The known English journalist, religious scholar, researcher of mysticism and occult philosophy Paul Брайтон, tells about the trips on orients in search of contacts with the carriers of secret knowledge. He lived among yogis, mystics and monks, studied history of Ancient Egypt, again and again going back to the favourite symbol of this enigmatic country - lithoidal giant of the desert, lying Sphinx. Possessing undoubted by mastery of writer, Brighton brightly and enthrallingly tells about the researches in tsar's tombs, about meeting with famous fakirs and hypnotists. Describes secret ceremonies and secret mysteries of dedication in the Egyptian temples, ghosts that were to him, when he in grave silense through the night awoke in the Great pyramid, I will meet with an adherent and that, how once him a secret confided in all pure.