Chilean Miguel Serrano is a very surprising phenomenon. Like many twentieth-century intellectuals, he is somewhat divided. Serrano came from an aristocratic and wealthy family, made a fairly successful diplomatic career, lived in India for a long time, was friends with many remarkable people - Hermann Hesse, K.-G. Jung, Ezra Pound. He became interested in magic and esotericism from childhood - he spent several young years with the Arauco Indians and is well aware of their amazing legends and techniques of ecstasy. But with all this, Serrano’s books leave a strange and discouraging impression: in them, traditional mystical concepts coexist with bizarre adventurous ideas regarding underground civilizations, magical geography, the kingdom of the Templars in the secret regions of the Cordillera, etc. This unique author arouses the wariness of intelligent people.< /p>