"Civil war? Has it come to this?" Although Rome has always had civil wars in history, it would be too cruel to start a civil war just because of mistakes in practice.
"So, is it important for you to practice rockets?"
Victoria looked at him: "It is extremely important. Because... do you know why Rome was divided into six parts?"
Apollonia had previously introduced six-point Rome to Shangluo, namely:
Theurgic Constantinople - seat of the Senate
Alchemical Alexandria – Home of the Palace of the Muses
Delphi of Astrology – Home of the Oracle
as well as
Sociological Rome
Physics of Syracuse
and the ideal city that brought together all 'practices': the new Antioch of America. Among them, Neo Antioch has a relatively higher degree of independence, because the Roman territory in the New World of America was named after the "Government of Gran Colombia", and Neo Antioch was the capital of Gran Colombia.
Here, Rome deliberately separated the occult center and the political center. Political centers such as London, Paris, and Seville have no mysterious functions; while Alexandria, Delphi, Syracuse, and even the city of Rome itself are not politically important. They are not the capital of any region, or even the capital of any region. politically downplayed.
Apart from Constantinople in the east, only New Antioch was responsible for both political and mystical functions. The skyscrapers on the Manhattan peninsula are also an interpretation of modern life: in the concrete forest of huge neoclassical buildings, there is the Broadway theater district and the huge rectangular central garden.
The Empire State Building is the crown jewel of all these achievements. She is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere—if you count skyscrapers alone, it is actually the tallest in the world at 442 meters. But when expanded to include all man-made buildings, the antenna of the Songjiang Broadcasting Tower is 30 meters higher than it.
If any city could break away from Constantinople and lead the Roman Empire, it was Neo Antioch. At least there are no such tall skyscrapers anywhere else.
"Well, you may not know the importance of 'practice' in this. Let me change the question: Do you know why Rome was divided into six categories: supernaturalism, alchemy, astrology, sociology, and physics? Practice this Six realms?”
【oh. ] Apollonia mentioned God, [She is going to tell you something very important. You listen carefully, I will turn off the mic first. 】
"I don't know." Shangluo shook his head.
"So... you are the King of Rome, you are qualified to know this." Emperor Victoria took a sip of tea. The tea was on her side. There was no model loaded here.
She pressed a button on the table, and the window through which she could observe the outside world turned into a mirror.
"The mirror symbolizes closure. The next conversation." She glanced at Karin in the room, "Miss Karin, let's talk alone, okay?"
"Ah?" Karin just realized that she shouldn't have been standing here in the first place, "Ah! Sorry!"
Victoria nodded good-naturedly. It wasn't until Karin walked out that she pressed the second button——
"boom."
The entire wall next to the window was turned into a mirror.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang."
In a series of sounds, the remaining five sides of the room also turned into mirror surfaces.
Only the table, chairs, Shangluo and Victoria were left in the room, as well as the flag behind her. Shangluo looked around, and his face and figure were reflected on the mirror. The image in the mirror copied and recursed infinitely, until it reached infinite distance. And every move he makes will cause countless mirror images to move together.
"Absolute closure, absolute safety. So, it can be said: from past research, all knowledge in this world can be divided into three categories: human knowledge, world knowledge, and light knowledge or symbols knowledge. Combining them in pairs, we get six areas that divide all knowledge:
"The study of the relationship between symbols and the world, and the study of the communication and interpretation of meaning, is semiology, which is the magical art among the three great arts. It includes the study of language, magic, runes, and the immortal god of the world, that is, the divine machine. Research. Among all the great arts, magical power is the first.
"The study of the relationship between signs and symbols, with the sign itself as the object of study, is glyphology, which is the alchemy of the three great arts. This research is carried out in Alexandria. It studies the arrangement and combination of elements and explores the great arts. The end point - that is, the Philosopher's Stone.
"The study of the relationship between symbols and people, and the study of what it is to be human from the perspective of light (symbols), is synology, which is astrology among the three great arts. It includes the study of heaven-human induction, astrological harmony, and prophecy. Because The human element is involved, so it becomes infinitely complex. We study astrology at the oracle at Delphi, using the infinite to understand the infinite.
"The other three fields do not take symbols as their research objects. The relationship between people is sociology in the broad sense, and is studied in Rome. The relationship between the world and the collision of rules and rules is physics in the broad sense. Study in Syracuse. The study of Rome and Syracuse is more symbolic, because physics and sociology can be studied anywhere, they are just vases used to constitute a complete ceremony. And the last one - human beings The study of the world is practice. All practices, our ideals, and our dreams are slowly unfolding in New Antioch, Gran Colombia."
"Then she split?"
"Yes." Victoria sighed, "New Antioch condenses our dreams, but it is also the farthest away from light. The domain of Constantinople is light and the world, and the domain of New Antioch is people and the world. Light and people are the closest and the farthest in the world. Whether to be dominated by light or by people is the most fundamental difference between Constantinople and Neo-Antioch."
"Now, do you think light should lead?"
"No. Our eternal dream is that one day human beings no longer need the guidance of light, no longer need the intermediary of light, but rely on human beings' own power to understand the world. Helios Mithras responded to our dream And was born, he pursues this supreme goal like us. That’s why Neo-Antioch is the dream of the entire empire. It is the practice of all ideals. All our achievements, technologies, and theories are put into practice in Neo-Antioch. So We built skyscrapers there, central gardens, theaters, art galleries, where you can see all the good and beautiful things about humanity. But..."
"but?"
"People will die." Victoria said these three words slowly.
(End of chapter)
