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Illustration copyright RIA NOVOSTI Image caption More than 25 years have passed since the beginning of the revival of the Kuban Cossack army

The artistic director of the Kuban folk group "Marusya" Pavel Chelakhov sat at the council of atamans of the Novorossiysk region and listened to insults. “Did you perform at the “Minute of Glory”? Well, go back to your Muscovy, this is not Russia for you. Why have you forgotten here?

Those present were not shy in their expressions: “We’ll see how you squeak when they let you in on the organs.” Each of the atamans raised his hand, spoke, and at the end of the speech asked: “Lubu?” "Love!" - the Cossacks answered in unison.

Chelakhov came to the council to discuss the group’s performance in Novorossiysk. The Cossacks demanded that the concert be canceled - they accused the group of mocking their traditions. Artists of "Marusya" perform folk songs in traditional Cossack outfits, although they do not have the right to do so, believe the atamans of the Novorossiysk region.

The Cossacks attack the artists because the group members are dark-skinned, Chelakhov is sure. African students play and sing in Marus.

Illustration copyright Group "Marusya" Image caption Krasnodar folk group "Marusya" - five years old

Kuban Cossacks often become heroes of scandalous stories. Shortly before the “Marusya” story, Cossacks from Anapa distinguished themselves by meeting opposition leader Alexei Navalny with his supporters from the Anti-Corruption Foundation at the local airport. Activists were doused with milk and a fight ensued.

The police standing nearby did not try to interfere with the Cossacks, said Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh.

The Kuban Cossacks are responsible for several other incidents - the cancellation of Marat Gelman's exhibition in 2012, the attack on the American group Bloodhound Gang in 2013, the beating of members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot in 2014.

In the cases of Pussy Riot and Navalny, the Cossacks somehow knew ahead of time when and where their “victims” would appear.

“Where did they get information about Navalny’s flight from Anapa? He could have flown from Krasnodar, from Gelendzhik. Naturally, this information was leaked. Both about entry and exit, that’s clear,” says a member of the regional council of Krasnodar Yabloko. Vladislav Gryaznov. In his opinion, the Cossacks perform “shadow tasks” that the police cannot perform by law.

Pussy Riot lawyer Alexander Popkov believes that there is “at least the tacit consent of the authorities.” He remembers how law enforcement agencies Pussy Riot members, who arrived in Sochi for four days in February 2014, were detained several times under various pretexts. Moreover, on the day of the beating, only Cossacks followed them; there was not a single policeman.

Illustration copyright Getty Images Image caption Members of the group Pussy Riot wanted to sing the song “Putin will teach you to love your homeland” in Sochi, but the Cossacks prevented them

“Navalny has a similar situation: they are being watched, watched, watched, and then at some point there are no police, only Cossacks in large quantities", says Popkov.

State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov sent a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the incident with Navalny. He

In one Kyiv minibus there is a poster with the words “The hereditary Bulgarian healer... will save you from...”, and then follows a significant list of diseases that can be healed with the help of the gift of the Bulgarian. There are many similar advertisements in newspapers and on television. Kashpirovsky and Chumak travel around the CIS, “breaking down” full houses, and Pavel Globa, filled with Zoroastrian knowledge, not only supplies his horoscopes to various publications, but also opens training centers. It is possible that informally they are called “How to become rich in a year.”

However, we have all become accustomed to this “normal life” long ago. Another thing is interesting: many government officials and heads of large companies believe in the occult, magic and healing - not only do they believe, but also make important decisions based on the advice of fortune tellers or the forecasts of astrologers.

Regardless of the level of technological development, humanity still believes in irrational forces. An example is the same long-tired film “The Matrix”, in which characters living in a super-technological era are constantly at war with machines and continue to believe the prophecies of the Pythia (which, by the way, are not much different from the visions of ancient Greek visionaries). And, in the end, there is hardly a person on earth who has never dreamed of superpowers - reading other people's thoughts, telekinesis, levitation. And we are not talking about scientific experiments designed to improve human abilities, but about the desire to say a few magic words to stand out from the crowd.

The situation becomes more complicated when seemingly innocent dreams acquire structure and clear rules. People gather in sects, invent rituals and begin to intensively destroy natural cause-and-effect relationships. Next, they try to influence others by proving the truth of the new laws they have invented. Moreover, the difference between such teachings and faith is, as a rule, the absence of an ethical component and pragmatic interest (for example, the soul is sold to the devil for the sake of specific achievements, and not a hypothetical salvation after death). In addition, the meaning of any “secret knowledge” is to bypass the laws of nature and use them not for good. All this is usually called occultism.

To be completely precise, occultism should be understood as the entire set of disciplines that operate with concepts not recognized by official science. This includes magic (in all its varieties: voodoo, black, white, etc.), astrology (and other methods of predicting fate), methods of non-contact influence on humans associated with paranormal phenomena (in particular, telepathy, telekinesis, healing) and the so-called “Secret Teachings”, on which secret societies and sects (Rosicrucians, Templars, Freemasons, Kabbalists and many others) base their activities. In the twentieth century, lovers of paranormal phenomena were added to this group: UFOs, poltergeists, yeti. Throughout the life of mankind, interest in such disciplines and phenomena has never dried up: one can find many echoes in the teachings of Stone Age shamans and Vanga, whose photographs cure people of any disease. However, if even in the 19th century belief in otherworldly forces could still be explained, then it is quite difficult to understand why in the highly urbanized 21st century people continue to listen to the advice of fortune tellers.

But today's power of the occult sciences is not at all an invention of the opponents of Satanism (which, by the way, is developing almost the fastest - obviously, as a consequence of the increase in violence in the world). And interest in everything incomprehensible and mysterious is growing not only in the CIS countries and Latin America - “rational” people prove this sociological research. Thus, in 2001, the Yankelovich Partners agency published the results of sociological survey population in order to identify the percentage of Americans who believe in the existence of paranormal phenomena. The data was stunning not only for the scientific world, but also for the general public because:

The existence of spiritualist phenomena is recognized by 52% of respondents, compared to 12% two decades ago;
45% believe in healing, and 20 years ago - only 10%;
the number of those who trust astrologers has more than doubled in 20 years, and the number of fortune tellers has tripled;
Reincarnation is now recognized by at least a quarter of the population versus 9% in 1981;
30% of respondents, i.e. almost a third believe in the existence of UFOs.

Of course, it is easy to explain why in the 1980s, the end of the technological era of modernity, during the confrontation between two powerful ideologies, people believed in fortune tellers less than today, in the era of the Internet, mobile phones and wireless communications. Quite a lot of psychologists talk about uncertainty, existential vacuum, differentiation of values: occultism has replaced ideology. However, this does not apply to statesmen: at all times they believed equally in paranormal phenomena, and moral values and technology had little influence on their choice in favor of the irrational.

