Tepa / "tepaphone" / "battery Magic", Any resources? Options

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

While doing a little google search I uncovered some information on our subject.

From the Theos-Talk archives:
... But contrary to Mesmer's endeavors decades before, the Tepaphone was used for an infinitely more sinister purpose. Allegedly the Tepaphone was a "machine which, when coupled with the will of a magician, could kill anyone no matter were they were.

While various theories abounded upon its exact working, it was believed that the device could load or unload a person with the vital odic force. The Tepaphone was being described in one instance as made out of "multiple optic lenses nd copper spiral consisting of twenty-four coils in the center of which was a plate. " An image of a person could be placed beneath the lenses and in the of electrical current that ran through the instrument. In this manner the persca the image would be affected positively or negatively. The spirals were tools engaging the concentrated mental force of the operator or operators of die instrument, in order to guide its effects."

From Antiquillium:
Grand Master Daniel experimented with a Tepaphone made out of multiple optic lenses and a copper spiral consisting of twenty-four coils in the center of which was a copper plate. An image of a person could be placed beneath the lenses and in the stream of electrical current running through the instrument. This would eventually affect the person in some positive or negative way. The spirals were tools for engaging the concentrated mental force of the operator or operators of the instrument so that they could guide its effects.

This avenue of occult investigation is one of the darkest corners in the recent history of magic. With the advent of ionizers, and other machines designed to produce hypnotic or so-called out-of-body states, there has been some rudimentary progress in this field. However, the dedicated, systematic pursuit of this investigation is now under the auspices of a small American organization, officially instituted as an Order within the Temple of Set.

So, the verdict seems to be that the Tepaphon is basically a psychic (or psionic?) concentration or intensification device somehow empowered by simple electrical currents. Maybe if you believed in it enough it would work in a chaos-magic sort of way.

There was also another source with a title almost too laughable to name (THE ANTICHRIST HANDBOOK or something lol) which mentioned using high alcohol content fluid condensers in an oil lamp with some of the copper connecting inside that as an additional 'fuel' source.

This post has been edited by Seronleithian: Oct 1 2006, 11:41 PM