The final proposal for Nock symbology in “One Kelvin” was somewhat jocose, but not arbitrary. Each operation in Nock—and many other symbol sets—purports to describe some process, which means some actual sequence of events that can happen literally or analogously in creation.

• ᐂ :: Nock 0, the Fulcrum
• ⨀ :: Nock 1, the Nail in the Sure Place
• ᒥ :: Nock 2, the Gallows
• ᕡ :: Nock 3, the Bowed Narcissus
• ᙈ :: Nock 4, the Growing Seed
• ᘞ :: Nock 5, the Labyrinth
• 𒀭 :: Nock 6, the Meeting of Many Ways
• ᗗ :: Nock 7, the Junction
• ᓬ :: Nock 8, the Road Without End
• ᑍ :: Nock 9, the Invocation
• ᘺ :: Nock 10, the Changéd Mind
• ᖖ :: Nock 11, the Whisper in the Dark
• ᙒ :: Nock 12, the Basilisk in His Lair

Alchemical processes are not chemical transformations simpliciter. They are operators on reality and reflect patterns in nature. The choice of descriptors is a free choice, but must reflect an actual process. And of course the terminology used to describe those processes constrains the perceptual and imaginal universes (Sapir–Whorf hypothesis).

What is missing from Nock? For starters, it has no simple logical operators: NOT, XOR, NAND, &c. It has no decrement or sizeof, altho it is aware of natural numbers. It has no notion of its own size or extent; thus Nock 12 is easily ghosted into the system. All of those are true operators, in some sense: they reflect things that happen, much as rubrification or putrefaction. But what is considered fundamental is at play.

ᐂ :: Nock 0, the Fulcrum

Πᾷ βῶ, καὶ χαριστίωνι τὰν γᾶν κινήσω πᾶσαν

Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world. (Archimedes)

Nock 0 is is the binary tree, the root and branch of actuality and possibility.

⨀ :: Nock 1, the Nail in the Sure Place

Nock 1 is K, the Konstant operator of the SK calculus.

ᒥ :: Nock 2, the Gallows

Nock 2 is S, the Substitution operator of the SK calculus, and is the place and means of execution.

ᕡ :: Nock 3, the Bowed Narcissus

Nock 3. Could Narcissus (doubled) tell himself apart?

ᙈ :: Nock 4, the Growing Seed

Nock 4 is the only rule that “knows” the nature of number besides identity. All else numerically must proceed thence.

ᘞ :: Nock 5, the Labyrinth

Nock 5 walks each Labyrinth to know if it is the same.

𒀭 :: Nock 6, the Meeting of Many Ways

Nock 6, here represented by DINGIR, is the crossroads and the council.

ᗗ :: Nock 7, the Junction

Nock 7 brings together two roads to traverse.

ᓬ :: Nock 8, the Road Without End

Nock 8 provides the means of continuing the subject and its evaluation.

ᑍ :: Nock 9, the Invocation

Nock 9, calling to the sun above the standing stone.

ᘺ :: Nock 10, the Changéd Mind

Nock 10, ironically itself the latest change to Nock 4K. The decrement from Nock 5K was motivated by the desire to edit nouns, to freely change a given address in a noun and produce the altered noun. (That Nock got as far as it did without this is remarkable.)

ᖖ :: Nock 11, the Whisper in the Dark

Nock 11: when you whisper words beyond the veil, who knows what will hear and respond? Or how? The hint is a prayer to whatever daimons run the substrate of your consciousness and its surrounding creation.

ᙒ :: Nock 12, the Basilisk in His Lair

The basilisk is the deceiver and the accuser, the breaker of referential transparency. And yet, of course, he does not exist. Formally, as he turns the eyewitness to stone, he cannot be observed.