It will be about a great predictor-monk named Abel, who lived in the era of Catherine II and Paul I, never made a mistake in his prophecies, but it was for this reason that he was literally muzzled by the ruling monarchs, who saw in him a threat to their well-being. After all, it is no coincidence that Vladimir Vysotsky in his ballad about the Things Cassandra says: "But clairvoyants - as well as eyewitnesses - have been burned by people at the stake in all ages …"
What made Abel make his predictions?
“There is no prophet in his own country,” the writer Genrikh Sienkiewicz once said. There are no prophets because they were wiped out. The rulers did not like it when someone told the bitter truth about them. And therefore, not every predictor dared to publish their worst predictions.
But this was not Abel, who received the nickname Prophetic during his lifetime. He differed from all Russian soothsayers, and foreign ones too, in the extraordinary accuracy of his prophecies, and most importantly, in his courage. His folly, it would seem, was already in the fact that during his lifetime he wrote a book about himself that goes beyond the usual diary entry, calling it "The Life and Suffering of Father and Monk Abel." His insolence lies in the fact that all such "lives" refer only to the saints, among whom Abel, as it were, arbitrarily referred himself. One can forgive an otherwise pious monk and a deeply religious person for his conviction in his high assignment, which he followed until the end of his days, not without reason believing that the talent of a seer was bestowed on him by the Higher Powers.
Prophecies in the era of Catherine II
Like many other prophets, Abel wrote his first book of predictions as a result of contacts with the Beyond. First, he showed the book to the abbot of the monastery, but he did not dare to judge it and sent Abel to the bishop. The bishop was an intelligent person, in the earthly sense, and therefore, after reading the manuscript, he tapped himself on the forehead and burst into a stream of swear words. He advised Abel to return to the monastery, to forget about everything that he had written, and day and night to atone for his sins. However, Abel did not agree with Vladyka, saying that the text was dictated to him by the Apostle Paul himself. The bishop was angry at such blasphemy. He jumped up as if stung - wow: he was an uncouth peasant, but he swung at something that one cannot keep in mind. But it was all in vain, and Abel stood his ground. The bishop wanted to defrock him and take him into custody for sacrilege,but then he realized: “What if this ignoramus is right? After all, he called not to anyone, but to Catherine II herself. The bishop of Kostroma and Galitsky did not dare to take on such a burden and sent the stubborn man straight to the governor. However, he did not listen to him for a long time, in a soldier's way he simply put the prophet in prison, from where, under strict supervision, he was taken to St. Petersburg. Here he was taken up by the Secret Expedition, which diligently recorded everything stated by Abel, applying physical measures of inquiry to him. However, even here the monk persisted, claiming that he did not add a word from himself and that all this was dictated to him from above. And when the empress was informed about this, she ordered to place the wicked, who decided to predict her death, in the Shlisselburg fortress, where he was for almost a year. There he learned the news, which, however, was not news to him. After all, it was he who indicated the exact date of the death of Catherine II - November 6, 1796 at 9 am …
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Continued suffering during the reign of Paul I
As always in all times and eras, when the supreme power was changed, first the higher officials changed, and then the smallest ones. Finally, a wave of change came to the case of the monk Abel. Having opened a secret package with the seal of his predecessor, the new prosecutor general was horrified by what he had written, but decided to show the papers to Emperor Paul I, remembering his love for everything mysterious and knowing about his dislike of his own mother. The cunning courtier was not mistaken - the news struck the emperor, and soon Abel, washed and disguised, was taken to the Winter Palace. Their meeting was secret, and therefore one should only guess what they were talking about. Knowing the character of Abel, one might think that there, too, he directly named the date of the death of Emperor Paul. However, apparently, he remained silent, or he had not yet had such a vision. In any case, the emperor liked Abel,and at the request of Abel himself, he was again tonsured a monk. Once in the monastery, Abel again begins to write down his visions. It is known for certain that it was here that he wrote down the details of the death of Emperor Paul I, and everything started spinning around like last time. First, the church, and then the secular authorities got acquainted with the manuscript, and after that the Emperor Paul I himself read it. Another entry spoke of the imminent death of Paul I, and his confidants would be killed, and the date of death was also indicated. Quick to hand, Paul, beside himself with rage, gives the order to imprison the prophet in the Peter and Paul Fortress. But Abel did not have long to sit in her casemates - the date for the fulfillment of the prediction was not far off. After the assassination of Tsar Abel, they sent him to eternal settlement in the Solovetsky Monastery. But he never stopped predicting the future of the monarchs.
