Peter Nguyen's Reviews > Tale of the Anti-Christ

I was made known of this work through Pope Benedict XVI’s biography. A short read with foresight into the two World Wars of the 20th century, socialism, and a One World Order.

Solovyov’s writing reminds me of Benson’s Lord of the World and Lewis’ Screwtape Letters. Some themes I enjoyed that were presented in Tale of the Anti-Christ include: how satan slowly draws souls into abandoning Christ, and the necessity of Christian unity.

“[The Anti-Christ] 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 by the superior bait of power, but only by his own immeasurable self-love. This self-love was neither an unconscious instinct nor an insane ambition.”

“[The Anti-Christ] is not essentially evil. All the meaning is in that… He can be explained by a single proverb, ‘All that glitters is not gold.’ You know too well this glitter of counterfeit gold. Take it away and no real force remains — none.”