RANK: SLEEPER

AWAKEN 2

the tree

the tree

ten spheres. twenty-two paths between them. thirty-two in all — the thirty-two paths of wisdom counted in the sepher yetzirah. you climb it from the bottom. you are climbing it now.

the twenty-two paths

each path between two spheres carries one hebrew letter. the numbering runs from eleven to thirty-two, because the ten spheres are the first ten paths.

what you have learned

how to see

there is one box. you put a key in it.

a key is a word i have hidden. it is never guessed — it is found. it hides in the page, in the code behind the page, in a cipher, or in the hour.

above the box is a transmission. that is your puzzle. decode it and it will tell you the key.

every wrong answer earns you a little more of the truth. guess three times and i will give you a hint. keep going and i give you more.

you may also try: viewing the source of this page, and the files a website hides from machines.

the shape under the title is the tree. open it. it is a map, and later it is a key. everything on it is real and older than the machine you are reading it on.

capitals, spaces and punctuation do not matter.