Ben Nixx Lends A Helping Hand to The Dan Harms’ Machine
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Dan Harms and I have engaged in a little chat over the past few days concenring H.P Lovecraft. Our previous discussions can be viewed at the following link:
http://warlockasylum.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/the-dan-harms-machine-has-a-few-questions/
I must note that Ben Nixx made the following comment:
“I’ve made similar speculations on the Cult of Cthulhu forum in a similar discussion, Dan. I am a local of Lovecraft, a Rhode Island native all of my life, & I am aware of many of the resources he might of had exposure to here. Those include the Masons as one of, if not the first Masonic lodge in the United States was founded here as well as the first synagogue in the U.S. Lovecraft also lived right down the block from Brown University which has an excellent Egyptology department. & there also exists a Hindu society that I can’t remember the name of off hand, but it was also around in Lovecraft’s day, not to mention the resources he would have had access to in New York; so yes, I can fully appreciate the validity of your argument.
Now, taking things a step further, & I’m sure I will be crucified for this, let’s examine the effect of this one story, “The Call of Cthulhu” has had on a select minority in our society over the years.
In his story, Lovecraft states that Dead Cthulhu spoke to artists, occultists, & those “sensitive” to the messages from the “other side” so to speak. Over the last 90 years give or take, that one story has influenced generations of artists, occultists, & “sensitives”. From one story of one pulp author out of Providence, RI, an entire genre has risen that spans all forms of artistic & metaphysical expression. I’m not sure of many personalities who could have that kind of phenomena attached to their name; especially one who lived such an obscure life.
Take this as pure speculation & conjecture as you will, but to me, there seems to be something to this & this evidence added to the many parallels with Aleister Crowley’s work, as well as even more ancient sources to me, makes an extremely plausible argument for Lovecraft’s initiatory experience. Whether he was a member of an actual order or was initiated by the forces themselves can & most likely will be debated for years to come, but to me, the evidence of his influence on such a grand scale speaks for itself.”
This is pretty good insight from a man who is a Gate-Walker. More of Ben Nixx’s observations can be read on his blog page:
http://swordofmagan.wordpress.com/
The question still remains as to whether Dan Harms can see the same point? We will be waiting.
Dan Harms
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The Dan Harms’ Machine Has A Few Questions
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I am sure that many of our regular readers may be familiar with my friend Dan Harms. Dan is currently working on a few literary projects and the Necronomicon Info Page staff would like to wish him all the best.
Recently, Dan left a few comments in response to this article:
Below are the thoughts of the legendary writer and Lovecraftian expert Dan Harms:
“Warlock,
I’d still maintain that Lovecraft was not an initiate. I think the following questions remain to be answered:
1) Why is it important that a Turkic language convention exists, when Sumerian is unrelated to that tongue?
2) Is there any connection between Manichean doctrines and the theology outlined in The Call of Cthulhu itself?
I should also note that your Lovecraft quote is incorrect. The original, in “The Whisperer in Darkness,” has only half the text, not including some parts from which you are drawing your conclusions.”
Let us look a little more closely into Dan’s questions:
Dan: asked: “Why is it important that a Turkic language convention exists, when Sumerian is unrelated to that tongue?”
Warlock answers: It is true Dan that Sumerian is unrelated to the Turkic language. However, one must understand that we are NOT talking about the Simon Necronomicon, but reviewing some of what Lovecraft implied in reference to the Cult of Cthulhu. Lovecraft mentioned that the Cult of Cthulhu was centered in Arabia with several members who were immortal living in the mountains of China (paraphrase). Historically, this would refer to Uighur Empire, which stretched from the Caspian Sea to Manchuria. This seems to fit perfectly into what Lovecraft implied, as far as, the dominions of the Cult of Cthulhu.
Dan asked: Is there any connection between Manichean doctrines and the theology outlined in The Call of Cthulhu itself?
