At the beginning of the 20th century, two poets and writers, the American T.S. Eliot and the Russian Vladimir Solov'ëv, described and prophesied in their works a modern society deprived of spiritual values, devoid of transcendental horizons. The Waste Land (1922) by Eliot and The Three Conversations and the Tale of the Antichrist (1900) by Solov'ëv depicted a desacralised human history, an epoch characterised by fragmentation of peoples, cultures, and religions. And it is precisely the religious and theological discourse that imbues these two literary masterpieces of the early 20th century. Eliot and Solov'ëv put into evidence a societal upheaval, which would have registered a drastic weakening of Christianity and a rise of new religions. Moreover, the literary works of Eliot and Solov'ëv are characterized by an esoteric dimension that has not yet been explored. My paper aims to show this esoteric dimension of the two writers and poets, by pointing out the tension between Christianity and new religious movements, between Christian esotericism and the spread of the occult in contemporary times, between the spiritual aridity of modern society and the need for transcendence, which was at the basis of the literary works of T.S. Eliot and Vladimir Solov'ëv.