at
the backstage, which points at his thoughtfulness and keen
insight.
By the way the main rival of Stalin - Hitler introduced
some similar policy. It is an interesting fact, that in Germany
both before and after the Nazis came to power there were secret
mystic circles ( in particular, the wide spread well known
Anannerbe with "the cream" of the German society in it). The
special services also would arrange trips to Tibet. In fact,
after the Reich's office had been captured, three corpses of
Tibetan monks were found there. And this was only the surface of
the iceberg.
In Russia these were the times of searches, attempts,
trial runs, mistakes. In particular, the status of the future
foretellers turned out to be the major problem, should they be
the state or military officers or should they be of some sort of
a special entity? Strangers to the subject of foretelling would
think this issue sort of far fetched but it was not quite so.
Moreover, in certain cases this issue was the key one. Every
physicist knows that measuring of any quant of the environment
brings changes to the measured characters. And the issue of
foretelling without a doubt is more sensitive to the process of
making the measuring. And it is not of the least importance of
who these foretellers are. Due to the fact that foretelling dealt
with most of it state issues and therefore the relationship
between the foretellers and the state were extremely important.
We don't have any authentic resources which would point
at the ways this issue was solved at those times. According to
some indirect information we could conclude, that repressions of
the thirties were carried out with the attempt of direct
involvement of the foretellers in the process. Most of the issues
on political state of the country didn't find their
understanding. The foretellers used different thinking categories
and couldn't comprehend what they were asked. Therefore their
subsequent drop out from the state structures led to its
helplessness during the early period of the Great Patriotic War
(World War2). However, as it follows from the historic materials,
eventually, some sort of compromise was reached. This topic is
very voluminous and has yet to find its researchers.
Without a doubt, I-Czin was one of the key instruments of
foretelling for some reason. It is an ancient Chinese teaching
from the "Book of changes" which in old times was used in China
for similar purposes. It could be possible, that Bolsheviks liked
the book for a lot of reasons, including its name, which
expressed the very spirit of the revolution. The vivid example of
the state's position on this problem is the life story of
Shutskiy, who subsequently became a well known orientalist. By
the way, we could also note that his translation in that
particular period of time was not the only one, and most of his
works and translations on the direct application of the
methodology still bear a high clearance status.
What are the examples, the traits of these special
Bureau's researches?
The country, which was going through its industrial rise,
which chose the appropriate way of development couldn't use
ancient methods as a foretelling technique. To put it simple,
foretelling on the leaves of the milfoil wasn't appropriate to
the spirit of the time. There was a need in something new,
global, industrial and collective. The new way was supposed to
reflect mass culture and mechanism of the merciless strength of
statistics. And in the long run it was found.
Let's take a close look at the major project during those
years - the building of the Moscow Underground under the
management of Lasar Kaganovich, who was the closest aid to
Stalin. In this case even at first observation of the structure,
including trains and all other unique details for those times for
this specific kind of transportation allows revealing its
similarity with some sort of a mechanism. This kind of system
could be used in many different purposes, however, we are now
interested in its foretelling aspect. It satisfies clear but
strict requirements: there is a solid structure and there is
"randomly" changing variables, filling of the content. By the
way, the metro corresponded to the spirit of the "chief of the
nation" - the underground was always associated with the mystery
and mysticism. It is not surprising, that Stalin personally took
an active part in it, even up to designing the stations.
It's difficult to say what came first - the idea to
create a huge foretelling instrument, which realized the spirit
of the time or an ideally suitable for the foretellers object,
which they came across in their searches and introduced some
changes to it later on. Nevertheless, we could definitely say,
that this invention was soviet. Neither one of world's metros was
used for such purposes before. A lot of details of this device
pointed at it very clearly and so did the contents of the objects
of the metro in other countries.
Perhaps, we should briefly mention necessary elements of
foretelling for those, who are unfamiliar with the I-Czin
technique. The key element is a hexagram. Speaking the language
of mathematics it is an ordered combination of 6 elements which
possess two characters (i.e. double code). Overall there are 64
characters. These two states are called Ying and Yang. They are
designated appropriately as a whole horizontal line, torn in two.
A hexagram visually looks like a column of 6 lines. Besides, each
line can be "young" or "old" and corresponds directly to
"changes", i.e. the process of floating of one hexagram into the
other. Therefore, a very small order of elements according to the
number (64) allows modeling and considering huge numbers of
possible situations. To understand the way these processes work,
we could refer to some additional literature. Our interest here
is in the very process of getting the hexagram.