Into politics with a horoscope in hand
Rarely does a ruler or politician do without predictions - even today, many of them read horoscopes not only out of curiosity. Astrologers themselves, by the way, use such interest not without self-interest: just remember how Globa and Kashpirovsky behaved during the Ukrainian presidential elections of 1999, creating the new kind political technology - astrological. And what about the huge scandal that erupted in the Russian astrological community at the beginning of 2000, when a group of reputable St. Petersburg astrologers published a warning about the dire consequences of the election of Vladimir Putin as president? Opponent astrologers immediately appeared, and the authors of the unfavorable forecast were accused of “dirty political technologies.”

In general, analogies with the past suggest themselves. Thus, the authorities of the city of Graz, where he taught mathematics at school, charged Johannes Kepler with the responsibility of drawing up horoscopes. He was especially successful in predicting various misfortunes - unprecedented frosts, peasant unrest and Turkish invasions. With these predictions, Kepler established a bad reputation for himself, as if he did not predict, but invited misfortune.

With amazing accuracy, a Parisian fortune teller predicted the fate of the Russian Emperor Alexander II - the tsar would survive seven assassination attempts, the eighth would be fatal (the attempt on March 1 was the seventh in a row, but it turned out to be double). Enough has been said and written about the role of Rasputin to simply put his name on a par with other examples. There are rumors that J.F. Kennedy also used the services of fortune tellers, and was also fond of magical rituals (there is a legend that his sexual potential is associated precisely with them); that Mikhail Gorbachev and even Yulia Timoshenko listen to psychics. It is known that many leaders believe in the magic of numbers and symbols big companies, and in the West there is a developed business of consulting businessmen about occult theory (who wants to name their company with an ancient Aramaic word that brings bad luck?)

The reasons for this may be hidden in the desire to do no harm: they are constantly in sight, constantly communicating, so they really want to use all means to please as many people as possible. In addition, many people in power and, accordingly, possessing extraordinary mental abilities, think about the fact that not everything can be explained modern science. Therefore, they belong to secret societies (during the 19th and 20th centuries in the USA, the Freemasons, who are also a kind of occult order, were especially popular; in Italy and France, Masonic circles grew into truly esoteric movements, as Umberto Eco talks about in the novel “Foucault’s Pendulum” "; the number of various sects is growing: adherents of “Don Juan”, voodooists, etc.), and the situation is aggravated by globalization - a Russian politician may well be interested in the magical rituals of Latin America in their practical application on opponents.

However, at the same time, politicians began to be quite wary of various black magics, rituals and alchemy. Perhaps this is due to the unfortunate experience of past centuries, when magic and Satanism never established themselves as effective methods of political struggle, and perhaps the reason is technological development humanity. Moreover, the occult itself has become a reason for accusations: even if no one is burned at the stake, in electoral practice the accusation of witchcraft is quite unpleasant. You can use such accusations to score points for yourself as a fighter for rational truth. By the way, an incident from a year ago: the interfaith council of Crimea “Peace is the Gift of God” appealed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Anatoly Kinakh with a request to take measures to prevent the spread of the occult among the population: “We are watching with alarm as occult practices are gaining strength. Through advertising of occult books, films with occult elements, advertising of the services of “healers” using occult elements, occultism makes its way to the consciousness of the masses. The consequences of this practice are obvious to us; they are extremely dangerous and lead to degradation of the mental state of the individual, and by and large, the entire population." I wonder if there was news of this conversion in Kinakh’s personal horoscope?

Totalitarian occultism
But, probably, the most striking, mysterious and completely unrevealed example of the use of the occult in politics was the experience of totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century - Nazism and communism. Charismatic leaders, who had virtually magical influence over crowds, often believed in unusual phenomena themselves, created centers for occult research and hired venerable astrologers. This was facilitated by the ideologies that were used in totalitarian regimes- irrational, but massive.

Thus, the same German National Socialism operated with the concepts of racism and Aryanism. The Germans saw the origins of the ideology in the legendary Atlantis: in the north of the doomed continent lived mysterious Aryans who managed to move to Tibet in a timely manner and “establish” the country of Shambhala there. And if Hitler’s belief in dark Tibetan demons, the organization of trips to Tibet in search of Shambhala, 10 thousand corpses of Tibetans in SS uniform near the Fuhrer’s bunker at the end of the war are half rumors, half legends, then it is impossible to deny the attachment of Nazi ideology to a certain mystical pure people of the past. Equally, one cannot deny the influence of people with paranormal abilities on the leaders of Nazi Germany.

In particular, the first in a long string of victories of occultism over fascism is called a certain Erik Jan Hanussen, “Hitler’s seer,” who largely influenced the Nazis’ rise to power, but he himself became a victim of his own abilities (and also the reason for the ban on “witchcraft” in Germany in 1934). Hanussen was a talented seer, famous and popular in Germany also because he often “predicted” what the country’s leadership needed. Thus, he predicted the burning of the Reichstag one day before the event itself, which many researchers assess as a banal soil test by the Nazis (in fact, a focus group). However, within six months he “saw” the problems of the Nazi Party in the 30s and the methods by which Hitler would solve the problems. Perhaps it was for this reason that Hitler called the hereditary Jew who forged the documents “Parteigenosse Hanussen” and, according to rumors, promised, after coming to power, to establish an “occult university” and appoint him dean. However, soon after the NSDAP's final victory, Hanussen was killed - either because of his origins, or for the money he had lent to too many SA officers.

After Hannusen's death, there were no official soothsayers and astrologers at Hitler's court, but there was a lot of evidence of the dominance of the occult sciences in the official ideology of Germany. Everyone knows the Nazis' belief in the magical meaning of runes, and from the moment Hitler came to power, the old German symbols were urgently replaced by a new one - runic. Thus, the rune (Tyr), dedicated to Thor, the god of war, was used in the emblems of cadets and the Hitler Youth (Nazi youth organization) - it symbolized victory, strong masculinity, fighting spirit, testing in battle and fearlessness. Rune (Eol) - rune of protection with the ideographic meaning of roots and branches - in the symbolism of the ministry Agriculture. For the SS, Heinrich Himmler chose a combination of two Siegel runes, which among the Celts symbolize success and victory (in addition, it can also be interpreted as lightning):

It is interesting that the idea of combining two Siegel runes into one emblem belongs to SS Sturmgaupführer Walter Heck, a graphic artist by profession. For his invention, the Nazi “copywriter” even received a fee - two and a half German marks.

In addition to graphic symbols, the Nazis were also involved in organizational occult activities. Thus, already in 1933, the organization “Ahnenerbe” (Ahnenerbe - “Heritage of Ancestors”, full name - “German Society for the Study of Ancient History”) was created. German history and the heritage of ancestors"), which, by the way, is mentioned by the writer Viktor Pelevin in his story “Omon Ra”. There are a lot of rumors about this organization, many of which may be very true.

