Though cast in the form of a novel, Frabato the Magician is in
fact the spiritual biography of
Franz Bardon, one of the
twentieth century's greatest Hermetic adepts. "Frabato the
Magician" was Franz
Bardon's stage name during his career as a performing magician,
and it is Frabato who occupies center stage in the novel as
well. Set in Dresden, Germany, in the early 1930s, the story
chronicles Frabato's magical battles with the members of a
powerful and dangerous black lodge, his escape from Germany
during the final desperate days of the Weimar Republic, and the
beginning of the spiritual mission which was to culminate in
Franz Bardon's classic books on Hermetic magic. More than an
occult novel, Frabato the Magician is itself a work of magic
which illuminates Franz Bardon's other books on Hermetic Magic as well as providing a
revealing look into the dark occult forces which lay behind the
rise of the Third Reich.
