MOGG MORGAN & KATON SHUAL
Mogg Morgan is a founder of the Oxford Golden Dawn Occult Society and a Zonule holder of east/west Tantrik order AMOOKOS. His daytime job is CEO of innovative ‘new edge’ publisher Mandrake of Oxford, Recently described as a 'respected literary catalyst', he is responsible for the discovery of many new authors, including his friend and mentor Jan Fries. He was a Wellcome research student at Oxford, where his teacher was the later Professor B K Matilal, a widely respected expert on South Asian rational thought. He has published several books, articles,and even the odd poem (see ASHÉ).
His books include: Ayurveda: Medicine of the Gods; The English Mahatma (a Tankhem novel), & Tankhem: Seth & Egyptian Seth Magick. His most recent book is The Bull of Ombos: Seth & Egyptian Magick II.
Katon Shual is a former member of the Typhonian OTO and co-editor and founder of Nuit Isis magazine. In addition Sexual Magick, a book still regarded by some as an innovative study of the subject.
NEW!!
Wheel of the Year in Ancient Egypt
By Mogg Morgan
isbn 978190695138
£ 11.99 / $20 / 272pp / paperback original
Category: Egyptian Magick
Order this book
WHEEL OF THE YEAR IN ANCIENT EGYPT
The very oldest Egyptian ritual calendar was lunar.
The evidence for this is very complex and in the words of Professor Leo
Depuydt, “does
not exactly jump out at you!” This ancient lunar calendar continued
a veiled existence alongside the dominant solar or civil year. Many details
are lost so the project of this book is to bring together what has survived.
Revealed here is a very ancient pantheon of gods, including Set, Min, & Hathor,
one for each month of the lunar year. I have provided for them a unique collection
of liturgy, ritual and prayers as may have been offered in the homes, sanctuaries
and temples of the original
Egypt.
Many of these feasts of Ancient Egypt were celebrated on the phases of the
moon - principally when it was new or full. So whatever your favorite god
or goddess, make offerings on either of these days and you will be reviving
an old and authentic form of the Ancient Egyptian magical religion.To complete
the picture I present over several chapters all the technical details of
the lunar month as well as its more well known
civil replacement. Here you will find information on how certain key days
were calculated when needed. These later chapters also provide related material
on the mysteries of the Northern Constellations.
Finally there are descriptions of the thirty lunar days of each month and
lunar omens. So in total this is the most complete and authoritative guide
to the ritual wheel of the year at all stages of its use in the Ancient Egyptian
magical religion.
BOOKS BY MOGG MORGAN & KATON SHUAL
(Click on picture to view details)
Ebooks & Lectures:
For more biographical info you could look at The Curse of Merlin, instalments of which are currently appearing on www.myspace.com/moggmorgan. Also on myspace / mandrake_oxford for the newsletter Mandrake Speaks & Archive. There is some other stuff on my Yahoo Blog .
Supernatural Assault
in Ancient Egypt
- Seth, Renpet
& Moon Magick
By Mogg Morgan
NEW EDITION 2011
ISBN 978-1- 906958329
Publisher: Mandrake
Format: paperback original
/ 192pp / £11.99 / $22
Category: Egyptian Magick
Order this book
SUPERNATURAL ASSAULT IN ANCIENT EGYPT
You’re in your bed. It’s dark, you hear footsteps coming up the
stairs and into your room. There’s someone there - a presence. They
lie on you or beside you, gripping you tightly, crushing you into the bed.
You can’t move. There may be a sound, a grunt or a strange smell. Time
passes, you are paralysed with fear. Eventually the entity changes, expanding
or contracting, moving away from you, sinking to the floor. With a great
effort of will you manage to move the tip of your finger, then the hand until
movement returns to your whole body and the experience ends. You have been
visited by the old ‘hag’.
Dreams, the real theatre or perhaps battlefield of magick, influenced by
cosmic tides that ebb and flow through us as they did the ancient Egyptians.
Over the millennia we have lost contact with these tides, and stand alienated
from Nature.To restore that first ‘Eden’ we must undertake
an exercise in the archaeology of knowledge. We must reconstruct the
ancient Egyptian Wheel of the Year, revealing archaic, predynastic Mysteries,
the Lunar Mysteries of Horus & Seth.
