NAGA MAGICK
The Wisdom of the Serpent Lords
by Denny Sargent 

ISBN 978-1-935150-59-6

For the practitioner of serpent-based, Tantric, or syncretic occult traditions

In Naga Magick, Denny Sargent crafts a rare, passionate, and highly practical magical system centred around the Nagas—mythical serpent beings from South and Southeast Asian lore who govern water, fertility, wisdom, and underworld power. As a practitioner-driven text, it doesn’t just recount mythology or retell exotic tales. Instead, it offers a full magical path for engaging with the Naga spirits as living, sentient powers.

Sargent draws deeply from Hindu, Buddhist, and animist traditions while translating their mystical depth into a Western esoteric framework. He positions the Nagas as “world serpents”—gatekeepers of elemental and spiritual currents—and encourages practitioners to build devotional and reciprocal relationships with them. This includes detailed daily offerings, rituals, invocations, and initiatory practices—each laid out with clarity, structure, and intent.

One of the strongest aspects of the book is its magical realism. Sargent insists that working with the Nagas is not metaphorical or psychological—it’s spiritual ecology. Naga Magick, as presented here, is animist, chthonic, and ecstatic. Rituals unfold like living currents: through libations, water offerings, and meditations that pulse with sensual and elemental force. The emphasis on water—the sacred element of flow, mystery, and the subconscious—provides a rich, somatic key into serpent gnosis.

Sargent also succeeds in creating a ritual framework that feels initiatory without being appropriative. He is transparent about his process, respectful of source traditions, and encourages the reader to seek permission, cultivate relationship, and honour local land spirits. This is particularly relevant for those working in diasporic or cross-cultural magical contexts.

From a practitioner’s point of view, the book is invaluable. It doesn’t just theorise—it provides. There are prayers, mantras, altar practices, trance journeys, dream incubation techniques, and warnings about Naga taboos. The magical system is alive, fluid, and inviting, with the potential to root deeply in one’s local ecosystem and dreamwork.

If you are drawn to serpent gnosis, elemental spirits, or seek a deeper current of magick beyond the anthropocentric traditions, Naga Magick offers a living thread. It is a devotional and transgressive book—a serpent path winding through water, dream, and ecstatic communion.