Chapter 905 The Chamber of Tears

  Cleanliness is half of faith. Religions born in the Middle East generally love cleanliness, and even Catholicism loves cleanliness at the beginning.

  There is more than one baptism in a person’s life. In ancient times, monks would take baptized persons and witnesses to the river for baptism, and the original sin was washed away.

   "I hope that fate will give me freedom, just as nature gave me."

  Belief in what is everyone’s freedom should not be deprived when a person is still ignorant and ignorant.

  The baptism of the Baptist school takes place after adulthood, not as an infant. Baptism symbolizes the burial and resurrection of Jesus, and is a sign of rebirth.

  However, it is not that people will not make mistakes when they are adults, and even the more intelligent people make mistakes, the more troublesome it is.

The Vatican Secret Archives is located underground. At the beginning, it was set up with the Pope Library. In the 19th century, Napoleon took a round. The collection of books suffered huge losses and damages, but some very precious documents were transferred and hidden by the monks in time. It was not robbed by the soldiers wearing boots, which was similar to the cave on the Dead Sea.

  These materials are hidden deep in the underground warehouse, behind a bookshelf for 53 miles.

  Since 1878, the Vatican Secret Archives have relaxed restrictions on use and opened to scholars, but these reference rooms are only a part of them. There are also many materials that are secret and only open to the priests of the Holy See.

Joseph followed the Swiss guards through the narrow tunnel that only one person could walk through. The only light source was the incandescent lamp on the ceiling. The air was filled with the smell of spice, and only the footsteps of two people could be heard. sound.

  Ancient literature is very fragile. If the humidity is too high, it is easy to mold, and if it is too dry, it will easily turn into powder. It is more sensitive than red wine.

But even if the temperature and humidity are right, be careful of insects. Chinese people like to use camphor and yunnan for their books. When yunnan is dried, it can repel insects and can also be used as bookmarks. This oriental spice makes people have a taste. Kind of a feeling of crossing over a thousand years ago.

  At that time, the Maritime Silk Road had not yet opened. People could only trade along the land Silk Road. The Arab Empire was located between the East and the West, and both sides were making money.

  With this money, they not only built magnificent mosques, but also collected many books. The Arabs once held up the torch of civilization in that dark age.

  Many people know Bruno, who was burned to death in Campo de' Fiori, but few people know the contributions made by *** astronomers.

  ***Astronomers took the lead in using Aristotle’s astronomical thesis in the 13th century, abandoning Ptolemy’s theory of the center of the earth, thinking that the earth is not the center of the universe.

  It was not until the 16th century that Europeans made amendments to astronomy based on geocentric theory.

  Apostasy was a big sin in the Middle Ages. The church insisted on geocentricity. Scholars such as Bruno secretly supported that the earth is not the center of the universe. Even in the 21st century, American soldiers and *** friends will be suspected even if the other party is a herder.

  The prerequisite for freedom of belief is not to endanger national security, as well as economic interests.

  With the rise of the monastery economy, the church corrupted at an alarming rate. This was also promoted by secular rulers such as kings and nobles.

  First, building a monastery is a profitable investment. Once the monastery is built, there will be donations from many believers, so that both the bishop and the secular ruler can share the benefits.

  Second, the actual administrators of many monasteries have been controlled by the children of the nobles who regarded themselves as monks.

There is a disaster for the first child in Exodus. The eldest son will inherit everything from the father while the second and illegitimate children are not so lucky. The responsible parents will make arrangements for them. Some learn to become knights, and some are sent to the monastery. They took everything of the world to the monastery, leaving poverty, abstinence, diligence and seriousness out of the blue.

  In addition to the religious reform, there was also a monastic reform in the same period. At that time, two extreme factions appeared.

  One is the ascetics. These dervishes advertise poverty and chastity with their naked and unkempt images. On the other hand, the monks in the monastery have changed from abstinence to indulgence, and this indulgence is still in a sanctimonious manner, and its depravity is even more profound than the secular.

  Early asceticism was to get rid of distracting thoughts and keep the soul pure, focusing on kind motives.

  In the later period, asceticism focused on external asceticism, celibacy, poverty, and various physical tortures such as self-caning.

  This is like semi-vegetarians and vegans among vegetarians. The former are mainly vegetarian and occasionally eat meat. They do not eat certain meats based on health, morals or beliefs. While vegans avoid eating all foods made from animals, this is harmful to health. Water is the source of life. Life is difficult to survive where there is no water. Protein is also very important, and there are plants in meat. Contains trace elements.

