The Alchemist: In the Footsteps of Giordano Bruno

by Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi

This is the exciting story of a young chemist, Pablo Simón, a member of a Hermetic Lodge of Catholics who, in the midst of the terrors of the Inquisition, are working in obscurity to preserve the wisdom of the ages and to live out their Master's message of love. Forced to flee his town in order to escape from the Holy Office, Pablo Simón undertakes a journey to the East. In India he is to find the key to the Occult Science, but the magic of that land holds him there, causing him to forget the reason for his journey. Until one day when he meets the man who in the West is called Giordano Bruno, a man whom the Church has been persecuting to prevent him from spreading doctrines which pose a threat to its dogmas, and whom Pablo Simón had seen in his dreams, a man who is to show him an answer to his quest. Pablo Simón returns with him to Europe, stopping in Egypt, the fatherland of Hermeticism. Then he rejoins the Brotherhood and takes up his work again. But his enemies continue to stalk him. The sentencing of Giordano Bruno causes a spring of hatred to well up in his this is the final test on his path and he is on the point of failing...But the training he has received in the schools of the East and West save him from falling into the trap. His destiny is marked out and so he continues in the footsteps of his master Giordano Bruno and so many other philosophers of the 16th century, victims of the ignorance and fanaticism of their age.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

"Professor Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi was born in 1930 in Buenos Aires to a family of Italian origin and obtained Italian nationality in 1975.
He studied Medicine, specializing in the Medicine of Ancient India, through the Adyar Section of the Theosophical Society in India.
He also obtained a Bachelor's degree in History of Art and Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires.
At the same time, he received instruction from C. Jinarajadasa and N. Sri Ram, both of whom were presidents of the Worldwide Theosophical Society.
In 1957 he founded the School of Philosophy "in the classical tradition" which later became incorporated under the name of International Organization New Acropolis.
He devoted the rest of his life to promoting this "spiritual adventure", building it up through a major effort of teaching and research, and establishing centres, first in Europe and America, and later, from 1977, in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
He died in Madrid in 1991."