Franz Bardon was a Czech occultist and student and teacher of Hermetics. Renowned for primarily three books:
1 - Initiation into Hermetics
2 - The Practice of Magical Evocation
3 - The Key to the True Kabbalah
His first, Initiation into Hermetics, published in 1956, is his most impressive, comprehensive, and influential. In it, he puts forth an energetic model of the magical universe, drawing on Hermetic and Eastern philosophies. In Part I he presents his theory, and in Part II he presents a 10-step program of mental, physical, and psychic training. He called all of his disciples magicians, the word being “a symbol of the deepest initiation and the highest wisdom.”
According to Bardon, the cause of all things existing is the akasha, an Eastern term for what the alchemists called the quint essence, or Fifth Element or power. In Bardon’s universe, electric and magnetic fluids are comparable to yin and yang. Electric fluids (masculine, or yang) are warm, positive, and red in color, and magnetic fluids (feminine, or yin) are cool, negative, and blue in color. Together they make up the vital power or life force, which Baron Karl von Reichenbach earlier called the “od” or “odyle” force. Bardon occasionally used von Reichenbach’s term od. According to Bardon, every part of the body is governed by either electric or magnetic energy or is neutral. Disease arises when imbalances occur.
Bardon’s second book, The Practice of Magical Evocation, is a monumental ceremonial magic grimoire on the making and use of magical tools, the proper evocations of numerous spirits, and the dangers of pacts with spirits. To evoke a spirit, the magician works in a proper magical environment to create a sphere hospitable to the entity. He enters a trance and projects his consciousness into the sphere and then calls it back. Bardon said that he contacted all of the named spirits himself and omitted many more because he thought they were unsuitable for beginners.
Bardon’s third work is The Key to the True Kabbalah, in which he gives a unique system based on the sounds of letters of the alphabet. He presents a method of empowering letters and combining them using magical keys to create magical effects.
He wrote a fourth book which we have not read and these three works are quite controversial because they claim one can make great progress solely using them without a teacher. Which is very very thin ice. The books are also full of warnings. The sheer number of such warnings should be sufficient warning in itself to any intelligent reader that much of what he teaches is potentially highly dangerous. Yet, the hunger for mystery and magical 'thrills' that motivates so many seekers mean that few will heed that warning. Thus, the first book is worth a listen and the second and third have some decent things, but also many many red flags. We will still share them here so you might have a listen and see what you think of them for yourself if you so choose.
He passed away in 1958 so hence our sharing of them in the here & now.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/lnxw5639j2qka69/AudioBook_FranzBardon_InitiationIntoHermetics.mp3
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2y8ggt3zdjlyduy/Audiobook_FranzBardon_ThePracticeOfMagicalEnvocation.mp3
https://www.mediafire.com/file/qjngw8uzf1333bq/Audiobook_FranzBardon_TheKeyToTheTrueQabbalah.mp3