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[Alexandr Korol]

at it throughout all the volumes of “Alternative History.” For now, I’m just probing from every angle, without yet grasping any clear essence or specifics.

Question: When you decipher the matrix, you change, you transform. Could you please explain what exactly happens during the process of deciphering? Do the puzzle pieces assemble themselves, or does some inner nature recognize this geometric figure, or how does it work?

Well... it’s very unusual, it happens in parallel — as you work on the matrix, you’re not consciously thinking that this cube corner or those crossings inside or on the sides of the cube have appeared somewhere in your social or material life. No, that’s not how it is. When you’re deciphering the matrix, your thinking is entirely within the realm of geometry. You see the construction of the cube, you see its faces, you understand that it has six faces, that if you place it down, there are four aligned with the cardinal directions, one it stands on, and one above it. When you make crossings on all the cube’s sides, new points are born from those crossings. You begin to weigh and compare and understand — you have to truly grasp that if a cube’s edge is, say, five centimeters, then when you draw a line from one corner to another on any face of the cube, that line — also technically an “edge” — is longer than the edge of the cube. And you must be fully aware of this when doing these constructions. So, you first draw the diagonals from corner to corner on each face of the cube, understanding that there are six sides. From these diagonals, points are born, from which you draw more diagonals — other lines or sticks inside the cube — from which a rhombus begins to form inside the cube, and this shape is called an octahedron. You begin to study how it forms, why, how it fits into the cube. Then you start realizing that from all those crossings inside and along the cube’s sides, two tetrahedrons are forming — two three-dimensional triangles inscribed into each other within the cube. They form the cube and inside it the octahedron — you begin to grasp this. For some, the words octahedron and tetrahedron might sound complex, and a person reading my book might just want to skip that part and move on to something more exciting or fantastical, with words that are more pleasing to the ear. But in reality, you shouldn’t be lazy — you should Google it. Read the Wikipedia entries on what a tetrahedron is, what an octahedron is, learn that