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

The closest thing that I have heard about to this is two Adept Magicians communicating long distances using crystal balls as sort of telephones. Do you remember when you were a kid, and making the "play" telephone with the string and cans. As long as the string is held tight the vibrations can travel and will be heard in the can. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap.gif)
I am also a student of Audio Technology here at SAE World HQ, and sound is basically vibration comprised of positive and negative changes in air pressure or compression and rarefaction. It takes a "transducer" to convert one form of energy to another. Ex. converting positive and negative air pressure into electrical signal as in using a microphone(the transducer) to record your voice(+/- air pressure) on to tape and yet again using another transducer Ex. a speaker to hear it.

This device may work on this principal of converting one form of energy to another, In theory, maybe the electrical energy produced by this device tranduces into changes in air pressure or sound and destroys it's victim by resonating at a frequency at which the body dissipates and destroys itself.

I was trying to input some theory of how the device may work, I'm not familiar with this device in occult terms. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused012.gif)

Cheers,

Student at SAE World HQ
http://www.sae.edu
Australia

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

I saw someone actually use one at the last "Nutmeg" I went to. (It was a Mages convention http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=nutmeg ) He'd been working on it for the last 5 years (perhaps longer but that's when I met him) and FINALLY got it working and did a demonstration at the convention. He got a round of applause for the result. Too bad the last nutmeg was in 2000.

This post has been edited by LordArthur: Oct 2 2006, 09:16 AM

Hi, Nick ~

Here is a picture of a device related to the original Tepa-Phone:

http://tinyurl.com/jaofb


Please note the coil on the lower right side of the image, and
the lenses above.

When Dr. Ruth Drown brought her radionic equipment to Great
Britain just before World War II, the news of it quickly spread
across Europe. The reports of a 'radionic camera' that she
had built particularly excited the interest of her technomancer
contemporaries.

You can view one of the patents issued for her camera here:

British Patent # 515,866
"Method & Apparatus for Obtaining Photographic Images..."
http://tinyurl.com/osawh

One of Dr. Drown's students, Dr. George De La Warr, went
on to patent a camera very similar to that of Dr. Drown.

Here is a link to a more recent paper that discusses Dr.
De La Warr's radionic photography:

Empirical Evidence Supporting Macro-Scale
Quantum Holography in Non-Local Effects
Author: Benford MS
http://tinyurl.com/kburn

" A recent discovery by the author reveals that the De La Warr
images vary from X-rays in that they produced a spatially-encoded
three-dimensional (3-D) effect, similar to those possible via fMRI,
which is detectable with the use of VP-8 image analysis technology
and computerized digital 3-D software. "

How sad it is, to think that Dr. Ruth Drown's instrument of healing is
so well known in its weaponized form, as the Tepa-Phone.

Cors in Manu Domine,


~ Khem Caigan
<[email protected]