Greetings!
I would like to welcome everyone to the Simon Necronomicon GateWalker’s Info Page. It has certainly been a pleasure. If this is your first time here, I suggest that you review our previous discussion to bring you up to date with our current post.
Recently, we have been going into the depths of the SN, and defining what the worship of The Ancient Ones entails and why. I would like to point out, if the Initiate hasn’t already figured it out, that the workings of the Simon Necronomicon are indeed those of the Ancient Ones. We have discussed this throughout numerous posts. So we can know come to an understanding as to why the Book of Calling begins as such:
“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.
This is the Book of NINNGHIZHIDDA, Horned Serpent, the Lady of the Magick Wand.
This is the Book of NINAXAKUDDU, The Queen, Mistress of the Incantations.
This is the Book of ASALLUXI, the King, the Lord of Magick.
This is the Book of AZAG, the Enchanter.
This is the Book of EGURA, the Dark Waters of ABSU, Realm of ERESHKIGAL, Queen of Death.
This is the Book of the Ministers of Knowledge, FIRIK and PIRIK, the Demon of the Snake-Entwined Magick Wand and the
Demon of the Thunderbolt, Protectors of the Arcane Faith, the Most Secret Knowledge, to be hidden from those not of us,
from the uninitiated.
This is the Book of ASARU, the Eye on the Throne.
This is the book of USHUMGALLUM, Mighty Dragon, born of HUBUR, of the Battle Against the Elder Gods.
This is the Book of ENDUKUGGA and NINDUKUGGA, Male and Female Monsters of the Abyss, of the Claws like
Daggers and the Wings of Darkness.
This is further the Book of NAMMTAR, Chief among the Magicians of ERESHKIGAL.
This is the Book of the Seven Demons of the Ignited Spheres, of the Seven Demons of the Flame.
This is the Book of the Priest, who governeth the Works of Fire!”
It is interesting to note that none of the above entities are Elder Gods, yet the Book of Calling is said to be accredited to Underworld Entities. In Gates of the Necronomicon Simon makes it pretty clear that even entities found in the Urilla Text can be called based on the standard Calling given in the Book. However, when one passes the Gate Of Iak Sakkakk, I suggest that they write their own method of Calling, or use the one that is found in our post CONSTRUCTING A TEMPLE TO THE ANCIENT ONES The instructions given in the Book of Calling serve the purpose of Walking or call the planetary deities, no other. Noticce what the Mad Arab mentions when he speaks about the Calling of the Watcher:
“HIS is the Book of the Conjuration of the Watcher, for formulae as I received them from the Scribe of ENKI, Our Master and Lord of All Magick. Great care must be taken that this untamed Spirit does not rise up against the Priest, and for that reason a preliminary sacrifice must be made in a clean and new bowl with the appropriate sigils inscribed thereupon, being the three grey carven signs of the Rock of my initiation,”
Here we can see the Mad Arab’s description that his First Testimony was a poetic call into his initiation as an Ancient One. He later explains that the bowl used as the AGA MASS SSARATU is to be used only for Calling the Watcher. The Watchers are definitely among the entities that we find in the Urilla Text for it is said that they are called KIA MASS SSARATU:
“Wherefore it is wise to conjure It in the Names of the Three Great Watchers Who existed before the Confrontation from whose borne the Watcher and His Race ultimately derive, and those Three are ANU, ENLIL, and Master ENKI of the Magick Waters. And for this reason They are sometimes called the Three Watchers, MASS SSARATI and the Watcher MASS SSARATU, or KIA MASS SSARATU.”
There are no Callings for the Watcher in the Urilla Text because during our Initiation we become the Watcher, which is the Sacred Marriage Rite. This is when we have been fully initiated into the system, and begin learning the deeper aspects of the text, one being, that the Urilla Text is the Atlantean Necronomicon. We can see that this is clearly evident when we examine the EMERALD TABLETS OF THOTH THE ATLANTEAN NOTICE WHAT IS MENTIONED IN TABLET NUMBER 6:
“But if thou findest thine heart is not darkened,
be sure that a force is directed to thee.
Only by knowing can thou overcome it.
Only be wisdom can thou hope to be free.
Knowledge brings wisdom and wisdom is power.
Attain and ye shall have power o’er all.
Seek ye first a place bound by darkness.
Place ye a circle around about thee.
Stand erect in the midst of the circle.
Use thou this formula, and you shalt be free.
Raise thou thine hands to the dark space above thee
. Close thou thine eyes and draw in the LIGHT.
Call to the SPIRIT OF LIGHT through the Space-Time,
using these words and thou shalt be free:
“Fill thou my body, O SPIRIT OF LIfe,
fill thou my body with SPIRIT OF LIGHT.
Come from the FLOWER
that shines through the darkness.
Come from the HALLS where the Seven Lords rule.
Name them by name, I, the Seven:
THREE, FOUR, FIVE,
and SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT–Nine.
By their names I call them to aid me,
free me and save me from the darkness of night:
UNTANAS, QUERTAS, CHIETAL,
and GOYANA, HUERTAL, SEMVETA–ARDAL.
By their names I implore thee,
free me from darkness
and fill me with LIGHT
Know ye, O man, that when ye have done this,
ye shall be free from the fetters that bind ye,
cast off the bondage of the brothers of night.”
We find this same method in the Urilla Text
“Spirit of the Earth, Remember!
Spirit of the Seas, Remember!
In the Names of the Most Secret Spirits of NAR MARRATUK
The Sea below the seas
And of KUTULU
The Serpent who sleepeth Dead
From beyond the graves of the Kings
From beyond the tomb wherein INANNA
Daughter of the Gods
Gained Entrance to the Unholy Slumbers
Of the she-fiend of KUTHULETH
In SHURRUPAK, I summon thee to mine aid!
In UR, I summon thee to mine aid!
In NIPPURR, I summon thee to mine aid!
In ERIDU, I summon thee to mine aid!
In KULLAH, I summon thee to mine aid!
In LAAGASH, I summon thee to mine aid!
Rise up, O powers from the Sea below all seas
From the grave beyond all graves
From the Land of TIL
To SHIN
NEBO
ISHTAR
SHAMMASH
NERGAL
MARDUK
ADAR
House of the Water of Life
Pale ENNKIDU
Hear me!
Spirit of the Seas, Remember!
Spirit of the Graves, Remember!”
In both, the Emerald Tablets and the Simon Necronomicon, this ritual is performed to drink of the Waters of Life, which is why the SN mentions the Land of Til. Til means life. Some people have translated TIAMAT as Maiden of Life. The Invocation of Powers found in the Urilla Text has the same meaning as the ritual given to us by Thoth the Atlantean, to drink from the waters of immortality that are guarded and protected by “dark entities.’ This can be further evidenced by the Legend of Adapa and the SouthWinds. In this famous epic, both DUMUZI and GOZZIDA, two Underworld deities, are said to be guarding the Throne of Anu. Another example of this is found in the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, Tablet One, entitled The History of Thoth, the Atlantean This Tablet has the same theme as the Mad Arab’s Firt Testimony.
We also discover some of Lovecraft themes in the Emerald Tablets. Tablet 5 , THE DWELLER OF UNAL has a similar theme to Dweller in Darkness by Lovecraft. It seems that Simon was able to see that the bridge between Crowley and Lovecraft was the Emerald Tablets. It is based upon the narration by Thoth in these Tablets that we derive the Simon Necronomicon’s deity AZAG-THOTH. I wonder if Dan Harms has ever made this same observation, since he is a big critique of the Tome and our spiritual tradition. Interstingly, Simon makes a comment about the Emerald Tablets in his Introduction under the subheading the Devil he states:
“For, as it is said in one of man’s most ancient of Covenants, the Emerald table, “As Above, So Below.” Man’s power to alter the nature of his environment must develop simultaneously with his ability to master his inner environment, his own mind his psyche, soul. spirit…Yet, he must remember that the occult powers that accompany magical attainment are ornamental only, indications of obstacles overcome on the Path to Perfection, and are not to be sort after in themselves, for theirinlies the true Death.”
This is one of the most profound occult staements ever and it is further reason why the operations of the Simon Necronomicon should be taken seriously. While the Initiate is going through the GateWalking Initiations, they must work on themselves. If one were to work contrary to this statement then they would only be magnifying their own internal demons, which will be released in the phenomenal world when they open the 8th Gate. Simon makes mention of this and the 8th Gate, in his book Gates of the Necronomicon. Notice what he says on page 111:
“The Eastern doctrine of karma is not simply a moral lesson; rather, it is the logical extension of the Hermetic axiom “as above, so below”: the key axiom of all magick and indeed, of all action whatsoever. By attempting to open the “mysterious gate” in one’s own soul, one also risks oopening the “Gate to the Other World” and thereby loosing demons upon the Earth. Such was the outcome of Inanna’s return from the Underworld, as she re-entered society trailing demons for and aft.”
