FRAMEWORK:

"In the history of man, many a Kabbalist has devoted all his life to the untiring but fruitless search for the

unpronounceable name of God lost by mankind in the days of yore. Having also gone through this third work

conscientiously, the Kabbalist will suddenly have the impression of a miracle, of an immense treasure

put into his lap by Divine Providence when, as a reward for his untiring, honest efforts, the true name of God,

apart from many other things, will be revealed to him spontaneously."

(Otti Votavova - Student of Bardon)

Much has been written about Quabbalah, a hard nut in hermetic literature, but in practice only little can be used of all this.  A few Rabbis had a knowledge of Quabbalah, but, probably due to their orthodox thinking, kept it strictly confidential, thus not even fragments of quabbalistic practices have become known to the public. 

The many descriptions of Quabbalistics do not even offer any theoretical details to the seriously interested student, to say nothing of any true hints for the practice. They only supply at the most, a philosophical representation of the micro-and the macrocosm.

The work of Bardon contains the theory as well as the practice, the latter being especially ample, as the diligent student of Quabbalah will see for himself.  I should warn the potential student that Bardon did not place too much focus on the philosophical approach.  For this, another source should be considered.

He who wants to be successful in convincing himself of the reality of the Quabbalah in practice must go through Bardon's two first books Initiation Into Hermetics and The Practice of Magical Evocation systematically.  These two books form the basis of Bardon's writing on Kabbalah.

Already the primitive people, no matter what race they belonged to and which part of our terrestrial globe they inhabited, had their special religion, i.e., an idea of God, and consequently also some kind of theology. Each of these theologies was divided into two parts: an exoteric and an esoteric part, the exoteric knowledge of God being the knowledge for the people and the esoteric knowledge, on the other hand, being the theology of initiates and high priests. Exoteric knowledge never contained anything of true magic or Quabbalah. Thus only magicians and Quabbalists could be the initiates of the primitive people.

It has always been the most sacred commandment to keep this wisdom strictly confidential; firstly, in order to maintain the authority; secondly, in order not to lose the power over the people and, thirdly, in order to prevent any abuses.

The sages of the dawn of history laid down the greatest secrets in the universal language, the metaphorical language.  All oriental wisdom was laid down in the symbolic language only. This wisdom remained a secret to the immature or, in other words, to the person who had not reached the necessary state of maturity by developing his individuality under the guidance of a master, a guru.  A true initiate had to explain the symbolic meanings of the writings to his scholar gradually, according to the development of the same and he taught him the symbolic, i.e., the metaphorical language.

As a result,  this holy science was passed on from one person to another merely by tradition.  Most writers who succeeded in getting hold of writings left behind by initiates of the Orient always made the same mistake, i.e., they translated these writings into the language of the intellect, interpreting them literally.

BARDON'S VIEW OF KABBALAH:

The following statement of Bardon provides his key views in one paragraph:

"I keep to the term of "Kabbalah". To speak Kabbalistically is to form words from letters; words analogous to this or that idea according to the universal laws. The use of the Kabbalistic language has to be trained practically. Kabbalah therefore is the universal language by which everything was made, it is the incarnation of one or several divine ideas. By means of Kabbalah, i.e., the universal language, God has created everything.  The Evangelist St. John, in the Bible, is also referring to Kabbalah when saying, "In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God". Thereby St. John clearly says that God made use of the Word in order to create, by means of It, out of Himself. Only he who is really able to materialize the divinity within himself in such a way that he will speak, out of himself, as Deity in accordance with universal laws, may be regarded a true Kabbalist. The practicing Kabbalist therefore is a theurgist, a God incarnate, being able to apply the universal laws in the same way as the macrocosmic God."

From this statements it should be clear that a perfect Kabbalist must be connected with God.  To succeed he must be a man who has discovered God within himself.  Bardon claims that such a man can use the universal language to materialize everything he says the very moment he says it.

"In whatever sphere he wants his language to materialize, there it will be materialized."

Bardon makes the following very significant claims:

"From the hermetic point of view, a Kabbalist, or theurgist, is, in his body, a representative of the macrocosmic Deity on our globe. Whatever he speaks in the original language, as God's representative, is done, for he has the same power as the Creator, as God has."

To achieve this maturity and height of Kabbalistic initiation, Bardon states that the theurgist must first learn the letters like a child. He must have a complete command of them to be able to form words and sentences with them and to speak, eventually, in the cosmic language. The practice involved in this is dealt with by Bardon in his Kabalistic practices.

BARDON AND OTHER RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS:

In his books, Bardon states that in Hebrew mysticism, the knowledge of the Kabbalah is considered of Old Egyptian origin.  Bardon therefore acknowledges that the ancient Celts and Druids also had their genuine "kabbalah" which was well known to Druid priests.

The practical use of the runic magic by the Druid temple priests originates from their ancient knowledge of the kabbalah. Today there are unfortunately only very few people who understand the runic kabbalah of the old Druids and can apply it practically. The practical runic kabbalah has been lost completely during the course of time.