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Who Was Franz Bardon!
Tim Scott
Iranz Bardon is one ol the most important hut least known occultists and maicians ol
the Twentieth Century. He is mainly known throuh lour hooks he wrote which were
puhlished in the qc's. Many have horrowed his techniques and terminoloy without
ivin him proper credit, sometimes unknowinly, hut not always. I recommended his
hook Initiation Into Hermetics to a person who had studied occultism lor some years.
He was stunned to lind that a teacher ol his in the past had distrihuted Bardon's materials
pretendin he had written them himsell.
Bardon was unusual in that he stressed practice and practicality ahove all else. Althouh
his hooks contained lenthy theoretical sections, his emphasis was on the tanihle, usahle
results ol maickal trainin. His stated purpose was to ive the serious student ol maick
the most complete and hest possihle maickal instruction ohtainahle outside ol an occult
lode and without the henelit ol a personal teacher. Did he succeed: The only way to
jude is hy tryin his curriculum yoursell.
Bardon's Life and Work
Bardon did not appear to he tryin to create a leend ahout himsell. The only sell-
relerences in his works are occasional attestations that he had himsell tried this ol that
experiment or ritual. I can't resist comparin this to a much more lamous maician ol this
century who wrote voluminously ahout his own lile and adventures, and had no qualms
ahout lorilyin himsell in so doin
Accordin to his student and close lriend Otti Votavova, Iranz Bardon was the oldest ol
children, and the only son ol a very devout Christian mystic, Viktor Bardon. Althouh
he had achieved a certain amount ol spiritual advancement, Viktor lelt that he was
unahle to ohtain and advanced initiation, and prayed that he receive this hlessin. The
story is that an advanced soul entered the hody ol his son Iranz to hecome Viktor's
initiator.
In later lile, Bardon hecame a stae maician who ained some lame in Germany in the
qac's and qc's under the stae name Irahato.
As Adoll Hitler and his Nazi party ascended to power in the qc's various roups such as
the O.T.O. and the Ireemasons were hanned and some ol their memhers arrested. Otti
Votavova avers that Hitler heloned to the leendary IOCG or qq Lode ol hlack
maick, descrihed in Irahato The Maician and Iire And Ice (see the hihlioraphy). Apart
lrom this, Hitler and some ol his intimate lriends were supposed to he memhers ol the
Thule Order, which was the external instrument ol a roup ol powerlul Tihetan hlack
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Arrest 8 Imprisonment by the rd Reich
Throuh the nelience ol one ol Bardon's disciples (who had not destroyed their
correspondence as Bardon had ordered) the Nazis arrested and imprisoned them hoth in
late q or early qa. While the prisoners were hein whipped, the disciple lost his
control and uttered a Qahalistic lormula to immohilize the torturers. However, the ellects
ol the lormula were eventually canceled and the disciple was shot as revene. Adoll Hitler
ollered Bardon hih positions in the Third Reich under the condition that he help win the
war with his maick. Bardon was lurther expected to reveal to Hitler the address ol the
other q8 ol the qq Lodes spread all over the world. When he relused to help, the Nazis
cruelly tortured him. Amon other thins, they perlormed operations on Bardon without
anesthesia, and lored iron rins around his ankles and lixed heavy iron halls to them.
Alter the war Bardon lound, with the help ol his maick ahilities, that Hitler had escaped
ahroad. Ior lear ol reconition, Hitler had underone several ol surical operations on his
lace.
Dieter Rueher(puhlisher ol Bardon's hooks) makes this comment on the ahove
statements. So much lor Otti Votavova's recital ol lacts. In the years ol my acquaintance
with her I was ahle to convince mysell ol her love ol truth.
Alter reainin his lreedom, Bardon recommenced his occult work and healin. It was
apparently this last work that ot him in trouhle with the Czech authorities. They
stronly discouraed this type ol thin in the very repressive political climate ol postwar
Czechoslovakia.
