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[Alexandr Korol]

“What about all the other people who have other religions? They are waiting for me too.” I didn’t understand that. How so? It just didn’t fit in my head. And at that time, I wasn’t ready to think about who I am and why I came. Mostly, I dedicated all my time and attention to deciphering and solving all these mysteries. And by unraveling all this, I somehow also began to understand myself a little more.

And so, in 2023, when I decided to continue deciphering all this hidden, secret knowledge, I began sitting every day from morning till night with a notebook and pen, reviewing all alchemical illustrations, all engravings, all biblical scenes depicted in books or icons, and started trying to decode this matrix. And that year, in 2023, I came across an article on Wikipedia about the concept called “tetramorph.” I hadn’t known what it was before; only in 2023 did I learn that there is such a thing as a tetramorph. “Tetramorph (from ancient Greek meaning “four-shaped” or “four-formed”) — in Judeo- Christian doctrine and theology, is a winged creature from the vision of the prophet Ezekiel (6th century BC) with four faces — a man, a lion (on the right side), a bull, and an eagle (on the left side). In the Revelation of John, the tetramorph is represented as four separate apocalyptic beings (Latin quattuor animalia, meaning “four living creatures”; called four living beings by Protestants) — guardians of the four corners of the Lord’s Throne and the four boundaries of Paradise.
The book “Zohar” names these four images above the “Mystical Chariot” (ancient Hebrew — “Merkava”) as four archetypes shaping the features of every human face. In Kabbalah, these beings are called “chayot ha-kodesh” (literally — “holy animals”).
Later, in Christian doctrine, these animals were interpreted as symbols of the four evangelists, and the term “tetramorph” began to be used in describing their iconography. The creatures became symbols of the evangelists and the form of their traditional (since the 7th century) symbolic representation:
• Matthew as an angel,
• Mark as a lion,
• Luke as a bull,
• John as an eagle.
• Each of them is winged and holds the Gospel.
• There is also an alternative interpretation and correlation of these images
with the evangelists among the Old Believers.”