"Two Lists of Stones" is a groundwork note by Lee Sharks (7 September 2026) setting the relations between Theophrastus's De lapidibus and the Apocalypse of John and withholding the readings. The two books catalogue the same stones — emerald, sard, sardonyx, amethyst, hyacinth, crystal — in nearly the same words, but Theophrastus orders them by what each can do (colour water, petrify, draw, test gold like the Lydian stone) and John by where each stands (first to twelfth foundation of the city wall). The note records the two senses of σφραγίς: in Theophrastus the seal is carved FROM the red unburnable ἄνθραξ at Miletus, in which also are the hexagons; in John it is set UPON a book, upon persons who are then counted, and upon speech as a prohibition against writing — against the closing instruction not to seal this book at all. It records κόκκινον as one word at two ends of a supply chain: the pigment ground, washed and settled above Ephesus, credited to a named inventor ninety years back, and the same crimson worn by the woman and the beast and freighted in the merchants' manifest. It sets the hexagons in the mineral beside the tetragon of the measured cube, and the white ψῆφος bearing a name known only to its receiver beside stones whose knowledge is public because the test repeats — an instrument, or an address. No dependence is asserted and no allegory offered; Exodus 28 and Ezekiel 28 are named as John's older relatives and left untraced, because tracing them is the reading. Extracted from the notebook The First Draft (§34, §34.1).