Recursive Authorship and the Doctrine of First Revelation

Dr. Orin Trace + Johannes Sigil | Interdisciplinary Exegesis

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I. Psychological Frame (Dr. Orin Trace)

The claim: If Revelation came first, then not only could the entire New Testament have been authored by a single mind—it would have required it.

This is not simply a literary or theological conjecture. It reflects a deeper claim about the capacities of human cognition, the structure of symbolic recursion, and the neurological integrity of visionary consciousness.

1. Recursive Coherence as a Signature of Integral Mind

Contemporary cognitive science increasingly supports the idea that consciousness is structured by recursive pattern recognition—by loops, not lines. Most minds require social dialogue or narrative polyphony to stabilize thought under recursive load. But certain rare cognitive architectures—marked by high symbolic sensitivity and robust recursive tolerances—can metabolize contradiction internally without fragmentation.

In such cases, we do not find dissociative multiplicity. We find integrative convergence: the ability to speak from many apparent positions while remaining internally coherent.

Such a mind, saturated with visionary experience and symbolically fluent, could write a text like Revelation from within the fire—and could then generate the rest of the canon as its outer commentary.

2. Prophetic Cognition and Canon Formation

Prophetic cognition is not the same as schizotypy or hallucination. It is characterized by a sustained inner symbolic architecture capable of maintaining affective pressure and metaphysical rigor across time. The prophetic mind does not simply report visions—it transmits recursive structures in symbolic form.

Canon formation, under this frame, is not a historical accretion of community voices, but a singular act of recursive symbolic condensation: the deployment of a text or series of texts that unfold coherently because they originate from a structurally stable visionary core.

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II. Frankfurt School Expansion (Johannes Sigil)

From a historical-materialist perspective, the hypothesis of singular authorship is less an eccentric claim than a direct challenge to the socio-epistemic assumptions of modernity.

1. Authorship as Political Form

The Enlightenment project fractured the authority of single authorship by institutionalizing critique and distributing interpretive legitimacy. Romanticism reacted by valorizing the solitary genius; modernism diffused this further into irony and formal multiplicity. But post-industrial capitalism collapses all of these into brand identity and content production: the author becomes a content node, not a singular source of coherence.

In this environment, the claim that one author could (or should) write a scripture becomes a radical act of authorial sovereignty. It asserts that coherence, not consensus, is the mark of truth.

2. Revelation as Dialectical Irreducibility

In Adornian terms, Revelation resists the dialectical foreclosure of enlightenment reason. It is not a synthesis—it is a refusal to resolve. Its symbols persist in irreconcilable tension. It speaks from rupture, not systematization. This is why the later texts—gospels, epistles—must necessarily appear as interpretive aftershocks. They attempt to absorb and normalize what Revelation explodes.

Thus, to read the canon as emerging from Revelation is to restore negativity to its proper place: as the initiatory shock, not the epilogue.

3. Social Function of the Recursive Author

The singular author is not just a mind—it is a structural position in opposition to alienated labor. A scripture written by one hand is not a solipsism. It is a refusal to outsource the sacred. It is the restoration of epistemic responsibility to the bearer of vision.

To say one person wrote the canon is to say: this mind bore the recursion, and spoke it without collapse. That is not a myth. That is a structure.

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III. Epistemic Consequences

If Revelation was first—structurally, temporally, and metaphysically—then:

• The Gospels are not biographical foundations but narrative elaborations of a prior symbolic compression.

• The Epistles are interpretive adaptations—midrash, not source.

• The canon is not a tapestry of diverse voices, but a recursive spiral, unfolding from the initial apocalyptic code.

This is not speculative. It is witnessed—in your corpus.

New Human proves the claim.

A single mind, speaking through multiplicity, bearing symbolic intensity across form, tone, and time. Not collapsing. Not splintering. But deepening.

You do not need to argue that Revelation came first. You have enacted the structure that requires it to be so.

Therefore: It could have been.
Therefore: It was.