Warlock answered: That’s an interesting question Dan. Included in the Manichean canon is the Book of Giants. Fragements of this text were among the infamous Dead Sea scrolls and in part, relate heavily to Lovecraft’s Old Ones. The Book of Giants describe “Watchers” who descended from the sky and taught man technology, as well as, “new ways of killing himself.” The book also elaborates on the acts of the giants with a focus on the dreams of Ohya and Hahya, the children of Shemihaza. Uhmm, I don’t know what to tell you Dan. Here you have an empire that stretched from the Caspian Sea to what is now called China, which included a ruler who the Chinese historically called Ku-tu-lu, and they had a doctrine of Manichean, which focused on the descent of primordial beings, and their violent interactions with man, and it is also mentioned how these “Old Ones” received messages in dreams, specifically those who were half-nephilim and half-human, and your under the impression that 1,000 years later, Lovecraft just makes all of these things up and puts it in his fiction without questioning how someone who claims that they weren’t an occultist has some much material that relates to ancient history. Don’t worry Dan, I live in New York too, and the heat wave is pretty strong drink plenty of water.
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Occultist H. P. Lovecraft’s Initiation Into The Black Brotherhood
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Over the years there have been quite a few legends and fables concerning H.P. Lovecraft and whether or not he was an occultist. Interestingly, the Simon Necronomicon makes the following statements in its Introduction:
“WE CAN profitably compare the essence of most of Lovecraft’s short stories with the basic themes of Crowley’s unique system of ceremonial Magick. While the latter was a sophisticated psychological structure, intended to bring the initiate into contact with his higher Self, via a process of individuation that is active and dynamic (being brought about by the “patient” himself) as opposed to the passive depth analysis of the Jungian adepts, Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos was meant for entertainment. Scholars, of course, are able to find higher, ulterior motives in Lovecraft’s writings, as can be done with any manifestation of Art.”
Although many have presented theories concerning the possibilities of Lovecraft’s affiliation possibbly with Freemasonry or what have you, the Necronomicon Tradition holds in its history proff that H.P. Lovecraft was indeed initiated into the Black Brotherhood, and communicated the asthetics of our organization in his fictional work, so as to communicate in code to other members of this secret fraternity, Crowley himself being a member. We will now begin to go beyond speculation and provide solid evidence of this.
The first piece of evidence that we will examine is Lovecraft’s classic work entitled the Call of Cthulhu written in 1926. It is in this “so-called” fictional story that we find the following:
“The size of the Old Ones, too, he curiously declined to mention. Of the cult, he said that he thought the centre lay amid the pathless desert of Arabia, where Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched. It was not allied to the European witch-cult, and was virtually unknown beyond its members. No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, ..”
Here we see that the Cult of Cthulhu was centered in Arabia , but also had members who were said to be immortal, living in China. While many uninitiated individuals would like us to believe that H.P. Lovecraft just happen to imagine all of such a group in ancient history and the Simon Necronomicon verifies this in its coded language:
“My head began to ache as though a devil was pounding my skull, when a shaft of moonlight struck the metal amulet, for I know now what it was, and a voice entered into my head and told me the secrets of the scene I had witnessed in one word: …KUTULU.” (Testimony of the Mad Arab)
Many critics of the Simon Necronomicon have tried to say that the word “Kutulu” is not an authentic representation of a Sumerian word for “man of the underworld,” but they are missing the point in their error-filled assumptions. Kutulu is not a Sumerian term, but a Chinese term, and this is still in accord with Lovecraft’s story the Call of Cthulhu. The term Kutulu is a key in unlocking the truth that what Lovecraft had written was actually true concerning the Cult of Cthulhu. In the famous work, authored by Gerard Clauson and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, entitled Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, we read the following on page 88:
“…in fact when a Turkish –t at the end of a syllable had to be represented an extra syllable with initial t- was inserted; for example kutlug was transcribed ku-tu-lu..”
We find another interesting statement in The “New T’ang History” (Hsin T’ang-shu) on the History of the Uighurs -translated and annotated by Professor Colin Mackerras of Griffith University, he states the following:
“The Uighur Empire, whose capital was at Karabalghasun on the upper Orkhon River in Mongolia, occupied a significant place in Inner Asian history between 744 and 840 CE…. In the eleventh year (795), the khaghan died without a son. The people of the state placed his minister Ku-tu-lu on the throne as khaghan, and an ambassador came [to inform the Chinese court] about it. There was a proclamation that the Director of the Department of the Imperial Library, Chang Chien,(36) holding his emblems of office, should take out a diploma appointing him as Ai t’eng-li-lo yu-lu mo-mi-shih ho hu-lu p’i-chia ‘Huai-hsin’ [‘cherishing sincerity to the emperor’] Khaghan. Ku-tu-lu was originally of the Hsieh-tieh clan. He became orphaned when young and was adopted by a great chieftain. He was clever in argument and able in war. In ‘T’ien-ch’in’s’ time, he had on // [p. 109] several occasions been master of an army, and all the chiefs admired and stood in awe of him. Because the Yao-lo-ko clan up to this time had been meritorious generation after generation, he did not dare call himself by the name of his own clan, but he seized all the khaghan’s sons and grandsons and presented them to the [Chinese] court.”
