Professor Reniet's report on the deciphering of a hitherto unknown manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci was heard at a meeting of the Munich Thule Lodge on the night of May 1, 1939. Professor Rennett acquired the manuscript from a certain Russian prince, an emigrant, and therefore called it the "Moscow Code".
Rennet began from afar. For many years, one of the inventions of the great Leonardo, namely the parachute, caused bewilderment. At the end of the 15th century, there were no balloons, let alone airplanes, and therefore there was simply no place to jump with a parachute, except from sheer cliffs or towers. But in the latter case it would be just a kunstuk, a circus act unworthy of a genius. Leonardo did things of practical importance. Most of his great inventions are dedicated to the art of war.
"Moscow Code" just tells about the history of the invention of the parachute and about many other things.
In the manuscript, Leonardo reports that at the age of nine he was abducted in an unusual way. While walking in the grove, he saw a silver ball descending from the sky, separating from a large white cloud. He wanted to run, but first curiosity and then an incomprehensible numbness kept him in place. As if spellbound, he watched as the ball sank right in front of him, and then, devoid of will, went to meet the ball and, insensibly past the shell, was inside. The ball immediately ascended upward and rose high, to the very clouds.
What seemed to be a cloud from below was an airy Island! Not very large, but not small either, the Island floated high, held by an unknown force. It was only thanks to my fascination that I did not lose my senses and reason,”writes Leonardo.
The boy was greeted by two elders in loose white robes. "However," adds Leonardo, "an old man and those years seemed to me everyone who survived the thirtieth winter." They gently reassured the boy - no, he did not die. The Heavenly Island is not a paradise, but a product of human mind and labor. Inhabited by an ancient powerful people. The island flies over countries, observing the Young Race partly out of curiosity, partly out of old habit. Many years ago, the Great Old Ones intervened in the affairs of the Young Race, trying to introduce it to the achievements of science. Alas, the grain germinates only in the prepared soil, while immature peoples are harmed by knowledge. Echoes of ancient battles can be heard in the legends about the Trojan War, in Sodom and Gomorrah, but those battles were caused precisely by the desire to accelerate the natural course of history. Now the Great Old Ones, having found intelligent and receptive children,they are taken to the Island for training, after which they are returned back, leaving the pupils to decide for themselves what from what they have received can be revealed to their contemporaries, and what should be kept secret. Students, having received great knowledge, occupy a worthy position among people, and sometimes become wise rulers.
All this the elders discovered Leonardo not immediately, but gradually, over the course of days and weeks.
Despite the kindness shown, as well as the fact that they kept Leonardo excellently, fed tasty food, luxuriously dressed and provided freedom of movement around the Island - with the exception of some special, forbidden zones - the boy yearned for home and was wary of the kidnappers, not trusting their hospitality and care.
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Other abducted children lived with him on the Island, no more than a dozen - children with black skin, children with yellow skin, and children of a strange, unknown race with reddish skin. They were kept separately - for the time being, as the elders assured. Later, when they settle down and learn the lessons of mutual respect, they will be allowed to see and communicate for as long as they want.
Leonardo did not like the plans of the elders extremely: every day the homesickness took possession of him with ever-increasing force. Nevertheless, he braced himself and eagerly absorbed everything he saw, hoping to find the same way to salvation.
The study that began was conducted in a miraculous way: he was shown visions of the past. He saw the riots of the elements: huge waves overwhelming states, earthquakes, devastating continents, fire-breathing mountains spewing smoke and ash all over the world. He also saw the battles that took place long before the emergence of Rome - thousands of soldiers rushed towards each other in a fit of self-destruction, terrible, outlandish and beautiful with apocalyptic beauty, death machines, gathering a bloody harvest on the battlefields. I saw unknown animals, sea serpents, dragons living in rivers of fiery magma, giant bat flying over endless snowy plains in search of prey.
The visions that the elders sent were distinguished by their brightness and persuasiveness, and often his heart almost jumped out of his chest at the sight of a tiger rushing at him with huge, elbow-long fangs or a river of fire, coming straight to his feet.
They took him to workshops where he could do carpentry and sewing, paint and sculpt, grind glass and even cook metals. It was here that he understood how to be saved. In one of the visions, he witnessed how soldiers jumped down from a huge skyship, over which huge umbrellas were opened, making the fall slow and safe. Leonardo also built a similar umbrella from very strong silk stretched on a frame. After several attempts, it was possible to ensure that the umbrella was folded and opened completely reliably. One night, when the Island was floating over familiar places (he learned to distinguish cities and regions from a flight altitude), Leonardo, praying and surrendering himself into the hands of the Almighty, became attached to umbrella and jumped. My melancholy reached enormous proportions, and I was ready to die, but not remain in captivity. Childhood fearlessness dulled the natural sense of self-preservation.”The manuscript ends there, but it is clear that the leap ended well for Leonardo.
Rennett's report was received favorably: the Thule society was confident that the Great Old Ones lived alongside the human race. The world scientific community was extremely hostile to the professor's report, as, indeed, to everything that happened in Germany of those days.
“There are four possible options,” wrote Icelandic historian Kari Alison. - First - Rennett invented this story, Second - he became a victim of a hoax of a Russian émigré who composed the Moscow Code on the basis of Gulliver's Travel to Laputa. The third - the manuscript really belongs to Leonardo da Vinci, but this is nothing more than a joke of a genius. And finally, the fourth - both the manuscript and what is stated in it are a true fact. At the very least, the Moscow Code should be subjected to an independent review to begin with.
The outbreak of World War II postponed the examination for an indefinite period, and the Grand Slam bomb, which destroyed the residential quarter where Professor Rennet lived in March 1944, made it impossible …
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