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To: alt.magick From: rcbright@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Robert C. Bright) Subject: Frabato, the Magician (9406.fbardon.rcb) Date: 49940624 Thanks, Mr. Tuttle. However, having recently read _Frabato_ and worked through some of _Initiation into Hermetics,_ I must disagree on at least a few points. First, Frabato clearly lived some where in Austria or Germany during the Weimar years - 1920s to 30s. Too, Otti Vottavova, who is Bardon's literary executor, repeats the story of Bardon's inadvertant betrayal, arrest, and internment in one of the Nazi Concentration Camps. All the books I have seen indicate that Bardon's four extant works were published in the mid to late 1950s. A Fifth book exists in outline as an appendix to _Frabato._ That Bardon intended to publish five 'serious' books can be inferred from the astral journey Frabato takes in the last section of the novel and his supposed commandment to write these books. Anyway, Vottavova says in the introduction to _Initiation_ that Bardon died in unusual circumstances in Czechoslovakia in 1958. (or '57?) Anyway, _Frabato_ is a novel so I certainly don't take it at its face. I do appreciate the gravity Bardon expresses concerning the taking of magickal oaths - he does not impress me as too cautious on this point. More or Less Confused in Philadelphia 93/93
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