# The "I'm 33" Board > *This page is the artifact tour. For the audited concept key to the same board, see [[Concepts/The I'm 33 Board|The I'm 33 Board (concept key)]].* Somewhere in Roy English's Google Drive lives a spreadsheet called **"I'm 33 this year."** Open it, and the working tab is titled — with no punchline — *"How to upload myself to the internet."* You expect a to-do list. You get a **wall.** Hundreds of cells: gematria tables, hand-drawn angels, the Kybalion copied out by hand, a telescope photo of the sun, a museum placard, completed-Lambda diagrams descended from Plato's *Timaeus*, brain scans, a mushroom cloud, and — for reasons that eventually make sense — a kangaroo in a hoodie. A man has sat down to reverse-engineer his own soul in Google Sheets so that, in theory, he can back it up to the cloud. It should be the world's most elaborate cry for help. Instead it's a **cosmology** — a single, obsessively cross-referenced theory of everything, claiming one Pattern that runs *"from a solar system down to the atom,"* welded together out of the Kybalion, [[Alice Bailey]], Walter Russell, Kabbalah, [[Carl Jung|Jung]] and Plato, and then quietly wired into every song he's put out since. This is the source code. **33**, **Lucius Lullaby**, and the entire **[[Hall of Mirrors]]** are downstream of this board. When a lyric turns out to have three hidden meanings, this is usually where the other two were being kept. > **A neat trick:** a good chunk of the **[[Hall of Mirrors]]** artifacts are *this board's own diagrams, minted one at a time* — the Eye of Horus, the Platonic Lambda, the Lightning Flash, "[[Artifacts - Gallery 1 (1-37)#18 · Tree Thinking|Tree Thinking]]." Part of the maze is just Roy framing his own homework. See [[Artifacts - Drawings and Sketches]]. <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x44f08985c82bb57ba15243d9a872ac96d582fdeb21a0117da5797749e7c73f2b..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x44f08985c82bb57ba15243d9a872ac96d582fdeb21a0117da5797749e7c73f2b..jpg" width="240"></a> Here's that trick in its purest form: not a diagram, not a doctrine, just a **single spreadsheet cell** (column B, row 1034) lifted straight off the wall, given a frame, and sent into the maze as a collectible. Half the maze's cipher-looking "codes" (B1034, R1045, J763) are really just *coordinates:* the address of a cell on this very grid. The board's filing system and the mint's naming system turn out to be one and the same. The rest of the coordinate-cells sit in [[Artifacts - Ciphers and Code-Series]]. It's too much for one sitting, so it's hung on **four walls.** Tap a card to drop straight into that wall's breakdown, or scroll down and open the sections one at a time. | Wall | Cover | Inside | · | |---|---|---|---| | **[[#The Upload\|The Upload]]** | [](https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x349112c5088983866c49517cac2f743ff1248d45b5c6f5d62fce0591f8917b16..jpg) | Can you copy a person to the internet, and what happens when the copy doesn't like you back? | [[#The Upload\|Open →]] | | **[[#The Ascent Ladder\|The Ascent Ladder]]** | [](https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x8a9fe05bb3dbf271b4ab76f457b52a14dda44f3eb42edc5f4da3743febbe4bd9..jpg) | One ten-rung staircase from your feet to your halo, drawn six separate ways. | [[#The Ascent Ladder\|Open →]] | | **[[#The Source Code\|The Source Code]]** | [](https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xd722c486ba8a39b19cd81b4f5b5cac3b977934026d04ec6515e0f8d5ea6af4d9..png) | The borrowed traditions, the sacred geometry, and a four-line poem that is secretly the plot. | [[#The Source Code\|Open →]] | | **[[#The Field\|The Field]]** | [](https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe9df1ddcba96373600cec1759f8c3c2a8c9cb15300a50ff8ed3744cf623b3f59..jpg) | The cosmology in pictures, plus the mortal running it: a movie list, aphorisms, and a priest named Roy. | [[#The Field\|Open →]] | Say what you like about the ambition. Nobody builds a spreadsheet this big about a soul they don't take seriously. --- ## The Upload <details><summary>Open the full breakdown: the upload, the egg, and the album that never came out</summary> Everything else on the board is in service of this one tab: *"How to upload myself to the internet."* Roy made an actual **pros-and-cons list** about copying his consciousness to the cloud, and it is somehow the most human thing on the entire wall. **Pros:** *it's cool · live forever · someone who understands me · potentially revolutionary · lets me make more music.* **Cons:** *probably hard · many unknowns · robot-takeover movies · could overshadow the music* — and then, at the bottom, the one that gives the whole game away: ***"What if I don't like myself?"*** There it is: the entire **[[Sir Lucius]]** problem, stated as an engineering risk. Years before there's a shadow-character in eyeliner, there's a man quietly worried that if he ever met a perfect copy of himself, the two of them might not get along. And *"someone who understands me / someone to talk to"*? That's **[[SARAVI]]** in embryo — the upload reimagined not as immortality tech but as *company.* ### So how do you actually live forever? The board answers its own question in a sticky-note voice: *tell the truth · do what matters · create something that outlives you · **put music on chain** · IDK.* "Put music on chain" isn't a throwaway — it's the operational blueprint for the **[[Hall of Mirrors]]**: mint the songs, and the vessel stops being mortal. (The "IDK" left sitting underneath it may be the most honest word on the board.) #### Previous Face <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x349112c5088983866c49517cac2f743ff1248d45b5c6f5d62fce0591f8917b16..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x349112c5088983866c49517cac2f743ff1248d45b5c6f5d62fce0591f8917b16..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> If the tab asks *"how to upload myself to the internet,"* this artifact is the finished sentence: ***I am the internet.*** The face here is labeled *previous,* the mask of who you used to be, left running after the person has moved on. That's the upload's quiet horror, the one the pros-and-cons list keeps circling: the copy doesn't die when you do, it just keeps *being you* at the speed of the feed. It's [[Concepts/The Digital Double]] with the serial numbers filed off, and it's the seed of [[Sir Lucius]]: the perfectly preserved previous face that learned to talk back. More in [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. ### "I'm an egg" > *"I'm an egg, in the process of becoming a chicken to make more eggs to make more chickens."* If you read one cell on this whole board, make it that one. The upload isn't an escape hatch — it's a **vessel that has to break in order to hatch.** The self poured from body into network is the egg cracking into the bird. It rhymes with the Golden Egg in the maze, with *"Happy Easter from the egg,"* and with Roy's *"I'm just a vessel for God."* File under [[Concepts/The House and the Vessel]] — fate: hatch. #### The Flood Artifacts <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1a28d145a6627c02c9fe073c4015c32a22002eafe0c2c4cdda9d7346e47811fd..