# The Pattern > [!gist] The Pattern is present on all levels > As above, so below: the same formula from a solar system down to the atom. > > Most of the framework words in this guide are ours, coined to describe the work. The Pattern is not one of them. It is Roy's, written in his own hand on a sprawling personal spreadsheet, in the cell about Hermetic correspondence, and the line reads, flatly, *"The Pattern is present on all levels."* The idea it names is old, simple to say, and bottomless to actually hold: there is one structure, and it recurs at every scale. If that holds, then myth, film, music, biology, and number stop being separate subjects and become the same sentence written in different alphabets, three languages, thirty, to describe one thing. And you are in the correspondence too: the self is one more instance of it. > > The guardrail comes pre-installed, in the author's voice. In the same breath as building the whole correspondence cosmology, Roy shrugs it off: *"I would map a crow onto Mercury, but that's just personal. I don't recommend you do it."* So the rule for this page, and honestly the safest rule for the whole guide: **license the lens, not a master key.** Roy holding the Pattern is grounded; any given song *encoding* it is a separate claim that has to be earned song by song. What the Pattern does across the work is quieter than explaining every lyric. It explains why the world coheres. **Where it enters** * The board: a personal spreadsheet titled **"I'm 33 this year,"** where Roy writes, beside the naming line, *"As above, so below… The formula is the same from a solar system down to the atom."* The whole idea in one cell, and the fact that the cosmology keeps getting interrupted by a kangaroo in a hoodie is half the charm and half the evidence. * [[Another Way II Heaven]]: the board's creation poem *is* this released song, the same myth composed twice. *"I spoke the words 'One become Two'… A Sun was born inside… one day We'll get back together and see The Great Design."* * [[Down to You]] (official video, 2021): the **"AS ABOVE SO BELOW"** title card, public years before anyone saw the board. The Hermetic thread is load-bearing, not retrofitted. That is the surface, and it stands on its own. The drawers go one reading deeper at a time. --- > [!map]- A cosmology with a kangaroo in it > The primary source is a single document, and it is worth being concrete about what it is. It is a personal spreadsheet, titled "I'm 33 this year," with a tab titled, deadpan, "How to upload myself to the internet": a cosmology, a film syllabus, a numerology workbook, and a self-upload feasibility study, all in one sheet. Roy purposefully put it in public view, which is why this guide can read it at all. > > And because it is a person's actual spreadsheet, not a finished treatise, the cosmic apparatus keeps cracking into comedy: the kangaroo in a hoodie pasted into the cosmology images with no explanation; koan one-liners filed beside the rose-cross (*"Maybe a planet is one star's way of becoming another star"*; *"I love peeing and I love trees"*); and a straight-faced derivation of *the greatest song ever written* that works through "what is music?" and lands, deadpan, on **Happy Birthday.** The board is a cosmology *and* a sketchbook, and it never decides which. The feed keeps the register going: *"the pattern is the pattern"* (@JagwarTwin, 2023). The full guided tour lives at [[The I'm 33 Board]]. > [!lore]- One rule, seven clauses > The most board-grounded stream is Hermeticism. "As above, so below" descends from the Emerald Tablet, and the Kybalion's seven principles (Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause-and-Effect, Gender) are transcribed on the board *in full*, with the Mentalism premise compressed into one cell: *"All the world is mind. Mind woven into matter."* The Pattern is the worked home of Principle #2, Correspondence; the whole seven-principle frame is held at [[Hermeticism - As Above So Below]]. > > But the construction is openly syncretic. The board braids Hermeticism with Kabbalah, Jung, Alice Bailey, Walter Russell, and Plato, and on his 2025 feed Roy names the lineage out loud, with **Neville Goddard** as the lead influence and his mother as the first channel (*"He who plants a seed believes in God"*). Because those traditions share a perennialist root, the project's other concepts naturally rhyme with the Pattern: [[Source vs Reflection]] echoes correspondence, [[Duality]] echoes polarity, [[The Loop and the Circle]] echoes the cycle. The honest read is that the rhyme is a property of the shared root, not, by itself, proof that Roy deliberately cross-encoded one page into another. The full roster, tradition by tradition, lives in the Deep End. > [!reading]- One become Two > The clearest song-side anchor is [[Another Way II Heaven]] (*33*, 2022). The board's typed creation poem and the released song are the same myth composed twice, once as text and once as a recording, which grounds the creation-myth-as-self-portrait reading as Roy's own framing rather than a reader's projection: *"I spoke the words 'One become Two'… A Darkness and a Light… when we crashed and came together, A Sun was born inside… one day We'll get back together and see The Great Design."