Ramsey Dukes
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Ramsey Dukes is the pen name of Lionel Snell, a contemporary author on magick and philosophy.
In the words of a short bio:
- Ramsey Dukes, patron saint of Chaos magick, was incarnate around 1970 - occupying the body of a young Cambridge maths scholar with a long standing interest in magic, alchemy, Aleister Crowley and the occult.
- He has written and published a number of books that drew attention to the work of Austin Spare and helped define late 20th century magick - notably SSOTBME - An Essay on Magicand Thundersqueak, seminal texts of Chaos magick, and Words Made Flesh, defining the information model of magical reality.
- In 1977 he performed the Abramelin operation, and he has since worked with a number of ritual groups including the OTO and IOT.
Works include:
- SSOTMBE - An Essay on Magic
- Thundersqueak
- Words Made Flesh
- BLAST your way to megabucks with my SECRET sex-power formula
- The Good, the Bad the Funny
- Hellgate Chronicles
- What I Did in My Holidays: Essays on Black Magic, Satanism, Devil Worship and Other Niceties