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For those interesting in seeing more,

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this is the place
of a strange revelation for some

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and of fascination for others.

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The room is filled with mystery.

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The darkness is friendly,
and, according to Caragiale,

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"in each corner the matter speaks".

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You feel like you're travelling
back in time for more than 100 years,

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when it was built.

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Once inside,
you leave the earthly world

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and go to a very special place.

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You feel the silence,
the friendly mystery.

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You explore a special place
and that doesn't scare you.

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Quite the opposite.
You feel the time stood still

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and a lucid craziness
surrounds you.

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You live the friendship
between life and death

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and you realize you explore
an unfamiliar ground,

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but that doesn't intrigue you.

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You don't see anybody,
but you're not alone.

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There's something there.

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After my daughter's death,

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I should've shot myself
or go insane.

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But how could I've gone insane,

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when I was reading her works
night and day,

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where an angel talked
about faith and death?

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Could I've gone insane,
when her body lied in a grave,

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but her spirit more alive than ever
was lingering inside me?

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One day, Iulia Hasdeu,
the daughter, answers him,

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as we can read in the prologue
of "Sic Cogito",

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the first Romanian book
on spiritism

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written by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.

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Six months had passed
since my daughter died.

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I was alone in the room,
next to my desk.

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In front of me, as always, I had
a stack of papers and some pencils.

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I don't know how,
but my hand grabbed a pencil.

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On my left temple I felt short hits,

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like some telegraph machine
was inside.

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Suddenly, my hand started moving.

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That lasted five seconds at the most.

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When the arm rested
and the fingers lost the pencil,

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I felt as awaken from a sleep,

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although I'm sure
I didn't fall asleep.

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I looked on the paper
and read clearly:

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"I'm happy, I love you.
We'll see each other again."

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"That should be enough for you."

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It was written in my daughter's
hand writing and signed by her.

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Hasdeu didn't called the spirit.
The spirit called Hasdeu.

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In the archives, in Bucharest,

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where Hasdeu was the manager
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he received the first message
from Iulia.

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From that day on, Bogdan Petriceicu
Hasdeu followed a single road.

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Practicing and converting
to spiritism.

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The pain is the element
that convinced Hasdeu

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to talk to the spirits.

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And the hope...

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The hope that he'll meet his daughter
again after death.

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Hasdeu didn't have a choice.

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He didn't have a choice.

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From now on, he'll only live
to meet Iulia's spirit.

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Born on November 14th, 1869,

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the genius child read
at two and a half years old.

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At eight, in 1877,
she spoke three languages,

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French, German and English.

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She takes all the exams
and passes the first four years

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at the National College St. Sava.

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She also takes exams
at the conservatory

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for canto, solfeggio
and musical theory.

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Together with her mother,

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the two Iulias go to Paris
to continue her studies.

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At 16, the exceptional child
takes her degree in Letters

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and enrolls at Sorbona,
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At 20 years old she would've been
their first woman doctor in Letters

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if tuberculosis
wouldn't have ended her life.

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She dies on September 29th, 1888.

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In her memory, Hasdeu builds
the Campina castle.

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Hasdeu considered he was guided
by spirits.

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And he claimed that when he built
the two temples,

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the family's mausoleum,
in the Bellu cemetery,

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and the Iulia Hasdeu castle
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He ensured the visitors

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that the plans
for the tomb and the castle

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were inspired
by Iulia's soul,

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which whom he communicated.

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"A poem grave", an article published
in "Revista noua" by Ionescu John,

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a great historian of the time
and a former student of Hasdeu,

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still is the best description
of that architectural jewel,

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as Hasdeu himself called it.

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His study can be considered
more than a description of the grave.

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Before the entrance,
dominating everything,

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is a particularly shaped bookshelf,
resting on two columns

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adorned with ivy leaves, symbolizing
the confusions of the world.

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Everything is carved
of a single stone,

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three meters tall.
It's a monolith from Albesti.

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On the frontispiece is written
in gold, "Stay a while".

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Listen to him, come closer.

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In the bookshelf,
on the colored books

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you can read the names of works
that are the pride of Romanians,

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proof that we have
the godly spark in us.

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Inside the throne, a bronze clock,
stuck in granite,

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stopped at 1:30,
when Iulia's life ended.

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Above it, two sphinxes
made out of Campulung stone.

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Resting of those symbols
of the enigma, a globe.

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Sit on the throne,
tired of this life,

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and lift your eyes.

