The Tepaphone (Deutsch: Tepaphon) has an interesting place in occult
lore. It is supposedly the most powerful magical weapon ever created, a
combination of weird science and black magic, capable of killing it’s target at
any distance. A Tepaphone is a essentially magical death ray generator.
It was most likely first
introduced in the literature by Franz Bardon in his autobiography Frabato. He claimed the Freemasonic Order of the Golden
Centurium (FOGC), a “black magic” occult order in Germany (which actually
had no connection to Craft Masonry) that was active from the mid-1800s until
the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, tried to murder him with magic
because he refused to join their lodge. (Bardon, in fact, was briefly
imprisoned by the Nazis for refusing to collaborate with their occult
research.)
“One of the secrets of
the F.O.G.C. Lodge members lay in their ability to put anyone to sleep, wake
him up, make him sick or healthy, and invigorate or kill him whenever they
liked. The leading members of the lodge, however, had only acquired this knowledge
by entering into a pact with a prince of demons. With their magical methods,
they were able to influence any untrained person, who had no way of discovering
the source of the influences at work upon him.”
How were these powerful wizards able to
accomplish this? By means of “the piece of apparatus they called the
Tepaphone.”
“It was the lodge’s most
strictly guarded secret: a magical vibratory instrument which could emit fatal
vibrations across any distance and constituted the deadliest weapon in the
arsenal of the lodge. If the picture or mumia of any human being or animal were
placed at the focal point of the tepaphone’s vibrations, both the astral and
physical bodies of that entity would be affected. Substances of any kind could
be destroyed by this instrument from any distance. Furthermore, it served as a
wireless transmitter of energy – something modern science could only dream
about. Any kind of thought could be transmitted by the tepaphone as well.
Finally, the device made it possible to cause nervous diseases and poisonings
which puzzled the medical establishment. Typically, a picture or personal
object was sufficient to establish contact with the intended victim – and
remember, distance was of no consequence. “
Bardon (aka ‘Frabato”) was, of course, able to
survive the attack because he was such a mighty wizard himself, and he was
protected by “the Brothers of Light” – or so the story goes.
The Tepaphone is described as a
framework holding multiple optic lenses mounted in front of a light source, and
a separate section consisting of a flat holder surrounded by copper wire coils
with a copper plate in the center, on which the light was projected. From this
simple description, and knowing what kind of technology was available at that
time, the Tepaphone was probably a modified “magic lantern“, an early kind of slide projector that was used
extensively by Masonic lodges in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The first
versions had either a built-in oil or alcohol lamp with wick, or separate lamp
was placed inside the box to provide a light source. Later versions used
electric lamps, and eventually evolved into the optical slide projectors of the
late 20th century.
One way to make the Tepaphone could have been
simply winding the wire coil around the projection tube of the magic lantern
(supposedly so that one end of the wire is in contact with the wick of the oil
or alcohol lamp inside the magic lantern case), and placing a copper plate in
position so that the projected light could strike it. The entire apparatus
could have been mounted on a single frame or platform.
The “witness” of the target (photo, hair or
other tissue sample) was placed against the copper plate and various colors
were projected on it, while the operator (and assistants) conducted a ritual to
curse the targeted individual. It’s possible that sigils or other drawn images
were also used for projection, since the glass slides used in magic lanterns
could be (and often were) painted by hand.
The Tepaphone was also supposedly
used by the Brotherhood of Saturn (Fraternitas Saturni or F.S.), an offshoot of the early O.T.O. in Germany. A former member of the F.S., “Master
Daniel” (Guido Wolther), wrote an article in the early 1960s that confirmed
some of Bardon’s account. (Also mentioned is an occult group called The Order
of the Mentalic Builders – what a great name!)
Raymond Holder, in his book The Anti-Christ Training Manual, describes a method in of building a Tepaphone
that he claims is authentic. His description includes using ethyl alcohol as
the fuel for the lamp (into which are infused certain appropriate ingredients
to make a magical fluid
condenser) and covering the copper projection
tube with lead.
Searching the Web for “tepaphone” shows that
the term has taken on a more generic meaning in later years, so that any device
designed to transmit “deadly emanations” to a selected target is called a
“tepaphone.”
What are the implications of the Tepaphone or
any similar radionic-like device, which is specifically designed as a weapon?
What if someone succeeds in building such a device and can make it work?
John W. Campbell, editor of “Astounding
Magazine” and an early proponent of Dr. Hieronymus’s radionic machines,
discussed the subject in a series of personal correspondences between the two
of them. (Campbell is credited with coining the term “psionic” and popularizing
radionics.)
Regarding the implications of Hieronymus’s
claims of success in killing agricultural pests remotely (an experiment that
was followed and verified by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture),
Campbell wrote:
“True, you’re attacking
only insects, you’re helping human beings. But the inherent implications are
there, and cannot be denied. You cannot tell me how to defend myself against
such an attack; if I acknowledge the reality of those forces, I acknowledge that
I am helpless, and know of no defense. […] You’re scaring the hell out of the
people who understand what you’ve got. You may be using it well – but release
it, and what limits it? If a magician can destroy a man tracelessly – who would
be safe from threat, from ransom demand, from the vengeful hate of an unjust
enemy? You can name no limits to this powerful technique!”
It would seem though that a Tepaphone is not
something easy to make, and/or easy to make work. Otherwise
there would be hundreds or thousands of them out there and magical
assassination would be commonplace! Obviously, making such a device work, like
making any radionics device work, is very dependent on the skill of the
operator. And hopefully, anyone with the requisite skill and discipline has
better things to do than go about assualting people by remote control.
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