Abel is a clairvoyant. Abel - monk-fortune teller

22.01.2014, 21:08

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Most modern fortune tellers from the major leagues of magic often argue about whether to tell a client that certain fatal events await him, such as his own death, or to measure someone close to him.

For some, this is a question of ethics, which I (the witch Olga) will definitely consider in this article. For the second, knowledge of human psychology. For others, it is the understanding that often some predictions cannot be called a final verdict. That such a terrible prediction can be used as a kind of terrible beacon, signaling that if nothing is changed, the most frightening outcome of events is inevitable.

But let's start with the question of ethics. And its consideration must begin with what exactly the client says when coming to the fortuneteller or witch. After all, it is often the clients who determine the level of “scary” predictive information that they are ready to hear:
“If you see something scary,” some say, “then don’t tell me about it.”
“Tell me the whole truth,” others say, “I want to know everything!”

But if clients do not make such reservations, the magician himself makes the decision. And he looks at what the psyche of the person who ordered fortune telling from him is ready for. After all, it is much easier for some people not to know the terrible, which will allow them, on the one hand, not to lose faith if they are fighting for their lives or for the lives of their relatives, and on the other hand, not to be poisoned by the expectation of the inevitability recent years or days.

Others, on the contrary, should be told the whole truth so that they have time to think, rethink their lives and begin to do at least something. Judge for yourself: a certain fat man comes to the witch, who has long since exceeded the weight of 200 kilograms. The witch lays out the tarot cards, looks, and sees in them a sign of “quick death.” What should she do after this? Keep silent or tell the truth? If she remains silent, the fat man, continuing to overeat, will very soon drive himself into a double coffin - he will not fit in a standard-sized coffin. And if she tells the truth, perhaps he will decide to take care of himself and then he will have a chance to prolong his life, albeit scanty, but still a chance.

But people, alas, do not like those who predict bad and terrible things for them. Such is human nature - everyone wants to know that everything will be fine, or at least good. This is what all sorts of scammers take advantage of, amassing huge fortunes from people’s internal fear of finding out the truth. Having come to such a “seer”, you hear a “prediction” according to which you will be happy, rich, healthy, and will live a bright and interesting life. With unspeakable enthusiasm you pay the money. Leave... Then a year or two passes. AND…. And nothing that was predicted for you comes true.

But the surprising thing is that you don't feel resentful about being deceived. After all, you have lived for several years in the happy illusion that happiness and wealth are about to come. And even though nothing of what you expected came true, you still go to the scammer to pay for a new portion of deception - for false illusions, staying in which leads nowhere.

But the witch who tells the whole truth is not loved by clients. And I know this, unfortunately, from my own experience. As soon as a person says: “The way you live will lead to the fact that you will die before reaching the age of 40,” “Your laziness, passivity, arrogance are to blame for all the troubles that have befallen you,” “No matter how much you prostrate yourself before the one you love, you will not receive love in return,” people are offended as if they were deceived.

And this is not just my experience. So great Vanga She said more than once that everyone to whom she predicted bad things considered her a charlatan. But those for whom it boded well praised it with enthusiasm. Moreover, those who heard good things believed Vanga, those who heard bad things did not.

This is why some professional esotericists believe that it is better not to voice predictions about death. After all, they know that clients either won’t trust them or won’t change anything. But in vain, the same Vanga repeatedly repeated to all her students that it is impossible to change only the very near fatal future. And even then, there are cases when a person with powerful energy or armed with a strong will is able to push death away from himself. As for the future, which is 4 or more years distant from us, changing it is incredibly easy. But, unfortunately, not only for the better, but also for the worse.

As for me, the black witch Olga, unless you forbid me to tell the whole truth about your future, or the future of your relatives, I would prefer to voice the most terrible predictions. And there are many reasons for this, the most important of which I will list:

1. It is fatal predictions that allow you to prepare for the worst. And if you are a philosopher or wise man, then you understand how important it is to leave in time without leaving karmic or material debts.

2. Also, predicting someone else's death allows you to forgive and say goodbye to those you love. Or reconsider your attitude towards people with whom you broke up for some seemingly important reasons.

3. Also, if you arm yourself with the advice of an experienced magician, you can push back death not just for a couple of months, but for a very long time.

4. It is precisely such predictions that can force one to abandon an action, a meeting, a trip, which, according to the tarot, can end in death.

5. And most importantly, having learned about such predictions, a person gets a chance to be saved, not only by changing himself, or by showing caution and caution. But also resort to ritual magic. If, of course, the Higher Powers wish to give him a reprieve.

But only an experienced witch can tell you about this, who, most likely, you will not love, because she will tell you such a terrible truth, even though she will later try to save you...
(C) Witch Olga

In our great state there were enough seers who, thanks to their majestic gift, were subjected to exile and disgrace. One of these predictors was the powerful and pious Abel. It was quite difficult for him, like many others, to live peacefully in our fatherland, because he was distinguished by surprisingly accurate and rather terrible predictions, especially in relation to Russian rulers. Who is this mysterious old man who prophesied on behalf of the Almighty? Let's find out from our article.

The future great seer was born in 1757 in a small village located in the Tula region. He grew up among many sisters and brothers, in love and justice. As soon as Abel reached adolescence, he decided to try his hand at carpentry. He spent only a short time in this area. The future soothsayer decided to become a monk and devote his entire life to God. The young man's parents were categorically against this, but Abel, despite their lamentations, went his own way. Without informing his parents, the young man married a girl from his village, but after living with her for some time, he left her and decided to go to the Vladimir Monastery to devote his life to the Christian faith.

How a monk had an epiphany

Abel lived in the Vladimir Church for only a year. During this time, the monk was overtaken by a serious illness. As mentioned in the publication about the life of the fortuneteller, during his illness he felt some strange emotions and forces, thanks to which he carried out absolutely inexplicable actions.

While living in the monastery, Abel spoke about certain beings reminiscent of heavenly angels, who appeared to him in a dream and endowed him with the ability to see. Later, the fortuneteller began to hear voices accompanying him everywhere; as it turned out, it was they who whispered unmistakable prophecies to him.

Abel claimed that he was taken to heaven, where he was shown two holy books in which great future events were predicted. After that, he wanted to write his own prophetic work, in which he would try to repeat what he saw. Later, the monk Abel heard a voice that gave him instructions as to who to predict what and how to act in a given situation.

