In 1909 he returned to Russia permanently, where he continued to compose, working on

increasingly grandiose projects. For some time before his death he had planned a multi-media work
to be performed in the Himalaya Mountains, that would cause a so-called "armageddon," "a
grandiose religious synthesis of all arts which would herald the birth of a new world." [13] Scriabin left
only sketches for this piece, Mysterium, although a preliminary part, named L'acte
pralable ("Preparatory Action") was eventually made into a performable version by Alexander
Nemtin.[14] Part of that unfinished composition was performed with the title 'Prefatory Action'
by Vladimir Ashkenazy in Berlin with Aleksei Lyubimov at the piano.[15] Nemtin eventually completed a
second portion ("Mankind") and a third ("Transfiguration"), and his entire two-and-a-half-hour
completion was recorded by Ashkenazy with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Decca.
Several late pieces published during the composer's lifetime are believed to have been intended
for Mysterium, like the Two Dances Op. 73.[16]
Scriabin was small and reportedly frail throughout his life. In 1915, at the age of 43, he died in
Moscow from septicemia as a result of a sore on his upper lip. He had mentioned the sore as early
as 1914 while in London.[17] Immediately upon Scriabin's sudden death, Rachmaninoff toured Russia
in a series of all-Scriabin recitals. It was the first time he had played music other than his own in
public and his efforts helped secure Scriabin's reputation as a great composer.

Scriabin was interested in Friedrich Nietzsche's bermensch theory, and later became interested
in theosophy. Both would influence his music and musical thought. During 190910 he lived
in Brussels, becoming interested in Jean Delville's Theosophist philosophy and continuing his
reading of Helena Blavatsky.[19]

Theosophist and composer Dane Rudhyar wrote that Scriabin was "the one great pioneer of the new
music of a reborn Western civilization, the father of the future musician", and an antidote to "the Latin
reactionaries and their apostle, Stravinsky" and the "rule-ordained" music of
"Schoenberg's group."[citation needed] Scriabin developed his own very personal and
abstract mysticism based on the role of the artist in relation to perception and life affirmation. His
ideas on reality seem similar to Platonic and Aristotelian theory though much less coherent. The
main sources of his philosophy can be found in his numerous unpublished notebooks, one in which
he famously wrote "I am God". As well as jottings there are complex and technical diagrams
explaining his metaphysics. Scriabin also used poetry as a means in which to express his
philosophical notions, though arguably much of his philosophical thought was translated into music,
the most recognizable example being the Ninth Sonata ("the Black Mass").