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Where possible, I have tried to keep my books in print, sometimes expanding and updating them. What follows is a list of all of them with links where they can be found, which provide the highest return to the author (and not Amazon):

“Making Talismans: Living Entities of Power” (2001), Mandrake Press.

“Mathers’ Last Secret: The Rituals and Teachings of the Alpha et Omega” (2009) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.

“King over the Water: Samuel Mather’s AO” by Kerubim Press,

“Gathering the Magic: Creating 21st Century Esoteric Groups” (2005) by Immanion Press/Megalithica Books [out of print now replaced by The Esoteric Group Creation and Survival Kit].

“Egyptian Shaman: The Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt” (2012) by Mandrake Press.

“Magical Imagination: The Keys to Magic” (2013) – Published by Skylight Press.

“The Shem Grimoire” (2024) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.

“A Hellenistic Grimoire” (2024) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.

“The Hidden Chambers behind Initiation” (2006) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.

“The Osiris Scroll” (2024) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.

“The Magic Machine: The vault of the Golden Dawn” (2015) by Lord Manticore House.

“Stars and Stones: Astrological Geomancy”  (2022) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.

“Things my Hierophant should have told me.” (2024) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.”

“When a Tree Falls” (2017) (Novel) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.

“Helios Unbound” (2023) by Immanion Press/Megalithica Books.

“Meditation on Tarot” (2013) by Lord Manticore Publishing House.

”Beyond the Sun: The History, Teachings, and Rituals of the Last Golden Dawn Temple” (2022) Skylight Press

The Druidic Order of Pendragon (2008) Thoth Publishing.

Theomagica: Temple of Wisdom (2025) Lord Manticore Publishing House

Why Magic Fails (2025) Lord Manticore Publishing

Christopher Cattan’s Geomancy (2025) Lord Manticore Publishing

Complete Geomancy (2026) Lord Manticore Publishing

The Esoteric Group Creation and Survival Kit (2026) Lord Manticore Publishing (Next Week)

Contributed

“Asteria Unveiled: Celestial Mysteries Revealed,” Nick Farrell Humberto Villaviencio & Alex Virgilo (2022) Lord Manticore Publishing House.

The power of Asteria: Applied astrology for magic, Nick Farrell, H. Andrés Villavicencio I. Alejandro Virgilio Lord Manticore Publishing House

“Commentaries on the Golden Dawn Flying Rolls” (2017) Kerubim Press,

The Hermetic Tablet Contributor and Editor (2017-2024).

The Golden Dawn Temple Deck (with Harry Wendrich) (2018)

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No one has more reason to hate AI than me. It has cost me two jobs and made my life difficult. However, I am also a user of it magically and otherwise. This has put me at odds with those who are trying to rationalise their terror of technology as magic or other issues. In most cases, showing ignorance of how it works and its impact.

The technology, as it exists now, however clever, is like an autocorrect. It uses existing data to guess what the next line in the word should be and checks it for context.  It cannot develop new occult material or leak “secrets” that are not already there. If you are seeing oath-breaking material coming from your AI, it is because someone else has already discovered it and broken it by putting it on the Internet (you could find the information by Googling).

AI can be used to create occult essays for your group texts, but if you do that, you are missing the point of what this exercise is supposed to be doing (memory retention, etc.) and are failing in your magical path.  While it was not due to AI, MOAA insists that people write out their course materials and tests by hand.

Other fear-based allegations are based on the use of AI to “replace creativity” and put creative people out of work. AI has limits on images and depends on the imagination of those using it.  If I use it to create a cartoon, the sense of humour remains mine; if I use it to create a painting, it must still be relevant to my needs.  In several of my books, I have used the Golden Dawn’s magical image system to create more realistic magical images. These are far more useful to my readers than the rough cartoons drawn by the original Golden Dawn.

Those who complain that AI is killing the jobs of creative people often have never bought a painting, commissioned an illustration, or had a library of unread pirated PDFs or music on their computer. Those who complain that AI datacentres are taking all the water and electricity away are doing so through a Facebook and Google datacentre. They were not complaining when local journalism died because advertising was cheaper on the Internet. Neither did they worry when a lack of advertising killed off the trade press. The fear of losing creativity only exists because technology is involved.

I should point out that AI cannot replace good writing, artwork or design. While useful, it averages everything.  It turns shit writers into even shittier writers spitting out information in the same way as each other. No amount of AI can match a magical or creative experience.

Fear is failure, and fear of AI will result in failure. Humanity is going in that direction no matter what, so the choice is to adapt or fall behind.  I recommend this article for those who want to think some more about this https://substack.com/home/post/p-186363686

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