In the above passage Simon confirms that our estimations are correct. The workings of the Urilla Text deals with the Gate of Timat, or the Gate of Self. It is the 8th Gate in our initiation, but if it is not performed the energies we have worked with in the previous Walking rituals will become stagnent and in a sense we become victims to the Great Queen Ereshkigal, as mentioned in the MAGAN Text.
“When DUMUZI is slain and buried/MAY THE DEAD RISE AND SMELL THE INCENSE!”
What the above passage means is that once we open the 8th Gate, there is no turning back. It is not a Gate for those who have not adopted this work as a spiritual path. The effects of opening the 8th Gate are extremely astral in nature and what is astral becomes a part of ones’ physical reality. “As Above, So below.” Understand? Yet if one doesn’t open this door the energies remain stagnent. Opening the 8th Gate is a Female Rite, so it is called the Sleep of ISHTAR versus Walking the Gates, which is a Rite of Marduk. Here we have the Yin’Yang principles in motion. Therefore, we are to work with both sides of the spectrum in our work. The 8th Gate has been called by many names on this blog page. It is interesting to note that it is the true Arcturian Gate. I must say that the Sumerian workings, as found in the SN, is a testimony to this. Long before all of this New Age propaganda concerning Arcturus began, we had an effective means for contancting this current in the Urilla Text. Let us turn back to the pages of Gates of the Necronomicon on page 125, and notice what is said knowing that our rituals are connected to the Big Dipper:
“Originally, the Northern Ladle was composed of eight, not sevn stars. The missing star is Arcturus, which once formed part of the Dipper over three thousand years ago.”
The spirits mentioned in the URILLA Text are not evil or good, they are beyond that. When the Initiate begins working with these energies, they begin to understand some of the Divine Metaphors that have escaped scholars. This is what Dan Harms cannot understand. The spirits in the URILLA Text are Atlantean in nature and thus Insectial Spirits. Insect Spirits is not a common topic in the Occult Circle these days. It seems that the theme of inner and outer growth as mentioned by Simon earlier in this article, is lacking in today’s New Age Movement.
Insects and reptiles are good symbols of what it means to be immortal. Serpents are extremely deadly, but show the amazing ability of rebirth by the shedding of its skin. Insects also are examples of how life can evolve. Many of the flying creatures in the Insect kingdom begin life as worms or caterpillars. Some of the famous Occult scholars have even taken the unique abilities of insects a step further The Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky by Maurice Nicoll, mentions the following:
“As you know, the ants obviously began to tamper with themselves following some kind of scientific logic sacrificed everything that might make them individual..,and became subject to a purely state-organization, and apparently organized themselves for a kind of continual military service,..”
From the above observation, we can see that Insects were somewhat an advanced species that weakened over the ages.
Gary Varmer in his book, Creatures in the mist, makes the following observation of page 111:
“Animals and insects have figured in most of the world’s religions in one way or another…,they are the gods and goddesses that people worshipped, or they are the demon and devils that are feared.”
Information concerning Insect-spirits is rare, because it was often laced in symbolism of the “dark tradition” or the Cult of the Dead. Although I cannot speak on certain things here. I will mention some things and how it relates to the Simon Necronomicon. It should be noted that the Atlantean Necronomicon, which I am currently putting together, concerns itself only with those who have opened the 8th Gate. In my own personal experience when one opens the 8th Gate their experiences become completely supernatural! I will relate briefly how the topics we have just covered concern this writing that will only be available for those Initiates who have operated, or opened this Gate. It should also be noted by the Initiate that the forces behind the 8th Gate are organized and that entry into this Ancient Secret Society are completely astral, but are real as experiences in the phenomenal world. Here is an excerpt from the Atlantean Necronomicon:
“All throughout the day, I kept getting an epiphany to make an herbal potion that has correspondences to the entities in the 8th Gate. so I went to the store and brought some ingredients that came to me in the epiphany. It was late in the afternoon and I decided to drink the potion and to use some of it as an herbal bath. The ingredients that I used naturally raised my body temperature, but were useful in purifying my blood. I had another cup of this tea shortly before going to sleep. I did some reading and kept my journal near my bed. After falling asleep, I found myself in an OBE. I saw three shadows pass near my bed. These shadows turned into mosquitos about the size of a six-foot tall man. I could feel their wings moving above me, and they stung me, but I was not frightened. They told me to research the properties of the mosquito when I awoke and returned to my body. They also told me that mosquitos were written about in ancinet times as the Lilitu. Suddenly I awoke. It was about 4 a.m. Bothof my arms were filled with mosquito bites. I was very sore and I decided to follwo the instructions. I looked up the properties of the mosquito and made the following notes:
1) Male mosquitos dont bite humans-only the females do. (The Lilitu are female spirits)
2) Female mosquitos bite mammals, or enjoy a blood meal to acquire the needed proteins for their eggs.(The URILLA Text mentions that “the LILIT are quick to come at Calling,..,and robbing the Water of Life and the Food of Life in which to quicken to the Dead.” Interestingly, Eygptand Sumeria were familiar with the malaria.)
3) One study found that mosquitos were more active during the “full moon” than in other parts of the Moon cycle. (The Simon Necronomicon mentions concerning the LILIT that “after the passage of one-tenth of the Moon the Elements are dead.”)
4) Mosquitos lay their eggs on water, which can be a saltmarsh, a lake, a puddle, a plant, or a bucket of water. The eggs hatch to become larvae. (The Simon Necronomicon in the Second Testimony states the follwoing: Remeber thy life is in running water, and not in still water, for the latter is a breeding place for the LILITU..,”)
After noting the following comparisons, I was able to understand that the Lilitu was probably a metaphor for mosquitoes. Yet it would seem that these entities from the other side are more insectial than those than human in nature. I went to sleep with difficulty because my arms were still irritated from the mosquito bites that were on both of my arms. Finally I was able to return to sleep and when I awoke I felt rested and their were no marks on my arms and my bites were completely gone. I felt refreshed and had the energy of a teenager. I realized why the ancients may have called these spirtis evil, but I also realized that these energies, while not compassionate to human emotion, still serve for the basis of the univeral good and in some ways become part of the Initiate’s mindset. See, if the Initiate is in pursuit of magical power, then they will eventually go insane, but if the Initiate is working form a true spiritual place of evolution, they can enjoy the Insect-like qualities as being useful for the great work. Insects are able to move with stealth and to function regardless of the environmental changes that surround them. They do not put emotion over what needs to be done. It is for this reason that the Ancient Deities may have been considered evil since they were less compassionate to human needs, as was the younger generation of gods and goddesses. Yet the younger gods and goddesses were somewhat deceptive in their own approach and invented the pleasures of which man became consumed in. This should indicate to the Initiate that he needs to be balanced in his work by using both the Ancient Ones Principles and those of the Elder Gods to rule their own worlds with strength and compassion, focusing on the goal of the work. This can only be accomplished by balance. We see balance in PAZUZU who was able to fight off “evil spirits.” PAZUZU is known as the ANZU Bird in ancient legend. He is also known in the Necronomicon Mysteries as the Watcher. It is this force that we unite with in the Sacred Marriage Rite of GateWalking. It is interesting for the Initiate to note that PAZUZU is often seen in the same position that the Initiate is using when Calling the Watcher:
Notice that the right-hand is up. this symbolizes the Initiate’s ability to draw down the energies from the stars. Notice that the left-hand is facing downwards. This symbolizes the ability to use heavenly energies to understand the Greater Mysteries of Darkness. It is balance.”
This experience happened to me on August the 8th, 2009. I must say that although critics like Dan Harms claim that the Simon Necronomicon cannot be used for understanding the Dark Mysteries of Ancient Mesopotamia, I must also say that he is not an Initiate of the System. So his perspective is “dead” to any experience with these energies. Yet we have to admire his ability in research and writing and also realize that he has a part to play in all of this as wel. l It is through his resolved critique of the SN that we are able to gain some insights by exploring some of issues he has raised, and to verify our findings with written history. Although Dan Harms is not invoking the energies in the book, he is being used by them. Therefore, we should keep him in our prayers and workings that he too may be protected.
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