Miguel Serrano’s Quest for the City

by Dmitry Moiseev

Dmitry Moiseev discusses Miguel Serrano’s Ultimate Flower, where the search for a magical city becomes a mystical exploration of destiny, love, and immortality.

In Ultimate Flower (1969), a masterpiece of late magical prose, the Chilean writer Miguel Serrano tells the story of the search for a magical city, which his Master told him about in one of the South American esoteric circles. This is a story about a city inhabited by amazing creatures that have nothing to do with ordinary mortals — creatures who are supposed to be called to become prophets of the New Age, and who keep the secret of eternal life. It is called the ‘City of Caesars’ in honour of the conquistador Francisco César, who claimed to have found the forbidden city in 1528. The location of the city remains a mystery, and its search was declared the main goal of the esoteric circle of the Master.