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[[File:FranzBardon Portrait.jpg|400px|thumb|Franz Bardon in the late 1940s]] | [[File:FranzBardon Portrait.jpg|400px|thumb|Franz Bardon in the late 1940s]] | ||
'''Franz Bardon''' (1 December 1909 – 10 July 1958) was a Czech [[occultist]], author, and teacher of [[Hermetic]] philosophies. His specialties included [[ritual magic]] and the invocation of many different types of spiritual entities, including [[planetary intelligence]]s, [[planetary spirit]]s, [[ | '''Franz Bardon''' (1 December 1909 – 10 July 1958) was a Czech [[occultist]], author, and teacher of [[Hermetic]] philosophies. His specialties included [[ritual magic]] and the invocation of many different types of spiritual entities, including [[planetary intelligence]]s, [[planetary spirit]]s, [[angel]]s and [[demon]]s. | ||
Bardon's scholarship of the [[Kabbalah]] and his expansion of its core principles has established his legacy as one of the most important [[occult]] figures of the 20th century. | Bardon's scholarship of the [[Kabbalah]] and his expansion of its core principles has established his legacy as one of the most important [[occult]] figures of the 20th century. | ||
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===''The Practice of Magical Evocation''=== | ===''The Practice of Magical Evocation''=== | ||
''The Practice of Magical Evocation'' is Franz Bardon's second volume of The Holy Mysteries. In magical terms, the book is a practical guide to the proper evocation of and communication with divine entities existing in the atmospheric zones surrounding planets, stars, and [[moon]] as well as in the [[earth]] itself. Included with the names and descriptions of the various entities are a collection of previously unpublished magical [[sigil]]s for the 72 [[Kabbalistic angel]]s, as well as an account of ancient Kabbalistic [[astrology]]. | |||
He believed that [[magician]]s could communicate with these spirits through careful ritual techniques combined with [[meditation]] to enter a deep state of altered consciousness. | He believed that [[magician]]s could communicate with these spirits through careful ritual techniques combined with [[meditation]] to enter a deep state of altered consciousness. | ||