Predictions for Catherine the Great

Monk Abel, whose prophecies affected many rulers, also described Catherine II in his book. He predicted no less than 40 years of reign for the empress, and also touched upon some facts of her death, for which he was exiled to St. Petersburg. Later, Catherine took pity on him and ordered him to be imprisoned until the end of his days. On November 5, the Empress was found lifeless on the floor. She died exactly as Abel’s prophecies said.

Prediction to Paul I

After Catherine the Great, her son Paul took the throne. He was constantly frightened by the thought that the monk Abel, whose predictions haunted him, could tell exactly about his death. But, despite his fear, he still went to the prophet in the fortress with his devoted favorite Lopukhina. After visiting Abel, Pavel was very excited and frightened, and his companion burst into bitter tears. The emperor could not sleep a wink all night, and in the morning he wrote a letter with the note: “To be opened on the 100th anniversary of my death.”

Lopukhina told one of her lovers what Abel prophesied to Pavel. The fortune teller monk told about his imminent death from those whom he warmed under his heart. And so it happened, the emperor died at the hands of his eldest son Alexander in 1801.

How Abel died

The fortune-telling monk passed away in the imperial prison, however, more about this later.

Having become the new emperor, Alexander freed Abel. He was free more than a year. During this time, he wrote a book in which he prophesied the detailed capture of Moscow. For such a cruel prediction, Alexander imprisoned the prophet again, but in the Solovetsky prison. Abel was to remain there until his vision came true. This happened 10 years later (during this time the monk underwent many severe tests), he was released, after which the prophet, tortured by captivity, decided to go to Jerusalem. Since the hour of his departure to another world was very close, Abel decided to meet his death in his homeland, but before that he could not resist again and spoke about his vision: after the death of Alexander, not Constantine (the eldest son), but Nicholas (the very less).

As soon as this happened, Abel was again imprisoned, where he died. This happened in 1831.

Prophecy by the Romanovs

On the 100th anniversary of Paul's death, 1901, Nicholas II opened the envelope. This event was accompanied by a ball and a luxurious banquet. After reading the cherished letter, the emperor did not say a word. It is only known that after some time he, together with the empress, left the palace in tears and bitter despair.

To this day no one knows what was written in the letter. But when, at the beginning of 1903, an unbearable panic arose in the gazebo where the tsar was resting, only the emperor remained unshakable. He then said that at the moment he has nothing to fear, because his death is still far away, so until 1918 he and his family have nothing to fear. And so it happened, the entire Romanov family was shot in

One of the editions talked about another prophecy regarding the Romanovs. What did Abel see? The fortune teller monk foresaw that not the entire family was going to die. One of the royal daughters, Anastasia, will survive, and she will rule the great state. According to Abel, this is evidenced by her majestic name, because Anastasia means “resurrected.”

Unfortunately, no one knows whether the girl survived or not, all that is known is that she was raised so that she was ready to ascend the imperial throne.

Many are interested in why Nicholas II, knowing about the date of his death, did not warn his family. Some historians suggest that the dead were not the Romanovs at all, because during the study, one of the daughters was 13 cm taller. There is also an assumption that the imperial family found refuge in England. But, unfortunately, there is no reliable data about this.

Monk Abel about the future of Russia

All the soothsayer’s predictions were kept strictly under the supervision of security services, but the leak still occurred during the collapse of the USSR.

Prophecies said that for 70 years Russia would be ruled by vile devils. And after this long time, they will slowly begin to leave the country. But a few demons will still remain. That's about our former government thought Abel.

The fortune-telling monk also spoke about a second Boris, who would leave his leadership post when no one expected it. After him, a short man will come to power, his face will be black, and his body will be half bald and half hairy. Monk Abel, whose prophecies regarding the future of Russia are not entirely comforting, said that this man would cause a lot of grief and at least two wars. One is on the Promethean Mountains, the second is the third Tauride (that is, Crimean).

Afterwards, a stupid boy will sit on the throne, but soon he and his retinue will be defeated.

What awaits Russia in the near future?

What did Abel say about the near future? The fortune-telling monk said that after the short man, some 10 terrible kings would rule for an hour, then a faceless sword-bearer shedding blood would appear, as well as a man who would emerge from the swamp with green eyes, he will take the leading position for some time.

Monk Abel also mentions Russia as an almost fallen state. His next prophecy speaks of some long-nosed, then marked character, as well as a person with unclean skin. The fortuneteller also mentions a lame man, as well as a golden-haired woman, who will be followed by 3 golden chariots.

Fortunately, Monk Abel talked a lot about the future of Russia, so we can say with confidence that peace in our native state will still come with the arrival of a certain “Great Chosen One of God”, who will protect the country from all the evils on earth. According to God's prophet, this person will be spiritually enlightened, intelligent and successful, he will truly love his state and his people. Under his leadership, the country will rise, mature, be strong and influential. According to the prophet, the people themselves will smell and understand that this man has finally come. The seer did not name the name, he only said that it would glow in Russian history twice.

Also, the monk Abel, whose predictions were always accurate, mentioned that two more people, called impostors, would rule before him. These people will occupy the throne, but in no case the royal one, because it is prepared for the person who is sent by the Lord himself. Well, we'll wait.

What about the end of the world?

All of Abel's prophecies end in the year 2896, when, in his opinion, the end of the world should occur, that is, the second coming of Jesus Christ. There are no exact data and details regarding this, because, as stated, all the books that the prophet devoted to this topic burned or were destroyed.

Many of the monk’s prophecies came true exactly, so I want to believe that our country will soon experience great prosperity.

September 10 is the birthday of one of the most mysterious and mysterious people XX century - Wolf Grigorievich Messing. The famous illusionist, hypnotist and soothsayer was born in a small village near Warsaw in 1899. In the middle of the last century, Messing was extremely popular and advised even Stalin himself. Therefore, we decided to recall the predictions of Wolf Grigorievich, which came true.

Predicted war and defeat

A prediction that almost cost the life of young Wolf Messing was made from the stage of a theater in Berlin. As he later wrote in his memoirs, visions of the future came to him unexpectedly and uncontrollably. Most likely, this is why Messing in front of a full hall German officers predicted the outbreak of World War II. But then the most terrible prophecy came from his lips - the fascist regime would face an inevitable collapse.

