Book Discussion Modern “Mystery-School” text - would love thoughtful readers and opinions

[Agathyrsos]

Hello everyone,

I hope this kind of post is acceptable here. I’ve been a long-time reader of discussions in various spaces like this, and I wanted to share something a bit unusual that I’ve finally decided to release.

For the past several years, I’ve been working on a philosophical-mythic text that tries to do something I felt was missing from a lot of works on esotericism, philosophy and modern psychology: a unified symbolic system that actually explains lived emotional experience, destiny, torment, archetypes, and transformation - not just intellectually, but existentially.

The result is a small book called: The Six Lessons: Of Gods Within and the Shadow Behind. It’s written as a series of “lessons” or sermons, drawing from:

• depth psychology (especially Jungian and post-Jungian thought),
• metaphysics and existential philosophy,
• esoteric and mystery-school traditions,
• and a lot of personal reflection on suffering, will, becoming, religion and magic.

Central to this work is something I call the Signet, which is a symbolic map of the psyche that treats emotions as directions towards archetypes through an inner topology, rather than as reactions to external events – directions that we can follow through magical acts. With it, one can (in theory) predict and make order through one’s emotional trajectory through life, and one can attain greater states of being. The system tries to make sense of the relation between archetypal structures, torment, meaning, and various practices both mundane and magical – if I were to try to describe its structure in familiar terms, it would be somewhere in between a I Ching hexagram, a circular Etz Chaim, and a divination board.

This isn’t a self-help book, and it isn’t academic philosophy either. It’s closer to a modern attempt at a personal cosmology - something halfway between Jung, myth, metaphysics, and lived experience. I should also mention that I’m not posting this to hard-sell anything, and I would love to participate in further discussion on the forum (even though I’m more of a lurker than someone who actively engages in dialogue). I’m genuinely interested in whether people who care about philosophy, psychology, myth, or esotericism find something meaningful or coherent in it.

If anyone is curious, I’m happy to share more details, excerpts, or answer questions about the system itself. Apologies if these kinds of posts are not appropriate here.

Thank you very much for reading.

Agathyrsos

 

[Yazata]

Hi,
I removed the link for now because you are (basically) trying to sell it.

 

[Agathyrsos]

Hello, in retrospect I realize that I should have not included the book's code in this post, but I suppose I just wanted to encourage people to look at it. Of course, I'm still open for further discussion.