About the Author (Franz Bardon 1909-1958)
With permission from Divine Providence, the spirit of a highly developed
Hermetic adept entered the body of a fourteen year old child named Franz
Bardon, destined to become one of the most remarkable magicians of the 20th
century.
Though he maintained a "normal life" he apprenticed as an industrial
mechanic and became a family man in the Czech town of Opava, his other,
occult life was full of attainment, power and tragedy.
During the
last years of WWII, Franz Bardon spent three and a half years in a
concentration camp, from which he ultimately escaped. After the war, he
practiced as a Naturopath and Graphologist and devoted himself to the
teaching of Hermeticism and the writing of his now classic works,
Initiation into Hermetics
The Practice of Magical Evocation
and
The Key to the True Kabbalah.
This newly discovered work will help students of Hermetics with precise
information on universal principles.
The manuscript
for this little book was prepared in Prague by a group of Franz Bardon's
students, probably in the early 1950s, when Bardon's books,
Initiation into Hermetics
The Practice of Magical Evocation
and
The Key to the True Kabbalah
had not yet been published. Mr. Lonny Schwartz received the original from Mrs. lrina Novakova and was kind enough to allow me to
publish it, for which I am very grateful.
I would also like to extend my gratitude to Dr. M.K.
and to Silvia and Ulrich Ohm, who edited and corrected the
original German manuscript. May students of Hermetics find
encouragement and inspiration for the practical part of their work
herein. Every practitioner knows how difficult it is to express
spiritual experiences in words. The principal reason for
publishing this work is to provide inspiration for students of
Hermetics in their meditative exercises.
Wuppertal, April 1997 Dieter Ruggeberg
