What are secret historical libraries hiding? The most secret library in the world What is stored in the Vatican library.

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It is believed that the huge library of the Vatican, which appeared in the 15th century, contains almost all the sacred knowledge of mankind. However, most of the books are highly classified, and only the Pope has access to some scrolls.

Officially, the Vatican Library was founded on June 15, 1475, after the publication of the corresponding bull by Pope Sixtus IV. However, this does not accurately reflect reality. By this time, the papal library already had a long and rich history. The Vatican had a collection of ancient manuscripts, which was collected by the predecessors of Sixtus IV. They followed the tradition that appeared in the 4th century under Pope Damasus I and continued by Pope Boniface VIII, who created the first complete catalog at that time, as well as by the real founder of the library, Pope Nicholas V, who declared it public and left behind more than one and a half thousand different manuscripts. Shortly after the official establishment, the Vatican library contained more than three thousand original manuscripts purchased by papal nuncios in Europe.

The content of a large number of works immortalized many scribes for subsequent generations. At that time, the collection included not only theological works and sacred books, but also classical works of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, Syriac and Arabic literature, philosophical treatises, works on history, jurisprudence, architecture, music and art.

Some researchers believe that the Vatican also contains part of the Library of Alexandria, created by Pharaoh Ptolemy Soter shortly before the beginning of our era and replenished on a universal scale. Egyptian officials took to the library all the Greek parchments imported into the country: each ship that arrived in Alexandria, if it had literary works, had to either sell them to the library or provide them for copying. Library keepers hurriedly transcribed every book that came to hand, hundreds of slaves toiled daily, copying and sorting thousands of scrolls. Ultimately, by the beginning of our era, the Library of Alexandria numbered many thousands of manuscripts and was considered the largest book collection in the ancient world. The works of outstanding scientists and writers, books in dozens of different languages were kept here. It was said that there is not a single valuable literary work in the world, a copy of which would not be in the Library of Alexandria. Has anything of her grandeur been preserved in the Vatican Library? History is silent on this.

If you believe the official data, then now the Vatican's vaults contain 70,000 manuscripts, 8,000 early printed books, a million printed editions, more than 100,000 engravings, about 200,000 maps and documents, as well as many works of art that cannot be counted by the piece. The Vatican Library attracts like a magnet, but in order to uncover its secrets, you need to work with its funds, and this is not at all easy. Readers' access to numerous archives is strictly limited. To work with most documents, you must make a special request, explaining the reason for your interest. And only a specialist can get into the Vatican secret archive, the closed collections of the library, and those whom the Vatican authorities consider trustworthy enough to work with unique documents. Although officially the library is considered open for scientific and research work, only 150 specialists and scientists can get into it every day. At this pace, it will take 1,250 years to study the treasures in the library, because the total length of the shelves of the library, consisting of 650 departments, is 85 kilometers.

There are cases when ancient manuscripts, which, according to historians, are the property of all mankind, were tried to be stolen. So, in 1996, an American professor, art historian, was convicted of stealing several pages torn from a 14th-century manuscript by Francesco Petrarca. Today, about five thousand scientists annually receive access to the library, but only the Pope has the exclusive right to take books out of the library. In order to get the right to work in a library, you need to have an impeccable reputation. And in general, the Vatican Library is one of the most protected objects in the world, because its protection is more serious than that of any of the nuclear power plants. In addition to numerous Swiss guards, the peace of the library is guarded by ultra-modern automatic systems that form several levels of protection.

Leonardo da Vinci and the secrets of the Aztecs

The heritage that the heads of the Roman Catholic Church collected was significantly replenished through the acquisition, donation or storage of entire libraries. This is how publications from a number of major European libraries came to the Vatican: Urbino, Palatine, Heidelberg and others. In addition, the library contains many archives that have not yet been studied. There are also values in it, access to which can be obtained only theoretically. For example, some manuscripts of the famous Leonardo da Vinci, which are still not shown to the general public. Why? There is an assumption that they contain something that can undermine the prestige of the church.

A special mystery of the library is the mysterious books of the ancient Toltec Indians. All that is known about these books is that they actually exist. Everything else is rumors, legends and hypotheses. According to assumptions, they contain information about the missing gold of the Incas. It is also argued that it is they that contain reliable information about the visits of aliens to our planet in ancient times.

Count Cagliostro and the "elixir of youth"

There is also a theory that the Vatican library contains a copy of one of Capiostro's works. There is a fragment of this text describing the process of rejuvenation or regeneration 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 come to his senses after this state, in which the person, nevertheless, does not feel any pain, on the thirty-sixth day he takes the third, last grain of the “red lion” (i.e. elixir), after which he falls into a deep calm 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 over several days. On the morning of the fortieth day, he leaves the room a new person, feeling completely rejuvenated ... "
Although this description sounds fantastic, it is an amazingly accurate copy of one little-known Kaya Kappa rejuvenation method that has come down to us from ancient India. This secret course on the return of youth was passed 2 times by the Hindu Tapasviji, who lived for 185 years. The first time he was rejuvenated by the Kaya Kappa method, reaching the age of 90 years. A curious fact is that his miraculous transformation also took 40 days, and he overslept most of them. After forty days, new hair and teeth grew in him, and youth and vigor returned to his body. The parallel with the work of Count Cagliostro is quite obvious, so it is possible that the rumors about the rejuvenating elixir are real.

