The Seven Mirrors

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.

A lone, silhouetted figure stands in a vast, dark hall. They are surrounded by seven massive, glowing panels, each one a mirror reflecting a different cosmic nebula against the darkness.
Seven mirrors for the seven prisons of the soul.

Look Into Each Mirror

From the political theater to the bank of souls, each parable diagnoses a civilizational disease.

The Leader's Theatre - A powerful figure controls puppet monsters and crowd
Seventh Mirror

The Leader's Theatre

The political prison of manufactured opposition. A parable of the hollow leader who needs an enemy to exist and the true path to freedom: walking out of the theater.

Enter the Theatre
The House of Sand - A fortress on a sandy beach under stormy skies
Sixth Mirror

The House of Sand

The folly of false foundations. How our greatest strengths become fatal weaknesses when built on sand, collapsing from internal dissolution of their own assumptions.

Examine the Foundation
The Collector's Hoard - A king in a cave filled with red gems
Fifth Mirror

The Collector's Hoard

The prison of artificial scarcity. How value is manufactured by withholding, needs are invented, and desperation designed by those who cornered the market on satisfaction.

See the Illusion
The Bank of Souls - Ancient ledgers transform into faces bound by chains
Fourth Mirror

The Bank of Souls

The prison of spiritual debt. A parable of fictional obligation, revealing how our servitude is not to real scarcity but to collective belief in debt created from nothing.

Question the Debt
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The Circus of Souls

The prison of perpetual spectacle. Where life becomes performance, authenticity becomes entertainment, and the audience forgets they are also the show.

Awaiting Revelation
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The Shadow Market

The prison of hidden exchange. Where what is traded in darkness determines what appears in light, and every transaction costs a piece of soul.

Awaiting Revelation
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The Scribe's Lament

The prison of dead language. Where words become cages, meaning becomes law, and the living truth is sacrificed to preserve the written lie.

Awaiting Revelation

The Hall of Mirrors

These seven parables form a complete diagnostic system for the diseases of our time. Each mirror reveals a different prison we've built for ourselves—political, economic, spiritual, and psychological. They work not through explanation but through recognition.

When you see yourself in these mirrors, you cannot unsee what they reveal. This is their power and their purpose: to make the invisible visible, the unconscious conscious, and the accepted questionable.

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