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[Alexandr Korol]

At the most basic level, to which I would add my own comment as a hint on how to look at all these Christian and Catholic icons... How should one view all this? In other words, from what perspective. You should immediately understand that all these images and illustrations carry hidden meanings — they are not just for beauty, everything has significance, and not a literal one but a sacred language. And the first thing I originally knew back in 2010 was that there are four creatures, four Cherubim, four Angels, and that corresponds to the four Gospels. And whenever I entered a temple, I would look up and see what was depicted under the dome. I always saw that on the four cardinal points there were four creatures: a winged man, an eagle, a bull, and a lion. These figures are often shown on the facades of various cathedrals and churches, and they are always holding books. For me, this was a symbol, a sign, a key — again pointing to that matrix. There is some hidden matrix of God that is everywhere and according to which everything is arranged, and it even appears here. I always wanted to understand what these four creatures were. How could it be? What does it mean? To me, it was clear — this is one of the squares, it is a square with these four ends, the four cardinal directions — that’s it, these are parts of the matrix, that’s how I perceived it. Then, naturally, when I was still young, the first thing that caught my attention — the thing I focused on — were halos. And overall, I searched for all icons where an eight-pointed star was depicted. I saw that this eight- pointed star was shown, and sometimes inside it there could be a dove, or I saw God sitting with such a halo. Later, I found icons where a saint could be depicted right against the background of some kind of matrix. But I didn’t pay as much attention to all the star-like details; what really grabbed me more was where the eight-pointed star itself or something similar to it appeared. And back then, when I was 20, I found the icon “The Burning Bush,” which I really liked, and also the icon of the “All-Seeing Eye.” In that one, I also saw that there was some kind of matrix, that it definitely included those same four animals, but I couldn’t figure it out, I didn’t understand how. But to me, it had a very, very hidden secret meaning that needed to be understood. I also saw a matrix in it, noticed again those two squares, one inverted, that there was a main God, but also a Son of God inside, and some eyes. And I tried to decipher all this as best as I could back then.