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[Alexandr Korol]

so when you read now, that’s what will light up for you, the future that awaits you. Everyone will see their own. And it turns out that those who are already burning somewhere in a parallel universe — from meteor strikes or nuclear explosions — they read and see that the Bible, in the Revelation of John, spoke of it. And other people suddenly see there a new Kingdom, a New Jerusalem, a whole new future, beautiful, where everything is fine. And these people, who are experiencing that now, read it and see that it is written in the Bible. And that’s all they see, and that’s what happens to them — and everything’s fine. It’s the same in the novel “Alternative History.” I describe all the options, and everyone sees what’s theirs, as they say. Some will be in a future with flying saucers, and some will be in a future with nuclear explosions. And some won’t even live to see it. There are people who don’t believe in any of it, who think it won’t happen. And that’s right — they simply won’t live to see any of it. That’s why they don’t believe in this or that. That’s it — everyone has a different future. Yes, I simply compared and assumed that maybe I am that Lamb who opens all these seals. And sometimes I check, just to see what stage I’m currently at. Right now, I feel like I’m at the stage where I’ve opened the first four seals, and now I’m somewhere around the fifth seal. But again, this could all be happening in parallel, simultaneously. Maybe I’ve already opened the fifth seal, but the first four are definitely opened. Why do I think that? Because I had a moment of shock and revelation when I finished the fifth volume of “Alternative History,” and in that fifth volume I understood the four elements, the four forces. Only it turned out that they are morning, day, evening, night — if you pack them like that — or spring, summer, winter, autumn. And if you look at them as elements, it’s air, water, earth, and ether — not fire, but ether. Fire is the fifth element. The fourth is ether. And it was so interesting that as I was understanding these elements, I was also comprehending heaven, then earth, then the underworld. These are the three elements, the three worlds: heaven, earth, underworld. The underworld is the third element, it’s autumn, which corresponds to evening. And night — that is, winter — is death, the afterlife, the fourth element. And the afterlife, death — is ether, not fire. That’s how it is. And when I suddenly saw that, I remembered that in the Revelation of John the Theologian, when the four horsemen ride out, the third horseman is exactly the underworld, and the fourth one is death. And I was like, “wow.” But again, those horsemen are