Under the outer layer of history, under the extravaganza of the frantic battles for a piece of lacquer, redrawing maps and dividing resources lies the history of the secret, the history of man's search for the meaning of his existence and the discovery of his own essence. This quiet laborious work is done by men of eminent intelligence and conscience, like the links of a golden chain stretched through the ages, from eternity to eternity. This book will allow the reader to witness the inner workings of humanity, introducing him to a close acquaintance with the majestic figures of the Hermetic Circle of the middle of the last century: Carl Gust wom Jung and Hermann Hesse, in which the author, Miguel Serrano, appeared as if only a biographer. But what is very valuable, his records allow us to touch the living pulse and acute thought of those times directly, avoiding how much film of the paucity and callousness of later interpreters.