* > > Read against the board's polarity material, "One become Two" reads as the [[Sir Lucius|Roy/Lucius]] split written as cosmology; in Lurianic Kabbalah's terms it reads as the breaking of the vessels, with the reunion as the regathering. Both are strong readings, not statements. And one guardrail travels with them: read *down* onto the actual Roy and Lucius, the poem promises no merger. Correspondence rhymes the poles; it does not dissolve one into the other. The polarity is held in right relation, not one side swallowing the other. > [!mask]- The decoder ring is the counterfeit > Every good lens has a counterfeit, and the Pattern's is the master key. Finding a place to apply a concept you already know, across a career's worth of songs, is not hard; you can make everything either meaningful or derivative, and the choosing is yours, which means the mapping proves less than it feels like it proves. Roy supplies the warning himself (the crow and Mercury), and the board supplies the test case: a typed list titled **"The Pattern Represented in Movies,"** 22 films. The list is real and it is Roy's own concept-index, but it does not confirm this guide's concepts; it shows Roy curated a film-set indexing his *own* Pattern. It is not a decoder. > > So before any "this song encodes the Pattern" claim earns its place, it has to pass a short gauntlet: Is the feature distinctive, or could it fit anything? Does it recur where it would matter? Is there source evidence for it? Are there counterexamples? Does the reading predict anything the reader did not already choose? And one more, for the guide's own hygiene: never let one interpretive page become the evidence for another. Go back to the songs. It is the same trap flagged at [[The Labors of Hercules]]: a real frame Roy engages that turns into a snare the moment you start back-fitting it. > [!map]- A thread five years long > The axiom has a public timeline, and it runs the length of the project. The "AS ABOVE SO BELOW" title card in [[Down to You]] (2021) put it on screen years before the board surfaced, sitting beside a concept-of-self manifesto (*"To change the world one must first change the concept of the world… of one's self"*) that reads near-verbatim Neville Goddard, a named-influence lead still being checked against a Goddard primary. The board era (2022) writes the frame out longhand. And several of the board's "Tracks" titles later surface as [[Hall of Mirrors]] unlock-codes, Roy-confirmed for at least two: **Marduk** (*"Marduk. You've got to pay Attention"*) and **CAKE** (Let Them Eat Cake). The ARG uses the board as its answer-quarry. > > There is also a practical wing, the place the frame turns from cosmology into instruction: the board's plan to "live forever" by entering something that outlasts you. That material has its own home at [[The Upload]], because it is a distinct move. The Pattern keeps the law; The Upload keeps the application. > [!question]- Left open on purpose > **The central one: does the Pattern *generate* the catalogue, or is it Roy's after-the-fact map of it?** Both would produce the same evidence. Per-song mapping needs per-song anchors, never back-fit, and the honest version of this page also names where the principles *don't* illuminate, not only where they do. **Were the board's "Tracks" ever recorded?** Several titles are realized as Hall of Mirrors codes, so the medium may be the maze rather than an album; do not treat the list as a music release without audio. **And the standing brake:** recurrence alone does not prove deliberate intent. Patterns can emerge collaboratively, unconsciously, through inherited style, or through the audience's own choosing, and a reading that fails somewhere should be recorded, not buried. Certainty is a tone, not a truth. > [!descend] The Deep End > The heavy machinery behind this page, the full influence roster, the board's parallel ten-stage ladders, the 22-film syllabus worked film by film, the "How to Live Forever (IDK)" worksheet, the gematria and the biographical seam, lives in [[The Pattern — The Deep End]]. Dense and speculative by design. The page you are on stands without it. > [!receipts]- Sources and confidence > Grounded: "The Pattern" is written verbatim on the "I'm 33 this year" board, in the Hermetic-correspondence cell, alongside the as-above-so-below line, the seven Kybalion principles transcribed in full, the 22-film list, the creation poem, and the "Tracks" list. The board is a document Roy purposefully exposed publicly. The crow-and-Mercury disclaimer and "the pattern is the pattern" are public posts on the feed. The "AS ABOVE SO BELOW" sigil is the Down to You (2021) title card. [[Another Way II Heaven]] is the released song that *is* the board poem, the single most grounded song-to-Pattern link. The Hall of Mirrors codes are Roy-confirmed for Marduk and CAKE. > > Strong readings, labeled where they stand: "One become Two" as the Roy/Lucius split written as cosmology; the board's ladders as one schema in many alphabets; the strongest film-fits as a cluster. > > Framework, attributed to its traditions and mostly held in the Deep End: the Hermetic, Kabbalistic, Theosophical, and Neoplatonic streams; the Goddard attribution stays a lead to verify. > > The usual brake: Roy holding the frame is grounded; everything built on top is one way of seeing it, not the answer. > [!feed]- Read next > [[The I'm 33 Board]] · [[Hermeticism - As Above So Below]] · [[Another Way II Heaven]] · [[The Upload]] · [[Source vs Reflection]] · [[The Labors of Hercules]]