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1a28d145a6627c02c9fe073c4015c32a22002eafe0c2c4cdda9d7346e47811fd..jpg" width="300" controls preload="none"></video> <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x839a4cadb57caf31e3ee441c0ea823eadc40d41a29c58c4401fd3c009fe7210b..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x839a4cadb57caf31e3ee441c0ea823eadc40d41a29c58c4401fd3c009fe7210b..jpg" width="300" controls preload="none"></video> The maze files these two clips as **Flood Artifacts**. The first preserves a friend’s voice memo and bears the Japanese title *霊的な愛*, **spiritual love**. The second belongs to *Good Day*, where coordinated music helps sunshine feel like assurance. Both return material from the 2018 [[Subject to Flooding]] campaign. Their placement beside the egg makes hatching and dissolution available as a comparison, not proof that the flood, the upload and the egg are one event. Both live in [[Artifacts - Ciphers and Code-Series]]. ### The economics of a soul The board runs a tiny **[[Alice Bailey]]** accounting department, where everything turns out to be the same substance — *"Life Force"* — just wearing different outfits: - **The Sun** — *"externalized Life Force,"* which threads straight into the [[SOL]] / RA material (Sol = Sun = Song Of Love). - **Money** — *"Life Force on the physical plane… intelligence on the mental,"* transmuted "by appropriate alchemy." Which is a genuinely elegant way to reframe the entire music-industry grind as spiritual chemistry rather than rent. - **Intelligence Evolution** — *"beyond a certain point of pressure, unbalance explodes itself like an atom bomb."* Translation, delivered years later in a single 2026 post: *"contain your chaos or it will kill you."* ### The album that never came out There's a tracklist on the board that isn't *33.* It reads like a Hermetic fall-and-return: > xWebx · The Fall into Matter · **Marduk** · **Let Them Eat Cake** · Sun of God · Dissolution · As Above So Below · Genesis · The All Is Mind · **O** Descend into matter, dissolve, remember, come home to zero. And some of these titles didn't stay unreleased so much as *relocate.* **Marduk** is the attention-god you've already met if you've heard **[[Pay Attention (feat. little luna)]]** (the board's Marduk answer also drew Roy's Discord reply, *"Marduk. You've got to pay Attention."*). **Let Them Eat Cake** grew up into **[[I Like to Party]]** (*"Devil's Food is a cake… sell 'em the cake"*). And *Sun of God* is the [[SOL]] pun in a toga. #### Marduk <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xdfdd1b81a97b04e4b0b7459d0dd40810e63e090957a2e57219ac23ce0f28d919..mp4" poster="https://plumcreekranch.com/jagwar/artifacts/4.png" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> The phantom tracklist's third rung, minted as its own artifact. In the Babylonian creation story, **Marduk** defeats **Tiamat**, the primordial salt sea, and makes an ordered world from her body. That myth makes Marduk a useful comparison for containment beside [[Subject to Flooding]] and the later warning to *"contain your chaos"*. The connection to **[[Pay Attention (feat. little luna)]]** is firmer but narrower: Roy answered the Marduk code in Discord, *"Marduk. You've got to pay Attention."* Together these repetitions establish a Marduk/attention relation and make flood-containment available as a reading; they do not prove that Marduk is the album's master key or that attention, flood and myth are one mechanism. Full entry in [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. #### O <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x538115b37f8d235538a6c63b12248a39c79a813ad927a7d2a7e7595457de89a9..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x538115b37f8d235538a6c63b12248a39c79a813ad927a7d2a7e7595457de89a9..jpg" width="300"></a> And here's where the phantom album lands: **O.** A single letter, and a Hall room shares it: room 32, *O*, whose whole picture is one handwritten line, *"the value of Nothing."* Like *Tree Thinking* below, that line is a strip cut from the larger *GNOTHI SEAUTON* study page, and in the strip above it, which became *Suggestion of Apex*, the line was painted out, so each line became a room of its own. Look at the image: there is no ring and no egg, only letters. The title can still be heard as a zero or a circle, and set beside the *"I'm an egg"* cell above it invites a hatching picture, but that picture comes from the egg cell and from this guide, not from anything drawn here, and a shared title does not make the track and the room the same work. Catalogued in [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. ### Soul Is A Star, misspelled on purpose The full **[[Soul Is A Star]]** lyric is laid out here in colored cells — except Roy writes *"I met a Man who had a **Sun**… my **Sun** was a singer,"* where the record clearly says *"Son."* It's not a typo. On a board where *"the Sun = manifesting energy"* and one of the phantom tracks is literally *"Sun of God,"* the father-to-son handoff is also a **sun**-transmission. The song keeps the "Son." The board tells you what the Son is made of. #### I Am Christmas <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1253b97f8166ce69a25958b7cac2eaf706deb8f0bf520ff9fa6a2b975f8d0cf3..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1253b97f8166ce69a25958b7cac2eaf706deb8f0bf520ff9fa6a2b975f8d0cf3..jpg" width="300"></a> Keep pulling the Sun/Son thread and it arrives, inevitably, at **Christmas:** the birth of the Son that is also the rebirth of the **Sun** (the feast sits on the winter solstice, the night the light turns back). *"I am Christmas"* is Roy claiming the nativity in the first person: *I am the light being born.* But set it beside the upload and it flips into something sharper. Christmas is the **Word made flesh;** the upload is **flesh made Word,** the body poured back into information. The board is running the incarnation in both directions at once, and *"a Sun was born inside"* is the hinge it turns on. See [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. --- **Where this leads:** [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Concepts/The Digital Double]] · [[Concepts/The Empty Mirror]] · [[SARAVI]] · [[Sir Lucius]] — and the board's own [[#The Source Code]], where *"unbalance explodes like an atom bomb"* hardens into an actual doctrine. </details> ## The Ascent Ladder <details><summary>Open the full breakdown: the ten-rung ladder, drawn six different ways</summary> Here's how you know Roy is serious about something: he draws it **six times.** The backbone of the whole board is a single **ten-rung ladder** — a climb from the body to the crown — and he encodes it as a musical scale, a color spectrum, a list of virtues and vices, a map of body parts, a column of Japanese soul-words, *and* a hopscotch court. Same staircase, six costumes. It's the **Tree of Life** ascent (Malkhut at your feet, Keter over your head) as rendered by an obsessive with a fresh box of pens. #### Roy's Ladder <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4ccf3a893bc85a47b0f0f7fa643c87f2ff794f6afdccb15763373f3e76291373..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4ccf3a893bc85a47b0f0f7fa643c87f2ff794f6afdccb15763373f3e76291373..