Arrest and Death
Reardin Bardon's last years, Rueher wrote to me as lollows. The prolession ol
Bardon was natural healer. He was ahle to cure cancer until the and deree, without steel
and rays, only with his own medicine made lrom plants and treated with alchemical
means. Ior this reason the doctors ol the ollicial medicine hecame very jealous, hecause
they could not reach such success with their chemical and nuclear treatments. Alter the
puhlication ol his hooks in q6, a numher ol people came lrom Germany to visit him.
The doctors took this opportunity to accuse Bardon to he a spy lrom the West, and that
was the reason he was arrested in q8 in Opava, Czechoslovakia. Russian Communist
ideoloies, thus they persecuted lree-thinkers, Gypsies, ews, Ireemasons and anyone
interested in the occult or esoteric suhjects.
Bardon died uly cth, q8. What connection, il any, his death had with the arrest I have
heen unahle to determine. Il he was a prolessional stae maician in Germany in the
qac's and qc's, we could assume that he was horn rouhly around the turn ol the
century, and thus would not have heen very old at his death.
The Fraternity of Saturn
Bardon stoutly maintained that he was not a memher ol, nor under any ohliations to a
maickal lode or order. However, some sources indicate that he was actually a memher
ol the Iraternity ol Saturn, an important occult lode which llourished in Germany in the

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early part ol the acth Century. Durin the ascent ol the Nazi party, they closed or
persecuted all Masonic, reliious and occult oranizations. They closed and hanned the
Iraternity ol Saturn Lode sometime hetween q and qy, hut it was revived in qc.
I have not yet heen ahle to positively identily Bardon as a memher ol the Iraternity ol
Saturn. While reconizin the power and validity ol sex maick, Bardon emphatically
discouraes the student lrom dahhlin in it until he understands its lull implications.
Franz Bardon's Writings
Each hook lollows a rouhly similar pattern. a mainly theoretical exposition lollowed hy
practical instruction. Readin and understandin them is a challene, as they have heen
translated lrom German-and possihly lrom Czechoslovakian helore that-into non-
idiomatic Enlish.
Translational dilliculties aside, one thin that makes an endurin impression is Bardon's
evident sincerity. He insists lrequently that he is doin as much as possihle to transmit a
system ol occult development to the serious student who is either unahle to lind a teacher
or work in a roup. In line with this, he also lrequently reiterates that he has personally
perlormed such and such an experiment, ritual or procedure.
His Sources
Belore descrihin some ol Bardon's theories, it is ood to keep in mind that many ol the
words he uses have dillerent meanins in a mundane context and even in other occult
systems. Imprenation, lluid, condenser, sphere - all have special meanins.
Ior instance, Bardon appears to have oriinated the concept ol the so-called lluid
condenser. Iluids are maickal qualities, not lluids as we understand them in daily lile,
and are divided into electric and manetic types. A condenser is a maick wand,
mirror, or other device the maician cralts to condense, or concentrate, these lluids. An
example ol preparin a lluid condenser is iven later in this article.
Many ol his occult ideas can he traced to earlier works, such as Eliphas Levi and Barrett's
The Maus. Bardon also seems to have heen lamiliar with Tihetan occultism, or at any
rate the works ol Alexandria David-Neel, whom he cites now and then, and lrom whom
he does a lair amount ol horrowin. He mentions, lor example, kylichors(maickal
diarams), and tum-mo (the ahility ol Tihetan adepts to stay warm in lreezin weather).
The mental exercises Bardon prescrihes, such as one-pointedness, watchin the roamin ol
consciousness and so on, are commonplace in yoic and other occult works.
Althouh Bardon does not mention Crowley or any ol his writins, The Beast's inlluence
is present. Compare Crowley's lamous dictum. Love is the law, love under will to
Bardon's. Love is the law, hut love under a stron will.
