“Merezhkovsky interprets integral Christianity on the basis of an epochal development. At first Christianity was essentially ascetic, dualist, transcendentist. It is thus that against it, starting from the Renaissance, little by little the "pagan" antithesis arises, the pagan valorization of everything that is immanence, power, ego, will, up to the limit of the "superman" who , as a kind of Antichrist or God-Man, opposes the Man-God.
But true Christianity includes a further power: that of overcoming this antithesis, of arriving at a synthesis, shadowed by formulas, such as those of the resurrection of the flesh, of the future advent, of the kingdom of the Holy Spirit, of a will, which must be realized both on earth and in heaven. This is, for Merezhkovsky, the future religion, the only path that the West can take to avoid a catastrophe."
— Review of Dmitry Merezhkovsky's book "Dante", by Julius Evola from “Il Regime Fascista”, 30 May 1939