As eyewitnesses later said, Messing’s vision was so strong that he spoke nonstop for almost half an hour, and then simply collapsed on the stage.

The leadership of the dominant party immediately responded to this prediction. The truthful predictor was put on the wanted list, but he managed to escape to the USSR, thanks to the help of his friends, who later died at the hands of fascism.

Exact date

During the Great Patriotic War Wolf Messing, already famous in the USSR, was evacuated to Novosibirsk, where he continued his performances. War-weary people packed concert halls and came to performances several times to see real miracles. But mothers and wives who sent their sons and husbands to the front were only interested in one thing - whether their men were alive. Thousands of people wrote to him and tried to meet after the session, but Messing flatly refused to talk about it. The explanation was short: “I cannot make one family happy and deprive ten others of hope.”

But Messing still gave people the main hope by naming the date for the end of the war. This happened in 1943 at a session in Novosibirsk opera house. One of the spectators simply handed him a note, among others, which contained only one question: “When will the war end?”

Having finished reading the sentence, Messing immediately seemed to blurt out the date - May 8, although the predictor did not name the year.

Prediction of Stalin's death

The relationship between Messing and Joseph Stalin began with a serious test of the seer's abilities. First, Stalin summoned Wolf Grigorievich to his reception in the Kremlin. After asking questions about Poland and the tour, he suggested that the fortuneteller try to leave the Kremlin building without a pass, stand under a tree, and then return. When the amazed Stalin saw Messing walking from the window, he was amazed, and when he returned he began to ask him how he managed it. To which the fortuneteller replied that he simply inspired the guards with “The general is coming, trump and let them through.”

To check Messing again, Stalin asked to take 100 thousand rubles out of the savings bank at the usual net notebook sheet. This test almost ended in tragedy. A bank employee had a heart attack when he saw why he gave out a large sum money. Fortunately, the man recovered.

In 1953, Messing himself came to see Stalin to ask him to stop the persecution of Jews in the USSR. But the leader didn’t even want to listen to him, then Wolf Grigorievich predicted that Stalin’s death was not far away and that he would die on a Jewish holiday. And so it happened, on March 5, 1953, when the entire Jewish world celebrated Purim (a holiday dedicated to the salvation of the Jews of the Persian Empire from the insidious plans of Haman, the favorite of the Persian king), Joseph Stalin died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his official residence in the Near Dacha.

Appointment of editor-in-chief

In his memoirs, Wolf Messing often talks about how he demonstrated his capabilities to skeptics. Such an incident occurred in the editorial office of one of the newspapers. In the presence of the editor-in-chief and ten journalists, Messing decided to demonstrate his talent for providence. To make everything fair, he asked to write down his predictions. Several decades later, Wolf Grigorievich described his memories of this incident in detail in the book “About Myself.”

“Some with interest, others with a skeptical smile, but they all pulled out their notebooks. Those who did not have notebooks took blank sheets of paper from the editor-in-chief’s desk. Armed with eternal feathers...

Now write,” I commanded cheerfully, “today is the fifth of June... Between the twentieth and twenty-fifth of June... excuse me, what is your last name?” - I turned to one of those present.

“Ivan Ivanov ich Ivanov,” he answered readily.

So, between the twentieth and twenty-fifth of June, you, Ivanov, will receive a very large promotion in the service line. New appointment... I have a request to everyone: when this happens, call me... Have you written everything down? Well, in a few weeks you will find out whether I was there or not.

On the twenty-second they called me at different times four people. Ivanov was appointed editor-in-chief of one of the largest newspapers... The witnesses to this incident are all alive and I think everyone remembers this day - the fifth of June. Just don’t look for Ivanov’s surname in the lists of editors-in-chief: I don’t know whether he will be pleased with the wide publicity of this case, and therefore I did not name either the editorial office of the newspaper or his real surname.”

Last prediction

The worst thing about the gift of clairvoyance is knowledge that you cannot get rid of. Likewise, Wolf Messing absolutely knew the date of his death and tried to rarely think about it. But when the time was approaching, he clung to life and believed in the power of doctors and God.

Going for the operation, Messing turned to his house and whispered, “Well, that’s it Wolf, you won’t come back here again.” And so it happened, despite the fact that the operation was successful, the fortuneteller’s kidneys suddenly failed, and on November 8, 1974, he passed away. Wolf Messing was buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery, next to his wife.

Knowing how much time fate has given you seems very tempting. On the other hand, a person warned of his hour of death is like a condemned man who has been told the date of his execution. And it doesn’t matter that it happens in 10 (20, 50) years, you will still have to live with the clock turned on inside, forever tormenting yourself with calculations: here I am one more day closer to death. So there is ignorance great meaning, protecting us from insane suffering, and great hope: what if we are immortal?
Alas, a person who has tasted the apple from the tree of knowledge wants to know everything, even in spite of obvious inexpediency.

Professional future predictors have a huge clientele all over the world. Now our country has reached the point where prophets of all stripes not only freely settle down on the pages of entertainment publications, but also penetrate into serious popular science magazines and even into the successor of Vremya - the Central Television information program.

As you know, the most common methods of predicting the future are the following: clairvoyance, fortune telling (using cards, coffee grounds, etc.), astrology and palmistry. Before we talk about some of them in more detail, let's take a short historical excursion.

The Institute of Homegrown Futurology has existed since time immemorial. Judging by historical writings, hordes of soothsayers crowded at the palaces of emperors, kings, kings, sultans, governors, and therefore almost every ruler of antiquity knew the time and nature of his death.

Arrian and Plutarch write that shortly before the death of Alexander the Great, a fortuneteller named Pythagoras (not to be confused with the famous mathematician) predicted the imminent death of the emperor. The same Arrian says that upon Alexander’s arrival in Babylon (the city where he died), he was met by Chaldean soothsayers, who persuaded the great commander not to enter the city, or at least not to enter towards the west (that is, towards sunset). There were other events that were interpreted as bad omens. In one case, when Alexander lost the royal diadem during a voyage, and the sailor who found it put it on his head. Another time on royal throne They discovered a man appearing out of nowhere in royal vestments and a crown. The impostor was executed, however, this incident was later included in the number of warnings about near death.

Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch and other historians of antiquity claim that almost all Roman emperors were well aware of the details of their death, and, no matter how sophisticated some of them were in trying to deceive fate, none succeeded.

On the eve of Domitian's death, a certain German fortuneteller told him that tomorrow there would be a change of power. The emperor ordered the soothsayer to be killed. However, he did not escape what was predicted. Long ago, at the dawn of his foggy youth, the Chaldeans promised him that he would die at the fifth hour. The emperor's close associates also knew about this. Therefore, the next day, when he asked after lunch what time it was, he was told to reassure him that it was six o’clock. Domitian breathed a sigh of relief; now he could go to the bathhouse. But then the sleeping bag Parfeniy reported that some man had arrived with important news. The emperor dismissed the servants, entered the bedroom, where an imaginary messenger was waiting for him, hiding a weapon in the folds of his clothes, and was killed.

The situation was approximately the same with the Russian autocrats. According to popular legend, Archpriest Avvakum, who was burned at the stake on April 14, 1682, predicted imminent death Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich after his execution. And indeed, the king died two weeks later - on April 27 of the same year. Soothsayers, who were often called Magi in Rus', according to legend, predicted the exact day of death of Ivan the Terrible.

The death of the Russian Empress Elizabeth, who died on December 25, 1761 (old style), was also predicted. On the eve of the death of the Empress, the famous St. Petersburg holy fool Ksenia (Ksenia Grigorievna Petrova) walked around the city and said: “Bake pancakes, all of Russia will bake pancakes!” The day and hour of Catherine II’s death was accurately predicted by the monk Abel (Avelius), for which he was imprisoned. After the death of the empress, the monk was released, but he had the misfortune of predicting the death of Paul I in vain and was immediately imprisoned for the second time.

What are the traditional methods of predicting death?

The ideas of predicting the future using palmistry are especially popular all over the world. ancient art fortune telling using the “lines of fate” on the hand. Palmistry was known back in Ancient Egypt. Thinkers such as Pythagoras were fascinated by it. And the first treatise on hand-telling that has come down to us was written by Aristotle in 350 BC. e.

Adherents of palmistry, like supporters of any other method of predicting the future, can give hundreds of convincing examples of their correctness. Thus, they claim that the Italian mathematician, doctor and astrologer of the 16th century Gerolamo Cardano predicted the fate of the English queen Mary Tudor and her half-sister Elizabeth by hand, that the Frenchman Debarol accurately foresaw the future of Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and Garibaldi, that the 19th century soothsayer Marie Lenormand predicted the fate of many great people of her time, including Napoleon (death on the island) and his wife Josephine. The fame of Mademoiselle Lenormand was so great that not only the French, but also numerous foreigners turned to her. In 1814, the Decembrist S.I. Muravyov-Apostol was predicted by a palmist to die by hanging. Hearing the prophecy, the 18-year-old guardsman was indignant. It could never have occurred to him that he, a Russian nobleman, could be put to death, much less such a shameful one. However, this really happened - after the failure of the Decembrist uprising.

A. Larina, the widow of N. I. Bukharin, recalls the accurate prediction of the palmist:

“Anticipating his imminent end,” she writes, “Nikolai Ivanovich told me an interesting episode that happened in the summer of 1918 in Berlin, where he was sent... There, in Berlin, he heard that on the outskirts of the city there lived an amazing palm reader who accurately predicted fate along the lines of the hand. Out of curiosity, he and G. Ya. Sokolnikov went to her. I can’t remember what the palmist predicted to N. I. she said:

You will be executed in your own country.

Well, do you think that Soviet power will he die? - asked N.I., who decided to ask the palmist for a political forecast.

I can’t predict under what government you will die, but definitely in Russia, there will be a wound to the neck and death by hanging!

N.I., shocked by her forecast, exclaimed:

How so? A person can die for only one reason: either from a wound in the neck, or from the gallows!

But the palmist repeated:

It will be both.

“So,” said N.I., “I am choked with horror at the anticipation of terror on a grand scale. In palmist language, apparently, this means a wound in the neck, subsequently death by hanging - no matter what from a bullet."

The future British Minister of the Navy, Lord Kitchener, had death by water written on his palm at the age of 66. A similar end was predicted for him in July 1894 by the famous palmist Keiro (pseudonym of Count Luis Hamon). Kitchener was 44 years old at the time. The prophecy came true - in June 1916, the cruiser Hampshire, on which the minister was traveling to Russia, was blown up by a mine. Another accurate prediction by Cairo is the death of Major John Logan from a blow to the head. Indeed, a year after the prediction, Logan, drafted into the army (the Spanish-American War began), died from a stray bullet that hit him in the head. Cairo also has accurate predictions of the death of the captain of the Titanic and the fate of Oscar Wilde. But in the case of the famous Mata Hari, Keiro was wrong. He predicted her violent death at the age of 37. But Mata Hari lived four years longer than predicted. There are other cases of discrepancy between the signs on the hand and the real, accomplished fate of a person. Palmists themselves admit this. “Having examined hands for thirteen years,” writes V. Finogeev, “I discovered many people who had signs of death and injury on their palms, but who did not die or were injured at all at the age marked by the signs. So, “ accidental death"Still disgusting?" The palmist is inclined to explain this gap between theory and practice not by the weakness of the theory, but by the fact that a person is “able to win over any of the psychic entities through humility, fasting and prayer” and thereby soften karma (predetermined fate).

What does serious science say about palmistry?

In 1991, the British Royal Society of Medicine reported an attempt to test in practice the theory of the correspondence between the date of death (the number of years lived) and the “life line.” According to the society's monthly journal, three doctors in Bristol examined the hands of 63 deceased men and 37 women. “It should be noted, experts report, that there is an indisputable statistical relationship, especially between individuals on right hand and the age of the deceased."

Scientists attended one hundred consecutive autopsies, examining the hands of people who died between the ages of 30 and 90. Based on the relationship between the size of the palm and the length of the “life line,” scientists determined a person’s age.

Another researcher, who did not take part in the data collection and was unfamiliar with the proposed hypothesis, analyzed the material presented to him, and compared the results with medical records where the age of the deceased was recorded.