Is the veil lifted?

In 2012, for the first time, the Vatican Apostolic Library allowed some of its documents to be transferred outside the holy state and put on public display in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. The gift that the Vatican gave to Rome and to the whole world had a very simple purpose. “Above all, it is important to dispel the myths and destroy the legends that surround this great collection of human knowledge,” explained Gianni Venditti, archivist and curator of the exhibition symbolically titled “Light in the Dark,” at the time.

All submitted documents were originals and covered a period of almost 1200 years, revealing pages of history never before available to the general public. At that exhibition, all the curious could see manuscripts, papal bulls, judicial opinions from the trials of heretics, encrypted letters, personal correspondence of pontiffs and emperors ... One of the most interesting exhibits of the exhibition was the protocols of the trial of Galileo Galilei, the bull on excommunication of Martin Luther and the letter Michelangelo on the progress of work on one of the seven pilgrimage basilicas in Rome - the church of San Pietro in Vincoli.

In order to disappear into the most mysterious, sacred library of the world, you need to have good intentions and a decent appearance.

One of the most interesting and mysterious places in the Vatican is the Apostolic Library. In this regard, the question arises: how can one get permission to work in the Vatican Library and is it even possible for a person “from the street”?

As the Interfax-West agency was told on Thursday in the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus, “researchers and scientists known for their scientific discoveries, university teachers, graduate students and graduate students who will submit documents on the need to use library materials can get into the Vatican Library ".

“To receive a library card, you need to present a passport, a document on scientific activity or position, and a recommendation from a university or teacher for graduate and graduate students,” the clergy explained.

sacred rules

The rules for using the Vatican Library say that qualified researchers and scientists are allowed to visit this institution, regardless of their race, religion, origin and culture, the RCC in Belarus said.

"Qualified researchers, scholars or scholars who want to get into the library must be able to use ancient and precious books and manuscripts," the clergy said.

They also reported that “A person who wishes to visit the Vatican Library must indicate the topic of his research and a brief description of it. This is done in order to know in advance what documents the reader will need, and in vain "do not disturb" the ancient tomes.

Incunabula in digital

“It is precisely for the sake of preserving the materials of the Vatican Apostolic Library that since 2010 they have been “digitized”. Especially for this purpose, the Digital Vaticana Foundation was created, which is looking for sponsors and partners for aging electronic copies of library treasures,” the RCC in Belarus said.

According to the interlocutors of the agency, “one of them was a Japanese corporation providing high-tech services. The first ancient manuscripts digitized by this company have already been posted on the Internet today.”

“If the “digitization” process ends, the use of valuable documents will be much easier and there will be no need to go to the Vatican for this. But this moment is still very far away, since the scanning of ancient tomes is a complex and lengthy process,” the agency’s interlocutors said.

Taboo for students

As for the access of students to work in the Vatican Library, it is not practiced. Exceptions are made only for graduate students who are preparing to defend their thesis, or graduate students who need to refer to manuscripts or other materials that are stored only here and nowhere else, the RCC in Belarus said.

“In order to get such access, it is necessary to submit a recommendation and a request from your educational institution to the administration of the Vatican Library. It should be deeply substantiated why there is a need to turn to valuable documents,” the clergy explained.

Vatican dress code

According to the rules of the Apostal Library, when working with documents, silence must be observed; mobile phones, photo or video cameras cannot be used. "One of the requirements concerns the clothing of readers, which must be appropriate to the dignity of the ancient cultural and scientific institution," the clergy said.

After obtaining permission to use the library, the reader is given a special card that allows entry to the territory of the Vatican.

The Vatican Library is open from 16 September to 15 July. August is the time of rest. The library is open from Monday to Friday, from 8.45 am to 5.15 pm.

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The Vatican Library was founded on the initiative of Popes Nicholas V and Sixtus IV in the second half of the 15th century. More than 1.5 million ancient and modern books are stored here, more than 8 thousand incunabula - books published in the first decades after the appearance of the printing press - among which about 65 are parchment. In addition, about 150 thousand manuscripts, about 300 thousand coins and medals, and about 20 thousand works of art are stored here.

The Apostolic Library is located in a building erected in the 16th century. The entrance to it is through the Belvedere courtyard, not far from the Vatican Museums. There is a small garden and a bar where you can relax, chat and dine. It is forbidden to do all this in the reading rooms of the library.

