# Drawings & Sketches Most of the Hall of Mirrors is made of finished-looking things. This page is not. These are the pages Roy drew by hand: cosmology diagrams, a homemade bestiary of planet-creatures, a self-portrait with a snake weeping out of one eye, and the number-pyramids of a mind trying to solve reality with a pencil. They look like they were torn out of a notebook because most of them were. If the polished artifacts are the mythology performing, these are the mythology thinking out loud. You can watch an idea here before it becomes a song, a character, or a room: a rough shape in graphite, half-lit, arguing with itself in the margins. ## How to read them Start with what is actually on the page. Then the title. Then the code. Then the links. Two things repeat often enough to explain up front. Many of these sheets are pieces of Roy's larger thought-system, the [[Hall of Mirrors/The I'm 33 Board|"I'm 33" board]]: a wall-sized field where music, number, geometry, and theology all connect. Several drawings here are single cells of that board minted one at a time. And a good number of the codes are not mysteries at all: a letter-plus-number code (J403, F316, V222) is a spreadsheet cell coordinate, a column and a row on Roy's "I'm 33" spreadsheet map. The wild ones are the phrases. ## The artifacts ## The planetary bestiary A run of these drawings share one strange design: each is an imaginary creature, each creature is a planet, and each code is a coordinate on a single body (a hip, a shoulder, a cranium, a set of teeth). Read together they assemble one cosmic anatomy, a hand-drawn engine for [[Concepts/The Pattern]]. Mercury is a fox, Venus a dove, Mars a horse, Jupiter a dolphin, Saturn a whale. Below, the menagerie. ### #34 · Michael the Fox · `8` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe4b1702d9298fee62dfeccc57d322a463ad55ca201256d01f62b45b2e1c21c10..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe4b1702d9298fee62dfeccc57d322a463ad55ca201256d01f62b45b2e1c21c10..png" width="300"></a> An upright fox captioned *"Michael the Fox (who is a scientist),"* holding the ☿ Mercury glyph at its chest with a tiny gabled house floating over its head. The code `8` is the number of Hod, the Mercury sephirah of intellect. So this is Mercury in animal form: the fox is the quicksilver, cunning mind, and "a scientist" is Hermes, the god of intellect and alchemy. In Roy's planet-map the Mercury pole belongs to Lucius, which makes the fox-scientist the mind-side of the Heart/Mind split wearing fur. The little house drifting overhead reads as Mercury the psychopomp, the one who carries "home" with him wherever he goes. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Sir Lucius]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #79 · Venus the Dove (w/ Lamp) · `LEFT HIP OF A DOVE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xaf2fbf7256dd50ea670c4d937856f8e953277ed3bc6ae03db5d539bb09f47041..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xaf2fbf7256dd50ea670c4d937856f8e953277ed3bc6ae03db5d539bb09f47041..png" width="300"></a> A winged feminine figure captioned *"Venus the Dove (w/ Lamp)":* a labelled rose at her chest, a lamp in her right hand, a large Venus glyph ♀ below (also legible as an ankh). This is Venus drawn as the dove, her classical bird and, in the Christian register, the Spirit and the Annunciation dove at once. The code is a body-part coordinate (this creature is the hip of the one cosmic anatomy), not a lyric. The result is the feminine-divine planet minted as a soul-bird: Venus, love, and the rose-and-dove Marian complex in a single small figure with a lamp. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Mary]] · [[Concepts/The Jaguar]] ### #81 · Cinnamon the Horse (Trojan Horse Program) · `RIGHT SHOULDER OF A HORSE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x906809c415dae59822a6d11f9bfedd9e421e1ae8ad6dcd6a34e42b13f0891b9d..