How to prepare the elixir of eternal life. Is there an elixir of immortality and an elixir of youth? Is there eternal life? Alchemists and the Elixir of Immortality

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The human body is 70 percent water. It is not for nothing that one famous biologist figuratively called living beings “animate water.” Obviously, for a person’s health and longevity, it is not indifferent what kind of water nourishes the tissues of his body. And indeed, in last years it became known that water varies significantly not only in chemical impurities, but also in isotopic composition and other features. Many properties of water change, for example, if it is passed between the poles of a magnet. Water can be more biologically active, and this affects the aging process of the body. But we still don’t know much about the properties of water - an important component of our body.

In any case, today it is no longer vague legends or ancient legends, but scientific research that speaks about the influence of water on the health and life expectancy of the inhabitants of different regions of the Earth.

It is known that the inhabitants of some islands Caribbean, for example, the Guadeloupe Islands, look much younger than their European peers. When they are asked how they manage to remain young for a long time, the answer is usually: “On our island, such water flows from springs that rejuvenates a person...” The inhabitants are also distinguished by excellent health central regions Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Residents of Sri Lanka consider the climate and water of mountain springs to be the reason for their health. Apparently, it was no coincidence that the ancients tried to look for life-giving water on this island.

Some scientists also associate the longevity of the highlanders and a number of peoples of the North with the water they drink. This is the so-called “melt water effect”, which has a beneficial effect on metabolism and thereby, as it were, “rejuvenates” the body.

Today, searches are no longer conducted on distant islands or unknown lands. They are carried out in dozens of laboratories of the largest scientific centers world, studying the properties of water and its effect on the human body.

People who were extremely concerned about maximizing their lives were, for the most part, endowed with wealth and power. They were looking for the shortest route. And such a path seemed to exist. The most ancient traditions and legends mentioned it - this is the “elixir of immortality”, which the gods tasted. IN different countries he was called by different names. The gods of the ancient Greeks used ambrosia, which gives eternal life, the Indian gods used amrita, the gods of the Iranians used haoma. And only the gods Ancient Egypt, showing majestic modesty, they preferred water to the other food of the gods. True, the same water of immortality.

No one came as close to the elixir of immortality as the alchemists, who, however, were looking for something completely different - ways to make gold. There was a certain logic in this. Immortality is a state that is not subject to change. Isn’t gold the only substance that is not subject to external influences? It is not afraid of alkalis or acids, it is not afraid of corrosion. It seemed that time itself was powerless before him. Doesn't this metal contain some principle that makes it like that? And is it possible to isolate this substance from it or introduce it into the human body along with gold? “Whoever takes gold inside,” says one ancient Eastern text, “will live as long as gold.” This is the traditional basis of ancient beliefs: eat the eyes of an eagle - you will be like an eagle, eat the heart of a lion - you will be strong like a lion...

Gold was an indispensable component of various versions of the elixir of immortality. A recipe has come down to us, compiled by the personal physician of Pope Boniface VIII: one must mix crushed gold, pearls, sapphires, emeralds, rubies, topazes, white and red corals, ivory, sandalwood, deer heart, aloe root, musk and ambergris. (We hope that prudence will prevent readers from applying the composition given here too hastily.)

Not much simpler was another composition, which can be found in one ancient eastern book: “You need to take a toad that has lived for 10,000 years and a bat that has lived for 1,000 years, dry them in the shade, grind them into powder and take them.”

And here is the recipe from an ancient Persian text: “You need to take a man, red-haired and freckled, and feed him with fruits until he is 30 years old, then lower him into a stone vessel with honey and other ingredients, enclose this vessel in hoops and seal it hermetically. After 120 years, his body will turn into a mummy.” The contents of the vessel, including what became the mummy, could then be taken as a healing and life-prolonging agent.

Misconceptions that sprout in any sphere of human activity have brought a particularly abundant harvest in this area. In this regard, we can mention a French scientist of the 15th century. In search of the elixir of life, he boiled 2000 eggs, separated the whites from the yolks and, mixing them with water, distilled them many times, hoping in this way to extract the sought-after substance of life.

The obvious meaninglessness of such recipes does not yet indicate the meaninglessness of the search itself. Only that which was discarded as unnecessary became known. But if we judge the history of a particular science only by unsuccessful experiments and failed discoveries, the picture will probably be approximately the same.