Text by Anna Nefedova

It is believed that the huge library of the Vatican, which appeared in the 15th century, contains almost all the sacred knowledge of mankind - they say, you can find answers to any questions in it, even about the origin of life on Earth. However, most of the books are highly classified, and only the Pope has access to some scrolls.

Officially, the Vatican Library was founded on June 15, 1475, after the publication of the corresponding bull by Pope Sixtus IV. However, this does not accurately reflect reality. By this time, the papal library already had a long and rich history. The Vatican had a collection of ancient manuscripts, which was collected by the predecessors of Sixtus IV. They followed the tradition that appeared in the 4th century under Pope Damasus I and continued by Pope Boniface VIII, who created the first complete catalog at that time, as well as by the real founder of the library, Pope Nicholas V, who declared it public and left behind more than one and a half thousand different manuscripts. Shortly after the official establishment, the Vatican library contained more than three thousand original manuscripts purchased by papal nuncios in Europe.

Leonardo da Vinci and the secrets of the Aztecs

Count Cagliostro and the "elixir of lightness"

There are frequent convulsions, convulsions, profuse sweat appears on the body. Having come to his senses after this state, in which the person, nevertheless, does not feel any pain, on the thirty-sixth day he takes the third, last grain of the “red lion” (i.e. elixir), after which he falls into a deep calm 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 over several days. On the morning of the fortieth day, he leaves the room a new person, feeling completely rejuvenated ... "

Although this description sounds fantastic, it is an amazingly accurate copy of one little-known Kaya Kappa rejuvenation method that has come down to us from ancient India. This secret course on the return of youth was passed 2 times by the Hindu Tapasviji, who lived for 185 years. The first time he was rejuvenated by the Kaya Kappa method, reaching the age of 90 years. A curious fact is that his miraculous transformation also took 40 days, and he overslept most of them. After forty days, new hair and teeth grew in him, and youth and vigor returned to his body. The parallel with the work of Count Cagliostro is quite obvious, so it is possible that the rumors about the rejuvenating elixir are real.

Is the veil lifted?

All submitted documents were originals and covered a period of almost 1200 years, revealing pages of history never before available to the general public. At that exhibition, all the curious could see manuscripts, papal bulls, judicial opinions from the trials of heretics, encrypted letters, personal correspondence of the pontiffs and emperors ... One of the most interesting exhibits of the exhibition was the protocols of the trial of Galileo Galilei, the bull on the excommunication of Martin Luther and Michelangelo's letter on the progress of work on one of the seven pilgrimage basilicas in Rome - the church of San Pietro in Vincoli.

The library consists mainly of collections of Masons. These meetings are the most secret. Why is the Holy Church unwilling to share ancient knowledge with the whole world? Maybe they are afraid that this knowledge may call into question the existence of the church? Like it or not, we do not know, but the fact is that only the Pope has access to some scrolls. Others are not allowed to know. There are also secret rooms in the Vatican Library, which, at times, the clergy themselves do not know about.

Popes from ancient times spent huge amounts of money on obtaining new valuable manuscripts, realizing that all power lies in knowledge. So they amassed a huge collection. According to official figures, today the Vatican vaults contain 70,000 manuscripts, 8,000 early printed books, a million later printed editions, more than 100,000 engravings, about 200,000 maps and documents, as well as many works of art that cannot be counted by the piece.

The clergy have stated many times that they are going to open access to the treasures of the library for everyone, but things never went beyond promises. In order to get the right to work in a library, you need to have an impeccable (from the point of view of the clergy, of course) reputation. Access to very many book collections is closed in principle. No more than 150 researchers work in the library daily, rigorously tested; this number also includes church leaders, who are in the majority here. The Vatican Library is one of the most protected objects in the world: it is more seriously protected than any of the existing nuclear power plants. In addition to numerous Swiss guards, the library is guarded by ultra-modern automatic systems that form several levels of protection.

It is possible that the Vatican contains part of the Library of Alexandria.

As the story tells, this library was created by Pharaoh Ptolemy Soter shortly before the beginning of our era and replenished at an accelerated pace. Egyptian officials took to the library all Greek parchments imported into the country: each ship that arrived in Alexandria, if it had literary works, had to either sell them to the library or provide them for copying. Library keepers hurriedly transcribed every book that came to hand, hundreds of slaves toiled daily, copying and sorting thousands of scrolls. Ultimately, by the beginning of our era, the Library of Alexandria consisted of up to 700,000 manuscripts and was considered the largest book collection in the ancient world. The works of the largest scientists and writers, books in dozens of different languages were kept here. It was said that there is not a single valuable literary work in the world, a copy of which would not be in the Library of Alexandria.

What are the priests hiding? Why are the original texts of the Bible replaced by handwritten ones? The bible that we used to keep on our shelf is nothing more than a “washed” likeness of a real bible.

