The Adept Magician

By Marten Crawford

Jef (the Adept) started out in life working on a trawler up to his neck in fish guts. But one day he bought three books in a little book store specialising in magic. The books were written by the Master, Franz Bardon and they took him all the way to the first great Transformation:

I was blissfully unaware of real transformation, until I was confronted by the
first in July 1975. It came when I least expected it, in a place I would least
expect to meet the initiator; 11 AM in a crowded public marketplace.
My sponsor knew it was about to happen, but was bound to keep me unaware.
His one concession to me out of friendship, was to ask that I wear a red cord
tied around my solar plexus under my shirt that day.
I did as he requested.
The experience was so trying that I lay sick for three days, part of me in this
world and part of me in another place. During those three days, I dreamed the
same dream over and over. To this day, I'm not at all sure if it was a dream.
When I came back to myself, my power had increased a thousandfold or more
and I knew all I needed to know of the other two transformations, to set about
working toward achieving each in its turn

On and on Jef went pushing through light and dark- even on to the the second and yes astonishingly, even to the third great Transformation where:

Something I have never bothered to mention is that the non-spatial continuum
may be manipulated in any way the fully transformed magician wills. The reason
I do not choose to do so is something of a paradox.
The ability to manipulate time in order to serve the magician to his/her benefit
comes with the third Transformation. With the third transformation all reason for
altering the continuum vanishes.
My sponsor tried to teach me this many years ago: unfortunately, I was incapable
at that point of understanding, or appreciating the simple magic of concentric rings...

Jef went all the way, even to where visions of the forth great transformation and it's relationships began appearing in meditations:

Wraith-like shadows, singing the coloured symbols I have yet to fully master,
float above, below, beside and through me, as though I am in a glorious waking
dream.
I now understand that the third Great Transformation is not a sudden change, but a
slower process. Nor is it magic, being something else entirely. The transformation
enables the magician to not only create and de-create across the four worlds of this
universe, but also allows one to leave the alpha universes behind and begin anew
in another existence entirely... if the initiate so desires.

As the author I'd like to say thank you Jef from the bottom of my heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500539953
• ISBN13: 9781500539955
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"