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.
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 .
New
Release
Supernatural
Assault in Ancient Egypt - Seth,
Renpet
& Moon
Magick By
Mogg Morgan
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
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
byThe 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
"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/$20
Format: Paperback Original
Category: Egyptian Magick
Click here to buy this book
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.'
"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."
PAN'S ROAD
By Mogg Morgan
ISBN
1869928-89x
Publisher:
Mandrake of Oxford
Price: £7.99/$14
Format:
Paperback
Original
Category:
Occult Fiction / Egyptian Magick
Click here to buy this book
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
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99 / $20
Click here to buy this book
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/$14.99/
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 / $14.99
Category: Ayurveda
Format:
Paperback
Category:
Ayurveda
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/$15
Format: Paperback
Category: Thelemick Magick
Click here to buy this book
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 with either of the above titles on
request or for $13.