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Why do you lower them so hastily?
I know.

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There's a skull made of white marble
in the upper part of the throne,

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with his mouth wide open.

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Lift your eyes towards the skull
and read the brilliant inscription:

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"Let the swallow build her nest."

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Meditate, you visitor.
Rest in the silence of the grave.

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Relax, death is above your head.

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Now come down in the tomb,
my friend,

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following the ten marble steps.

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Will get down where the spirit
rises on wings of faith.

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You're not in the grave,
you're in a temple

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made solely out Carara marble.

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It's one of those serene temples
of wisdom,

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as seen by the great spirits
of the old times.

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On the wall on the left,
dug in marbled,

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gilded under an eight corner star,
on a blue background,

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there's a spiritism creed.

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The religious law. Believe in God,
in the everlasting soul,

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in the gift of talking to the dead.

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The moral law.
Love and help.

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Love and help the nation,
those that love and help you,

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love and help
without thinking of your own benefit.

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On the right wall.

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The social law.
Don't dishonor.

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Don't dishonor yourself,
so that others would honor you.

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Don't dishonor others,
so that you would honor yourself.

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Don't dishonor work,
for work is life.

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The philosophical law.
When? Then.

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When you know the facts,
you write the truth.

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When you don't want to believe,
you don't want to see.

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When you're looking for proof,
you find denial.

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The scary big genius,
according to Mircea Eliade,

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start building a castle in Campina,
in 1893.

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It's a copy of the druidic castles
in Wales.

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In a note kept
in the archive in Campina,

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the scientist wrote: "This castle
was raised in 1894–1896,"

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"with the plans of the spirit
of Iulia Hasdeu,"

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"through the medium Hasdeu,"

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"with the help of the architect
Toma Dobrescu"

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"and it was build
by Nicolae Angelescu."

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Hasdeu wanted to make a church.

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It's a museum, a temple and a church.

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But mostly a church,
a place for praying, for pain relief.

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Iulia is the architect,
the builder...

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She's everything here.

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Something strange happens.

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It's the first time in the history
of the spiritism in Europe

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and all over the world
when a spirit gives the orders

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so that a dream
from the nonmaterial world

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comes to life
in the material world.

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The castle is made up
of three towers.

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The tower is the connection
between earth and heaven.

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It's build in three spaces.
The underworld, the hell,

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our earthly world, the purgatory,

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and the sacred world, the paradise.

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The central tower is the place
that gathers

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all the symbols of a dungeon.

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The tallest tower in a temple
or a church.

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There's a symbolism of the center
in the concentric circles

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from where the great cross
or the great cup starts.

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Above it is the statue
of Jesus Christ.

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And the steps
are the opening of the cup.

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That's a symbol of uplifting,
of raising.

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The steps can only lead
to the heavens.

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Talking about uplifting,
we're talking about heaven.

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So above the stairs
we need the heavenly symbol.

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And back in Hasdeu's times
there was a sky painted in the dome.

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In the middle of the sky
was the all seeing eye,

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and the iris suggested the opening,

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the place where the soul,

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after travelling in other states,
after the physical death

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breaches the sky and gets out
through that small opening,

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to merge with the great absolute.

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There are elements
from every big religion.

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But these elements gravitate
towards the Christian core.

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The Christian element
is never lost.

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Hasdeu wasn't a pagan, an atheist
or a wizard.

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He was a father
and he loved his daughter dearly.

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Of course,
this is a Christian esoteric.

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Let's define the esoteric.

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It's related to the less obvious
part of the dogma.

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The dogma is the surface.

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The first room in which the tourists
enter is the welcoming parlor

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of Mrs. Iulia Hasdeu.

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The second room is the living room.

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Here, the guests can see
the faces of the family.

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The grandfather,
Mr. and Mrs. Hasdeu,

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the scientist's parents,
his brother, Nicolae.

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And of course, the child genius,
Iulia.

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Also there is the clock.

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It's a century and a half old and it
belonged to the scientist's father,

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Alexandru Hasdeu,

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honorary member
of the Romanian Academy,

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founder of the Romanian Academy.

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The most important part
of this castle, of this temple,

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of this church,

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is the sacred mountain.

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The actual temple,

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with the depiction of Jesus Christ
raising to heaven.

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The fourth room is the study.

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The hell.

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A room painted red all over.

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After his daughter's death,
work became a torment for Hasdeu.

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That's why he placed
his office in hell.

