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[Alexandr Korol]

Question: You write that a holy person is someone who has reached such a level that their internal matrix allows the Spirit to enter and live within them. When you have the Spirit, you understand it. But when the Spirit comes into a holy person, how does that person feel it? Do they realize that it’s the Spirit, or do they not notice anything?

That the Spirit can enter someone — whether temporarily or not — such people have existed in different times and still do now, even though these are troubled times. But I still think it’s also connected to activity. Meaning, because my task is to explain all of this, to find the words — in other words, I’m doing a great deal of work, laboring to explain the unexplainable in human terms, in simple language for people, for everyone. And my task is to notice all of it. Not just say, “Well, it’s there and that’s it,” but to find an explanation for it. And people of other professions — for example, a musician — well, the Spirit enters him, and he writes music. But why would he need to think about how he’s writing it, about what the Spirit is or how a human being is structured? That’s not his job. He doesn’t have to think about it. At most, such a person might say in an interview that there was a moment — that one genius album that made him world-famous — he wrote it in a week, and he doesn’t even know how. That he just didn’t sleep for nights, and some force entered him, and he saw the whole album already finished, and all he had to do was take it and bring it to life. And so, let’s say, the musician describes that. And he says it was the muse, that it was inspiration. He chooses words, at least some associations that are close to what he experienced, and he calls it the muse and inspiration. That’s the maximum of what he became aware of. He doesn’t know that he was in the Spirit — he’ll call it a muse or say it was inspiration, or that his creative channel opened. And then he might lose it again, likely because of his lifestyle. Maybe he started living poorly, stopped going to church as often, stopped praying, or maybe he began eating harmful food, or simply developed a star complex — and that’s it, God, the Spirit, left him, and he can’t create another album like that. He still has his hands and feet, he writes music, but it’s all empty and dead. Why? Because everything in him shut off, closed. You see, his angle shifted, he moved into another world — not into creativity, but into the material, or even into the dark. And that’s it. And as for a priest, let’s say, an old man in a little church — it’s quite possible, and even likely, that he’d be too modest to make such a statement.