Peter J Carroll

“The most original, and probably the most important, writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley."
Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy.

Peter Carroll began his career in Magic at London University where the Chemistry proved so tedious that he settled on a pass degree in that and an unauthorized first in Magic, with Liber Null & Psychonaut emerging as his postgraduate thesis over the next several years whilst teaching high school science.

He then set off around the world wandering in the Himalayas, building boats in India and Australia and seeking out unusual people.

Then after a stay in Yorkshire, he headed back to the Himalayas for a while again before returning to settle in the west of England to found a family and a magical order. Appalled by the compromises made by so many magi to make a living out of their writing or teaching, Carroll decided to make his fortune with a natural products business so that he could write and teach only what had value and interest for him.

He maintains a personal website at specularium.org and acts as Chancellor to Arcanorium College arcanoriumcollege.com.

  • Past Grandmaster of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros

  • Chancellor of Arcanorium College

  • Acting Marshall, Knights of Chaos

  • A Bard of Dobunni Grove

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The Epoch – Hardbound Book (New Edition)
Plus Portals of Chaos Deck

By Peter Carroll and Matt Kaybryn

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The Epoch - Hardbound Folio Book & Altar Icon Card Deck.
 

New 2025 Edition — Now published by Mandrake of Oxford
First released in 2014 (Arcanorium College edition, now out of print), this updated and refined edition marks a new chapter in postmodern magic.

✨ About the Book

Epoch is a complete Chaos Magick system for the 21st century, combining evocative theory, ritual frameworks, and technowizard iconography. Inside you’ll find:

  • A new pantheon for modern magicians
  • Visual invocations and magical architecture rooted in semiotic sorcery
  • Accessible yet profound rituals, pathworkings, and chaos-based spellcraft
  • Integration of magical traditions with science, quantum theory & myth

This is not merely a book—it's a portable temple, encoded in text and image.

🖼 About the Cards

A Cartomagical tool for the 21st century, the Deck presents 54 glorious Altar Icons spanning the three Spheres of Elements, Bi-Planets and Stellar god-forms.

  • Designed for ritual, divination, meditation, or vision work
  • Inspired by gods, daemons, archetypes, and cosmic principles
  • Richly detailed in colour, symbol, and occult resonance

🔁 Use the cards with the book or independently for visionary practice.

🔍 What’s New in the Mandrake Edition?

  • Fully revised layout and typesetting
  • Improved card stock and box finish
  • Enhanced colour fidelity in artwork reproduction
  • Updated preface and author commentary (if applicable—customisable if you confirm this!)

First edition is now out of print (check Mandrakes secondhand pages for COLLECTABLES)
Epoch: The Esotericon & Portals of Chaos by Peter Carroll and Matt Kaybryn is an esoteric masterpiece like no other. This hardbound folio combines a beautifully illustrated book with a powerful Altar Icon Card Deck to elevate your magical practice.

 
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford (New 2025 Edition)
ISBN 9780992848828 hbk, 292pages, color, 244 x 170mm
ISBN 9781914153303 pbk, 292 page, color, 244 x 170mm

📖 Reader Praise & Reviews

A talismanic grimoire for the digital age.
Phil Hine  
Epoch is a living temple of chaos magick—intellectually sharp and ritually potent.
Review, Starfire Publishing  
This really is a pantheon for the present day: up-to-date technowizard artwork, a commentary which soars over millennia of tradition, picking out what is useful and relevant at the present, and icons which sum up what deities from the whole span of Western and not-so-Western culture have cumulatively come to mean. This is a book to which goddesses and gods, historically so sensitive about their images, should be happy to belong.
Professor Ronald Hutton - Fellow of the British Academy  
Not content to release a new grimoire, the Chancellor of Arcanorium College has produced three. Oh, also, one of them is a Necronomicon.
Elemental, Planetary, and Lovecraftian grimoires are joined by an accompanying tome of digitally and painstakingly rendered icons. The  Portals of Chaos, and its Chaobala systemisation, marks a particularly cohesive collection of Carroll’s work. But it also contains much exciting new material. Exploration of bi-planetary sorcery – a central component of Renaissance magic somewhat absent in modern occult discourse – is a particularly important feature.
Epoch is a useful resource both for those just starting out and for experienced magicians. There is something here to excite and challenge occultists of many different dispositions and practices.
Alexander Cummins – Author of 'The Starry Rubric'  
The enormous scope of the theory expounded within, coupled with the extraordinary pictures (which are better than anything of this ilk since Freida got down with her paintbrushes), provoke many thoughts as well as providing a neat summary of some complex ideas. Simultaneously a history and a prediction, it casts a spell covering spacetime and beyond, allowing your magick to have results.
Nikki Wyrd -Author of 'The Book of Baphomet'  
Pulled together, it is a fantastic cohesion of ideas in need of cohering, doubly so because the cohesion makes no claims to antiquity and doesn’t have to fit with either Neoplatonic emanations or Sanskrit body centres. Getting your head around the Chaobala is getting your head around a substantially updated magical cosmology. If that kind of thing is your jam, this kind of book is your toast.
Gordon White - Runesoup  
Without a doubt the Epoch will have great influence on the chaos magick paradigm and modern magick in general for years to come. I think every magician, even if they have their own correspondences, should examine the Chaobola system for its elegance and breadth.
James Wilber - Scroll of Thoth