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> And then there is the practical one. **[[Artifacts - Gallery 4 (113-149)#132 · ROY'S LADDER|Roy's Ladder]]** is a silent turntable render of an open, worn household platform stepladder, kept with the patch of ground under its feet. The correction remains firm: this room is the ladder, while the gold board image is Climacus and a separate image is Blake's *Jacob's Ladder, or Jacob's Dream*. `C33` has two records: **YES** in the Hall Cell Tracksheet, which selects the room, and concealed **Jacob's Ladder 33** at the same coordinate on this board. The title changes *Jacob's* to *Roy's* without settling identity or separation. As the paint-marked front rotates to a grey, incomplete reverse and returns, a recognizable tool reveals the limits of its digital reconstruction. The appearance of support survives without a usable model or completed climb; ordinary scanning limitations remain an explanation. *Both ways* is still the trick, though, and the board says so in its own hand: the climb up is also a descent into matter, which is why the same ten rungs read as *"The Fall into Matter"* on the phantom album and as an ascent here. Same ladder, depending which way you're facing. Full entry in [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. ### One dial, three read-outs Three ten-stage columns run side by side: an *"AI musical scale for consciousness evolution"* climbing **F → B**, a matching **color** ladder (purple at the bottom, working up), and a **virtue/vice** sequence that reads like astrology with a report card attached. Tone, color, character — three needles on the same gauge. It's the same [[Alice Bailey]] machinery humming under [[Concepts/The Labors of Hercules]]. ### Your body is the staircase The **"Body Part Stages"** cell maps the ten rungs straight onto anatomy: **feet → guts → arms → Heart (rung 5, dead center) → throat → head → crown (10).** The Heart sits at the middle of the human the way the sun sits at the middle of the board — and the throat, the *utterance gate,* comes right after it. This is also, quietly, the decoder ring for the Hall of Mirrors' stranger codes: *"teeth of a whale," "left hip of a dove."* And the decoding is sharper than it first looked. The animals count **down** from the source — swan 1, owl 2, whale 3, on to rabbit 10 at the World — while the body counts **up** from the ground, feet 1 to crown 10. They are the same ten stations addressed from opposite ends, which is why every one of those strange phrases has two numbers that add to eleven: whale 3 with the head at 8, dove 7 with the left hip at 4, horse 5 with the right shoulder at 6. *"Left hip of a dove"* is not a surreal collage of two things. It is one place, named from above and from below at once — a coordinate, with its own checksum built in. ### The 0–10 count, and the one line that matters A second version of the ladder is written as emanations: *0. Nothing IS, Nothing Becomes, Nothing is Not · 1. I AM · 2. I speak the word · 3. I hear the word ·* a ruled line labelled *Abyss (knowledge is relation)* *· 4. Father + Mother concealed in generation · 5. Whirling energy of Nature · **6. The mirror of the Sun and the Heart** · 7. Bearing · 8. wavering, flowing · 9. Stability · 10. The world.* The wording is not Roy's: the list is a handwritten, selective copy of the opening chapter of Aleister Crowley's *The Book of Lies* (1913). What the board does with it is the authored part: it numbers the lines 0 to 10, drops every "GOD", turns Crowley's *utter* into *speak*, keeps only *knowledge is relation* from Crowley's Abyss passage, and sets that under a ruled line between 3 and 4. Rung six — ***"the mirror of the Sun and the Heart"*** — is Crowley's phrase, trimmed, and keeping it at the centre is the board's choice: it reads as the entire [[Concepts/Heart and Mind]] doctrine in one line, the Sun and the heart reflected as one thing. And the top rung, **"10. The world,"** rhymes with a song title, **[[Imagine A World]]**, a thematic echo rather than a lock (the line itself is Crowley's). #### The Truth Is a Sphere <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1b7d38676a6aaf1756b914985f67f995806a719e38f4e6f81a9b598b1eaf2b91..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1b7d38676a6aaf1756b914985f67f995806a719e38f4e6f81a9b598b1eaf2b91..jpg" width="300"></a> The same ladder redrawn as **concentric spheres:** an *"enlightened being"* mapped not as a climb but as nested shells, self within self within self. It's the ten stations turned inside-out: the linear staircase and the onion of selves are one emanation seen from the side versus from above. *"The truth is a sphere"* because from the center every rung is equidistant: there is no *"higher,"* only *further in.* That's the geometry under *"just stay at the center of the circle"* (the aphorism over on [[#The Field|the Field]]), and the reason [[The Circle]] and this ladder turn out to be the same doctrine wearing different diagrams. See [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. ### The staircase as a bedtime story Because six encodings apparently still wasn't enough, the board also draws the climb as a **hopscotch court** (*"How to Live Forever?"* — Earth at 1, Heaven at 9, a tiny haloed figure at the top) and as a **Hero's Journey wheel** with all the Campbell stops: *Ordinary World, Rabbit Hole, [[Symbols/The Fool|The Fool]], Guardian at the Gate, Belly of the Whale…* Those are the board's labels, and the [[Sir Rabbit]] dream behind **[[Good Time (1-08)]]** does not use them. What the dream shares is a sequence of actions: a text tells him his ride is there, Drake gives advice and hands him the wheel, and a clown-faced rabbit in the passenger seat offers help whose correct answers unsettle his heart. The board names stations; the dream acts out a call, a guide and a test. This guide reads them as two maps of the same kind of journey, not one vocabulary. #### The City of Pyramids and the Gate of the World <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1c511dc41bb38f13ee2bbaf0a7d9e8489a9a1c301c1d3bfe4d7961b4ffce9612..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1c511dc41bb38f13ee2bbaf0a7d9e8489a9a1c301c1d3bfe4d7961b4ffce9612..jpg" width="230"></a> <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xfa41edd355824bd4b4468112028214f508fc6e0cda6e6e2e113727ba1936151d..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xfa41edd355824bd4b4468112028214f508fc6e0cda6e6e2e113727ba1936151d..jpg" width="230" controls preload="none"></video> *"Guardian at the Gate"* isn't only a Campbell beat. The board's threshold-images include these two, and a third sits on the guardian's own row. **The City of the Pyramids** has a real Thelemic/Crowley framework behind its title: a realm beyond the Abyss where the aspirant surrenders separate name and mastery and becomes dust. That tradition is a counter-reading to easy survival, since it does not promise that the same form returns carrying its experience, and no direct receipt yet proves Roy's route to the title, though the same sheet's ladder is copied from Crowley's *The Book of Lies*, so his books are demonstrably in use there. Roy's sheet itself draws *"Abyss (knowledge is relation)"* (Crowley's words) between 3 and 4 and asks for the sacrifice of lesser aspects. **The Gate of the World** gives threshold a physical doorway. Reading the two beside the hopscotch question *"How to Live Forever?"