In dark religious rays. Candle in the temple

The reader of one of the most scandalous and provocative Russian thinkers of the Silver Age Vasily Rozanov seems to the reader. “In dark religious rays” - a book, the first edition of which was destroyed by censorship and which was subsequently reprinted by Rosanov in the form of two books - “Dark Face” and “People of the Moonlight”. This edition represents the reconstruction of the original plan of the author, taking into account later additions and is given in two parts - the “Dome of the Temple” and “Candle in the Temple”.
The question that Rozanov raises - and which the interlocutors answer, to varying degrees ready or capable of following him in his reasoning - is too often darkened: the scandal obscures the essence of the matter, accusations of pornography and in offensive judgments about Christianity, oh Saints and ascetics, not to mention Christ himself, and the piquant theme of the “third sex” allow us to talk about Rozanov’s “cynicism” where he sees the holy