Alexandr Korol

When I made them, the sticks — the edges of the pentagrams — turned out to be the edges of cubes. Can you imagine? So it turned out that I have my central cube, and on it, the dodecahedron — my cube inside the dodecahedron. The dodecahedron is like a soccer ball, not exactly, but similar, to help visualize it. If you draw five-pointed stars on each face of this dodecahedron, it looks as if my cube is in slow motion, as if someone lifted it at different angles or rotated it clockwise along some radius — copying and rotating, copying and rotating — and everything appears frozen like that. It looks kind of like a “hedgehog.” That’s the shape I ended up with. And I realized this is somehow connected with time — that it’s still the same world, but seemingly in a different time dimension — that’s what the dodecahedron represents. I reflected on this in February and March. It surprised me greatly, and I took note of it. I didn’t understand how I would use it further or why it was given to me, but I understand that it exists, and that is a fact.
Then, taking a completely different path, as I continue to explore the worlds — there’s the sky, the earth, the underworld; then there is the world of the dead, which is winter, which is night. Then I find the next world — it is fire, that is, the Sun. Then I find the next world — the fire, the Sun — is the fifth; the sixth world is the Moon, which is an inverted triangle pointing downward. When these two are crossed, that forms the stellated octahedron, the Merkaba — the seventh element. I think, “How can this be, and what is it?” And the most interesting thing is that as I began studying all this — well, having deciphered all this coding on ancient alchemical images from the 15th–16th centuries — I even started noticing it on icons: the Sun and the Moon and all these divisions. And when I worked on the calendar, studying how the days of the week are formed, how the seasons form, how the Zodiac signs form, I would even say there aren’t 12 but 24 Zodiac signs, can you imagine? Well, that’s also a possible assumption. I saw that there is something common to everything, and something that repeats but may look different. I understand that we have the sky — which I previously called the octahedron, that is, the rhombus; we have the earth, which is the cube; we have the underworld, which is the icosahedron — a kind of ball made of triangles, almost a sphere; then there is the realm of the dead, the ether, which is the dodecahedron, like a soccer ball; the fifth element is the three-dimensional