* and the cracked egg is a strong guide relation, not the artifacts' settled answer. Both are catalogued in [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. **The text on the guardian's row.** At cell F876, on the row where the board writes *Guardian at The Gate* (W876) and *Marduk* (C876), sits a small screenshot of two received message bubbles: *Here*, then *At the gate*. The Hall minted it as [[Hall of Mirrors/Artifacts - Gallery 4 (113-149)#130 · INCOMING TEXT (JB)|Incoming Text (JB)]], and its unlock code is the picture's own board address, F876. The other two images show a threshold; this one hands the viewer a message from someone who has arrived at it, so the reader stands on the receiving side. The sender is not shown, and this guide does not identify them. The row also matches an address list: a fan map made on April 29 2022, the day of the *Pay Attention* body-parts sale, maps W876 to Roy's right arm and C876 to his right leg (see [[Pay Attention (feat. little luna)]]). ### And more of them are hanging in the maze By now the pattern is hard to miss: the board's ladder didn't just *inspire* the artifacts, it kept *becoming* them, minted straight off the wall. Two more, both pyramids: #### 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 stepped diagram with **ten numbered stations but eleven articulated compartments**: the unnumbered `3 | 4` chamber sits between the numbered bands, *"Abyss In"* and *"Abyss Out"* mark two different interfaces, and station 10 stands as a separate base. A Da'at reading of that chamber is a strong one, because two inherited texts mark the same seam: the title is W. G. Gray's phrase and the two labels sit where Gray puts his two Abysses (the Great Abyss below the upper three, the "Inferior Abyss" between Yesod and Malkuth), and the emanation page sets Crowley's Abyss line at 3 | 4. The same seam is where the board's animal column puts its one unnumbered creature, [[Hall of Mirrors/The Bestiary - The Vulture|the Vulture]]. Still, the drawing does not name Da'at or reduce its two Abysses to one hidden point, and nothing on the ladder writes the word either, though a 2024 post from the project does (*"Janus, Justice and Daath"*). This region of the larger *GNOTHI SEAUTON* page quietly became a collectible. (The full artifact breakdown lives in [[Artifacts - Drawings and Sketches]].) #### 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 pyramid with the top **cut off** and a little sun floating where the peak should be, captioned *"suggestion of apex, though not actually in the form."* The crown you're climbing toward is never actually *in* the structure — it hovers just above it. Which is either genuinely profound or the most elegant excuse ever drawn for not finishing the climb. (Both, probably. Also in [[Artifacts - Drawings and Sketches]].) ### The Ark that's secretly a floor plan One last vessel: a **Noah's Ark** sketch labeled *"11 sections / 3 stories (Heaven, Man, Earth) / 32."* It is not wholly a new design: the plate headed *Noah and His Zodiacal Ark* in Manly P. Hall's *The Secret Teachings of All Ages* already puts a human figure inside the Ark, with eleven sections, three stories, a door for animals and a small window at the crown, and its caption gets to 33 as eleven sections of three. The board's version reads as selected, redrawn and placed; it does not show the form or the numbers being invented, and which copy of the book it followed is unknown. Read it as architecture and **Man is the middle floor** — which is exactly the hinge of **[[It's Your Time]]** (*"a man is like an in-between, animating Heaven and Hell"*). The Ark also brings a flood-vessel into view beside [[Subject to Flooding]], making preservation under pressure an available comparison rather than a proved album mechanism. As for the **"32"** sitting one rung below the album and the board called **33**, treat it as a possible resonance: the reproduction of the plate this guide checked prints a 32 (constellations or signs) on the same page as its route to 33, so the pair may have come along with the source. #### The Empty Room (Rainbow Bridge) <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa53f8677e36ba5ad03dbefe1ee2baa69151a39fa947f876b0e4af598a7c56397..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa53f8677e36ba5ad03dbefe1ee2baa69151a39fa947f876b0e4af598a7c56397..png" width="300"></a> In Genesis the order matters: the covenant is announced before Noah enters the Ark, and the rainbow comes after the flood as its sign. The board's Ark, Rainbow Bridge and **empty room** can be read together as preservation, return and threshold, and this guide hears that as a comparison, not a proof. The arch in the room is drawn uncolored, with a small empty doorway at its base, and neither the bridge nor the room shows a completed crossing, a covenant made within, or a final arrival. Bifröst, the Norse rainbow road, is one available echo, not an established source. The room can be heard rhyming with [[Concepts/The Empty Mirror]], the cleared surface that reflects nothing back, and the flood arc the [[Subject to Flooding|debut]] opened can be heard running waters rise, Ark holds, dove returns, rainbow, empty room, without the work telling it to the end. The last step is left open. Now what. In [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. On the board itself, *The Rainbow Bridge* is also a row label, the only English and only unnumbered entry in the Japanese soul ladder, on the same row as the animal column's unnumbered [[Hall of Mirrors/The Bestiary - The Vulture|Vulture]], between the whale and the dolphin. --- **Where this leads:** [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Concepts/Heart and Mind]] · [[Concepts/The Labors of Hercules]] — and the traditions the whole ladder is cut from, in [[#The Source Code]]. </details> ## The Source Code <details><summary>Open the full breakdown: the borrowed traditions, the geometry, the four-line poem</summary> If the other tabs are the cathedral, this one is the **quarry.** Everything Roy builds — the ladders, the upload, the released catalogue — is cut from a small set of borrowed traditions, and here he shows his work. On this part of the board you can watch a pop record get compiled out of the Kybalion, Plato, Kabbalah, and a great deal of very tidy handwriting. ### The operating system Roy copies out the **Kybalion's seven principles** by hand, and they function as the board's declared physics. The greatest hits: - **Mentalism** — *"The All is Mind… Food is information… the manifest dream."* The upload thesis, roughly three thousand years early. - **Correspondence** — *"As above, so below… the formula is the same from a solar system down to the atom… **the Pattern is present on all levels.**"* That's **[[Concepts/The Pattern]]** named outright, handwritten on the board. - **Polarity** — *"Everything is Dual… opposites are identical in nature but different in degree."* The **Heart/Mind, Roy/Lucius** split, filed as a law of nature. ([[Concepts/Duality]].) - **Rhythm** — *"Everything flows… as if reality is running on an **algorithm**."