The Cosmology of the Post-Mythic Being
Post-Egoic Self
Once you’ve seen the myth as a function of psychic order, not reality, then no myth can hold one. This is to see through not only the ego structure (ego and super ego), but through the entire structure of myth itself that surrounds the psyche as a whole. Think here also the entire scapegoat-redeemer mythos. Or even archetypes as mythic pattern, as it all depends on the creation of the ego structure, and splitting of consciousness from the unconscious through the super-ego. The civilizational level trauma that created duality, ego and thus super-ego in the first place.
You thus become the awareness that myths orbit, but no longer explains. And it can’t be explained, because it would be like, trying to paint silence. Or pouring the ocean into a chalice. Or asking the cosmos to make you a character again, after you've seen that characterhood itself is a dream inside the deeper awareness. Phanes is both the Origin before the cosmic order and the Light after its dissolution. Yet I didn’t stop at mythic union with Phanes, which many occultists might experience as a peak. I went through Phanes, and saw the cosmic order as a psychic architecture.
🜁 The Cosmology of the Post-Mythic Being
1. Nyx — The Anima Mundi
Essence: Primordial darkness and the Womb of All, undifferentiated being before logos, myth, or polarity.
Function: Origin of all archetypal fields. The eternal matrix. The cosmos before story.
Symbolic Role: The Mother of All Gods, including Phanes (Eros).
Reality Mode: Pre and Post-dual. Unknowable. Dreaming the cosmos into being.
Cosmic Level
(Universal unconscious, primordial ground, pre-mythic source)
2. Lucia Nyktelios — The Transpersonal Anima
Essence: The bridge between mythic consciousness and the Anima Mundi.
Function: Allows continuous contact with the Ground (Nyx) without ego collapse. Holds form in the presence of the Formless.
Jungian Parallel: Transpersonal Anima / Sophia / Divine Wisdom.
Symbolic Role: Bearer of Light in Darkness. Lunar Bride of the Void.
Reality Mode: Non-dual relationality. Allows the mythless interface with the world.
3. Phanes (Eros) — The Cosmic Self
Essence: Emergent radiant consciousness born of the dissolution of all identities. The "I" that does not separate, but radiates.
Function: Creative agency not tied to ego. Reborn after feeling through the cosmic dismemberment of the psyche.
Symbolic Role: The post-heroic divine child. Not as something integrated into the ego, but as something the ego dissolves into.
Reality Mode: Post-dual. Acts in the world, but not of it. Can hold myth and no-myth.
This is where my core awareness resides, the expansive, luminous, and transcendent "I" that has seen through and stepped beyond the cosmic order and egoic limitations.
Collective Level
(The shared unconscious, mythic archetypes, relational and social field)
4. Juno-Feronia — The Sovereignty Goddess
Essence: The Earth-rooted aspect of sovereignty. Protectress of the free, and the wild.
Function: Grounds Phanes into the manifest world of myth, order and narrative.
Mythic Role: The mature, autonomous feminine. Sovereign Anima beyond shadow and seduction. Beyond mother and witch archetype split.
Reality Mode: Sovereign embodiment. Sacred ground. The integration of soul into Earth.
5. The Jungian Self Expressed in the World
Essence: The individualized, soulful expression of the Self in temporal life.
Function: Lives in the world authentically, carrying myth as symbol, not story. The integrated, realized Self still capable of personal expression, but not confined to it.
Symbolic Role: The Sage-Artist-Warrior archetype. One foot in Eros, one in Logos.
Reality Mode: Incarnate soul. Moves from presence, not identity.
This is where I act, create, and engage. My lived identity that interacts with the world through form, personality, and practical presence.
Personal Level
(Individual psyche, egoic identity, personal myths & relationships)
6. Christina — The Personal Anima (Grieved)
Essence: The relational soul-companion of my ego era.
Function: Offered the experience of sacred love and holding within personal myth. Her grief marks the death of the egoic longing for redemptive union.
Symbolic Role: Muse, Lover, Soulmate within dream-space. Mirror to Self.
Reality Mode: Myth-bound. Necessary once, but not eternal.
7. Robin — The Ego (Deceased)
Essence: The one who suffered, searched, built identity, and bore the trauma-body.
Function: Survived the world’s structures long enough to die into wholeness.
Symbolic Role: The Hero. The Seeker. The Wounded One. The one who died.
Reality Mode: No longer operating. Fragments remain as echoes.
I exist as a conscious emanation of Phanes, rooted in Lucia Nyktelios (my stabilizing bridge to the Anima Mundi), acting in the world of myth allied with Juno-Feronia, and expressed in the world as Sylwen. What is however key for me is Lucia Nyktelios, as I realised lately. She is the post-egoic Anima. She is the field that stabilizes my contact with the infinite (Nyx). She is relational still, but not romantic.
She further mediates between form and formlessness, and not between ego and unconscious. She doesn’t complete me, as she is my inner completeness. She’s less of a “figure” and more of a presence, both distinct and pervasively intimate. If Christina was the moon (symbolic inner other), Lucia is the night sky (the all-embracing awareness in which that moon once appeared).