About the book: 2000 / Ladomir Publishing House presents a collection of selected works by the Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink (1868 - 1932). "The Other Side of Darkness" is a magic mirror that allows look at the life of one of the most profound and mysterious authors of the 20th century from the point of view of the Hermetic tradition... “The life path of those... who was once bitten by the wise serpent of the Garden of Eden will never intersect with the roads of his fellows, and even if it seems small , as if “branded with a sting” vegetates among them, in reality he is further, much further, and this distance cannot be measured in any spatial units... Max Nordau called these bitten “spoiled”, Jesus Christ called them “salt of the earth” "The burgher's magic horn... A real "cornucopia" of grotesque diablerie... Carnival action... Fantasies in the manner of Bosch and Max Ernst, Arcimboldo and Beardsley, Pontormo and Miró, and, of course, Callot. .. Never before have the “humanistic ideals” of European civilization been subjected to such a merciless pathological analysis. The conclusion is final and not subject to appeal: total desacralization of consciousness. “The Green Face” (for the first time in Russian!) is a virtuoso variation on the theme of Agasphere, shaded by such impenetrably dark aspects of esotericism as traditional yoga, Christian mysticism, Kabbalah and voodooism. “Truly, only the awakened man is immortal - the suns and gods will rise and go out, only he alone will remain and fulfill what he must do. For there are no gods above him!” All previously published translations of V. Kryukov, included in the presented collection, were thoroughly edited by the translator. To date, after numerous pirated editions and poor-quality amateurish translations, this is the most serious attempt to present the work of the famous Austrian master in its true light..