The Three Books of Magical Knowledge, Foundations, the Initiate, and Contacts of the Adept are the culmination of decades of magical exploration, teaching, heading groups/lodges and pushing magical boundaries. 

The books are not step by step guides, nor do they pull any punches. The aim is to put magical training, exploration, work, service, construction and long term progression of magic back on track and away from the commercial 'workshop' merry-go-round. 

The books are for people who work alone, or who work in groups, they delve into the silent world of what goes on behind the magical scenes, showing the nuts and bolts of magical dynamics.

Now available on Amazon - This is a book that gives deep insight into the pitfalls, mistakes and problems of attempting serious magic as a lone practitioner. It offers techniques, foundational patterns, contacts and lashings of advice for those who wish to walk the path of powerful magic without the usual accoutrements of bullshitters, messiahs, and of course, the age old 'secrets' that only the higher initiates can have access to.....

Extract from the foreword by RA Gilbert: 
"Here you have a book that will help you, and an author whose views you can respect. More than this, you may safely trust her practical guidance, which is drawn from a long and varied experience of working alone and with others. She is a gifted teacher, perceptive and critical: perhaps more important, she is also human . . . there is no question but that the magical path is a hard road that requires dedication, discrimination and a solid dose of common sense . . . if you are determined to follow the magical path, and if you employ these three qualities, you will be hard pressed indeed to find a better guide than Magical Knowledge." RA Gilbert - Author of 'The Golden Dawn Scrapbook: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order'
 
For further information read a review of 'Magical Knowledge I - Foundations' at myoccultcircle.com

Now available on Amazon -  Breaking out of the age old restraints of secrecy & oaths, this second book in the series leads the reader through the techniques, issues and beings that the Initiate can expect to encounter. The Initiate guides and advises, informs and introduces the serious magician to rarely discussed areas of visionary and ritual magic.

The information presented in this book flows from the deep roots of true magic, and as such can be applied to any particular path or magical method; the reader is introduced to the structure and inner contacts behind the various schools of magic that exist today. Magic can only truly blossom if the boundaries are challenged, and to do that, the magician needs to understand the dynamics of power and the inner worlds. This book aims to guide the magician along that path.

Excerpt from a review by Author and Biographer Alan Richardson:
"Josephine McCarthy’s ‘Magical Knowledge book II-The Initiate’ is one of the very few books on Magick in the past 50 years which is completely original, eminently practical, and totally refreshing. I wish I’d known about the Void when I was in my nobbut-a-lad stage. I wish I’d had her take on angels, deities, demons, ancestors, faeries and inner contacts. I’d have been a helluva holy guru by now, believe you n me! Her practical methods, her descriptions about how to enter and exit from the innerworlds, are all described in simple, flowing lucid prose. She doesn’t use obscurity and pretend it’s profundity; she has great learning which is worn very lightly. And best of all she describes her own experiences, so that you can feel in your bones that she’s not just another of the Outer Plane Ineptii making it all up as she goes along.
If this had been given to me as a bolshy teen I’d have thought: Fuckin’ hell, this is brilliant. Now that I’m entering the decade which makes me somewhat venerable I finding myself intoning instead: Blimey, she knows her stuff. ‘The Initiate’ is in a different class to anything I’ve read."-- Alan Richardson Author: Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune: The Logos of the Aeon and the Shakti of the AgeHere you can read the first chapter from 'The Work of The Hierophant'

For further information read a review of 'Magical Knowledge II - The Initiate' at myoccultcircle.com

Coming soon... - The contacts of the Adept is an advanced magical volume that is filled with the rituals, visions and inner contacts, covering a variety of aspects of serious magical practice in the Western World. In today's magical world, the Mysteries are quickly being destroyed by commercialism, simplification, popularization and titillation. The depths of the Mysteries are slipping away during this turbulent time and this book is my contribution to a growing body of work by various occultists aimed at stemming the destruction of our most precious knowledge.

As a preview here is is a pdf file containing an excerpt from Contacts of the Adept. It contains a section from the chapter on Fire Magic. You may not copy, publish or reproduce them in any form without written permission of the author. All texts are fully copyrighted.

Now available on Amazon - The Work of the Hierophant is a book that encompasses the skills, knowledge and tools to build inner and outer lodges or temples and to connect with inner lines of consecration and inner contact. It works from the principle of stripping away all of the old patterning, dogmas and systems that have weighed down magic over the last hundred years and instead approaches the work of a Hierophant from a different perspective.

The purpose of writing this book was to offer alternative working methods for a Magister/ Magus/ Hierophant in the construction of a new lodge. The book will be of no use whatsoever for the casual magical reader as it will probably not make any sense whatsoever. But for adepts working within one of the western esoteric streams, there should be enough for a Hierophant to take it away, tailor it to their own needs and make some use of it. This book represents over twenty years of magical building, inner contacting and blowing myself up in various ways, so I can honestly hold my battle scarred arm up and say it all works!

Extract from the Forward by Alan Richardson
“You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of books that describe real Magical Orders with insight and clarity - and two of those were written nearly 80 years ago. You can count on the fingers of two hands the number of magicians around today who completely understand that real Orders are not judged by badges, certificates, glam robes, solemn rituals and impressive grades. The Work of the Hierophant is one of the very few intelligent books written about genuine Magical Orders. In it, Josephine McCarthy gives us some startling, eye-opening and at times disturbing insights into how true Orders work, and how we might connect with them. This is the real thing. She shows how the individual can, with right attitude and application, make his or her own links with these inner surges of Otherworld consciousness, for lack of a better description. She shows what you might experience, how you might handle the contact and develop it, with the likely pitfalls that human vanity and ego can create – and also what you should avoid and run screaming away from! Trust me, this will become a classic”. 
-- Alan Richardson Author: Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune: The Logos of the Aeon and the Shakti of the AgeHere you can read the first chapter from 'The Work of The Hierophant'

Here you can read the first chapter from 'The Work of The Hierophant'. You may not copy, publish or reproduce them in any form without written permission of the author. All texts are fully copyrighted.

Now available on Amazon - The Exorcist's Handbook approaches the subject of exorcism in clear, practical, and esoteric nonreligious terms-with a generous serving of humor. It covers all issues that are important to an exorcist, including various methods of exorcism, death work, the removal of curses, the types of beings an exorcist could possibly encounter, methods of protection, and self maintenance advice for the exorcist.

“The Exorcist Handbook: A rollicking yet profound guide to one of the thorniest aspects of occultism, spiced with a dose of earthy, no-nonsense wit. It should be read by anyone investigating the inner worlds, whether or not they’re interested in exorcism. I learned a lot from it myself.”
--Richard Smoley, author of Inner Christianity and The Dice Game of Shiva.

Extract from the Forward by Dr John Plummer PhD
Exorcism is a topic that immediately leads into a fog of sensational and paranoid religious expressions, in which any direction or clear vision is quickly lost. Josephine McCarthy slices through this fog with a brilliant sword of a book. While McCarthy is conversant with scholarship on the topic, and knowledgeable regarding many religious, esoteric, and other spiritual traditions, it is her hard-won experience as an exorcist which animates her writing. With good humor and common sense, all sensationalism is brushed aside, so that the student exorcist can get down to work. This is very much a “how to” guide, in which decades of experience are shared far more openly than in any other treatment of the subject I have encountered. True wisdom challenges us and remakes us, and this is a wise book.
-- Dr John Plummer, Ph.D. Author: The Many Paths of the Independent Sacramental Movement