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Mandrake Catalogue 15 (2021)
Mandrake Catalogue 15 (2021)
Mandrake of Oxford
PO Box 250, Oxford, OX1 1AP (UK)
1 01865 243671
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New Titles
This is the first in a trio of books that together form The Complete Enochian Chess.
Enochian Chess in part comes from the Elizabethan system of Enochian Magic originated
by the Court Astrologer, Dr John Dee. It was developed into its current form in
Victorian times by SL MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott. This book
includes a complete facsimile and commentary of Moina Mathers’s Alpha et Omega
Enochian Chess papers together with a brief history of the game, notes on play and
strategy, and instructions for Active divinatory methods utilised by this system.
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Craft of the Untamed
-An inspired vision of Traditional Witchcraft
By Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
PBK 978-1-906958-11-4, Paperback, £12.99/$24
The Craft of the Untamed sets out to present the main pillars of traditional
witchcraft. Its premise is that a proper tradition is defined as a timeless unity.
Outwardly the tradition bears a great diversity across different lands and spirit.
Traditional witchcraft is found in various sodalities and groups across the world.
Even so it is possible to discern several harmonious, shared themes. These themes are
the land, the crossroads, death, night and the mountain of Venus. It is witchcraft
where a human and angelic blood mingles to form a special pedigree that has shaped
the archetypical image of the witch.
The Arcane Veil: Witchcraft and Occult Science from the People of the
Dark-ages to the People of Goda, of the Clan of Tubal Cain.'
By Shani Oates: Author of Tubelo's Green Fire
Paperback: isbn 978-1-906958-36-7 £12.99/$23
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Jesus the Sorcerer By Robert Conner
ISBN 978-1869928-957 /£12.99 / $26
The most complete summation to date of the New Testament evidence for magical practice
by Jesus and the early Christians.
The very notion of Jesus being a sorcerer runs so against the grain of the Western cultural myth
that even non-Christians are likely to find it far-fetched or even vaguely disturbing.
Nevertheless, scholars steadily accumulated evidence for magi-cal practices in the New
Testament throughout much of the 20th century . It is that ever expanding body of knowledge
that has made this book possible. This book examines the following:
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Aleister Crowley : A Modern Master - By John Moore
ISBN 978-1-906958-02-2, £10.99, 216pp
Aleister Crowley’s appeal on the level of popular culture has been well catered for by a number
of biographies that have appeared in recent years, but the more intellectual side to him, which
is equally fascinating, has not received so much serious treatment. Crowley, a Modern Master
is neither an account of his life, nor a straightforward presentation of his teaching, but an
attempt to place him clearly in the context of modern ideas as well as a number of older
traditions.
Becoming Magick: New & Revised Magicks for the New Aeon
By David Rankine
ISBN 978-1869928-810 £12.99, 200pp, illustrated
A forward-looking manual full of new material and techniques created to push the boundaries
of contemporary magick. Inspired by the great magickal traditions of past millennia, new
techniques of sigilisation and gematria, as well as a new system of energy magick based on
the lunar Kalas, and prime Qabalah, a new system of English gematria.
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EGYPTIAN MAGICK
The god Set (aka Seth) has been much of a puzzle to Egyptologists. If we go with the
attitude of later Egyptians, we find Set blamed for every misfortune that can befall
humanity. However, if we go with the attitude of earlier times, in particular the
Ramesside period, when Egypt was at its peak in prosperity, we find a completely
different picture. For we find a god who was very much adored. Most of the
surviving imagery is from that period, although even in Ptolemaic and Roman times
we occasionally find a piece that was a part of worship and magical rites. Set was
always seen as ‘Great of Power’, even when he was feared. Putting all his imagery
together, placing it in chronological context, sheds new light on the Dark god.
Egyptian Shaman paints the picture of what it was like to be a village priest in Ancient
Egypt before describing the practical techniques which would have been employed during
those times. These techniques, which have never been revealed before, have been adapted
for modern minds with the intention of making this a practical spiritual path.
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The Dionysian Spirit, Seán Fitton, 978-1-906958-65-7, £10.99/$20
For many people Dionysos is an obscure Greek god of wine and theatre. For others he is so
much more.
