Yes, Holmes, it seems to me, that I understood something in two first “picnics”, but the third is a more hard nut, and I’ll hardly crack it without your aid.
Fine, Watson. I wasn’t wasting time too. I can say that necessary information finds you by itself, if you go in for necessary activity in time. Have you seen today in the latest news report about the crash of Russian airliner TU-154, and have you managed to learn something about the events on September 7? I mean not only 1994, but other years too.
Yes, Holmes, I’ve heard about the tragedy on the Black Sea, but haven’t seen it by myself, for I haven’t turned on my TV set yet. And the affairs of September 7 I haven’t even touched, I simply had no time for it. Mostly I was studying books and notes you’ve left for me, but I promise you, that I will do it necessarily. I remember about “Queen of Picks”.
Thank you, Watson. Tomorrow I’m flying for Cairo, and if everything is all right, by the end of the week I’ll be in London. In any case, we’ll meet the next Saturday, and I’m sure, we have a lot to talk over! Good-bye, Watson, see you soon!
Good-bye, Holmes, I’m looking forward to see you.
I hanged the receiver. The clock was beating midnight. There were a lot of reasons to be deeply thoughtful. I turned on the TV automatically, absently listening to the last news by NBC: USA Army is preparing to the operation in Afghanistan; some details of investigating the tragedy in New York and Washington, demands for the extradition of Bin Ladin – everything as usual. Aha! Versions about the causes of the crash of TU-154. On the screen there appeared a map of the Black Sea with the coordinates of liner’s falling at it. I don’t know why, but I copied them: 42°11' of northern latitude and 37°37' of eastern longitude. Also it was reported that the plane fell 182 km to the west of Sochi at 13.44 by Moscow time. There were 11 crewmembers and 6 passengers aboard, among them: 51 Israel citizens, 15 Russian citizens. 11 bodies of 77 people perished are being found yet. Recording almost automatically the numbers from the screen, I watched the shots of news items from Novosibirsk and Tel-Aviv: faces, distorted with woe, and patter of swift commentators, the most part of which were inclined towards the version of terrorist act. Before me on the table the pictures of “picnics” were lying. My glance unintentionally stopped at the “Post Historical Picnic”, where on the black background of the “Swan Lake” under the frightening face with the inscription on its forehead: ”Bank Krot”, there floated the huge dead fish with its stomach upwards. From the notes of Internal Predictor I’ve already learnt, that the epoch of biblical civilization, whose symbol was a fish, comes to an end. 11 dead bodies on the surface of the Black Sea in the points with coordinates of 42.11 and 37.37. I started to be afraid that a mysticism of numerical magic was seizing me: the number 42 associated with 42 years of Jewish wandering along the desert, and 11? Oh! It was associated with plenty of materials I’ve collected in recent time. For example: there were 22 hierophants in the “Historical Picnic”. They divided into two groups, 11 men in each, and governed the southern and the northern parts of ancient Egypt; and the day of truncation of the head of John the Baptist, which was indeed the September 11; and Hitler’s speech on the party congress in Nuremberg on September 11, 1935; and the foundation of Pentagon building in Washington, September 11, 1941; and putsch of Pinochet in Chile, September, 11, 1973, who is considered by some people a fascist, by others – a democrat, defending his country from maintaining of the fascist tyranny under the banners of Marxism. Isn’t it what Holmes meant, when he was speaking about numerical measure? But the numerical measure of what? Perhaps, it’s what we’ll have to investigate.
The whole next day I was occupied by the statistics of September, 7 events. This day wasn’t as much different from the others: sufficient amount of murders, fires, robberies, rapes – usual statistics of crimes for such mega polis as London. But in the department of unsuccessful crimes my attention was attracted by the numerical measure of one of them: on September 7 there happened an incident between security officer and the first pilot on the board of airliner belonging to Iran Air Company and committing a flight Teheran-London. One of passengers was trying to penetrate into the cockpit, assuring the security officer that he was acquainted with the first pilot. There followed a fight, in which the first pilot was involved. The plane, with 430 passengers aboard, made an emergency landing in Frankfurt am Main. I was astonished by resemblance of this situation with one of planes-killers of flights №11 and № 175, attacking two towers of WTC on September 11 – the sum of number of passengers coincided with the date of catastrophe. In other words, in unsuccessful catastrophe with Iran airliner was founded the same numerical measure with which was marked 11 September tragedy (September 7 – 430 passengers: the sum is seven in both cases).
All week before Holmes’s return I was reading a lot. “The Invisible Hand” by Ralph Epperson was filled with facts, which I was a little interested in earlier. But from studying it, I understood that everything was not so fine, as mass media tried to assure us. Thus, I’ve found there with great interest the little known facts of many-centuries political activity of Rothschilds, the backstage side of Russian Revolution and both World Wars history; the detailed story about real aims and practice of using the Federal Reserve System in USA. I was rather surprised, that lightning of these facts differs a great deal from propaganda clichés, abundant in our press.
Essentially, the book represented thoroughly documented analogue of well-known “Protocols of Zion sages”. In the West the majority of those who heard about the “Protocols” are firmly and sincerely convinced, that they are just libellous forgery. And all mass media regularly return to the theme of proving of that they were counterfeit, if they have nothing more interesting to public. But however, I could remember not a single attempt of any popular edition to argue with the information of Epperson or that somebody tried to bring him to justice for his slander. It’s strange, isn’t it?
While I was reading and thinking about what I’ve read, the interconnection and mutual conditioning of the events which seemed independent from each other before. May be, it was for my certain mood, but I unintentionally was tracing the obvious analogy between the events of deep past and tragic events of present and I was coming to some conclusions for the future.
The book “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” was very like an absorbing detective story, though I found there, as well as in “The invisible hand”, plenty of interesting historical facts, of which I had only vague view before. The main idea of the book was that Jesus Christ didn’t die on the cross. The crucifixion was a performance, and after it he had been living yet for long years. And his descendants, “moving” to the territory of contemporary France, founded the dynasty of Merovings. And all following European history consists of conflict between Merovings and Pope, breaking some agreements. The aim of this struggle, as it could be seen from the book, is to raise the descendants of Christ from the descendants of Merovings to the thrones of the entire world states.
This can be considered strange, but the book mentioned the “Protocols” as well, but its authors insisted that it was inner document of Masonry lodge, defending Merovings and having a title of “Zion community”. After that the documents had got publicity outside it, and by the ignorance of those who possessed them, was associated with the congress of Zionists in Basel in 1897, where they say “the Zion sages” were in session. And because of this assonance: “ZION community” and “the congress of ZIONISTS” appeared a mistake, which lead many calamities of the 20th century. All this was rather convincingly rendered, if only… not to read those books together. But the examination of them both raised a question – how to deal with the information reported by R. Epperson.