Glyphology: You Shall Not Pass!

Glyphology: You Shall Not Pass!

There's three topics I want to look at today. They might seem unrelated at first glance, but from a glyphologic point of view they might actually be connected. And if they are, there might be more consequences to consider...

(A) When Roland Jarvis was shot in Zurich, his body stayed in this world, while his mind and soul moved into the portal network, into the Ultimate. (Even though some may have doubts about the mind part).

(B) Centuries ago, the 13Magnus fought the N'Zeer and managed to lock them away on the other side of the portals.

(C) As a result of the events at the Nest in Afghanistan, many (if not all) of the remaining Sensitives that were involved in the NIA research at CERN and were present there during Epiphany Night seem to have vanished. So far we only know what happened to Devra Bogdanovich.

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Let's start with (B). What is keeping the N'Zeer on the other side of the portals?

To keep them away, there has to be a sort of barrier to protect us from them. The glyphs support this:

Portal - Barrier - Defend - Human - Shapers

So there seems to really be a barrier, but how does it work? Looking at what we have learned about the N'Zeer so far, one of the things attributed to them seems to be chaos. And there is a glyph sequence that indicates a connection:

Chaos - Barrier - Shapers - Portal

Adding up those two sequences it looks like chaos is the property that prevents from passing the portals. But does it only affect the N'Zeer, or is this barrier working in both directions?
That is where topic (A) comes in. Roland Jarvis left his body behind when he was shot. Why?
I don't believe it was intentional, but rather a consequence of the portal chaos barrier. Throwing in the next sequence:

All - Chaos - Inside - Body

If chaos is something that resides inside the body, that would be the explanation of why his body had to remain behind.

Personally, I would disagree and say that chaos is also something that affects mind and soul as well. But maybe the roots of that chaos are actually inside the body, and mind and soul are only affected due to neural impulses from our body that make our brain go wobbly? Both Human physiology and psychology are very complex things after all, so the portals may know better.

So let's for the moment accept that chaos=body and thus the body has to stay behind. As we know, the pure human consists of body, mind and soul:

Mind - Body - Soul - Pure - Human [1]

Does this mean that mind and soul can pass the portals easily?

Shapers - Portal - Mind - Restraint

So there is no barrier for the mind, but some restraint. Something that can be overcome in order to allow the mind to pass the barrier.
I'm not aware of any glyph sequence that indicates a restriction of some sort for the soul, so I would say there is no barrier or restraint for the soul to pass the portals. The restraint for the mind may be a result of it having a stronger connection to the body than the soul.

There are two other glyph sequences that may refer to this topic:

Improve - Mind - Journey - Inside
Journey - Inside - Improve - Soul

Both contain an Improve part and a Journey - Inside part, but the order is different. What are we to journey inside into? And why the different arrangement of the glyphs?
Maybe these to sequences are actually about journying into the portal network or even the Ultimate. The order of the glyphs actually show the order in which you have to do things.
You need to improve the mind before you can journey inside (the portals), seperating it from the body. And then, once you did journey inside, you can/will improve your soul.

When Roland Jarvis was shot in Zurich, he had just escaped the NIA experiment at CERN, known as Epiphany Night. Like all Sensitives he was dosed heavily with XM, enhancing his senses and awareness - which might qualify as improving the mind. Thus his mind and soul were able to pass the portal barrier and reach the Ultimate.
This may also have formed the basis for Jarvis's view of Enlightenment:

Seperate - Mind - Body - Discover - Enlightenment

When listening to the surveillance audio of the Acolyte talking with a student about Devra's fate (https://youtu.be/McF6FOggDac), there is a part at 2:53 where the Acolyte says about the Shapers:
"That is why we study. Why we learn to calm our minds before we seek them out."
So she, too, seems to know that calming of the mind, removal of chaos if you will, is required to access the Ultimate

So what does all of this mean in regard to (C)? We saw Devra vanish as a result of the XM blast in the Nest. And the other Sensitives seem to have vanished, too.
If the theory about the body-barrier is true, then their bodies should still be somewhere else. Again going back to the above video: the student notes that Devra vanished "just like Hank Johnson in that video last year" (at 2:00). But what disappeared back then was Hank's simulacrum body, not his true one which was stored at the Nest.

From this arise two questions and a theory:

Q1: Where are those bodies? Some believe they may be somewhere at/near CERN because the events of Epiphany Night created a strong bond between them and that location. Maybe the NIA lab at CERN became another major power point like the Nest?

Q2: If the N'Zeer are to be allowed back into our side of the portals, that would require the removal of the barrier.
Would body-transfer to the ultimate be possible after that? And what if there are people who have moved to the Ultimate with mind and soul, like Jarvis, their bodies still on this side - will the bodies automatically be pulled to the other side?

TH: The body-barrier is working both ways. It is blocking the N'Zeer, but Roland Jarvis claims that he has contact to the Shapers (his "friends") in the Ultimate. And lets assume that Shapers and N'Zeer have the same origin.
Then this might mean that either the Shapers are the ones that have managed to improve their minds, thus giving them access to the Ultimate, whereas the N'Zeer havent.
Or they are one species that has partially transformed into purely spiritual entities (Shapers), leaving behind others who did not undergo that transformation and stayed physical (N'Zeer).




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[1] So what is an impure human? One that lacks any of the 3, or also one that has another component added?