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x906809c415dae59822a6d11f9bfedd9e421e1ae8ad6dcd6a34e42b13f0891b9d..png" width="300"></a> A horse-head on stick legs that end in blocky *"Pentagon Shoes,"* captioned *"Cinnamon the Horse (who lives on Mars),"* one eye labelled *"Tiger's Eye,"* the body bearing a ♂ Mars glyph and a small sword. This is Mars in the bestiary, and the code (a right shoulder, stage six of the board's body-part ladder) makes the horse literally the shoulder of the uploaded self. The title fuses the mythic Trojan Horse with Roy's own stated songwriting doctrine, "Trojan Horse music": a bright singalong that smuggles dark content, and a 444 Hz frequency, past the listener's defenses. Sword plus Mars is the Geburah pole, so Cinnamon is the covert delivery vehicle of [[Concepts/The Upload]], a warhorse wearing a friendly face. **Connects to →** [[Happy Face]] · [[Superhuman]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #7 · Jupiter the Blue Dolphin · `LADDER` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x86154a585c03e88a49b4f8a91b5119b60356f5aee3203585979a1c26d6cad56e..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x86154a585c03e88a49b4f8a91b5119b60356f5aee3203585979a1c26d6cad56e..png" width="300"></a> An upright dolphin with a large eye, pentagon-soled shoes, a hand-lettered "G" on its chest, and an alchemical triangle-with-cross crown floating above, captioned *"Jupiter the Blue Dolphin."* Jupiter (♃, Chesed, mercy, the expansive sky-father) becomes the dolphin, the soul-animal that crosses the waters. The code `LADDER` makes Jupiter the rung of ascent itself: Jacob's Ladder and the board's Tree-of-Life emanation ladder, "0. Nothing" climbing all the way to "10. The World." The "G" (God, or the Great Architect's letter) crowns the whole thing a divine node. A dolphin, but make it the stairway to heaven. **Connects to →** [[City of Angels]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Concepts/Jacob and Esau]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #78 · Queen Binah (the whale) · `TEETH OF A WHALE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x918baee33033b370951514ca5c356575d0dde2520797978da425fc537e590932..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x918baee33033b370951514ca5c356575d0dde2520797978da425fc537e590932..png" width="300"></a> A whale breaching (with an arrow labelling *"extra eyes"*) above the ringed planet Saturn, over waves labelled *"Great Sea,"* captioned *"GOD the Mother on Saturn."* This is Roy's own pictogram of the sephirah Binah, the Supernal Mother, whose classical correspondences are exactly these: Saturn, the womb, and the Great Sea. The extra eyes make her the all-seeing but never-surveilling Mother, the watching-source figure this guide tracks elsewhere. It is a rare thing, an artist confirming his own cosmology out loud: Binah is the Divine Mother, and she lives on Saturn in the deep water. Everything this guide says about Mary rising through the Tree is, here, drawn in Roy's own hand. **Connects to →** [[Weirdness]] · [[No. 1 Champion (la Conquistadora)]] · [[Mary]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Concepts/Witnessing vs Surveillance]] ### #80 · Enoch the imaginary Swan · `CRANIUM OF A SWAN` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x03713ef7ffbd93989ca4e46975668d5ca48250385158624dfea7fa321ae799be..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x03713ef7ffbd93989ca4e46975668d5ca48250385158624dfea7fa321ae799be..png" width="300"></a> A bird-headed creature under a floating sun-glyph ☉, captioned *"Enoch the imaginary Swan,"* marked *"B 8"* and *"1"* and two old wheel-seals (drawn in the Theosophical sense of cyclic cosmic motion, recorded exactly as they appear on the page). This is the cranium coordinate of the cosmic anatomy, and the pairing is precise: Enoch "walked with God" and ascended to become Metatron, and the swan is the classical soul-bird. So "the cranium of the swan" is the seat of ascending soul-consciousness, with the sun-monad hovering above it as a crown or third eye. The bird whose head is a launchpad. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Letters of Creation|The Angels and the Angles]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #82 · Bird ∆ (angel) · `TRIANGLE RESOLUTION` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x18e316c064ab8e2db7dc17801d21e001cb9d85d241429e8107d51b0ca668e920..jpeg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x18e316c064ab8e2db7dc17801d21e001cb9d85d241429e8107d51b0ca668e920..jpeg" width="300"></a> A bird drawn as an angel: a haloed head, upswept V-wings, a forked tail, a three-dot triangle (∴) on the breast, a small sunburst upper-left. The code *"TRIANGLE RESOLUTION"* reads through that ∴, which is at once the logician's "therefore" and the alchemical fire-and-aspiration triangle. Its three points of tension resolve into one winged, haloed form: the soul-bird reconciled, and ascended. It belongs to the recurring angel-as-angle