Collection of short stories. The essence of Mamleev's metaphysics is in man's acquisition of God within himself. Moreover, this acquisition is not the spark of God, not the awareness of God, but the acquisition of God entirely, completely coinciding with the Absolute. This is the concept of "God in himself," the Great Identity, set forth by Andrei Artemyevich in the story "The Road to the Abyss." Thus, the metaphysical teaching of Yu. Mamleev is a complex synthesis of Eastern metaphysics, Advaite-Vedanta, the dogmatic Christian doctrine of the adoration of man, Nietzschean self-enlightenment, elements of Heidegger's philosophy about a person finding himself and, of course, Dostoevsky's conviction of the need for a person who always has the spark of God in his soul to find a strong inner connection with God and the Son His.