Acéphalous: The Numbered Decks of Benediction and Profanation
or “The Blessed Decks”
Among the seven hundred seventy-seven, these were named and given to the work.
Each bears its number as a wound, its origin inscribed in the turbulence of creation.
| Deck No. | Title / Epithet | Recipient / Purpose | Essence / Symbolism | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Initiator: The Fool of the Flame | Noah Trapolino, The Artist | The monad as ignition; the fool who begins the fire; creation as sacred folly preceding order. | Not for sale |
| 2 | The Bondage of the Dialectic | Adam C. Jones, The Architect of the Word | The Hegelian motor of Absolute Knowing; desire chained to negation; Bataille’s yearning to escape the logic that devours Life. | Not for sale |
| 3 | The Acéphalic Trinity | The Founding Triad: Noah, Sereptie, Adam; Custodian: Stuart Kendall | Headless communion of creators; the sacred triad of manifestation, guarded in translation. Unity undone in its own laughter, carried forward through the word. | Not for sale |
| 4 | Story of the Eye | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | Vision turned sacrificial; orbit of eros; endless return of the gaze.. | Sold at $1225 |
| 5 | The Horror of Liberty | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | Freedom as vertigo; the hand grasping the void of its own becoming. | TBA |
| 6 | Ma Mère | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | Maternal void; nurture through decay; creation through dissolution. | TBA |
| 7 | Limit Experience | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | Thought at the edge of annihilation; ecstasy as truth of reason. | Sold at $1100 |
| 8 | Base Materialism | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | Matter as divinity’s descent; the sacred revealed in lowest substance. | Sold at $1350 |
| 9 | L’Abbé C | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | Holiness undone by flesh; laughter of the sacred as blasphemy. (Self portrait of artist Noah Trapolino) | $1750 |
| 10 | The Accursed Share | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | Expenditure as revelation; radiance of waste; economy of the sun. | $2000 |
| 11 | Tears of Eros | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | The tear where beauty meets death; lucidity of ecstatic pain. | $1450 |
| 12 | Immanent Flow | Collector’s Edition, Consecrated to the Work | Suspension of transcendence; divinity in perpetual movement within matter. | TBA |
| 13 | *** | *** | *** | *** |
| 14 | Nonknowledge | Sovereign Tier Custom Card | Beyond the limits of reason; the mute intensity of inward knowing. | Not for sale/Kickstarter backer supported card |
| 18 | The Law of the Flesh | Vex Ashley, The Erotic Sovereign | Desire as commandment; incarnation of will; the law written in the body’s ecstatic grammar. | Not for sale |
| 19 | The Word of Mercy | TBA | Poetic genesis; annihilation through utterance; mercy through diminishing cruelty. | Not for sale |
| 33 | Dionysus the Crucified | TBA | Ecstatic suffering through divine guidance; illumination through sacrifice. | Not for sale |
| 40 | The Silence of Revelation | TBA | Ascetic withdrawal; slow fire of revelation; light discovered through vanishing. | Not for sale |
| 50 | The Jubilee Deck | Gift Deck, Sovereign Generosity | Liberation through forgiveness; sacred economy of the gift. | Free release |
| 69 | Soixante Neuf | Profane Deck, The First Profanation | Mutual inversion; solar-lunar laughter; erotic sovereignty unveiled through transgression. | Auction / Negotiation |
| 100 | Centuries of Torture | Epochal Deck, The First Abyss | The body as the archive of pain and revelation; each century a rotation of suffering through which spirit learns the limits of its own endurance. Flesh becomes scripture, time its slow executioner. | $200 |
| 111 | Fire of the Ipseities | Deck of Recurrence or Rebirth, The First Flame | The ignition of the self in multiplicity; each spark a sovereign solitude burning toward communion. Ipseity as conflagration—each flame consuming the false unity of identity, leaving only the radiant plurality of being. | Sold at $111 |
| 187 | The Murder of God | Profane Deck, The Second Profanation | One-eight-seven: the Law’s cipher of execution. The sacred extinguished that it might return as flesh. Murder as revelation; sovereignty through profanation. | Sold at $187 |
| 200 | The Destituted Kingdom | Epochal Deck, The Second Abyss | The ruin of sovereignty; kingdom laid bare in poverty of spirit; the sacred dethroned and reborn in destitution. | $200 |
