Frabato the Magician

Though cast in the form of a novel, Frabato the Magician is in fact the spiritual autobiography of Franz Bardon, one of the twentieth century’s greatest Hermetic adepts. Frabato was the author’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 his spiritual mission which was to culminate in Franz Bardon’s classic books on Hermetic magic. More than just an occult novel, Frabato the Magician is itself a work of magic which illuminates Bardon’s other books as well as providing a revealing look into the dark occult forces which lay behind the rise of the Third Reich.