Lightman's Glyph

Lightman's Glyph

You needn’t think I’m crazy, my friend. But I have to tell you this story. I’m lucky to be sane at all, intact in the body, mind and soul. Why don't you sit down with me and lean back while I tell you everything?

It takes profound art and profound insight into glyphs to turn out stuff like Lightman's. I’ve tried to follow his genius with Glyph Autopsy[1] for a period of time, slowly descending the steps of the rabbit hole. Although we never corresponded, it seemed that he was leading me by the hand to recognize the true anatomy of the glyphs. My friend, if I had known what awaited me at the end of this journey, I would have recoiled in fear.

You know, beyond logic lies truth[2]. This truth, the most beautiful of all, can be terrifying and haunting in its pure clarity. Believe me, Lightman's genius faced me to my own dragon. I was willing to follow him to the darkest power spots[3] and to the most perfectly and well designed grid[4]. He showed me the connection between sacred geometry and RPE[5]. But I was blind to the true beauty of horror.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell[6]. So I gathered all my remaining courage and went on in search of the one beautiful gruesome truth. And every single glyph pushed me further down to hell.

And here my friend, the story is getting weird. Lightman, the profound glyph expert, showed his true unscrupulous grimace of his two heads. Please do not get me wrong. I do not want to accuse or even judge him. But often genius and madness are very close together. It is my believe that he worked for Hulong to develop and implement “The Translator”, a tracking tool awarding unsuspecting agents for perfect glyph hacks[7]. Was he aware about possible side effects of Chaotic Matter bringing nightmares of serpents like Quetzalcoatl, Jörmungandr and Ouroboros?

I was getting sceptical about his and the other researcher’s knowledge about alchemy, ultima materia in their search for lapis philosophorum. I hold my breath. Had not I also become an accomplice in my enthusiasm and carefreeness? Please, my friend, do not condemn me too for euphorically following the light of knowledge.

As above so below. With that formula Lightman directed me through the time. There's no beginning and there's no end. So if you walk in a circle my friend you'll end up at that point where you started your journey. And that's the point of no return. The never ending cycle of Ouroboros.

I hold my breath again for what i’ve seen. The glyph of a six-pointed star burned into my eyes[8]. The glittering star of darkness cast its menacing shadow over my mind. Had Hank Johnson seen the same symbol of beauty and horror in the library of Miskatonic University[9]? But where he backed away from the darkness of horror, I went on, unable to stop.

Oh Lightman, why did I follow you? The subsequent events and research catapulted me through space and time far back into the past. In a hidden and unnamed library I found the breadcrumb I was searching for. I picked up the book and read the title on the cover. Clavicula Salomonis[10]. My hair on the back of my neck bristled and with trembling fingers I reluctantly opened the book, still inquisitive; Uricus.

My friend, as far as I know, we as mortal beings have only limited access. Once when King Solomon got the knowledge of the world, he got the key to subdue the demons of the earth and to benefit from their knowledge. And Uricus or Oriens was one of the four most powerful ones. Many abilities are attributed to Oriens such as giving vast amounts of wealth to the magician in the forms of silver and gold, answering questions of the past, present, and future, giving visions, giving power to fly, excellent in providing familiar spirits, conjuring men to assist the magician, and reviving the dead.

I hold it in my hands, the glyph of immortality, endless time and undead living[11]. And then I realized that I was never the one that brought light into darkness. My friend, I myself was the doomed darkness that devours every light.

[01] https://goo.gl/8cLX6y
[02] https://goo.gl/P6CmCL
[03] https://goo.gl/FvTMfP
[04] https://goo.gl/ThvJVK
[05] https://goo.gl/AujXr8
[06] https://goo.gl/6VTjtY
[07] https://goo.gl/qPpyDZ
[08] https://goo.gl/mevyQa
[09] https://goo.gl/uRrML2
[10] https://goo.gl/x1U4gE
[11] https://goo.gl/KKYanb

Many thanks and credit for Ideas/Help/Editing to Ishira Tsubasa​ Philipp J. Bock​ Alastair Gilfillan​ and Sascha W.​

#GlyphAutopsy

Edgar Allan Wright​
H. Richard Loeb​
Stein Lightman​
Hank Johnson​



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