Bardon's Theories: The Magicka| Universe
Bardon postulates an eneretic model ol the universe modilied lrom Iar Eastern theories,
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each other in the same way that Yin and Yan do. These are clearly not the physicist's
lorces hy the same names, hut there is a certain analoy hetween them. Manetism is a
cool, neative lorce with a hlue emanation, and electricity is a warm, positive lorce with
a red emanation.
In Initiation Into Hermetics Bardon relers once to the OR and OB lorces. My uess is
that these miht represent the Red(OR = Odyle Rot) and Blue (Odyle Blau) or
electric and manetic lluids. Or perhaps they are adaptations ol the OD and OB lorces
descrihed in Eliphas Levi's Transcendental Maic. Whatever the scientilic validity ol this
approach, it is certainly rich with suestive possihilities.
Bardon's od or odyle enery, which Baron Karl von Reichenhach oriinally developed
in the mid-8cc's. The neative pole ol a manet, he claimed, appeared hlue to persons
with hih psychic sensitivity and induced a leelin ol coldness. The positive pole appeared
red and had the property ol warmth. He elahorated this theory into a hihly complex
system ol occult anatomy and mysticism. Bardon usually called od vital power
|lehenskralt|, hut once or twice reverts to the term od.
Bardon teaches that each part ol the hody is overned hy either the electric or the
manetic lorce, or it may he neutral. Disease is caused hy parts hein out ol halance.
The Four E|ements
Bardon made use ol the ancient lour elements - Iire, Earth, Air and Water - plus Akasha,
or Quintessence. His attrihutions ol the elements are essentially the same as those in other
systems and hooks.. Water lor emotions, intuition, Iire lor aressiveness, passion, etc. In
his view, the skilllul maician was one who could manipulate the Elements to achieve
desired ellects. Ol course, helore the student could hecome master ol the Elements, he
had to harmonize and control the manilestations ol all Elements in his own hein.
Bardon tauht that man was superior to all spirits, demons and anels in that only man
was a lour-pole hein - that is, comhinin the eneries ol all the Elements . Ior instance,
nomes are strictly creatures ol Earth, sylphs ol Air and so lorth. He cautioned the student
to heware ol tricks and deceptions on the parts ol these creatures, who wished to capture
a part ol the human's soul.
In Bardon's words. Any deliherate cause, may he such as a wish, a thouht or any
imaination created in this sphere toether with the dynamic concentration ol willpower,
unshaken laith and lullest conviction is hound to he realized with the help ol the
elements... . Consciousness knows neither time nor space, and is therelore an akasha
principle. He also instructs the student to re-dissolve the akasha into the universe rather
than keep it accumulated. In other words, the maickal lrame ol mind should not he the
same as the everyday one.
Preparation of the Student
A pillar ol Bardon's method is the point that the maician must he halanced in the
Elements that make up his own hein. A student with an excess or lack ol any Element
could not achieve reat success, no matter how much work he does. An analoy would he

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an auto enine. no matter how much luel you leed to it, it can only enerate so much il it
is not properly tuned and halanced. Alter a point, the enine will either wear out quickly
or lail il you attempt to make it perlorm heyond its limits. The dillerence with humans is
that our limits are sell-imposed.
Bardon also insists on the point that the student hein at the heinnin and not skip any
section ol his trainin. The student must completely master each step helore proceedin
on to the next. Aain, the analoy to other endeavors is clear. Il maick is a skill like
llyin, then the student cannot nelect the study ol airplanes, weather, salety, avionics and
so lorth, without serious dilliculties in the luture.
Iinally, as many teachers say, the student must keep a complete and accurate record.
Without this, it is hard to repeat successes and avoid repeatin mistakes.
