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[Alexandr Korol]

The underworld? Again, the same underworld, and a person ended up there — this is hell, from which I, in principle, began to analyze the worlds in detail in the fourth volume of “Alternative History,” I immediately jumped there. That is, I thought: “Well, the world of the sky — understood, the world of the earth — understood, but the world of the underworld — what is this?” And I began to analyze this. It turns out that I described hell. And then this middle, that is the world of the dead, and now paradise. Perhaps then I no longer need to return to hell. Perhaps here we begin to understand what hell and paradise are — on two sides, from two sides, and in the middle, it turns out, is this death. Perhaps then it is like this? Then it all seems good, curious, interesting, understandable. Perhaps so? I would like it to be so. Well, we will reflect on this topic more. Or rather, in this book I will reflect on this topic. And you, just as I, immersing yourselves in all this information, I hope, will come to some logical explanation, so that our mind is calmed. Well, it is curious.

Further. “As the scholar of religion Mircea Eliade emphasized, the Israelites connected the word ‘Eden’ with the word e’den — ‘delight.’ The geographical location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributary rivers and is correlated by researchers with various real places....” Further there are listed various highlands and so on. I will not even list them, because I do not want to feed the vanity of all the countries that try to claim this place and declare that it is with them. This, of course, is shameful to see, but still. Further: “Similar to the story of the Flood in the Book of Genesis, to the story of the creation of the world and to the tale of the Tower of Babel, the story of Eden resonates with the Mesopotamian myth of the king as the primeval man, placed in the divine garden to guard the tree of life. The Book of Genesis depicts Adam and Eve walking naked through the Garden of Eden thanks to their sinlessness.” This is also a very curious point, just as the Mystic-Old-Man once said, that people, many who enter paradise, which I once described in passing, when I was working on the fifth volume of “Alternative History,” exactly a year ago, if I am not mistaken, it was July or August, as it is now, and I then entered paradise, I said directly, “This is definitely paradise, everything is so kind, magical, happiness. And the people there are