Contents: Kiss of the Vampire / Origin of the Vampire Myth / Egyptian Psychology / Lucky and Unlucky / Supernatural Assault/The Wheel of the Year in ancient Egypt/The Lunar-Stellar Calendar of Horus & Seth/Deities attending the Northern Constellations / Oracles & Lunar Omina / Lunar diary
View a short film on Typhonian Magick:
THE BULL OF OMBOS
By Mogg Morgan
iISBN 978-1869928-872r:
Mandrake
356pp / 152x229mm / 78 illustrations
Price: £13.99 / $28
Format: Paperback Original
Category: Egyptian Magick
Order this book
THE BULL OF OMBOS
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.
This book is for all Egyptophiles as well as
anyone with an interest in the archaic roots of magick and the sabbatic
craft.
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
Reviews
"The Bull of Ombos is an important and ground-breaking work. The figure of Set(h) has been of significance within Western magic for quite some time, even if he (it?) has appeared as the more controversial form of Satan. While the Temple of Set and The Storm have pioneered research into Sethian magick, the works of Mogg Morgan stand alone as major contributions to this field. What I find most unique is that they combine the fastidiousness of an Egyptologist with the experience of a modern occultist. Certainly Morgan knows his stuff, from Tantra to the modern O.T.O. from pagan and Left Hand Path magick to the Golden Dawn and traditional folklore and customs, but at the same time he approaches the subject cautiously and with the skills of a scholar even a folklorist.
What he offers in this work is what could be best described as a reconstruction of pre-dynastic Egyptian Sethian beliefs and practices . . . While Petrie’s discovery was of great significance he really didn’t appreciate nor understand it. Due to the unique practices of the “Sethians” he came to conclude they weren’t even Egyptians and hence saw them as some sort of foreign invaders. Due to this and the general ambivalence of Egyptologists to the figure of Seth, Petrie’s work in this field has remained largely untapped by later Egyptologists.
Morgan appreciating the significance of this unique resource with the eyes of a scholar as well as a magician has given us a glimpse of what the worshippers of Seth may have believed and praised. Moreover he shows the significance of these within a modern occult system, in his early work Tankhem: Seth & Egyptian Magick, he discussed how this system may have been originally Tantric in nature and its modern application. His research on the animals of Seth, images and names related to Seth, archaeological finds etc is extremely comprehensive and offers extensive clues which will take many years to fully explore and comprehend.
In Bull of Ombos: Seth and Egyptian Magick Voll II, he gives us quite an extensive intellectual framework for Sethian magick (including lots of source materials and some 78 illustrations) as well as giving us a means to bring the magick of Seth into our lives today.
- Living Traditions, Australia
Recommended by The Cauldron #119
''‘I also want to personally thank you for your work . . . you have contributed to my practice and to my Coven's rituals.’ - www.cotw.us, a teaching Coven, Denver, Colorado, USA
Review in ASHÉ
"The publication of a book devoted to the Egyptian deity Seth (aka Set) is a rare enough event even in the rarified halls of academia. The publication of a modern magickal text focusing on Seth is even rarer. Despite the important role Seth played in the history of magick—his frequent appearances in the magical papyri of the Hermetic period—few modern texts have taken a serious look at the enigmatic god. This is not all too surprising, given the short-shrift and a good dose of bad PR both in antiquity and also in the Victorian mis-interpretations of the early Egyptologists. Two other modern texts come immediately to mind: Don Webb’s short treatise Seven Faces of Darkness and Mr. Morgan’s earlier work Tankhem. Mr. Morgan is an amateur Egyptologist who has long maintained and interest in the maligned figure of Seth. The Bull of Ombos begins with the 19th century discovery of an ancient city near Naqada, Egypt. The city proved to be the capital of the earliest Egyptian state. The lost city was known to the Greeks as Ombos, the Citadel of Seth. Once ruled by the Hidden God the site had been left to be swallowed by the sands of the desert—the image of the god transformed through later layers of Egyptian power and politics. As Mr. Morgan notes that most of the knowledge discovered at Ombos was quickly reburied in academic libraries. Bull of Ombos delves into these forbidden areas. Mr. Morgan painstakingly puts together the intricacies of early Sethian worship and the roll the god played in the Egyptians’ daily lives. He does not shy away from analyzing the more disturbing suggestions of previous archeological conclusions—even hints of cannibalism. From the scant clues available, the author has produced a detailed and intricate portrait of Seth that is at the same time very applicable to the modern Sethian. Mr. Morgan also provides retellings of the key Seth-related stories as appendix material—a welcome supplement to the text."
