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Being in Moscow a week ago, in addition to meeting my friends, lecture delivering, meeting members of our international astrological web forum, I had an opportunity to take a walk inside of the Kremlin and to admire its churches. There is a fresco on a wall of one cathedral, the Cathedral of the Dormition, that attracted my special attention. It is an image of Sophia, the God’s Wisdom.

The Cathedral of the Dormition

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Recently I reread the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Unfortunately, in the English-speaking countries Ghiyās od-Dīn Abol-Fath Omār ibn Ebrāhīm Khayyām Neyshābūri mostly known through Edward Fitzgerald’s re-created translation of his quatrains (rubaiyat), which is quite far from the true spirit of the rubaiyat and based perhaps only on tenth part of the extant quatrains. In fact, the poetic heritage of this mathematician, philosopher, astrologer and poet of XI-XII cc. contains many true gems for a devotee of the spiritual evolution as well as for an astrologer.

The Lord has judged so, and there is no judgement over Him.
His decision no never turns into yes.
Perhaps, some possible thing is not existing, by chance.
But impossible one will never exist at all.

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