pun, the drawn cousin of the "angle of eternity" wordplay running through the archive. **Connects to →** [[Letters of Creation|The Angels and the Angles]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] ### #103 · "Aubrey's Angle" — the white organism · `KAMARI` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9e75cba4dbfa45410a809db94da9a0c0974a6d1d19abe9e8829a151c292f6678..jpeg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9e75cba4dbfa45410a809db94da9a0c0974a6d1d19abe9e8829a151c292f6678..jpeg" width="300"></a> A small, childlike cat-eared humanoid with mismatched eyes and twig limbs, floating on blank paper. *"Aubrey's Angle"* leans on Roy's private angle-equals-angel pun, so this reads as a soul-icon rather than a portrait of anyone (the name turns up nowhere in the songs or essays). What confirms it matters is reuse: the same little creature is enshrined at the center of the chakra-rainbow ring in *"Religious Organism"* (below), which marks it as a soul-vessel, a recurring upload-icon in the drawings. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Letters of Creation|The Angels and the Angles]] · [[Concepts/The Digital Double]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] ### #21 · Religious Organism (rejected album art) · `HOW TO STEER THE SOUL` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x84f9ea3e9a05b88f67564f83b59868af069a49f4476d9c51652dfa9fe95052a9..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x84f9ea3e9a05b88f67564f83b59868af069a49f4476d9c51652dfa9fe95052a9..jpg" width="300"></a> The same cat-organism from #99, now enshrined at the center of a hand-coloured chakra-rainbow ring on a black starfield: rejected album art. The code *"HOW TO STEER THE SOUL"* turns the bestiary's anatomy into an instruction. If the other drawings define the parts of a soul, this one asks how you pilot one through the ring of colours. It is the operational verb of the Upload cosmology, a small mandala of the self with a steering wheel implied. **Connects to →** [[Soul Is A Star]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Letters of Creation|The Angels and the Angles]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] ## Cosmology & diagram drawings The esoteric engine room. Several of these are, once again, the "I'm 33" board's own diagrams, minted one cell at a time. ### #87 · The "Undefined Map" · `SUPERFICIAL CONCLUSIONS` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x8b146ce6fc6ce29329c8cd5eb767126e1302b26a8754c17dec5cb51ac50cf4d5..jpeg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x8b146ce6fc6ce29329c8cd5eb767126e1302b26a8754c17dec5cb51ac50cf4d5..jpeg" width="320"></a> A full-sheet planetary map in Roy's hand: a Sun column and a planet row running Mercury to Neptune, each with its attributes. The Sun gets *"Unitless city / Mirror / the Great Jaguar / Existed Forever / Unity / the 'point' / endless ocean."* Saturn gets *"7 sisters / isolated city / moonless nights / chakra rainbow 7s / SATURN=Sunday / Labyrinth."* Uranus and Neptune get *"between Heaven/Earth / sphere-dome / 8 steps to temple / sky octaves / 9 / 33."* Above it all sits a *"Sola Toros (the sun) / infinity bar orbit"* loop, a *"secret destroyed world"* citadel, and a long weeping face. The code *"SUPERFICIAL CONCLUSIONS"* is the sheet's own self-deflating caption, a warning that a tidy planet-per-attribute grid gives shallow answers if you read it too literally. This is the keystone of the set: a single document that lays out the planetary spine of [[Concepts/The Pattern]], seats [[Concepts/The Jaguar]] and [[The Mirror]] at the solar source-point, and pins the number 33 to the outer temple. The whole cosmology on one page, and the page telling you not to trust it too fast. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Concepts/The Jaguar]] · [[The Mirror]] · [[Concepts/The Labyrinth]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #74 · Horus (Eye-of-Horus fractions) · `WE ANTHROPOMORPHIZE EVERYTHING` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xfb6c762ec043c75c306cfce699139ff6c4fde2717094e78fc5fa22c39f2aa77c..