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[Alexandr Korol]

The eleventh is the underworld. The twelfth is again the world of spirits, of death. And this fourth dimension, you see, it is always there. That’s how this whole matrix is arranged. And for this reason, no one can solve this matrix, because when they try to draw it anywhere, and generally when it has been used anywhere, this fourth element is never used when all the worlds are connected together.
So, for example, if I show only one Universe, I can depict four worlds — four elements: sky, earth, underworld, and the world of the dead. But if somewhere, say, in a 15th-century French engraving, I want to depict an alchemical image and include a calendar, and there I must show not one universe but many, and in each universe there are these four worlds, then the fourth world cannot be duplicated, so it is absent. When they show the first universe as 1, 2, 3 — that is, sky, earth, underworld — then the second universe as 4, 5, 6, then the same again, and so on, and that’s how we get the 12 zodiac signs. And everyone’s question is: why twelve? Because they show you groups of four by threes. And you ask, “Why groups of three? Where is the fourth element?” It’s in the center; it’s always the same — that “corridor.” That’s how it all turns out. So the structure, again, is one: 1, 2, 3 and 4 — the “corridor” — then again 1, 2, 3 and 4 — the “corridor.” So the structure is one, but the cover — that is, the meaning or the title — can be different for everyone. The essence remains the same, but the cover is different, the names can differ: someone might depict it as a rooster, a hen, and an omelet. And it turns out, the rooster is spiritual — that is, the sky; the hen is material — that is, the earth; and the omelet is the underworld — that’s how someone might depict it. And the point is that according to this structure... Again, you might get confused and say, “How can the Sky relate to this, and the underworld to that?” Let me give you an example. We have a similar interesting structure: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Now, if you try to fit this into the group of sky, earth, and underworld, you might say, “Wait, where is the underworld here? Who is it?” Again, in the previous matrix of three, the underworld was present, but in this matrix, it might have a different meaning — though there are still three elements. In Buddhism, they depict three animals biting each other’s tails, calling it the trap in which people live — samsara — from which they cannot escape. But see, in Christianity, we have Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and no one calls it a trap. But is it there? It is. Curious? Curious.