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[Alexandr Korol]

I’ll say this: I read about the World Soul yesterday in English, and there are many more interesting examples and facts there than in the Russian version of Wikipedia. So I’ll be referring later to the English Wikipedia article on the World Soul. For now, I can add this comment: as I understand it, this eighth point, the eighth day, and this whole concept of “eighth” — that’s precisely the point from which everything begins. So, essentially, there is the main God — the World Soul — and from it then unfolds the star, the Sun, and the Moon. And from there, all of this manifests into the four worlds, the four elements, through the four elements — and on it goes. My assumption is that the Sun, the Moon, and the Star — these three elements, the fifth, sixth, and seventh, which I am now coming to understand (or better said, am in the process of understanding) — if I unite them all, something singular will emerge. And this singular entity — that is precisely the point. This one element is composed of three: the Sun, the Moon, and the Star. And if it can exist as this singular one — that is God — then it can also be divided into three. One thing, you see, divides into three. And this is also an interesting point for mathematicians and scientists, since it’s commonly believed that one cannot be divided into three. But here, as you can see, one can be divided into three: the Sun, the Moon, and the Star. And so I need to unite the Sun, the Moon, and the Star into one — as if I’m returning to that source, to the eighth point, to where the main God is. But I still have a couple of things I’d like to clarify, either with the Mystic-Old- Man or with Big Alexander. I can share them now. First — I suddenly had this thought: what if the star, this seventh element — you know, there’s the Sun, the Moon, and then the Star — what if this Star is actually not Mercury? I mean, according to the Wikipedia articles and all the alchemical engravings, everything lines up. But when I came across a small mention somewhere that the Chinese considered this star to be the morning star, I remembered that the morning star is Lucifer. Maybe that is indeed what it is, but Lucifer is usually associated with a different star, a different planet — not Mercury, but, if I’m not mistaken, Venus is considered the morning star. And it’s just interesting that the same story is told about Venus — that it’s only visible at twilight, in the morning and evening — and the same is said about Mercury. Plus, that symbol, you know,