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Ralph Tegtmeier (born November 1, 1952), also known as Frater V∴D∴ and Frater U∴D∴ (abbreviation for Ubique Daemon Ubique Deus, "Demon (is) in all, God (is) in all"), is a German occultist, an ex-member of the Fraternitas Saturni, and an ex-member of the Illuminates of Thanateros.

Ralph Tegtmeier ist ein deutscher Okkultist und Magier. Er wird Frater V∴D∴ genannt. Dies ist eine Abkürzung für Ubique Daemon Ubique Deus. Überall Dämon, überall Gott. Er war Mitglied in der Fraternitas Saturni und Mitglied beim IOT (Illuminaten von Thanateros).

Horst E. Miers in his (German) Encyclopedia of Occult Sciences[1] cites him as the "founder of Pragmatic Magic"[2] whose "works are characterized by an outstanding conciseness".[3] According to Miers, "While the initial impulses of Pragmatic Magic can be verified as early as Spare and Staudenmaier, its consistent implementation in the German speaking realm was only effected by Frater V∴D∴ who also introduced the term."[2][4]

Miers, Enzyklopädie: wird Tegtmeier als Gründungfigur der pragmatischen Magie bezeichnet.

He features prominently in Gerhard Mayer's field study of 13 contemporary magicians[5] where he is referenced both under his public magical name Frater V∴D∴ and, perfunctorily anonymized, as Isbrand.

While residing in Bonn, Germany from 1979 to 1981, Tegtmeier ran an occult bookstore named Horus. In conjunction with the book store an experimental magical group that became informally known as "The Bonn Group" was formed. During this time Peter J. Carroll's Liber Null was translated and published by Tegtmeier under his Edition Magus label.

In the late 1980s, during his active participation in the order, Tegtmeier developed the concept of Cyber Magic. He is notably the founder of Ice Magic. In the early 1990s Tegtmeier was involved with a schism from the Illuminates of Thanateros in an event known as "The Ice Magic War." Tegtmeier has been uninvolved with the IOT since and has distanced himself from Chaos Magic as represented by Carroll.[6]

His own view of the events in question were first voiced publicly in an interview with David Rietti published 2006 in the UK-based occult magazine, The Oracle.[7] There, he upholds that, while the altercation between him and Carroll and the subsequent schism positively occurred, the "Ice Magic War" itself was an entirely delusionary event that never actually took place except in his detractors' imagination. He also points out that during said schism some 80% of the order's membership left the organization, disputing his opponent's claim that the order was actually saved.

In his self-published book eismagie. erste einblicke (Ice Magic. First Insights)[8] Tegtmeier submits a radically critical view of conventional magic and its shortcomings, calling for a deconstructionist approach stripped from cultural, historical and societal bias. He promotes an alternate definition of magic as "doing the impossible".[citation needed]

Tegtmeier is currently co-CEO of a privately held Belgian software development company specializing in natural language generation, search engine optimization and related services.[citation needed]