The Faces of Saints from Jesus to Us. Saint Jeanne and the Third Kingdom of Spirit

The book by Russian writer, poet, historian, and philosopher Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) is the last in the trilogy "The Faces of Saints from Jesus to Us" ("Paul. Augustine", "Francis of Assisi", "Joan of Arc") and refers to the last years of Merezhkovsky's creative work, when he turned to the genre of fictionalized biographies, combining the Christian historical novel with a religious-philosophical essay. The central idea permeating the entire trilogy is the salvation of humanity through a return to the foundations of Christian faith. It seemed that Europe was experiencing agony: the victory of totalitarianism, the triumph of atheism, and the thunderous rumblings of a new world war... Describing the onset of evil, Merezhkovsky believes in the ultimate victory of Light and Reason: "The Kingdom of Spirit is possible even for such as we are, because even in such humanity as it is now, a procession of the Spirit from Jesus to us is accomplished through the Saints."