From the very beginning, Ahnenerbe was engaged in research into the “spirit of the nation”, then it was integrated into the SS (as a management department concentration camps), but in 1939 it again became a "research" organization. It is believed that more money was spent on the occult research of this association than on the creation of the first atomic bomb in America, especially since they covered a huge area: from scientific activity in the proper sense of the word (the “Weapons of Retribution” project and, in particular, the “ Fau") to the study of practical occultism, from experiments on concentration camp prisoners to spying on secret societies. For example, such an event in the life of the “Ahnenerbe” is often called: in the spring of 1944, on the 700th anniversary of the fall of Montsegur (a fortress in the mountains, the last stronghold of the medieval sect of the Cathars), the Nazis performed an ancient magical ritual over the remains of this fortress, calling for help higher power. But their plea (like other research - for example, the legendary expeditions to Tibet in search of Shambhala) remained unheard and, suffering huge losses, german army retreated from Monte Cassino.

There are also more precise facts - for example, the interest of the SS in burial places, which was explained by the fact that, as experts from Ahnenerbe claimed, “spirits of the dead” reside in them. The SS weekly newspaper Das Schwarze Korps called on SS members to copulate with their wives in old cemeteries, because this would make possible the “reincarnation of ancient German heroes.” The newspaper periodically published the addresses of burial sites checked by the Ahnenerbe for the presence of “racially inferior remains” and recommended for such activities. In general, the entire ideology of Nazism, as well as life in Germany at that time, was imbued with the spirit of searching for otherworldly forces, a certain spirit of Aryanism, which was reinforced by the faith of German leaders (Hitler himself, Himmler, Rosenberg) in the occult.

The situation in the Soviet Union was a little different, especially since it is more closed to historians. It is known that after 1938, any occult activity was prohibited, and Stalin himself did not want to tolerate the authority of otherworldly forces in his “court”. He was a leader and leader and did not need the advice of astrologers. But until 1938, occult sciences, “handed down” from Tsarist Russia, flourished in the USSR. Not only that, as in Germany, there are numerous rumors about the occult hobbies of Lenin and Trotsky (after all, almost all the “fathers of communism” were members of Masonic lodges at one time), but there is also enough evidence of the NKVD organizing expeditions to Tibet in search of the same Shambhala (Nicholas Roerich also played a role here, who agreed to cooperate with Tibet Soviet authorities), to Buryatia in search of energetically strong points. For a long time, esoteric circles that remained from pre-revolutionary times continued to exist - theosophical, Masonic, or simply for the study of table turning.

Experiments with parapsychological phenomena (levitation, mind reading) were also carried out in the USSR - by V. Bekhterev and L. Vasiliev in the 1920s, however, they were stopped in 1938. However, there is evidence that after Stalin’s death they were resumed, but strictly classified. Obviously, there is still a lot of information in the KGB archives that could shed light on the secrets of the Kremlin occult court.

A Century of Paranormal People
Obviously, it makes sense to distinguish from occultism the direction of paranormal phenomena, belief in which also contributed to public life. Just as state leaders believed in and acted on witches and fortune-tellers, they today believe in the possibility of telepathy or the creation of psychoweapons, spending huge amounts of money on corresponding research programs.

Parapsychology arose in the 20s of the last century as the science of paranormal phenomena, that is, a person’s ability to transmit thoughts and images over a distance, attract metal objects, etc., including clairvoyance, calling spirits and other abilities demonstrated or described mediums and occultists. The idea to study these phenomena arose in the USA, and the “father” of parapsychology is considered to be Joseph Banks Rine, director of the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University and founder of the Institute of Parapsychology in the USA (1930).

With the advent of reports about the “voice of the Cosmos” and the beginning of space flights, a fashion arose for contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. In addition to theories about “paleocontact”, absorbed in films presenting megalithic structures and other wonders of the Earth, such as huge drawings on its surface as traces of the visit of alien civilizations many years before our era, a completely academic discipline arose that studies possible signs of such contact - ufology (from English UFO - Unknown Flying Object, “unidentified flying object”, UFO): a science that collects and studies evidence of UFOs, alleged alien visits and other phenomena.

However, so far the conclusions of official science are strict: of all the hundreds and thousands of photographs and testimonies, not one of them, unfortunately, can be considered reliable evidence of a visit to us by alien civilizations. The same applies to many other, completely earthly phenomena that arouse the interest of researchers and the inquisitive public - barabashki (poltergeists), big Foot(Yeti), people who attract metal objects. But all of them - if we are not talking about ordinary deception or self-deception - are in fact either variants of things already known to you and me (phantom, animal magnetism), or just hypotheses that may or may not be confirmed. In the experiments of ufologists and “contactees”, in novels and scripts, they occupy the same place that elves and ancestral spirits previously occupied.

However, just as in Germany the spirits of ancestors became the basis for racial cleansing, today belief in poltergeists can influence the actions of one or another politician. Thus, several years ago, one of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine spoke out about the fact that there was a bug in the parliament building, and the building should be sprinkled with holy water. If people say this on a public level, I wonder what they believe in real life? And how much does this influence their decisions as politicians? The answer still remains unclear, as does the veracity of occult theories.

Great mystics of our day
IN Lately again they started talking about certain torsion fields and their generators - although this story began seven years ago in Russia. Several publications published articles about the brilliant scientist Alexander Akimov, who created a superweapon using these torsion fields, and later began building a flying saucer with an engine using them. And everything would have been fine, they would have soon forgotten about the next perpetual motion machine, but the Ministry of Defense believed in the story about Akimov and allocated 500 million rubles for the development of torsion field generators. Today they lie in one of the warehouses as a pile of scrap metal.

For some time, the deputy chief of security for Russian President Boris Yeltsin was KGB General Georgy Rogozin, who was very interested in the occult, for which he received the nickname “Kremlin Merlin.” His influence is evidenced by the story of academician Eduard Kruglyakov, to whom the president once asked: “Can’t you extract energy from stone?” To which I received a negative answer. Later it turned out that Yeltsin had already allocated 120 million rubles for this program, and it was Rogozin who told the president about it.

A similar character once worked in the Russian Ministry of Defense, where he held the official position of an astrologer. This was Captain 1st Rank Alexander Buzinov, who, for example, once pointed out a dozen buildings in Moscow, which, according to his forecasts, contained explosives. All buildings were checked and no explosives were found.

Until recently, a group of psychics also worked at the Ministry of Emergency Situations. After the earthquake in Neftegorsk, Minister Sergei Shoigu said that they only brought confusion to the work of rescuers. When a civilian plane disappeared near Khabarovsk in December 1995, psychics tried to find it for more than a week. According to air defense system locators, the plane was found a few hours later.