Ignoring this natural law, deliberately penance not only makes oneself painful, but also makes others feel uncomfortable. Not taking a bath has become the norm for Europeans in the Middle Ages. Personal hygiene is still so, not to mention urban hygiene, garbage everywhere, rats rampant, and dense The population has become a hotbed for the spread of the Black Death.

  Asceticism also affects trade. A poor devil who is abiding by poverty will never spend money to buy things.

  Extreme ascetics believe that the evil Satan is opposed to the good Christ. Christ represents the spiritual world, Satan represents the material world, the soul belongs to the spiritual world, and the body belongs to the material world, so naturally it is evil. Satan, the master of darkness wants to use material temptation to lure people into depravity. Therefore, he must reject all sensual pleasures in life, and tortured our bodies, this Satan's beloved beloved, to be eligible for heaven.

  In the early days of capitalism, there was restrained enjoyment, except for those who were tortured by the Black Death and wondered whether they would live tomorrow, and those who practiced extreme hedonism in the monastery, except for the profligate monks who practiced extreme hedonism.

The current capitalism has lost the advantage of reason. The old man Eugenie Grandet enjoys accumulating personal wealth. He uses various methods to increase his wealth like a myth. He has a beautiful daughter Eugenie. , But he was delayed and became an old girl. He thought that all the young men who came to propose were for his money.

  As soon as his wife died, Grandet asked her daughter to sign a certificate for giving up her mother’s inheritance right through a notary, taking all the family property in her own hands. Before Old Grandet died, he asked his daughter to put the gold on the table. He kept staring at it like a child who only knew how to watch. He said: "This makes my heart warm!" At last he called Eugenie to come and said to her: "Take care of everything! Come over there and pay me the account!" The priest came to him to do his dying ceremony. , Sending a gilded cross to his lips to kiss, Grandet saw the gold and made a horrible posture, trying to catch it. This effort killed him and he died.

Money is the only God that Old Grandet worshipped. Observing gold alone became his hobby. He deliberately got other people's things through "legal" means. You can try it either by coincidence or arrogance, anyway. He will never stop reaching his goal, because for a person like him, life has no other value or pleasure.

  He is inferior to the people controlled by Mamun, at least Mamun built a pantheon, and after his death his property was “squandered” by his daughter, but she did all good deeds that he despised.

  Although her love was destroyed by gold, the natural qualities of her human beings have not been swallowed by money. The piles of gold are the chains that bind her, and she is a wealthy victim.

Many places in the   *** area are based on agriculture. There is a "hadith" advocating that even if the world is approaching, being able to plant a tree is a great virtue.

  Alchemy originated in Egypt and Greece, but the real system was formed in the Middle East. The first to propose the sage’s stone was an Arab.

   There is a famous saying in alchemy: agriculture is a great alchemy.

Due to the constraints of natural conditions, water is extremely scarce in many parts of the world. People try every means to use their existing knowledge to improve the agricultural environment. The Arabic geometry "Kandaisha" is derived from the Persian "Kandiza". It means a canal.

They not only used Persian traditional water conservancy construction experience, but also applied other civilization techniques. For example, Egypt measures the rise and fall of the Nile River. Mecca is a city in the desert. Later, they built diversion canals to solve the problem of agriculture outside the city and the city The life needs of pilgrims.

  The Persians once invented a groundwater system called "Kana", which was regarded as a masterpiece of Fatima and a gift from God.

   "Kana" is actually similar to Kanerjing in northwest China. It was built at least 600 years earlier than "Kana".

  Before the beginning of the great maritime era, the land-based Silk Road was the main trade route.

  The Silk Road is not only a trade, but also a process of civilization integration.

  Compared with the dark West, the "East" is much more civilized, and this has aroused the prying heart of the monarchs.

The Crusades robbed a lot of Eastern trophies and returned. These items are collected by various museums, including the Vatican Museums. There are also many Greek sculptures. Even after the Lutheran and Napoleon looting, there are still many collections inside. But these can only attract secular eyes.

  There is a sacristy in the Apostolic Palace, which displays many objects of special significance to the church.

  And the things stored in these bunkers are varied, not all religious artifacts, some exude evil power, and some even produce supernatural phenomena.

  In 1939, nine separate bones were found underground in the center of St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican City State. Even more surprising is that these bones were found in the humble shoe box.

