Bardon had numerous direct students, and supported the idea of a teacher, presumably, above that of self-initiation.Just my own musing, but with careful reading one might conclude ideas along the following lines: So, what differences or notable points can we discern from this? Perhaps, not much. We are pleased to express our sincere gratitude to all those of our friends who enabled us to publish this first volume in an English version. It is therefore my heart’s desire that this book may become a guide for life for all the people who are seriously and honestly searching, and lead them to the target they have been longing for! In this book, the training methods are expressed in simple words, a way followed up to date only in the different mystery schools. The earth has become too small for Man who is trying to advance to his pressing questions, whether or not just this way he had selected, was the correct one for his individual case. “Meeting the news of the New Age, the human mind is exploring all levels of existence. Advanced disciples, however, will recognise that this book will blaze a pathway for centuries in the new cycle of Rays.” Having herewith accomplished his mission, he re-entered his spiritual world in July 1958. The third Tarot card will be the subject of the third volume: “Key to the true Quabbalah” (Man as a Sovereign in the Microcosm and the Macrocosm). The second Tarot card will be published in the volume “Practice of magic Evocation” (the high-school of the adepts). The present book, entitled: “Initiation into Hermetics” represents the whole of the first Tarot card and comprises the exciting earthly mysteries. The new cycle of the Seventh Ray, ray of the ceremonial order or magic, which now has got thoroughly going, induced the Divine Providence to liberate the first three Tarot card which total up to 72.

It was – and continues to be – his task to guide the increasing crowd of his pupils as well as the disciples of spiritual science, with his sure hand, through the gate of initiation. Bardon live among his fellowmen, a plain man, whose true name very few of his disciplines have been acquainted with. Recently I noticed some interesting commentary from the cover/foreword that never made it into future editions (presumably because subsequent publishers did not own the copyright to these comments?) and I am sharing them for readers here: It was published in 1962 by Osiris Verlag, 9 years earlier than the first Ruggeberg edition. It is not that commonly known that there is a previous English edition of IIH that pre-dates both the Ruggeberg and Merkur editions.

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