7 experiments from the registry, with their cameras, the compound-eye inspector, wireframe views and a neural panel.
No. 0020 · Rituals & ceremonies
Master Mason
The fly is the candidate in a Third Degree ceremony of 52 stages following Duncan's 1866 monitor, representing Hiram Abiff in the legend of Hiram Abiff, through the raising and the closing.
The fly, as aspirant, undertakes a condensed six-month Abramelin operation in a domestic oratory, from preparation and increasing prayer to the guardian and exterior convocations.
The fly watches a red laser projection on a wall as the room melts into a jeweled tunnel, twelve holographic fly figures present geometric jewels, and the room reassembles to its opening state.
The fly watches seven intersecting circles become a ten-point Tree of Life, then thirteen centers joined by 78 connections, which lift into depth and rotate with accelerating speed.
The fly attends a condensed Sunday Mass in Ordinary Time as one of 24 fly parishioners, following U.S. postures and receiving Communion individually from the priest.
The fly stands beside a two-slit apparatus. Rotating the fly to face the apparatus enables a programmed which-path detector; turning it away disables the detector and restores the interference pattern.
The fly, as Jack Parsons, follows Parsons's 1946 record of the Babalon Working across Pasadena and the Mojave, with two further flies as L. Ron Hubbard (scribe) and Marjorie Cameron.
Browser previews replay each experiment’s programmed timeline. Neural panels in previews are simulated from the rendered eye image; recorded experiments use the full 166,700-neuron model on the workstation.