In Ukraine, six years ago, a certain Valeriy Bovbalan practiced magic quite legally, and for money he could shed rain, dispel clouds, and even move cyclones. Almost all Ukrainian newspapers spoke about his unusual abilities. And one day, on the eve of a great drought, a certain official from the Ukrainian government allocated money to Bovbalan so that he could save the harvest. There is no point in saying that the “shaman” failed.

Not long ago, the US government admitted that for 20 years the Pentagon and various US intelligence agencies conducted psychic experiments and used psychics as spies. An investigation approved by Congress showed that the program, which “ate” $20 million, did not provide convincing evidence or any reliable information.

Although there is contrary evidence of the existence of certain otherworldly forces that can influence our lives. From recent cases, we can recall the drawings of the Hungarian boy Peter Csutak, who in 1994 drew a plane crashing into the World Trade Center skyscraper and another one going to ram the neighboring tower. And in 1992, the artist Norbert Suk painted the canvas “Flame of Freedom” - the burning towers of the World Trade Center, lying in the ruins of the building, the broken Statue of Liberty. Similar stories, by the way, exist in relation to virtually all significant disasters.

The artistic director of the Kuban folk group “Marusya” Pavel Chelakhov sat at the council of atamans of the Novorossiysk region and listened to insults. “Did you perform at the “Minute of Fame”? Well, go to your Muscovy, this is not Russia for you. Why have you forgotten here?

Those present were not shy in their expressions: “We’ll see how you squeak when they let you in on the organs.” Each of the atamans raised his hand, spoke and at the end of the speech asked: “Lubu?” “Love!” - the Cossacks answered in unison.

Chelakhov came to the council to discuss the group’s performance in Novorossiysk. The Cossacks demanded that the concert be canceled - they accused the group of mocking their traditions. Artists of “Marusya” perform folk songs in traditional Cossack outfits, although they do not have the right to do so, according to the atamans of the Novorossiysk region.

The Cossacks attack the artists because the group members are dark-skinned, Chelakhov is sure. African students play and sing in Marus.

The police standing nearby did not try to interfere with the Cossacks, said Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh.

In the cases of Pussy Riot and Navalny, the Cossacks somehow knew ahead of time when and where their “victims” would appear.

“Where did they get information about Navalny’s departure from Anapa? He could fly from Krasnodar, from Gelendzhik. Naturally, this information was leaked. Both about entry and exit, this is unambiguous,” says Vladislav Gryaznov, a member of the regional council of Krasnodar Yabloko. In his opinion, the Cossacks perform “shadow tasks” that the police cannot perform by law.

Pussy Riot lawyer Alexander Popkov believes that there is “at least the tacit consent of the authorities.” He recalls how law enforcement agencies, under various pretexts, several times detained members of Pussy Riot, who came to Sochi for four days in February 2014. Moreover, on the day of the beating, only Cossacks followed them; there was not a single policeman.

“Navalny has a similar situation: they are watched and watched and watched, and then at some point there are no police, only Cossacks in large numbers,” says Popkov.

State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov sent a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the incident with Navalny. He received an answer that the Anapa District Court prosecuted two men who were not Cossacks for petty hooliganism.

Also, pre-investigation materials were sent to the Anapa District Court regarding ten Cossacks, among whom are the ataman of the city Cossacks of Anapa Sergei Burlutsky and his deputy Nikolai Nesterenko.

The ataman, Nikolai Kuts, who heads the city Cossacks of Sochi, was also involved in the incident with Pussy Riot, but no one brought him to justice.

People's conscience

“He should be in prison, why don’t the authorities put him in jail? I told the whole world - this is Nikolai Petrovich Kuts. Why haven’t I been questioned under the protocol yet?!” - Sochi human rights activist Grigory Uchkurov, who in 2014 recognized the Cossacks who beat Pussy Riot, is indignant.

Uchkurov is a hereditary Cossack himself; however, after the incident with Pussy Riot, as punishment for “betrayal”, he was expelled from the Cossack society. He stores all certificates, award documents, military ID, where “Cossack” is indicated in a separate column.

. The Kuban Cossack Army consists of 45 thousand Cossacks. Together with their families, the number of Cossacks reaches 150 thousand people. The army leadership believes that there should be 1-2.5 million Cossacks. For comparison, the population of Kuban is 5.5 million people.

Representatives of the Cossacks were members of squads back in the 90s, says Uchkurov. These relations were regulated by an agreement between the ataman and the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate Krasnodar region.

Then the Cossacks received 115 rubles for their duty. The raids took place in the evenings - on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. “The police always looked at us like a soldier at a louse. We didn’t let them steal or steal,” he recalls as we drive around Sochi in his Lada. Uchkurov dashingly maneuvers in the flow of minibuses and cars.

We escape from the 36-degree heat in the shade of a spreading tree at an unfinished construction site. The Cossack shows a report that has been preserved since 1997. “When there were tensions with the police leadership, I said: “I do not obey you, I obey my leadership - the ataman of the All-Kuban Cossack Army,” he says.

Since 2005, Cossacks included in the state register are not just members of squads, but perform public service, for which they receive money. Now the salary is 25 thousand rubles, the Cossacks work about 190 hours a month. The decision of the authorities to put the Cossacks into service made Uchkurov happy, because “finally there were funds.”

He thought that the Cossacks would be a kind of controllers. “We are the people’s conscience, we must protect the interests of the people and the police, help them, and if they don’t work, then push them in the ass so that they serve the people efficiently and not the bandits,” he describes his understanding of the Cossack service.

In fact, the “service” Cossacks simply became another state structure, and no one gave them supervisory powers. In the Krasnodar Territory, a state government institution “Cossacks of Kuban” was created, which is subordinate to the regional administration. The GKU essentially became a conduit for budget funds allocated to the Cossacks. The institution's staff includes several hundred people, including atamans of all regional Cossack societies.

“Kuban Cossacks” is led by Nikolai Pervakov, first deputy ataman of the Kuban Cossack Army (KKV). The position of ataman of the KKV has been occupied by the deputy governor of the region since 2008, Nikolai Doluda (he refused to communicate with the BBC Russian Service).

After the appointment of Doluda as ataman, the Kuban Cossack Army lost its independence and actually became a structural unit of the administration, says independent Krasnodar deputy Igor Kolomiytsev. The authorities “fed the Cossacks” and installed their own “oversight,” he adds. “Doluda himself is a respected person, I can’t say anything against him, but he has the same attitude towards the Cossacks as I probably have towards ballet Bolshoi Theater", says Kolomiytsev.

