For Lilian and the Indigos - Above Top Secret

Russian Mystic (New York: Steiner Books, 1978), pp. 366-410 contains the Short
Story of the Anti-Christ.) Finished on Easter Sunday, 1900, just a few months
before he died, the book is a series of dialogues between five members of the
Russian intelligentsia, held in the garden of a villa in the Alps. Solovyov’s
prefatory question sets the tone for the book: “Is evil only a natural defect, an
imperfection disappearing by itself with the growth of good, or is it a real power,
ruling our world by means of temptations, so that to fight it successfully
assistance must be found in another sphere of being?” The way that Solovyov
describes it, the individual who becomes the Antichrist writes a bestselling book –
The Open Way to World Peace and Welfare. He is a good person, a very high
being, when he writes this book, but then he goes for a walk one night, and a
presence promises him that he can become world ruler.
WOW! He nailed the book, this book! There is something subtle and important in the
wording – “…the individual who becomes the Antichrist…” This book could have been
called THE OPEN WAY… Since my involvement with Open Innovation (Edison Nation
for example) my study of Crowd Sourcing, E-Government, POD publishing, nonequilibrium
thermodynamics etc., there is little to me that can be considered a closed
system…
Google. Found his short story, let’s see if there’s anything else…
…Humanity had outgrown that stage of philosophical infancy. On the other hand,
it became equally evident that it had also outgrown the infantile capacity for
naive, unconscious faith. Such ideas as God creating the universe out of nothing
were no longer taught even in elementary schools. A certain high level of ideas
concerning such subjects had been evolved, and no dogmatism could risk a
descent below it. And though the majority of thinking people had remained
faithless, the few believers, of necessity, had become thinking, thus fulfilling the
commandment of the Apostle: "Be infants in your hearts, but not in your reason."
At that time, there was among the few believing spiritualists a remarkable person
-- many called him a superman -- who was equally far from both, intellect and
childlike heart. He was still young, but owing to his great genius, by the age of
thirty-three he had already become famous as a great thinker, writer, and public
figure. Conscious of the great power of spirit in himself, he was always a
confirmed spiritualist, and his clear intellect always showed him the truth of what
one should believe in: the good, God, and the Messiah.
In these he believed, but he loved only himself. He believed in God, but in the
depths of his soul he involuntarily and unconsciously preferred himself. He
believed in Good, but the All Seeing Eye of the Eternal knew that this man would
bow down before the power of Evil as soon as it would offer him a bribe -- not by
deception of the senses and the lower passions, not even by the superior bait of
power, but only by his own immeasurable self-love.