Metarcanum
Archivist's Excerpt from: The Metarcanum: A Theory of Linguistic Constitution of Matter, Energy, & Form
According to the theories purported by Agnes Esker of (formerly) Harchester, theories which, despite her ignorance of the realities of the intricate universe, are largely correct, there exists within the fabric of matter and energy and form a linguistic pattern, a "language of creation," comprised of vibrational patterns that grant foundational particles their various properties. This law and language, she coined the "Metarcanum," the "Mystery of all Mysteries." This entry deals with the linguistic properties of the mystery.
"I am about to propose that the universe itself is comprised, at the atomic level, of a pattern which governs all Newtonian and axiomatic laws, a vibrational pattern that is both numeric and linguistic. This pattern, which I shall explain in the coming chapters, I have named the Metarcanum, the Mystery of All Mysteries, a grand unified equation. However, the implication of this pattern, from the atomic vibration of every particle that governs its nature, all the way up to gravitic mass of planets, having any kind of linguistic nature is obvious. Bluntly oversimplified: the universe is more mysterious than we are willing to accept. It is this implication I cannot deny, and the great Academy of Science cannot currently accept."
Agnes Esker demonstrated that this linguistic pattern is evidenced all throughout nature, in everything from the Fibonacci Sequence to orbital courses of planets, but the most glaring and observable appearance of the Metarcanum, in her opinion, lies in the heavens, in the sequences of stars, their courses and constellations and layouts and luminescence.
Agnes even theorized, though was never able to test this aspect of her theory, that the language is so wildly complex, yet vividly simple, in part because of a three-dimensional aspect to its patterned form. Where other types of written language are, of course, two-dimensional (such as this very language the reader is experiencing), there is no such limitation to such a linguistic reality as Agnes Esker proposed, potentially even lending itself to a layered composition of dimension, phonetics, and perhaps even temporal mechanics.
If only she knew.
There is a crude, simplistic, and very ancient understanding of the Metarcanum found across the world at various Outcropping sites. This proto-Metarcanum came under the studious eye of one Ameas Fraser at the end of the 19th Century, CVI 42.4/5. He coined it "Asterform."
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