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WHO IS MORGAN ROBERTSON? LIGHTS AND SHADOWS…

26 May 202327 May 2023visionieprofezie

“It’s a cold, moonless spring night when the keel of a large passenger ship sails across the Atlantic.

It sails so fast, in defiance of all caution, it’s about to break any crossing record.

It is technologically at the forefront, such that the builders consider it unsinkable.

Suddenly, the shape of a big iceberg appears in the darkness.

Too late to correct the course; the impact is inevitable.”

This is not a newspaper article about what happened to the famous transatlantic Titanic but some extracts from the dramatic story reported in the book “Futility or The Wreck of the Titan” (“Futility” in the first edition of 1898), written by Morgan Robertson and translated in the Italian edition with the title “Il Naufragio del Titan”. The correspondence and analogies in this novel, written 14 years before the Titanic tragedy, are numerous.

The coincidences between reality and imagination are so incredible that it is normal to wonder if this novel is really a prophecy or the accurate and meticulous analysis of an event that, given those characteristics, could have happened statistically.

Even today this novel continues to stir curiosity and questions, fuelling an aura of mystery. Who is Morgan Robertson?

He is an american writer and “inventor”. Inventor because he claimed to have designed the prototype of the periscope used on boats, however he did not obtain the patent granted to other inventors.

He was born in 1861, son of a navy captain. He was embarked for about 10 years on merchant ships and for these reasons he knew the sea, its dangers and pitfalls…

Moreover, at that time, maritime transport was almost as important and fundamental as the air transport of our day.

As for the hypothesis that a ship could be wrecked because of the collision with ice blocks, it was not a literary fantasy but a reality and indeed the most feared event on the North Atlantic route.

Not to mention that about 6 years prior to the publication of the book, there were rumors about the construction of a boat able to beat every record in speed and size but was, above all, defined unsinkable thanks to its hull divided into 16 watertight compartments, therefore designed to stay afloat even if some compartments were to have loaded water.

In the light of these considerations, can we still call Morgan Robertson a seer? Or was it simply his intention to warn us not to underestimate an impending danger?

Even the first title of the work seems very eloquent to me: “Futility”!

It is difficult to say and we will never know, even though he calls himself a psychic, one who drew his inspirations and ideas from “his companion in astral writing”.

To support this peculiarity, another one of his books comes to our rescue, written in 1914, a year before his death, entitled “Beyond the Spectrum”.

In this work, the writer tells us about a war between the United States and Japan as a consequence of a surprise attack by the Japanese, with blinding weapons, on a naval expedition.

Once more, 27 years in advance, Robertson predicts what will happen in Pearl Harbor (actually a military base), and which will determine the entry of the United States of America in World War II.

ARTISTIC SENSITIVITY AND MUSIC FROM THE FUTURE by Jerome King Canta

12 May 2023visionieprofezie

Music has always been an important form of human expression. Through music, it is possible to communicate our emotions, our thoughts and ideas in a way that is original, unique and, in some cases, really powerful. However, music can also be seen as a form of expression of the historical moment in which it is made.

As a matter of fact, each historical era has its own characteristic music which reflects the cultural, social and political influences of the time. Baroque music (see Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Arcangelo Corelli), marked by great complexity and ornamentation, well reflects the taste for grandeur of the era. Even punk music, which made its peak in the 80’s, was used by artists as a means to represent unemployment, discrimination and social alienation, which were the themes characterizing the society of the time.

Among artists, there are particularly sensitive ones who-–either developed or by nature—have a spiked receptivity towards that which is beyond what we commonly consider matter. These special individuals not only “talk” about their own historical time, but sometimes they can also anticipate what the music of the future will be.

This is the case of Dodecaphony, a musical technique elaborated by Arnold Schonberg in 1923, and anticipated by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart some 136 years earlier, in 1787. It reflects the desire for change—literary, artistic, political and social—in a world going through a period of great transformations, due in part to wars and technological discoveries.

