Though cast as a novel, Frabato the Magician is actually the spiritual autobiography of Franz Bardon, on of the 20th century''s greatest Hermetic adepts. Frabato was the author''s stage name during his career as a performing [spiritual] magician, and it is Frabato who occupies center stage in the novel as well. Set in Dresden, Germany, in the early 1930s, the story chronicles Frabato''s magical battles with members of a powerful black lodge, his escape from Germany during the final days of the Weimar Republic, and the beginning of his spiritual mission which was to culminate in Bardon''s classic books on Hermetic magic. More than an occult novel, Frabato the Magician is itself a work of magic which illuminates Bardon''s other books as well as providing a revealing look into the dark occult forces which lay behind he rise of the Third Reich.