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| Title: A Contemporary Western Book Of The Dead |
| Sub-title: An Anthology |
| Edited by: Charlotte Rodgers, Lydia Maskell |
| ISBN10-13: 1906958041 : 9781906958046 |
| 'I was musing on Singapore in all its affluent glory still having shrines for the dead on every street corner during The Festival of the Hungry Ghosts'. Then I was musing on how the socially mobile of modern western society eschew death rites and grieving in the name of 'holding it together' and being progressive. I thought of which civilizations are falling and which are rising again, and wondered whether acknowledging death and the ancestors is a vital part of a maintaining personal identity and our place in society. I remember how my grieving father mourned for all the information he had relied on his deceased wife remembering; information which was now lost. I recalled Michael Crichton's words If you don't know (your family's) history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.' Then I thought maybe someone should write about the cults of the ancestors and death, perhaps an anthology, perhaps cross relate experiences of loss to personal spirituality and magick and history. I know that years of working with the dead in the name of art and spirituality, didn't prepare me for the death of my mother. What helped me was the advice of someone from a long tradition of working with the ancestors. I think that collecting the experiences of spiritual practitioners in their working with grief and death is part of a living and necessary tradition that will give respect to the dead and strength, identity and support to our own personal spirituality.' Within this book are rituals, stories, traditions and experiences of magicians' scholars and artists who work with death. Some of the contributors such as Nema, Mogg Morgan, Louis Martine and Nevill Drury (to name but a few) have helped define contemporary transformative spirituality. Others are less well known but just as learned. As there should be in such a collection there is comedy, anger confrontation and practicality. This anthology is about who we are, and where we come from. It is also about how we change. A Contemporary Western Book of the Dead contains voices and visions that acknowledge our past, feed our present and guide the direction of our future. |
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Pages: 196
Size: 216x140mm
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - March 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Sociology: death & dying : Coping with death & bereavement : Astral projection & out-of-body experiences |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 10 |
| Title: 1 of: 102 |
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| Title: Aleister Crowley |
| Sub-title: A Modern Master |
| By (author): John Moore |
| ISBN10-13: 1906958025 : 9781906958022 |
| 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. |
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Pages: 216
Size: 155x230mm
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - July 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 12 |
| Title: 2 of: 102 |
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| Title: Aleister Crowley and Thelemic Magick |
| Sub-title: 2nd Edition |
| Edited by: Mogg Morgan |
| ISBN10-13: 1869928342 : 9781869928346 |
| The Thelemic Symposium was cooked up by a couple of hung-over Thelemites back in 1986. It is hosted by the Oxford Golden Dawn Occult Society, which is a non-sectarian magical sodality that shelters within its ranks magicians of many diverse kinds. The symposium is an annual event that brings together magicians working within the thelemic tradition on topics and themes of interest to thelemic and other left hand path magicians. The printed talks in this volume give a useful snapshot of what these interests are. There is an essay on Aleister Crowley, the founder and continuing inspiration to the movement. This was written by an influential playwright Snoo Wilson and broadcast on Channel Four television last year. There are also talks on the magical work that occupies the modern magician -- Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel, the Cult of LAM, Enochia, Chaos Magick, Devotion to Babalon and the sorcery of Austin Osman Spare. |
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Pages: 79
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - September 2002 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought |
| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 3 of: 102 |
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| Title: Aromatic Oils |
| Sub-title: A Guide to Their Use in Magick, Healing & Perfumery |
| By (author): Ray Sherwin |
| ISBN10-13: 1906958033 : 9781906958039 |
| This aromatic and magical memoir comes to you from the pen of well respected chaos mage and expert on aromatics Ray Sherwin. |
