The dark wells of despair are the metaphysical melancholy and existential disappointment of Western man. The high road laid by Freemasonry has long been transformed into the machine-cold mind of a robot. But now this ideology is imposed on the whole world, which leads humanity to spiritual collapse, destruction of the biosphere and ultimately the extermination of themselves as a species. The threat of Atlanticist views and ways to overcome them are discussed in a series of articles that make up this collection and published in the Russian press during the period 2003–2007 and later.