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There are two more rooms.
Iulia's room,

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also known as the green room,

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because green symbolizes Earth.

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It used to be a bedroom,

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but it was turned
into a room dedicated to Iulia.

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Iulia never lived here,
the castle was built after her death.

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But there are things that belonged
to her there.

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The desk, the letter drawer,
Iulia's doll,

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with porcelain hands and head
and glass eyes.

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Her diary,
her math notebook,

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and her works.

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Her books, her poems.
"April bloom", "Cavalry",

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"Theatre, legends and stories".

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The last room,
equally important,

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is the spiritism room.

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Here, Hasdeu used to comfort himself.

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He talked here not only to the spirit
of his daughter,

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but also with the spirit
of Nicolae, his brother,

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and Alexandru, his father.

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And even with his wife, Iulia,
after she passed away.

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The seances took place
in the dark.

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Usually there were 2 or 3 guests.
The room is pretty small.

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The spirit was invoked,
took hold of a medium

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and the medium wrote the message
on a special manuscript.

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A special page,
with a message from the spirit.

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The orifice in the room
is not an accident.

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The seances took place in the dark.

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That's the only place
that allowed the light to enter.

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That's its purpose,
to allow the light in.

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Breaking up with the normality,
Hasdeu lives his lucid madness

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in his own universe,
guided by Iulia.

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The symbolism in the Campina castle
reminds us of masonery.

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There's a triangle
with the all seeing eye.

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There are chairs
with the three points

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used in the masonic writings.

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But the masonry in the 19th century
was a spiritual one

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that preached a Christian esoteric.

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It's possible that B.P. Hasdeu,
like the great names of that age,

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could've been a mason.

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But the symbols in Campina
and here, at the grave,

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have nothing to do with the masonry,
but with the illuminist vision

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that connects
the Egyptian tradition

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with Judaism and Christianity.

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It's the common denominator.

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Hasdeu is a prisoner of a shadow
turned into a cult.

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This cult was accepted publicly
with sympathy,

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but also with skepticism
and rightly so.

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The spiritism movement
starts with the left foot in Romania,

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subject to the irony and jokes
of certain intellectuals.

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Was Hasdeu disputed
because he practiced spiritism?

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Without a doubt.
There were some who didn't like that.

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But the spiritism was something new,

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a neoevangelistic current,
according to Hasdeu and not only him.

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Many scientist were interested in it

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and studied it.

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Hasdeu wanted to enlarge
the knowledge,

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that's why he tested it.
He had spiritual experiences.

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It's amazing that spiritual
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are synchronic, they take place
almost at the same time

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all over the world.

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That proves that we re–live
the same story in each generation.

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The same story
can be said about Iulia.

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In one seance, in 1892,
he tells Hasdeu,

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"My dear father,
you did what you had to do."

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"Don't let the ailments
torment you."

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"Everything is evanescent."

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"Only me... I'm not evanescent.
I've been too many times."

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"Nine times."

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Nine times a virgin in nine lives,

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Iulia was Agnotica, Hipatia, Siria,
Beatrice Portinari,

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Juana Varanez, Elisabeta Tudor
and Charlotte Corday.

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The fact that she died young
and virgin in her other lives

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justifies that we can remember.
If we look inside,

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in our invisible area, we can
discover the origin of the world.

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And then we're not a small stake,
we're a big one.

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Fear but mostly the attraction
between here and beyond

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was always present.

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But how can it be possible?

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Indeed, this place
has a special aura,

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a special place.

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There are many myths
regarding the Jesus statue.

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The Communists tried to take it down.

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The legend says the soldier
that tried to do that died instantly.

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Somebody else put a hat
on His head.

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A few days later
he fell in the acid tank,

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at the Steaua Romana factory,
in Campina.

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The German soldiers had stables
here, in World War I.

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They put horses in the castle.

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But they didn't dare
touch the statue.

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As long as Jesus is here,
the castle won't fall.

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Another legend says that at night
you could hear Iulia's piano

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and also cheers and applause.

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In the morning, she was seen
exiting the castle in a white dress.

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The title of my book is "Sic Cogito".
That's the way I think.

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In the March 22nd seance,
the medium Sperantia

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wrote automatically,
in a catalectic state,

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a long communication
in which my daughter talks

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about my study of spiritism.

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Their tone must be imposing
and confident.

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A sort of "sic cogito".

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If you can believe it,
so much the better for you.

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If not, so much the worse.