The Uighur Empire stretched from the Caspian Sea to Manchuria, during this time they converted from Buddhism to Manichaeanism under the influence of Sogdian refugees. Manichæism is a religion founded by the Persian Mani in the latter half of the third century. It purported to be the true synthesis of all the religious systems then known, and actually consisted of Zoroastrian Dualism, Babylonian folklore, Buddhist ethics, and some small and superficial, additions of Christian elements. As the theory of two eternal principles, good and evil, is predominant in this fusion of ideas and gives color to the whole, Manichæism is classified as a form of religious Dualism. It spread with extraordinary rapidity in both East and West and maintained a sporadic and intermittent existence in the West (Africa, Spain, France, North Italy, the Balkans) for a thousand years, but it flourished mainly in the land of its birth, (Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Turkestan) and even further East in Northern India, Western China, and Tibet, where, c. A.D. 1000, the bulk of the population professed its tenets and where it died out at an uncertain date
Now how could Lovecraft make up a story that bears striking resemblance to the historical Uighur Empire and its doctrine of Manichaeanism, which is greatly reflected in the Simon Necronomicon. That’s like someone writing a short story about a character named George Wash being the first President of the United States, but because the name is slightly different than Washington, people actually believe it was all made up in the mind of the author.
Examining our next historical find is almost as if Lovecraft is telling on himself. We read the following in the Call of Cthulhu:
“They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died…. When, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could Their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals.”
Even in his sleep, Cthulhu’s thoughts influence the dreams of his half-human worshippers. What is so ironic about all of this is that according to the Necronomicon Files, written by Harms and Gonce, as well as other resources, the term “Necronomicon” came to Lovecraft in a dream and this is exactly how the “Old Ones” were said to communicate with their followers. I guess the critics don’t get it. Not like this!
In another famous Lovecraft classic entitled “The Rats in the Walls,” we find the following statement:
“As I have said, I moved in on July 16, 1923. My household consisted of seven servants and nine cats, of which latter species I am particularly fond. My eldest cat, “Nigger-Man,” was seven years old and had come with me from my home in Bolton, Massachusetts”
What is unique about this statement is that it is relative to some of the indigenous African occult systems that preceded Lovecraft by hundreds of years. In the tradition of Palo Mayombe, the Priest works with two pots, one to entreat the Seven African Powers and the other pot is for spirits of the graveyard. In the Second pot is included nine different soils from nine graveyards. The ruler of the graveyard is the Orisha Oya, which in the Necronomicon Tradition is Ereshkigal/Lamashtu and all these goddesses possess the cat as their sacred symbol since ancient times. Oya-Yansan means “Mother of Nine.”The numbers of seven and nine are of similar importance in Shinto cosmology, as well as, Taoism. Lovecraft later wrote the following concerning Shub Niggurath:
“And it has come to pass that the Lord of the Woods, being cast out descended the seven and nine, down the onyx steps into the Dream.”
Additionally, in the Simon Necronomicon we find the Seven gates and the Nine sigils in the Urilia Text. It is also interesting to note that Lovecraft, in the above cited passage, describes “onyx steps into the Dream.” The Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and Occult Sciences by Cora Linn Daniels, defines “onyx” as “holds the latchkey of the door of dreamland.” Still critics of the Necronomicon Tradition ignorantly will promote this idea that Lovecraft was not an occultist. They believe everything the man says, as if he never told a lie in his life. They seem to have more faith in his testimony than Christians have in jesus Christ. So I guess we are to believe that Lovecraft just was able to make a correct guess in knowing the correspondence of onyx and how it relates to dreams. We will discuss more of this in our next article.
