The essay demonstrates that Alexander Blok, a well known Russian poet-symbolist, sharply felt the crisis of culture, art, religion, and spirituality of his time, which he felt was a state of transition to something unknown. He saw scientific-technological progress as the reason of this crisis and considered art as one of the ways of overcoming this crisis, by way of making the human being of the future into an “artistic human being.” Blok thought that art aims to transcend the boundaries of this world, which is the focus of contemporary civilization. For an artist, the visible world is transparent; the artist discerns the spiritual planes of being and aspires to express them in art. This type of artist is a symbolist. The symbolist possesses secret knowledge; creative activity is driven either by sophianic (the “thesis” of the first stage of symbolism) or by demonic (the “antithesis”) energies. This artist hears the harmony of the spheres (the “cosmic ringing” as an overcoming of cosmic chaos) and realizes it in “lyric,” which is the ineffable essence of true art. The entire intellectual community—scholars, philosophers, politicians—is nurtured by this “lyric,” which elevates the human being toward higher reality.