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[Alexandr Korol]

Volume 4

A first-person novel
Brief analysis

The fourth volume... You know what’s most interesting? I realized it would be the fourth volume not right away. Only about a month later, towards the end of June or early July, I started to understand that all the information gathered over the last month was no longer part of the third volume, but rather an entirely separate fourth volume. Everything before belonged to the third volume, which ended on June 10th. It felt as if I had been going through some kind of grinder or labyrinth, traveling every day or every three days through different multiverses, different worlds, which in turn refined me, sharpening my awareness of the distinction: what ultimately remained unchanged within me, where my sense of self existed as something unaltered, always constant, and what was fleeting, transient, happening when I was immersed in different simulations, that is, different multiverses. And so, the third volume was precisely about this journey through all these social and material worlds — the worlds in which people live. And within them, there are countless hierarchies, so many layers. It all culminates in the realization that all these smaller worlds I passed through are divided into three main, larger worlds, with further sublevels beneath them. I understand that I need to comprehend these three worlds and that, once I do, something new will be revealed to me — something beyond them. This raises the question of who the main God is, as if there are three realms: the sky, the earth, and the underworld, each governed by its respective deity — God of the Sky, God of the Earth, and God of the Underworld. But above them all, there seems to be a fourth God, something supreme, like a fourth dimension, something entirely different and beyond. I come to realize that if I truly grasp these three worlds and these three Gods, then I will become the fourth God. And so, the conclusion of the third volume and the beginning of the fourth is marked by my communication with the main God. He shows me images, I hear His voice, and He reveals to me that these three worlds exist and that I must understand them in order to become the supreme being. He shows me what I will become — as if there is no time, no space, as if I am a ghost, as if I feel nothing, as if I am here and everywhere at once, as if I exist in the mind of each person.