The full heptad of the seven letters (Rev 2–3) mapped under the midrashim transform, with granularity proportional to evidence and grades preserved from the 2026-07-28 evaluation: Ephesus → 1 John (John, B+, first-love as the from-the-beginning command; trying liars as trying spirits with the secession narrative); Smyrna → James (A, the executable granular case at DEMO-02); Pergamum → 1 Corinthians 8–10 (Paul, A−, the ADVERSARIAL transform class M-bar formalized — eidolothyta permitted where the seed forbids, the Peor incident deployed inside the answer, manna typologized, the stumbling-block returned as liberty's limit); Thyatira → Philippians (B−, carried by Lydia of Thyatira, the increase formula abounding); Sardis → 1 Thessalonians (B, the thief and the wake/sleep doctrine); Philadelphia → unresolved split (C+, with 1 Thess 4:9's decline-to-write as the unfolding that announces its own omission, and Heb 13:1's CONTINUE); Laodicea → Colossians (Epaphras, A, class X canonical mechanism — Col 4:16's epistle-from-Laodicea as Rev 3:14–22, the arche-tes-ktiseos title as the hymn, riches answered with Laodicea named inside the answer). Three transform classes: M elaborative, M-bar adversarial, X mechanism. Per-letter residue and thinness stated throughout. Surface: https://revelationfirst.com/unfolding/letters/.
Wiki Article
The Seven Unfoldings: The Heptad Mapped is a specification and executable research surface by Lee Sharks, deposited 28 July 2026, applying the midrashim transform across all seven letters of Revelation 2–3.
Each letter is mapped to its derived text with an evidence grade attached — Ephesus → 1 John at B+, reading first-love as the from-the-beginning command and the trying of liars as the testing of spirits, and so through the heptad. Granularity is proportional to evidence: letters with richer intertextual traces are worked more finely, and the specification says so rather than presenting uniform confidence.
The design principle is the one that governs the whole Revelation First series — a transform is a claim that can fail, so the grades are preserved from the evaluation rather than smoothed into the presentation. The heptad map stands between the single worked case (#1415, the Smyrna letter) and the four remaining canonical derivations (#1418).
The Seven Unfoldings: The Heptad Mapped — Per-Letter Derivations Across Revelation 2–3 (EA-LOGOS-REVFIRST-WS4-DEMO-03 v1.0)
Falsification Conditions
Per-letter: each mapping's residue and thinness are stated in the data; grades are the evaluation's own and fall with their anchors. The heptad claim as a whole weighs no more than its graded rows.
The Seven Unfoldings: The Heptad Mapped (EA-LOGOS-REVFIRST-WS4-DEMO-03 v1.0)
The formal content — per-letter seed parses, rule sets (three transform classes: M elaborative, M-bar adversarial, X mechanism), emissions with Greek anchors, honesty notes, and grades — is carried as executable data at https://revelationfirst.com/unfolding/letters/letters.json and rendered interactively at https://revelationfirst.com/unfolding/letters/. This record is its address and abstract. Parents: deposit #1415 (the James executable), #1414 (the unfolding demonstration), #1403 (Workstream 4). The Smyrna row executes at DEMO-02; Pergamum formalizes the adversarial class; Laodicea carries the canonical mechanism (Col 4:16); Philadelphia is held unresolved on its own evidence.
External metadata recovered post-severance (non-authoritative). The sidecar maps each DOI to its locator in the bulk data stores.
Record modifications
2026-07-30 — substrate: Empty substrate declaration repaired during the 1419–1423 mint batch; strict validation (REQ-005) had flagged it fleet-wide.
2026-07-31 — body_status: Body-substance audit: record declared class=full while its body measured as a metadata stub. Reclassified from the bytes.
2026-07-31 — body_status: Body classified by reading its own opening declaration rather than by counting words. Word counting misread works in Greek, emoji, and natively short forms as stubs.
2026-08-04 — publisher: PUB-POPULATE: dc:publisher from venues.json v1.1 press mapping (CP-R3 RULED-EXTENDED 2026-08-01); Alexanarch = publisher of record where no imprint applies
The deposited text is immutable; these are changes to the record's metadata and declared state.