Mandrake in 97 Mandrake of Oxford is an specialist independent publisher. We began trading as Golden Dawn Publications in 1986 with the publication of the magical journal Nuit Isis. In 1988 we began to publish books and changed our name to Mandrake with the appearance of Katon Shual's ground- breaking Sexual Magick. We are also booksellers and mail-order subscription agents. We are steadily developing a list of core texts on many areas of magick and occulture, including Tantrism, practical magick, especially the Thelemic variety. Our books are sold all over the world and have been translated into several languages. Mogg Morgan and Shantidevi (The prices given are in Uk pounds and US dollars unless otherwise stated) Exchange rate approximately 1.70 dollars to the pound) If you'd like the second part of other publishers books (mainly Crowley and related titles please email again) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents Aleister Crowley: The Book of the Law (chapbook format) Aleister Crowley, Art In America Books of the Beast/ Timothy d'Arch Smith Flying Sorcerer: Francis Barrett/ Francis King Helrunar - manual of rune magickJan Fries I Crowley/Wilson, Snoo Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg/ Jean Overton Fuller Medicine of the Gods: Basic principles of Ayurvedic Medicine/ Kris Morgan More Light/ Snoo Wilson Pan's Daughter/Nevill Drury Seidways/Jan Fries Sexual Magick /Katon Shual Shadow Matter and Psychic Phenomena/ Gerhard D Wassermann Sickert and the Ripper Crimes/Jean Overton Fuller Siddha Quest for Immortality / Kamil V Zvelebil. Surrealism and the / Nadia Choucha Tantrik Astrology/ Michael Magee Thelemic Magick II Thelemic Magick XC (1994) Visual Magick/Jan Fries -------------------------------------------------- full catalogue details -> Jan Fries -Seidways Shaking, Swaying and Serpent Mysteries 350pp 1869928-369 48 ills £10.99/$20 The definitive study of magical trance and possession techniques. The author is inspired by the Nordic tradition of Seidr, said to have been taught to the human race by Odin. Seething is probably the most useful magical technique I have ever learned. I first was taken by the pleasure of it. My body felt warm and sensual, and seething in the hips felt quite sexual. I liked the feeling of my body taking over where the shaking was first voluntary - but I could still have some control, making the shaking stronger or more subtle. After a while I started to see visions - something that very rarely happens to me. I could see (with my physical eyes, not astrally!) the surface of the land in the centre of the circle rippling, like waves of energy. It was a really moving experience in a site that - until then - had not been particularly 'special' to me... it ..has had a major impact upon my magical work which used to be largely indoors, as at last I have found a way that I can work outdoors. This gives my magical work a potency that it simply didn't have before. - Shantidevi in chapter twelve 'Rhythms and the Mind' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thelemic Magick II Proceedings of the 10th Symposium of Thelemic Magick - edited by Mogg Morgan The second in a series of volumes, presenting the work of some of the leading contemporary exponents of ritual magick. There is an essay on Aleister Crowley, the founder and continuing inspiration to the thelemic 'tradition'. This was written by Ronald Hutton, author of several ground-breaking books on Paganism, including The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles. Several key themes of modern thelemic magick are rediscussed, the Holy Guardian Angel, LAM, and Austin Osman Spare. There is also material on ritual techniques derived from Tantrism and a new piece by Jan Fries on overtone chanting. We are also pleased to be able to showcase the work of Chaos magician Chrys Livings who gave a thought-provoking presentation on the dark side of witchcraft and from Greece, Evangelos Rigakis' insights into the Greek origins of the thelemic system of magick. £7.99/$14.95 ISBN 1-869928-482, 108pp paperback Reprints of Thelemic Magick I also available at £10/$20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I Crowley Almost the Last Confession of the Beast Snoo Wilson Pub - 1997 £9.99/$20 250 pages ISBN 1869928 474 Audio book version (abridged) £7.99/$14.95 isbn 1869928 490 (cass) 'I never killed Raoul Loveday with a magical spell.' Aleister Crowley, otherwise known as the Beast 666, shared membership of the Golden Dawn with W.B. Yeats, and publishers with D.H. Lawrence. Now in a beyond-the-grave autobiography, he recounts his own vocation, his practice of sex magic, and his bruising encounters with his contemporaries. The great magus, whose own world-conquering creed, The Book of the Law, was written in Cairo in 1904, was according to him, no murderer, but a prophet and practitioner of all kinds of sexual freedom and new magical systems. 'I shall continue to protest my innocence as long as I have a hole in my bottom.' The Wickedest Man in the World? Or Post-Christian Messiah? Read this book and judge for yourself. Snoo Wilson is a writer and playwright who presented an apologia for Aleister Crowley in the TV series 'Without Walls'. His previous novels are Spaceache and Inside Babel (Chatto). His play, More Light, about the heretic Giordano Bruno, is published by Mandrake of Oxford. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pan's Daughter The Magical World of Rosaleen Norton by Nevill Drury 168pp, 48 illus,1869928318 pbk, 7.99 pounds/14.95 dollars In the 1950s Rosaleen Norton was popularly known in Australia as the 'Witch of Kings Cross'--a colourful, bohemian figure from Sidney's red light district. A natural trance artist, she experimented with self-hypnosis and as a result of her visionary explorations portrayed a wide range of supernatural beings in her paintings and drawings. Her 'pagan' art plunged her into continuous controversy and was the focus of obsentity trials. Her visionary drawings can be compared with those of English trance artist Austin Osman Spare. This is the first account of at her life as a whole and looks both her magical beliefs and her art and includes a fascinating selection of previously unpublished material. '...an extremely important document detailing the public and private prices this courageous unsung woman-hero paid for un apologetically 'dealing with life on other planes of being.' E.I.D.O.S. (Everyone Is Doing Outrageous Sex) ------------------------------------------------------- Sexual Magick by Katon Shual 128pp 1869928-075 £7.99/$14.99 3rd Edition Sexuality is one of the keys to magick. In this book Katon Shual presents some of the secrets of a sexual gnosis of western magick - a system that is often misunderstood. The book begins with a look at the revival of sexual magick in the early part of this century, especially within the ranks of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and some of the post Golden Dawn magical groups such as Aleister Crowley's Thelemic cult. The book goes on the look at the modern fusion of western hermetic and eastern tantrik sexual gnosticism. On the way it discusses in a progressive manner gay, straight and solitary sexual magick. The book goes on to introducs the ancient diety Seth as an archetype of the sexual magician. The book includes an unpublished grimoire of sexual magick, as well as several other unusual sources, including an authoritative exploration of the chakra system, a magical approach to kundalini and an introduction to the relationship between sacred sexuality and the external landscape. The author is a founder member of the Oxford Golden Dawn Occult Society in Oxford and a member of the East-West Tantrik group AMOOKOS. He has edited several occult books and is co-editor of the leading non- sectarian journal of the Thelemic magick - Nuit Isis. He holds an advanced degree in oriental studies from Oxford University. Critics said of the first edition: 'breathes some wholesome air into a subject shrouded by guilt, filth and prejudice.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helrunar - manual of rune magick by Jan Fries 350pp 1869928199 pbk, 9.99 pounds/20 dollars, 100 illustrations 'Helrunar' is the title of one who 'runes' or makes rune magick. This book explains how one goes about becoming a Helrunar. The runes are a pan-European magical language. Its roots can be found in the ancient pagan beliefs of our ancestors who built many thousand of stones circles, long barrows and dolmens throughout ancient Europe. This same symbols and techniques were used by the Pagan Celts and Germans. This book is a complete manual of magick based upon the arcane symbolism and secret techniques known as the runes. The runes are for all! - they are not a new religion or 'folkish' claptrap but a vibrant magical system that really works! This book is suitable for anyone with an interest in the actually practise of magick. It style and structure is similar to much acclaimed Visual Magic, which is a manual of freestyle shamanism. The author lives in Frankfurt near the Taunus Mountains. He is a musician artist and magician. For this edition he has edited the full text of all the rune poems and prepared over 100 original drawings and transcriptions of Celtic, Neolithic and Runic images. He takes us through the key magical techniques of the ancient pagan religion, currently undergoing a rebirth throughout the world. The reader is led right to the heart of this material on sigil sorcery, rune stance, rune breath etc. Read this book and discover how to be a helrunar too. '...eminently practical and certainly breaks new ground.' - Ronald Hutton (author Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles) Recommended by The Cauldron 'a very meaty read...' PJ in Gippeswic ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visual Magick by Jan Fries 1991 136pp 1869928180 6.99 pounds/9.99 dollars A 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. Visual Magick began as a small treatise on sigil Magick and automatic drawing circulated privately amongst members of the European Maat network, and is written for practising mind explorers of the unorthodox variety. 