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[Alexandr Korol]

And something might change — maybe water becomes, figuratively speaking, fire, and ether becomes air. You see? So that could be another twist to it. It’s very interesting. I’m still working on this, sketching it all out. And one more curious thing I’ve recently noted, something I can probably share... First, I recommend that you read all the Wikipedia articles about fire — how it was mentioned by Pythagoras, who the Salamander is (because that’s the Spirit of Fire), what the Spirit of Fire is, the Philosopher’s Stone, the Magnum Opus, because they all talk about the color red, about the five elements again, and about the substrate — so it all relates to the topic of fire. But aside from the topic of fire, what have I documented, what am I leading to now? I type the phrase “Sublunar world is...” into the search bar, and it says on Google: “located on Earth, earthly. ‘And I shall be glorified, as long as in the sublunar world there lives at least one poet’ (Pushkin).” Let’s open Wikipedia. What is it really?
“The sublunar sphere is one of the concepts from ancient Greek astronomy, described in the works of Aristotle. It refers to the region of the geocentric system of the world located below the Moon, consisting of the four elements — earth, water, air, and fire — and subject to constant change, in contrast to the immutable sphere of Aether, which extends from the Moon to the edge of the Universe and in which the planets and stars are located.”

A very interesting image is shown in the Wikipedia article on the “Sublunar Sphere.” There, again, we can see a rider — or rather, a person in a chariot with four horses. It’s very curious why the word “Septem” is written there — does that mean September? And why is it highlighted like that? Or does “September” mean something else? And then, what is further said in Wikipedia: “The concept of the sublunar sphere was originally formulated by Plato and Aristotle; their ideas were part of the paradigm of the geocentric system of the world. In the Middle Ages, Aristotelian ideas were developed by Avicenna. The medieval scholastic Thomas Aquinas noted the difference between the celestial and sublunar spheres in his work Summa Theologiae, and also mentioned that Cicero and Lucan were aware of the boundary between Nature and Heaven, the sublunar and aetheric spheres. This led to the medieval idea of what C. S. Lewis called ‘the Great Divide’... between aether and air, ‘Heaven’ and ‘Nature,’ the realm of gods (or angels) and the realm of demons, the realm of necessity and contingency,