A Novel in Thirty-Six Stories
A young man named Leandros arrives in Alexandria seeking divine knowledge. He tries every method available — Pythagorean contemplation, Platonic reasoning, Egyptian mysteries, dietary regimens that give him spectacular diarrhea — and nothing works. Then, on a rooftop, after a failed ritual involving seven lamps, forty-seven invocations, an uninvited cat, and a robe the wrong shade of white, he sits down in defeat, eats terrible cheese, and meets God. What follows is the ascent of the soul through the planetary spheres as mapped in the Corpus Hermeticum — a cosmic journey told in thirty-six stories across three volumes, where each sphere strips away another layer of what Leandros thought he was.
In which the cosmos reveals itself as a school, and the curriculum begins.
In which the soul ascends through the planetary spheres, shedding what it carried.
In which what was shed is found again, transformed.
Released episodically — new stories published on a rolling basis