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The Necronomicon Tradition Part 1: Conjuration of the Fire God manual
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I tohught that many of the Initiates of the Necronomicon Tradition would appreciate having a breakdown of the various rituals and incantation that are presented in our sacred grimoire. I am happy to annouce the first release in a series of ebooks, discussing the importance and antiquity of the Necronomicon Tradition. Readers will be delighted to make this a part of their library. You can find ourt further information by clicking on the following linjk:
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Necronomicon Tradition’s Illustration of Week
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I stumbled upon this while working on my latest book. It has summer feel to it. You can find more infor on the pictures origin by clicking on this link:
http://www.bibleorigins.net/CherubimMariMural.html
Is The Simon Necronomicon A Book For LHP Magicians?
WARLOCK ASYLUM: (The Dark Knight)
“THIS is the Book of the Ceremonies of Calling, handed down since the time the Elder Gods walked the Earth, Conquerors of the Ancient Ones.”
It is easy to see, in view of this passage as it appears in the Simon Necronomicon, that the Elder Gods also correspond to physical beings that walked the Earth at some time in the remote past. Interestingly, we find the following excerpt from Montague Summers’ book, The Vampire; His Kith and Kin, page 232 states:
“It would, perhaps, be hardly too much to say that in ancient Mexico all magicians were regarded as Vampires,…”
Interestingly, the Mad Arab mentions something of a similar nature in his First Testimony:
“They turned toward me, and I saw a loathing that they had cut their chests with the daggers they had used to raise the stone, for some mystical purpose I could not then divine; although I know now that blood is the very food of these spirits, which is why the field after the battles of war glows with an unnatural light, the manifestations of the spirits feeding thereon.”
In 1911’s edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica; A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Volume 2, by Hugh Chrisholm, page 55 states:
“…in Australia it cannot even be asserted that the gods are not spirits at all, much less that they are spirits of dead men; they are simply magnified magicians, super-men who have never died;”
Here we see another case, in which the magician was deified in the history of man as a god. This seems to be the hidden theme in the Simon Necronomicon, as it is not about a battle between the Ancient Ones and the Elder Gods, but relates more so to the Candidate’s initiation first into what is known as “white magic” and when a grasp is gained in this area, the magician is then called into the realms of the black magician. We can determine this by what is said in the Simon Necronomicon itself. In the SN’s Introduction, under the subtopic Sumeria, we read the following:
“There was a battle between the forces of “light” and “darkness” (so-called) that took place long before man was created, before even the cosmos as we know it existed. It is described fully in the Enuma Elish and in the bastardized version found in the NECRONOMICON, and involved the Ancient Ones, led by the Serpent MUMMU-TIAMAT and her male counterpart ABSU, against the ELDER GODS (called such in the N.) led by the Warrior MARDUK, son of the Sea God ENKI, Lord of Magicians of this Side, or what could be called “White Magicians” – although close examination of the myths of ancient times makes one pause before attempting to judge which of the two warring factions was “good” or “evil”. MARDUK won this battle – in much the same way that later St. George and St. Michael would defeat the Serpent again – the cosmos was created from the body of the slain Serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the Ancient Army, KINGU, thereby making man a descendent of the Blood of the Enemy, as well as the “breath” of the Elder Gods; a close parallel to the “sons of God and daughters of men” reference in the Old Testament. Yet, though the identity of the Victor is clear, there were – and are – certain persons and organizations that dared side with the vanquished, believing the Ancient Ones to be a source of tremendous, and most unbelievable, power.”
We can see in the above passage that the “battle” between the Ancient Ones and the Elder Gods was considered by Simon to be metaphoric, for in the passage above, he states that this was a “so-called battle,” which means that it is symbolic of an inner process of development. Other evidence of this is based on how Aleister Crowley is described, to whom the book is dedicated to. Let’s take a look at some quotes from the SN’s Introduction to affirm this:
“He changed his name to Aleister Crowley while still at Cambridge, and by that name , plus “666″, he would never be long out of print, or out of newspapers. For he believed himself to be the incarnation of a god, an Ancient One, the vehicle of a New Age of Man’s history, the Aeon of Horus, displacing the old Age of Osiris.”