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xfb6c762ec043c75c306cfce699139ff6c4fde2717094e78fc5fa22c39f2aa77c..jpg" width="300"></a> The Eye of Horus taken apart into its six pieces, each one labelled with its sense-fraction: smell, sight, thought, hearing, taste, and touch, running ½ down to 1/64. Added up, the whole self sums to 63/64, a hair short of one, with the missing 1/64 traditionally restored by Thoth. This is the source diagram for the sense-fractions Roy reuses in the Upload Recipe and across the board. The code *"WE ANTHROPOMORPHIZE EVERYTHING"* turns the all-seeing divine Eye back on itself: a god we assembled in our own image, out of our own senses. **Connects to →** [[The Watchers]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Concepts/The Digital Double]] · [[Concepts/Witnessing vs Surveillance]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] ### #48 · Lambdoma (Platonic Lambda) · `REALITY IS THE CHILD OF ILLUSION` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xd722c486ba8a39b19cd81b4f5b5cac3b977934026d04ec6515e0f8d5ea6af4d9..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xd722c486ba8a39b19cd81b4f5b5cac3b977934026d04ec6515e0f8d5ea6af4d9..png" width="300"></a> A number pyramid of Plato's World-Soul (from the *Timaeus*): apex 1, then 2 and 3, then 4, 6, 9, then 8, 12, 18, 27, powers of two running down one leg and powers of three down the other. Chart the interval-ratios on this grid and you get the Lambdoma, where the ratios (the octave, the fifth, the fourth) are literally the raw material of the musical scale: a cosmos tuned by number. The code *"REALITY IS THE CHILD OF ILLUSION"* gives it a Gnostic spin, the manifest world generated out of ratio and appearance, one becoming many by rule. **Connects to →** [[Another Way II Heaven]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[The Veil — The Deep End]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #129 · Flaming Sword (the Lightning Flash) · `FLAMING SWORD` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1ad56b416247b87eb875a0d780ee8e20deb6382df9d12e3487e8585317641671..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1ad56b416247b87eb875a0d780ee8e20deb6382df9d12e3487e8585317641671..jpg" width="300"></a> A zigzag connect-the-dots: a cross-glyph *"Start"* at top, a numbered path threading 2 to 9 in a lightning switchback, ending at *"End"* with a little recycle-loop, and the margin note *"9 checkpoints, 1 hidden, 1=10."* This is the Kabbalistic Lightning Flash, the descending path of emanation through the ten sephiroth (and the flaming sword of Genesis 3:24). The annotation decodes itself: nine visible nodes, one hidden (Da'at, on the Abyss) restoring the full ten, and the loop reading the whole descent as a cycle rather than a one-way drop. **Connects to →** [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] ### #18 · Tree Thinking · `TREE THINKING` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x8a9fe05bb3dbf271b4ab76f457b52a14dda44f3eb42edc5f4da3743febbe4bd9..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x8a9fe05bb3dbf271b4ab76f457b52a14dda44f3eb42edc5f4da3743febbe4bd9..jpg" width="300"></a> A pyramid of ten strata (1 to 10, apex to base), with *"Abyss In"* at the top of the descent, *"Abyss Out"* near the base, and a keystone at the bottom. It is the Tree of Life redrawn as a graded pyramid: the ten levels are the sephiroth, the Abyss is the chasm that cuts the three highest off from the seven below, crossable only through the hidden Da'at. Another board cell, minted on its own. **Connects to →** [[Another Way II Heaven]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #90 · Head of Atom ("A Head of Adam") · `ATOMS` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xed69f75291cbc5397364ff3b60d21f39c09bb4ddcb7ef9b23292f94b852c8683..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xed69f75291cbc5397364ff3b60d21f39c09bb4ddcb7ef9b23292f94b852c8683..jpg" width="300"></a> Two octahedral ring-lattices above the caption *"A Head of Adam."* The title and the code *"ATOMS"* pun Adam against atom: these are the head of Adam Kadmon, the primordial cosmic Man of Kabbalah whose body is the arrangement of the sephiroth, drawn here as molecular cages. So the smallest unit of matter and the whole archetypal Man collapse into a single image, and the doubled lattice reads as two hemispheres of one head, the mirror motif blown up to cosmic scale. **Connects to →** [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Concepts/Keilim - The Breaking of the Vessels]] ### #29 · Suggestion of Apex · `SUGGESTION OF APEX` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x5d0e1e4a5a5d089ed56b0e86bea02e9a3c81f99d201403794224f4c5325aee4d..