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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

– Man can do everything... until he starts trying, Your Holiness. – I could not
help myself, "biting" him.

Suddenly I remembered something about which I wanted to know and asked:
– Tell me, Your Holiness, do you know the truth about Jesus and Magdalena?

– Do you mean that they lived in Meteora? – I nodded. – Of course! It was the
first thing I asked them!
– How it can be possible?! – I was shocked. – Do you also know the fact they were
not Jews?
– Caraffa nodded again. – But you never tell about that! Nobody knows that! What
about TRUTH, Your Holiness?
– Oh, don’t be ridiculous, Isidora! – Caraffa sincerely laughed. – You are a child,
upon my life! Who needs your "truth"? The crowd which has never looked for it?! No,
my dearest, only a handful of thinking ones need Truth, and the crowd must simply
"believe". It does not really matter in what. The important thing is that people should
obey. It does not matter what they are fed with for that. TRUTH is dangerous, Isidora.
Where Truth is revealed, doubts appear, and where doubts are, a war begins. I lead
my OWN war, Isidora, and for the time being I am enormously pleased with it! The
world has always been based on lie, you see. The most important thing is that this lie
should be interesting enough to lead dull minds. And believe me, Isidora; with all this
going on, if you start proving the real Truth to the crowd, refuting their "faith" in God
knows what, it will tear you to pieces.

– Can such a clever man as Your Holiness be satisfied with self-betrayal? In fact
you burn innocent people on behalf of the slandered God which is innocent too, like
them. How can you lie so shamelessly, Your Holiness?!
– Oh, don’t worry, dear Isidora! – Caraffa smiled. – My conscience is absolutely
clear! It was not me who raised this God, and it won’t be me who overturns him. But
I am going to be the one who will purge Earth of heresy and lechery! And believe me,
Isidora, there will be nobody to burn on this sinful Earth the day I "leave"!

I felt dizzy. My heart madly palpitated, unable to listen to this delirium! Therefore,
I pulled myself together as quickly as possible and tried to avoid discussing his
favourite subject.
– Well, what about you being the head of the holy Christian church? Don’t you
really think that your duty is to disclose the truth about Jesus Christ to people?
– Exactly because I am his "deputy on Earth" I will keep silent, Isidora! Exactly

that is why... I looked at him with my eyes wide open and could not believe that I
really heard all that.
Caraffa was extremely dangerous in his madness and there hardly was a remedy which
could help him.
That’s enough small talk! – The "holy father" suddenly exclaimed, rubbing his
hands with a satisfied air. – Come with me, my dearest. I think this time I will succeed
in stunning you!

If he knew how well he constantly managed to do it! My heart ached, having a
bad presentiment. But I had no choice – I had to go with him...

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