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[Alexandr Korol]

were not opposed to the idea of divinization (...) In agreement with Eastern
Christians, but in contrast to Protestants, the Anabaptists understood grace
as a transformative divine energy.”

All the information I just referenced — about what wisdom is and its history —
came from me asking AI. I had never Googled it or asked an AI about it before;
I simply wasn’t interested in reading up on it. However, if I think back to
how it all began in 2010 — the year I describe in the first volume of my novel
“Alternative History” — I wrote about how I ended up in a church, how I began
visiting places of power, and how I started studying icons. I came across an
icon depicting the three sisters — Faith, Hope, and Love — and their mother,
Sophia. Later, naturally, I encountered other icons, likely called “Sophia,
the Wisdom of God,” which depict seven steps and seven pillars, with her
appearing as the eighth step or the eighth pillar, which is also interesting.
The steps are listed there, and I understood them as paths — the qualities
you must possess to know everything. And the Philosopher’s Stone — that
is philosophy again, Sophia. In other words, the Philosopher’s Stone is
essentially the stone of wisdom. I thought, “Unbelievable.” It’s as if there were
already signs that I was nearing some kind of finale. I expected that finale to
happen in the eighth volume, but as it turned out, I had to reach the world
of heaven in the ninth volume and learn the meaning of fortune and luck.
And still, you see, no one could have guessed that in the tenth volume, the
“polishing” and the battle with the beast would continue, and that all of it would
lead me toward wisdom. More precisely, I would grow wiser right in the middle
of the tenth volume, through those battles with the beast.

I really liked how the artificial intelligence showed examples of the
difference between a smart person and a wise person. In the example of a
situation where a loved one has hurt you, a smart person will prove they are
right and tear the other person apart — which is exactly what I used to do.
But a wise person will understand why they did it and choose what is more
important: being right or the relationship. Do you see? This is precisely what
I was learning during the battle with the beast at the end of this summer.
And here is another good example: if a person loses a lot of money,