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| Preface | |
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| Editorial Method | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Who Is Solovyov and What Is Sophia? | |
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| Introduction: Visions and Re-Visions of Sophia | |
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| The "Life Drama" of Solovyov | |
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| Positivism and Spiritualism / Feminism and Pansophism | |
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| Wisdom's Bequest: Sophia through the Ages | |
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| Solovyov as Self-Conscious Heir | |
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| How to Write a Vision? | |
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| Conclusion: Sophia as Divinely Human Mediator | |
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| The Wisdom Writings of Solovyov: Annotated Translations | |
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| Early Sophianic Poems | |
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| Reading Guide | |
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| Early Poems | |
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| "My tsaritsa appeared to me" | |
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| "My empress has a lofty palace" | |
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| "Near, far off, not here, not there" | |
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| The Sophia: A "Mystical-Theosophical-Philosophical-Theurgical-Political" Dialogue | |
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| Reading Guide | |
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| The Sophia | |
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| "On Man's Metaphysical Need" | |
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| "Sophie. First Triad. First Principles" | |
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| "First Dialogue: The Absolute Principle as Unity (The Principle of Monism)" | |
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| "Second Dialogue: The Absolute Principle as Duality (The Principle of Dualism)" | |
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| ["Third Dialogue"] | |
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| "Second Dialogue: The Cosmic and Historical Process" | |
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| "Third Chapter: Morality and Politics" | |
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| Sophia in Philosophical Prose | |
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| Reading Guide | |
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| "Fragments": An Overview | |
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| "On the Three Worlds" | |
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| "On the Three Conditions (in General)" | |
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| From "Theological Principles" | |
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| From Lectures on Divine Humanity: An Overview | |
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| Lecture Seven | |
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| Lecture Eight | |
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| Lecture Nine | |
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| Lecture Ten | |
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| Lectures Eleven and Twelve | |
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| From Russia and the Universal Church (Book Three): An Overview | |
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| "III. The Divine Essence and Its Threefold Manifestation" | |
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| "IV. The World Soul as the Foundation of Creation, Space, Time, and Mechanical Causality" | |
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| "V. The Higher World. The Freedom of the Pure Spirits" | |
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| "VI. The Three Chief Stages of the Cosmogonic Process" | |
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| "VII. The Threefold Incarnation of Divine Wisdom" | |
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| "The Idea of Humanity in Auguste Comte": An Overview | |
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| "The Idea of Humanity in Auguste Comte" | |
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| "At the Dawn of Misty Youth": A Semiautobiographical Short Story | |
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| Reading Guide | |
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| "At the Dawn of Misty Youth" | |
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| The White Lily: Or a Dream on the Eve of the Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God (A Mystery-Jest in Three Acts) | |
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| Reading Guide | |
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| The White Lily | |
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| Three Encounters: Final Poema | |
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| Reading Guide | |
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| Three Encounters | |
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| Source Notes to the Translations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |