Avete,

Would anyone happen to have or know of any decent resources on Quintscher's "battery magic", or the Tepa/"Tepaphone" in general. Perhaps someone has experience with "battery magic" that might be so kind as to share even?

I know he quotes the Habu Cadis in Chap. 9 ( Effekte/Effects ) of his Denu Val Gumas, offering us an example of "Battery Magic", but the instructions given are of course rather vague, or maybe just painfully simple:

"Take the photograph of the person and connect it with two copper wires with an electric battery while firmly concentrating on the person. The person will be under your control until you disconnect the electric circuit. The person in question becomes unsettled. He will have the uncertain feeling that he is being watched all the time. He will feel restricted in his normal activities and can no longer resist the constantly growing violence. Finally he will almost unconsciously, unexplainably do the ordered activities."

It leaves much to the imagination, as you can see. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hmm.gif)

And of course Bardon's secretary ( Otti Votavova ) babbles on about the "Tepaphone" in Frabato:

"...the piece of apparatus they called the tepaphone. This device was placed in the center
of the room. [...] 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.
[...]The Grand Master now secured Frabato's photo to the focal
point of the tepaphone's ray and ignited the fuel, a specially prepared mixture of highpercentage
alcohol. At the same time, the other brethren formed a magic circle around the apparatus to begin combat telepathy by condensing the element of fire to the physical plane.
Black magicians usually resorted to this method of annihilation in cases where the
victim possessed great occult abilities. The tepaphone was also frequently used for
executions within the lodge. Thus far, the apparatus had never failed. Victims of the
tepaphone were always diagnosed as having died from a stroke."


FRATER U.'.D.'., in his Letter from Germany No. 1 touches upon it very briefly as well:
"...describes magic (in no certain terms, at that) as a technology of "astral electro-magnetism" involving the manipulation of the polar powers of electricity and magnetism, is really not quite as modern as the layman tends to believe. In fact, it was Bardon's teacher, Ra-Ohmir Quintscher, who back in the twenties invented not only battery magic and his notorious Tepa (sometimes erroneously termed Tepaphone), an electrical device for long range magical manipulation involving the target persons' photographs..."

Beyond these, I've really found nothing substantial.

Simply curious,
Nick