Out|ine of Bardon's Magicka| Curricu|um
Althouh Bardon divides his praxis into ten steps, these are somewhat arhitrary. Here is a
summary ol his main points.
r. Se|f-Ana|ysis 8 Basic Exercises
As mentioned ahove, the student must work diliently on understandin and
harmonizin the lour Elements within his own hein helore doin any lurther
occult work. Bardon prescrihes several weeks ol minute, mercilessly honest sell-
ohservation and recordin ol one's laults and lailins. The student classilies each
under the lour Elemental cateories to see which Elements are out ol halance in
his Sell. A similar exercise classilies his virtues and strenths. Since the maician is
to have control over all the Elemental worlds, he must not he unhalanced or have
any ohsessions that would impede his ellectiveness, or allow weak spots that
could cause his undoin.
a. Intermediate Concentration 8 Breathing
In the next step, the student strenthens his ahility to concentrate and perlorms
hreathin exercises and the techniques ol autosuestion. Bardon reards these as
the secret key to the suhconscious.
Bardon distinuishes carelully hetween two kinds ol hreathin. Pulmonary
(normal) and throuh the skin. This second type ol hreathin takes practice. The
hody can respire automatically, hut the student needs to learn to control it,
comhine it with voluntary pulmonary hreathin and selectively inspire the various
Elements and Akasha.
. Advanced Visua|ization Exercises 8 E|ement Manipu|ation
This step entails intense concentration on and visualization ol increasinly more
complex ohjects, and inhalin the Elements into the hody. The student also
learns the loadin, or charin, ol talismans, rooms, or ohjects lor protection,
healin, or other purposes.
|. Accumu|ation of E|ements 8 Ritua|s
In this part ol the trainin the student, works to perlect the halancin and
concentratin ol Elementary eneries in the students own and other persons's
hodies. In Bardon's system, rituals are mot what we normally think ol as such,
hut rather mnemonics hased on hand estures, verhal lormulas or visual keys. He
claims that once you understand the eneries properly, can recall an enery or

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situation with merely a surreptitious hand esture, a silent lormula or a
comhination thereol.
. Transp|anting Consciousness 8 Levitation
This step consists ol a raduated series ol exercises to prepare the student lor
physical and astral levitation and astral travel, as a prelude to communication with
astral heins. Communication with the astral world can either he active or passive.
Passive techniques are simpler and saler, thus Bardon presents them lirst.
6. Introduction to Astra| Beings 8 Astra| Trave|
Besides astral heins and travel, this chapter deals with the creation ol non-
physical heins lor the maician's use. Bardon also discusses the perils ol
accidentally creatin them. This inadvertent creation ol phantasms which can
attach to and parasitize the operator is a reat daner lor the dahhler in occultism.
At this point, Bardon aain insists that the student not skip any step in his
development, in order to avoid this serious prohlem.
y. Deve|opment of C|airvoyance, C|airaudience 8 Other Abi|ities:
Creation ol Elementaries
Bardon ives lormulas lor accessories such as special eye-haths and ear-plus to aid
in development ol supersensory perception. He also discusses maick animation ol
pictures and statues.
8. "F|uid Condensers"
These are special tools which the maician creates to concentrate, store, and
manipulate the electric and manetic lluids. He ives lairly detailed instructions
lor makin, charin and usin these condensers.
Iirst, Bardon teaches that even minute quantities old can add enormously to the
accumulative power ol any condenser. Thus, he recommends preparin a old
tincture to chare any condensers the student makes. The easiest way is to
dissolve a ram ol soluhle old chloride in ac rams ol distilled water. (Gold
chloride is lairly expensive - ahout Sc per ram.)
Here is an interestin example ol Bardon's condensers. Put a handlul ol lresh or
dry chamomile llowers into a pot. Pour enouh cold water over them to cover
them completely. Let the chamomile llowers hoil lor ahout ac minutes. Cool
them, hut leave the lid on the pot and strain the decoction. Put this on the lire
aain and allow it to evaporate slowly until it weihs ahout c rams. A lew drops
more or less do not matter at all. Let the extract cool and, lor hetter preservation,
mix it with the same quantity (in this case c rams) ol spirit or alcohol.
(Rememher to never use methyl or wood alcohol in any preparation meant to he
used in or on the hody.) To this mixture add ahout c drops ol the old tincture
prepared ahove.