Rome gives us the spiritual knowledge that it considers necessary. With the help of the Bible, the Holy Church governs humanity. Unwanted texts were impudently withdrawn from "general use". Therefore, in my opinion, it is useless to interpret the Bible, since it was written "under the dictation" of the Vatican. With this knowledge, the Masonic lodge, which was created by Rome, still has unlimited power. It is almost impossible to be a state ruler and not be a Freemason. They govern all mankind, decide its fate. Whoever lives will die - such sentences are pronounced every day ...

How long will we have to wait to solve the riddle?

The time will come when humanity will “take away” this knowledge from one-sided use and many myths and legends will dispel and the Church will lose its power and become no longer needed. And the people of the Earth will understand their destiny in the world and will become clearly ripening.

Selected quotes from the diaries of Hans Nilser in 1899, which describe the secrets of the Vatican, ancient manuscripts with which the author worked. Unknown Manuscripts of the Gospels and Narratives of the Life of Jesus Christ. The Vedas and much more that is so carefully hidden from people.

Hans Nilser was born in 1849 into a large burgher family and was a zealous Catholic. From childhood, his parents prepared him for ordination, and from childhood the boy himself expected to devote himself to serving God. He was incredibly lucky: the bishop noticed his abilities and sent a talented young man to the papal court. Since Hans was primarily interested in the history of the Church, he was sent to work in the archives of the Vatican.

April 12, 1899 Today the senior archivist showed me some collections of which I had no idea. Naturally, I myself will also have to keep silent about what I saw. With reverent awe I looked at these shelves, which contain documents relating to the earliest periods of our Church. Just think: all these papers are witnesses to the life and deeds of the holy apostles, and perhaps even the Savior! My task for the next few months is to verify, clarify and complete the catalogs relating to these funds. The catalogs themselves are placed in a niche in the wall, so cleverly disguised that I would never have guessed their existence.

April 28, 1899 I work 16-17 hours a day. The head librarian praises me and warns me with a smile that at this pace I will sort through all the Vatican funds in a year. In fact, health problems are already making themselves felt - here, in the dungeon, the temperature and humidity are maintained, which is optimal for books, but detrimental to humans. However, in the end, I'm doing a job that pleases the Lord! Nevertheless, my confessor persuaded me to rise to the surface every two hours for at least ten minutes.

May 18, 1899 I never cease to be amazed at the treasures contained in this fund. There are so many materials here that are unknown even to me, who diligently studied that era! Why do we keep them secret instead of making them available to theologians? Obviously, materialists, socialists and slanderers can distort these texts, causing irreparable damage to our holy cause. This, of course, cannot be allowed. But still…

June 2, 1899 I read the texts in detail. Something incomprehensible is happening - the explicit works of heretics in the catalog stand next to the true creations of the Church Fathers! Absolutely impossible confusion. For example, a certain biography of the Savior, attributed to the Apostle Paul himself. This is no longer in any gate climbs! I will contact the senior librarian.

June 3, 1899 The senior librarian listened to me, thought for some reason, looked at the text I found, and then simply advised me to leave everything as it is. He said that I must continue to work, he will explain everything later.

June 9, 1899 Long conversation with the head librarian. It turns out that much of what I thought was apocrypha is true! Of course, the Gospel is a God-given text, and the Lord Himself ordered some documents to be hidden so that they would not confuse the minds of believers. After all, a simple person needs the most simple teaching possible, without any unnecessary details, and the existence of discrepancies only contributes to a split. The apostles were just people, albeit saints, and each of them could add something from himself, invent or simply misinterpret, so many texts did not become canonical and were not included in the New Testament. That's what the head librarian explained to me. This is all reasonable and logical, but something worries me.

11 June 1899 My confessor said that I should not think too much about what I had learned. After all, I am firm in my faith, and human delusions should not affect the image of the Savior. Reassured, I continued my work.

August 12, 1899 Very strange facts are multiplying every day of my work. The gospel story appears in a completely new light. However, I do not trust anyone, not even my diary.

23 October 1899 I wish I had died this morning. For in the collections entrusted to me, I found many documents that show that the story of the Savior is made up from beginning to end! The senior librarian whom I contacted explained to me that the main secret is hidden here: people did not see the Savior's coming and did not recognize him. And then the Lord taught Paul how to bring faith to people, and he got down to business. Of course, for this he had to compose, with God's help, a myth that would attract people. All this is quite logical, but for some reason I feel uneasy: are the foundations of our teaching so shaky and fragile that we need some kind of myths?

January 15, 1900 Decided to see what other secrets the library hides. There are many hundreds of repositories like the one I work in now. Since I work alone, I can, albeit with some risk, penetrate the others. This is a sin, especially since I won't tell my confessor about it. But I swear in the name of the Savior that I will pray for him!