* ([[Concepts/The Algorithm]].) ### The four-line poem that is secretly the whole plot Tucked into the cells is a little origin-myth. It's also a released lyric. It's also, if you squint, the entire project: > *"In the beginning I was just me… I spoke the words **'One become Two'** / then I was **in reverse**… and I became **You.** / 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.**"* One becomes Two. The Two are a mirror (*"in reverse"*). They collide, and a **Sun** is born. Read it once and it's the **Roy/Lucius** split. Read it again and it's the Kabbalistic shattering of the vessels — the One that breaks into pieces and spends eternity trying to reassemble itself. Read it a third time and *"a Sun was born inside"* reads as the seed of [[SOL]], the wordless song that closes *Lucius Lullaby* (2026), not *33*. Same four lines every time; you're the variable. This is the cosmogony under **[[Another Way II Heaven]]** — a song Roy built on *"One, become Two"* and a count that runs *"from One and through Eleven"* — and the reunion it keeps promising (*"we'll get back together and see the Great Design"*) is the homecoming at the center of **[[The Circle]]**. #### The Eden Cube <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4c3cc16801611899e9e7698122fd86a5e82d6858095c4a4c47af5c46c51b91b9..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4c3cc16801611899e9e7698122fd86a5e82d6858095c4a4c47af5c46c51b91b9..jpg" width="300"></a> The cube is labelled EDEN and sits at the upper end of a narrow connection to a quartered lower field. The picture does not show water freezing into matter, or four visible branches becoming the cube. It is a region of GNOTHI SEAUTON, reused here at F769; the verse-bearing companion below supplies Genesis 2:10's outward direction, while the key *A River* names the passage. Beside a parent sheet that already places a Tree inside a head, [[Imagine A World]] makes that relation something a listener can enact inwardly. [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems##102 · EDEN CUBE · `A RIVER`|Follow the full Eden Cube reading]]. ### The number that isn't a word People assume the maze is full of secret *anagrams.* The board says otherwise: its one working cipher is **gematria** — meaning carried by **number**, not letters rearranged. Roy builds the Hebrew name of God up letter by letter, and runs Greek names as clean ratios (*Hermes : Zeus :: Zeus : Apollo*). Which is its own quiet tell — **Hermes/Mercury,** the messenger, is exactly the register the maze keeps handing to [[Sir Lucius]]. #### Khawah <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9cce9eb03c9f29c6481fca9f0f942b15bef0bbbc47fda0ddb44df157019835d9..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9cce9eb03c9f29c6481fca9f0f942b15bef0bbbc47fda0ddb44df157019835d9..jpg" width="230"></a> **Khawah** names Eve, “mother of all living,” and the sheet relates her to Adam and the divine Name through gematria. Beside those name values, a birthday song addresses Mozart, a rabbit tree models generation, and a soul question keeps the living person in view. The shared concern reads as how a repeatable form becomes a particular life. The numerical relation does not identify Adam or Eve with a fixed JT character, and it does not prove that every difference can be reduced to one computation. [Read Khawah’s complete analysis](https://hom.jagwartwinlore.com/artifacts/a-9cce9eb03c9f/). #### The Venus Connection <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x0071e11a2a4fd30a689f8b8feff51ab39a8035ec1353a0fece0a3e9275ad21de..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x0071e11a2a4fd30a689f8b8feff51ab39a8035ec1353a0fece0a3e9275ad21de..jpg" width="230"></a> The board's favorite proof that the sky *draws* the doctrine. Track **Venus** against the stars for eight years and her conjunctions trace a near-perfect **pentagram:** the five-pointed star is literally Venus's handwriting. That's *as-above-so-below* with a receipt, the geometry falling out of the heavens rather than being imposed on them. And it seats a whole cluster the catalogue leans on: Venus is the planet of **love and beauty** (Netzach on the [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life|Tree]]), whose bird is the [[The Dove|dove]] and whose pole is **[[Roy]]**'s. The heart has an orbit, and it signs its name in stars. In [[Artifacts - Ciphers and Code-Series]]. ### Pieces of the board you can actually own More than anywhere else, this is where the board and the **[[Hall of Mirrors]]** turn out to be the same object. These diagrams were minted straight off the wall: #### Horus — the fractional self <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 board places four fraction equations around the **Eye of Horus**; the six sense labels — smell, sight, thought, hearing, taste, and touch — are written on the separate [[Artifacts - Gallery 3 (75-112)#88 · Complete Upload Recipe|Complete Upload Recipe]]. Its fractions sum to **63/64**, and touch is explicitly the final 1/64. The remainder is unnamed. A modern story that assigns Eye parts to senses and has Thoth restore a missing piece is widely repeated but historically contested. The useful digital-double question survives the correction: does a complete-looking inventory preserve the relation that makes a self alive? #### The Lambdoma — cosmos by number <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 later completed **Lambda** built from the seven boundary quantities in Plato's *Timaeus* — powers of two down one leg, powers of three down the other, with their means inserted between them. Plato supplies the numbers and interval-filling operation; he does not draw this finished ten-node triangle, and the figure is not the full Lambdoma matrix. Across each completed row the two legs meet at 3:2, the perfect fifth. The universe, tuned, is the page's invitation; reading it as the poem's *"One into many"* is this guide's comparison. #### A Head of Adam <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> The caption says **A Head of Adam**; the room is **Head of Atom**, opened with `Atoms`. Two similar structures sit under one singular head. The spelling change brings a person and matter's smaller units into the same field of thought, while the pair asks how one whole can be made through relations among parts. This is a crop of **KHAWAH**. On the full sheet, **Tree of Life** stands above the pair and **Forbidden City** lies below it. Cropping removes those neighbors and gives the human/matter question its own room, filed under **Seen Things/Illumination**. Adam Kadmon, the primordial human in Kabbalistic traditions, is a relevant comparison; the drawing does not name him or establish that the two structures are cerebral hemispheres or a particular molecule. Roy later described people as atoms or cells communicating within a greater body in [his S1 conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8WpzElHm3M). His speech makes the relation social and creative; this drawing gives it a small visual model. A copied diagram or playful notebook pun remains possible, and the original pictorial source is unresolved. Remove the caption/title difference and much of this particular