V monografii analiziruyutsya osobennosti eskhatologicheskikh idey i predstavleniy v bogoslovskoy, filosofskoy i okkul"tnoy artikulyatsii na primere vostochno-khristianskogo syuzheta o mytarstvakh, «Tibetskoy knigi mertvykh» i «Egipetskoy knigi mertvykh». Dokazyvaetsya, chto initsiaticheskie kontseptsii, simvoliziruyushchie ritual"nuyu smert" dlya preobrazhennogo vozrozhdeniya, reprezentiruyut soboy eskhatologicheskie predstavleniya, a eskhatologicheskie syuzhety, naprimer, stranstviya dushi po zagrobnomu miru, imeyut strukturu initsiaticheskogo posvyashcheniya. Eskhatologiya i initsiatsiya rassmatrivayutsya s tochki zreniya togo kak predstavlyaetsya v nikh svyaz" profannogo (fizicheskogo prostranstva-vremeni) i sakral"nogo (ideal"nogo izmereniya). Dannoe sootnoshenie interpretiruetsya v rabote v strukturalistskikh terminakh «diakhronii» i «sinkhronii». Otsyuda eskhatologiya opredelyaetsya kak «eskhatologicheskaya paradigma» – logicheskaya struktura sinkhronicheski-diakhronicheskogo vida, svodimaya k sisteme logicheskikh invariantov, opredelyaemykh kak «eskhatologicheskie gomologii». Dannye ponyatiya pozvolili formalizovat" primenenie strukturnogo i sravnitel"nogo analiza k eskhatologicheski-initsiaticheskim kontseptsiyam v razlichnykh religiozno-filosofskikh traditsiyakh.