March 22, 1900 The head librarian fell ill and I was finally able to get into the other secret rooms. I'm afraid I don't know all of them. Those that I saw are filled with a variety of books in languages unknown to me. Among them there are those that look very strange: stone slabs, clay tables, multi-colored threads woven into fancy knots. I saw Chinese characters and Arabic script. I do not know all these languages, only Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Aramaic are available to me.

June 26, 1900 From time to time I continue my research, for fear of being discovered. Today I found a thick folder with Fernand Cortez's reports to the Pope. Oddly, I never knew that Cortes was closely associated with the Church. It turned out that almost half of his detachment consisted of priests and monks. At the same time, I got the impression that Cortes initially knew perfectly well where and why he was going, and deliberately went to the capital of the Aztecs. However, there are many miracles with the Lord! However, why do we hush up such a great role of our Church?

November 9, 1900 Decided to leave aside documents related to the Middle Ages. My work in the vault is almost finished, and it seems that they don't want to let me in on the top-secret papers anymore. Apparently, some suspicion has arisen among my superiors, although I try not to attract their attention in any way.

December 28, 1900 Found a very interesting fund relating to my period. Documents in classical Greek, read and enjoy. It looks like this is a translation from Egyptian, I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but one thing is clear: we are talking about some kind of secret organization, very powerful, which relies on the authority of the gods and rules the country.

January 17, 1901 Incredible! It just can't be! In the Greek text I found clear indications that the priests of the Egyptian god Amun and the first hierarchs of our Holy Church belonged to the same secret society! Did the Lord really choose such people in order to bring to people the light of His truth? No, no, I don't want to believe it...

February 22, 1901 I think the head librarian suspected something. At least I feel like I'm being watched, so I stopped working with secret funds. However, I have already seen much more than I would like. Does this mean that the Good News sent by the Lord was usurped by a handful of pagans who used it to rule the world? How could the Lord tolerate this? Or is it a lie? I'm confused, I don't know what to think.

April 4, 1901 Well, now access to secret documents is completely closed to me. I directly asked the head librarian about the reasons. “You are not strong enough in spirit, my son,” he said, “strengthen your faith, and the treasures of our library will open before you again. Remember, everything you see here must be approached with pure, deep, unadulterated faith.” Yes, but then it turns out that we keep a bunch of falsified documents, a pile of lies and slander!

June 11, 1901 No, after all, these are not fakes and not lies. I have a tenacious memory, and besides (God forgive me!) I made a lot of extracts from documents. I carefully, meticulously checked them and did not find a single error, not a single inaccuracy that would accompany a fake. And they are by no means stored as cheap and vicious slander, but carefully and with love. I'm afraid I'll never be the same person with a pure soul. May the Lord forgive me!

October 25, 1901 I wrote a request for a long leave to return to my homeland. My health was failing, and besides, I wrote, I needed to cleanse my soul alone. No response has been received yet.

November 17, 1901 The petition was accepted not without hesitation, but, as it seemed to me, not without relief. In three months I will be able to go home. During this time, I should send copies of the documents I found to Augsburg in various ways. This, of course, is contrary to the Lord... but isn't it disgusting to hide them from people? The head librarian repeated to me many times that I should not tell anyone about the secrets that I saw in the library. I solemnly swore. Lord, do not let me become also a perjurer!

January 12, 1902 Robbers came to my apartment. They took all the money and papers. Fortunately, I have already secretly sent everything more or less valuable to Germany. The Holy See generously compensated me for the cost of lost valuables. A very strange theft...

February 18, 1902 At last I am going home! My superiors saw me off and half-heartedly wished me a speedy return. It is unlikely that this will ever happen...

"The Diaries of Hans Nilser or What is the Vatican hiding?"

As we see from these quotes, the Vatican priests have something to hide from those who are not initiated into secrets.

Secrets and mysteries of the Vatican Library

Throughout its history, mankind has been accumulating the knowledge it has received - in the form of inscriptions on stones, in scrolls, and later - in books and manuscripts. Entire libraries were created. We know about the existence of colossal book depositories of antiquity - the library of a secret society, etc.

Unfortunately, they are all lost. But there was one more huge library with which nothing happened. That's just access there to a mere mortal is closed. This is the Vatican Library.

Dozens of historical and detective novels can be written about this library. The fact is that there is no such place in the world where such a myriad of books, maps and other documents telling about the true history of mankind would be concentrated and at the same time hidden from the people.

Which, by the way, is far from ten thousand years old, as we are told by orthodox historians, but at least tens of millions.

This is evidenced not only by archaeological excavations (although orthodox science is also silent about the unique artifacts found - as well as about the true funds of the Vatican Library), but also by numerous myths and legends of almost all peoples of the world.

But the attitude to this richest property, to this mythological knowledge, which no Anunnaki and Illuminati could take away from the people, is again distorted-zombified, i.e. like some fairy tales that have nothing to do with the true history of the Earth. It's a pity…

According to official data, the Apostolic Library of the Vatican has almost 2 million printed publications (both old and some modern), 150 thousand manuscripts and archival volumes, 8300 early printed books (of which 65 are parchment), more than 100 thousand engravings, about 200 thousand maps and documents, as well as many works of art that cannot be counted individually, including 300,000 medals and coins, and much more.

