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[Alexandr Korol]

And this is what I found and deciphered back in 2010, at the end of the year. I was 20 years old then. At that time, I drew everything only in the plane — I tried, of course, to imagine how it could be in volume, but I didn’t create any 3D model on a computer or physically. What I got was an eight-pointed star, like a square inside a square, drawn flat. Then I drew all possible lines and unfolded that square within a square, resulting in many rays and points, and I saw that many things were formed there: the Orthodox cross, the Catholic cross, a compass and square, basically everything. Then I supposed that the tip of this eight-pointed star, if you look at it as three rays pointing upward, is like the crown of kings. I thought, maybe that’s why they all wore crowns — they knew something. Wisdom. I understood, somehow, that one square is material, and the other is spiritual, and whoever has mastered both material and spiritual realms wears the crown. But later, as all this was happening, I made an association — well, I was young then — with the path of initiation into the Freemasons. At first, when I found the first places of power, it was more connected for me with Freemasonry. I searched for many old Masonic engravings and looked at what was depicted there. And I saw that there was somewhere a crooked stone, and somewhere a faceted one, also the Sun, the Moon, and that often the letter G appeared — geometry. And I thought, “Oh, geometry, exactly, since I’m drawing everything, maybe it’s somehow connected to this.” And they always use the compass and square. I realized that maybe the stone is the soul — that they polish the soul, and that Freemasons aren’t called “stonemasons” because they built cities from stone, but because it’s all sacred language. And I saw that there’s a path, like a ladder to the East, where they all go, that there are 32 degrees. And I thought I must become a new mason, a new geometer, because somehow I had childhood associations that maybe the masons who run everything had handed me the keys to paradise, that is, gave me this knowledge so that I would become the new geometer and build my own new masonry. These were my associations. Well, don’t judge me harshly — I was 20 years old. It sounds, of course, pompous, arrogant. But how else? Although back then I never thought that if I became like that, I’d buy myself a sports car. No, I always had sincere thoughts that I would make the world kinder, that people would become happy, that I myself would be happy,