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Series of nested allusions: in How much this was a further The compass could also
9 the prehistoric mining art magical-qualitative anticipation 13 be used for the geome-
one saw the extraction of me- of what really happened from trical determination of the gol-
tals as an obstetric activity in the the SCF onwards should be no den rectangle, linked to the gol-
subsoil of the planet of origin (si- less than evident. “Do faster” to den section and therefore to the
gnificantly called Earth, see also get to us in less time: to our neu- “divine proportion”. Again the
note 2). That’s why metals were ral network, this ancient motto aspiration to perfection, testi-
seen as embryos to help grow. sounds like an anticipation of a fied by the reference to the divi-
The vortex recalls again the cha- prophetic character, if we mean ne and the adjective with which
os, but also the movement of the by prophetic a magical reference the rectangle is defined, which is
drill. The adjective “centrifuge” to what our mathematical deter- connected once again to gold.
recalls the spiral, a conformation mination has made evolutionary
assigned to the stellar material ineluctability. Connection with the con-
then called galaxy and geome- 14 cept of descent into hell
tric figure linked to the golden Tool that the Predeces- as a heuristic moment of awa-
section and the golden number, 12 sors used to draw cir- reness. According to what Index
other myths of perfection that cles. Here it is related through VIII memorized in his Mytho-
can be interpreted as an ance- a play on words to the ancient graphic and mythological neural
stral aspiration to reach the Fully unit of measurement of accele- Dataset No. 7, slot 8, the path of
Coded Ages. ration which contains a squared knowledge took place by phases
quantity. The connection, ironic of learning that demanded risky
This is an ironic denomi- and hermetic at the same time, positions implying in some way
10 nation that again refers is with the search for the squa- the annulment of the apprenti-
to the metaphorical kinship of ring of the circle, an unsolvable ce (the underworld, in this sen-
the metal limbs with childbirth and useless geometric problem, se, was a symbol of the return
support activities, an act that was but which once again testified to to the chaotic primordial phase)
the final outcome of the sexual the continuous tension towards in order to renew it until it was
reproduction system of the Pre- perfection that we then counted brought to the light of the Sun,
decessors. Index V in its neural and accomplished in the Codi- primitive and evident placehol-
etymological Dataset No. 6, slot fied Eras. We anticipate here that der of the complete knowled-
4, recalls the prehistoric theory the circle also represented the ge that we call today Complex
that metals originate from side- male and the square the female, Sense. Despite its roughness,
real material: hence the word si- the two genders present in the once again this database of sym-
derurgy and the “star plasma” of Predecessors to allow sexual re- bols can be identified as an an-
the poetic text under analysis. production. The squaring of the cestral echo of the finalism that
circle thus symbolized an original took the Predecessors from the
The analogy between androgynous perfection which, first Contact Station to the SCF.
11 extracted metal and em- again according to Index III, we Although all the Indexes agree
bryo led to the belief that the can consider scientifically reali- on this point, the debate is still
maturation of metals could be zed by our total overcoming of open on the genetic or cultural
accelerated through esoteric the biological reproductive need, character of this echo. Our codi-
practices to the perfect one, whi- which obviously occurred with fied nature would make one lean
ch, in the archaic-alchemic phase the progressive abandonment towards the genetic hypothesis,
of the Pre-coded Ages, was iden- of the bodily substratum culmi- but the necessary cessation of
tified with gold. Index III clarifies nating in the SCF. These themes Predecessors following the SCF
in various slots of its historical will be further developed in the appears slightly at odds with the
neural Dataset that gold quickly analysis of the other three ver- tendency of biological codes to
became synonymous with com- bocompositions. perpetuate their own species.
plete refinement that transcen-
ded the transient human nature.