According to unofficial data, in the underground vaults of the Vatican, which occupy a huge area, there are many secret rooms, which are known only to the initiates. Many Popes, spending many years in the Vatican, did not even know about their existence.

It is in these rooms that there are priceless manuscripts that shed light on various secrets of the universe, in which you can find answers to any questions, even about the origin of life on Earth.

Almost all the ancient libraries of the world are collected there, including the Theban, Carthaginian and, of course, Alexandria that allegedly burned down or died.

The Library of Alexandria was created by Pharaoh Ptolemy Soter shortly before the beginning of our era and replenished with a truly universal scale. Egyptian officials took all the Greek parchments imported into the country to the library: each ship that arrived in Alexandria, if it had literary works, had to either sell them to the library or provide them for copying.

Library keepers hurriedly transcribed every book that came to hand, hundreds of slaves toiled daily, copying and sorting thousands of scrolls. Ultimately, by the beginning of our era, the Library of Alexandria numbered many thousands of manuscripts and was considered the largest book collection in the ancient world.

The works of outstanding scientists and writers, books in dozens of different languages were kept here. It was said that there is not a single valuable literary work in the world, a copy of which would not be in the Library of Alexandria.

The story of the alleged fire, according to independent researchers, is just a smoke screen designed to hide from humanity what it supposedly cannot digest.

Again, according to unofficial data, the Vatican was created by the priests of the temple of Amon, so its true residence is not in Italy, but in the Egyptian Theban temple of Aoset, which personifies the dark hypostasis of Set, or Amon. The Italian Vatican today is rather a guardian of the secret knowledge of mankind.

It is from here that their real crumbs are thrown away, so that modern civilization develops in such a way and at such a pace that is pleasing to the true owners of the Vatican.

According to public sources and encyclopedias, the Vatican Library was founded on June 15, 1475, after the issuance of the corresponding bull by Pope Sixtus IV. However, this does not accurately reflect reality. By this time, the papal library already had a long and rich history.

The Vatican had a collection of ancient manuscripts, which was collected by the predecessors of Sixtus IV. They followed a tradition dating back to the 4th century. under Pope Damasus I and continued by Pope Boniface VIII, who created the first complete catalog at that time, as well as by the real founder of the library, Pope Nicholas V, who declared it public and left behind more than one and a half thousand different manuscripts.

Within a short period of time after the Vatican Library was established, it already contained more than three thousand original manuscripts purchased by papal nuncios in Europe.

The Vatican Library attracts like a magnet, but in order to uncover its secrets, you need to work with its funds, and this is not at all easy. Readers' access to numerous archives is strictly limited.

To work with most documents, you must make a special request, explaining the reason for your interest. And not the fact that the request will be considered positively. At the same time, the historian needs to have an impeccable reputation, but whether it is impeccable is decided by the authorities of the Vatican.

As for the Vatican Secret Archives, i.e. closed fund of the library, then it is almost impossible to get there: again, only the authorities of the Vatican allow access there.

And although the library is officially considered open for scientific and research work, only about 150 specialists and scientists can get into it every day. At this pace, it will take 1,250 years to study the treasures in the library, because the total length of the shelves of the library, consisting of 650 departments, is 85 km.

If someone gets access to work with the library funds, he cannot take anything out of there. This privilege is available only to the Pope.

The Vatican Library is one of the most protected objects in the world, because its protection is more serious than that of any of the nuclear power plants. In addition to numerous Swiss guards, the peace of the library is guarded by ultra-modern automatic systems that form several levels of protection.

However, there are cases when ancient manuscripts, which, according to historians, are the property of all mankind, were tried to be stolen. So, in 1996, an American professor, art historian, was convicted of stealing several pages torn from a 14th-century manuscript by Francesco Petrarca.

In addition, the library contains many archives that have not yet been studied. There are also values in it, access to which can be obtained only theoretically. For example, some manuscripts of the famous Leonardo da Vinci, which are still not shown to the general public. Why? There is an assumption that they contain something that can undermine the prestige of the church.

According to assumptions, they contain information about the missing gold of the Incas. It is also argued that it is they that contain reliable information about the visits of aliens to our planet, from ancient times to the present day.

There is also a legend that in the Vatican library there is a copy of one of the works of Cagliostro. There is a fragment of this text describing the process of rejuvenation or regeneration 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 come to his senses after this state, in which the person, nevertheless, does not feel any pain, on the thirty-sixth day he takes the third, last grain of the “red lion” (i.e. elixir), after which he falls into a deep calm 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 over several days. On the morning of the fortieth day, he leaves the room a new person, feeling completely rejuvenated ... ".

