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[Alexandr Korol]

the cycles of time — they’ve always existed, in every era, in every civilization, mentioned in many places. And you can endlessly decode and interpret all of this — why not? And why? I can explain why. Well, look — love. Love. The question: what is love? Everyone has asked this question — a century ago, two centuries ago, people asked this same question. Everyone came to their own conclusions, each with their own perspective, and notice — every person had their own opinion, their own understanding of what love is. Some conveyed this understanding through songs, simply sharing their viewpoint on what love means to them. Others expressed it through films, plays, poetry and prose, or paintings. Some simply met another person and showed them what true love is — care, when you think more about them than about yourself. But again, as they say, “so many people, so many opinions.” Why can we talk endlessly about love? Not because it has no limits, but because the perspectives on love are so varied. From a philosophical perspective, from a divine perspective — see, already two different kinds of love. Platonic love — that’s another form. Maternal love — that’s yet another version of love. Look how many forms of love there are. And beyond that, people themselves are different. If we go back to something more basic, to the first volume, of course by now I know much more, but at the time I wrote the first volume, I’d say this: there’s the spiritual world and the material world, just as there are spiritual people and material people. For material people, love is when someone appeals to them physically, visually — when the person matches certain parameters: their parents are a certain way, their age, their appearance — all line up. Plus, they don’t argue, and on top of that, the person seems healthy, a good match for reproduction. So, mentally, this person is chosen from a consumer-like perspective, and because 95% of their checklist matches what they want in a partner, they feel something like love. Well, more precisely, it is love, but it’s that kind of love specific to material people. Understand? And then there are other people — creative, sensitive ones — who love completely differently. It’s like their head switches off. They don’t see whether the person is old or young, beautiful, overweight, or anything else — none of that matters to them. And yet they experience overwhelming love. And they don’t care about the person’s nationality, age, whether they’re good or bad — they just feel this crazy love. That kind of love also exists. And that’s just one-hundredth of all the versions — there are many more. And if we assume we