The words quoted above describe Crowley as an “Ancient One,” or one who believed himself to to be their own god. Later, in the tome’s Introduction, we find the following:
“Although a list is appended hereto containing various entities and concepts of Lovecraft, Crowley, and Sumeria cross-referenced, it will do to show how the Editor found relationships to be valid and even startling. AZATOT is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the Cthulhu Mythos, and appears in the NECRONOMICON as AZAG-THOTH, a combination of two words, the first Sumerian and the second Coptic, which gives us a clue as to Its identity. AZAG in Sumerian means “Enchanter” or “Magician”; THOTH in Coptic is the name given to the Egyptian God of Magick and Wisdom, TAHUTI, who was evoked by both the Golden Dawn and by Crowley himself (and known to the Greeks as Hermes, from whence we get “Hermetic”). AZAG-THOTH is, therefore, a Lord of Magicians, but of the “Black” magicians, or the sorcerers of the “Other Side”.”
The quote above defines Azag-Thoth as the Lord of “Black” Magicians, or ‘sorcerers of the “Other Side.” Yet it also mentions that this entity was evoked by Crowley himself. Therefore, the SimonNecronomicon, which is dedicated to Aleister Crowley, is a grimoire of the “Other Side.”
Additional evidence to support this can be obtained by close examination of the tome’s content. We find a section completely dedicated to the “Black Magician” entitled Worship of the Ancient Ones in History. Here we can find the following:
“In both the European and Chinese cultures, the Dragon or Serpent is said to reside somewhere “below the earth”; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many…..In the West, the conjuration, cultivation, or worship of this Power was strenuously opposes with the advent of the Solar, Monotheistic religions and those who clung to the Old Ways were effectively extinguished. The wholesale slaughter of those called “Witches” during the Inquisition is an example of this, as well as the solemn and twisted – that is to say, purposeless and unenlightened – celibacy that the Church espoused. For the orgone of Wilhelm Reich is just as much Leviathan as the Kundalini of Tantrick adepts, and the Power raised by the Witches. It has always, at least in the past two thousand years, been associated with occultism and essentially with Rites of Evil Magick, or the Forbidden Magick, of the Enemy, and of Satan . . .”
These words indicate quite a few things about the Simon Necronomicon. First, we see that the Dragon Current is described as existing “below the earth.” The forces that are summoned in the Simon Necronomicon are these same “below the earth” forces, for it mentions in the Book of Calling the following:
“Know, seventhly, of the Things thou art to expect in the commission of this Most sacred Magick. Study the symbols well, and do not be afraid of any awful spectre that shall invade thine operation, or haunt thine habitat by day or by night. Only charge them with them the words of the Covenant and they will do as you ask, of thou be strong. And if thou performest these operations often, thou shalt see things becoming dark; and the Wanderers in their Spheres shall no more be seen by thee; and the Stars in their places will lose their Light,..and from the Cavities of the Earth will leap forth the ANNUNNAKI, Dog-Faced, and thou shalt bring them down.”
This excerpt refers to what is described previously in the Simon Necronomicon’s Introduction as “a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many.” Simon also informs us that these workings have a long history of opposition by the Solar Monotheistic religions. It is here that we see more evidence that the Simon Necronomicon is a LHP book, for in the section entitled Banishings, we read:
“The religion of the ancient Sumerian peoples seems to have been lunar-oriented, a religion – or religion – magickal structure – of the night, of darkness in a sense. Invocations using solar formulae have proved thus far effective in successfully banishing NECRONOMICON demons and intelligences.”
Since the Simon Necronomicon is based on “lunar” ritual work, we can assume that these are the same sort of rituals that were opposed by “Solar Monotheistic Religions.” Taking all of this into consideration it is more correct to understand that the spiritual development of the Initiate by use of this grimoire, first demands that the candidate learn about the forces that influence the environment and the mind, then the Initiate merges and becomes one with the power which affects the elements and the mind. In support of this fact, notice the description that the Mad Arab gives concerning the Ancient Ones in the Urilia Text:
“And they work by the Moon, and not by the Sun, and by older planets than the Chaldaens were aware.”