Experiments in the field of immortality were distinguished by one circumstance - the complete mystery that surrounded the results. If we imagine that some of these attempts were completed successfully, that is, someone managed to somewhat lengthen their life, then, naturally, everything was done to ensure that this recipe did not become anyone’s property. If, after taking the drug, the object of the experiment lost his life, he could no longer tell anyone about his sad fate. Such a fate befell, for example, the Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (713-756). He went to his royal ancestors much earlier than expected only because he had the imprudence to take the elixir of immortality, prepared by his court physician.

Among the few about whom we know that, having taken the elixir, they considered themselves immortal, was one rich gentleman-philanthropist who lived in Moscow in the last century, whom everyone called simply by his first name and patronymic - Andrei Borisovich. In his old age, he began to indulge in various research related to the elixir of eternal life, guided mainly by his own intuition. And since a person is inclined to believe in himself more than in any other authority, it is not surprising that soon Andrei Borisovich was completely confident that he had finally found the composition he was looking for. Like many other seekers of the elixir of immortality, he chose to keep his discovery a secret. He himself believed so much in the effect of the composition that he really felt rejuvenated, he even began going to dances... Until his last minute, he had no doubt at all about his own immortality.

This case is reminiscent of the story of another Russian gentleman who lived around the same time and also believed in his own immortality. Even in his youth, while once in Paris, he visited the famous fortuneteller Lenormand. Having told him everything pleasant and unpleasant that awaited him in the future, Lenormand completed her prediction with a phrase that left an imprint on his entire future life.

“I must warn you,” she said, “that you will die in bed.”

- When? What time? – the young man turned pale.

The soothsayer shrugged.

From that moment on, he made it his goal to avoid what seemed destined for him by fate. Upon returning to Moscow, he ordered all beds, sofas, down jackets, pillows and blankets to be removed from his apartment. During the day, half asleep, he drove around the city in a carriage, accompanied by a Kalmyk housekeeper, two footmen and a fat pug, which he held on his lap. Of all the entertainment available at that time, his favorite was attending a funeral. Therefore, the coachman and postilion traveled around Moscow all day in search of funeral processions, which their master immediately joined. It is not known what he was thinking about while listening to the funeral service for others - perhaps he was secretly glad that all this had nothing to do with him, since he did not go to bed, and therefore the prediction could not come true, and he would thus escape of death.

For fifty years he waged his duel with fate. But one day, when, as usual, he stood half asleep in the church, believing that he was attending a funeral service, his housekeeper almost married him to some elderly friend of hers. This incident frightened the master so much that he suffered from a nervous shock. Sick, wrapped in shawls, he sat dejectedly in an armchair, flatly refusing to listen to the doctor and go to bed. Only when he was so weak that he could no longer resist did the lackeys forcefully put him down. As soon as he felt himself in bed, he died. How strong was the belief in the prediction?

No matter how great the misconceptions and mistakes were, despite everything, despite failures and disappointments, the search for immortality, the search for ways to prolong life did not stop. Mistakes, ignorance, and failures were immediately ridiculed. But the slightest step towards success was hidden in mystery.

That is why information about the successes that have been achieved along this path is sporadic, scattered and unreliable.

There is, for example, a message about Bishop Allen de Lisle, a person who really existed (he died in 1278) and was engaged in medicine - historical annals call him nothing less than a “universal healer.” He allegedly knew the composition of the elixir of immortality, or at least some method of significantly prolonging life. When he was already many years old and dying of old age, with the help of this elixir he managed to extend his life by another 60 years.

Zhang Daoling (34-156), also a historical figure, the founder of the philosophical system of Tao in China, managed to extend his life for approximately the same period. After many years of persistent experiments, he allegedly succeeded in producing some semblance of the legendary immortality pills. When he was 60 years old, the chronicles report, he regained his youth and lived to be 122 years old.

Along with these are other messages of the ancients. Aristotle and other authors mention Epimenides, a priest and famous poet from the island of Crete. It is known that in 596 BC he was invited to Athens to offer cleansing sacrifices there. According to legend, Epimenides managed to extend his life to 300 years.

But this age is not the limit. The Portuguese court historian tells in his chronicle about a certain Indian with whom he personally met and talked and who was supposedly 370 years old at that time.