Prophet's torment during the reign of Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I
At the beginning of the 19th century, Abel secretly writes down new prophecies about the impending war with the French, their capture and burning of Moscow in 1812. Abel failed to achieve complete secrecy, and soon information about this reached the Emperor Alexander I, who was already familiar with his previous predictions. The Emperor ordered that the prophet be immediately imprisoned in the strictest Solovki prison and kept there until these predictions come true. As you know, they came true in September 1812, and all these years the unfortunate monk was in prison, after which, according to the order of the king, he was released and, moreover, sent to the king for an audience. Since Abel experienced a lot of additional suffering due to the excessive zeal of the local abbot, he was worried that Abel would tell the whole truth, and sent a dispatch to the king, saying, “Now Father Abel is sick and cannot be with you,but perhaps next year in the spring. " But the tsar did not believe it, because he had already met with a similar one among his subjects, and therefore ordered to immediately release Abel from the monastery, providing him with everything necessary for a trip to Petersburg. Abel showed up in the capital in the summer of 1813, when the emperor was away, but the monk was warmly received by Prince Golitsyn, showing him unthinkable honors. It was to this courtier that Abel told everything about the fate of the ruling monarchy from beginning to end. The prince was horrified by what he heard and quickly sent the monk on a pilgrimage to the holy places. Having traveled a lot, Abel finally settled in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, where he was immediately allocated a separate cell with all the conveniences possible for that time. However, glory was already running ahead of the fortuneteller. Abel was often visited by those eager to find out "what the coming day is preparing for us"but the monk, regardless of rank and class, refused. This was facilitated by a personal decree, according to which Abel was forbidden to prophesy under any pretext, otherwise shackles and a prison awaited him. The prophet "knew and was silent" for a very long time - almost 10 years, but then his new predictions about the imminent death of Alexander I spread among the people, that the second brother of the tsar, Constantine, would renounce the throne, fearing the fate of his father, and that this place will take the third brother - Nicholas, as well as the impending uprising of the Decembrists. The most surprising thing is that Abel had nothing for this, probably because shortly before the events described, Alexander I himself met with Seraphim of Sarov, who word for word predicted the same thing to him …according to which Abel was forbidden to prophesy under any pretext, otherwise shackles and prison awaited him. The prophet "knew and was silent" for a very long time - almost 10 years, but then his new predictions about the imminent death of Alexander I spread among the people, that the second brother of the tsar, Constantine, would renounce the throne, fearing the fate of his father, and that this place will take the third brother - Nicholas, as well as the impending uprising of the Decembrists. The most surprising thing is that Abel had nothing for this, probably because shortly before the events described, Alexander I himself met with Seraphim of Sarov, who word for word predicted the same thing to him …according to which Abel was forbidden to prophesy under any pretext, otherwise shackles and prison awaited him. The prophet "knew and was silent" for a very long time - almost 10 years, but then his new predictions about the imminent death of Alexander I spread among the people, that the second brother of the tsar, Constantine, would renounce the throne, fearing the fate of his father, and that this place will take the third brother - Nicholas, as well as the impending uprising of the Decembrists. The most surprising thing is that Abel had nothing for this, probably because shortly before the events described, Alexander I himself met with Seraphim of Sarov, who word for word predicted the same thing to him …but then his new predictions about the imminent death of Alexander I spread among the people, that the second brother of the tsar, Constantine, would renounce the throne, fearing the fate of his father, and that this place would be taken by the third brother, Nicholas, as well as about the impending uprising of the