A key locks. The same key reversed unlocks.

It's to do with incantations.

An archonic entity (ruler or some entity in an authoritative status) speaks a verse and it acts as a lock.

The verse needs to be spoken in REverse to unlock it.

This is where the ritualistic incantations by archonic entities locking humanity in a matrix happened:

you no understand...?

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