According to him, now the Cossacks are “the oppressors” whom the authorities can throw into various adventures, while declaring that the Cossacks are an independent community.

In 2012, the then governor of Kuban, Alexander Tkachev, spoke about this openly. At the board of the local Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he proposed involving Cossack squads in the fight against illegal migration, since the police are severely limited in their actions by “democracy and civil society" “What you can’t do, a Cossack can,” said Tkachev.

Uchkurov recalls that after the creation of the state structure, all Cossack vigilantes began to write applications for transfer to this organization, but the Sochi ataman Kuts did not hire him (this happened before the beating of Pussy Riot).

“The ataman told me: “You, Grigory, are too principled. You have problems with your head, and because of you, I have problems with the leadership of the regional department. You’re always making comments to the [policemen], being clever,” the Cossack recounts his conversation with Kuts.

. About 1.5 thousand Cossack warriors constantly serve in the Krasnodar region. In 2014, with their participation, 380 crimes were suppressed and solved, about 82 thousand administrative offenses were identified, and 166 people who were wanted were detained.

You cannot get into the service without the ataman’s recommendation. According to Uchkurov, when money began to be paid for patrolling, the atamans gained power, and some of them only hire those who are compliant. There are fewer and fewer obstinate people with their own opinions among the Cossacks, the Cossack concludes.

Context

Czech Republic: Russian Cossacks

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Cossacks are fighting the Russian opposition

The Washington Post 05/19/2016

For the Don Cossacks, the Civil War is not over

Open Democracy 11/20/2015

“But one cannot say that all are lackeys,” he adds, “there are a lot of worthy people among the Cossacks.”

Uchkurov talks about his human rights activities, about Russian police officers and judges: some issue fines for nothing, while others refuse to include key evidence in the case.

Sometimes he speaks calmly, sometimes he furiously begins to hurl insults at government officials who, in his opinion, act incorrectly and unfairly. The human rights activist admits that he already has a professional personality deformation and “devils in his head”; he is ready to “throw himself” at judges and prosecutors and “gnaw with his teeth.” At the same time, most people “pass by and pretend not to notice anything.”

"New people"

Cossack traditions are strong in Kuban, like nowhere else in Russia, but at first glance this is not noticeable.

Young people in short skirts and shorts walk along the streets of Krasnodar in the evening, there are many cyclists, and European pop music can be heard from street loudspeakers. To meet a Cossack in uniform, just walking around the city, you have to try hard. True, vigilantes in Kubankas can easily be found at train stations.

Even in the capital of the region, every Sunday at noon the “Hour of Glory of Kuban” ceremony takes place. The KKV honor guard - mounted and foot groups - in full dress, accompanied by a brass band, walks along the main street of the city - Krasnaya. Cossacks take up posts at the monument to Catherine the Second and the monument to the 200th anniversary of the KKV.

The revival of the repressed Cossacks began in 1989, historians from the local university. Several like-minded people, including the future ataman Vladimir Gromov, created the Cossack Club. After some time, it was transformed into the Kuban Cossack Rada, and then into the All-Kuban Cossack Army and the KKV.

Subsequently, the leadership of the Kuban Cossacks constantly emphasized that the Cossacks did not imagine themselves outside the Russian state, but at the same time they wanted the authorities not to interfere in their internal affairs.

. Budget expenditures of the Krasnodar Territory under the state program “Cossacks of the Kuban” in 2014-2016 amounted to 3.1 billion rubles. 1.8 billion were spent on organizing the Cossack service, 730 million on the Cossack cadet corps, 458 million on the activities of the Kuban Cossacks State Institution, and 64 million rubles on military-patriotic education.

Gromov was the ataman of the Kuban Cossacks for 17 years - from 1990 to the beginning of 2008. Now he is a deputy in the legislative assembly of the Krasnodar region. Gromov enjoys great authority among the residents of the region; people often turn to him for advice, calling him “father.”

The ataman has a Twitter where he writes about the international conspiracy against Russia, Novorossiya and the lack of education of modern youth. Gromov complains in his tweets that there are now many “who have come to join the Cossacks” (any Orthodox Russian can become a Cossack, whose candidacy is approved by the meeting of the Cossack society).

In his opinion, “those who came” often view the Cossacks as a “commercial project”, go to Cossack societies only for the sake of a salary and then “work as Cossacks.” He himself belongs to public service Cossacks are skeptical. “The essence of the Cossacks is not in the image of “service,” but in the psychology of a free person, the ability to defend traditions, principles, culture,” -

Magic in the service of the state

FROM MAGIC TO MYSTICITY

ONE OF THE FEW: INSTITUTE OF CAUSAL MORPHOLOGY

The secret of creativity is the ability to hide sources...
Albert Einstein

The book describes things, events and incidents that take place in reality. Only some names, surnames of characters and names of specific places have been slightly changed...
Pavel GROSS

Excerpt from “Vladimir Dahl’s Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language”:
“MAGIC is the knowledge and practical use of the secret forces of nature, immaterial, not generally recognized by the natural sciences. Assuming in these matters the connection of a person with the spiritual world, they distinguish between white and black magic: the latter is warlocks, sorcery, sorcery, sorcery, sorcery; witchcraft can refer to both types. Magical - related to magic. A magician, or magician, is the owner of the sacraments of magic, in one meaning or another.”
Excerpt from the “Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron”:
“STATE is an organization of a settled population occupying a certain territory and subject to the same authority; Thus, in the concept of state there are three elements: population (people), territory and power. To satisfy their various needs, people unite in various unions, family, class, economic and other organizations. The totality of these unions and organizations forms human society. The state unites all public unions operating in a certain territory, constituting one of the highest forms of organized human society. The state differs from society, which is the subject of the science of sociology, in that it presupposes the indispensable existence of a certain territory and supreme power, which dominates over all unions and persons of a given territory ... "

WHAT IS MAGIC?

