Don Miguel Lehumada: discoverer of liquid from the sun's rays / an occult romance of Mexico and the United States

The narrative follows a scientist whose extraction of a liquid derived from sunlight produces memory and spirit-altering fluids that reveal past incarnations and enable levitation and other occult phenomena. Those discoveries intersect with political intrigue and conspiracies, prompting investigations, arrests, public trials, and demonstrations involving preserved or ebonized corpses. Spiritual manifestations influence leadership, culminating in a prominent political elevation and marriage, while friends and rivals confront guilt, confession, and redemption. Reincarnation, the moral consequences of experimental power, and the blending of speculative science with mysticism drive the plot toward reconciliations and the affirmation of continued life beyond a single existence.