As a pseudo-fictive author of many anti-academic treatises, I was lucky enough to come into possession of Volumes 1-13 of The Oneiriad, a pan-universal exploration of selfhood which elaborates on some theories of multiversal travel I had considered in my youth, before forming Die Spezielle Bruderschaft der Ontologischen Zerstörung; it seems apt to write some evidence of its contents now for the SBOZ before its untimely demise at the hands of never having existed in the first place.
Throughout The Oneiriad, The Sapphire Line makes a regular appearance, an unfathomable force which binds, ties, anchors, and unifies entire universes, if not multiverses or more. Investigated by many mortal & fictive scientists & magi, it is imperative we record - first & foremost - the other manifestations of this power in multiversal constructs we may be more accustomed too.
In Grant Morrison’s investigations of one particular multiverse, The Sapphire Line is known as The Orrery of Worlds, suspended in The Bleed1. In Stephen King’s evocation2 of a particular segment of the omniverse3, The Sapphire Line is perceived as a rose, but also the architectural meta-anchor that is The Dark Tower, anchoring beams of might4 that hold together Deschain’s multiverse. Within The Bible, prophets perceived the choirs of angels reaching up to Heaven; new age practitioners may comprehend a shifting ability through hyper-daydreaming, or astral projection. In all instances these are merely manifestations of the same force, which for the instance of this paper, shall be called The Sapphire Line.
The Sapphire Line often manifests in totality in liminal spaces. In The Oneiriad: Vol 1, The Sapphire Line originally appears in Burma. Due to the political upheaval of the country, the place in that layer of reality is rendered as both Burma and Myanmar, creating a liminal zone between the two overlapping countries5 where the anchoring energy can emit. It was tended to by a fictive scientist investigated by ARECON6 which granted it material presence in the country. However, The Sapphire Line has also been utilised as an energy in-and-of-itself to create portals between differing universal constructs. As much as this may go over your head, being neither an agent of a supernatural intelligence agency, an undercover magician, or fictional construct (more on this later), what is important to illustrate is that within the multiverse labelled The Oneiriad, The Sapphire Line manifests as a blue light, like rushing water or cerulean lava, sparking with creative lightning known as arclight.
Let us pause. Fictive & material. What do I mean by this? A material construct is that which exists within layers of reality comprised of atoms, matter, laws of physics: the qabalists may call this Malkuth. A fictive construct is that which exists within layers of reality comprised of narratology, dream-stuff, astral projection: the qabalists may call this Yesod. Being neither a qabalist, material, or fictive, I am sure I have got some elements incorrect here. What is important to note is that all realities possess layers from utmost materiality to utmost dream/spiritual gubbins, and vice versa a long drop down into pure consciousness-creativity7. The Sapphire Line cuts from the depths to the peaks of these elements, from the physical text of The Oneiriad one might read on a subway platform to the dreamspace of narrative where those characters play out their half-baked existences8, including my own. What is to be said is that all things are REAL, it is simply that some things are more MATERIAL than others.
Suffice to say, to access The Sapphire Line on material layers of reality is exceedingly improbable. The Sapphire Line is not beholden to material physics, atoms, science, and thus one cannot go down to the local DIY store and construct a multidimensional portal: however, one might be able to evoke a reality and write of its inhabitants and events in the form of story, or utilise day-dreaming to envision and participate (albeit briefly) in less material zones of universe. In this regard, to truly play about with the dimensional-stuff that is The Sapphire Line requires fictives, as above elucidated, which can be illustrated as fractal arrangements of selves spanning out from a material host9. In this regard we relay Thelema’s “as above, so below”, so that the story we construct effects our material world as much as our story-telling effects theirs.
The Sapphire Line originally anchored universes to their similars. As above, the multiverse labelled as DC Comics or Marvel possess similarities and thus a similar Sapphire Line to bind them. Those of Mills & Boone novels, Hookland, H P Lovecraft, Doctor Who, Fukuyama, Twin Peaks, Marx, the Brontës, Westeros, Middle Earth, The Oneiriad—each rarely overlapped with another. In the material this manifested as IP or copyright, on the dream-plains, as the borders between realities. But with the advent of Disney+, Fortnite, rampant capitalism, and anarchistic devolutions of the boundary lines, something is manifesting in the narratological fields. The Sapphire Line is burning up across multiversal lines; new battles are being drawn; new villains and foes are meeting on the cosmic shorelines. I fear what will become of the omniverse, but I am but an old man in a dilapidated NHS hospital, awaiting the next wave. Is that of pandemic, or pan-dimensions? Of COVID or Quiddity? I will eat my green jello in comfort and hope you will explore the highways of the cosmos with the gusto of a superhero, a jack-the-lad, a curious monk. The Sapphire Line burns for us all.
This essay was kindly donated by the SBOZ, and was written by Ricard St. Jassœmein in a state of situationist prank, hallucination, and sigilisation.
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See: Dc Comics, The Multiversity
See: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, and wider body of work.
A universe is a box in which a set of physics, materiality, and constructs exist. A multiverse is the warehouse in which many universes are kept, which share commonality (i.e. they all have a Dark Tower; they all have Superman). An omniverse is the street where all the warehouses are suspended. After this, we enter the realms of prefix/suffix ridiculousness.
These beams, in The Oneiriad, would be known as arclight.
See: China Miéville, The City & The City
Angel Reconnaissance
This for another essay, but suffice to say David Lynch depicted this as a purple sea past The Black Lodge, and Clive Barker called it The Quiddity.
See: Grant Morrison’s Filth, and comic books reading themselves. Also Animal Man.
Be wary, for if one were to construct villains to ones mortal goodness, the karmic rebound would be astronomic. Don’t be a dick in the multiverse.