On Thursday March 26th, 2015 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon

will present a review of the new book: "The Universal Master Key" alleged

to be a newly discovered manuscript by the late Franz Bardon. This book is

actually a reconstructed series of lectures by Bardon to his students

on mastering and balancing the four Hermetic elements in the personality

as set forth in the first section of his book Initiation into Hermetics. The texts

of the lectures are rewritten from a collection of class notes by the students

and rendered in Bardon's writing style by his publisher and editor Dieter

Ruggeberg. The book is published by Faulks Books which mistakenly

represents it on the internet as taken from a "newly discovered

manuscript by Franz Bardon." However it does not appear to be entirely a

hoax. If Dieter wrote the entire book, he has at least mastered Bardon's

style and philosophic attitudes. The book is certainly worth a place in

a Magician's Bardon collection. It is very moralistic and sermonizing in

tone with a strong emphasis on ethics and spiritual integrity. It has

its short-comings. It was supossed to be organized according to the

qualities of each element but he seems to go off the track into a

general discussion on how to live and die well in this and higher worlds

-- so if want to revisit the Bardonian internal tetragrammaton process,

tune in and we will go to Hermetic Sunday school with Reverand Franz.

Next week we revisit the Bavarian Illuminati.