Decembrists. The most surprising thing is that Abel had nothing for this, probably because shortly before the events described, Alexander I himself met with Seraphim of Sarov, who word for word predicted the same thing to him …but then his new predictions about the imminent death of Alexander I spread among the people, that the second brother of the tsar, Constantine, would renounce the throne, fearing the fate of his father, and that this place would be taken by the third brother, Nicholas, as well as about the impending uprising of the Decembrists. The most surprising thing is that Abel had nothing for this, probably because shortly before the events described, Alexander I himself met with Seraphim of Sarov, who word for word predicted the same thing to him …who told him the same word for word …who told him the same word for word …
However, he did not have to be free for long. By order of Nicholas I, Abel was arrested for the third time and sent to a church prison. The reason was that Abel wrote another "extremely terrifying" book, which he himself sent to Emperor Nicholas I for reading. It is believed that it was in it that he described the future Crimean War lost by Russia, which infuriated Nicholas I …
It is also known that his main prophecy, dedicated to the fate of all Russian tsars up to the "coming of the Antichrist" (which meant the Bolsheviks), was kept under lock and key, bequeathed by the widow of Emperor Paul I to be read only one hundred years after the martyrdom of Emperor Paul I. Thus, of all subsequent tsars, only Nicholas II got acquainted with this prediction in 1901. It was in this prophecy that the execution of Nicholas II and his entire family in 1918 was written. However, Nicholas II turned out to be a fatalist and instead of somehow resisting in order to avoid such a terrible fate, he fell into despondency, having made many mistakes. It can be assumed that it was the prophecy of Abel that turned out to be that ominous background, a kind of program of behavior,according to which Nicholas II blindly and completely limply followed him like a calf to be slaughtered. It is believed that the sovereign's apathetic mood was also aggravated by his visit to a certain Japanese seer and a Russian blessed clairvoyant, who predicted almost the same thing for the tsar …
It is known that on January 6, 1903, during the production of a salute from cannons at the Peter and Paul Fortress, one of the guns instead of a blank cartridge was mistakenly loaded with buckshot. The charge hit the windows of the Winter Palace and into the gazebo, where at that time Nicholas II was with his retinue. Everyone was terribly frightened except for the king himself, who did not even raise an eyebrow in response to the shot. And when the tsar was flattered about his extraordinary self-control, he said in response: "Until the age of 18, I am not afraid of anything" …
The laws of another reality
Knowing your future is naturally tempting. A rare, but therefore significant, prediction phenomenon testifies to the fact that not everything in our reality obeys strict physical laws. But more precisely, the ability to anticipate events refers to the laws of another, alternative, reality. These laws, so to speak, are "forbidden" in our world, because they gradually destroy it, make our world unstable. To a certain extent, all Russian rulers, whose fate Abel predicted, felt this. After all, the reason why, on the one hand, they were keenly interested in his predictions, but on the other hand, they were afraid of them and hid them under lock and key, is that the published prediction, as it were, deprived them of the opportunity to choose, became a punishment, a fate that cannot be avoided.
Prediction is not only capable of paralyzing a person's own efforts, but it actually becomes an immutable path for his further behavior. After all, if the prophecy had not been known, the person whom it touches could have behaved completely differently. In other words, a person's knowledge of predictions is thereby pushing him to the predicted ending.
A well-known historical example is the fate of the Prophetic Oleg, poetically retold by A. S. Pushkin. If the prince had not met the ill-fated magician - he would not have accepted death "from his horse." Thus, a person is a hostage to his prediction. Any prophecy known to him, regardless of whether a person resists him or, on the contrary, sits with folded hands and passively awaits his fate, to a greater or lesser extent determines his future.
Arkady Vyatkin, parapsychologist. Abnormal news, no. 27, 2011