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[Alexandr Korol]

Question: One of the themes you explore in “Alternative History” is time. And in the second volume you write, “the end of time is the beginning of the appearance of God, who then created the world and began to rule it. God becomes God because He comprehended time and created the time machine.” Could you explain what the end of time and the comprehension of time mean?

Well, let’s put it this way. Now and then — that’s different time. And at that moment during the second volume, when I was working on it in October and November 2023, I was simply reasoning like this: I saw time, and I understood that one cannot be God if one does not know time, if one does not see it. You must be as if above it and outside of it. I just felt it and expressed it somehow. Again, because my second volume of “Alternative History” is like seeds I scattered, which later need to grow so I can reveal everything. And that’s how I felt it back then. And then I further assumed that God, why He is God, is because, in addition to knowing all of time and seeing it and being able to be outside of it, He must also create it. Because the creation of time is the creation of the world. Because everything we see, this matrix, is time — it’s the laid-out elements of different stages of time. And I simply felt that. Later I worked on the third volume, the fourth volume, the fifth volume of “Alternative History,” and it turns out there was already... There was the god Chronos — Chronos, as in chronology, time — which is curious. And also, what’s most interesting is that when I was learning about Spirits, there are three earthly Spirits: sky, earth, and the underworld — human ones, let’s say. And then there’s another one from beyond — the Spirit of Death, whose symbol is the hourglass, and clocks in general. That’s why they say you must never give a clock as a birthday gift. Well, again, that’s just what people say, to associate clocks with death, but it doesn’t mean that if you give someone a clock, something will actually happen — no. Many people, on the contrary, think that giving a watch is a good gift. And when I was working on all of this, it was confirmed once again that when God created the world, the first thing He created was time. He creates this time. How can I explain it to you? Well, yeah, it’s not like He took and made the first hour, second hour, third hour. No, of course not like that. But the point is that the structuring — that’s the same as time, the same formula, the same model. Recently I watched an episode of “Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman” —