Similar evidence includes a book published in Turin in 1613 and containing the biography of one Goan resident who allegedly lived to be almost 400 years old. The years of life of one Muslim saint (1050-1433), who also lived in India, are also close to this figure. In Rajasthan (India), there is still a legend about the hermit Munisadha, who in the 16th century retired to caves near Dholpur and is hiding there... until now.

Roger Bacon, a medieval scientist and philosopher, was also interested in the problem of extending human life. In his essay “De secretis operebus” he talks about a German named Papalius, who, after spending many years in captivity among the Saracens, learned the secret of making some kind of potion and, thanks to it, lived to be 500 years old. Pliny the Elder also names the same number of years - it was to this age, according to his testimony, that a certain Illyrian managed to extend his life.

An example closer to us in time is information about the Chinese Li Canyun. He died in 1936, leaving behind a widow who was recorded as his 24th wife. Li Canyong is said to have been born in 1690, which means he lived to be 246 years old.

But the strangest and most fantastic message from this series is associated with the name of the Indian Tapasviji, who allegedly lived for 186 years (1770-1956). At the age of 50, as the Raja of Patiala, he decided to retire to the Himalayas to become “beyond human sorrows.” After many years of exercise, Tapasviji learned to immerse himself in the so-called state of “samadhi,” when life completely seemed to leave his body, and could go for a long time without taking either drink or food. Similar practices were reported by the British who served in the colonial administration in India. They talked about yogis who, having thoroughly cleansed their stomachs and intestines, covered their ears and noses with wax and plunged into a state reminiscent of insect hibernation. They remained in this state not for a day or two, but for several weeks, after which they were brought back to life with the help of hot water and massage.

Tapasviji's fate may not come as much of a surprise. Centenarians are known who naturally lived to 140-148 years of age. There is nothing fundamentally impossible that Tapasviji or someone else, using diet and other means, was able to push this limit back by several more decades. We will talk about the amazing testimony of Tapasviji himself.

Once, he said, on the spurs of the Himalayas he met an old hermit. He ate only fruits and milk, and looked unusually energetic and cheerful. But, most surprisingly, the hermit did not speak any of the modern Indian languages, expressing himself only in Sanskrit - the language Ancient India. It turned out that 5,000 years had passed since he came here! He managed to extend his life to such limits allegedly thanks to a certain composition, the secret of which he owned. Reaching the age of 5000 years has not yet been “blocked” by any of the “long-livers” - neither in historical chronicles, nor in traditions, nor in legends.

However, no matter how fantastic such a message is, no matter how long the period of fifty centuries is, all this is not immortality itself, but only some approaches to it, distant approaches. That is why scientists and fanatics, philosophers and madmen so persistently continued to search for the elixir of immortality - a means that can grant eternal life. They devoted years, decades to this search. Sometimes a lifetime.

Alexander Cagliostro (1743-1795)

Many contemporaries believed that he possessed the secret of the elixir of immortality.

“The greatest charlatan and deceiver that history has ever known,” some say.

“A man who had unlimited knowledge and power,” others say

...A German provincial town with cobbled streets, traditional red tiled roofs and the inevitable Gothic style. Under one of these roofs, in the attic, in a fantastic environment of flasks, retorts and crucibles, sits a young man. He is busy with something no less fantastic than the situation around him - the search for the elixir of eternal life. However, the most amazing thing is that this man is none other than Goethe, young Goethe, who devoted several years of his life to a persistent search for the elixir of immortality. Not wanting to repeat the same mistakes, fall into the same dead ends and wander in the same labyrinths as his predecessors, he carefully studies the works of alchemists, looking for their most forgotten and hidden works. “I am secretly trying,” he wrote in those years, “to glean at least some information from the great books, before which the learned crowd half bows, half laughs at them, because they do not understand them. Delving into the secrets of these books is the joy of wise people and those marked by subtle taste.”

So the great poet, as an alchemist, a seeker of the elixir of immortality, finds himself on a par with rather strange people. One of them was his contemporary - Alexander Cagliostro. The greatest charlatan and deceiver that history has ever known - that’s what some thought. A man who possessed limitless knowledge and power, so others said.