Bardon continues.
Il you wish to use the condenser lor your own purposes, you may still strenthen
it, hy addin a drop ol your hlood or sperm, il possihle hoth toether, on a swah ol
cotton wool, throw this alterwards without any scruples into the condenser and
shake the lot well. Then, pour all, in a lunnel, throuh lilter paper or linen into a
small hottle and keep it well corked in a cool and dark place, ready to use.
The maician can use these condensers in many ways. mixin them with liquids to
drink, lor anointin, mixin them with incense compounds, or pourin them in
small howls to collect and concentrate certain eneries.
Any lluid condenser which has heen prepared in this manner does not lose its
elliciency even alter many years. The condenser must he well shaken each time
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ol it. In the same way you can prepare several universal condensers lrom Russian
or enuine Chinese tea, lrom lily-hlossoms-hest are the white ones-popular leaves,
alraune roots or mandraora roots, arnica montana, acacia llowers. Any simple
lluid condenser, prepared lrom one plant is sullicient lor normal use such as
inlluencin throuh the elements, or developin the astral senses hy means ol the
lluid condensers.
q. Magick Mirrors for Astra| Trave| 8 Hea|ing
The maick mirror (ol which the crystal hall is a species) is valuahle lor many
experiments in clairvoyance, clairaudience and the like. Alter a hriel description,
Bardon lists many ways the maician can use it. He descrihes treatment ol the sick
usin electro-manetic lluids and the maickal loadin ol talismans, amulets and
ems.
ro. E|evation of the Spirit to Higher Leve|s
This chapter discusses the various ways the student should improve his spiritual
qualities. Bardon wraps up with a discussion ol several occult topics such as
exteriorization, levitation, production ol natural phenomena, suestion, hypnosis,
psychometry and lon distance imprenation ol rooms.
An amazing book on Communicating with Spirits
Bardon's second puhlished work, The Practice ol Maical Evocation, is a remarkahle and
unique work ol nearly cc paes. The lirst ol its two parts is an exhaustive description ol
the many tools and apparatus the maician needs to work. The topics he treats include.
The Maick Circle, Trianle, Censer, Mirror, Lamp, Wand, Sword, Daer, Trident,
Crown, Cap and Maus-Band. This hook is much more ceremonially oriented than the
lirst, which requires a minimum ol apparatus. The Practice ol Maical Evocation is a
classic maickal rimoire, or instruction manual - prohahly one ol the hest ever written.
The second part ol ol the hook is a hue catalo ol spirits or entities that the student is
supposed to he ahle to contact alter perlectin the techniques in the lirst hook. A short
pararaph accompanies most ol the entries explainin the the specialty or purpose ol the
hein and what skills, knowlede or advantae it can hrin the occult practitioner. Bardon
states several times that he has contacted all these entities himsell and is writin what he
knows in the lirst person. In lact, he says there are many more entities he has omitted,
hecause ol their unsuitahility lor heinners.
The names ol these spirits are quite interestin. A lew ol them are the same as the
correspondin names in the classical maickal traditional. His ya spirits ol the Mercury
sphere are exactly the ya anels ol the Schem-ha-mephorash. Some ol them are oddly
chaned. Ior instance, osrail is clearly the same as Azrael, and Opolloon appears to
correspond to Apollyon. These spirits are descrihed in Barrett's The Maus, amon other
hooks. The chanes in spellin may he due to the lact that Bardon oriinally wrote in
Czechoslovakian or German. However, most ol his other spirits I have heen unahle to
trace. Ior instance, here are some ol the spirits ol the Mars sphere, none ol which I can
locate in other relerences. Rarum, Gihsir, Rahol, and Adica. These names may he lrom an
ohscure medieval rimoire, have dillerent meanins in Czechoslovakian, or have some
relation to his own Qahalistic system - hut so lar I have heen unahle to make such a
connection.

