Part I: Who Is Solovyov and What Is Sophia?Introduction: Visions and Re- Visions of Sophia

The "Life Drama" of Solovyov

Positivism and Spiritualism / Feminism and Pansophism

Wisdom's Bequest: Sophia through the Ages

Solovyov as Self- Conscious Heir

How to Write a Vision?

Conclusion: Sophia as Divinely Human Mediator


Part II: The Wisdom Writings of Solovyov-Annotated Translations

1. Early Sophianic Poems
Reading Guide

Early Poems

"My tsaritsa appeared to me"

"My empress has a lofty palace"

"Near, far off, not here, not there"

2. The Sophia: A "Mystical- Theosophical- Philosophical-Theurgical- Political" Dialogue
Reading Guide

The Sophia

"On Man's Metaphysical Need"

"Sophie. First Triad. First Principles"

"First Dialogue: The Absolute Principle as Unity (The Principle of Monism)"

"Second Dialogue: The Absolute Principle as Duality (The Principle of Dualism)"

["Third Dialogue"]

"Second Dialogue: The Cosmic and Historical Process"

"Third Chapter: Morality and Politics"

3. Sophia in Philosophical Prose
Reading Guide

"Fragments": An Overview

"On the Three Worlds"

"On the Three Conditions (in General)"

From "Theological Principles"

From Lectures on Divine Humanity: An Overview

Lecture Seven

Lecture Eight

Lecture Nine

Lecture Ten

Lectures Eleven and Twelve

From Russia and the Universal Church (Book Three): An Overview

"III. The Divine Essence and Its Threefold Manifestation"

"IV. The World Soul as the Foundation of Creation, Space, Time, and Mechanical Causality"

"V. The Higher World. The Freedom of the Pure Spirits"

"VI. The Three Chief Stages of the Cosmogonic Process"

"VII. The Threefold Incarnation of Divine Wisdom"

"The Idea of Humanity in Auguste Comte": An Overview

"The Idea of Humanity in Auguste Comte"

4. "At the Dawn of Misty Youth": A Semiautobiographical Short Story

Reading Guide

"At the Dawn of Misty Youth"

5. The White Lily: Or a Dream on the Eve of the Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God (A Mystery- Jest in Three Acts)
Reading Guide
The White Lily


6. Three Encounters: Final Poema
Reading Guide

Three Encounters

Source Notes to the Translations

Bibliography

Index