If we decided to tell about all the adventures and adventures of this man, the pages allocated here would hardly be enough for us. In addition to the mystery of his origin and the unknown source of wealth, Cagliostro had another secret. “They say,” one of the newspapers wrote at that time, “Count Cagliostro possesses all the wonderful secrets of the great adept and has discovered the secret of preparing the elixir of life.” Was it not this rumor that made Cagliostro such a significant figure in the royal courts? So significant that the French king Louis XVI declared that any disrespect or insult towards this man would be punished on a par with lese majeste.

During Cagliostro's stay in St. Petersburg, society ladies, struck by the young beauty of his wife Lorenza, were even more amazed when they learned from her words that she was over forty and that her eldest son had long been serving as a captain in the Dutch army. In response to natural questions, Lorenza once “let slip” that her husband had the secret of returning youth.

The strange charm inherent in Cagliostro, the mystery that surrounded him, attracted the attention of the Russian court to him. The Empress’s personal physician, the Englishman Robertson, not without reason, sensed a potential rival in the visiting celebrity. Using methods accepted at court, he tried to denigrate the count in the eyes of those who were close to the throne. The naive court physician hoped to fight Cagliostro with the weapon that he himself wielded best - the weapon of intrigue. However, the count preferred to “cross swords” on his own terms. He challenged Robertson to a duel, but an unusual duel - with poisons. Everyone had to drink the poison prepared by the enemy, after which he was free to take any antidote. With the firmness of a man who has no doubt of success, Cagliostro insisted on precisely these conditions for the fight. Intimidated by his strange confidence, Robertson refused to accept the challenge. The duel did not take place. Robertson may have heard rumors about an elixir of immortality that his enemy allegedly possessed - it is possible that he, like many of his contemporaries, believed in it.

But the favorite of fate, Count Cagliostro, too often challenged her, too often made risky bets. In the end, he got "odd", and this card turned out to be the last one in his life. Cagliostro was captured by the Inquisition, imprisoned, where he is reported to have died in 1795, chained to the wall of a deep stone well.

Cagliostro's personal papers, as usually happened in such cases, were burned. Only a copy of one of his notes, previously taken in the Vatican, has survived. It describes the process of “regeneration”, or the return of youth: “... having taken this (two grains of the drug. - Author), a person loses consciousness and the power of speech for three whole days, during which he often experiences cramps, convulsions and perspiration appears from it. Having awakened from this state, in which he, however, does not experience the slightest pain, on the thirty-sixth day he takes the third and last grain, after which he falls into a deep and peaceful sleep. During sleep, his skin peels off, his teeth and hair fall out. They all grow back within a few hours. On the morning of the fortieth day, the patient leaves the room, having become a new person, having experienced complete rejuvenation.”

No matter how fantastic the above description may seem, it is strangely reminiscent of the Indian method of returning youth, “kayakalpa”. This course, according to his own stories, was taken by Tapasviji twice in his life. He first did this when he was 90 years old. Interestingly, his treatment also lasted forty days, most of which he also spent in a state of sleep and meditation. After forty days, he allegedly also grew new teeth, his graying hair regained its former black color, and his body returned to its former vigor and strength.

However, although we find references to such “regenerations” in ancient texts, medieval and later records, none of them mention the composition of the drug used.

Should this be surprising?

This was in the 18th century. One day, a servant of the legendary Count of Saint-Germain was asked whether his master really met Julius Caesar personally and had the secret of immortality. To which the servant calmly replied that he did not know, but over the last 300 years of his service with Saint Germain, the count had not changed at all in appearance...

Nowadays, the issue of immortality has not lost its relevance, and active work to find a way to achieve physical immortality is being carried out in all industrialized countries of the world.

THE TIRELESS COUNT

If we omit the mythological history of the biblical Adam, who, according to legend, lived for 900 years, the Eternal Jew Ahasfer and Koshchei the Immortal, then the first popularizer of the elixir of immortality will be the same Saint Germain, a personality, it must be said, a very mysterious one. In the 18th century, popular rumor seriously claimed that the count was 500 years old, and in his castle there was a unique mirror in which you could see the future.

It was rumored that the count personally showed the headless body of his grandson in the mirror to Louis XV. In turn, the famous adventurer Count Cagliostro, who considered himself a student of Saint Germain, mentioned a certain vessel during interrogation by the Inquisition. In it, Saint-Germain, according to Cagliostro, kept the elixir of immortality, made according to the recipes of the ancient Egyptian priests.