reading disappears. The outgoing door leads to Room 91. That is an actual recorded connection, but **Head of Atom** is not the next room's key. After two other source sheets, Forbidden City returns the route to another region of KHAWAH. See [[Hall of Mirrors/Artifacts - Ciphers and Code-Series#Parts, inclusion and return|the three maps of the route]]. #### The 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 sword-shaped maze: a visible `1` above *Start*, a route through 2–9, and an *End* return-like mark. A separate left-margin note reads *"9 check points, 1 hidden, 1=10"* and points beside checkpoint 3. Nine visible checkpoints plus one hidden item most immediately makes ten. The note’s arrow points beside checkpoint 3; it may attach the instruction to the route rather than locate the hidden item there. But the object does not identify the hidden part or settle whether `1=10` also relates first and tenth. The checked Gray source numbers Daath 11 rather than ten, and the route is not a strict conventional Lightning Flash. Its End sits directly above the concealed row-709 name-equivalences, supporting a bounded integration-through-difference comparison. Full object and parent reading → [[Artifacts - Drawings and Sketches#129 · Flaming Sword · FLAMING SWORD|Flaming Sword]]. #### Roy Strings, and the note in between <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x13c8a455aa0a4fe21bc7db273b9f395e8888775c64a25696e1d590439f5b6800..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x13c8a455aa0a4fe21bc7db273b9f395e8888775c64a25696e1d590439f5b6800..jpg" width="230"></a> <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x6666c117460bf11e8591a4e4ad66cef72d3fa646bc55d443d72368a3171a00d2..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x6666c117460bf11e8591a4e4ad66cef72d3fa646bc55d443d72368a3171a00d2..png" width="230"></a> The Lambdoma says the cosmos is tuned; these two cells are Roy checking the tuning by hand. **Roy Strings** is the acoustics page: vibrating strings, the harmonic series, Pythagoras's monochord, the discovery that pitch *is* ratio, that *"I spoke the words"* and *"a Sun was born"* might be one physics if the word is a frequency. (It also explains the Pinocchio strings the film club keeps flagging: the puppet on strings is a thing being *played,* waiting to become real.) The second cell isolates a single note, **A#:** the enharmonic *between* note (A# and B♭ are one pitch wearing two names, a duality you can *hear*), rendered in **grey,** the between shade. Both in [[Artifacts - Ciphers and Code-Series]]. #### Ros Tau and the Forbidden City <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa50db61cebe359095ba93e96f71bdb3268728dbe9058d055c057326de0c6affb..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa50db61cebe359095ba93e96f71bdb3268728dbe9058d055c057326de0c6affb..jpg" width="230"></a> <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xcd6b139806e198f303768272ee2839a71ea80daf58def1bc8f552451c49bec81..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xcd6b139806e198f303768272ee2839a71ea80daf58def1bc8f552451c49bec81..jpg" width="230"></a> Ros Tau's **Empty cup** arrow returns Wisdom to Knowledge; its shape is not exhausted by an ascent reading. Its key is `51.843`, and its title opens **Forbidden City**, the numbered mountain cut from KHAWAH. Head of Atom comes from that same KHAWAH sheet, so the source route returns to an earlier page while the title-to-key chain continues forward. The triangle's growth cycle, the literal key relay and the source-parent return must be kept distinct. [[Hall of Mirrors/Artifacts - Ciphers and Code-Series#Parts, inclusion and return|Read the grouped route and its limits]]. The circled means in Forbidden City show how distinct numbers remain distinct while belonging to one proportional chain. Together, these operations suggest coherence approached with renewed receptivity. [Read Forbidden City’s full account of Plato, music and Giza](https://hom.jagwartwinlore.com/artifacts/a-cd6b139806e1/). ### And then, because he doesn't do things by halves For completeness, the science wall also includes Walter Russell's *"octave numbers,"* continued fractions of φ and √2, a Fibonacci spiral, a Lo Shu magic square, the [[Carl Jung|Jung]] psyche-map (*Persona / Shadow / Self*), and the Kabbalistic veils (*Ain Soph, Ain*). That Jung map, plus *"One become Two,"* plus a left-brain/right-brain split, is more or less the blueprint for **[[Sir Lucius]]** — the shadow was drawn as a diagram years before he was ever cast as a character. #### The rest of the science wall <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4c53b282a01a9469e203dd68bfc3d8d1a2de102960877395436052b23ceb5b12..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4c53b282a01a9469e203dd68bfc3d8d1a2de102960877395436052b23ceb5b12..jpg" width="200"></a> <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x02a0cc9ce2413b24c6e24af980d6314fd74c072f232130a6a034fc5d1d3bd424..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x02a0cc9ce2413b24c6e24af980d6314fd74c072f232130a6a034fc5d1d3bd424..jpg" width="200"></a> <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x53d191a03cbbb914ec3f6bb0e23d7b409c49e6990c897546f20b3cb6bef32d0a..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x53d191a03cbbb914ec3f6bb0e23d7b409c49e6990c897546f20b3cb6bef32d0a..jpg" width="200"></a> Three of those "for completeness" diagrams got minted too, and each is sneakier than it looks. **[[Artifacts - Gallery 4 (113-149)#120 · FIBONACCI RABBITS|Fibonacci Rabbits]]** is the golden ratio drawn from its original prompt (*breeding rabbits*), which means the most beautiful proportion in nature is really a formula for **generation:** the *"make more eggs"* thesis with a spiral on top. **[[Artifacts - Gallery 3 (75-112)#112 · SATURN MAGIC|Saturn Magic]]** overlays four distinct layers on one 3×3 field: a played tic-tac-toe game, the Chinese Lo Shu square, its Renaissance planetary reception as Saturn's kamea and seal, and a Carroll code, `AN AGED AGED MAN`. Saturn-as-Father-Time is a strong rhyme, not proof of the diagram's source. **Wheels** draws three concentric rings labelled `AIN`, `AIN SOPH`, and `AIN SOPH AUR` beside the Theosophical phrase *"Ring Pass-Not."* The code *"there are things behind things"* fits the nested form, but the title alone does not turn it into Ezekiel's chariot or make those historical vocabularies one ancient system. All three live in [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. --- **Where this leads:** [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Concepts/Keilim - The Breaking of the Vessels]] · [[Concepts/Duality]] · [[Sir Lucius]] · [[Concepts/The Algorithm]] — and where all of it actually gets *used,* in [[#The Upload]]. </details> ## The Field <details><summary>Open the full breakdown: the movies, the aphorisms, and the priest named Roy</summary> This one is the **texture** — the board's photographs, its one-liners, its movie recommendations, and, underneath all the cosmic machinery, the actual person running it. ### The recurring-dream film club Roy keeps a color-coded list titled *"The Pattern Represented in Movies"* — 22 films that, in his reading, are all secretly about the same loop: > *The Tree of Life · Wings of Desire · Groundhog Day · Inception · Cloud Atlas · 2001 · Pinocchio · The Giver · It's a Wonderful Life · Fantasia · Tron · Being John Malkovich · The Wizard of Oz · The Fountain · Star Wars I–VI…* It's a **syllabus for [[Concepts/The Pattern]].