The Dionysian Spirit examines, in an easy and accessible form, the essence of what Dionysos
is all about, both as a deity and as a cultural and social force. It looks at the relation of Dionysos
with his opposite number Apollo. The twin gifts of Apollos and Dionysos are ekstasis (ecstasy)
and entheos (enthusiasm) and have informed and enlivened our lives and cultures from ancient
times right to the present day and beyond.
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The Dionysian Spirit – like the art of a good party – has always been with us and now, in many
ways, we need it more than ever.
Tankhem: - Seth & Egyptian Magick By Mogg Morgan
ISBN 978-1869928-865 £12.99/$23, 234pp
second revised edition
Contents: Gold in the desert / Sethians and Osirians compared / Cannibalism / Temple
of Seth / Seth’s Town / Seth as Bull of Ombos / Hathor / The names of Seth / Animals
of Seth / Seth - the red ochre god / Seth and Horus / Opening the mouth / Seven / The
Boat / Heka & Hekau / Magical activities / Cakes of Light / Magick as use and misuse
of the funeral rite / Re-emergence of the Hidden God / Five useful Appendices /
Extended bibliography /Glossary
Within this book are rituals, stories, traditions and experiences of magicians’ scholars
and artists who work with death.
Introduction/Charlotte Rodgers ; Loved One/Nema ; All a Do about Death
Josephine McCarthy ; Clans For The Memory/Sarah Grimstone ; Learning About
Death / Nevill Drury ; A Thoughtful Wake / Louis Martinie ; Break On Through
To The Other Side /Louise Hodgson ; Death the Final Frontier / Sue Fox ; The
Bardo Thodol – Bon Voyage /John Power ; You Only Live Twice / Ode bi Tola
; On Speaking with the Dead / Michael Clarke ; Body / Mishlen Linden ; The
Great Western Hoax / Ode bi Tola ; The Book of Gates / Mogg Morgan /
Photographers: Sue Fox, Ruth Kenyon, Ariadne Spyridonos Xenou,
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CHAOS MAGICK
The Apophenion - A Chaos Magic Paradigm
By Peter J Carroll ISBN 978-1869928-650 / £10.99 / $22
My final Magnum Opus if its ideas remain unfalsified within my lifetime, otherwise its back
to the drawing board. Yet I’ve tried to keep it as short and simple as possible, it consists of
eight fairly brief and terse chapters and five appendices. It attacks most of the great questions
of being, free will, consciousness, meaning, the nature of mind, and humanity’s place in the
cosmos, from a magical perspective. Some of the conclusions seem to challenge many of the
deeply held assumptions that our culture has taught us, so brace yourself for the paradigm
crash and look for the jewels revealed in the wreckage.This book contains something to offend
everyone; enough science to upset the magicians, enough magic to upset the scientists, and
enough blasphemy to upset most trancendentalists.
Magick Works - cutting edge essays from the path of Pleasure, Freedom and
Power By Julian Vayne ISBN 978-1869928-469 / £10.99 / $22
Enter the world of the occultist: where the spirits of the dead dwell amongst us, where the
politics of ecstasy are played out, and where magick spills into every aspect of life.
It's all right here; sex, drugs, witchcraft and gardening. From academic papers, through to first
person accounts of high-octaine rituals. In Magick Works you will find cutting edge essays
from the path of Pleasure, Freedom and Power.
Now That’s What I Call Chaos Magick By Greg Humphries & Julian Vayne
ISBN 978-1869928-742 / £12.99/ 188pp
Gives the beginner and experienced practitioner alike a modern view into this powerful and
often misunderstood magical current. A workbook with rituals, techniques and exercises,
a window into contemporary magical thought century or simply
as a rollercoaster of a good read!
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The Black Toad , Alchemy of Body, Spirit, & Stone
Ron Wyman
ISBN 978-1-906958-84-8
Format: Hardback/138 pp/Illustrated.
£15/US$25
This book on spiritual alchemy presents an initiate’s undertaking of the internal
alchemical process. It is a pathway of vision and illumination; and with particular
emphasis placed on the induction of the alchemical dream, this movement becomes a
visionary transition and passage.
Making Talismans: Creating living magical tools for change and transformation
Nick Farrell, 978-1-906958-57-2, 284pp illustrated, £12.99 / $23
Discover the secret keys and practical techniques to turn mundane objects into “living entities
of power,” bringing real change in your life. By pooling magical practices from shamanism,
paganism, the Order of the Golden Dawn, and Dion Fortune, Making Talismans offers
training and techniques for performing advanced magical talismanic operations.
For many years this occult classic has been “out of print” and now has been reworked by the
author to reveal more detailed and advanced magical work.
Drawing in Real Perspective, A new approach to space with natural and immediate
application. Xavier Bolot
Format: Softcover/244pp
ISBN: 8781906958770
£14.99/$22
In this book we learn how to draw using a natural technique that is amazingly efficient
and simple. Real Perspective is a new approach to space as seen by our eyes.
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Kaos Hieroglyphica - Alchemy for the New Aeon
By Anton Channing ISBN 978-1869928-834 / £20/$35, 200pp
Now over four hundred years later, Anton Channing has published his long awaited debut
work Kaos Hieroglyphica, within which he expounds a new symbol, the Kaos Hieroglyph.
This symbol represents the plurality and freedom of the New Aeon. This work of magical
alchemy draws on such diverse material as Thelema, the Chaos Current, the Maat Current,
Timothy Leary, Witchcraft, Paganism, the Hermetic Tradition, Taoism, Shamanism and the
author's own Pineal Gland.
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RUNES AND NORTHERN TRADITION
Visual Magick: - A Manual of Freestyle Shamanism , By Jan Fries
ISBN 978-1869928-575 / £10.99/$20/ 196pp
A new edition of the highly acclaimed manual of freestyle shamanism, Suitable for all those
inspired by such figures as Austin Spare and Aleister Crowley, and who feel the imperative
to develop one’s own unique magick way. Visual Magick aims to build vision, imagination,
and creative magick. It shows how magicians, witches, artists and therapists can improve
visionary abilities, enhance imagination, activate the inner senses, and discover new modes
of Trance awareness. The emphasis is on direct experience and the reader is asked to think,
act, do, and enjoy as s/he wills.
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The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs, Matthew Levi Stevens
PBK 978-1-906958-11-4, Trade Paperback, £12.99/$24“
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens
unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect
external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is
the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the
street it’s for a reason. Among primitive people they say that if someone was bitten by a snake
he was murdered. I believe that.”
– William S. Burroughs
Shape-Shifters & their stories
The Golem; Lilith; Werewolf; The Dybbuk; Silkie; and more
Michael Berman
978-1-906958-66-4, 192pp, 24 fascinating Illustrations, 229mmx152mm £10.99 / $22
Shape-shifting is a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. In its broadest sense,
shape-shifting occurs when a being (usually human) either (1) has the ability to change its shape
into that of another person, creature, or other entity or (2) finds its shape involuntarily changed
by someone else. If the shape change is voluntary, its cause may be an act of will, a magic word
or magic words, a potion, or a magic object.
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The Great Purple Hoo-Ha: a comedy of perception Part I
by Philip H Farber ISBN 978-1-906958-16-9, £9.99, 232pp
Joe had a drinking problem. The possible demise of his television talk show and
the end of his career had tilted a very big bottle of Old Mystery into his guts.
Now he was having trouble telling where the hallucinations ended and reality
began. Had the mysterious young man with the cat – whom nobody else could see –
really granted him a magical wish for fame and fortune? Were the sex-obsessed
cultists he was investigating on the show really bringing on the End of the
World? Where did the sentient cream-filled pastries come from? Who was the Most
Disgusting Rock Star Ever? And, more importantly, would Joe ever get his new
girlfriend, the goddess, into bed?
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CULTURE & BIOGRAPHY
Wormwood Star (revised & enlarged), The Magickal Life of Marjorie
Cameron, Spencer Kansa,
ISBN 978-1-906958-60-2 (WAS 978-1-906958-08-4)
302pp / illustrated / paperback original, £12.99 / $24
Wormwood Star chronicles the fascinating life of a most extraordinary artist and occult
icon. In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the
extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995), one of the
most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and
film scene.
Ithell Colquhoun - pioneer surrealist artist, occultist, writer, and poet By Eric
Ratcliffe, ISBN 978-1869928-988 £19.99, paperback 314pp, 90 ills (25 in colour)
The skills of Ithell Colquhoun in her main practice, that of artist and pioneer in this
country of surrealistic art, have been long recognised. Additionally, other interests -
alchemy. Earth-magic, active occultism, poetry, druidism, the pre-Christian pagan
calendar, the history and membership of the Golden Dawn - and writing of and
involvement in these interests by book publication and in a widely scattered field of
correspondence, have created a miscellany of truly gargantuan proportion.
Pan’s Daughter is the only biography of Rosaleen Norton and provides the most detailed
and authoritative account of her magical beliefs and practices. First published in Britain
by Mandrake in 1993, it is now reissued in a revised and expanded edition.
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- By Mark Mirabello
Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws
ISBN 9781906958008, £12.99
Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws is a book about freedom. Written for intellectual
swashbucklers– men and women who are radicals in politics and infidels in religion–
warriors who hammer the stake of fear into the heart of tyranny– this volume belongs in select
book collections, between the black magic and the pornography texts.
Radical Desire: Kink & Magickal Sex By Mark & Ruth Ramsden
ISBN 978-1-906958-19-0, £9.99/$14.00
“The wit and wisdom of Mark Ramsden's illuminating text delivers a gripping journey through
a rich seam of sexual expression. Read this book, enjoy this book, for it deserves your utmost
attention. Over 40? Fat? The style gurus say you're not sexy, not horny, this book says
‘Bollocks!’ An essential reference work... And bloody good fun too.”
John Carter
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TRUE CRIME
Mind-Sprung, A D Harvey (HASHISH NOVEL)
978-1-906958-67-1, Paperback Original, £9.99 / $15.99
An A-Level drop-out graduates from evicting immigrants during the heyday of the inner-city
slum landlords during the 1960s to stripping redundant churches during the early 1970s,
before moving to northern Sweden equipped only with the proceeds of selling stolen property
and some hashish. He finds new sources of hashish even in Sweden but eventually the money
runs out, and he returns to London: only to discover it is even worse than when he left.
The Camden Town Murder was an infamous Edwardian slaying only surpassed in notoriety
by the 1888 ‘Jack the Ripper’ killings. Emily Dimmock was killed at her home in St Pauls
Road, Camden Town on 12th September 1907.
Exhumation of A Murder
- The Life and Trial of Major Armstrong By Robin Odell
ISBN -978-1869928-926, £12.99 paperback
Before the First World War, the picturesque town of Hay-on-Wye was the scene for the story
of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, one of the most celebrated murder cases of the twentieth
century. Behind the Major’s mild, bespectacled appearance was the mind of the insidious
poisoner.
‘And the Armstrong case was unquestionably one of the best; right up there in the grand
tradition of Dr Palmer of Rugeley, Neill Cream, Mrs Maybrick, Dr Crippen, Seddon, and
George Joseph Smith.’ - Richard Whittington-Egan
Robin Odell has produced an absorbing factual reconstruction of all the crimes and a brilliant
new theory, based on modern methods of detection, to solve the greatest mystery in British
criminology. Most readers will accept his theory as the long-sought answer to a baffing real-
life whodunit: as the most likely epitaph on a terror known as Jack the Ripper in Fact and Fiction
A new chapter for Jean Overton Fuller’s ground breaking study of murder. The original
investigation into the 1888 Ripper Murders and the artist Walter Richard Sickert.
Perhaps a valuable guide to the possible machinery of death and dying might be
obtained by attempts to elucidate the conceivable mechanisms of Near Death
Experiences (NDEs). Various people have studied these for many years. My own
theorising begins with a critical reappraisal of some of these ideas on NDEs. In
the course of the argument I hope to persuade the reader of the advantages of a
theory based in the new physics of Shadow Matter.