The results were reflected in a diagram, with the points representing the relationship between the size of the palm and the corresponding life line grouped around the straight line depicting the actual age of the deceased.

Scientists admit that their result may be random. That's why they make some ironic remarks. For example: “The discovery could have important financial consequences, affecting health care resource constraints, and plastic surgeons could be tempted to expand private practice, artificially lengthening the life lines of their patients."

Another equally popular way of determining the future is astrology. Born of the Babylonian astral religion, later, having penetrated into Greece, it acquired a systemic character (this happened in the Hellenistic era). Thus, Ptolemy wrote a work on astrology in four books, linking it with mathematical astronomy. The ancient rulers of astrologers (they were called Chaldeans) hated, feared, executed for unwanted predictions (especially those that came true) and still demanded that they draw up personal horoscopes. In 139 BC. e. The Chaldeans were generally expelled from Rome, but after some time they returned with honor.

A person’s horoscope (genitura) takes into account the location of the luminaries (ecliptic point) at the moment of a person’s birth. Starting from the ecliptic point, the circle of the Zodiac is divided into 12 parts (houses), among which is the “house of death”. The head of the so-called Russian astrological school, Alexander Zaraev, believes that a tenth of all astrological forecasts are very determined. “In other words, a person’s corridor for maneuver can be very narrow, and he cannot take a step to the left or a step to the right. One at birth took what was given to him fate, a favorable aura, as they say - “born in a shirt”, the other was unlucky... In astrology there is such a concept as “a horoscope with a clockwork mechanism turned on”. Astrology presupposes that a person has three horoscopes: conception, birth and death. To build a horoscope of death, you must first make a horoscope of conception. Only by knowing how a person incarnated and entered this life can you find out how he will come out of it.”

Astrologers do not have such impressive achievements in determining the date of death as palmists, for rarely did any of them take risks and risk calling exact dates and even fewer guess them. But the failures of the heirs of Chaldean science are clearly and in every possible way exaggerated by opponents of astrology.

The already mentioned Gerolamo Cardano compiled the horoscope of the young English king Edward VI, according to which the monarch was expected to live for 55 years. However, Edward, who was in poor health, died at the age of 16. There is a legend that Cardano, who drew up a horoscope for himself, committed suicide on the day “appointed” by heaven for his death.

The famous Italian astrologer Luca Caurico in 1552 compiled the horoscope of the French king Henry II, from which it followed that the monarch would die at the age of 69 years 10 months and 12 days. In fact, Henry lived 28 years less.

For some time, the Vatican used the services of astrologers. Alas, here too the discrepancies between the “voice of the stars” and the “hearing of life” turned out to be great. Thus, the astrologer Marius Albertus predicted that Pope Paul III would live to be 93 years old. However, dad died 12 years earlier.

Disillusioned with fortune telling by the stars and planets, in the 16th century the Vatican, through bulls of several popes, banned astrology as a heresy, considering knowledge of the future to be the monopoly of God. However, astrology had serious opponents back in ancient times. In 160 BC. e. Carneades, for example, put forward such “killer” arguments against the half-sister of astrology: why do twins born under the same arrangement of luminaries have completely different fates? And vice versa: why, in a shipwreck, the same fate overtakes people born in different condition starry sky?

Almost a hundred years ago, the French Encyclopedia publicly declared astrology a fraud, but to this day Western astrologers have tens, if not hundreds of millions of clients. In France, the magazines “Horoscope”, “Stars”, “Astral” are widely distributed; in the USA over two dozen astrological magazines are published. Horoscopes are published in hundreds of newspapers. Our country, too, is jumping like a cock, like a cock, after the “Big Seven”. Unions and associations and even “academies” of astrologers are being created. However, astrologers could not, for example, predict the death of Robert Kennedy. On the contrary, they promised that he would become President of the United States. Lyndon Johnson was also promised the presidency in the spring of 1968, but Richard Nixon became president.

President of the All-Union Association of Avestan Astrology Pavel Globa, who claims to be astrologer No. 1, claims that at one time he predicted the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the 1989 earthquake in Armenia and even the exact day of Nicolae Ceausescu’s execution. However, in 1990-1991, he “got into trouble” several times and even went so far as to cancel one of his previously publicly announced forecasts. In addition, in addition to the Globa Association, several other astrological schools are also arguing for the right to truth, and there are no serious criteria to give preference to any of them. Moreover, they all put their predictions in a rather vague form.

The skeptical attitude towards astrology among serious scientists is based not only on the thesis “this cannot be, because it can never happen,” but also on specific research. Astronomer Vladimir Surdin, speaking at a round table dedicated to astrology, cited the following facts: “American physicist J. McJervey studied the connection between the birth times of 17 thousand scientists and 6 thousand politicians with their profession. She turned out to be completely random, showing no predisposition to scientific or political pursuits. Chicago psychologist J. McGrew tested the ability of the most experienced members of the Indiana Federation of Astrologers to predict a person's character based on the date and place of his birth. It turned out that there was absolutely nothing in common between the predictions and the real character."

A special method of predicting the future is clairvoyance. In ancient times, it was the priests who mastered it best, later - the crazy and holy fools, and in our time - psychics.

The ancient Romans and Greeks had so-called oracles - places (usually in sanctuaries) where people could get an answer to a question asked of a deity. The answer was transmitted through two intermediaries. The first was a person (male or female) who was in a state of mystical ecstasy and communicated directly with the deity. He uttered fragmentary words and phrases, which the second intermediary, the priest, condemned to logical, sometimes poetic forms, in accordance with the question asked. The main deity of the soothsayers was Apollo. The oracles were located in Phocis, Abachos, Edepse, at Mount Ptoia, on the island of Eveboe, in Boeotia, in Argos and a number of other places. The most famous place predictions in the ancient world was the Temple of Apollo at Delphi (Delphic Oracle). The priestess-soothsayer (Pythia) spoke in it, sitting on a special tripod. In this case, she was the only intermediary between the questioner and Apollo. Many prophet-priests came into an ecstatic state after drinking water from a sacred spring; for some, it was enough to inhale the evaporation of the water, but for the priestess in Argos, the source of inspiration was the blood of a sacrificial animal. There were also priests who prophesied by signs; for example, the Dodonian oracle, which Homer mentioned, predicted by the movement of the leaves of the sacred oak tree. The oracle of Zeus at Olympia gave predictions from the entrails of a slain sacrificial animal.

