Books by Andy Cooper
Four books drawn from more than thirty years inside the Western Mystery Tradition. Not history, and not theory. These are working books, written from within the temple for those who intend to do the work themselves.
Book One
The living metaphysics of ancient Egypt, from within the tradition.
The temple was never a building alone. It was a working model of the created world, and it still functions. This first book lays the ground: the neteru, the ka and the ba, Ma'at as the law that holds the world upright, and the way an Egyptian temple was built to be entered rather than merely admired.
Book Two
Working with the Egyptian gods.
A companion to the gods themselves. Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, Anubis, Thoth, Sekhmet and the wider company are met here as they are met in the work: as living powers with a character, a courtesy and a cost. How to approach them, how to hold the contact, and how to close it cleanly.
Book Three
Ritual and ceremony in the Egyptian Mysteries.
What actually happens when a rite is performed, and why it works. The quarters, the officers, the stations, the opening and the closing. This book teaches ritual by shape and by meaning rather than by script, because a script only functions safely inside a working temple with trained people standing in it.
Standalone
NLP and the training of an initiate.
The inner work asks a great deal of the mind that carries it. This book brings the precision of NLP and hypnosis to bear on the training of a magician: state, language, presupposition, and the quiet business of clearing the ground so that what you build on it will stand.
Coming Very Soon
Healing the Arthurian Mysteries.
A working manual and a field report. Over the better part of a decade, a small group carried the Arthurian material at Taliaris, at Tintagel and in California, and worked to set right what had been left broken in it. This book is the record of that work and an account of how the Matter of Britain may be taken up again by those willing to stand in it.
These books were written to be used, not merely read. If they set you working, they have done what they were meant to do.