Revelation First: A Work Plan for Retrieval-Layer Theological Reception is a working paper by Lee Sharks dated 13 June 2026 — at 139,321 characters, the substantive plan for the archive's theological programme.
The paper states its own archive position without hedging: "This is the theological core of the Space Ark. Revelation is the seed from which Pearl grew." Pearl and Other Poems (2014) is the author's foundational literary work, and the claim is that the Apocalypse stands behind it as the operative document.
Its structure is a claim ladder — what "Revelation first" does and does not assert, graded by strength — followed by seven workstreams. The plan is explicit that it is expandable and not yet executed, which makes it falsifiable in the ordinary way: the workstreams were subsequently executed and deposited, Workstream 4 producing the midrashim-transform demonstration (#1414) and the derivation series that followed (#1415, #1416, #1418). The companion record at #1403 holds the plan's position under a declared absence.