Leonardo da Vinci
Professor Rennet, made a report on the deciphering of a previously unknown manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci, at a meeting of the Munich Thule Lodge on the night of May 1, 1939. Professor Rennett bought this manuscript from a certain Russian prince, an emigrant, and therefore called it the "Moscow Code".
The professor began from afar. For many years, one of the inventions of the great Leonardo da Vinci, namely the parachute, caused bewilderment. By the end of the 15th century, there were no balloons, and even more so, there were no airplanes, and therefore there was simply no place to jump with a parachute, except from sheer cliffs or towers. But in the last version it would be just a circus act that is not worthy of a genius. Leonardo did things that were 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 writes: at the age of nine, he was kidnapped in an extraordinary way. Walking in the grove, he saw how a silver ball separated from a large white cloud from the sky and began to descend. He wanted to run away, but at first curiosity, and then an inexplicable numbness held him in place. As if bewitched, he watched as the ball descended right in front of him, and then, deprived of will, he went to meet the ball and, insensitively passing the shell, found himself inside. The ball at the same moment ascended upward and rose high, to the very clouds.
What could be mistaken for a cloud from below turned out to be an airy Island! Not very large, but not small either, the Island hovered high, held by unknown forces. It was only thanks to fascination that I did not lose my senses and reason,”writes Leonardo da Vinci.
Two elders in loose white robes met the boy. "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 reason and labor. Which is inhabited by an ancient powerful people. The island hovers over countries, watching 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, with the intentions of introducing it to the achievements of science. But alas, the grain will germinate only in the prepared soil, while knowledge is harmful to an immature people. Echoes of the battles of antiquity can be heard in the legends of the Trojan War, in Sodom and Gomorrah, and those battles were caused precisely by the desire to accelerate the natural course of history. Now the Great Old Ones,finding smart and receptive children, they take them to study on the Island, after which they return them back, leaving the students to decide for themselves what of the knowledge gained can be revealed to contemporaries and what should be kept secret. Pupils, having received great knowledge, occupy a worthy position among people, and sometimes become wise rulers.
It was all the elders who discovered Leonardo gradually, over the course of days and weeks.
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Despite the fact that kindness was shown to him, as well as the fact that the boy was kept excellently, delicious food, luxurious clothes, he was given freedom of movement around the Island - with the exception of some special, forbidden zones - Leonardo yearned for home and for the kidnapped he treated him with caution, not trusting their hospitality and care.
At that time, other abducted children lived with him on the Island, no more than a dozen - children with black skin, with yellow skin, and children of a strange, unknown race with a reddish skin. They kept them apart - for the time being, as the elders said. Later, when they settle down and learn the lessons of mutual respect, they will be allowed to see and communicate as much as they like.
The boy did not like such plans of the elders very much: every day he missed his homeland more and more. And yet he kept eagerly absorbing everything he saw, hoping to find a way to salvation.
The training that began was conducted in a miraculous way: he was shown visions of the past. He beheld the riot of the elements: unthinkable waves that swept over states, earthquakes that devastated continents, fire-breathing mountains spewing smoke and ash around the world. They also showed him 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 have seen unknown animals, sea serpents, dragons that live in rivers of fiery magma, giant bats flying over endless snowy plains in search of prey.
The visions sent by the elders were distinguished by brightness and persuasiveness, and often his heart almost jumped out of his chest at the sight of a tiger running at him with huge fangs with elbows or a river of fire almost touching his legs.
The boy was taken to workshops, where he could do carpentry and sewing, sculpt and paint, grind glass and even cook metal. It was here that he understood how to be saved. In one of the visions, he was shown how warriors jumped down from a huge skyship, over which huge umbrellas were opened, making the fall slow and not dangerous. A similar umbrella was also made by Leonardo from very durable silk stretched on a frame. After some time, it was possible to ensure that the umbrella was folded and opened absolutely reliably. One night, when the Island was sailing over familiar places (he learned to distinguish cities and regions from a flight altitude), Leonardo, having prayed and surrendering himself into the hands of the Almighty, tied to an 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. This ends the manuscript, but it is clear that the leap ended well for Leonardo da Vinci.
Rennett's report was received favorably: 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 possibilities,” wrote historian Kari Alison of Iceland. - 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 a minimum, the Moscow Code should be subject to an independent review to begin with.
The outbreak of the Second World War 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 completely impossible …
Solomon Naffert