The most interesting thing is that people who personally met Saint Germain in various parts of Europe described him as a man of about 45 years old with a dark complexion. At the same time, over the course of decades, the graph did not change at all in appearance. He was rich, well-mannered and had truly aristocratic manners. The Count spoke equally well in French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Turkish and Arabic.

Often in conversations with monarchs, Saint Germain mentioned the rulers of bygone days and in conversation often claimed that he had personal conversations with many ancient rulers and philosophers, including Jesus Christ. Saint-Germain died either in 1784 in Holstein, or in 1795 in Kassel.

But his grave was never found. And many aristocrats who knew the count during his lifetime met him more than once after his official death! There is evidence of the appearance of Saint Germain in Europe of the 20th century. Did the count really possess the elixir? eternal youth, is it possible?

YOUTH FOR A TYRANT

As you know, the most notorious sinners and satraps cling to life more than others. Historical sources claim that the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, the legendary Shi Huangdi, who lived in the 3rd century BC. e., was literally obsessed with the idea of his own immortality. His associates studied ancient treatises from morning to night in the hope of discovering a recipe for eternal youth.

But in vain. As a result, the upset emperor issued a decree in which he forbade himself to die. But he died anyway. Subsequently, many emperors of China tried to find the elixir of eternal life, but apart from unique rejuvenation techniques, nothing was invented.

Medieval rulers also became famous for their search for a recipe for immortality. All the methods they invented bordered on rare inhuman sadism. They say that Marshal of France Count Gilles de Rais, the prototype of Bluebeard, became more famous in this field than others. After his arrest, during interrogations by the Inquisition, he confessed that he had killed several hundred young people in order to make an elixir of immortality from their genitals.

In the second half of the 16th century, the Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory took baths from the blood of virgins to gain eternal youth and beauty. In total, 650 girls met their end in the Countess's castle.

BLOOD FOR THE LEADER

Like the medieval aristocrats, the first Soviet leaders also wanted to live forever. In the 1920s, the famous revolutionary Alexander Bogdanov headed the world's first Blood Institute, in which elderly leaders Soviet Russia tried to transfuse the blood of young people.

However, things didn't work out. Lenin, unlike his sister, who underwent a rejuvenation procedure, refused a blood transfusion, calling it scientific vampirism. Perhaps the research would have been successful, but Bogdanov unexpectedly died during one of his experiments on himself. After his death, a disappointed Stalin ordered the experiments to be interrupted.

Half a century later, the leader successfully practiced the problem of gaining longevity through blood transfusions of young compatriots. North Korea Kim Il Sung. Having begun the procedures at the age of 65, the dictator lived to the very advanced age of 82, although he planned to last until at least 120 years.

THE GENERATOR OF YOUTH EXISTS

IN modern world There are dozens of promising methods for extending human life. But what humanity is waiting for is not a unique diet, expensive operation or cryo-freezing of one’s own body, but the invention of a device that, in a few sessions, would help a person completely get rid of diseases and live an extra 40-50 years.

Oddly enough, such an apparatus exists and operates on principles that are logically close to the cruel experiments of medieval rulers. However, now we are not talking about transfusion of young blood to an old man, but about transplanting a young biofield.

One of the presentations of the technique took place in 1997 in St. Petersburg at the First International Congress “Weak and ultra-weak fields and radiation in biology and medicine.” A scientist of Chinese origin from Khabarovsk, Yuri Vladimirovich Jiang Kanzhen, gave a report on his unique method. According to the scientist’s theory, repeatedly confirmed by practical experiments, all living organisms exchange with each other some genetic information invisible to the eye.

The process occurs using electromagnetic waves in the ultrahigh frequency range. The device, invented by Dr. Jiang Kanzhen, can transfer the biofield of young organisms to old ones, rehabilitating their DNA and stimulating rejuvenation. Like a real scientist, Jiang Kanzhen experimented on both himself and his father - the result was both the youthfulness of the scientist himself and the body regeneration processes of his 80-year-old father.

It is interesting to note that, unlike many similar inventions, the discovery of the scientist official science accepted and even issued patents for several inventions. So it is likely that in the foreseeable future, every clinic will have a device capable of transferring the biofield of a young man to his elderly relatives, rejuvenating them. In this case, human life expectancy will almost double.

