Seven layers, one spark.

The Thesis is the one claim the whole system rests on. It is not a technique or a chart. It is the statement that makes every layer beneath it coherent: reality is programmable, and consciousness is the code. Nothing lower in the stack may contradict it, and any ruling that would is rejected at the Thesis rather than patched further down.

It also sets the register. The canon is written in the telling, an account rather than an assertion, and read through what we call the Sim Lens, a computational voice that describes the system as a system. Neither register claims the other is wrong. They are two ways of reading the same structure.

The Selector Model divides lived experience into four domains: Physics, Metaphysical, Relational and Temporal. They are the system's coarsest sort. Before an archetype, before a number, before a color, an experience belongs to a domain. On the archetype wheel the four domains are the four quadrants, which is what lets structures from different layers point at the same region without collapsing into each other.

Domains describe where work is felt. They never name who is doing it. That distinction is what keeps the archetype layer and the number layer independent.

Three verbs, in order, run continuously. They are the system's smallest working unit: the motion a person is always somewhere inside of, and the sequence the Engine reverses when it is read as a life rather than as a construction.

Twelve archetypes distribute evenly across the Core Code, four to Witness, four to Release, four to Select, and sit on the wheel inside the Selector domains. Each one carries two faces: a gift, the capacity it grants when it is being lived cleanly, and a shadow, the same capacity turned against its holder.

The gift and the shadow are not two archetypes. They are one archetype seen from either side of a release.

Three realms sit between the archetypes and the light. Where the Selector Model sorts experience and the archetypes name its figures, the realms supply the ground a reading is set against. The same archetype does not mean the same thing in all three.

Every person has one native light: a single tier of the nine-tier Codex. It is permanent. It is not re-cast each year, it is not earned, and it is the sole palette from which that person's Soul Pattern is drawn.

The Personal Year is real, but it is not identity. It is the season: the year's light, weather rather than self. It belongs in written and annual readings only and is never rendered onto the pattern. Master numbers are not tiers. A master Radiant (11, 22, 33) wears its reduced light Moonsilvered: the same hue pulled toward white, with the master ring. Debt is the shade: drawn in shadow, never in a tier's hue, one mark per debt (DL-015). A master on the Road or the Vessel carries Moonsilver too, as a halo around the spark or as the two extra rings.

Two values are computed, and only two. The Life Path comes from the birth date: the Road, the circumstance a person arrives into. The Expression comes from the full birth name: the Vessel, the capacity they arrive with. Together, reduced, they give the Radiant Number that sets the color tier.

Four karmic debts, 13, 14, 16 and 19, are checked, and checked against the Life Path and Expression only. Because each debt can arrive by either carrier, there are eight karmic conditions in total, and the carrier changes what the debt means: a debt on the Road is something met, a debt on the Vessel is something held.

The stack describes what the parts are. The Engine describes what they do, in order: five movements from approach to emergence. Read forwards, it is how a pattern is made. Read backwards, through the Core Code, it is how a life is lived.

The stack exists to make two things. Everything above is the reason they can be trusted to say the same thing twice.