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[Alexandr Korol]

follows it without realizing, but why does this rule exist? Where did they get the rule that the faces must be identical? But this is a sign, a clue. And I will say this — this clue greatly strengthened my faith in my assumptions that maybe I am the one coming here from the future, leading myself, guiding myself, and helping myself. And when I saw this icon — that was it, no more questions. “Alternative History” Volume One needs to be read multiple times. It is even constructed according to this formula—this multilayered and cyclical structure — so that each time you read it, the details become clearer, as if it were a spiral, like a thread being wound tighter and tighter. When a person reads “Alternative History” for the first time, of course — each individual, according to their level of development — focuses more on some moments and less on others. Some people, after their first reading of “Alternative History” Volume One, remember that there was a woman named Valentina who told me that I was a “golden child”, then took me to Tsarskoye Selo and said that I was home, and later told me that there was an old woman — the keeper of the “keys to paradise.” And at that time, did I even know what the “keys to paradise” were? This is exactly the difference in the development of some people compared to others — when, for you, the meaning of the word “paradise” is one thing, it defines one reality for you. But when the meaning of the word “paradise” shifts in your understanding and awareness, then your entire world and you yourself change completely. And imagine — my realization of what paradise is, I only come to it in the fourth or fifth volume, or rather, I would say in the fifth. Now, as I analyze and immerse myself, being the main character, wandering through this story, leading you by the hand, and as you go through this virtual quest, I can now reference that endpoint where I currently stand and compare it, align it with the beginning of the journey. And imagine — only in the fifth volume, when I talk about the afterlife, about the otherworld, about what happens after death, about how some end up in hell and others in paradise, and when I explain what hell and paradise actually are — only then do the words spoken in the first volume, which previously held no meaning, begin to make sense. And the same is happening in your minds now. Yes, in the first volume, there was an old woman who spoke about the “keys to paradise”. And there was a conversation with Big Alexander, whom Valentina introduced me to. And even though it doesn’t seem to have any meaning or significance when one first reads the first volume, there must