SCIENCE DOES NOT STAND STANDING

He agreed to comment on the possibility of creating a technique that significantly prolongs human life Doctor of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Higher Academic Clinical Hospital Dmitry Valerievich GLUKHOV:

“The elixir of eternal youth really has a right to exist.” But not in the medieval sense. Research in the field of rejuvenation techniques is being actively conducted all over the world, and there have been significant advances in this area. In Russia alone, more than 10 rejuvenation systems and more than 30 rejuvenation techniques have been commercialized, not counting various dietary supplements and pharmacological drugs.

The work is mainly carried out in the field of cosmetology and correction of the human immune system. Every year new techniques based on advanced, promising technologies appear. Thus, nanotechnology gave impetus to a new direction in rejuvenation - supramolecular chemistry. Development is proceeding quickly, and perhaps in the near future one of the researchers will show the treasured bottle with a cloudy liquid.

Today, technologies of electromagnetic transformation, or modification of the human genome, have advanced the furthest in this direction. Again, many scientists are working in this direction in Russia. In my opinion, Jiang Kanzhen's work looks quite promising. It is impossible not to mention Professor Zakharov with his cell therapy and revitalization, Goryaev, Komrakov and other researchers.

If they are successful and the methods are widely implemented, the average human life expectancy may increase from the current 65-70 years to 140-160 years. True, in this case the person will have, among other things, to lead a relatively healthy lifestyle.

Dmitry SIVITSKY

According to Chinese tradition. The elixir of life is easily prepared from the entrails of a turtle.

"Recipe for new Russians." In antiquity, the breath of virgins was considered a sure way to prolong youth. Some kings, in order to envelop themselves in such a breath, surrounded themselves in bed with young concubines.

Hungarian Countess Elzsbeth Bathory: in 1610, took “rejuvenating” baths from the blood of murdered young girls. For which she was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Marshal of France Gilles de Rais performed bloody rituals in the vicinity of his castles: he hanged dozens of young men on the gallows. It was believed that from the seed of a hanged man, a mandrake is born - a magical root that gives immortality.

Without making much effort, buy the “food” of the gods from any gypsy woman. Ancient Greek - ambrosia. Ancient Indian - amrita. Ancient Iranian - haomu. In the absence of such, you can get by with the water of immortality of the Ancient Egyptian gods. All of them guarantee immortality and eternal youth.

More complex recipes will follow
requiring some effort to prepare them

You can get a philosopher's stone, which bestows immortality, according to the recipe of the English alchemist George Ripley given by him in the “Book of the Twelve Gates”: “To prepare the elixir of the sages, or the philosopher’s stone, take, my son, philosophical mercury and heat it until it turns into a green lion . After that, heat it harder and it will turn into a red lion. Disperse this red lion in a sand bath with sour grape spirit, evaporate the liquid, and the mercury will turn into a gummy substance that can be cut with a knife. Place it in a retort coated with clay and slowly distill it. Collect separately the liquids of different nature that appear. You will get tasteless phlegm, alcohol and red drops. The Cimmerian shadows will cover the retort with their dark veil, and you will find a true dragon inside it, for it is devouring its own tail. Take this black dragon, grind it on a stone and touch it with a hot coal. It will light up and, soon taking on a magnificent lemon color, will again reproduce the green lion. Make it eat its tail and distill the product again. Finally, son, carefully strip mine, and you will see the appearance of flammable water and human blood.” This is the philosopher's stone, which bestows immortality.

The recipe for the elixir of immortality belongs to Nicholas Flamel and his wife who lived in the 14th century in France. Set forth in their book “The Grand Grimoire” in the chapter “Secrets of Magical Art”: “Take a pot of fresh earth, add a pound of red copper and half a glass cold water, and boil it all for half an hour. Then add three ounces of copper oxide to the composition and boil for one hour; then add two and a half ounces of arsenic and boil for another hour. After this add three ounces of well-ground oak bark and let it simmer for half an hour; add an ounce of rose water to the pot, boil twelve minutes. Then add three ounces of soot and boil until the composition is ready. To find out whether it is fully cooked, you need to lower a nail into it: if the composition acts on the nail, remove it from the heat; if it does not, this is a sign that the composition is not fully cooked. The liquid can be used four times.” Unfortunately, the recipe does not say to take it hot or chilled.

