I’ve been finding the same pattern for weeks: the spiral, the lidless eye, the inverted tree. They appear in medieval grimoires as much as in the surrealists’ notebooks. I don’t believe in coincidences.

Yesterday, rereading a passage from Crowley’s Book of Thoth, I stumbled upon a phrase I hadn’t remembered: “The neophyte must learn to see without eye and hear without ear.” The same idea appears almost identically in a text by Hildegard von Bingen.

Scattered notes:

• The spiral as a symbol of simultaneous ascent and descent
• The lidless eye: impossible vigilance, the gaze that never rests
• The inverted tree: roots in the sky, branches in the earth

Is this a sign or just the bias of someone looking for patterns? Probably both. Confirmation bias doesn’t invalidate intuition; it just makes it more human.

I leave this note as a seed. If anyone else has noticed this recurrence, write to me.