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| A Bottle of Patchouli; Hocus Pocus - Witch-doctors, sorcerers, priests and imams in the shop; Ritual Magick for the BBC; A Spooky Aside A ghost story; A Rose by any Other Name - pheromones and other human smells; The Fats of Life - What your mother would have told you if she'd known. Essential oils, absolutes and fixed oils. Are we consuming the right amount and balance of fats in our diet? Are therapists damaging their clients by using seed oils as carriers?; The Old Bazaar in Cairo. I taught for a while at Cairo University. Most tourists encounter the perfumers in the bazaar but they don't get to see what's going on behind the scenes; Using Essential Oils Therapeutically; Using Aromatherapy Products at Home; Monographs on my Favourite Oils. Some aromatherapy schools are now expecting their students to study forty or more oils. I use about ten. A few data sheets; Therapeutic Index; Miscellaneous Information, General information and Frequently Asked Questions; What's going on with Tea Tree Oil; A Further Note on Health & Safety; Oils Which Should Not Be Used in Aromatherapy; Health & Safety Data regarding Storage and Handling of Essental Oils; A Quick Note on Benzoin, Peru, Galbanum, Immortelle, Oak-Moss, Aniseed, Jojoba, Sandalwood, Fragrance & Rose Otto; Fixed Oils; How to Copy a Perfume; Two Poems - since this book is a kind of autobiography I've included two poems of an occult/pagan nature; Bibliography |
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Pages: 228
Size: 155x230mm
Illustrations: b/w photos
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - December 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Aromatherapy & essential oils |
| List Price: 15.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 4 of: 102 |
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| Title: Art In America |
| By (author): Aleister Crowley |
| ISBN10-13: 1869928040 : 9781869928049 |
| Written for The English Review in 1913, this essay says more about Crowley than about American Art. It was much criticised by contemporary American artists for its prejudice and unfairness. Crowley says in his Confessions that he planned other, more positive essays dealing with the present and future of American Art. The essay's lasting value is historical -- how differently things have come to look in the intervening seventy years. |
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"A sound contribution to the promulgation of Thelema" -- Aquarian Arrow, No 26.
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Pages: 16
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - June 1998 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Occult studies : USA |
| List Price: 2.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 5 of: 102 |
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| Title: Becoming Magick |
| Sub-title: New & Revised Magicks from the New Aeon |
| By (author): David Rankine |
| ISBN10-13: 1869928814 : 9781869928810 |
| Drawing on over twenty years of magickal work in a variety of systems, this book is 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, Becoming Magick presents new techniques of sigilisation and gematria, as well as a new system of energy magick based on the Kalas, and Prime Qabalah, a new system of English Gematria. This volume also explores the practical benefits of less explored magickal techniques such as magickal ingestion and working magick during illness. |
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"Rankine is interesting to say the least. ...Part of the book had me enthralled and other parts left me dry. ...if [the Thelemic/Maat style of 'Magick' is] your bag, then you'll probably love this book." -- Moloch, Zodiac Bistro.
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"The book presents new techniques of visualisation and gematria, as well as a new system of magical working based on lunar symbolism and the Cabbala" -- The Cauldron, May 2005.
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Pages: 196
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - December 2004 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Occult studies : Mysticism, magic & ritual |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 6 of: 102 |
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| Title: Bloody Sacrifice |
| Sub-title: A Personal Experience of Contemporary Blood Rites |
| By (author): Charlotte Rodgers |
| ISBN10-13: 1906958300 : 9781906958305 |
| Charlotte Rodgers is a non denominational magickal practitioner and an animist, and this is the story of her work with blood. It chronicles her use of road kill and blood in art, ritualised scarification and tattoo work, and the use of venous and menstrual blood in magick. Also included are Charlotte's interviews with tattoo artists; priests from belief systems which utilise blood sacrifice; artists who use their own HIV positive blood as a medium; and those who use mortifications and body modification to effect changes in consciousness and self. All here share a common bond of talent combined with an ability to articulate their beliefs. For example Louis Martinie, a priest in the New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple. Martinie has integrated his Tibetan Buddhist beliefs into his Voodoo practice and in doing so shows how personal spiritual evolution can effect change within a syncretic religion. As a blood related illness affected various parts of Charlotte's life, she was given a chance to explore blood ritual in a very different way. Documenting this part of her journey gives an understanding of AIDS, HIV and HCV, and its effect on spirituality and contemporary blood rites.Blood Ritual, with all its history, baggage and dangers holds a power to create change. Whether this power is held within blood and how much impact is created merely by our perception is for the reader to decide. This is an honest, modern and thought provoking personal insight into an ancient aspect of our spirituality and creativity. |