Magic originates in ancient times: Its secrets were protected by both ancient Egyptian priests and Indian Brahmins. And this knowledge was transmitted partly orally, partly in writing, but in any case - only to initiates. After all, if such a formidable force were in the hands of a mere mortal, there would be trouble - and, you know, it can be different. Sometimes the trouble is small and almost unnoticeable, but more often it is so big that even mentioning it in vain is dangerous.
Magical knowledge was passed on to initiates also because it was always written symbolically and conditionally, and therefore, only those who were allowed to understand it could understand it... either from above, or from a personal order from the sovereign - this also happened, although it was never particularly advertised. It is generally accepted that magic is divided into several areas, each of which represents an independent branch of occultism. Professor Piobb wrote very well about these trends at the beginning of the twentieth century.
1. General occultism.
Hermetic philosophy, or philosophy of occultism.
Metaphysics, or philosophy of physics.
Kabbalah is the science of God, the universe and man in all their relationships.
Torah is the creation of forms.
Pythagoreanism - the creation of signs.
Hieroglyphics.
The science of numbers.
2. General astrology.
Astrology is the determination of fate based on the mutual relationship of the planets.
Physiognomy is the determination of a person’s character and destiny.
Palmistry and chiropractic.
Tarot (book of Thoth) is a set of the most important provisions of the occult.
3. Psychurgy.
Mediumship is the study of the supersensible world through a medium who has the ability to allocate, without the participation of the will, a part of his astral body for automatic writing, movement of objects or other medium phenomena.
Magnetism is the study of the relationships between beings and bodies of nature, based on invisible and imponderable forces (fluids and nervous energy).
Hypnotism (suggestion) is the doctrine of a special state of a person at a moment when his consciousness and will are inactive, as a result of which the higher arresting and controlling centers are separated from the lower ones.
Psychometry is the ability to perceive any pictures from the past.
Telepsychia is a message at a distance, a kind of separate branch of clairvoyance.
Telepathy is the ability of the human spirit to identify the astral body with the help of will and direct it, if desired, to any place.
4. Alchemy.
Alchemy is the oldest of the sciences (the ancestor of chemistry and physics), studying the laws of nature in their relation to the lower kingdoms (mineral, plant and animal).
5. Magic.
Magic - the study of astral bodies and their control, is divided, in turn, into white (beneficent) and black (witchcraft).
Combat magic is the control of astral bodies at the request of the magician or at the will of someone else, up to the physical elimination of any astral body.
Magic also includes hermetic medicine, the highest degree of which is Sacred Therapeutics.
6. Theurgy.
Theurgy is the highest sacred knowledge that studies the powers of Epireus in correlation and manifestation in the physical world.
Even the Egyptian priests, studying the mental characteristics of man, noticed the strong influence produced by the human will both on the person himself and on the world. Already in ancient times it was clear that this influence is directly proportional to the strength and development of the will. That is why the most important task of people initiated into magic and the occult was the development of will.
However, not only the Egyptian pharaohs used magical knowledge to their advantage, but also the mighty of the world this, who lived long before the appearance of the first pyramids. This state of affairs arose back in the Stone Age. Forces of nature, too short human life, dangerous and eternally hungry animals and neighboring tribes - all this forced the leaders to resort to the help of priests, because in their hands was concentrated, albeit invisible, but very powerful force, capable of punishing anyone. And based on this statement, it is very difficult to deny the actual reality of magic.

THE ART OF COMBAT MAGIC

Mage fights

Let's consider a special doctrine developed in the bowels of the special services (NKVD, KGB and supplemented by the FSB) as an independent and so far unsurpassed martial art.
The fight can take place:
between two magicians;
between one and several magicians;
between magician and man;
between a magician and a group of people.
The specifics and tactics of magical combat always depend. from the number of its participants. Moreover, some methods and techniques that are perfect, say, for a fight between two magicians, will be absolutely meaningless for a fight between a magician and a group of people.
To begin with, you should pay special attention to the battle, called “Tete-a-Tete” in magic, in other words - one on one. If good and evil magicians clash, it is almost impossible for the former, having only spell formulas in his arsenal, to defeat the latter. This means that the good one will have to use not only magical knowledge, but also ingenuity, and even cunning. Otherwise, such a magician will face inevitable death. There are different ways to get creative in magical combat. Here are some types of occult weapons that are most suitable for magicians, at least at first:
spells - the use of magical energies of various kinds to change the surrounding world and reality;
magical artifacts - various objects endowed with witchcraft energy by natural whim or by the will of the magician himself;
methods of magical defense and attack;
ways to anticipate enemy actions.
It is worth noting that almost all battles between magicians are fought in the transcendental - unreal - world. That is, in a space created by warring magicians - in a different reality. In moments of battle, almost anything can happen. But whether the rivers turn back or the earth cracks under your feet, you won’t even notice it. Although, after some time, you may feel it in your own skin. If, of course, you decide to watch the duel between two magicians. But if suddenly a duel of magicians bursts into reality, then... Tornadoes and hurricanes, floods and sudden avalanches should not always be considered as physical phenomena- natural disasters. Sometimes such things happen due to the fault of warring magicians, but people don’t even know about it. In most cases, the winner is the one whose tricks and will are stronger. So, the rules of magical combat...
Here he is - the enemy, he will use it against you ball lightning. Yes, their nature has not yet been officially studied, but initiates have long known that even the tiniest ball lightning can be created only by the will of a battle mage. Ball lightning does not appear out of nowhere, much less be born by itself! In cases of fireball lightning, you should immediately defend yourself using a magic mirror shield. That is, protection based on a force field, called the “wrong side” by specialists - the mirror shield acts on ball lightning as if from the inside. In a matter of seconds, you need to properly relax, focus on the enemy and create a kind of cocoon, consisting entirely of fragments of a large magic mirror. These pieces must not be forgotten to be positioned relative to the ball lightning at a certain angle. In this case, the attack will be reflected on the enemy himself. And this is already more than half the success in the battle. If the enemy does not react in time, he will probably receive multiple piercing wounds. If unsuccessful, you need to immediately change the angle of the mirrors relative to the enemy. The main thing is not to forget about anticipating the subsequent actions of your enemy. In cases where the enemy destroys the mirror shield, you should not hesitate to raise a storm or hurricane by using a wind spell. And then the enemy will be cut up with pieces of the mirror shield. By the way, in the process of using this kind of spell, the magician is, as it were, inside a force field in which almost all objects that fall within the reach of the spell are detained.
The force - or magic, as you like - field can be configured using the following methods:
the magician has the power to change the size of such a field;
the magician has the power to leave any objects in the area of influence of the field or throw them into other areas;
if necessary, the magician has the power to surround himself with an impenetrable cocoon or use either side of the mirror shield for protection.
Here you should remember a very important rule: spells, no matter how strong or weak they are, always take away the magician’s strength and magical energy, so you need to use both only when necessary and extremely wisely.
Most effective method combat - using a combination of spells. For example, we can cite the already well-known mirror shield spell and the spell of sucking magical energy from the enemy. By the way, a very strong opponent often does not fight himself. He usually uses two methods of conducting magical combat:
creates some mystical or biblical monster;
uses some - preferably never seen before - artifact with some amazing filling. The most experienced magician, using the methods mentioned, quietly vegetates somewhere on the sidelines, looking sideways at the progress of the battle. The case when the enemy uses a magical artifact is curious in that the magician resists the effects of the artifact’s power on him and, in the process, wastes magical energy.
Let's return to the method mentioned a few lines above, when a magic mirror shield and a spell to suck out magical energy are used in battle. But in any case you will have to act:
fast;
decisively;
coolly.
We install a mirror shield directly in front of us, in some cases we wrap ourselves in a mirror cocoon. We use the spell to suck out magical energy almost immediately after installing the shield after the enemy creates a monster. If everything goes exactly like this, then as long as the mirror shield is displayed, the magician will be able to restore the wasted forces received from the monster destroyed by the corresponding spell. But you need to remember, as an axiom: the spell of sucking magical energy affects anyone, but not the magician himself. This happens because by definition there are no stupid magicians, and smart ones immediately use a counter spell after such attacks. Now let's pay attention to the next version of the battle, when the magician fights with a group of people. For the first time, this technique was used by soldiers of the NKVD OSNAZ when conducting sabotage operations abroad.
There are enemies in front of the magician - several people, possibly armed with cold or firearms. In this case, the magician cannot hesitate. In a matter of seconds, he must concentrate, fold his hands in front of him - no higher than the level of the solar plexus, always with palms facing each other - fingers pointing straight up. As soon as there is an accumulation of magical fire between the palms, the magician should immediately turn his palms towards the enemy with a very sharp movement. And the magical - or, as it is also called, witchcraft - fire will disperse like a fan. There is no weapon that can withstand its effects. But magicians, although not often, still sometimes have to join forces. After all, in the event of a mutual threat, there will always be something in common between sworn enemies. An excellent example of this is the joining of efforts of Soviet and English magicians... In 1940, more than serious threat landing of a large fascist German assault force with the subsequent occupation of coastal territories. Only a narrow circle of initiates knows that there was a secret agreement between Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, according to which two employees of the thirteenth department of the NKVD arrived in England on July 31, 1940, on a direct flight from Moscow. Both are excellent servants and even more excellent battle mages, having passed the test of strength during civil war in Spain: from 1936 until 1938, Russian battle magicians fought against the cunning and too bloodthirsty sorcerers of General Franco. The very next day after arrival - August 1 - magicians serving for the British army intelligence, the best of the local and most hereditary witches and sorcerers and battle magicians of the NKVD gathered in the town of Newforest. This coven had two goals: the first was to send telepathic instructions to Adolf Hitler to stay as far away from the English shores as possible and the second was not to rush into a military invasion of Soviet Union. It is known that Stalin did his best to delay fascist aggression against the USSR. This was the reason for the agreement between him and Winston Churchill. The magicians gathered on Bald Mountain, completely naked, and began one of the most powerful telepathic sessions in the history of combat magic, followed by the release of a flow of energy towards the deployment of German troops...
For combat between several magicians and a group of people, territory is considered an important factor. Usually the battle mage chooses it in such a way that the enemy, due to the terrain, is most vulnerable to attack. In this case, the magician has to pay a minimum of his attention to the weapon. Positions are no less advantageous for a magician. They must be such that the entire battlefield is clearly visible. As they say: “...and let no one go unnoticed!” But tactics in a battle with several people depend on a number of factors. Including the situation that develops both before and during the battle.
Magicians welcome the combination of several energy flows into one. But, as a rule, they are controlled by the most powerful battle mage. The rest choose their opponents based on their strengths and capabilities. The motto in battles is usually the expression: life energy is not limitless! Based on this motto, it should be remembered that during a battle one should not abuse the use of the energy of the most powerful sorcerer. Otherwise, he may simply die - sometimes immortal magicians die too! However, even if too much energy is sucked out of the most powerful magician, it can always be restored by giving, for example, part of your energy.
Any battle means the death of not only magicians, but also living and inanimate matter. Even after several years after magical battles, an increased magical energy background remains in the places where they took place. Such places are called cursed, and sometimes - valleys of death. To prevent possible consequences Battle mages are advised not to waste energy, but to make do with only a small amount of it - even if the battle is too difficult and bloody. Sometimes it is easier and better to create a small mirror shield, from which almost all objects and enemy spells will ricochet, than to make a powerful, but very large magic shield that burns almost all energy.