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Bardon's Unique Qaba|istic System
Alter the second hook, the coherence and oranization ol Bardon's work deteriorates
noticeahly. His third puhlished work was The Key to the True Qahalah. His Qahalistic
system depends on the sounds ol the various letters ol the alphahet. It's not clear that this
was exhaustively thouht out, since there are many alphahets in use (even amon
Western lanuaes). Hehrew, Cyrillic and Arahic all have dillerent alphahets, and some
(Chinese) have no alphahet at all. He uses his Qahala somewhat dillerently than other
occultists. he connects Qahalistic lormulae to various processes (e.., a vihration consistin
ol the sounds KTM is a lormula to load a room lor protections, AAQ is used lor
remote healin, etc.).
Bardon also uses his Qahalah as sort ol shorthand. once the occultist has made contact
with some planetary intellience, lor instance, he can re-contact the intellience hy usin
its phone numher lor simplicity.
Later Books of Rough Qua|ity
It is clear that alter the lirst two hooks, much less time or assistance was availahle lor
Bardon to et his work in print. Perhaps he was incarcerated or dead and unahle to to help
with the editin. In any case, Bardon's production alter this point declined rapidly. The
next hook was Irahato the Maician lor which Bardon only had notes. In the Enlish
edition, the puhlisher added extensive notes to indicate that the hook (and appended
material) is, in essence, Bardon's unedited notes. However, this is an intriuin occult
novel somewhat alon the lines ol those ol Dion Iortune.
Franz Bardon Today
A lew years ao, an enthusiastic student started the Iranz Bardon Ioundation in Denver,
Colorado. He showed his devotion to the Maus Guru, as he called Bardon, hy chanin
his name to im Bardon. Ior a time, I suhscrihed to this newsletter, which was or 8
paes and issued a lew time a year. The newsletter was, I am sure, a sincere ellort and
olten had interestin and uselul ideas. Unlortunately, it also included much peripheral
material that seemed to have no direct connection with Bardon's works. Each issue
repeated much ol the same inlormation ahout .im Bardon's predictions ol major
recessions and at least one world war hetween q8q and acc. I'm not sure il the recent
Persian Gull war would qualily. There is nothin in Iranz Bardon's own writins that
would support these theories. Iurthermore, im Bardon, in his hulletins also advertised his
own puhlications, astroloical service and hermetic trainin.
I lost contact with him when he raised the yearly suhscription lor his newsletter lrom
Sa.cc to Sc.cc - in order, he said, to separate the sincere lrom the lrivolous. Apparently
Mr. Bardon's Ioundation is still in existence. A classilied ad in a recent issue ol Llewellyn's
New Times ives a phone numher lor it in Seattle, Washinton.
Summary of Franz Bardon and Editoria|
Perhaps it is unlair to make such comparisons, hut it is interestin to contrast Iranz
Bardon's works with those ol the ol the other reat maickal teacher ol the century,

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Aleister Crowley. Althouh when the spirit moved him, Crowley could he intensely
disciplined, kind and helplul to his students and mananimous, he also enjoyed a lile lilled
with sex, drus, alcohol and hon vivant - all ol which are interal parts ol his maickal
philosophy. Crowley was continually heapin praise on himsell, excoriatin those he lelt
were heneath him, discardin students as unworthy, and continuously justilyin his
hehavior. He praised strenth and sneered at weakness. Crowley's writin are lull ol
literary practical jokes, insults to the reader's intellience, and deliherate deceptions.
Bardon represented almost everythin that Crowley was not. He appeared to he patient,
devout, non-judmental and earnest. He insisted that only throuh halance and purin ol
excesses could one achieve success in maick. And (thouh this prohahly rellects my
personal hiases), it seems that Bardon's reticence and cautionary tone concernin sexual
maick is a much more reasonahle attitude than Crowley's, especially lor heinners.