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Contents
Aleister Crowley a modern master (Moore) 10 Magical Universe of William Burroughs 1
Angelic Magick (Page) 9 Magick Works (Vayne) 12
Arcane Veil (Oates) 3 Medicine of the Gods (Morgan) 16
Apophenion (Carroll) 12 Making Talismans (Farrell) 4
Aromatic Oils & magic 13 Merlin’s Mound (Bryant) 17
Becoming Magick (Rankine) 8 Mindsprung (Harvey) 5
Beneath the Pleasure Zones (Green) 5 Mystical Vampire: Mabel Collins (Farnell) 19
Book of Baphomet 13 Nightshades (Fries) 9
Books of the Beast (Smith) 8 Now That’s What I Call Chaos Magick (Vayne) 12
Bloody Sacrifice (Rodgers) 6 Octavo (Carroll) 13
Bright From the Well (Lee) 14 Odin Brotherhood (Mirabello) 15
Bull of Ombos (Morgan) 11 Pan's Daughter (Drury) 19
Cannibal Within (Mirabello) 17 Pan's Road (Morgan) 18
Camden Town Murder (Barber) 21 Pharmakon (Vayne) 12
Cauldron of the Gods (Fries) 9 Peacocks's Edd (Wyman) 4
Chaotopia! (Lee) 13 Phi-Neter (Morgan) 4
Craft of the Untamed (Frisvold) 3 P is for Prostitution 3
Consciousness & NDE (Wassermann) 23 Radical Desire (Ransden) 20
Contemporary Western Book of the Dead 11 Return of the Tetrad 17
Deep Magic Begins Here 12 RitualYear in Ancient Egypt (Morgan) 11
Desert Fox Oracle 1 Sacred Mountains 20
Dionysian Spirit (Fitton) 2 Secret Gospel of Mark (Conner) 4
Egyptian Shaman (Farrell) 10 Seidways (Fries) 14
Elmer Crowley 1 Secrets of Asgard (Ongkowidjojo) 15
Exhumation of A Murder (Odell) 21 Sexual Magick (Shual) 16
Extreme Ghost Hunters 5 Shadow Matter & Psi Phenomena (Wasserman) 23
Firechild (Sanders) 7 Shape-Shifters & their stories (Berman) 1
Flying Sorcerer: Francis Barrett (King) 8 Sickert and the Ripper Crimes (Fuller) 21
German Stargazer (Stockinger) 2 Siddha Quest for Immortality (Zvelebil) 16
Grammer of Witchcraft (Parry) 18 Star Crossed Serpent (Oates) 8
Great Purple Hooha (Farber) 18 Surrealism & the Occult (Choucha) 19
Gateway to Hell (Bingley) 17 Supernatural Assault in Ancient Egypt (Morgan) 11
Handbook for Rebels & Outlaws (Mirabello) 20 Sybarite Among the Shadows (Mcneff) 18
Helrunar (Fries) 14 Tankhem: Seth & Egyptian Magick (Morgan) 11
I, Crowley (Wilson) 18 Tantra Sadhana (Morgan) 16
Images of Set 10 Tantra for Westerners (King) 15
Ithell Colquhoun (Ratcliffe) 19 Taromancy (Boak) 20
Jesus the Sorcerer (Conner) 9 Thelemic Magick (Morgan) 10
Jack the Ripper in Fact & Fiction (Odell) 21 Tubelo's Green Fire (Oates) 7
Journal for Academic Study of Magic 22 Village Witch 7
Kaos Hieroglyphica (Channing) 12 Visual Magick (Fries) 14
Living Midnight (Fries) 16 Way of Odin Brotherhood (Wolf) 17
Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg (Fuller) 17 Wanton Green (Mclellan & Cross) 20
Magic in Christianity (Conner) 2 Will Lilly (Stockinger/Ward) 2
Magical Knowledge (McCarthy) 6 Witcha: a Book of Cunning (Harris) 6
Magic of the Northgate (McCarthy) 6 Witch's Guide to Sex (Hawkins/Rodway) 7
Magic in New Testament (Conner) 9 Wormwood Star (Kansa) 3
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