It's not the gods who burn the pots

For many, God is an immortal living or inanimate substance that rules the world and people. And for magicians, God is immortal... as long as he is not devoid of energy. A logical conclusion follows from this statement: if desired, you can destroy or, under certain circumstances, lure any divine creature to your side. Description of specific methods of destroying and luring gods:
Divine energy can be destroyed either by bringing order or bringing chaos to the fore; one or the other will absorb any energy in any case;
Divine energy can be destroyed with a clot of greater energy; for this, the magician needs a strong concentration on his own strength (various artifacts can be used) followed by delivering a powerful blow to any divine creature, which in this case will either die or go over to the side magician;
it is possible to destroy divine energy without resorting to drastic measures - in this case, the god is placed in an artificially created cocoon (a plasma cocoon is considered to be on top), while preserving all the divine energy - just remember the imprisonment of the Genies in bottles;
You can destroy divine energy using the opposite energy - it’s like a magnet, plus is always attracted to minus, and vice versa;
some gods live only thanks to external energy, it is easier to destroy them or lure them to their side by depriving them of the opportunity to feed on it - usually a highly concentrated blow is applied to the energy channels (various artifacts can be used), thanks to which any deity is deprived of the opportunity to exist further.

Magic duels

Here, of course, there is so-called countermagic. As a child, everyone threw knives at targets in trees. So, sometimes situations arise when a knife, having hit the target, ricochets and flies at the person who threw it. More often than not, throwers dodge, but sometimes they don’t. Let's translate this example into the plane of a magical duel...
Imagine that a knife is flying at you at high speed and is ricocheting off a target. You, being already a trained magician, place the already known mirror shield in front of you. But it will be better if this happens at the moment when there is a distance from the knife to you that does not exceed a swing of the sword. This is quite enough to create a time spell. You concentrate and slow down time so that you can dodge and preemptively strike the knife with a magical blade.

