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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

love they had accumulated for long years! He sent it to her to remember him too.

She closed her eyes to withstand... She wanted him to see her calm. And when she
opened them, everything was over... Radomir was gone... Earth lost him, being
unworthy of him. He stepped into his new, still unknown life, leaving the Duty and
children to Maria. He left her soul
wounded and lonely, but still loving and firm.
Magdalena brokenly sighed and got up. She simply did not have time to grieve.
She knew that the Knights Templar soon would come to take Radomir’s dead body to
Holy Flames, thus seeing off his pure Spirit into Eternity.

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You see two almost identical pictures by the great Italian artist Raphael Sanzio
(Santi). There is an impression that someone intentionally "moved" the second picture
downward to cut off the top with the "dangerous" object – a splendidly painted "flying
saucer"... which existed in reality. Raphael was a very unusual person who often acted
contrary to the church. As the famous Giorgio Vasari said, he was an "atheist with
luxuriant imagination". The picture on the left was painted
in 1520, the last year of his life, and called "Departure". On causing a real storm of
indignation in the church, the magnificent work was sentenced to elimination. Then the
painter decided to play a joke on the Pope and painted the second picture, as if moving
the whole composition downward and cutting the top (main) part of the picture where
Christ was painted, which was prohibited by the strict canons of painting of that time.
He called it "Transfiguration". Regrettably, the artist died
having not finished the second picture. His best students finished it and (at the will of
the teacher) gave to the Vatican as a present. The Pope was enormously pleased with
the picture and called it "one of the best" of Raphael’s pictures...
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