"...This unusual story, which happened in our days in Syria, I accidentally learned from Alexander Loginov, who had been asceticizing for the fifth year as a novice in the Greek monastery of Philotheus on Holy Mount Athos. An Orthodox physician, a Greek by nationality, a pathologist who at one time worked on a medical commission created by the UN, came to this monastery. He met with the elders of the monastery. According to this doctor, the commission was studying a unique case - literally the resurrection of a person from the dead. Initially, the examination of the victim was carried out by local doctors in Damascus, and then US military doctors also got involved in the case. The American side eventually concluded that what happened was a consequence of “UFO intervention” and classified this information. “And ours crossed themselves and said: “And glory to God!” - said Alexander...
The story is like this. The one we are actually talking about, a certain Sh.D., was a rich Arab sheikh from Saudi Arabia. And his wife was a devout Muslim from a wealthy noble family. This Arabian family could be called happy if... they had children. Years passed and, despite all efforts and significant medical expenses and treatment from various luminaries, they remained childless. The man's parents advised him to marry one more woman, since local law allows up to four marriages at the same time.

Tired, worried and hopeless, the man did not take the advice of his parents, but went on vacation with his wife to Syria. Arriving there, they rented a car and a driver to accompany them as a tour guide around Syria. During the trip, the driver noticed that the Saudi couple was upset and concerned about something. And, since they managed to become close, he asked why they were unhappy, maybe because they were not happy with the way he conducted excursions?

And the couple spoke about their misfortune. Being also a Muslim, the driver said that in Syria, Christians - and specifically Orthodox Christians - have a monastery called Panaghia Saidnaya (the name consists of a Greek word meaning “Most Holy” and one Arabic word meaning “Our Lady”), and that many people those who cannot have children go to the life-giving icon of this monastery. In the monastery they are allowed to taste the oil from the lamp burning in front of the life-giving icon of the Mother of God, and the “Mary” of Christians gives them what they desire, according to their faith.

Inspired by what they learned, the Saudi Arabian couple asked the driver to take them to the Saidnaya - "Lady Christian" monastery, promising that if they had a child, they would give him 20,000 dollars, and they would donate 80,000 to the monastery. dollars.

When they went to the monastery, they did exactly as they were told. Then they returned home, and after some time the woman became pregnant, and after the due date gave birth to a wonderful boy. This was our true miracle Holy Mother of God.

After his wife gave birth, a Saudi Arabian man returned to Syria to fulfill his promise. He called the driver and asked to pick him up from the airport in Damascus. But the driver, being cunning and evil, persuaded two of his friends to go with him to the airport to kidnap a rich man from Saudi Arabia, take his money and kill him. Along the way, the man promised each of the driver's friends 10,000 US dollars.

This seemed not enough to them, they turned off the road leading to the monastery, into deserted place, where they killed him, cut off his head and chopped his whole body (arms and legs) into pieces. Confused by what they had done, they placed the man's remains in the trunk of the car instead of leaving them there. After they took his money, watch and everything he had, we went to look for another deserted place so that we could leave the remains.

On one of the national highways, the car suddenly stalled and they stopped in the middle of the road. All three got out to see what happened to the engine. Some passerby stopped to help them, but they refused to help, fearing that their terrible crime would be discovered. The motorcyclist managed to notice that blood was dripping from the trunk of the car, and called the police, because the whole scene and those three seemed suspicious to him. The police arrived and, seeing blood under the car and on the asphalt, ordered the trunk to be opened.

And when they opened it, the Saudi man suddenly stood up - alive and well, saying: "Right now this Panaghia has finished stitching up my neck, right here (and showed them the Adam's apple area), after stitching up the rest of my body." Seeing this, the three criminals immediately lost their minds - literally went crazy. The police handcuffed them, and on the way to mental asylum they did not stop shouting: it was impossible that the man they had killed - by beheading him and cutting him into pieces - would remain alive.

The man was examined at the hospital, and doctors confirmed that the stitches were indeed applied recently. There really were seams, and they can still be seen. As the man climbed out of the trunk of the car, having literally been molded anew, he kept repeating that Panaghia had restored his body and revived him with the help of Her Son.