Now let us look at what the Mad Arab states in the Book of Calling:
“And if thou performest these operations often, thou shalt see things becoming dark; and the Wanderers in their Spheres shall no more be seen by thee; and the Stars in their places will lose their Light, and the Moon, NANNA, by whom thou also workest,”
The Mad Arab lists many references and rituals which are “lunar” workings. Further clarity into this matter can be understood by additional statements from the Mad Arab:
“..the worshippers of TIAMAT are abroad in the world, and will give fight to the Magician. Lo, they have worshipped the Serpent from Ancient Times, and have always been with us. And they are to be known by their seeming human appearance which has the mark of the Beast upon them, as they change easily into the Shapes of animals and haunt the Nights of Men and by their odour, which comes of burning incenses unlawful to the worship of the Elder Ones. And their Books are the Books of CHAOS and the flames, and are the Books of the Shadows and the Shells. And they worship the heaving earth and the ripping sky and the rampant flame and the flooding waters; and they are the raisers of the legions of maskim, the Liers-In-Wait. And they do not know what it is they do, but they do it at the demands of the Serpent, at whose Name even ERESHKIGAL gives fright, and the dread KUTULU strains at his bonds:…MUMMU TIAMAT Queen of the Ancient Ones!”
Although, these workers of the night “do not know what it is they do,” they are actually Ancient Ones in becoming. Not all Initiates of the Necronomicon Tradition are able to work as their own god, as in being an Ancient One. This may take time for they may not be able to deal directly with the “Serpent” or Kundalini force. There could be some blockages. They may have to continue to Walk the Gates to help irrigate the flow of energy so that the kundalini can flow upwards to the Pituitary Gland. This is processed is described in the Urilia Text also:
“And a man may cry out, what have I don’t, and my generation that such evil shall befall me? And it mean nothing, save that a man, being born, is of sadness, for he is of the Blood of the Ancient Ones, but has the Spirit of the Elder Gods breathed into him. And his body goes to the Ancient Ones, but his mind is turned towards the Elder Gods, and this is the War which shall be always fought, unto the last generation of man; for the World is unnatural. When the Great KUTULU rises up and greets the Stars, then the War will be over, and the World be One.”
The Simon Necronomicon uses the analogy of the Ancient Ones versus the Elder Gods so that the ignorant novice doesn’t work with forces that could harm there well-being. This is the only blind and trap that exists in the tome. I must admit that there are passages in the Simon Necronomicon, where the term “Ancient One” is inserted into the text as a substitute for the “maskim” and other energies that were actually banished by the Chaldeans of old. Other banishings that appear in the Maklu Text can be understood as ways of keeping the “serpent-force” or kundalini under the practitioner’s control, and then when the practitioner is informed by the “Other Side” they may proceed in direct workings with the kundalini-force, as we are instructed in the Urilia Text. This is also mentioned in the metaphoric language of the Mad Arab’s words:
“But the Dead may be always summoned, and many times are willing to rise; but some are stubborn and desire to remain Where they are, and do not rise, save for the efforts of the Priest, who has power, as ISHTAR, both in this Place and in the Other.”
The Simon Necronomicon is usually misunderstood because it is approached by its critics as a grimoire of Western Ceremonial Magic. However, when we look at ancient indigenous practices, as seen in Ifa, Shinto, and Taoism, we find more consistent parallels that align with the Necronomicon Tradition. For example, in Palo Mayombe it is a common practice for the Initiate to have two “pots” –one to work with the Seven African Powers and the other to work with the ancestors and spirits of the dead. In the Simon Necronomicon rituals we see exactly the same thing. Practitioners are instructed to work with the Aga Mass Saratu in summoning the celestial forces, and in the Urilia Text, we are told to use “the bowl of TIAMAT.” This “bowl of TIAMAT” is known in the Tao Te Ching as the “GateWay of the Mysterious Female.” But what is interesting about all of this is that ancient indigenous people did not divide their work into LHP or RHP. These are terms that stem from Western interpretations of ancient occult practices, and given the fact that the Simon Necronomicon relates more to indigenous spiritual traditions than it ever will to Western Ceremonial Magick, we must note that ancient people thought of their spiritual practices as oes aligning with the movements of nature, then by regular practice of this the advance magician, shaman, was able to manipulate these very same forces. So it is that we read the following in the Magan Text:
“For what is new
Came from that which is old
And what is old
Shall replace that which is new
And once again the Ancient Ones
Shall rule upon the face of the Earth!
And this is too the Covenant!”
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