British historians and archaeologists Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, famous for their studies of historical “paradoxes,” this time decided to plunge into the abyss of magic and alchemy in order to understand how the interest in the occult, which has been debunked more than once over the centuries by the doctrines of scientific realism is gaining strength again in the twenty-first century. How the traditions of Hermeticism, which originated in Alexandria two thousand years ago, are progressing in today’s civilizational space, what is fascinating about the voodoo religion, how the search for the elixir of immortality and the philosopher’s stone ended, who are modern masons, what is the secret of the magic of rock music, who really are there were wise men and magicians, what is a “sacred landscape”? This is far from a complete list of everything “occult”, the veil over which the authors of the book lift the veil for readers.