TANKHEM
Seth & Egyptian Magick -Vol I
second revised edition
isbn 1869928865
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
236pp / Price: £10.99 /$22
Format: Paperback Original
Category: Egyptian Magick
Click here to buy this book
TANKHEM
The Typhonian deity Seth was once worshipped in
Ancient Egypt. Followers of later schools obliterated Seth’s monuments,
demonised and neglected his cult. A possible starting point in the quest
for the ‘hidden god’ is an examination of the life of Egyptian King Seti
I (‘He of Seth’) also known as Sethos.
When looking for an astral temple that included all of the ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, the temple of Seti I proved itself worthy of examination. Many secrets began to reveal themselves. The essence of the real philosophy of the Sethian and indeed what Satanism is, stems from the author’s astral wanderings in this temple.
The temple is a real place, and like any temple no part of its design is accidental. It is a record in stone and paint of the Egyptian wisdom. It also fits quite well with the Thelemic mythos and tells lots of interesting things about the ancient Seth cult - if you have the eye to see it.
Contents:
Prolegomena to Egyptian magick;
Setanism;
Tankhem;
Egyptian Magick and Tantra;
Sexual Magick;
Twenty Eight;
The Crooked Wand.
Recommended by The Cauldron
More Reviews
THE
VOICE OF THE STORM
"Considering how few modern metaphysical books are devoted to Sethian magic specifically, Storm initiates and other Sethians may find Morgan’s contribution to be of interest. Morgan also includes material relevant to the sexual mysticism of the left-hand path tradition which is relevant to the Storm’s transmission of the sinister current. Morgan’s approach is not in accordance with the purely religious vision of Seth that inspires the Storm movement (he seems to see Seth as a sort of Jungian archetype rather than a literal deity). Although we disagree with his connection of Seth to Satanism and Thelema, and some of his research in the book is dated (circa 1980s), many of Morgan’s insights and research concerning the historical cult of Seth will be illuminating to any reader interested in the Sethian phenomenon.'
SILVERSTAR
"A very personal exploration of the cult of the dark Egyptian god Set or Seth, covering ancient temples, tantrik and Crowleyan influences, sexual magick, sacred landscapes and astronomy, thought-forms, and the unjustly neglected work of the poet W.B. Yeats, who is seldom recognized as one of the most important and active members of the Golden Dawn. Mr. Morgan is an excellent example of how ancient magick can work for the modern individual: in exploring the past, you may find myths that resonate for you, that come alive in dreams and omens, appearing in unexpected synchronicities as you go through life. The Old Gods are not dead, they think we are. Mr. Morgan has also written several other works, including the thought-provoking Sexual Magick under the nom-de-plume Katon Shual."
ISBN 1869928-89x
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
Price: £7.99 /$16
Format: Paperback Original
Category: Occult Fiction / Egyptian Magick
Click here to buy this book
PAN'S ROAD
Fiction complement to THE BULL OF OMBOS
The ancient hungry stones of Coptos in Upper Egypt have soaked up the stories of the inhabitants along with their blood. When archaeologists unearth a magician’s box in the rubble of an ancient Egyptian tomb, it propels Jay into a supernatural journey across space and time. She merges with the mysterious Zenobia, a native of ancient Coptos. Zenobia and her family are fleeing from the advancing Roman armies that are returning to their Egyptian frontier bent on punishing its rebellious citizens. The only escape from the frying pan of Coptos is into the fire of the Eastern desert. Their journey on Pan’s Road is fraught with new dangers but also new possibilities, as the protagonists are led to the heart of an ancient mystery in the lost city of Ombos – Citadel of Seth, the Egyptian god of Chaos.
TANTRA SADHANA
A practical introduction to Kaula Magick
by Mogg Morgan
ISBN 978-1869928-421
£10.99 / $22 /paperback original
Category: Tantra
Order this book
TANTRA SADHANA
A ‘Sâdhana’ is an instrument that leads to a particular goal. In Tantra, it is a technical term denoting worship or spiritual practice.
Tantra Sâdhana is a collection of related instructional papers designed to aid the aspirant through a foundation practice.
The work was originally conceived as leading to a practice over the course of one lunar month. In addition, the author had added several useful appendices - including the previously unpublished Tantrik Knuckle Bone Oracle.
The reader might find this a good general primer combined
with some more unusual, perhaps advanced material.
