Ot: Tool / Lateralus/ Magical Mysteries

[AirElemental]

Ok, I'm sure a good portion of you are tool fans, and are aware of the new album Lateralus.

I was in correspondance with some people over at their website,
and asked about the signifigance of art bell being on the album,
especially in light of the band's rant on enterprisemission.com.
Well, in just a short period, I received an email... here's the gyst of it..

From: Anon@toolband.com

..."get a piece of graph paper. Plot a parabola 19.5 high and wide,
superimpose the tree of life upside down at the top of the parabola, and in each sephiroth write in the name of one of the songs from the lateralus tracklist starting at the top with parabola. Work sequentially and clockwise, spiralling inward. when you are finished, you'll have several songs leftover.. play those in alphabetical order, and listen for NUMBERS. email me with the solution and your interpretation..."

BTW: I noticed a conveniently transparent version of the tree of life on the outer shell casing of the salival dvd / tape set. it happens to fit nicely over a parabola drawn 19.5 boxes high/wide.

Good hunting!

 

[eXodus]

i am in fact a huge tool fan. oh, how i love tool.

i have read about this sort of thing online actually. it is rumored that the entire album was written based on numbers. if i were not a complete idiot concerning things regarding geometry i would try to work this out myself.

i cannot wait to see what you come up with.

 

[AirElemental]

Sacred Geometry...

By the way, did you notice the sacred geometry located inside the
blue apple in the new video?

 

[Replica]

I've always been suprised at the significance of the kabbalistic sephirotic diagram in magick practices and theory.

 

[AirElemental]

Hmmm...

not as many toolfans as I thought?

 

[Jordan]

Wait a minute. How would you know which songs to put where?

Also, there's been a lot of discussion on alt.music.tool about the time signatures on Lateralus, and what they mean. Check it out in the Google Usenet archive, if you're interested.

 

[AirElemental]

Songs..

Start at the top with parabola.

1. Work sequentially on the tracklist ...(track 8,9,10,11...)
2. Work clockwise filling in each sephiroth, and spiral inward

simple as that