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Pages: 155
Size: 140x215mm
Illustrations: b/w photos
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - January 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Comparative religion : Popular culture : Magic, spells & alchemy |
| List Price: 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 7 of: 102 |
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| Title: Books of the Beast |
| Sub-title: New Edition |
| By (author): Timothy d'Arch Smith |
| ISBN10-13: 1869928172 : 9781869928179 |
| Timothy d'Arch Smith is a well-known bibliographer, reviewer and antiquarian bookseller with a special interest in the by-ways of literature, notably the occult and the curious. For Aleister Crowley a book was a talisman and their every part right down to colour, dimension, and price was symbolic. He also used magical techniques to gain literary success--thus new editions of Crowley's writing multiply daily, tantalising the bibliographer. All the more indispensable is this authoritative guide to his magical first editions. Timothy d'Arch Smith, widely acknowledged as a leading expert on Crowley and on underground literature, offers several shorter articles on: Oxford's demonologist Montague Summers; R A Caton and his Fortune Press; Sexual prophet Ralph Chubb; Florence Farr; The British Library Private Case and Timothy d'Arch Smith. This new edition also includes an extra chapter on Crowley. |
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Pages: 128
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - January 1991 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Satanism & demonology |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 8 of: 102 |
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| Title: Bright from the Well |
| Sub-title: Northern Tales in the Modern World |
| By (author): Dave Lee |
| ISBN10-13: 1869928849 : 9781869928841 |
| We change and develop 'the past' with narrative, and we create 'the future' by re-mixing the stored elements in order to continue it onwards. All the verbal tenses cluster around the same mighty place, the same source of narrative and mythic significance. The people had a name for this place: the Well of Urdhr, Anglo-Saxon wyrd, one of three Norns of fate, Urdhr, Verdhandi and Skuld, who cluster around the Well. These Norns are mighty beings, beyond and above the gods, in the sense that they are eternal and know the fates, the rise and fall of the gods themselves. They are watchers of the Well and helpers to the Tree. The Tree, which contains all the worlds in present time, all the branches of the Now, is nourished at its roots by the Well's waters. 'Bright From the Well' consists of five stories plus five essays and a rune-poem. The stories revolve around themes from Norse myth - the marriage of Frey and Gerd, the story of how Gullveig-Heidh reveals her powers to the gods, a modern take on the social-origins myth Rig's Tale, Loki attending a pagan pub moot and the Ragnarok seen through the eyes of an ancient shaman. The essays include examination of the Norse creation or origins story, of the magician in or against the world and a chaoist's magical experiences looked at from the standpoint of Northern magic.' Dave Lee coaches breathwork, writes fiction and non-fiction, blends incenses and oils, creates music and collage. |
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Pages: 166
Size: 140x215mm
Illustrations: b/w illus
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - September 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Celtic religion & mythology : Magic, spells & alchemy |
| List Price: 15.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 9 of: 102 |
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| Title: Bull of Ombos |
| Sub-title: Seth & Egyptian Magick, Volume 2 |
| By (author): Mogg Morgan |
| ISBN10-13: 1869928873 : 9781869928872 |
| Naqada is a sleepy little town in Upper Egypt, that gives its name to a crucial period in the prehistory of Egypt. In 1895, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, the 'father' of Egyptian archaeology, stumbled upon a necropolis, belonging to a very ancient city of several thousand inhabitants. With Petrie's usual luck, he'd made yet another archaeological find of seismic proportions -- not just an ancient city a quarter the size of Ur in Mesopotamia, a rare enough find, but the capital of the earliest state established in Egypt! Petrie's fateful walk through the desert led him to a lost city, known to the Greeks as Ombos, the Citadel of Seth. Seth, the Hidden God, once ruled in this ancient place before it was abandoned to the sands of the desert. All this forbidden knowledge was quickly reburied in academic libraries, where its stunning magical secrets had lain, largely unrevealed, for more than a century -- until now. |
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| 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 and 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. |
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Pages: 356
Size: 152x229mm
Illustrations: 80 b/w illus
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| Published: Mandrake of Oxford (UK) - October 2005 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Mysticism, magic & ritual : Ancient Egypt |
| List Price: 15.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Title: 10 of: 102 |
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