Q: What is AMOOKOS

A: AMOOKOS stands for the Arcane Magical Order of the 
Knights of Shambhala. Lokanath Maharaj started this organisation in 1982.

Dadaji came to London in 1981 and stayed with an Indian 
family for about 18 months. During this period he encouraged 
me to compile some grade papers for an organisation 
which would act as a training ground for would-be magicians. 

These papers, which Lokanath wrote and which Dadaji read and gave 
his enthusiastic support to, became the basis for the group 
called the Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of 
Shambhala (AMOOKOS). 

Subsequently some were published 
in Mandrake's book, "AMOOKOS Magick" which I wrote.
Over the next four or five years, international membership 
of AMOOKOS grew to over 200 individuals, with several chartered 
to start lodges of their own. Although structured in 
nine "degrees", in reality the grade papers extended 
only up to the fifth degree.

One prominent member of AMOOKOS was Donald Michael Kraig,
who ran a lodge in California in the 1980s.

The material published in AMOOKOS Magick was originally 
presented to individuals for training purposes. Much of
the material is tantrik but presented in the English language
for clarity and to avoid Indian words and jargon.

After people had successfully completed three of the degrees, 
I felt the individuals could discard the paraphernalia. 
Every individual who was initiated also became an initiate of 
the Adinatha sect.

Anyone duly initiated into AMOOKOS in the past is a fully 
fledged Natha and she or he has the right to think for herself 
or himself. In our group we had a wide cross spectrum of 
people with varied and different interests. It was my hope 
that sufficient people would work on themselves and, in due 
course, cause the flowering of different schools, each perhaps 
differing in their aims and approaches but still working towards 
the same goals.