![]() ![]() If you count the folds in the floor, there are ten before they dissolve into unity. We have two Godheads on either side (duality), guiding us down a path that ends in a single light (unity). This is why the Net of Being is the first image in the series. We’ve found a unity in diversity, just like Pythagoras. Four becomes three, becomes two, becomes one. Between album releases, the band takes extended breaks that allow for collaboration with other artists in designing award-winning album packaging, the creation of elaborate light shows, and band member involvement. This is alchemical duality, where things are seen as either Active or Passive.Ĭ.) Finally, the duality can be folded up into “the one thing.” The Prima Materia. Lateralus and 10,000 Days both debuted number one on the US Billboard 200 as well as topping the charts in numerous other countries. The Alchemical Triad and the Four Elements can be folded up into the Celestial Salt and Celestial Niter. This is why there are only three zoomed in images (Maynard doesn’t have one). Now, if you want to take it one step further (and it’s always the one step further where ideas can turn crackpot).Ī.) In alchemy, the four elements are folded to create the Alchemical Triad (Sulphur, Salt, Mercury). Everything in the foreground represents material/physical things. Maynard is offering a cup of distilled wine, and distilled alcohols were called the water of life.Īdam’s picture: Earth, his desk is filled with petrified animals and plants. Maynard’s picture: Water - the Aqua Vitae - the water of life. Justin’s picture: Air, the falcon beginning to fly. The current artwork on Toolband is obviously an Alex Grey piece, very similar to a. If you focus on the foreground of each picture, this is what you see:ĭanny’s picture: Fire - it trails and sails over his shoulder. 10,000 Days being the live DVD and Aldaraia being the new album. The portraits show the four elements of Alchemy, just like the band members are the four elements of Tool. (I went looking for the original newsletter but couldn’t find it). None of the other solutions seem to fit those criteria. If I remember the clues correctly, the solution was supposed to be simple and obvious once revealed, and the clues were to be hidden in the 4 portraits of the band members. On the tree of life solution, Blair’s response reads to me as snarky and sarcastic, not a genuine response that the puzzle is solved. I know that different solutions have been proposed (mapping the album to the tree of life or merging songs to create hidden songs), but I’ve never been satisfied with those solutions. Since we’ve crossed 14 years since the release of 10,000 Days, I’ve been recently thinking about the puzzle supposedly hidden within the album artwork. ![]()
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