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[Alexandr Korol]

but rather the Sun is both an upward and a downward triangle. So it’s like two worlds, two triangles pointing up and down — that’s the Sun. And another identical star, also an upward and downward triangle — that’s the Moon. And what do we get? We get two Merkabahs, two Cherubim, two stars. And when I begin to decode this further — what is under which world — I start to understand that under the Sun there are four worlds, meaning two triangles pointing up and two pointing down. From these, I can make two stars, two Merkabahs, two Cherubim, so there are two Cherubim under the Sun. Next, I take the Moon and realize that the Moon also has four triangles — two pointing upward and two downward. And this is actually depicted everywhere once you start to examine it closely. From these, I also formed two of those six-pointed stars in the plane — that is, a tetrahedron within a tetrahedron. So, it turns out that under the Sun there are four tetrahedrons, and under the Moon there are four tetrahedrons as well. That makes eight in total. And if you connect them all together, you get four stars, four Merkabahs, four Cherubim.
But then, when I even figured this out, I at least understood how many stars are needed, because I didn’t know if there should be more or fewer, since everything was so confusing in all those alchemical illustrations. Although after solving it, everything becomes clear — it’s just that everyone had different principles for encoding all this. And here I realized that these stars must all be combined together. So, since I got four stars, meaning, if you divide it like this, I got the Sun — two stars within each other — and I got the Moon — two stars within each other — and this is generally how it looked. And then I realize that when I connected them, I got some element number seven, some unique star. So I understood... What did the alchemists mean? I took the four elements under the Sun, and from them “cooked,” transformed, and made a sixteen-pointed star. Because the Sun is four tetrahedrons, each tetrahedron, each triangle, has four vertices: 4 + 4 = 8 + 4 = 12 + 4 = 16 — a sixteen-pointed star — this is the Sun. Then I find the opposite — the Moon. Because under the Moon there are also four elements, four tetrahedrons, like four elements or four classical elements, and I cross them all like this. And again, I get something like one six-pointed star in the plane, with the second one — if combined together, that is two tetrahedrons and two tetrahedrons, so four — it again forms a sixteen-pointed star. And when I combine the sixteen-pointed star of