It is a composition based on a series of twelve sounds that do not repeat until the whole series is terminated. With this technique, there are no more important or less important sounds: all have the same importance. The succession of sounds, lacking a catchy melody, turns out to be dissonant, leaving the listener with a sensation of growing tension. Mozart conceives and adopts this, among others, in one of his most famous operas, Don Giovanni.

A brief summary is needed. Don Giovanni, a young knight, seduces Donna Anna, a noblewoman. The Commendatore, Anna’s father, gets upset about this and challenges Don Giovanni to a duel, where he gets killed by the knight. Near the end of the opera, the Commendatore, in the form of a ghost statue, reappears to Don Giovanni, inviting him to dinner. Don Giovanni, proud as he is, accepts the invitation and shakes the statue’s hand. At this point he senses a deadly frost, and the Commendatore exhorts him to repent of his sins, but Don Giovanni refuses to do so and tries in vain to escape from his inevitable destiny: death.

Don Giovanni and the statue of the Commendatore, Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard

The Commendatore’s apparition in this last part is of symbolic value. He represents a messenger of the divine will, of the justice that awaits those who have sinned. In utilizing a new composition technique, Mozart manages to give shape to the transcendent, separating it from what is of earthly nature. What happens is that the succession of dissonant sounds gives life to the terror, the anguish, the fear the sinner goes through and lives face to face with death. Thanks to his peculiar artistic sensitivity, Mozart is gifted with inspiration and with it anticipates a whole new technique that will flourish only in 1923 with Schonberg, when new ways of musical expression are employed by composers in their search for liberty from traditional tonality and harmony.

But besides anticipating the future, is it possible that music could actually contain news on what is yet to come? Can music, with the wise use of its language, carry within a prophecy?

MAGIC AND DIVINATION by Elisabetta Meacci

12 May 2023visionieprofezie

The Magician, which can be associated with the Hermit tarot card

Talking about magic nowadays might seem inappropriate. As soon as we hear this word we think of the illusionist, the magician who performs tricks and with special effects. Or we think about those fantasy film characters who are very eccentric and bizarre. In short, magic with fairy tales’ magic wand.

Not magic in the ancient sense of the term, no, it doesn’t immediately come to mind, in fact it seems something very distant from modern society, from this civilization of machines and technology, where everything is practical, immediate, visible, tangible.

A society where many call themselves “atheists” and are skeptical of everything which lies beyond their noses.

Magic as ancient wisdom, as development of faculties that every human being possesses more or less latently, doesn’t come to mind.

In reality, magic is a current topic and is alive in every time and every place. One may say that it is innate in us. From the most insignificant sign of superstition to the rituals of the great religions, magic survives and becomes part of the life of each of us. As if with a gesture or a strange power we could change the course of events. But is it really possible?

We live in a world made of exchanges, of relationships, of harmonies. Energetic exchanges, vital, with the environment around us, with nature, and with the people who make up our circle of human relationships.

We are bound with our physical body to the earth, to its radiations and its atmosphere, so it is necessary to learn to free ourselves from conditionings and to harmonize with the environment; our etheric body is related to the etheric body of the earth and the Cosmos, and we are influenced by it, so we must also harmonize with it, possibly using it; the same applies to the astral and the mental energy bodies, which have relations and links with those of the earth and the Cosmos.

One of the purposes of sacred magic is to bring all these forces into balance in order to open a path to the Celestial Spheres.

The magical art knows the wise use of colors, of perfumes, of musical notes, of symbols, and of magnetic or vital currents of our body, for the purpose of transforming the human soul into an immortal angelic being.

So divination gains an important role. In Chinese philosophy contained in I KING, the Book of Changes, one of the most important texts about divination, everything that happens in the visible world is the extrication of an image, an idea present in the invisible world. The seeds of everything are in the higher, invisible and spiritual worlds. Here on earth these seeds materialize, as it were, in time. If I can predict in advance, I can somehow act to have a better destiny. The ability to intuitively know, and discover these spiritual seeds is the prerogative of wise or holy people who are used to being in contact with these higher dimensions. It is through them that a sort of circuit is created between heaven or the supersensible world of ideas, earth or the corporeal world of visibility, and man.