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[Alexandr Korol]

Seriously, that’s what brings me the most — what is truly valuable to me. It’s about igniting an even greater flame inside me, this boundless faith — this feeling that you can embrace this world. People think it is impossible to embrace, but it can be embraced. And this voice, this force... Everything has changed so much over this time that I wouldn’t even call it a voice anymore. I just continue using this expression so it makes more sense to people, to humanity. But this voice — it’s already me, in a way. It’s no longer somewhere out there, but here, within me. And so, it turns out, I ask myself, and I answer myself — it’s happening like that. And I give myself a birthday gift—why have I never combined my Karelian stone, the one that doesn’t exist anywhere else in nature, the one without a name, the one I found myself — why have I never paired it with gold? And what if I set this stone in gold? Would I feel some insane surge of power, a new level, a new rank that I have now grown into? Imagine that! Naturally, I realize that I must immediately tell the craftsmen to make it — I need to feel it, to know what it is. Then I think, “But why wait? I can simply put gold — gold chains — into a bag and drop my stone in there, I already have it.” So I put it in, and instantly —”whooosh.” And now, as you listen to this whole story, you feel it — whoever feels it, they know. That pendant is on me right now. And what are the odds that just yesterday, this pendant arrived — right before started writing the sixth volume? The pendant’s design — a replica of an original ancient Egyptian amulet. And now, my Karelian stone is set in gold. What is this? Coincidence? Not coincidence? Does it mean something? Or is it simply another part of the book’s story? Yes. Another part of the book’s story. Imagine — the Golden Age, Ancient Egypt, gold, everything that is happening to me now in the fifth volume. Here I am, wearing the golden pendant. And I begin to realize and understand that I am stepping into this, that it is no coincidence that there were times when certain figures wore gold. I have always felt, you know, how some people put on a suit, but it just doesn’t suit them, like they borrowed it from someone older and bigger — it doesn’t fit. And then there are those who wear a suit as if they were born in it. The same goes for silver and gold. It’s as if the system itself can punish a person if they are not ready for gold but wear it anyway. Later, I even studied various ancient texts and found confirmation of this — that among people, it is considered something almost from the devil, like a curse, that wearing gold could attract demons. But there is also another