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the imperishable and the perishable.” Once again we see this theme of the perishable versus the imperishable, right? Just like what’s mentioned in the topic of theosis, resurrection, and the Church in Christianity — there, too, we hear about the perishable and the imperishable. And here it is again. And so once again we find this division of worlds: that there is the world of air, and then a division from the world of aether — which is also air, but a different kind — which is also very curious. You see? Everything is being confirmed.

Next: “Copernicus’ development of the heliocentric model of the universe dealt a serious blow to the concept of the sublunar sphere. Observations by Tycho Brahe of a supernova and comets in the supposedly unchanging sphere of the aether ultimately undermined the Aristotelian views. Thomas Kuhn cites the collapse of the sublunar sphere concept as a vivid example of the emergence of new possibilities that arise during a shift in scientific paradigms. Dante, in The Divine Comedy, places the mountain of Purgatory above the sublunar sphere, which is why its slopes are not subject to natural changes.” But the idea that this is something not subject to change — some kind of realm — is a definite sign. It’s like the system is highlighting something for me, trying to make me understand that as if there is a world made up of these four elements, as if all these elements are changing, something is in motion, there is time, cycles — but then there is some kind of opposing world where everything seems frozen or timeless, perhaps. We’re going to get to that now.

I also type everywhere in Google, searching for “what is the sublunar world.” And it says — it’s the world of the dead. And then someone jokes and asks: “So the unrefined sunflower world is the world of the living?” Then it gets even more interesting. I start looking: if there’s a sublunar world, is there also a supralunar world? And here’s what Google says: “The ‘sublunar world’ is a realm of chaotic, irregular movements, where all bodies are made of the four lower elements: earth, water, air, and fire. The ‘supralunar world’ is a realm of eternal, uniform movements, and the stars themselves are made of a fifth, most perfect element — ether. Based on the fact that the boundary between the light and dark parts of the Moon’s disk is a curved line, Aristotle believed that the Moon is a sphere.” There you go — a sphere.