Of the medieval clairvoyants, the most famous was Michel Nostradamus (1503-1566), who wrote down his prophecies in Latin in the form of quatrains. Every hundred quatrains there was a chapter called ("Century"), but no chronological order there was no chapter inside. The total number of "Centuries" ("Centuries") is ten. Nostradamus studied astrology, but intuition played a decisive role in his predictions.

In the preface to one of the editions of “Centuries,” Nostradamus wrote: “My nightly prophetic calculations are built rather on natural instinct, accompanied by poetic frenzy, than according to the strict rules of poetry. Most of them are compiled and coordinated with astronomical calculations according to the years, months and weeks of the regions and countries of most cities throughout Europe, including Africa and part of Asia... Although my calculations may not be correct for all nations, they are, however, determined by celestial movements combined with the inspiration I inherited from my ancestors, which comes upon me at certain hours ... It’s as if you look into a burning mirror with a foggy surface and see great events, amazing and disastrous..."

The strongest impression on contemporaries was made by the fulfillment of Nostradamus’s prediction about the death of the French king Henry II at a knightly tournament:

The young lion will defeat the old one
In a strange duel on the battlefield
He will pierce his eyes in a golden cage!
Two fleets [break] one, then die.
(35 quatrains of the 1st century)

Indeed, on July 1, 1559, the king and the captain of the Scottish guard, Gabriel Montgomery, collided so unsuccessfully in a duel that the captain’s blunt spear split, and a sharp fragment, piercing the visor, penetrated through the eye socket into the brain.

Modern researchers, however, dispute the accuracy of this prediction. “What is said in this quatrain?” writes the author of the book about Nostradamus E. Berzin. “That a young lion will defeat an old one in a duel.” But Montgomery was only six years younger than Henry II, and neither of them used the lion as an emblem. The quatrain says that the young lion will gouge out the old one’s eyes (not just one eye) in a golden cage, which interpreters identified with a helmet. But Henry’s helmet was neither golden nor gilded. Finally, the mysterious expression: “Deux classes une” (“Two fleets”). - one"). The word "classes" in the predictions of Nostradamus is usually interpreted as the Latin "clasis" - "fleet", but for this quatrain the interpreters used the Greek word "klasis" - "break". It turned out "two fractures - one", which is like seems to hint at a broken spear or an injury to the king, but does not clarify the author’s thoughts too much.

All these inconsistencies were visible from the very beginning. But the sudden absurd death of the not yet old king, full of strength, during a seemingly safe fun (the opponents fought with blunt spears in strong, heavy armor) so amazed those around him that the search for some sign foreshadowing this event was quite natural and in the spirit time".

The crown of the most famous clairvoyant of our time, of course, belongs to the blind Bulgarian soothsayer Vangelia Surcheva, known as Baba Vanga. Faith in her abilities is unusually strong. In 1976 alone, 102 thousand people attended her reception.

Sociologist Velichko Dobriyanov, who studied the phenomenon of Baba Vanga, says that out of 99 clairvoyant messages he analyzed, 43 were adequate, 43 alternative (ambiguous) and 12 inadequate. This means that Baba Vanga’s telepathic “hit” percentage is 68.3. Of course, this result is high and does not fit into the framework of probability theory.

Vanga's messages can be divided into three types: about the past, present and future. In relation to the past and present, there is a temptation to explain Vanga’s abilities by the ability to “talk” to the client, deftly extract all the details, and then, after some time, comparing the details, stun the person with the data that she learned from him.

“There was an incident in my sessions,” says Dobriyanov, who recorded Vanga’s dialogues on a tape recorder. “After we left Vanga, the woman, stunned by the ordeal she had experienced, said in amazement: “How did she immediately ask me why I am a widow?” I took advantage of the opportunity, to reproach her for giving herself away even at Vanga’s first question, but in order to convince her, she had to turn on the tape recording again. There are many cases in the sessions when Vanga asks about things that have already been clarified in the previous conversation. two questions: what is the role and significance of this method of fortune telling, firstly, for the telepathy agent and, secondly, for Vanga herself. Thousands of people who come to her do not carry recording devices with them in order to then calmly analyze the conversation that took place. In conditions of high mental stress, it is quite understandable that a person may not pay attention to what he himself said at the beginning of the conversation, and after that he will be surprised by Vangin’s “discovery”.

“There is an assumption,” writes Dobriyanov, “that Vanga knows how to combine and analyze. She is truly a great analyzer. Possessing an incredible memory, she perfectly knows how to use it in constructing logical schemes and conclusions, which would be the envy of any professor of Aristotelian logic... For example, if there is Ivan in the family, then we can assume that there is also some kind of Ivan here. Or, if the “telepathy agent” comes from the Starozagora Mountains, we can assume that there is Tenyo in his family, since this name is often found in this family. area."

But all this concerns the past and present. The situation is more complicated with predicting the future, because here Vanga is really working “blindly”. And the percentage of guessing, although less than in a conversation about the present, is still high enough for simple chance. But according to Professor Georgy Lozanov, about 70 percent of Vanga’s prophecies come true. A striking example- her predicted death in a car accident of Lyudmila Zhivkova (daughter of the former Bulgarian leader).

Should be paid special attention to the fact that Vanga actively communicates with the world of the dead, drawing information from there about both the past and the future. “I talk to the dead,” she said in one of her interviews. And when I fall into a trance, I feel it first with my tongue, then with my brain, and then I don’t feel anything at all, everyone besides me. But if the dead don’t know something, then someone else’s distant voice is heard. Like on the phone. Sometimes it’s louder, sometimes it’s quieter.”

Harry Wright in his book “Witness to Witchcraft” gives examples that shamans and leaders of some tribes at a low level of development possess the gift of prophecy. Wright met one of these seers on the island of Bali. This man, Anunga, was the chief of the tribe. For Wright, he accurately predicted some of the events of the coming year, including the mortal danger that would threaten the doctor. Indeed, the plane on which Wright flew to Hawaii almost crashed.

Sorcerers, shamans, psychics... Who else? In ancient times, poets were often equated with clairvoyants and prophets. Not only because both of them seemed crazy to their contemporaries. Facts suggest that poets, like ancient priests, have the ability to predict their death in poetry.

