The Vatican Apostolic Library contains 1,600,000 prints (both old and modern), 8,300 early printed books (65 of which are printed on parchment), 150,000 manuscripts and volumes of archives, 300,000 coins and medals, and more than 100,000 prints. Legends say that the library of the Roman Catholic Church contains secret rooms that only the initiates know about. And that many popes, having spent their whole lives in the Vatican, did not even know about their existence. It is there that invaluable manuscripts are kept, shedding light on the secrets of the universe.
The Vatican is the keeper of the secret knowledge of mankind
The date of foundation of the Vatican library is officially considered June 15, 1475, when Pope Sixtus IV issued a bull that legitimized the above fact. But this statement does not quite correspond to reality. By that time, the papal library already had a long and eventful history. The Vatican housed collections of ancient manuscripts collected by the predecessors of Sixtus IV. They followed a tradition that originated in the 4th century under Pope Damas I and continued by Pope Boniface VIII, the creator of the first complete catalog at that time, as well as the true founder of the library, Pope Nicholas V, who declared it public and left more than 1,500 after his death. manuscripts. By 1481, the Vatican library had 3,500 original manuscripts acquired by the papal nuncio in Europe.
The content of many works was immortalized for subsequent generations by a myriad of scribes. The collection collected during that period included only sacred books and theological works, but also philosophical treatises, classical works of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Old Syrian, Coptic and Arabic literature, as well as works on jurisprudence, history, art, architecture and music. The collections of the Vatican library continue to grow today.
The legacy collected by the heads of the Roman Catholic Church was greatly expanded through the receipt of the donation, acquisition or deposit of entire libraries. This is how the funds of a number of the largest libraries in Europe got to the Vatican. Including the "Palatine" Heidelberg (1622) and "Urbino" (1657), all the books of Queen Christina (1690), second-hand collections of many aristocratic families, as well as collections of books stored in the Cathedral of St. Peter, the Sistine Chapel and other institutions of the Vatican. In addition, the library also contains numerous archives, the wealth of which has not yet been studied. This greatest treasury of the planet also contains such values, access to which is possible only theoretically. For example, some manuscripts of the great Leonardo da Vinci are still kept with seven seals. Why? There is a version that they contain somethingcapable of damaging the prestige of the church.
Some mysterious books of the Toltecs - ancient Indians (neighbors of the Mayan people) are considered a special mystery of the library. All that is known about these books is that they exist. The rest are rumors, unverified hypotheses and legends. They are believed to contain information about such blood-caking mysteries as the missing Inca gold. It is claimed that this is the only source of reliable information about alien visits to our planet in ancient times. They say that it is in these books that the mystery of the idols of Easter Island is revealed …
It is said that a copy of one of Cagliostro's works is kept in the Vatican library. Here is a fragment of this text describing the process of regeneration, or rejuvenation, of the body: “After drinking this, a person loses consciousness and speech for three whole days. There are frequent convulsions, convulsions, profuse sweat appears on the body. Having regained consciousness after this state, in which a person, nevertheless, does not feel any pain, on the thirty-sixth day he takes the third, last grain of the "red lion" (ie elixir), after which he falls into a deep restful sleep, during which a person's skin peels off, teeth, hair and nails fall out, films come out of the intestines … All this grows again within several days. On the morning of the fortieth day, he leaves the room as a new person, feeling complete rejuvenation …"
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No matter how fantastic the given description may seem to us, it amazingly accurately repeats the little-known ancient Indian method of rejuvenation "Kaya Kappa". This secret course of returning youth was taken twice in his life by the Indian Tapaswiji, who lived for 185 years (1770-1955). He first underwent Kaya Kappa rejuvenation when he was 90 years old. It is curious that his miraculous transformation also lasted exactly forty days, most of which he spent in a state of sleep. After forty days, new teeth and hair grew, and vigor and youth returned to his body …
The parallel with the text of Count Cagliostro is obvious here, and it is possible that the rumors about the elixir of youth really had real ground …
The secrets of the Vatican library attract like a magnet, but in order to uncover them, you need to work with its fund, but here everything is not so simple. Although the library contains numerous archives, access to them is strictly limited. The library is officially open for research work, but an average of 150 scientists and specialists can visit it daily. With such an intensity of research (even without taking into account the constant replenishment of funds), the study of the treasures collected in the library will be completed only in … 1250 years!