| 222 | Absolute Knowing | Deck of Recurrence or Rebirth, The Path of Despair | The final turn of the dialectic confronting the eternal return. Knowledge that closes the circle only to find it endlessly reopening. Spirit recognizing itself in matter, thought collapsing into life, where certainty gives way once more to becoming. | Sold at $222 |
| 300 | The Chimeric Maw | Epochal Deck, The Third Abyss | The sacred hunger where intimacy and destruction converge; the devouring contact that dissolves boundaries in the flow of immanent life. | $200 |
| 313 | The Companion of Light: The Translator’s Legacy | S.R. | Once borne by a translator, companion in the work’s earliest dawn. Reclaimed by S.R.; honoring passage between tongues, light across the void. | Not for sale |
| 333 | Noumenal Maulings | Deck of Recurrence or Rebirth, Triune Return | The abyssal intelligence devouring its own image; thought turned fang against the unknowable; gnosis by dismemberment. | $666 |
| 365 | The Ouroboros | Deck of Recurrence or Rebirth, The World Serpent | Solar ouroboros encircling 365 days; the serpent consumes its own light—time reborn through sacred digestion, eternal return, and radiant decay. | $365 |
| 400 | The Eyes of Thanatos | Epochal Deck, The Fourth Abyss | Death made perceptive, the gaze that beholds both the end and its reflection. Through these eyes, the world becomes transparent to its own finitude, seeing not darkness but the luminous emanation of Life. | $200 |
| 420 | The Verdant Sacrament | Profane Deck, The Third Profanation | The green flame of rebellion; respiration as prayer; the body communes with the vegetal sun. Every inhalation an offering, every exhalation a small apocalypse. | Auction / Negotiation |
| 444 | The Death Drive | Deck of Recurrence or Rebirth, The Fourfold Death | The geometry of extinction; four directions of dissolution converging upon desire’s final release. Death as the pure form of return, the pulse that undoes all structure. | $444 |
| 500 | Five Gates: Disquiet of the Virtual and the Artificial | Epochal Deck, The Fifth Abyss | The architecture of simulation; five thresholds where the organic and synthetic exchange souls; ecstasy through technological disquiet; dedicated to Durations as ritual of temporal disturbance. | $200 |
| 555 | The Metamorphosis: Exiting the Five Gates | Deck of Recurrence or Rebirth, The Fifth Cycle | Passage through dissolution; emergence beyond the architectures of the artificial and the organic. Transformation as flight from enclosure, the spirit’s renewal in the act of crossing. | $555 |
| 600 | The Smoldering of Saturn | Epochal Deck, The Sixth Abyss | The senex empire wanes beneath the uprising of the puer; the old order smolders as youthful fire devours time; maturity undone by the return of creation’s child. | $200 |
| 640 | The Oracular Twin: Vintagia / Acéphalous Pairing | Gift Decks, The Union of Vintagia and Acéphalous through Oracular Imagination | A pair acquired through chance (640=64 hexagrams + 0 head); the divinatory bridge where two oracles meet in creative reflection. Chance becomes communion, imagination the shared field of prophecy. | Free release |
| 666 | The Beast Transfigured: Sovereign Immanence | Profane Deck, The Final Profanation | Bataillean excess; the sacred in base matter; the final laughter of the divine in its own ruin, the consummate profanation. | Auction / Negotiation |
| 700 | The Blinding Sun of Dissolution | Epochal Deck, The Final Abyss | The unbearable light of excess; the eye of God devoured by its own fire. Vision dissolves in radiance, the sacred unbound in a bath of annihilating brilliance. | $200 |
| 717 | Laure | Deck of Recurrence or Rebirth, Resurrection | Named for Bataille’s one-time companion. She who mirrored his ecstasy without subservience, embodying the luminous tension between love and death. Through her, the eternal return becomes an act of mutual transfiguration, a resurrection of spirit through shared dissolution. | $200 |
| 777 | The Omega: Noontide Sun Without a Shadow | Sereptie, The Sovereign of the Work and Keeper of the Prototype | Triple heaven; illumination without remainder; the headless sun burning itself away. At the summit of number the head is unbound, the ecstatic omega of the work where sovereignty passes through exhaustion into renewal, reclaiming its creative fire from the ashes of convalescence. It rests like Zarathustra in the forest as he becomes the teacher of eternal recurrence. | Not for sale — Prototype and Deck 777 combined as Alpha and Omega Deck, held by Sereptie. |