![Item #68121 Initiation Into Hermetics: A Course of Instruction in Ten Stages, Theory and Practice [ A Practice of Magic ]. Franz BARDON.](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/68121.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1615476921)
Initiation Into Hermetics: A Course of Instruction in Ten Stages, Theory and Practice [ A Practice of Magic ].
Kettig über Koblenz, Germany: Osiris-Verlag, 1962. First English language edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 296pp. Original black cloth gilt-lettered on spine with gilt temple design on front board. One color plate. A first English edition of the first book by Franz Bardon (1909-1958), the Czech-born Hermeticist. 'Initiation into Hermetics' was originally published in German as 'Der Weg zum wahren Adepten' in 1956. In it Bardon takes a description of a single tarot card as the starting point for a discourse on theoretical and practical magical exercises designed to expand the occult abilities and spiritual horizons of the student. Just a hint of light shelf wear, slight darkening to endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown - overall a tight, bright and unmarked VG+ copy in Good dust jacket (Dust jacket has general shelf-wear, a long crease down the spine and a little light creasing to the panels and edge, edges chafed, not clipped. Now in protective mylar cover.). Item #68121
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