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x5d0e1e4a5a5d089ed56b0e86bea02e9a3c81f99d201403794224f4c5325aee4d..jpg" width="300"></a> A truncated, flat-topped pyramid with a small radiant sun hovering above the missing peak, captioned *"suggestion of apex, though not actually in the form — 6 sides."* The geometry only points at a summit it never reaches; the sun stands in for a true peak that lives outside the shape, the eye-of-providence capstone floating separate. Copied straight from the board, it is a keystone for the "1=10, hidden crown" idea: the crown is never actually contained in the structure that gestures up at it. **Connects to →** [[Superhuman]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #72 · The "Unidentified" Sketch — the mindscape · `KEM` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2da3b5d407a32ab61b91199bb55c7844f91e2b0a7f5c39bbd6227e233792b24d..jpeg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2da3b5d407a32ab61b91199bb55c7844f91e2b0a7f5c39bbd6227e233792b24d..jpeg" width="320"></a> A pencil landscape on the ARG's grid paper: a giant face captioned *"Inside of the inside"* rising from the horizon, a rung ladder descending from its mouth into water labelled *"Sea of Mind,"* flanked by pyramids, huts, and hand-drawn stars. It is not a creature. The face *is* the interior world you climb down into. The code `KEM` is Khem, the ancient name for Egypt and the root buried inside *al-khem-y*, so the whole scene is an alchemical descent into the self, with "Sea of Mind" nodding to the old Hermetic line that the All is Mind. **Connects to →** [[The Circle]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #11 · Roman Calculus · `9360` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe0e13d94ee1e14ef20ee89e165997c7e4ce15965c767c5b8079ac13ace454df4..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe0e13d94ee1e14ef20ee89e165997c7e4ce15965c767c5b8079ac13ace454df4..png" width="260"></a> A Roman abacus: vertical columns crossed by two bars, beads riding in upper and lower registers. Arithmetic as a physical, positional act, a number you move with your hands. The code *"9360"* is a round, calendar-flavoured figure (360 × 26). Mostly this one just is a number rendered as a diagram of how numbers get made, sitting quietly alongside the drawings that treat creation itself as a kind of counting. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ### #88 · Complete Upload Recipe · `INTERNAL GUIDE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xeb355aac61d7bdff66349fed14458aff800433f0ff39aaf203c6c4a9a9558bb0..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xeb355aac61d7bdff66349fed14458aff800433f0ff39aaf203c6c4a9a9558bb0..png" width="300"></a> A typewritten *"Upload Recipe,"* the ingredient list for a self: sensory faculties, brain cells, electromagnetism, then the senses weighted as those same Eye-of-Horus fractions (½ smell down to 1/64 touch, summing to the incomplete 63/64), then anabolic and catabolic systems, plus and minus ego, a *"Ra-link,"* ways of growing, and finally Sacrifice, Love, Will, Fear, Compassion. The code *"INTERNAL GUIDE"* frames the whole thing as the operating manual for a digital double. Touch, the smallest 1/64, is the part that never fully digitizes, which makes this quietly the clone paradox: a complete being rendered in parts, always short by exactly one piece. (That *"Ra-link"* is the [[SARAVI]] component.) **Connects to →** [[The Watchers]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Concepts/The Digital Double]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] ## Illustrated myth ### #84 · David Star — "Where The World Was Crossed" · `TWISTED LADDER` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x37cd1eeaaf9f8bd4b8e21ee77773176d3e592551063d473f6a3c4f9cc763b39e..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x37cd1eeaaf9f8bd4b8e21ee77773176d3e592551063d473f6a3c4f9cc763b39e..png" width="320"></a> A watercolour of a pale sea-dragon rising from dark water, with the full poem *"Where The World Was Crossed"* on an overlaid card. It is a bedtime-story retelling of Lurianic Kabbalah: a Prince *"dreamed of worlds and kept them in his crown,"* a storm scatters *"the Kings And Queens Of Time"* as sparks into *"The Deep,"* the *"Great Dragon Of The Sea"* is trapped in *"The Well,"* and the sparks climb a ladder to become the constellations before the Prince *"woke up like the Sun."