The book “From the Sphinx to Christ: a history of occultism” belongs to the pen of Eduard Shuret (1841-1929), an outstanding mystical writer, musician and thinker, playwright, historian, specialist in Franco-German folklore, author of the wonderful book “Great Initiates” .Conceived as a continuation of the “Great Initiates”, as a history of occult doctrines, this work, according to Shuret, is devoted to questions that have become “the stumbling block of all spiritual concepts and all religious faiths” - these are cosmogony and the origin of man, theogony and the nature of Christ, as well as other issues of European esotericism.