---
id: sfoc-cosmologies-source
title: "Source"
primary_class: cosmologies
primary_domain: origin-lineage
secondary_domains: [reality-ontology, time-causality]
material_modes: [esoteric-tradition, spiritual-cosmology, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Source

> **the source cosmographer.** Source brings an originating ground placed within origin & lineage into focus. It operates as a whole-world model for reality and its hidden architecture and asks how inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings alter practical choice.

## Origin

Source has no single timeless beginning in this record. It is approached through community vocabulary, historical sources, and claims stated at their own layer, then followed into later reinterpretation. Because an originating ground placed within origin & lineage changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made, provenance work must trace the earliest attested form, each handoff, and what later tellers added.

## What It Is

Source brings an originating ground placed within origin & lineage into focus. It operates as a whole-world model for reality and its hidden architecture and asks how inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings alter practical choice. In the Oracle it is classified as Cosmologies, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Source did not keep one meaning while its setting changed. Its reception shows how an origin story can preserve obligation or turn age into unearned authority. At collective scale, an originating ground placed within origin & lineage organizes communities around a shared map of what is ultimately real; this matters because an origin story can preserve obligation or turn age into unearned authority.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** esoteric-tradition, spiritual-cosmology
- **Evidence state:** not-applicable
- **Summary:** Source is not assigned a blanket literal truth claim; its historical, community, or symbolic meanings are evaluated on their own layers.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** esoteric-tradition, spiritual-cosmology, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** Source has a class-level contextual source but still lacks a concept-specific external source in this release. Its cultural history is an editorial research lead, not a completed provenance claim.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Source as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Source brings an originating ground placed within origin & lineage into focus. It operates as a whole-world model for reality and its hidden architecture and asks how inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings alter practical choice.
- **Archetype:** the source cosmographer
- **Gift:** trace inheritance without confusing age with truth by making an originating ground placed within origin & lineage available for careful comparison.
- **Shadow:** using technical or sacred language to conceal ordinary power and dependency.
- **Guidance:** Bring in the missing witness to Source through inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings. Record whose knowledge, labor, risk, or refusal the current map omits while the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made. Use this guidance where an originating ground placed within origin & lineage changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made; keep visible that an origin story can preserve obligation or turn age into unearned authority.
- **Healing / integration:** Draw a three-generation lineage: source, transformation, and present claimant. Add one source and one affected witness before interpreting the result. Review an originating ground placed within origin & lineage through inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings, remembering that the card changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.
- **Question:** What permission or obligation changes if an originating ground placed within origin & lineage becomes decisive? Answer by testing how an originating ground placed within origin & lineage changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made against inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings.

## Meanings

### Psychological

Source reveals how attention behaves around an origin story can preserve obligation or turn age into unearned authority. The psychological work is to regain choice without dismissing what feels consequential. A grounded check for an originating ground placed within origin & lineage is to trace the earliest attested form, each handoff, and what later tellers added, especially where the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.

### Social

Source reveals which experiences a culture rewards, doubts, medicalizes, celebrates, or hides. Those responses shape the phenomenon’s lived reality. In shared life, an originating ground placed within origin & lineage organizes communities around a shared map of what is ultimately real. Test that specific an originating ground placed within origin & lineage pattern by asking people to trace the earliest attested form, each handoff, and what later tellers added.

### Spiritual

As sacred metaphor, Source asks how an origin story can preserve obligation or turn age into unearned authority. It should not erase living tradition while its symbolic role changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made. In symbolic practice, an originating ground placed within origin & lineage locates purpose, suffering, and transcendence within a larger order; keep in view that an origin story can preserve obligation or turn age into unearned authority.

### Technological

As infrastructure, Source would require materials, energy, labor, maintenance, governance, and disposal. The imagined capability must carry those dependencies. When an originating ground placed within origin & lineage becomes a capability, it invites tools that reveal, model, navigate, or alter hidden layers. Verify the implementation of an originating ground placed within origin & lineage by asking participants to trace the earliest attested form, each handoff, and what later tellers added.

### Political

Source may justify exceptional action by promising safety, destiny, abundance, or revelation where inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings are contested. Examine mandate, evidence, proportionality, and sunset as the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made. When an originating ground placed within origin & lineage becomes governance, it can justify authority by claiming privileged access to the structure of reality. Make authority over an originating ground placed within origin & lineage answerable by requiring decision-makers to trace the earliest attested form, each handoff, and what later tellers added.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Receive the card as permission to engage an originating ground placed within origin & lineage with curiosity and proportion. The gift becomes real through accountable action. The capacity within an originating ground placed within origin & lineage is strongest when the inheritance is visible without making ancestry destiny, even as the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.
- **Shadow state:** In shadow, Source becomes using technical or sacred language to conceal ordinary power and dependency. Pause before the preferred explanation hardens into identity or mandate. To keep an originating ground placed within origin & lineage from escalating, trace the earliest attested form, each handoff, and what later tellers added, because the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.
- **Threshold state:** This is a signal to examine the keeper, witness, outsider, beneficiary, and cost hidden inside Source, especially around inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings. Operationally, an originating ground placed within origin & lineage changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made; the reader should trace the earliest attested form, each handoff, and what later tellers added.
- **Practical move:** Draw a three-generation lineage: source, transformation, and present claimant. Add one source and one affected witness before interpreting the result. Review an originating ground placed within origin & lineage through inheritance, transmission, rupture, and the authority claimed by beginnings, remembering that the card changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.

## Game and Story Function

- world-model
- hidden-rule
- stakes-frame

**Story seed:** The evidence for Source is genuine but supports less than either faction claims. Force the investigator to protect truth without abandoning meaning. The world of the story must show how an originating ground placed within origin & lineage changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made and why an origin story can preserve obligation or turn age into unearned authority.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-cosmologies-soul-school--sfoc-cosmologies-source
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-cosmologies-soul-school--sfoc-cosmologies-source
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-cosmologies-source--sfoc-cosmologies-space-memory-network
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-cosmologies-source
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-source--sfoc-hypotheses-future-human-hypothesis
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-source--sfoc-hypotheses-morphic-resonance

## Visual Direction

Source visualized as an originating ground placed within origin & lineage: nested horizons and celestial registration rings arranged around a legible world-model. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

No elevated safety flag. Keep claims and metaphor visibly distinct.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Source? Which communities use Source differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Source?