Magical protection of inanimate objects

A magician cannot be in constant combat readiness, although, at first glance, it may seem that everything should be the other way around. The point is that constant combat readiness takes away too much life and energy forces. And this is more dangerous than an attack by the most terrible enemy, given the fact that most battle magicians are in the service of certain government officials - it is simply dangerous to relax here. Therefore, magicians need rest, and with it a place where they can spend their free time from work.
Such places should be strictly classified. Sometimes it is not recommended to report them even to the management of the structures for which magicians work: safety comes first! Magicians usually create a place to rest on their own.
Protecting the resting places of battle mages directly depends on a number of factors. It is especially worth noting:
the time of existence of such a place;
enemy location.
There are several types of external protection:
1) repellent;
2) blocking the penetration of enemies;
3) locking (from hacking and spells);
4) signaling penetration into enemy territory;
5) camouflage.
More information about external protection:
1) blocking protection - from magicians it is its own, from people - its own; in the first case, protection is based on the magician’s perception of the energies of enemies, in the second - on the territorial landscape, that is, when the magician, for the purpose of conspiracy, uses not only rivers, mountains and forests, but also the mythical reptiles living in them;
2) deterrent protection - from the above-mentioned mythical creatures living in the real world of their own free will or created by the will of enemies; in any case, against evil spirits it is best to use old, proven means, such as herbal potions, talismans and amulets;
3) signaling protection serves clearly defined purposes - it gives a signal about the penetration of an enemy or simply an unwanted living or non-living substance; most often, the signaling protection of structures consists of energy traps, snares and nets, operating on the same principle as the hunting prototypes existing in the mortal world;
4) locking protection - envelops almost any object inanimate nature energy dome; it is known that an enemy, whatever he may be, can penetrate into foreign territory in several ways: through a door or window, as well as through a portal or parallel dimension - in such cases, it must be taken into account that the enemy battle mage is capable of transporting not only himself anywhere , but also your phantom or just an image;
5) hiding protection - creates so-called enchanted places, in other words, hides almost any objects of inanimate nature from enemies in a parallel world, another dimension, and also in the past or future time;
6) internal protection - refers to the latest measures to counter a potential enemy, that is, it serves as the last warning of an attack by an enemy who has penetrated the internal territory of any object of inanimate nature; In such cases, the premises are equipped with spell traps, and magic crystals with a light effect are installed around their perimeter. energy impact on the enemy.

Illegal entry into inanimate objects

To penetrate enemy territory, a magician first needs a place or dimension that is not covered by magical or any other protection. Even if the structure is protected from penetration by the energy network, then penetration into enemy territory should still not present any particular difficulties. If there are no gaps in the protection, you must immediately begin to untangle the energy network. Here you should be like a pike caught in a fishing net. These toothy devils, having been caught, immediately search the nets for the most weak spots. Battle mages should do exactly the same. However, there is no need to rush into this, because at the most inopportune moment the alarm system mentioned earlier may go off. Sometimes, to penetrate into foreign territories, magicians have to create duplicate protective networks - to create the appearance of protection during penetration into enemy territory. But until the energies of the networks come into contact, there is no point in breaking the enemy’s. But as soon as contact occurs, you can immediately go to the next level.

Combat Mogs

A magician, before starting his mission, always faces a choice: which of the areas of sacred art suits him best. Here we are talking not only about combatants, but also about magicians in general who can live in the real world without belonging to one or another paramilitary structure. Here are some of the most common areas of magical art:
control of the elements - fire, water, air and earth;
healing;
alchemy;
wildlife management;
object magic - the science of using amulets, talismans and amulets;
astrology;
theology.
Mages, as mentioned earlier, often team up. This happens not only in cases of mutual danger, but also due to interests. Then the magicians unite into workshops, unions and guilds. When faced with a choice, you need to remember the unwritten rule: you can learn anything, anything, but only someone who, in addition to abilities, also has a great desire to learn, can become one of the best. But for the development of a battle mage, fighting spirit is also important - and not everyone has it! Some people are born with it, but some people need to forge it for a long time - long years. For a battle mage, there are the following life priorities:
It is not so important what world you are in, but the purpose of this location;
The type of weapon is not so important as the fighting spirit and spirit are important - a warrior always and everywhere remains a warrior;
a real magician must be fluent not only in the techniques of fighting enemies, but also in all areas of magic known to him;
a battle mage must be well aware of his enemy's strengths and weaknesses. There is a definition in magic - a battle mage. Not everyone can become one. The fact is that for a battle magician the main thing is war for the glory of anything: a loved one, ideals, fatherland, etc., etc. Not all magicians prefer to fight, although initially any spell is considered a transformation of power , which can be used either for defense or attack. It’s just that the art of war needs to be learned for many years, and most magicians prefer to spend their life’s journey for anything but for the sake of victories in battle.
A good battle mage is considered to be one who can quickly and extremely effectively neutralize the enemy. In specialized schools in our country, at the first stages, magicians are taught standard spells, and then they are taught to independently compose combat magic formulas, which is considered among initiates to be the standard of mastery. In the battles of magicians, the most important thing is to deceive the enemy by any available methods and means. Only the one who carries out an attack or defends himself using spells unknown to the enemy will emerge victorious from the battle. Mandatory set of combat spells:
Fireball is something like ball lightning, only artificially created; A fireball is capable of burning through or exploding (from the inside or outside) through inanimate and living objects at the moment of contact with them.
Lightning is an artificially created energy charge that can burn through the body; more often used to block work nervous system and for cardiac arrest.
Witchcraft fire is a semblance of protoplasm, but artificially created; used by battle magicians in the form of fire rain or fire stream.
Illusions are artificially caused images or changes in space through magical manipulations; Basically, they are used to create unprecedented reptiles and creatures to demoralize the enemy or to transform the enemy himself into some unprecedented monster.
During battles, battle mages often create - as has already been mentioned several times - mythical creatures. They are divided into two types:
elemental reptiles and creatures - creatures that do not live in the real world, consisting of elements of one of the known elements (fire, water, air, earth);
animated reptiles and creatures - creatures created by special spells from living or inanimate matter, as well as mythological monsters awakened to life.
Battle magicians usually create reptiles and creatures only for a while. It is not easy to destroy such creatures. But in any case, their death comes faster after the destruction of the spells with the help of which these reptiles and creatures were created. Methods of protection from unprecedented creatures:
Force shield - reflects or burns living or inanimate objects; is created either in front of a visible danger, or around the magician.
A reflective mirror is a kind of magical shield that reflects an enemy spell and receives additional energy from it.
A circle within a circle is a cocoon created from a part of the space of another reality and surrounding the magician; in addition, the circle within the circle transports the magician to another reality, while his shell (body) remains in the real world, which makes the magician almost invulnerable.
Forced transition is a magical portal created to throw an enemy into another reality.
Changing reality is a physical and magical effect on inanimate objects.
Acceleration or deceleration of time is a forced change in the flow of time both in one and the opposite direction to delay or, on the contrary, accelerate the course of certain events.
Spell - powerful weapon for your neighbor and ranged, but you should always remember that an experienced enemy probably has a more sophisticated spell in stock; for this reason, a battle mage is simply obliged to be fluent in any melee or firearm.
During defense, we must not forget that time during a battle is the main factor in victory. Therefore, good battle magicians do not spend too much time thinking about how and what to do. They just act. Good method fighting is considered to be the creation of mental images. When it is created, the spell appears as if by itself. However, good magicians die even under such conditions. Reasons for the death of superbly trained magicians:
Time is needed in any case, and a bullet can’t wait too long.
Energy - it is short-lived and its effect is somewhat limited, so battle magicians always keep with them time-tested amulets that absorb the energy of the surrounding world on their own.