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[Alexandr Korol]

the voice began to guide me on how to decipher it. It all started when I sat down in the corner of the room, and I was shown that I was sitting in the eighth corner, with seven corners before me — seven lamps. I recalled that these seven lamps often appeared somewhere in engravings dedicated to the Revelation of John the Theologian, the “Apocalypse,” where different engravings illustrated its descriptions. Suddenly, I began to understand why there is the menorah, that candelabrum with seven lamps. And seven lamps are mentioned in the Revelation of John the Theologian: seven churches, seven lamps, seven spirits of God. And I realized, wow, this is it. Suddenly, I find this figure eight. I understand that it is a cube, that is, the throne — and He is sitting in the eighth corner, with seven corners before Him, seven lamps, and He is the eighth. I start looking at all these illustrations, engravings, and I really see that He has a head, meaning seven lamps, and the eighth head glows, as if it is fire, and the animals are sitting there. These animals again, right? Cherubim or beasts, they are called differently: a man, an eagle, an ox, a lion. I began searching for these cherubim, decoding the text, started making various crosses on the cube, and realized that these crosses, these Xs on the faces of the cube, and also inside the cube, begin to form something. And then it turns out that inside I have a rhombus, an octahedron inside the cube. And thanks to it, two tetrahedrons, that is, two triangles, are essentially formed. I find two triangles in my cube, one inside the other. And in Ezekiel’s sacred scripture, it also said that next to these animals there were wheels. I began making these wheels. How did I start? I counted that the face of an animal is a triangle, a tetrahedron. I started making wheels around these tetrahedrons. I also found the hooves described there, because on the cube, when rays go out from each corner along different sides, it’s like hooves — if you divide the cube by some cross-sections, then this angle of 90 degrees, if divided in half, looks like hooves. And so I started decoding all of this like a child, naively, not taking it literally but more as a sacred language, seeing this depth. And when I succeeded, the Spirit’s voice told me to open all these illustrations, icons, and see what I might notice or discover. But then the Spirit hinted that I needed to look at my cube not flat, but from the right angle. And I started looking at it as if tilted, like looking at a hexagon. I look at the cube, see the triangle, the tetrahedron inside, and find a whole bunch of icons