History as a Sealed Scroll
A sealed scroll means that history possesses a meaning not yet visible. The Lamb alone opens it. As the seals break, latent realities become manifest: Revelation portrays meaning progressively unveiled through crisis. This is also the logic of initiation. Events do not mechanically explain themselves; their telos becomes readable in Christic light. Book Zero calls Reality a Story, and Book XII places a Book inside the Book whose hidden meaning is opened.