The shoe box is something that only existed in modern times. In the Middle Ages, shoes were sold without such fancy packaging, but everyone didn’t know how this shoe box was hidden under the ground of St. Peter’s Basilica without destroying the floor tiles. Yes, let alone whose bones it is.

  After the British Pope Adrian IV drank water and choked to death, Alexander III began to compete with the German emperor for power.

  He prohibited the clergy from studying the laws of chemistry and nature. In the same year, he laid the foundation for Notre Dame de Paris with Louis VII of France. Alexander III also granted many privileges to the head of the French Knights Templar and the Knights under the jurisdiction of the Holy See, allowing them to have all the wealth they could plunder.

  The King of France, Philip IV, the king of the earth, didn’t want to have a "superior king" on his head pointing at him, so he sent bandits to kidnap the Pope.

As a result, Pope Boniface VIII, who was over 80 years old, was tossed to death by those who didn’t know how serious it was. At this time, Philip IV also took the opportunity to move the Holy See to Avignon. During that time, he had the right to teach. weak.

  Although the current Holy See is still in Rome, it can be understood as a “prisoner of the Vatican.” After all, scientists and the world have the final say.

  There is no heaven, no hell, no awe, no temperance, dare to touch any taboo.

  There are demons in this world. Scientists will only laugh at this superstition and sneer at it.

  "What is your magic weapon? Father." The Swiss guard suddenly asked, "I heard that you are an exorcist."

   "Does the exorcist have to have magical weapons?" Joseph said jokingly.

   "As far as I know, yes, and I brought you here to find a magic weapon." The Swiss guard said, "I just loaned it to you temporarily, and you will return it when you run out."

  "So I can choose any of these things?" Joseph asked.

   "No, I will take you to see the person in charge of the warehouse." The Swiss guard said, "He is... strange."

  Joseph looked behind him, and there was a door there.

   "Is he in there?"

   "That's right."

   "Okay." Joseph took a deep breath and pushed the door open.

  It was a very ordinary room, but compared to those strange objects, the monk who wore a black robe for training students, a helmet and goggles on his head, stretched out his hands like a swimmer, was more eye-catching.

   "What is he doing?" Joseph asked inexplicably.

  "Experimenting." The Swiss soldier said behind him, "The device was made by scientists funded by the Holy See. The working principle is said to deal with the electromagnetic radiation left on objects by past events and convert them into visual images and audio."

   "Will it work?"

  "You should ask him." The Swiss soldier said, then shouted "Father Bruen!"

  The sleepwalking monk suddenly woke up. He took off his goggles, revealing a chubby face.

  "Father Joseph wants to borrow something. You can take him to the Hall of Tears."

   "Tall of Tears?" Joseph asked.

   "Only take the same, don't try to play tricks." The Swiss soldier said blankly, "Put everything on you here."

   "Didn't you search the body just now?" Joseph said displeasedly.

   "This is the rule, you have no choice." The Swiss soldier said without backing down, "The people who come in to borrow can not take away anything except knowledge. You are much luckier than them."

  Joseph stood for a while with an ugly face, and finally took out a lot of bits and pieces from his body.

  A toy water gun with holy water, a mobile phone, a bunch of keys, an olive wood Benedict cross, and a bible copied with gold dust.

   "Your equipment is so crude, exorcist." The Swiss soldier looked at the things on the table and said with disgust.

   "Otherwise, what do you think there is? Silver bullets?" Joseph said angrily.

  "Are you from the Benedictine?" Father Brunn asked.

   "No, this kind of cross is more versatile." Joseph said impatiently, "Is it necessary for me to take off my clothes?"

"Do not."

   "Then let's go!" He was so bad-tempered that he pushed Brunn "Take me to the Hall of Tears!"

  The attitude was terrible, almost like a Roman, but Father Bruen was not angry at all.

   "Wait, I'll get the key." He said happily, and walked to the small room next door.

  Since ancient times, people have known that dreams are composed of metaphors and symbols.

  Prophecy is often not directly speaking the event itself, but some metaphor. Some people are convinced that the third secret disclosed is different from the secret revealed to Fatima’s children.

  If the revealed secret is fabricated, the real secret may be hidden somewhere in the Vatican archives.

  When it’s quiet enough, sometimes people can hear whispers coming from behind, and they suddenly become quiet as soon as they turn their heads.

  How bad is that feeling.

  　Because the evil of man generalizes to the whole natural evil, the rational conquest of man is just right.

  　　

  　

  (End of this chapter)