The Epoch – Hardbound Book (New Edition)
Plus Portals of Chaos Deck
By Peter Carroll and Matt Kaybryn
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.
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.Alexander Cummins – Author of 'The Starry Rubric'
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.
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
