About Chronovisor
He was a Benedictine priest, a linguist, a foremost world authority on archaic pre-Christian, pre polyphonic music. He was also the most famous exorcist in Venice, Italy as well as a quantum physicist. He was a world class scholar who did not view science and the metaphysical to be differentiated by a hard and fast line. Father Marcello Pelligrino Pelligrino Ernetti was born in 1925 outside of Rome and entered the Benedictine abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore Maggiore in Venice at the age of 16, remaining remaining there until his death at the age of 69. Ernetti first crossed the pale, conjoining hard science with the mysteries of the beyond in 1952. Ernetti was involved in deep research with Father Agostino Gemthe founder of the Catholic University of Milan and President of the Pontifical Academy, attempting to filter harmonics from Gregorian Gregorian chants. During the course of a recording project at the Laboratory of Physics at the Catholic University of Milan, Ernetti and one Father Gemelli
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(a Benedictine monk at the famous Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice) became the first people to record identifiable paranormal voices. The voice belonged to Gemelli’s deceased father. Astounded the men repeated their experiment, with the same results. The Fathers subsequently requested an interview with Pope Pious XII, to whom they told the whole story and presented their findings. The Pope seemed very pleased, and put the worried Fathers at ease by telling them ‘Tape recorders cannot be influenced’. He then declared that the results could mark ‘The beginning of a new scientific study that would confirm faith in the Beyond’. Ernetti dived into this new research, formulating theories to answer the questions: what happened to all the sights and sounds humans make? Did they disappear completely or do they continue to exist in some way? Through Papal connections and backing, he was introduced to a team of 12 of the world’s greatest scientific minds in order to further this research. A team which included Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938 and designer of the world’s first nuclear reactor, as well as Werner Von Braun, former SS Colonel, head of the Nazi rocket program and later the man who would lead the American Apollo space program. The research was conducted in complete secrecy, with no leaks or mentions made until the early 1960’s.
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In his little 12 by 12 foot monastic cell Father Pellegrino Ernetti greeted Father Francois Brune one afternoon in the early 1960's. Brune was a fellow expert on ancient languages and the men were involved in a conversation on scriptural interpretation. During the course of their brief conversation Ernetti made an offhand reference to “a machine which could easily answer all of these questions.” The secret research of the previous decade had yielded the Chronovisor, a type of time machine which would bring pictures and sounds from the past into the present. Looking a bit like a television, the machine worked by detecting all the sights and sounds that humanity had made that still floated through space. The Chronovisor was portrayed as a large cabinet with a normal cathode ray tube for viewing the received events and a series of buttons, levers, and other controls for selecting the time and the location to be viewed. It could also focus and track specific people. According to its inventor, it worked by receiving, decoding and reproducing the electromagnetic radiation left behind from past events, though it could also pick up sound waves. To Brune, Ernetti claimed to have witnessed a performance in Rome in 169 BC of the now-lost tragedy, Thyestes, by the father of Latin poetry, Quintus Ennius. He also claimed to have witnessed Christ dying on the 3
cross. "We saw everything. The agony in the garden, the betrayal of Judas, the trial - Calvary." Brune, already author of several books on paranormal phenomena and religion, used Enretti’s story to fuel his new cottage industry, publishing The Vatican’s New Mystery. The claims within were of course utterly dismissed by the Vatican. Enretti produced a copy of Thyestes which he claimed to have copied while viewing the performance, as well as a photograph of Christ’s face as he hung on the cross. Both of these pieces of “evidence” were as well, heavily controversial. During the last years of his life Enretti became quiet on the subject. Brune has suggested that Enretti came under heavy Vatican pressure to do so. A few months before his death, Enretti told of a meeting at the Vatican with the final members
of
the team to have worked on the Chronovisor.
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this meeting it was said that the one and only machine had been destroyed. In the wrong hands, Ernetti said, it could create the "most fearsome dictatorship the world has ever seen."
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Eno - Moebius – Roedelius/ Old Land Animal Collective/ I Think I Can Seven Storey Mountain/ Known To Lie Cat Power/ Nude As The News Yellow Swans/ Psychic Secession Métal Urbain/ Futurama Earthless & Witch/ Jull Baroness/ Swollen and Halo On his death bed in 1994 Enretti recanted, saying that he made it up. There are those however that don’t believe this to be the true story. Why would so distinguished a churchman have felt the need to confabulate such a tale? The Chronovisor, it has been suggested, still exists in Vatican hands, used for their own ends.
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