Andrei Bely, who once wrote: “I will die from the arrows of the sun,” really died from the consequences of sunstroke. Nikolai Gumilyov, who was executed, foreshadowed his death in poetry. But prose writers have the ability to predict the death of others - as a rule, this is the mass death of people in accidents and disasters.

Edgar Allan Poe in “The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym” talks about how four shipwrecked people wander the sea for many days in a boat without fresh water and provisions. As a result, the three become cannibals - they kill and eat a comrade named Richard Parker. This story was published in 1838. And 46 years later, the writer’s imagination gained real life. The ship Magnonette was wrecked; the wandering of the four surviving sailors in the boat ended with the murder and eating of one of them. The murdered man's name was Richard Parker!

In 1952, Ford Clark's novel " Open space", which described how a certain student from the Midwest, having hated his father and a hypocritical society, climbed onto the roof of a student dormitory and began shooting at random passers-by. 14 years later, the prophecy came true. August 15, 1966 Charles Whiteman, a 25-year-old student from the city Austin (Texas), burning with hatred of his father and public pharisaism, climbed onto the roof of the university and, shooting from sniper rifle, killed 15 people.

F. M. Dostoevsky in “The Diary of a Writer” predicted the approximate number of victims of the coming revolution (100 million), and in “The Possessed” he predicted its timing. Petenka Verkhovensky to the question: “When will it all start?” - says: “In about fifty years... It will begin at Maslenitsa (February), end after the Intercession (October).”

But the most striking example of a writer's foresight is Morgan Robertson's novel Futility, published in 1898. It describes the death of the transatlantic steamer Titan from a collision with an iceberg. Almost all the details of the novel (including the time of the collision, technical specifications steamship, number of passengers, etc.) coincided with the real details of the Titanic sinking, which occurred 14 years after the publication of Robertson’s book.

In the diary of K. Chukovsky there is the following entry (dated December 30, 1923): “Yesterday I saw Sologub at the World World. He told Tikhonov that he had calculated in a special way that he (Sologub) would die in May 1934. The method is is to take the years of death of the father and mother, add them up, divide them, etc.” In fact, F. Sologub died in December 1927. As you can see, naked calculation doesn’t help much. What is needed here is intuition.

Unlike Sologub, many famous people accurately foresaw the nature or timing of their death. Among them are the Ukrainian thinker Grigory Skovoroda, the historian V. N. Tatishchev, the founder of phrenology Lavater, the Prime Minister of Russia P. A. Stolypin...

Former Foreign Minister A.P. Izvolsky recalled: “It is interesting to note that, facing danger with amazing courage and even flaunting it at times, he [Stolypin] always had a premonition that he would die a violent death. He told me about this several times with amazing calmness."

V.N. Tatishchev, as if foreseeing the day of his death, on the eve of his death he ordered to dig a grave for himself, confessed and took communion. At the same time, he was not sick - just as Grigory Skovoroda did not suffer from any serious illnesses. The life of a wandering poet-philosopher led him in 1794 to the settlement of Ivanovka, where he felt the approach of the snub-nosed woman. The poet dug his own grave, then returned to the hut, put on clean underwear and gave his soul to God.

Obviously, accurately predicting the timing of one’s death is the lot of the chosen few, but there is some general field mortal danger many feel.

Having rummaged through our memories, each of us will probably remember one or two cases when someone we know, having a ticket in hand, did not board a train (plane, ship, bus), which suffered an accident. Even if people do not take the signals of the subconscious (superconscious, world information field) seriously, something prompts them to take actions that are unusual in their normal state. So, before the flight of the Tu-134A airliner, on which the Pakhtakor football team crashed, the team administrator M. Talibdzhanov compiled a complete list of his creditors, which he had never done before. Gambler Viktor Churkin, who was not passionate about housework, put his apartment in perfect order before the fateful flight.

Mathematician W. Cox (USA) set out to analyze statistical material related to the number of passengers on trains that crashed. It turned out that every time there was a train crash, there were fewer passengers on the train than normal, and this was not due to seasonal or other fluctuations. The probability of such a trend being accidental is one percent.

Dr. Morton E. Lieberman (USA), who studied mental signs of approaching death, studied with a group of 80 men and women aged 65 to 91 years. A year after testing the group, half of the subjects died. At the same time, out of 40 people, 34 had a feeling (primarily at the subconscious level) of approaching death. According to Lieberman, these may be "signals from the body that receive mental expression." Sometimes patients themselves have a premonition of death. “Several patients told me, ‘I won’t live another year,’” says Dr. Lieberman, “and they were right.” Lieberman believes that simple introspection is sufficient to perceive the call of death, since everyone has knowledge of impending death on a subconscious level. You just need to learn how to “pull” it out of there.

There are cases in history when sleep played the role of a predictor. US President Abraham Lincoln dreamed of a funeral in the White House a few days before his death. When asked who was being buried, one of those present answered: “The President. He died at the hands of an assassin.” The details of the dream indeed turned out to be prophetic, to the point that the funeral hearse, as in the president’s dream, was located in the Western Hall.

Researcher at the All-Russian National Technical University of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Communications named after. A. S. Popova Igor Vinokurov connects the mechanism of prophetic dreams with the fact that “all living beings, in order to survive and prepare for the future, are forced to “look” into it. In the process of evolution, they develop and consolidate the ability of such forecasting. If we accept this hypothesis, it turns out that to explain most cases of clairvoyance it is not at all necessary to resort to the help of the information field, the absolute, and similar substances. A significant part of the phenomena is explained directly by the capabilities of the human brain. Moreover, with the greatest probability, forecasting occurs in a dream, when the unique " is included in the work. mechanism" - the subconscious. About ten years ago, an interesting article was published describing 148 cases of spontaneous foresight that came true every other day, every other week, a month and a year. The results were quite interesting; most dreams come true within the first 24 hours, the rest within a week, month and a very insignificant amount during the year. Thus, if a dream does not become prophetic within the first 24 hours, there is a high probability that it will not come true at all."

The question of predicting (premonition) of death leads us to the most global question of philosophy and religion - about predestination and free will.

