The Symbolic General Theory of Everything
Hierosynthesis
The sacred placing-together — hieros, sacred; synthesis, a placing side by side. Twenty-two letters, two hundred thirty-one gates, and the correspondences that bind them into one readable system.
What is this cycle — and what does this element mean?
Each clock hour divides into five element phases, longest to shortest: Earth 20 minutes, Water 16, Fire 12, Air 8, Akasha 4 — then the hour turns over and the cycle begins again. The widget reads your device clock: the minutes past the hour place you inside a phase, and the ring drains as that phase runs out. The bija is the seed-syllable traditionally paired with each element.
What does this phase mean?
In general moon-lore the waxing half of the cycle (New toward Full) is for building — starting, growing, adding — and the waning half (Full back toward New) is for releasing — finishing, clearing, letting go. Take it as a rhythm to work with, not a rule.
Computed from compact formulas, not a full ephemeris: the phase is good to within hours, but the sign position can be off by a few degrees — near a cusp it may read the neighbouring sign.
- 22✓Letters3 Mothers + 7 Doubles + 12 Simples = 22
- 231✓GatesC(22, 2) = 231
- 24✓Modulators4 × C(4, 2) = 24
- 243✓Tri-Grid3⁵ = 243
- 72✓Angels360° ÷ 5° = 72
Pattern is not proof. Every claim on this site carries an evidence tier.
What am I looking at?
One architecture, many vocabularies. This work proposes that Kabbalah, tarot, astrology, the I Ching, music, chemistry and geometry are not separate traditions that happen to rhyme — they are different notations for the same underlying structure. Here you can read that structure, test it, and run it against your own life.
A grammar, not a dictionary. Most symbol systems are lookup tables — Aleph means air. Here each of the 22 Hebrew letters is an operator carrying a full attribute bundle, and each of the 231 gates is what happens when two operators meet. Meanings are computed, not memorised — that single move is what makes the system generative.
Built to be used. Over a hundred working instruments — oracles, calculators, wheels, maps and readers. Enter your birth details once and every engine personalises to you. Your birth details and profile are stored only in your browser and are never sent to a server.
Honest about itself. The mathematics is checked. The poetry is labelled as poetry. Pattern is not proof.
New here? Walk it in this order — the 22 Letters · the Tree · the 231 Gates · the Diagram Codex · your own reading. Lost in the symbols? The Cheat Sheet and the glossary carry you the whole way round. Prefer to read? The full argument is the book — six parts, 207 chapters.
How was this made?
The same way every great symbolic synthesis was made — by noticing that the systems share arithmetic — but this time with the receipts kept. For two thousand years builders have joined the traditions: the Sefer Yetzirah counted the 231 gates from the 22 letters; the Golden Dawn wired tarot, astrology and Kabbalah into one key in 1888; Human Design joined the I Ching to the zodiac wheel in 1987. This work stands openly in that lineage — the full story, ancestor by ancestor, is on the Lineage page.
The making itself took years of the author's life: thousands of pages of notebooks, charts and spreadsheets, distilled through repeated structured readings into a counted ledger — 373 entries in the canon, 78 of them the curated core and 127 published here — a ruled canon, and the book. Where the arithmetic joined honestly — 72 fives filling the circle, 231 pairs from 22 letters — it was kept. Where it refused to join — the I Ching's 64 against a 360° wheel — it was left out and the refusal recorded, which is the part almost nobody in the lineage ever did.
And one more honesty: parts of this system were developed in long working conversations with AI assistants. Their contributions were audited afterwards — invented citations stripped, flattery discounted to zero, and every surviving claim graded on the evidence tiers. What you are reading survived its own audit.
What do the five numbers mean?
The small green ✓ beside each number is not decoration — every count is worked out by its own formula each time the page draws itself, so if a count were ever wrong, the front door would be the first place it showed.
What's an evidence tier?
A label saying how well a claim is actually supported — checked mathematics at the top, then structural constructs, then interpretive correspondences, then open hypotheses. It is printed next to the claim rather than buried, so you always know whether you are reading a proof or a proposal. See the tiers →