'One of the best books on magick I have read in a long while.' Pagan News 'A practical modern grimoire.' The Cauldron [also available in german. One day maybe in swedish] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surrealism and the Occult by Nadia Choucha 1991 140pp 1869928164, 8.99 pounds pbk 1869928245 This edition not available in the USA or Canada Many people associate Surrealism with politics, but it was also permeated by occult ideas, a fact often overlooked by art historians. This occult influence goes beyond general themes to the movement's very heart. The antinomian stance of Surrealism can be traced directly to the influence of radical nineteenth century magi such as Eliphas Levi, whose Dogma and Ritual of High Magic was widely read by Surrealism's ideologues. Surrealism did not establish itself in Britain until the 1930s but a select few felt something in the air. Almost ten years before the surrealist experiments with automatic drawing, an obscure English artist, Austin Osman Spare had perfected this technique. 'Highly readable...seminal... fascinating' Francis X. King 'alive, with the heady mixture of occult and pictorial symbolism treated with laudable lucidity.' Art Book News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shadow Matter and Psychic Phenomena A scientific investigation into psychic phenomena and possible life after death by Gerhard D Wassermann Ph.D, FIMA (formerly reader in the Theory and Philosophy of Biology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 200pp 1869928326 pbk 7.95 pounds/15 dollars A scientist casts new light on psi-phenomena, such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and 'out of the body experiences' in this book. He presents an exciting new theory which explains such phenomena, linking the recently discovered 'Shadow Matter' world of physics with parapsychology. The author builds on theories until now discussed only in academic journals, but the book is accessible to non- scientists. Shadow Matter and Psychic Phenomena also offers over 60 fascinating case histories of 'psychic' experience. Essential reading for scientists, occultists, and anyone interested in the paranormal. Important insights from the formal scientific tradition - Society of Metaphysicians 'The idea that some non-ordinary form of matter can explain psi is one I think may be worth following up, as you have done...Purely as phenomenology, your ideas may be very valuable. Professor Brian D Josephson FRS (Nobel Laureate) 'a stimulating attempt to provide a scientific and rigorous explanation of psi-phenomena.' David Lorimer in Network (newsletter of Scientific and Medical network) 'I heartily recommend this book to all investigators of paranormal phenomena and also to other scientists who would like to read a carefully written summary of the evidence for such phenomena.' Ian Stevenson, (University of Virginia) in Journal of Parapsychology ------------------------------------ Sickert and the Ripper Crimes by Jean Overton Fuller 1990, 260pp, 1869928156 14.95 pounds/25 dollars hbk In the autumn of 1888 London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders - killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality. Florence Pash, friend and colleague of the painter Walter Sickert and herself an artist, confided to the author's mother when in her late eighties, a terrible story that she had kept even from those closest to her. Jean Overton Fuller draws on the new evidence of Florence Pash, and with her own artist's eye discovers clues in Sickert's pictures, pointing conclusively to the true identity of the Ripper... 'new and important evidence.' Colin Wilson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Books of the Beast Second Edition by Timothy d'Arch Smith 1991 128pp, 1869928172 6.99 pounds/9.99 dollars pbk 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, tantalizing 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 on the author himself. For this new edition, he also adds an extra chapter on Crowley. '...one could hardly wish for a more stimulating guide... The London Magazine 'One of the more immediately striking things about the book is its gentle humour.' Time Out ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Flying Sorcerer: Francis Barrett by Francis King Including Barrett's previously unpublished manuscript on Crystal Vision 80pp 1869928202 6.99 pounds/9.99 dollars pbk From the editor of The Grimoire of Armadel and author of Sexuality, Magick and Perversion ( to be reissued by Mandrake in 1994), this is the story of an enigmatic 18th century magus whose work still influences the current generation. Francis Barrett was the first since the middle ages to compile a manual or 'grimoire' of magick. His The Magus or Celestial Intelligencer is widely read and still capable of providing insight. Francis King offers a fascinating picture of Francis Barrett, a man who lived on the frontier of technology, both in terms of the inner landscape and his pioneering experiments in balloon flight. It discusses his teachers, peers, and the subsequent progress of his disciples. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg by Jean Overton Fuller 1990 270pp 1869928121, First Pbk, 11 plates, 9.99 pounds/20 20 dollars, The classic biography of Victor Neuburg, poet, magician and lover of Aleister Crowley. Neuburg was Crowley's partner in magical rites in the desert and in rites even more dangerous and controversial. This is a document of one of this century's most creative magickal partnerships. Over a period of eight years it charts Neuburg's and Crowley's ground- breaking magical experiments in sexual magick, with Dee's Enochian system, and more. The author writes very much from Neuburg's point of view, but the result is a great deal more balanced than some other biographies. A good introduction to many of the key elements in Crowley's magical system. 'essential reading...' Chaos International 'a fascinating yet immensely sad story' Sunday Telegraph ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More Light by Snoo Wilson 1990 96pp, 1869928-083, 6.99 pounds/9.99 dollars pbk This is a play about the heretic Giordano Bruno, and a great read in its own right. In Rome, 1600, Bruno was burned by the Inquisition. He had been a wandering scholar, spending three years at the court of the heretic Queen Elizabeth I of England. His crime? His writings most dangerously hailed the sun as the centre of the solar system. More Light is set in heaven and brings together Bruno, the Pope, Elizabeth I, John Dee, Edward Kelly and Shakespeare in a sexually satisfying heavenly existence. The Pope attempts to drag Bruno back to earth in a play that is 'laced with wit and bizarre invention' (Milton Shulman, Evening Standard). Critics said of performances in UK and the US: 'wholly original quality ...' Martin Hoyle Financial Times 'leaps through time and space, reality and morality, is visually stunning and dramatically compelling .. ' Madeleine Shaner B'nai B'rith Messenger ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tantrik Astrology by Michael Magee 1989 128pp 1869928-067 6.99 pounds/9.99 dollars pbk The first-ever manual of Tantrik Astrology, which differs from the kind of astrology you see in newspaper columns in two ways. First, its analysis is based on the actual position of the planets and stars. Due to irregularities in the movements of the earth (precession), many people's sun signs have been wrongly calculated. You might find you have a completely new astrological identity in the Tantrik system described in this book. Secondly, and more importantly; it alerts us to the whole purpose of astrology; that is, to start the process of deconditioning from the individual's fixed mind-set as laid down at birth in the wheel of time, or Kalachakra. 'His remarks on prana, or breath, vis-a-vis planetary influences, are even more profound....all in all, this is fascinating material....' Abrasas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Medicine of the Gods: Basic principles of Ayurvedic Medicine by Kris Morgan 80pp. 1869928-377 6.99 pounds / 9.99 dollars Ayurveda is an Asian medical system which has its beginnings in the sixth century BCE and thrives even to the present-day. There was once a celebrated doctor called Caraka who lived in the second century of our era. He was one of the greatest physicians that has ever lived. He recorded the fact that the gods themselves were perplexed by the continued existence of disease, which was a hindrance to humanity's progress to enlightenment. These same gods, he says, therefore prepared the way for Ayurveda, which literally means the 'science of longevity' to be taught to the human race. Thus the title of this book is Medicine of the Gods. Medicine of the Gods is the first of a series that aims to introduce the physical and metaphysical concepts of Ayurveda to a non-specialist audience. Medical ideas underpin a great deal of Eastern thought especially Tantrism, alchemy, yoga and the science of love. The book is not intended as a series of health tips or as a textbook for the clinical practice of medicine, which in the Ayurveda tradition requires at least seven years intensive training. The book is aimed at students and lovers of South Asian culture, perhaps also anthropologists and others with a need for a straightforward introduction to the core principles of another scientific tradition. The author was for several years an advanced student in the department of Oriental studies in Oxford University where his teacher was the late Professor B K Matilal, one of the foremost experts on Asian rational thought and logic. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NUIT-ISIS Into the occult but tired of the New Age? the leading publication of the left-hand path 128 pages, illustrated, 6.99 pounds / 9.99 dollars ISBN: 1869928253 Aleister Crowley Tantra Chaos Magick Brion Gysin Wilhelm Reich Women and Magick Nuit Isis is for those who are interested in the occult but bored with the superficiality of the 'new age'. It is also for those who see magick in the present tense and not as some part of a mythical bygone age. Although much of its contents stem from the Crowleyian tradition of magick, it adopts a broad approach and looks at esoterica from all geographical and historical regions, from Hindu and Buddhist tantra to modern chaos magick. It also includes articles from mainstream figures working with magical themes, such as painter and poet Brion Gysin, William Burroughs and therapist Wilhelm Reich. It includes a unique account of the exploits of Aleister Crowley and an extract from the diary of a modern Thelemic magician. 'Consistently the most intelligent and readable Thelemic publication from abroad, this Journal....never disappoints....' Abrasax Back numbers available (old series) at 2.50/$4 Vol I no 3 Man Kick That Habit: Brion Gysin, His Life and Magick; Typhonian Astrology; Factions, Fictions and Functions - AMOOKOS in a Thelemic setting; Hymn to Hermes; Magickal Tantra in Japan. Vol I No 10 The Demon Doctrine; Goddess of the Left Hand Path; Gerald Gardner & the OTO; Consider the OTO Non-existent; Prometheus Calling; Spare's Ontology; Scarab Rising. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thelemic Magick XC (1994) Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of Thelemic magick 80 Pages, ISBN 1869928 44X 7.99 pounds/9.99 dollars Contents include: Stephen Ashe Short address on Liber Al and 50 gates of Babalon; Shantidevi Liber Samekh and Holy Guardian Angel Snoo Wilson, Aleister Crowley - Great Idea of the Twentieth Century Robert Ansell, Austin Spare- Life in Pictures (summary); Mick Staley The Mysteries of LAM; Steve Nicholls Enochian Magick; Dave Lee Cut-ups and Collages (summary); Jan Fries, Sound workshop (summary) MC Medusa, Invocation of Babalon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Siddha Quest for Immortality By Professor Kamil V Zvelebil. Sexual, alchemical and medical secrets of the Tamil Siddhas, the poets of the powers In South India there is a society where priests and lay people claim supernatural powers. here a sophisticated medical system underlies a quest for physical longevity and psychic immortality. And where arcane and sexual rituals take place that are far removed from the Brahmanic tradition of the rest of India. That society is the Tamil Siddhas. In the Siddha Quest for Immortality world Tamil expert K Zvelebil offers a vivid picture of these people: their religious beliefs, their magical rites, their alchemical practices, their complex system of medicine, and their inspired tradition of poetry. Topics covered include: . On Siddhas Medicine. The Ideological Basis of Siddhas Quest of Immortality. Basic Tenets of Siddhas Medicine. Diseases and Their Cure. Yoga in Siddhas Tradition. Daily Regime. Siddhas Alchemy. Rejuvenation, Longevity, and 'Immortality'. Doctrines and Traditions of the Siddhas. Tantrik Siddhas and Siddhas Attitudes to Sex. Siddhas Poetry and Other Texts. . ISBN 1 869928 431. Price £9.99/$19.99 student discounts available ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aleister Crowley, Art In America 1869928-040 2.50 / 4.95 dollars pbk 16pp Written for The English Review in 1913, this essay says more about Crowley than about American Art. It was much criticized 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. Aquarian Arrow, No 26...' A sound contribution to the promulgation of Thelema' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aleister Crowley: The Book of the Law (chapbook format) 4.18 / 7.77 dollars (4) A simple pocket book sized reprint of this seminal text of Thelemic Magick. Card cover with cover design in red ink. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Where to buy Mandrake books You can buy Mandrake books directly from us, or from all good bookshops. For individual purchasers, we also run a subscription service and will do our best to obtain for you any book in print. If you would like to see our distribution catalogue, please let us know. Wants lists welcome, we will supply if we can locate in print version. 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