Certainly not one occultist in a thousand has made ood use ol sex maick, whereas an
unlortunately lare numher have hecome ohsessed, or worse. How many people have you
heard ol who have improved themselves throuh sex maick: But it's certainly a heck ol a
lot more lun than the drudery ol discipline. Similar ohservations apply to students whose
maickal work revolves around the use ol intoxicants and narcotics.
I leel that Bardon does deliver what he promises. detailed maickal instruction lor the
dilient and serious student who, lor whatever reason, cannot or will not attach to a
maickal order or roup. It is sometimes a challene to penetrate the mediocre
translations ol his works, hut with supplementary maickal study thins do hecome clear.



Bib|iography
Works by Franz Bardon
Der Ve zvm Vo|ren AJepien (st ed. q6).
Die Proais Jer Moisc|en EvoIoiion (st ed. q6).
Der Sc||vesse| zvr Vo|ren obo|o| (st ed. qy).
Froboio. Ein OIIv|ier Pomon (st ed. qyq).
Iniiioiion inio Hermeiics (st Enlish ed. q6a).
T|e Prociice o| Moico| Evocoiion (st Enlish ed. q6y).
T|e Ke, io i|e Trve obo|o| (st Enlish ed. qy). The lormulas mentioned
ahove, to immohilize one's enemies, are in this hook under the headins E-M
and E-N.
Froboio i|e Moicion (st Enlish ed. qy). This is an occult novel which
Bardon's student and lriend Otti Votavova claimed was hased on true events. This
edition also contains lraments lrom a work that Bardon was never ahle to
complete. Puhlished under the title the Golden Book ol Wisdom and an
unpuhlished tract titled Hih Maic.

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T|e Joies iven o|ier i|e iii|es ore i|e ,eors o| |irsi En|is| pvb|icoiion. Mosi o| i|e
worIs |isieJ be|ow |ove been reprinieJ in voriovs |ormois, some mon, iimes.
Barret, Irancis, T|e Movs, London (8c), ollers inlormation on classical
demonoloy.
B|oiier |vr LebensIvnsi, Auust q6, p..
Cavendish, Richard, ed., Mon, M,i| onJ Moic (qyc). See articles on Manetism
and Douhle lor inlormation on Baron Von Reichenhach's theories.
David-Neel, Alexandra, Moic onJ M,sier, in Tibei (q) and Iniiioiion onJ
Iniiioies in Tibei (qa). Bardon relers to these in a lew places.
Ilowers, S. Edred (pseud. ol S. Edred Thorsson), T|e Froiernii, o| Soivrn (qqc).
This is surprisinly ood. It is well documented and relatively sane. Ol course, in
order to sell the hooks, it emphasizes the sexual maick aspect ol the Iraternity ol
Saturn.
Howe, Ellic, T|e Moicions o| i|e Co|Jen Down (qya). See p. a8a, Note , on the
hannin ol the Iraternity ol Saturn.
Kin, Irancis, Seavo|ii,, Moic onJ Perversion. T|e Secrei Piivo|s o| i|e O.T.O.
(qy), T|e Moico| Vor|J o| A|eisier Crow|e, (qyy). Althouh lon on
sensationalism, Kin's works are usually reliahle and relatively well-documented.
Levi, Eliphas (pseud. ol Alphonse Louis Constant, transl. hy A.E.Waite),
TronscenJenio| Moic (8q6). This is an Enlish edition ol Dome Je |o Hovie
Moic (8) and Piive| Je |o Hovie Moic (86).
Rueher, Dieter, letter to the author, Oct a8, q88. Herr Rueher, the
lontime puhlisher ol Bardon's hooks in Enlish, wrote this in response to a query
lor more inlormation ahout Bardon's lile.
von Reichenhach, Baron Karl, P|,sicoP|,sio|oico| Peseorc|es on i|e D,nomics o|
Moneiism, (8c, 8) and T|e OJic Force. Leiiers on OJ onJ moneiism, (qa6,
reprinted q68).
Wilson, Colin, T|e Occv|i (qy) ollers inlormation on von Reichenhach's
theories.