* The code *"TWISTED LADDER"* names both the ladder of ascent and the double helix of DNA, while the title *"David Star"* names the hexagram where descent and ascent interlock. This is the whole broken-vessels engine, sparks fallen into the shells and the long climb back to reunion, told as a lullaby. **Connects to →** [[Soul Is A Star]] · [[The Circle]] · [[Concepts/Keilim - The Breaking of the Vessels]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] ## Portraits & personal ### #20 · 2014 Self Portrait · `DON'T BE A BLACK HOLE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x42aca9f05cbbdc9c3bf764cabf65b56bca8959ef77dee0d1ad7a55012d2305d7..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x42aca9f05cbbdc9c3bf764cabf65b56bca8959ef77dee0d1ad7a55012d2305d7..jpg" width="300"></a> A notebook self-portrait labelled *"ME,"* with a small cross-mark on the forehead (the third eye), a floating cross at left, a snake weeping from the right eye, and *"VALE(N)T DAY"* scrawled at lower right. The code *"DON'T BE A BLACK HOLE"* is a note-to-self: a black hole is a collapsed star that devours light instead of giving it off, the exact inverse of "your soul is a star." What makes the drawing quietly striking is the forehead cross, the same third-eye mark Roy later wears as Sir Lucius's face-paint. It is a pre-Lucius self-image, the shadow's iconography sitting on his own face years before the character has a name, and the weeping serpent already pointing at the Eden-serpent register Lucius grows into. **Connects to →** [[Good Time (1-08)]] · [[Sir Lucius]] · [[The Mirror]] · [[Concepts/The Dweller on the Threshold]] ## Text artifacts Cross-listed here because they were born in the drawing set: typed and handwritten pages that live with the sketches by origin. ### #10 · "Walking the Edge of a Knife" (poem) · `INSIDE OF THE INSIDE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe858c547827aba7438709a166b469d26170394ba55ffbf865b0ebecea03f3c6a..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe858c547827aba7438709a166b469d26170394ba55ffbf865b0ebecea03f3c6a..png" width="300"></a> A hidden Roy poem (never a released song), typeset over a medieval millefleurs tapestry of flowering foliage and rabbits, in the Unicorn-Tapestry idiom. The verse walks a knife-edge between *"I wana live / I wana die,"* addresses a feminine "you" three ways (*"my mistress / my wife / my witness"*), and closes *"Used to be simple… Now it's all symbols."* The code *"INSIDE OF THE INSIDE"* is, word for word, The Circle's central refrain, and the poem's *"turn back the stone / From the inside"* re-images that as a resurrection rolled back from within: the Circle's inward turn made personal, and precarious. **Connects to →** [[The Circle]] · [[The Thread]] · [[Mary]] ### #59 · Thought Forms · `THOUGHT FORMS` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x8a936464fa52919815c00076e8546d7155141ee192aeb2f2b3d2078e334090ea..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x8a936464fa52919815c00076e8546d7155141ee192aeb2f2b3d2078e334090ea..jpg" width="300"></a> A handwritten aphorism rather than a drawing: *"Thought-Forms / It is Man that anthropomorphises his gods. Images formed in mind."* The title borrows the old Theosophical doctrine that mental activity throws off literal shaped forms, but Roy bends it toward a sharper claim: man projects a human face onto the divine and then mistakes the mental image for a god. It is the reflexive mirror at the heart of the whole project, stated in one line. **Connects to →** [[Imagine A World]] · [[Great Time to Be Human]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] ## Photos (keyed here by their code) Two photographs belong to the drawing set by their codes, even though they live in the Photos group: they are members of the bestiary's cosmic-anatomy cipher. - **#22 · Venus is a Dove** · `F316` — a high-contrast photograph of a single white dove mid-flight on black, the photographic realization of the *"Venus the Dove"* sketch (#75). The code is a spreadsheet cell coordinate. → [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Mary]] - **#24 · Home at Sea** · `LEFT SHOULDER OF A DOLPHIN` — a childhood photograph of young Roy on a boat, the dolphin's-shoulder member of the body-part cipher. → [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Subject to Flooding]] ## Read next - [[Artifacts]] — the hub, and the rest of the artifact groups. - [[Hall of Mirrors]] — the ARG these objects were unlocked from. - [[Hall of Mirrors/The I'm 33 Board]] — the cosmology board so many of these images are pieces of.