The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part VI: 20 Knots or the Hypermandala

The Molecule of Eternity: A Living Adaptation

A serialised philosophical narrative.

Selected parts of the novel, made available ahead of the full English edition in the form of essays.

Each piece is an encounter. Each encounter—a ripple of memory, character, or myth.

Translated directly from the author’s desk. This is a living text—sincere and still evolving.

The Nine-Edged Mirror, Part VI: 20 Knots or the Hypermandala

In this sixth essay of The Nine-Edged Mirror, the narrative descends into a fevered Orensgrad, where the phantasmagoric city becomes a crucible for converging minds and collapsing certainties; and where the heat, hallucination, and metaphysical compulsion fuse into a single, airless chamber of experience, pressing Margarita Smolina and Maxim Podolsky into a volatile orbit. Beneath these distortions of common theatre of the real, lies Smolina’s esoteric pursuit of a hyperdimensional calendar whose geometry threatens to recast causality itself.

In due course, Smolina’s domestic breakdown soon reveals itself as a cosmological threshold—the cause of the disturbances being an emerging comprehension of a primordial truth. The claustrophobic flat becomes an antechamber to a greater geometry, where each tremor hints at a universe folding in upon an undisclosed design.

Interwoven with these earthly dramas is the long, sorrowful vigil of Kay, whose myth moves through the essay as a counter-melody, casting an otherworldly radiance upon the present events.

20 Knots or the Hypermandala stands as one of the cycle’s most intricate meditations—a study of cognitive rupture, temporal recursion, and the destructive tenderness binding its two extraordinary minds. It extends the reach of The Molecule of Eternity toward a luminous verge, as scientific reasoning strains yet further against mythic inevitability. And thereupon, the hidden architecture of the hypercosm begins, at last, to glimmer through the thinning veil of the visible world.