It is a well known fact, that taking pictures was
prohibited in metro for a rather long period time and for film
making purposes the footage with the metro were to be consulted
with special state institutions. Everyone knows about the
continuation of the construction works during the war and the
existence of the governmental city under the ground. It is not a
secret, that there were bomb shelters there for emergency
situations, including war. But all these objects were just a
cover for something which caused an interest of the higher
political institutions to the metro. Therefore, a super
confidential object was accessible to everyone with its basic and
perhaps main secret staying unrevealed.
Few people would question why metro trains have 6 benches
and 6 seats. And if we add, that traditionally Yang is associated
with a male beginning and Ying with a female one? There is,
however, a little difficulty in defining between young or old
Ying but it is not an issue for the specialists. The natural
orientation of the hexagram was assigned by the direction of the
train. And if we recall vague writings like "Places for
passengers with children"...then everything falls back into
place. There is only one technical detail though. How would the
foreteller get the information from the required point of the
Metro at the required moment of time?(The choice of the place and
time is related to a foretelling technology and take us further
away from the topic of discussion, although it is a very
interesting issue).
"Human resources are a key to everything!" Everyone was
familiar with this famous Stalin's slogan. However, its true
sense hides in a totally different direction. And really, there
was a need in a hexagram or the order of hexagrams with every
controversial situation or any other which required decision
making and therefore the estimation of the sequences of a certain
approach. It is clear that the members of the foretelling team
and those of the Political Bureau never used metro themselves.
There was a special group of the Bureau working there, which
delivered photo shots from the required place of the metro. After
getting these issues all arguments was senseless - the final word
was given to Stalin who considered the forecast in his own way
and made decisions.
Besides we can't ignore the choice of trains' directions
in the Moscow underground, which was far from being randomly.
Here we can see the obvious influence of the foretelling group.
So the astrologists say about the clear correspondence of the
branches of the Moscow metro to the Zodiac signs. If we look at
the scheme of the movement, then we can instantly notice that all
directions (rather evenly) are used (geographically). Besides,
there is a rather important element - the circle line, which
separates the external from the internal. It is obvious that for
the forecasts related to different countries, the stations of the
metro were chosen on the appropriate distance from the circle
line which symbolized "the closer circle"; by the way this very
terminology went through many situations and therefore could mean
different things. Thus if there was an issue about the internal
problems of the country then it symbolized the capital or the top
of the party. On the international level it corresponded to our
country.
After focusing all the power in his hands by the end of
his life Stalin started to noticeably restrict the access to the
foretellers and many at the top of the ruling power never knew
anything about it at all (they were deprived of major lever arms
of power) or didn't take "strange inclinations" of the first
Bolsheviks seriously.
After the death of the "father of people", Khrushchev
attempted to move on to softer forms of foretelling. In fact,
many peoples of the world have a taboo on "meddling" with the
depth of the earth; the underground is considered far from being
the best place and is associated with hell, evil, gloom and
fears.
The authorities of the country came across the question,
if the previous period was somehow related to the gloom of the
underground mechanism of foretelling to some considerable extent?
And Nikita Sergeevich, a rather decisive person tried to
introduce some innovations to this mechanism. However, the
foretelling on the corn stems similar to that of a milfoil of the
ancient Chinese obviously didn't work. Possibly it led to such a
failing end.
Brezhnev in his turn made an attempt to create a
"bureaucratic" foretelling mechanism in the form of the State
Plan. But unfortunately the form, which was plotted for the
generation of the random events ( in the form of orders,
directions, ideally kept secret) was understood in a wrong way,
to be more precise came out of control and these orders were
simply carried out, which led to the poorest results. The state
body, which was authorized to bring in the dynamism, according to
the name of "The book of Changes" turned into its complete
contrary version and became the source of "stagnation".
Apparently, there is no sense to discuss the ways, which were
used to generate events in the State Plan, since it wouldn't be
possible to repeat this unsuccessful experience. But the main
result of gained experience pointed to the necessity in the
instrument of foretelling on the governmental level and its
correspondence to the spirit of the time. And, if we proceed from
the most recent events, it is yet to be created at least in its
improved form.
"...Russia where are you running? Answer me. There is no
answer."
Not everything is as pessimistic as some classic writer
put it. There is an answer and our task is to take it from
nature. Although this issue is not simple, it requires patience,
accuracy and along this decisiveness and persistence in its
search. Russia without a doubt is one of the perspective
countries in this sense. What would be the fundament of the new
system? Would that be checked in practice I-Czin, European or
Indian astrology, Maya mystic calendar,..., or maybe we will
invent something new in the new century ?