The Seven Mirrors: A Diagnostic
Welcome to the Hall of Mirrors. This series of seven parables from The Book of Korm serves as a diagnostic tool, designed to reveal the hidden prisons of the modern soul. They are not answers, but reflections that, once seen, cannot be unseen.
Welcome to the Hall of Mirrors. The seven stories below are narrative excerpts from The Book of Korm: After Zarathustra. Each one is a diagnostic mirror, a parable designed to reveal one of the seven great prisons of the modern soul. They are not meant to provide answers, but to show you your own reflection in a way you cannot unsee.
The Seventh Mirror: The Leader's Theatre
This mirror reveals the political prison of manufactured opposition. A parable of the hollow leader who needs an enemy to exist and the true path to freedom: not to fight the performance, but to simply walk out of the theater.
The Sixth Mirror: The House of Sand
A parable of the folly of false foundations. It reveals how our greatest strengths become fatal weaknesses when built on sand, diagnosing the systems that collapse not from attack, but from the quiet, internal dissolution of their own assumptions.
The Fifth Mirror: The Collector's Hoard
An exploration of the prison of artificial scarcity. This mirror reveals how value is manufactured by withholding, how our needs are invented, and how desperation is designed by those who have cornered the market on satisfaction.
The Fourth Mirror: The Bank of Souls
This mirror diagnoses the prison of spiritual debt. It is a parable of fictional obligation, revealing how our servitude is not to real scarcity but to a collective belief in a debt that was created from nothing.
[Read the Parable →] (Sep 10, 2025)
The Third Mirror: The Circus of Souls
A diagnosis of the psychological prison of spectacle. This mirror reveals how modern consciousness is trapped in a performance of life, cycling between forced unity and manufactured individuality.
[Read the Parable →] (Sep 13, 2025)
The Second Mirror: The Shadow Market
An exploration of the economic prison of false choice. This mirror reveals the architecture of a system that profits from division, offering only the illusion of choice between two forms of the same exploitation.
[Read the Parable →] (Sep 17, 2025)
The First Mirror: The Scribe's Lament
A parable of the living word turned to dead law. This mirror diagnoses the spiritual prison of dogma, revealing how genuine revelation is inevitably murdered and replaced by the stone tablets of institutional control.
[Read the Parable →] (Sep 20, 2025)
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