Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale - Edward Bulwer Lytton

This is one of the great masterpieces of occult fiction, astonishing considering when it was written. It was an important influence on the later esoteric movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s."Zanoni" is a book about two immortals and their lives during immortality. One being is the cold, calm, heartless, void of all passion; more intellect than man. The other is his pupil, Zanoni, the eternal youth with absolute power and knowledge, and all the capacity to love and be loved and because of that love, despair.