History does not repeat — but patterns do. The student of time learns to recognise the shape of events before they finish unfolding. Every empire believed it was eternal.
History is not about the dead — it is about the living patterns that keep returning. Kala-Vidya teaches the seeker to read civilisation as a continuous experiment: what worked, what collapsed, and what is happening again right now.
Every empire that fell believed it was special. Every generation that was exploited was told "this is how it's always been." History is the antidote to manipulation. The person who knows what happened cannot be easily told what to believe.