If the date and type of death are predetermined, why do anything? You can lie down (run, jump, sing, read, etc.), calmly awaiting the end destined by the highest will. And at the same time, do not be afraid to die even from hunger: after all, the deadline for death is indicated, for example, only after 30 years. This means that you will not die before this time, even if you want to commit suicide.

And if predetermination does not exist, then how to explain hundreds, thousands of coincidences that in no way fit into the bed of probability theory?

The paradox is that not only is man measured by “science,” but science is also measured by “man.” It is known that even in such a precise discipline as physics, the concept of “free will” of the electron appeared. For biological sciences these questions are even more pressing. Geneticist Viktor Kolpakov, whose works prove the genetic predetermination of human actions, touching on the problem of the determinism of fate, says: “... There is one thing in all this, and it’s quite scary. I usually start thinking, and then I feel terribly unpleasant. And I just I stop thinking about it. After all, if we are a consistent materialist, then we must inevitably come to the absence of free will and the existence of fate...” Let’s add for Kolpakov: and, as a consequence, to the ability to absolutely accurately predict the time of death of any person.

At first glance, the practice of predictions proves the determinism of fate (if, of course, we attribute unsuccessful predictions to unprofessionalism or quackery of false prophets). But the amazing facts of fulfilled prophecies about death can be explained from another point of view - by the operation of the mechanism feedback. Velichko Dobriyanov offers the following interpretation here: “When a person cannot explain some pattern or random coincidence of circumstances, he is inclined to accept that everything was prescribed, as in the calendar, and fate is inevitable. And so - the fortuneteller predicted something, the person constantly thinks about it, it almost becomes his conscious goal, and in the end he himself directs strength and energy to carry out what he predicted, even when he runs away from it. This is a real problem, known and studied in social psychology. .

A. Gorbovsky, author of the book “Prophets? Seers?” argues in approximately the same vein: “If the future is truly antinomic, then in some sense it is multivariant. And if one option is named (i.e. already exists in someone’s consciousness), perhaps this fact, setting a certain scale in motion, in an unknown way influences the entire subsequent course of events. Is this why some seers avoid predicting the future, guessing about such an impact? in such a form that the choice itself remains with the client. Some statements of the seers suggest the same idea - about the impact of prophecy on reality."

The fortune teller Vladimir Finogeev also believes that “part of the future can be given. For example, a gypsy can give the prediction itself. The prediction will become the property of the brain, and consciousness will carry it out against your will. You need to give your hands very carefully to those who work without any ethical standards and has a low cultural level."

I think that Dobriyanov, Gorbovsky, and Finogeyev are only partly right. The artist and writer Friedrich Gorenstein turned out to be the most accurate. One of the heroes of his novel “Atonement”, in a moment of mortal danger, suddenly understands that a person’s fate is enclosed in a certain pre-defined circle. A person cannot get out of this circle, but inside it he is completely free! When applied to lifespan, this means: a person can live any number of years within the given period. Less - maybe, more - never.

So, the upper limit exists and it, obviously, can be found out by one or another method of prediction. Is it possible to find out the lower limit - that is, the number of years that a person will definitely live? Here the ancient law of the golden ratio will come to our aid. Since everything in the universe is subject to the law of harmony, including the formal-logical apparatus of the natural sciences, it is not a sin to use the proportion, which has long been considered the most harmonious, possessing unique properties. It corresponds to such a division of the whole into two parts, in which the ratio of the larger part to the smaller is equal to the ratio of the whole to the larger part. The golden ratio is 1.6180339...

So, if you are predicted to die at the age of 75, this does not mean that you will definitely live to that date. But you can calculate the period before which you will certainly not go to the next world. Divide 75 by 1.618. That turns out to be 46.353. So, up to 46 years and a little over three months, you can live without worrying about anything. Your death will occur between the ages of 46,353 and 75. This law (let me call it Lavrin's law) is true only if the upper limit of your existence is absolutely accurately predicted for you. The interval between 46.35 and 75 years is a quantitative symbol of free will given by God to this person. Perhaps it is the “golden number” that expresses the proportion between Divine providence and our self-will. (By the way, a very reasonable ratio from all points of view.) Of course, this proportion applies not only to years of life, but also to other characteristics of fate. If the number of events in a person’s life is taken as 100 percent, then it turns out that 61.8 percent (100: 1.618) of events are predetermined from above, and 38.2 percent are random (that is, they are formed by the will of people). Let's remember the number accurate predictions Baba Vanga. According to Professor Lozanov - about 70 percent. If we discard random coincidences (paying tribute to the theory of probability) and conclusions drawn with the help of analytical talent, it turns out that Vanga foresees approximately 60-62 percent of future events - exactly as much as is predetermined by God (fate, fate - whoever likes what you prefer) .

There is a global contradiction that cannot be removed by any logical tricks. A person wants to know the future in order to avoid situations that are dangerous (undesirable) for him, the person. But if the situations did not materialize, then it turns out that the predictors lied. We cannot rewind the tape and test empirically whether the predictions will come true or not if we act as if we do not know about them.

And again let us turn to the artistic experience of humanity. Thornton Wilder's novel "The Bridge of Saint Louis" tells the story of how a Franciscan monk witnessed the death of five people on a mountain road between Lima and Cuzco (Peru) in 1714. The Inca suspension bridge broke and people fell into the abyss. And so Brother Juniper faced the question: “Why these five?” If there was some kind of Plan in the universe, if human life were cast in some forms, their invisible imprint could probably be discerned in these lives, interrupted so suddenly. Either our life is accidental and our death is accidental, or there is a Plan in both life and death. And at that moment, Brother Juniper decided to penetrate the secrets of the lives of these five, still flying into the abyss, and unravel the cause of their death." As a result, the monk found out that the travelers (completely unrelated to each other) died at the moment when in the life of each from them a radical change should have occurred. That is, it turned out that God prevented mortals from trying to “change the pattern of existence prescribed to them from above.” This is very consistent with the idea that God allows freedom within the outlined circle. Any attempts to go beyond this circle end. the death of a person. Moreover, a death that God does not “plan” - it arises as a consequence of the expression of a person’s free will, going beyond the idea of ​​his personal destiny.

If these reasonings are correct, then those who want to live the maximum permissible period should accurately feel the outline of their fate and embroider actions along it, without making sharp stitches to the side, because each of them is fraught with premature death.