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[Alexandr Korol]

Alexandr: And will it last long? How much more do I have to endure this — not endure, but go through it — or is there no set time and it depends on me?
Mystic-Old-Man: It’s not about “how long,” but about “how.”
Alexandr: So if I suddenly realize or figure something out today, then, in principle, I can already be free from it?
Mystic-Old-Man: Exactly. Exactly.
Alexandr: Then can you give me a key or a hint — what is the essence? To accept that evil also comes from God?
Mystic-Old-Man: The essence lies, strangely enough, in the symbol of the pine cone.
Alexandr: And how do I use it?
Mystic-Old-Man: Just contemplate the pine cone, that’s all.
Alexandr: Alright, and this trial that I’m going through right now — can it be happening in parallel, for example, with my close friends or readers?
Mystic-Old-Man: It can, it can.
Alexandr: And it turns out that when I manage to overcome it, when I achieve victory, then, accordingly, those around me as well?
Mystic-Old-Man: That’s possible.
Alexandr: Alright. I have another question. There are four worlds: the sky, the earth, the underworld, and the afterlife. There are also four elements: ether, water, earth, air. And my question is, I see that if I now take as a base example — just to make it easier for you too — morning, day, evening, night, then morning is like, let’s say, spiritual, and day is like its opposite, that is, material. And if we place a mirror next to that morning and day, as something opposite, then morning would be reflected as night, and day would be reflected as evening. Is that right?
Mystic-Old-Man: Well, symbolically you could imagine it that way.
Alexandr: Am I right in understanding that out of these four, it’s really just one element, but simply in different transformations? Or are there two? Or is it truly just one?
Mystic-Old-Man: Both.
Alexandr: Alright. And could it be that an element, let’s say water, if it’s, so to speak, flipped or reflected, then it will have different properties — those of its opposite symbol, for example?