Franz Bardon

Franz Bardon, František Bardon, ( born December 1, 1909 in Katherein in Opava, Austria - Hungary, † July 10, 1958 in Brno, Czechoslovakia ) was an occultist who gained notoriety in particular by his publications on the theme of the hermetic magic and Kabbalah.

Life

Little is known about the childhood of the only Son of the Christian mystic, Viktor Bardon. The attainment of the transferred views in his books is suspected in the early 1920s. During this time entertained Bardon close contacts with Friedrich Wilhelm Quintscher, a member of the Adonis tables society.

Since the mid- 1920s, Franz Bardon joined the German public under the name " Frabato " ( from Franz Bardon- Opava - Opava formed Acronym ) to his own writings to come, by a large audience samples of ascribed magical powers to leave. With the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Germany was exposed Bardon a permanent hostility and persecution by the Nazis. In June 1941 he was arrested and deported to the concentration camp and Wrocław Opava. After his release in October 1941 Bardon worked until the end of the war as a medical practitioner in Munich, then in his home town of Opava. In 1958 he was arrested by the security authorities of Czechoslovakia, the exact circumstances are unknown. Shortly thereafter, Franz Bardon died in police custody.

The metaphysical system Bardon

The central position of his literary work take appeared in the 1950's volumes on The Initiation Into Hermetics, The Practice of Magical Evocation and The Key to the True Kabbalah, accompanied by presumably largely autobiographical material in the form of the novel Frabato. Bardon's metaphysics is outlined in his theoretical fundamentals in The Initiation Into Hermetics and experience in the following two volumes his successive refinement.

The hidden source of all things Bardon assigns the terms " God ", " Akasha ", " Adonai" or " etheric principle " to, presumably to indicate the equivalence of the eastern and western systems. The totality of all revealed, that is, through the creation spawned forces and processes can be reduced by Bardon on the interaction of a total of two universal principles. These basic elements are fire and water, where they are treated as principles and do not represent the physical phenomena of fire or water. The basic characteristics of fire are heat and expansion and water are the basic properties of the cold and contraction. Bardon refers to the contraction and expansion with two other terms: electric fluid ( expansion) and magnetic fluid ( contraction). Here he mentions that the principles can not be equated with the physical phenomena, however, admits that there should be a certain analogy between them. These two principles or elements can act in two " directions ": on the one hand active or building other hand, passive or destructive - they are essentially bipolar. Both taken together form a double dipole or quadrupole, which is referred to by Bardon as " four -pole magnet ". In addition to the elements of fire and water associated basic principles are derived from two more, but after Bardon not really existing elements used in Bardon's works. Thus, the balance between fire and water producing interaction is also elevated to a principle and this associated the element air. In order to make statements about the unity of the elements of fire, water and air, and finally a fourth principle is established, that it emerges from the interaction of all three other principles: the freezing or immobility, symbolized by the earth element. Bardon explains that the earth is the electromagnetic fluid based.

Bardon goes on to say that the manifestation of the divine, the Akasha, through the four Poligen magnets in three different quality grades and is being maintained. These three worlds or planes include the mentally - essential (highest among these ), the astral- etheric and the physical- material- coarse material ( deepest ). Further and more detailed versions Bardon geared closely to the content of the hermetic philosophy, the Kabbalah and Eastern wisdom teachings.

However, the focus of the books Bardon is situated on the magical practice and is according to the author, a self-contained system of initiation dar.

The documents relating to another book, The Golden Book of Wisdom, were confiscated when he was arrested by the police and are lost.

Works

• The Initiation Into Hermetics. A tutorial in 10 steps. Theory and practice. Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 1956; Rüggeberg, Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 3-921338-30-1
• The Practice of Magical Evocation. Instructions for invocation of nature surrounding us spheres. Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 1956; Rüggeberg, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-921338-31- X
• The key to true Quabbalah. The quabbalist as a perfect ruler in the micro and macrocosm. Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957; Rüggeberg, Wuppertal 1998, ISBN 3-921338-27-1
• Frabato. An occult novel. Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 1958; Rüggeberg, Wuppertal 1997, ISBN 3-921338-26-3
• Issues in masterclasses Arion ( posthumously published by Dieter Rüggeberg ). Rüggeberg, Wuppertal 1997, ISBN 3-921338-24-7