Sophia, God & a Short Tale About the Antichrist: Also Including at the Dawn of Mist-Shrouded Youth by Vladimir Solovyov & Boris Jakim

Author:Vladimir Solovyov & Boris Jakim [Solovyov, Vladimir & Jakim, Boris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621380955
Amazon: 1621380955
Publisher: Semantron Press
Published: 2014-12-05T23:00:00+00:00

3.

27 January 1872.

I have thought much about you, my dear Katya, with reference to your last letter. For the time being I will not say anything about your understanding of the second path that you have decided to follow. The meaning you attribute to it now—

is not important. What is important is the fact that you have rejected the first path, the ordinary one; that is, the fact that you have rejected what constitutes the whole of life for the majority of people: the life of egotism, personal interests, with a stupid phantom of happiness as the final goal. You have understood that this is falsehood and evil, that this life is death. And not only have you understood this; you have also made the firm decision to emancipate yourself from this falsehood and evil.

With this decision, you have already taken the first, most diffi-

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sophia, god & a short tale about the antichrist cult and important step toward such emancipation. But there is still much to do in the future.

If that which is considered real life is false, then there must be another life, the true one. The embryo of this true life is within us ourselves, because if this embryo did not exist, we would be satisfied with the falsehood surrounding us and not seek anything better. If we constantly dwelled in total darkness and knew nothing about the light, we would then not complain about the darkness and not seek the light. True life does exist within us, but it is suppressed or distorted by our limited personhood, by our egotism. It is necessary to know this true life as it is in itself, in its purity; and to know the means by which it can be attained. All this was revealed long ago to humanity by true Christianity, but, historically, Christianity itself has experienced the influence of that false life, that evil which it should have destroyed. And this falsehood so obscured Christianity that, at the present time, it is as difficult to understand the truth in Christianity as it is to arrive directly at the truth by oneself.

But one who has firmly renounced falsehood will certainly arrive at truth. You have taken this first difficult step, and I am fully certain that you yourself will attain the goal—although…3

you will have to wade through a lot of garbage. But the other path too is not strewn with roses—everywhere there is only suffering. The difference is that, on the true path, the suffering redeems us and leads to truth, whereas the suffering of false life is sterile and meaningless.

Farewell, my dear. With true love your

Vl. Solovyov.

3. Three lines are crossed out in the original at this point.

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At the Dawn of Mist-Shrouded Youth 4.

Moscow. 7 March 1872.

[…] I sincerely rejoice, my friend, that you are finally free to do with yourself as you like.4 I have complete confidence in you, and I am also confident that you will attain your goal, even if this goal will appear to you in different guises while remaining inwardly the same.

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