I work for innovative ‘new edge’ publisher Mandrake of Oxford, recently described as a ‘respected literary catalyst’, and responsible for the discovery of many new authors, including his friend and onetime mentor Jan Fries.
I regard myself as a practitioner-cum-scholar of all aspects of occultism. I was a Wellcome research student at Oxford, where my teacher was the late Professor B K Matilal, a widely respected expert on South Asian thought. Over the years I have been exploring the connections between the popular magick of ancient Egypt and its continuation/crossover with the living magical traditions of the middle East, and the Kaula/witchcraft of south Asia and beyond
I have a particular interest in divination, dream interpretation and oracles. I’ve experimented widely in using some ancient oracles to address modern queries. Consequently I do sometimes prepare “horoscopes” in the original and authentic Egyptian manner. I also use dice oracles based on Greco-Egyptian and Tantrik sources. I interpret dreams and other omens. My direct email (mandox2000[@]yahoo.com)
Books, Ebooks, Bonus Essays, Lectures, Misc
Isis, Goddess of Egypt & India, ISBN: 978-1-906958-71-8, £17.99/$25, (2016) 256pp
Tankhem: Seth & Egyptian Magick I, ISBN: 1869928865 (2005) 234pp
The Bull of Ombos: Set & Egyptian Magick II, ISBN: 9781869928872 (2005) 360pp
Supernatural Assault in Ancient Egypt: Seth, Renpet & Moon Magick, ISBN: 978-1-906958-32-9 (2011) 190pp
The Ritual Year in Ancient Egypt: Lunar and Solar Calendars and Liturgy, ISBN: 9781906958138 (2011) 272pp
Phi-Neter: The Power of The Egyptian Gods, ISBN: 978-1-906958-56-5. (2014) 228 pp.
Seth & The Two Ways: Ways of seeing the demon god of Egypt, ISBN: 9781906958831, (2019) 300pp
Also:
Tantra Sadhana: A practical introduction to Kaula Magick Mogg Morgan (Sahajanath) (AMOOKOS) ISBN: 978-1869928-421 (2008) 180pp
Ayurveda: Medicine of the Gods, Basic Principles of Ayurvedic Medicine,
ISBN: 1869928377 (2002, 2020) 148pp
Sexual Magick: Secrets of Sexual Gnosis in Western Magick, ISBN: 978-1-906958-48-0, (2012) 186pp
Fiction
Pan’s Road : An Ancient Egyptian Adventure,
ISBN: 1869928-89x, (2006) £9.99/US$20, 234 pp
The English Mahatma: An Indian Adventure
Isbn 1869928458 (2001) 186pp
Forthcoming
The Demonic Calendar of Ancient Egypt
Lectures & Podcasts (available for booking)
Discussion of Egyptian Magick Podcast (click on link)
Seething & Seidr (workshop)
Sexuality & Magick
Write & Find Ecstasy in writing: occult writing after the Witchcraft Act
Art & the Occult
Cult of the Hidden God
Egyptian Magick – General Introduction
Isis In India
Lunar Mysteries of Seth
Seth: personification of evil?
Abstract:
Contemporary magical practitioners have always been interested in the ‘problem of evil’ – the nature of good and bad action. Take for example Helena Blavatsky’s statement – ‘demon est deus inversus’ to be found in her highly influential and monument work ‘The Secret Doctrine’ (1888:1.411). This was later adopted by the poet W B Yeats as his magical motto in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Most practitioners believe that the ancient Egyptian god Seth is the prototype for the contemporary archetype of Lucifer, Satan or the Devil. I want to take a brief look, in context, at the famous image of Seth deriding Apophis, (the demonic / chaotic serpent of ‘non-being’) as a leitmotiv for the nature or ‘personification’ of evil in ancient thought.
View a short film on Typhonian Magick: