La Magia Del Verbo/ the Magic of the Verb

by Jorge Adoum

96 pages, Paperback

About the author

Jorge Elías Francisco Adoum alias Mago Jefa (March 10, 1897 – May 4, 1958) was born in Lebanon and migrated to Ecuador where he translated many works from Arabic to Spanish. He also painted, sculpted, composed music, practiced natural medicine and wrote more than forty volumes on occult sciences and Freemasonry which he signed with his pen name "Mago Jefa".
He ran a private practice that specialized in hypnotism, magnetism and suggestion. He is reported to have performed numerous healings considered miraculous in his time. After 1945 he traveled to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. He died in Rio de Janeiro in 1958 at sixty one years of age.

He was the father of the Ecuadorian novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum.