Bardon's Bullshit 'Kabbalah'

From Bardon's book-

The formula "Joe-Hoe-W" brings about perfect harmony in the mental, astral and material worlds, i.e., if used mentally, astrally and materially -- eucharistically -- which then must result in perfect health.

Must result in perfect health. lol How much clearer can it be? I picked one of the formulas dealing with health, there are others in his book. Bardon was quite unhealthy and if he hadn't committed suicide, he'd have died young anyway. So much for results. And Bardon did try to improve his health, to little effect (ie using spagyrics), so the idea that he didn't use his own system is nonsense.

What Bardon did was take the Hebrew out of the Sepher Yetzirah and then shoehorn the German alphabet into it (it's not a perfect correspondence but it's close enough). Then people call this 'hermetics'. It's somewhat odd, particularly if you study how these alphabets evolved.

Investigating it I could see there is some energy in the system, but no one has or ever will achieve a lot of the results claimed in his book. This is supposed to be the jewel of Bardon's long practices, but he couldn't even use it to heal himself. It can cause the practitioner to experience various 'divine' 'highs' (hence some of its reputation, outside of the fairy tales told about Bardon), but as an esoteric system to achieve the highest, it falls flat. As well the practical results claimed are nonsense, no one achieves most of them.

Beyond Everything said:

From Bardon's book-

The formula "Joe-Hoe-W" brings about perfect harmony in the mental, astral and material worlds, i.e., if used mentally, astrally and materially -- eucharistically -- which then must result in perfect health.

Must result in perfect health. lol How much clearer can it be? I picked one of the formulas dealing with health, there are others in his book. Bardon was quite unhealthy and if he hadn't committed suicide, he'd have died young anyway. So much for results. And Bardon did try to improve his health, to little effect (ie using spagyrics), so the idea that he didn't use his own system is nonsense.
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Investigating it I could see there is some energy in the system, but no one has or ever will achieve a lot of the results claimed in his book. This is supposed to be the jewel of Bardon's long practices, but he couldn't even use it to heal himself. It can cause the practitioner to experience various 'divine' 'highs' (hence some of its reputation, outside of the fairy tales told about Bardon), but as an esoteric system to achieve the highest, it falls flat. As well the practical results claimed are nonsense, no one achieves most of them.

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Pancreatitis sucks, and usually kills people. Thyroid issues suck. Physical trauma sucks.
Bardon dealt with all three during his time in prison.
I get it. You hate Bardon.
But I wonder how you, or most people in general would deal with all three while locked up.

I believe Frabato actually spelled it at as "Quabbalah". Am I wrong?

I recall reading/hearing in various places that the Arizal had terrible health, but, like Bardon, he is quite fondly remembered by many. So, there's that.

Sabbatius said:

I get it. You hate Bardon.

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lol, no you really don't get it. This is about assessing occult claims, not about personal animus.

Sabbatius said:

But I wonder how you, or most people in general would deal with all three while locked up.

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How is this relevant? He was sick before he was locked up. He made claims in his book that clearly don't hold water in what we call reality.

With so many materials available about Kabbalah nowadays, it can be clearly seen that Bardon's book on "Quabbalah" is just some fruitless fantasies. Even the word itself he uses, "Quabbalah", speaks volumes. Why not at least "Qabbalah"?

Thing about Bardon's first book (on "Hermetics") is that it is actually very vague. One he starts going deeper into concretics, like with his book on Evocation, it can be seen that his approach is quite dubious and spurious. Just for example: he has 360 Spirits of the Zone Girdling the Earth taken directly from books of Abramelin, where those are given as the names of Demons, servants of Demon Kings (so much for "Divine Providence"). Now, with his third book on "Quabbalah"... Well, if someone truely wants to know what is Kabbalah, there are such brilliant books as those written by Jacobus Swart and many others. Even Dion Fortune is more knowledgable about it, and she is considered New Age.

Bardon's books are overhyped because they offer easy illusion of progress, tons of dubious and vague techniques (and some of them are actually quite harmful). I doubt anyone learning from Bardon's books can show off at least half of those miraculous feats which are described in those books.

Bardon was part of Quintscher's (whatever the spelling) little club of Adonists. Some books are available on German. This is basically complementary material to his first 2 books, together with books of Paschal. If to put all those together, it also doesn't add much, because most of the stuff in Adonism was totally invented and void in substance. Bardon's books only became popular, because most of the other occult books written in English in XX century sucked even more.

Bardon is classic example of XIX-XX century occultist - man who keeps smoking, drinking, eating various junk, being obese, oftentimes sitting on drugs and speaking about some kind of "spiritual development", "magic", "occult". I didn't want to sound too harsh, but life is way too short to spend it on books of someone who can't show even the slightest hint of having at least such semi-"miraculous" power as defeating his own bad habits. Allen Carr is by miles more powerful "occultist" than Bardon... Seriously.

I practice Jewish/prophetic kabbalah via Sepher Yetzirah/Abulafia and I think Bardon was the only magician that taught a kabbalah close to the practical Jewish kabbalah. I was never fond of the lurianic, golden dawn, and derivative schools of thought that treated the tree is a magicians table. The real magic is in the permutation of the letters and those sephirot are dynamic. I think Bardons qabbalah was the closest coming from a magician.

Why so many Bardon posts recently?