Andy Cooper

Andy Cooper writes about the inner tradition of ancient Egypt for readers who sense that its gods and symbols still have something to say. He is the founder and Director of Studies of the Helios School of Esoteric Science, and he comes to the old wisdom not as a historian but as a teacher of a living path.

He has practised within the Western Mystery Tradition for some thirty years. From 1996 he trained personally with the late Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, who initiated him through all three degrees and remained his mentor and friend until her death. That lineage reaches back through W. E. Butler to Dion Fortune, and it shapes everything he teaches. He has also trained in the Hawaiian system of Huna under the late Dr Tad James, and at every turn he sets the ideas of Egypt beside their counterparts in Huna, the Qabalah, the Hermetic philosophers and the wisdom of India, so that the same truths can be recognised under their many names.

His books are meant to be worked rather than merely read. Each draws the reader toward direct experience through meditation and contemplative practice, in the conviction that metaphysics is something to be tested in one's own life rather than taken on trust.

The Living Temple of Egypt is the first volume of Voices of the Nile, a five-book introduction to Egyptian metaphysics. Andy lives in the ancient Somerset town of Glastonbury.