Bardon's Bullshit 'Kabbalah'

Adelina said:

Bardon wrote his books on German, it is the original language of his books, the original name of his "Quabbalah" book is "Der Schlüssel zur wahren Quabbalah. Der Quabbalist als vollkommener Herrscher im Mikro- und Makrokosmos", so the spelling "Quabbalah" was his personal choice. It is even emphasized by his "Quabbalah" being based on German alphabet with German-only letters (umlauts), but not even on Czech letters.

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Then the problem is solved. German has a similar rule (at least in German a leading Q is almost always followed by a u), something that I as a near native German speaker wasn't aware of. There is a clear exception in German with foreign words, mostly in French though. So you guys can continue your piñata beating all you wish, but I suspect that Bardon followed a convention rather than made a capricious spelling choice.

Kabala, however you spell it, essentially is a teaching about letter-sound-number correspondence, and it can use whatever alphabet the author wishes. The claims about someone's language or Kabala be the one God used to create the world are not original, it's merely a power move. If you know a few "kabalas", you can easily prove that any of them is workable.

Adelina said:

Bardon's "Quabbalah" book has nothing to do with Kabbalah at all, anyone who knows at least some basics of Kabbalah will confirm this.

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What I have found, is that this is probably true for about 90% of books on "kabbalah".

There's so many. I just picked a few off my shelves but this is only a small handful.




"Kabbalah" can be spelled a million different ways, though not all are "correct" or authentic by any means. But that's because Kabbalah split off into many different sects and areas. Some argue that anything other than Jewish Hebrew Kabbalah is entirely inauthentic nonsense. But it did play a role in intersecting with other traditions, albeit with changes.

ROOT & SOURCE FORM (Hebrew)​

• קבלה
• קַבָּלָה (with niqqud)
• Qabbālāh (scholarly transliteration)

Root: QBL (ק־ב־ל) — “to receive”

PRIMARY ENGLISH SPELLINGS (Most Common)​

• Kabbalah
• Cabala
• Qabalah
• Qabbalah
• Kabbala
• Kabala
• Kaballah
• Cabbalah
• Qabbala

These are the core nine from which most variants descend.

ACADEMIC / SCHOLARLY TRANSLITERATIONS​

• Qabbālāh
• Qabālāh
• Qabbalah
• Qabalah
• Qabbala
• Qabbālah
• Qabballah (rare, older German-influenced)

CHRISTIAN & RENAISSANCE ESOTERIC SPELLINGS​

(15th–17th century Latin / Christian Cabala)

• Cabala
• Cabbala
• Caballa
• Cabbalah
• Cabalae (Latin plural)
• Cabbalae
• Caballa
• Cabbalistica (adjectival)
• Cabalistica
• Cabala Mystica
• Cabbala Hebraica

These dominate Pico della Mirandola, Reuchlin, Agrippa, Kircher, etc.

HERMETIC / OCCULT TRADITION SPELLINGS​

(Golden Dawn, Thelema, 19th–20th c.)

• Qabalah ← Golden Dawn standard
• Qabbalah
• Qabalism
• Qabalistic
• Qabalist
• Qaballa
• Qaballae
• Qabalah Mystica
• Qabalistic Philosophy

Crowley, Regardie, Fortune overwhelmingly favor Qabalah.

MODERN HEBRAIC-INFLUENCED SPELLINGS​

• Kabbalah
• Kabbala
• Kabbalaḥ (rare academic)
• Kabalá (Spanish)
• Kabbalá
• Kabaláh
• Kabbalahh (rare emphatic spellings)

EUROPEAN LANGUAGE VARIANTS​

German​

• Kabbala
• Kabbalah
• Kabala
• Qabbala

French​

• Kabbale
• Cabale
• Cabbale
• Qabbale

Italian​

• Cabala
• Cabbala
• Kabbala

Spanish / Portuguese​

• Cábala
• Kábala
• Cabala
• Kabbalah

Polish / Slavic​

• Kabała
• Kabala
• Qabala

PHONETIC / ALTERNATE RENDERINGS​

(Usually older, regional, or fringe)

• Kabballah
• Kabalah
• Qabbalha
• Qaballa
• Cabalha
• Caballa
• Kaballa
• Qaballa

DERIVATIVE / RELATED FORMS (Not the noun itself, but commonly conflated)​

• Cabalae (plural)
• Cabalism
• Kabbalism
• Qabalism
• Cabalist
• Kabbalist
• Qabalist
• Cabalistic
• Kabbalistic
• Qabalistic

Most books on "Kabbalah" contain errors, inconsistencies, and are not fully authentic. They are divorced from the original Hebrew and the logic that comes with the native language.

So you have to take away what you think is relevant.

Again, every book has errors. There are no books without them. You have to try and find any good, if there is any, within it. This is simple nondualistic, non-black-and-white thinking.

If you find one error with an author or a book and throw it out, you won't have a very fun time in esoterica and occultism. That's every book and author ever.

But are there some out there that are just absolute gibberish, completely divorced from any authenticity or relevancy to anything at all? Sure. The merit is somewhat in the eye of the beholder.

Kabbalah is something that morphed and developed over the years through the Middle Ages as it split off into other traditions. This is always controversial, because then it's not Jewish, and maybe not Hebrew. There are areas like "Christian Cabbalah". Up to you whether you think it's nonsense or not, but it became an area of study that developed on its own.

When it comes to Bardon, “Quabbalah” signals that this is not Jewish Kabbalah, nor Golden Dawn Qabalah. It marks a distinct, operative system. Bardon’s system is phonetic and vibratory, not symbolic-theological. He explicitly ties letter forces to the working language. Umlauts (Ä Ö Ü) are functional, not decorative. He himself states the system must be rebuilt, not merely translated, for other languages. Up to you if you think what he did is valid or not.

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BBBB said:

Just check Mark Rasmus youtube channel, there are enough about Bardon's hermetics videos from his training to form an oppinion. Beyond Everything is so "bold" exactly because he's so incompetent. What was the name? The less someone knows the more self-confident they are...

"This phenomenon is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias where individuals with limited knowledge or competence in a specific domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence. Because they lack the expertise to recognize their own incompetence, they display high, unwarranted confidence."

Thank you, google AI assistant)

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There is also a former student of Mark's with a really decent program for studying Bardon's work as well - Sixty Skills.

Hermetika said:

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There is also a former student of Mark's with a really decent program for studying Bardon's work as well - Sixty Skills.

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why does mark rasmus have such a large gut (I saw it in a side shot of him on video)? Why couldn't he reprogram himself with all of bardon's work to gain a healthier weight? I watched a couple 60 skills videos and he proffers some made-up garbage about the afterlife as well.

If you'll notice, none of these people trying to make money off of gullible aspirants bother explaining the discrepancy in bardon's kabbalah between claims (the claim of perfect health through letters) and results (bardon's sickly condition over years). Try and address the actual topic, people, not spamming for people looking for more paying customers.