In Book 6 of The Brothers Karamazov, the character of Elder Zosima is explored thoroughly, with his personal history and religious transformation being the focal point of the chapter. The character of Elder Zosima, as he is portrayed in Book 6, relates to the writings of Alexander Dugin, in how he is portrayed as being “illuminated” by the light of truth and god. Elder Zosima, in Book 6, explains that he has a personal transformation right before dueling someone over a girl that he was in love with. Zosima describes the feeling of shame that overcame his soul, which gradually began to grow as the sun began to shine in the morning. He looks out of his window and sees that “the birds began to chime”. (315) Later, he begins to reflect on his own actions and why he chose to assault the lower ranking soldier. Ideas of worthiness begin to spiral in his head, when he suddenly reaches a state of enlightenment. He recounts that it felt like “a sharp needle went through my soul”, and he was suddenly aware of the natural beauty present around him. (316) He looked at the birds, the sun, even describing the leaves as being in a state of “rejoicing”. (316) He would go on to refuse to shoot the soldier he had maimed, and publicly announced his own guilt in the matter to his regiment. Zosima, in this passage, reflects many of the ideas that Alexander Dugin wrote about in The Philosophy of Another Beginning. Most importantly, the personal transformation that Zosima goes through reflects itself in the Fourfold, a group of associated ideas that Dugin believes reveal themselves to men under the right circumstances. He describes those circumstances that the Seyn-Being, or the unconcealed being, takes on the aspects of the Fourfold as being when in the absolute loneliness of the abyss, the light of truth shines through. This light is revealed in the form of the elements of the Fourfold, which are sky, gods, men, and earth. These four elements present themselves to Zosima simultaneously, with him being not only “pierced” by a light in his soul, but also enveloped by the beauty of the sky, earth and God. He is even at the same time as these stricken by his love of men, the fourth constituent part of the Fourfold, when he weeps for the man that he struck and realizes the beauty and good present in all men. Zosima is stricken by the beauty of the world and its constituent parts all at the same time, and his sudden transformation catches his fellow soldiers off guard. However, the suddenness of his transformation is no surprise when considering that the Fourfold presents itself naturally in an instant, when in the abyss that is loneliness. Zosima, while he believed he was fighting for something that he loved, realized he was only going to bring disaster to his fellow soldier and his newlywed wife, ruining their lives. Zosima was actively in the abyss, unknowingly acting as a servant of evil and his transformation occurs when he finally reflects on his own being.