Contents:
Introduction / / What is Tantra? / Sâdhana/practice / Mantra / Mandala or Yantra / MudrA / NyAsa / DhyAna / PUja / DIkshA / Magick and Liberation / Svecchacara / Tantrik traditions and sects / Recommended Reading / The opening rite / Yoga of the voice / Quarter Guardians / Visualisation / The Astral Temple / The Kamarupa Temple Meditation / The Kalas / The Ganesha Practice (Sadhana) / Ganesha rupa / The ‘Demon’ Doctrine and the roots of Tantra / Invocation of Kundalini / IV The Serpent Power /The Kaulajnana -Nirnaya of the School of Matsyendranath / Yoga Sutras of Patanjali / Grammar of Tantra / The VAma-keshvari-matam / Oracles / Tantrik Knuckle Bone Oracles / Pronounciation / When Your Guru Goes Gaga / Hindu Lunar Calendar
Review from White Dragon
"I first became interested in Tantra years ago when I read AGHORA, At the Left Hand of God by Robert E. Svoboda. The ideas of breaking out of social conditioning, becoming yourself, all appealed to me. Since then though my interest waned due to the New Age inundation of, ‘tantra for lovers’ type waffle.
Then comes Tantra Sadhana for me to review and I once again find myself inspired. This e-book takes the form of an introduction to the subject and then gives the reader some basic ritual to work through. First published as a fact-sheet for AMOOKOS, Arcane and Magickal Order of the Knights of Shamballa, so you know the information in chapter one is solid enough.
The inclusion of the Gnostic Pentagram Ritual was not to my taste, It’s a personal thing, but I would rather the author had used the version from the PGM, from which the GPR is a more rubbish version. I know why it’s there, but it didn’t work for me.
What I did find very useful was the extensive appendix, for me, this is the best part of the book, and with a little imagination can be used to form your own Tantric rites. I was very pleased to see the Ganapati Upanishad text included, I was at a private ritual years ago where Phil Hine did this and I found it very moving.
Anyone interested in Tantra beyond the New Age tripe will enjoy this book and I would recommend it without reservation. I would also say it’s worth reading for people interested in Chaos Magick, because reading it, it becomes obvious how Tantric ideas have shaped the Chaos Current that we have today. "
isbn
1869928075
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
128pp / £7.99 /$16
3rd Edition / Paperback Original
Category: Magick
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.
‘Makes
the subject of sexual magick accessible and lucid and above all relevant
to contemporary magical practice’
- Phil Hine reviewing in Talking Stick magazine
Some of issues of Katon Shual's book are explored even further in
Mogg Morgan's novel The
English Mahatma
MEDICINE OF THE GODS:
Basic principles of Ayurvedic Medicine
by Chris Morgan
ISBN 1869928377
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
120pp £9.99 / $20
Category: Ayurveda
Format: Paperback
Category: Ayurveda
Click here to buy this book
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.
Praise for first edition:
‘The author's main purpose, introducing ancient Indian medical theory in
a relatively trustworthy manner to the interested general reader in easy language,
while at the same time being intellectually challenging, is served well by this
book.’
-Rahul Peter Das in Traditional South Asian Medicine Vol
6 2001
‘This book contains virtually everything you could
want to know about the Hindu system of Ayurvedic medicine, which began on
or about the sixth century BCE and is still thriving today. The history,
correspondences or "humours', and other intriguing aspects of this intricate
system are described in easy-to-understand language for those unfamiliar
with Ayurveda. There is also a catalogue of ailments and how Ayurveda views
each of them, and illness in general. I found this fascinating reading, both
as a western herbal practitioner, and as a reader fascinated by how other
cultures ’
- Reviewed by Cerridwen Connelly in The
Pentacle
Thelemic Magick I (1994)
(edited by Mogg Morgan)
Proceedings
of the Ninth International Symposium of Thelemic Magick
ISBN 186992844X
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
80pp / Price: £9.99 /$20
Format: Paperback
Category: Thelemick Magick
Click here to buy this book
THELEMIC MAGICK 1 (1994)
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.
Ebooks & Lectures
HOUSE OF LIFE
A set of introductory magical exercises designed to complement Tankhem & The Bull of Ombos. Available free from http://www.scribd.com/ombos
Isis In India
Research into the survival of the cult
of Isis in South India.
Ebook available on http://www.scribd.com/ombos
Strange Oxford
Updated ebook version of now out of print guide to local legends,
ancient sites, folklore, magic and mystery on http://www.scribd.com/ombos
Lectures (available for booking)
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.
Seething & Seidr (workshop)
Sexuality & Magick
Write & Find Ecstasy in writing: occult writing after the Witchcraft Act
return to Mandrake homepage