
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. This avenue of occult investigation is one of the darkest corners in the recent history of magic. 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 would eventually affect the person in some positive or negative way. An image of a person could be placed beneath the lenses and in the stream of electrical current running through the instrument. Grand Master Daniel experimented with a Tepa-phone made out of multiple optic lenses and a copper spiral consisting of twenty-four coils in the center of which was a copper plate. It is clear, however, that it was believed that the instrument could be used to load a person with vital odic force, or to draw this force from him/her, which would cause sickness and death. Various theories surround how the Tepaphone was supposed to work. This is described at some length in Franz Bardon's magical autobiography Frabato, 4 in which he recounts how it was used by the dreaded FOGG Lodge to kill its enemies or "human sacrifices" at a distance. The best known of these instruments is the Tepaphone (German: Tepaphon). Very little is explicitly outlined about these instruments. This brought the discussion into a more "traditional" magical framework. In the FS these theories were usually spoken of in connection with teachings concerning "aethric waves," or the chakra system.


This was part of a general field of interest among initiates of the FS, a field which included the study of, and experimentation with, the magical effects of high-frequency sound, electromagnetic fields, so-called "Tesla energy," ozonization of the atmosphere, ultraviolet light, etc.