** A few are load-bearing elsewhere: *Groundhog Day* is the loop escaped through love; *Pinocchio* is the wooden thing that wants to be real (strings and all); *Tron* is, essentially, the upload with better production design. The kangaroo in a hoodie is not on the list. The kangaroo answers to no one. #### If the Sea Has Enough Will <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xeaea42961328b71c465c11c237bae8498c135938350565b81d0cb9020a8fa3d3..jpeg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xeaea42961328b71c465c11c237bae8498c135938350565b81d0cb9020a8fa3d3..jpeg" width="300"></a> *"If the sea has enough will"* gives the water a faculty normally assigned to a person. Beside the film list, the phrase can make emergence from repetition a question of agency rather than an automatic law. Marduk's sea, the debut's flood and the board's Pattern provide useful comparisons, but their proximity does not prove that they are one body of water or that **will** is the single variable controlling every loop. Filed in [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. ### The cosmology, illustrated Pasted across the board are photographs, and they aren't random — they're the theory in pictures. The **sun** and an upside-down **golden tree** (emanation). A **sperm and egg,** **cell** micrographs, **tardigrades** (generation — the *"I'm an egg"* thesis, again). A **mushroom cloud** parked right next to the note *"unbalance explodes itself like an atom bomb."* A neon **Vitruvian man with a split brain,** Michelangelo's **Creation of Adam,** the gold-ground ***Ladder of Divine Ascent*** (the monastic icon associated with John Climacus, where demons hook climbers off the rungs), and a **separate William Blake *Jacob's Ladder, or Jacob's Dream*** (Genesis 28: a spiral stair of figures moving both ways from the sleeping Jacob toward the sun). The board carries both ascent under attack and ascent as received exchange. A *2001* **monolith** and the **ouroboros** continue the *as-above-so-below* argument assembled out of stock imagery. Even the magazine covers (*LIFE*'s "Jesus," "Harry Potter — 25 Years of Magic") are quietly part of the canon he's pulling from. #### Stardust <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe9df1ddcba96373600cec1759f8c3c2a8c9cb15300a50ff8ed3744cf623b3f59..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe9df1ddcba96373600cec1759f8c3c2a8c9cb15300a50ff8ed3744cf623b3f59..jpg" width="300"></a> The Hall photograph called *Stardust* gives the board's cosmic vocabulary a human-scale counterpart: two people together, later filed as a life-changing connection. It should not be treated as the board's literal caption or as a demonstrated image pasted on that sheet without a source match. *Soul Is A Star* and Roy's public stardust language make shared being a grounded project context; the interpretation is that this named photograph puts that context among people. Its title also works as Room 75's key. Full argument → [Stardust: the full Room 98 reading](https://hom.jagwartwinlore.com/artifacts/a-e9df1ddcba96/). #### The Bestiary: Cinnamon and Jupiter <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="230"></a> <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="230"></a> Roy keeps a **bestiary**, one animal per station of the Tree of Life, and the whole menagerie of ten got minted, with the planets named right in the captions. **Jupiter** draws a **dolphin** (the jovial giant, the friendliest mind in the sea), and a horse named **Cinnamon** is tagged *"Trojan Horse Program"*: the gift-animal with something hidden inside, which is the upload, or the algorithm, or [[Sir Lucius]], depending on the day you ask. (In Roy's 2024 description of "Trojan Horse music," though, what rides inside is the good part: a positive, mantra-like chorus carried in music that sounds dark.) It's the same instinct that handed Mercury the [[The Crow|crow]] and Venus the [[The Dove|dove]]: the cosmos mapped onto creatures so it can be *felt* rather than merely charted. It also decodes the maze's odder body-part codes. *"Teeth of a whale," "left hip of a dove":* if every planet is a beast, the whole sky is one enormous animal, and [[#The Ascent Ladder|the ladder tab]] is its skeleton. The whale (*"GOD the Mother on Saturn,"* breaching over the *"Great Sea"*), *"[[Artifacts - Gallery 3 (75-112)#Venus the Dove (w/ Lamp), separate portrait associated with Room 79’s key|Venus the Dove]],"* *"[[Artifacts - Gallery 1 (1-37)#34 · Michael the Fox|Michael the Fox]]"* with the ☿ glyph in his paws, and *"Enoch the imaginary Swan"* hang with these two in [[Artifacts - Drawings and Sketches]], while *"[[Artifacts - Gallery 2 (38-74)#76 · THE GATE OF THE WORLD|Lemon the Rabbit]] (at the Gate of the World)"* holds the ladder's ground floor in [[Artifacts - Concept Images and Emblems]]. All ten, a page each, plus the column's unnumbered [[Hall of Mirrors/The Bestiary - The Vulture|Vulture]], are gathered in [[Hall of Mirrors/The Bestiary|The Bestiary]]. ### "Statue of Roy" Here's the board being funny and sincere in the same breath. Roy pastes in a museum placard for an ancient namesake: Roma, also rendered Roy, a High Priest of **Amun** at Thebes. The source statue holds a Hathor-headed sistrum, tying the office to ritual music; TT283 is the designation of Roma's tomb, not a spreadsheet coordinate or a place-name. The [British Museum's statue of Roy](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA81) gives the survival claim a firmer floor: its inscription asks that his statue and name remain in the temple. The board keeps an ancient priest's name beside a modern singer's. Recognition, preservation, and voice are all available readings of that choice. It is not evidence that Roy is literally the priest, and *High Priest of Amun* should not be silently turned into *sun-priest of Ra* for a cleaner SOL connection. #### Roma Called Roy · True Voice · R1045 <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x31f9469ec7c3f1e408327e536d1de66fef4ff37c780a9166cba4ec139d25a75a..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x31f9469ec7c3f1e408327e536d1de66fef4ff37c780a9166cba4ec139d25a75a..png" width="205"></a> <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xf6b3674092ef945fda641263d2b24fa37e623df495c56c22448a423153316296..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xf6b3674092ef945fda641263d2b24fa37e623df495c56c22448a423153316296..png" width="205"></a> <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x20dd52e94f2f5f02e9e0414b6b955194ae75f0f33a8fe76e9d6362df6505f9c8..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x20dd52e94f2f5f02e9e0414b6b955194ae75f0f33a8fe76e9d6362df6505f9c8..png" width="205"></a> The placard material became three artifacts, and their names and keys chain into a closed loop: **[[Artifacts - Gallery 1 (1-37)#33 · ROMA CALLED ROY|Roma Called Roy]] → [[Artifacts - Gallery 2 (38-74)#43 · TRUE VOICE|True Voice]] → R1045 → back to Roma.