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[Alexandr Korol]

I started leafing through them all, picking at all this. Do you know what was
highlighted to me, from which I was in shock? When I was small, I often
went with the class, with the school on excursions around my city Petersburg,
because I had a separate lesson directly, the subject “History of St.
Petersburg”, because I am from Petersburg, a Petersburger, and there was
a separate such subject. I remember how they took us to the sphinxes
and told us that there is a riddle: who walks on four in the morning,
on two in the afternoon, and on three in the evening. Well, and then,
naturally, the teacher told us that this is a human. Well, and there some
children guessed, parents who accompanied this excursion. And no one
really knows where this riddle came from. There are, of course, all sorts
of rumors, someone asked someone somewhere, but the curious thing is
different. Pay attention, after all, this is the riddle of the sphinx, who guards
something. And the sphinx is just what? This is just these elements, that is,
this matrix, that is, these worlds: heaven, earth, underground kingdom and
kingdom of the dead, which are collected together, and here such a sphinx is
formed. And what I explained, that the sphinx is morning, day, evening, night.
So pay attention to how the riddle sounds. In the morning, do you understand?
In the morning walks on four, that is, a child. In the afternoon on two, that
is, a human. And in the evening on three. Well, and that’s it. And that’s
why we live in three worlds, right? Why is it always spoken about three?
Because further is already death. And how interesting, when it is described,
it is not said there that in the first two years someone walks on four, and
then from three years to eighty on two, and then after eighty on three.
The riddle does not sound like that. The riddle sounds precisely about
morning, day and evening. And this touched me so much, that how is it
all right in front of the nose. How it is generally all arranged by analogy of
one and the same thing, generally this whole world, generally everything.
And even the riddle, all people solved it — a human but they don’t
even see, why is time described like that, that as if we live one day.
As if the cycle, the matter is in the cycle, do you understand?