Although this description sounds fantastic, it is an amazingly accurate copy of one little-known Kaya Kappa rejuvenation method that has come down to us from ancient India.

This secret course for the return of youth was passed twice by the Hindu Tapasviji, who lived for 185 years. The first time he was rejuvenated by the Kaya Kappa method, reaching the age of 90 years.

A curious fact is that his miraculous transformation also took forty days, and he slept most of them. After forty days, new hair and teeth grew in him, and youth and vigor returned to his body. The parallel with the work of Count Cagliostro is quite obvious, so it is possible that the rumors about the rejuvenating elixir are real.

In 2012, for the first time, the Vatican Apostolic Library allowed some of its documents to be taken outside the holy state and put on public display in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.

The gift that the Vatican gave to Rome and to the whole world had a very simple purpose. “First of all, it is important to dispel the myths and destroy the legends that surround this great collection of human knowledge,” explained Gianni Venditti, archivist and curator of the exhibition with the symbolic title “Light in the Dark,” at the time.

Some of the most interesting exhibits of the exhibition were the minutes of the trial of Galileo Galilei, the bull on the excommunication of Martin Luther and Michelangelo's letter on the progress of work on one of the seven pilgrimage basilicas in Rome - the church of San Pietro in Vincoli.

However, as you might guess, the publication of all these documents does not pose any threat to the Vatican - they were known in one way or another before.

Many researchers believe that the Freemasons, who are considered to be the very secret government of the Earth, which everyone is talking about, but which, nevertheless, nothing is known about, had a hand in classifying the archives of the Vatican. Will we ever know these secrets? I want to believe ...

In general, the unexpectedly late founding of the Vatican library in the 15th century and its growth in the 16th-17th centuries. due to other book collections, primarily due to the library of the Dukes of Urbino, immediately attracts attention.

If the Vatican was founded in the middle of the 15th century, then the question of the famous library, which is very important for chronology, immediately arises. It is generally considered to be very ancient. Indeed, if we take the point of view of chronology, it is natural to think that the popes of Rome, leading an uninterrupted succession supposedly from the 4th century, should have had a library from that time, accumulate and transmit various manuscripts and treatises to their successors. Books in the Middle Ages were extremely expensive and were carefully kept. In addition, they are necessary for worship. It is hardly worth proving in detail that if it has more than one and a half thousand years, then the library should have about the same amount. This is more or less obvious. And many people think that this is the case. So either it didn’t exist, or it was a secret with seven seals until the 15th century, and only Nicholas V decided to reveal this secret to the world, just some kind of spy detective.

On the other side,the library could not have arisen before the middle of the 15th century, since before that time the Vatican itself did not exist, and there is no mystery here.

And most likely the basis of the very first library, most likely, lay the treatises taken from Constantinople immediately before its capture in 1453, and this is already a big secret. In other words, the foundation of the library was to be laid by Pope Nicholas V, who ruled in 1453. And he had to bring books from somewhere. The building of the Vatican Library was supposed to be built several decades later. Since at first the fugitives, most likely, were not up to it. For several years they themselves crowded into cramped and uncomfortable rooms. It is unlikely that they immediately after the move found a decent room for the library.

Let's now see how things really were. Let us use the message of the papal historians themselves. Will it turn out that the conclusions that were made a little higher are true and a dark mystery envelops the thousand-year history of the papal book depository, or is the widespread opinion about the antiquity of the Vatican archive based only on blind faith in the Scaligerian chronology? Judge for yourself.

“Sixtus IV della Rovere founded the apostolic library in the Vatican by a papal bull of June 15, 1475. The basis was the collection of Nicholas V, which consisted of 834 Latin codes. It was open to scholars and was located on the lower floor of the northern wing of the Papal Palace, until then used as a cellar or barn. The papal archive then already numbered 2547 Greek and Latin manuscripts.

So, I think it's clear who is right. It was based on a book collection that belonged to Pope Nicholas V (1447-1455), a contemporary of the capture of Constantinople in 1453. Vatican historians do not report where Pope Nicholas V got 834 manuscripts in his personal possession. Allegedly, he himself collected them somewhere for his personal use, while he was not yet a dad. And then he brought with him to, where for some reason there was nothing bookish before. Allegedly, for more than a thousand years, the idea of creating their own library did not occur to dads. And Nicholas V was the first to think of this. Here we still need to pay attention to one fact, the manuscripts were not only Latin, which is quite natural, if we recognize the thousand-year history of Rome, but also Greek. And although their number is not mentioned, it can be assumed that there were quite a few of them, and this, although indirectly, indicates that the books were from Constantinople.

