Jorge Elías Francisco Adoum Mago Jefa (March 10, 1897 – May 4, 1958) was born in the Ottoman Empire 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 Jorge Enrique Adoum (June 29, 1926 in Ambato – July 3, 2009 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. His work received such prestigious awards as the first ...

Translations into English

The only work of Adoum's available in English is ''Del sexo a la divinidad'' translated as ''Sex to Divinity'' by Monica Rocha. This work sets forth Dr. Adoum's ideas about the practice of sacred sexuality, expounds upon the origins of the founders of religions, lifts the veil on the allegory of

Hiram Abif Hiram Abiff (also Hiram Abif or the Widow's son) is the central character of an allegory presented to all candidates during the third degree in Freemasonry. Hiram is presented as the chief architect of King Solomon's Temple. He is murdered insi ...

and acknowledges his debt to nineteenth century Masonic predecessors, particularly the Franco-Belgium Freemason Jean-Marie Ragon. Sex to Divinity

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1897 births 1958 deaths Translators from Arabic Ecuadorian translators Ecuadorian painters Ecuadorian occult writers Arabic–Spanish translators Ecuadorian male writers Lebanese emigrants to Ecuador 20th-century translators 20th-century Lebanese painters 20th-century male writers {{Ecuador-translator-stub