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[Alexandr Korol]

Conversation with the Mystic-Old-Man.

Alexandr: Hello. I have a question. May I show you a picture now?
Mystic-Old-Man: Yes, yes.
Alexandr: I have the picture in my mind. Does this picture represent or relate more to time or to space?
Mystic-Old-Man: To time.
Alexandr: Then I’ll ask a second question. I have another picture. Is this one about time or space?
Mystic-Old-Man: That’s not even a picture, it’s an expression. The expression of the beginning of time. Actually, not just time, but the beginning of times. Alexandr: Okay. Now I’ll show you one more scheme, a picture. What about this one? What is it? Is it the universe?
Mystic-Old-Man: That one is space.
Alexandr: That one is time, and this one is space. Okay, then another question. On the icon “The Last Judgment” there is the seated Son of God, and in the background there are four circles. Then higher in the hierarchy is God in white robes, with a star as a halo, and behind Him also four circles. But there is one circle with eight smaller circles inside it. And there is the largest circle, which has as many as twenty-four smaller circles. So my question is: what I just described — is that what it is?
Mystic-Old-Man: Not exactly. That is the splitting of the elements into components.
Alexandr: Okay. Around the main seated figure, there are eight small circles. Are these eight circles the eight cubes that I found around the ninth cube?
Mystic-Old-Man: Well, that is the splitting into elements. It’s a division into elements. There are four elements, then these elements themselves divide further into something else, and finally, the breakdown goes to elementary particles that make up everything. Something like that.
Alexandr: So, essentially, after the circle of eight small circles, there is a circle of two hundred and four — it’s the same thing, just a further, more detailed splitting?
Mystic-Old-Man: Yes, exactly right.