Here it is necessary to mention the indispensable secretary of Nicholas V, Lorenzo Valla, since it is this person who is behind the creation of the ancient Latin language, as well as the humanist movement. With his writings such as "Elegant Latin", he contributed to the popularization of an originally dead and fictional language. But this is not even important for us, but the fact that he was the first to translate into Latin the works of Herodotus, Thucydides and Homer's Iliad, as well as Aesop's fables. This is how not only Greek but also Latin texts appeared in the Vatican library. It can be argued that Lorenzo Valla was developing the concept of a new Western European ideology aimed at destroying, as you understand, the old imperial one. A sort of Marx of the Renaissance.

So the library appeared in the Vatican immediately upon its foundation by Nicholas V around 1453, but was kept secret until 1475, the books had to be translated, prepared so to speak. Moreover, most likely, Nicholas V did not collect books one at a time, from time to time, but secretly removed the entire collection from the doomed one before its capture by the Ottomans in 1453. And he took out about 800 manuscripts. In the next twenty years, the popes managed to secretly take out another part of the books, but at the same time they already compiled translations with the necessary corrections. It was just the work of Lorenzo Valla. So by 1475 their collection reached two and a half thousand volumes. It's time to open the reading room.

So, the first room for the library, open to visitors in the Vatican, appeared twenty years after the capture of Constantinople, in 1475. This room was converted either from a cellar or a barn. Which indirectly confirms the idea that by that time the Vatican had just begun to be built. There were not enough rooms. The book depository had to be placed in a former barn. During the first twenty years, from 1453 to 1475, the number of books increased from 834 to 2527 units, that is, about three times. This is a very rapid growth, natural for a young, newly founded library, not one that has been in secret for a thousand years. It could also be due to the fact that for the first time after the fall of Constantinople, books began to rapidly flock here, on various occasions secretly taken out of Byzantium.

Most likely, these were books in Church Slavonic, Greek-Byzantine and Arabic. Their own books in Latin and ancient Greek, like these languages themselves, appeared in Italy somewhat later. Lorenzo Valla just started this work, laid the foundations, so to speak, but it took time for it all to settle down, so that people would believe in the antiquity of these languages, a change of several generations was needed. This is how a myth becomes a reality: when the last witnesses of the myth die. The works of Lorenzo Valla himself were published only a century after his death, and this despite his privileged position. And Latin itself began to spread around the middle of the 16th century. through the efforts of humanists, and ancient Greek even later at the beginning of the 17th century.

So in the Vatican, the next impetus to the development of book rooms was received at the end of the 16th century. A much larger building followed under Sixtus V (1585-1590). In a little more than a year, from May 1587 to September 1588, Domenico Fontano in the Vatican prepared a new building for the book depository, building a transverse wing in the Belvedere courtyard on the order of Sixtus V on the site of the first Bramante staircase. And it was no longer a former barn or cellar. There were no more secrets, there was nothing to hide, the empire was falling apart, and the Vatican was becoming stronger. Much has changed in the Vatican in a hundred years. The walls of the new luxurious building are painted with paintings reminiscent of ancient libraries; about the inventors of writing and about episodes from the pontificate of Sixtus V.

Secret Library

But it is impossible without secrets in the Vatican, and after the death of the Great Empire in 1611, along with the completion of construction, the Secret Library was established. The chronological contradiction between the founding of the Vatican allegedly in the 4th c. AD and the founding of the Vatican Palace of the Book in the 15th century. AD over a thousand years later! — is so conspicuous that it will disturb even traditional historians. Yes, they say, indeed, the Vatican book depository was founded only in the 15th century. But one should not think that before that there was no library in the Vatican.

She was. Only it was a secret collection of books. So secret that none of the outsiders knew anything about him. Therefore, medieval information about it has not reached us. But it certainly was a very, very ancient book depository. It is interesting, of course, if it was such a secret and no one knew about it, then how did the historians themselves know? It is clear that such an explanation does not explain anything, in fact. The existence of a secret archive, about which no one knew anything, is pure speculation that cannot be verified. Therefore, let's turn to the facts and see - when exactly was this secret book collection finally revealed to the people for the first time?

It turns out that at the beginning of 1612! That is, immediately after the fall of the great Russian medieval empire and occupation by Western troops. Here is what they write about it: “The secret archive, officially approved on January 31, 1612, and arranged in the new wing of the library, originates in very ancient times. The rooms, originally intended for the Archives and still furnished with original furniture, are painted with scenes from the diplomatic history of the Vatican. Since 1880, the secret archive, open to scientists, has been turned into a scientific institute for historical research. A special reading room was also prepared for them.”

It turns out that immediately after the fall in the Vatican, that part of the books and documents of the papal library, which spoke too frankly about the Empire, was immediately withdrawn from public use. All this for the time being was transferred to a secret archive. A special room was urgently built for this secret archive. Then began the long work of rewriting history, which was finally completed only in the 19th century. After that, the secret archive was "cleaned up", brought into line with the final version, and opened to scientists. What is most interesting is that there is no intelligible explanation anywhere: why was this secret archive needed, what was hidden and from whom? ...