MAGIC, WHITE AND BLACK, Franz Hartmann, M.D. : a review

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Franz Hartmann deals with the highest possible effort that man is

capable of pursuing. His is not crude, manipulative, or lower-

dimensional magic, - even though he allowed the title to hint that

black magical formulae might be incorporated in this work. Franz

Hartmann was manifestly a man of very high moral nature, more

spiritual and more educative along spiritual lines than most of all

Christian teachers. We might presume that the title was chosen to

encourage the first openings of the book, but the immortality of the

work was a direct result of word-of-mouth references as to its great

value.

 

Today we are going through a strange metamorphosis. We are

experiencing an inversion and confusion of human attitudes.

Materialism has started to become ethereal, with science no longer

expressed by hard numbers and symbols with exact meanings. The Tao of

Physics points the way for this direction, wherein the essence of

matter may be force, and the force someday may be discovered as Mind.

 

On the other hand, in regard to subjective matters like religion the

public has gone the other way. The masses which have ever been the

bulwark of subjective, spiritual speculation are now drifting toward

the abolition of the spiritual quest. God has been summoned to the

witness stand and did not appear. Mind, the only faculty which is

indispensable in spiritual realization, has been denied existence by

behavioral psychologists. Even though immorality is directly tied to

insidious diseases, there is an attempt to cure those diseases with

chemicals (and thus chemically abolish guilt and immorality for all

time), and with word-inversions so that we will no longer think about

certain diseases as being negative. So that the word " syndrome " is

the replacement for terminal affliction in some cases.

 

Franz Hartman was timely and valuable in the pre-inversion era a

hundred years ago when Europe was suffering from powerfully invested,

spiritual nebulosity. And once more, he is timely, for his formulae

will prevent the terminal " syndromes, " with a process that begins

with symptoms of " peace of mind " and contains the potential for

maximum realization of such abolished items as mind, Mind, and The

Absolute Dimension.

 

His book is one of the greatest of all time, in comparison to those

which might deal with the wisdom of man, psychology, science or

social relationships. He finds all wisdom within the self, and this

wisdom can be attained by not allowing the lower self to prevent the

greater Self from experiencing and becoming. He notes that

intellectuality drifts into lower-self (mundane and somatic)

selfishness unless it is always pointed toward Self-definition with

the help of our own internal energy.

 

Magic, White and Black is of no value to those who are interested in

power or possessions. But its lucid formula will change your life to

something of conscious direction, and to an experience of beauty...

the beauty that lies only in the depths of the Self.

 

MAGIC, WHITE AND BLACK, Franz Hartmann, M.D., Pyramid Press,

Benwood, Wv, 1980, 298 pp.

 

Riccardo Flores

 

posted April3, 2006..........bob