Immediately after this, the man called his relatives to Syria, and together they went to the Panaghiei Saidnaya monastery, offering praise, glory and prayers, and instead of the originally promised amount of 80,000 US dollars, they donated Mother of God Monastery 800,000 US dollars. Having learned about what had happened, the shocked relatives and friends of this man converted from Islam to the Orthodox faith.
...In addition to the story of the physician we have already mentioned, who visited the Philotheus monastery, the news of the miracle of the Mother of God in Syria was recently sent to the monasteries of Mount Athos by Elder Schema-Archimandrite Ephraim from Greek monastery St. Anthony the Great in Arizona (USA), disciple and associate of Elder Joseph the Hesychast, former abbot of the Philotheus monastery. Schema-Archimandrite Ephraim, who organized and cared for 21 Orthodox monasteries in North America, writes that he first learned about this from Abbot Ignatius, the abbot of the Greek Orthodox monastery in Bethlehem.
At the same time, there is no documentary evidence of the authenticity of the Syrian miracle from official (Christian or Islamic) sources. Messages left on Arab Internet forums provide a link to a program broadcast on the first Syrian TV channel.
And further. The famous Serbian theologian, Bishop Afanasy (Jevtich), spoke about this miraculous incident when he spoke to the inhabitants of the Sretensky Monastery and at the conference “Church and Eschatology” in Moscow. Bishop Athanasius was in Syria and heard this story from the bishop there.
...Let us only add that in Sidnaisky convent An ancient miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, painted by the Apostle-Evangelist Luke in the 1st century AD, is actually kept near Damascus. And a variety of people, through their prayers, receive healing from him - this is also documented."

Nowadays, the issue of immortality has not lost its relevance, and active work to find a way to achieve physical immortality is being carried out in all industrialized countries of the world.

YOUTH FOR A TYRANT

BLOOD FOR THE LEADER

Like the medieval aristocrats, the first Soviet leaders also wanted to live forever. In the 1920s, the famous revolutionary Alexander Bogdanov headed the world's first Blood Institute, in which they tried to transfuse the elderly leaders of Soviet Russia with the blood of young people.

Half a century later, the problem of gaining longevity through blood transfusions of young compatriots was quite successfully practiced by North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. Having begun the procedures at the age of 65, the dictator lived to the very advanced age of 82, although he planned to last until at least 120 years.

THE GENERATOR OF YOUTH EXISTS

In the modern world, there are dozens of promising methods for extending human life. But humanity is not waiting for a unique diet, an expensive operation or cryo-freezing of one’s own body, but for the invention of a device that, in a few sessions, would help a person completely get rid of diseases and live an extra 40-50 years.

The process occurs using electromagnetic waves in the ultrahigh frequency range. The device, invented by Dr. Jiang Kanzhen, can transfer the biofield of young organisms to old ones, rehabilitating their DNA and stimulating rejuvenation. As a true scientist, Jiang Kanzhen experimented on both himself and his father - the result was both the youthfulness of the scientist himself and the body regeneration processes of his 80-year-old father.

It is interesting to note that, unlike many similar inventions, official science accepted the scientist’s discovery and even issued patents for several inventions. So it is likely that in the foreseeable future, every clinic will have a device capable of transferring the biofield of a young man to his elderly relatives, rejuvenating them. In this case, human life expectancy will almost double.

SCIENCE DOES NOT STAND STANDING

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Higher Academy of Clinical Hospital Dmitry Valerievich GLUKHOV agreed to comment on the possibility of creating a technique that significantly prolongs human life:

The elixir of eternal youth really has a right to exist. But not in the medieval sense. Research in the field of rejuvenation techniques is being actively conducted all over the world, and there have been significant advances in this area. In Russia alone, more than 10 rejuvenation systems and more than 30 rejuvenation techniques have been commercialized, not counting various dietary supplements and pharmacological drugs. The work is mainly carried out in the field of cosmetology and correction of the human immune system. Every year new techniques based on advanced, promising technologies appear. Thus, nanotechnology gave impetus to a new direction in rejuvenation - supramolecular chemistry. Development is proceeding quickly, and perhaps in the near future one of the researchers will show the treasured bottle with a cloudy liquid. Today, technologies of electromagnetic transformation, or modification of the human genome, have advanced the furthest in this direction. Again, many scientists are working in this direction in Russia. In my opinion, Jiang Kanzhen's work looks quite promising. It is impossible not to mention Professor Zakharov with his cell therapy and revitalization, Goryaev, Komrakov and other researchers. If they are successful and the methods are widely implemented, the average human life expectancy may increase from the current 65-70 years to 140-160 years. True, in this case the person will have, among other things, to lead a relatively healthy lifestyle.