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[Alexandr Korol]

the Moon is another, and when combined, they form this star made of two three-dimensional triangles — and this is the seventh element. But it’s not quite so simple. Well, because not all alchemists — and not only alchemists, since I found similar paths and codes in many other writings and illustrations — were aiming just to arrive at such a star, which in flat form looks like a six-pointed star; that is, on all alchemical images it appears as a hexagram, two triangles, six points, often called the Star of David or by other names. But in volume, it is actually an eight-pointed star, not flat, but three-dimensional, because one tetrahedron has four vertices and the other has four — eight in total. This is generally called the Merkabah; it’s also called the stellated octahedron, sometimes the Star of Hermes, it can be called Mercury’s star or Venus’s star, anything really. But I understand that something’s not right. It’s all too simple, so why would they have created so many images? And why do they list so many different processes? The processes may be there to confuse? Well, it’s not really about confusing... So, what was the point? Alchemists showed that all these scattered elements they depicted differently, with various processes — and there were quite a few elements involved — were actually... They showed four elements, some five elements, some others differently. And I was still confused and didn’t understand why they show so many stars, like there shouldn’t be just one star — the one I found as the seventh — but as if there should be many: four, five, or six. And next to them, the Sun and the Moon are also depicted, and I didn’t understand whether to include the Sun and the Moon or not, or how at all? I was confused, didn’t get it. So I began to figure it out. And I realized that all these processes described are explained only to show which triangles point downwards and which point upwards. In reality, it’s all about these elements, it’s all about tetrahedrons. But the most interesting hidden meaning, which not everyone can notice or understand — and thanks to which I solved all this — is that in the world of the Sun there are triangles pointing both upwards and downwards, and in the world of the Moon there are also triangles pointing both upwards and downwards. Before, I didn’t think this way because I was misled by the idea that on one side is the Sun and on the other side the Moon. I started crossing all these triangles, but the numbers never quite matched up. And then everything matched up when I realized that the Sun actually has both an upward and a downward triangle — that is, the Sun is not just one triangle,