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[Alexandr Korol]

the crescent — it looks like horns, you see? Maybe it’s all of them at once — Mercury, Venus, Lucifer — but that’s something I want to clarify. And more than that, I want to clarify: in addition to these three elements — the Sun, the Moon, and the Star — is there a fourth hidden element, the main God, the one hiding behind these three? One that, perhaps more accurately, is made up of these three — or not. That’s what I’m currently working on and trying to unravel.

Here is the article from English Wikipedia “Anima mundi”. “In ancient philosophy, Plato’s dialogue “Timaeus” presents the universe as a living being endowed with a soul and reason, created by the Demiurge according to a rational model expressed through mathematical principles. Plato describes the world soul as a mixture of sameness and difference, forming a single harmonious essence that permeates the cosmos. This soul animates the universe, providing its rational structure and functioning in accordance with the divine design, with the movements of the seven classical planets reflecting a deep connection between mathematics and reality in Platonic thought. Stoicism and Gnosticism are two significant philosophical systems that developed this concept further. Stoicism, founded by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BCE, asserted that the universe is a single living being permeated by a divine rational principle known as the Logos, which orders and animates the cosmos, acting as its soul. Gnosticism, which arose in the first centuries of our era, often associates the world soul with Sophia, embodying divine wisdom and descent into the material world. Gnostics believed that esoteric knowledge could transcend the material world and lead to reunification with the Divine.
Neoplatonism and Hermeticism also incorporated the concept of the world soul into their cosmologies. Neoplatonism, which flourished in the 3rd century CE thanks to philosophers such as Plotinus and Proclus, proposed a hierarchical structure of being, where the World Soul serves as a mediator between the intelligible and material worlds, animating and organizing the cosmos. Hermeticism, based on texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, regards the world soul as the vital force that unites the cosmos. Hermetic texts describe the universe as a living being filled with divine spirit, emphasizing the unity and interconnectedness of all that exists. Union with the world soul is seen as a path to spiritual