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[Alexandr Korol]

What won’t let me rest — or, more precisely, what simply steals my attention, if we put it correctly — is the icon of “The Last Judgment.” I tried to find icons of “The Last Judgment” that one rarely comes across anywhere, ones that differed from one another in some way, but in which something in the plot was similar. And I begin trying to find the essence of this main plot — what the Last Judgment is. And the hidden plot in the icon of “The Last Judgment,” what they are trying to hint at, and one of the last things I have been working on — is the two words “created” and “uncreated.”

Once again, as a reminder: it turns out that, if we look at all the icons of “The Last Judgment,” then everything, everything, everything that we see up to the last level — the very topmost one — is the created world, and the very last level, the very topmost one, is the uncreated world. And the system keeps highlighting to me that I am either approaching this level right now, or have already reached it — that is, I am on the second-to-last level. This second-to-last level is called “Christ in Glory.” Quite possibly — purely theoretically — I am, after all, still only approaching this.