** The loop securely joins an ancient namesake, the funerary epithet *maa-kheru* (*true of voice* or *justified*), and a spreadsheet cell code. The hieroglyph strips have not yet been securely transcribed, and the modern-Roy-equals-ancient-Roy claim remains an interpretation of the juxtaposition, not a fact delivered by the source. All three are in [[Artifacts - Ciphers and Code-Series]]. ### The receipts on the artist The board is also, sneakily, a scrapbook: an **EYE ALASKA** poster (Roy's pre–Jagwar Twin band), live and studio shots, a TV segment or two, a Polaroid dated *"Ashwood 2/18/14,"* and one item that only looks personal: a property photo tagged *"3233,"* which turned out to be a fan's former home on Western Woods (he spotted the match after Roy shared the spreadsheet) and which the Hall later made the key to that early song's room ([[Artifacts - Songs, Demos and Mints|Western Woods]]). And two lines that explain more than the gematria does: his mom's *"He who plants a seed believes in God,"* and a flat little note about getting **dropped by the label.** The seed-faith and the wound, in the same handwriting as the cosmos. ### A self made between people The board's upload recipe has seven steps (gather memories, make a personality mask, digitize everything important, store it in the cloud, prepare for rain, teach an AI who "I" am, build a body for it to animate), and not one of the seven names another person. Several photographs elsewhere on the board make social formation available as the missing pressure: a self made through collaborators, performance and family relation, not a file waiting inside a skull. **Classroom.** A school portrait of one adult and 21 children also appears in the Hall as *Internal Guide*. No child is identified. Its title opens the [[Artifacts - Gallery 3 (75-112)#88 · Complete Upload Recipe|Complete Upload Recipe]], routing a collective classroom image into an individual inventory. The pairing lets the reader compare relation pictured among people with relation named as a retrievable field; it does not prove that the title-chain was designed as a correction to the Recipe. **Collaborators.** A black-and-white session frame, which reads as the making of the debut, shows five people around a large mixing console, with keyboards and monitor speakers in the room, a place where many separate signals are about to become one record. Roy told Ones to Watch in 2018 how the debut was made: *"Everyone just let go of their egos, and it was the most collaborative effort."* He *"didn't feel right putting it out as a Roy English album… because it's not."* The console performs the sentence: the channels stay distinct and the record is one. **Performance.** A black-and-white backstage frame from the 2019 tour Jagwar Twin played in support of Avril Lavigne reads as Roy at the center with Avril beside him, and one guitar in the group wears a Jagwar Twin / Subject to Flooding sticker, the album's title traveling on an instrument. A finished record still has to be played by other bodies for other people. Roy called that run *"our second tour ever"* and said of Avril, *"She's very intuitive and just has so much good advice."* The three other people in the frame are not named here. **Family relation.** A color backstage portrait from Alesso's Greek Theatre show of 24 September 2016 (the badge reads THE REDWOODS 0924) shows a black hoodie lettered CREW, a white T-shirt with ROY hand-lettered on the pocket, and an all-access wristband. On one reading the woman at left is Roy's mother, and the man in the middle, arm around him, may be his father, which nothing here confirms. The labels are costumes with working functions (guest, crew, artist with access); the embrace is what they cannot hold. Roy said of *Cool*, the song of his that Alesso turned into something else, that *"the vocal and the heart was still the same."* The form changed hands and the heart did not. On the board the portrait hangs above the seven-step recipe. None of this is a sequence the board announces, and it needs no names: this guide leaves the other people in these frames unnamed. The connectogram on [[Concepts/The I'm 33 Board|the concept page]] marks the other edge, since a model can describe the relations without being the person. ### Roy's greatest hits (the sentence kind) Dozens of cells are pure **aphorism** — the board's wisdom-literature layer, and a quarry the songs keep raiding: - *"It's very inconvenient to live life awake… the world is larger and other than I was told. I am larger and other than I was told."* → the waking-up doctrine of [[Concepts/The Aquarium]]. - *"Our experience of anything is not the thing itself, but our own reactions to it."* → the entire hall of [[Concepts/The Empty Mirror]]. - *"Man devours God, God devours Man."* → [[Concepts/Consumption]], in six words. - *"Just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course."* → yes, [[The Circle]]. ### The greatest song ever written And then, on a little hand-drawn music staff, the board works its way through *"what is music?"* and lands on a punchline: the greatest song ever written is **"HBD"** — *Happy Birthday.* The simplest tune, quietly nominated as the most complete one. Which is a very Roy way to caption a board titled *"I'm 33 this year"* — the birthday song was the cosmology all along. #### Happy Birthday <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9271086a0832e3b72f63372ca9069bbfee7b7a2198d33cf29e68a1e746fdf1c3..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9271086a0832e3b72f63372ca9069bbfee7b7a2198d33cf29e68a1e746fdf1c3..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> So the board minted its own punchline, and the joke has a floor under it. A **birthday** is a *solar return* (one more lap around the Sun), so *"Happy Birthday"* is, structurally, a **sun-song,** which drops it straight back into the RA / [[SOL]] / *"Sun of God"* material. It's also the only song that exists purely as **witness:** nobody sings it to themselves; it is sung *to* you, *by* the people glad you're still here. On a board titled *"I'm 33 this year,"* the simplest tune turns out to be the most complete one because it does the single thing all that cosmology is straining toward: it marks that you went around again, and someone noticed. Catalogued in [[Artifacts - Ciphers and Code-Series]]. *(The board also tapes in screenshots of real conversations — the ordinary, affectionate, human ground beneath all the cosmic scaffolding. We'll let those stay where they belong, private; the point is only that they're there. One thread is a reminder of how deep the **Joni Mitchell** roots run — the same lineage that surfaces, cleared and credited, in **[[Soul Is A Star]]**.)* --- **Where this leads:** [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[SOL]] · [[Concepts/The Empty Mirror]] · [[Concepts/The Aquarium]] · [[Concepts/Consumption]] · [[The Circle]] — and the machinery beneath all these pictures, back in [[#The Source Code]]. </details> ## Related ladder reading The DNA/ladder comparison at [[Concepts/Inherited Substrate#Ascent and inheritance]] connects the *Twisted Ladder* poem, Online and the father's-shoes haiku. It concerns inherited movement; it does not identify the board's distinct ladder objects as one image.