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[Alexandr Korol]

The Moon? And when I begin to explore and understand what fire is, what the Spirit of fire is, I start arriving at the sixth element after the fifth — after fire — which is the Moon. And Big Alexander also hints at this and says that the Moon cools, fire is warmth, and the Moon is cold. I start to see that it’s like a magnet, positive and negative, like two poles, two opposing forces. I understand that the Sun influences the four elements I’ve come to know — morning, day, evening, night — and the Moon also influences morning, day, evening, night. There is the world of the Sun, which has four elements, and there is the world of the Moon, which also has four elements. I understand that I’ve discovered a total of six elements, six days — so what, then, is the seventh? What is actually above the Sun and the Moon? What stands behind them? Is that God, or is God even further beyond — and if so, then what is this third thing? These were my thoughts. And I remember that in many ancient alchemical illustrations, there were always two geometric shapes depicted on a plane: the triangle and the square. The square was always shown as representing, naturally, the four elements, and the triangle was also depicted as some kind of three elements, as three corners — and that it was something primary. And I understood that the formula is always the same everywhere, and one gives rise to the other. And that’s when Big Alexander hints to me that there is the world of humans, which I have come to know and, say, found these four gods, four spirits — and there is also another world, a divine one, where the same thing may exist. And there is something there, he begins to hint, something called the ether. And I say:

— But I already found it — that’s winter, that’s night.
— There is another kind of ether.
— Okay, alright, I’ll keep that in mind.

And he hints that it’s as if the same structure exists but on a different, higher level — that I have moved to the next level. So it turns out I found four elements, four forces, and now there’s something else, and I must find three more elements. I already searched for three before and found them — sky, earth, underworld. Then I found a fourth — the afterlife, meaning I understood morning, day, evening, night. But now, beyond that, there are again three, maybe even four. And I started to search for these next three, after the fourth: