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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

– Of course, Your Holiness! It’s the simplest thing that a Vedun can do. Why are
you interested in it?

– Your father uses it to avoid pain... – Caraffa pronounced thoughtfully. –
Therefore, there is no sense in torturing him by ordinary means. But I shall find the
way to get him talking, even if it takes more time than I had thought. He knows a great
deal, Isidora, more than you can imagine, I think. He did not open even half of it to
you! Don’t you really have any desire to know the rest?
– What for, Your Holiness?! – I said as calmly as possible, trying to hide my joy.
– If he did not open something to me, it means that the time to know it has not come for
me yet. Premature knowledge is very dangerous, Your Holiness. It can both help and
kill. Therefore, one has to be extremely careful when teaching somebody. I think you
should have known that. You in fact studied there, in Meteora, for some time.

– Nonsense!!! I am ready for everything! Oh, I have been ready for so long,
Isidora! These fools just don’t see that I only need to get Knowledge and I can do much
more than others, or even more than they!
Caraffa was terrible in his "DESIRE of the desired" and I understood that he
would break down ANY barriers on his way to get the knowledge... Whether it will be
me, my father or even little Anna, he will get what he wants, he will "knock" it out of
us despite anything, as he had obviously gotten everything his insatiable brain aimed
for, including his today's power, the visit to Meteora and, certainly, a lot of other things
about which I preferred to be unaware in order not to loose hope of a victory over him.
Caraffa was truly dangerous for humanity! His extremely mad "faith" in his "genius"
exceeded any commonly accepted norms of the highest self-importance that ever
existed and intimidated with its peremptoriness when the matter concerned the things
which he craved and about which he had not the least idea, but only knew that he
wanted them.
To cool him a little, I suddenly began to "melt" right before his "holy" eyes, and
in an instant totally disappeared. This was a child's trick of the simplest "waft", as we
called the instantaneous displacement from one place to another (I think they call it
teleportation), but I had to take Caraffa down a peg or two. I was right... When I came
back in a minute, his dumbfounded face expressed total confusion which not very many,
I am sure, succeeded in seeing. The picture amused me so that I could not help

laughing.
– We know many tricks, Your Holiness, but they are just tricks. KNOWLEDGE is
completely different. It is a weapon, and what hands it gets into is very important.
But Caraffa did not listen. He was like a child charmed by what he just saw and
immediately wanted to know about it! It was a new unknown toy which he had to have
right now!!! Any delay is intolerable!

But on the other hand, he also was a very clever man, and despite the ardent
desire to possess, he was, almost always, able to think. Therefore in few seconds his
face began to darken and his widening black eyes stared at me asking a mute, but very
persistent question, and I saw that he at last began to understand the real meaning of
the little "trick" I had demonstrated...
– It means that you could easily "leave" all this time?! Why did not you leave,

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