Esoteric - Spiritual

The Hermitic sciences are the basis for all modern chemistry and medicine, and yet we still long to find that elusive Philosopher's stone, that the ancients spoke matter-of-factly about.

An excellent book of fiction written before mankind's real attempts to land on the moon. "Having, by a train of fortunate circumstances, accomplished a voyage, of which the history of mankind affords no example; having, moreover, exerted every faculty of body and mind, to make my adventures useful to my countrymen, and even to mankind, by imparting to them the acquisition of secrets in physics and morals, of which they had not formed the faintest conception,--I flattered myself that both in the character of traveller and public benefactor, I had earned for myself an immortal name. But how these fond, these justifiable hopes have been answered, the following narrative will show."