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[Alexandr Korol]

What do I want to add next? Right now, I’m preparing my fourth volume of “Alternative History” for publication, and I’ve been working on illustrations. There’s one particular illustration that I believe should be included because all my stages, my steps – the volumes of the novel “Alternative History” from the first to the fifth – represent a journey, how a person evolves, develops, and understands all of this. Naturally, now that I’m working on the fifth volume, I can look back at the third or fourth and spot some silly mistakes. But, of course, I leave those mistakes as they are. It was very difficult for me to edit the fourth volume because I wanted to correct a lot of things, but I decided to leave them – because this is a path.
I need to show how, at step four, you see things one way, but by step five, you see them slightly differently. That’s why I concluded that these are not mistakes, but rather the journey itself – demonstrating how a person perceives something earlier and where they are ultimately heading, how their perception evolves over time. And this illustration, “Mind, heart, and dark,” is incorrect. Previously, in all volumes, especially in the fourth, I emphasized the existence of this sphere, the orb, which the main God holds, and how it is divided. We don’t know exactly how it is divided because we only see a side view. But if viewed from the side, we see halves – the upper part is split into two small halves, while the lower part remains a single whole. I used to explain that these segments, these halves, represent different worlds. Looking at the illustration, “mind” would be on the left, “heart” on the right, and the entire lower part would be “dark.” However, if I were to redraw and reinterpret this image correctly now, I would focus on the lines. The horizontal line dividing this disc, this circle – let’s call it that because we’re looking at a flat image rather than a sphere – is the firmament separating light from darkness on one side. And so, we get that the entire lower half is black, while the entire upper half is light – if we draw such a line. Now, let’s imagine that we’ve drawn this horizontal line, and we end up with a sphere divided into two parts: the top, a solid white cap, and the lower part, which is entirely dark. These are the two worlds separated by the firmament. This firmament is the Spirit of Earth, the material world, this very separation. It’s not just a small fragment, not a slice of this sphere or circle or disc, but rather this entire plate. Now, moving forward. We understand that above this plate, the dome-shaped sky is the realm of heaven.