Writings of
Seraphim Rose
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Not of this
World
The Life and Works of
Seraphim Rose
In a basement
apartment near downtown San Fransisco in the early 1960's, Eugene Rose,
the future Fr. Seraphim, sat at his desk covered with stacks of books
and piles of paper folders. The room was perpetually dark, for little
light could come in from the window. Some years before Eugene had moved
in there, a murder had occurred in that room, and some said that an
ominous spirit still lingered there. But Eugene, as if in defiance of
this spirit and the ever-darkening spirit of the city around him, had
one wall covered with icons, before which a red icon-lamp always
flickered.
In this room Eugene undertook to write a monumental chronicle of modern
man's war against God, his attempt to destroy the Old Order and raise
up a new one without Christ, to deny the existence of the Kingdom of
God and raise up his own earthly Utopia in its stead. This projects
work was entitled The Kingdom of Man
and the Kingdom of God.
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