Follow the Eye

The watching eye, from a Pharaoh's amulet to the logo on your screen.

Start where the watching eye begins — the falcon eye of Horus, worn as protection on the bodies of the Egyptian dead.

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The same eye re-opens in the Renaissance as the Eye of Providence, and is set, in 1782, above an unfinished pyramid.

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Follow it onto the money: the Great Seal decoded part by part, the eye still watching from the dollar in your pocket.

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The reverse of the Great Seal of the United States

The watching eye, the unfinished work, and a new order of the ages — folded into the money in your pocket.

3 symbols assembled

Then watch it step into broadcast — the network that literally calls itself the Eye, an Egyptian amulet redrawn as a corporate mark.

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The CBS television network logo — a single human eye inside an oval

The eye of a sun-god, rendered corporate and broadcast into a billion living rooms.

2 symbols assembled

And once you can name it, it is everywhere — a media conglomerate's staring eye, the oldest symbol hiding in the newest logo.

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That's the route. Wander on into the Dictionary, or follow another path below.