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[Alexandr Korol]

– Why are you telling me this? Why are you telling me all this? I’m thinking, “This is some kind of strange nonsense.”
– Well, Alex, just promise that you’ll remember this in the future.
– Okay, no problem.

And then there was another moment when he said, “You are a stone and must become a diamond.” And again, of course — stone, diamond — what kind of images do I get right away? A stone is something kind of gray, unattractive, something natural that lies somewhere in the ground or on the surface of the earth. And a diamond — I immediately associate it with something faceted, polished, something jewelry-like. And in this case, I kind of understood what he meant — that I probably need to develop. Those were the associations I had. I don’t know why he told me that. Then I kept listening to him carefully. He told me:

– Remember this for the future. Okay, Alex?
– Yes, okay, I’ll remember.

And then the following moment happens. So, he told me that in the winter of 2009. And a year later, in 2010, when I was already deciphering the map of power places in Petersburg, and when I had already found many such places, we met near Anichkov Bridge. I showed him the map and said, “Look what I’m starting to see.” And there was a kind of bisector from the zero kilometer point, and also from New Holland. And through the zero kilometer, through the cathedral, a bisector went out. And then I was looking — on both the left and right side — what palaces or cathedrals appeared at equal distances. And he said to me... Well, it looked like a compass and a square, to which dots had been added. A kind of compass with one square, turning into the 32 Paths to God. There’s such a thing — the Tree of the 32 Paths to God, in Kabbalah. And that’s what I had ended up with. And he said I should lay it out in different directions, as if this was just one petal, and I had to turn it into a full flower. And that this matrix, which I had outlined across the city, I should draw on a sheet of paper and then unfold it like that. I did that. And he asked me: