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Spiritual Dictionary on Necronomicon
Necronomicon: Horror story writer H. P. Lovecraft invented the entire idea of an evil book called the Necronomicon. In January of 1934, Lovecraft wrote a letter where he says that the Necronomicon is nothing but a figment of his imagination.... There are many books which claim to be THE Necronomicon. I have several books with that name and several articles which are supposed to be excerpts from the "real" thing. They all have just one thing in common: they are nothing but inventions of contemporary authors. (See also: Necronomicon, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)
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| | |  Necronomicon: Encyclopedia II - Necronomicon - The bookLovecraft often referenced fictional works in his horror fiction, a practice used by earlier writers (like Edgar Allen Poe), and common among subsequent fantasy authors like Jorge Luis Borges and William Goldman. The Necronomicon was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1923 short story "The Hound", though hints of it (or similar books) appear as far back as "The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1919). In the stories, the book is dangerous to read because it is often harmful to the health and sanity of its readers. For this reas ...
See also:Necronomicon, Necronomicon - The book, Necronomicon - Origin, Necronomicon - Fictional history, Necronomicon - Appearance and contents, Necronomicon - Quotations, Necronomicon - Locations, Necronomicon - Etymology of the title, Necronomicon - The Necronomicon as a real book, Necronomicon - References to the Necronomicon, Necronomicon - Commercially available books titled Necronomicon Read more here: » Necronomicon: Encyclopedia II - Necronomicon - The book |
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| | | | Necronomicon: Encyclopedia II - Necronomicon - The book Lovecraft often referenced fictional works in his horror fiction, a practice common among subsequent fantasy authors like Jorge Luis Borges and William Goldman. The Necronomicon was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1923 short story "The Hound", though hints of it (or similar books) appear as far back as "The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1919). In the stories, the book is dangerous to read because it is often harmful to the health and sanity of its readers. For this reason, libraries keep it under lock and key.
Capitalizing on the notoriety of the fictional tome, real-life publishers have printed many books entitled ...
See also:Necronomicon, Necronomicon - The book, Necronomicon - Origin and fictional history, Necronomicon - Criticism, Necronomicon - Appearance and content, Necronomicon - Locations, Necronomicon - Etymology of the title, Necronomicon - The Necronomicon as a real book, Necronomicon - References to the Necronomicon, Necronomicon - Commercially available books titled Necronomicon Read more here: » Necronomicon: Encyclopedia II - Necronomicon - The book |
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Spirituality Dictionary on Necronomicon Necronomicon: {Latin - literally:: Book of Dead Names"') The Necronomicon of Alhazred is not, as popularly believed, a grimoire, or sorcerer's spell-book; it was conceived as a history, and hence "a book of things now dead and gone", but the author had a tendency to garner and stitch together fact, rumor, speculation, and complete balderdash, and the result is a vast and almost unreadable compendium of near-nonsense. In times past the book has been referred to guardedly as Al Azif, or The Book of the Mad Arab. It was written in Damascus in 730 AD by Abdul Alhazred, in seven volumes, and runs to over 900 pages in the Latin edition. The book is best known for its antediluvian speculations. Alhazred appears to have had access to many sources now lost, and events which are only hinted at in the Book of Genesis or the apocryphal Book of Enoch, or disguised as mythology in other sources, are explored in great detail. His speculations are remarkably modern, and this may account for his current popularity: he believed that many species besides the human race had inhabited the Earth, and that much knowledge was passed to mankind in encounters with being from other "spheres". He shared with some neoplatonists the belief that stars are like our sun, and have their own unseen planets with their own life-forms, but elaborated this belief with a good deal of metaphysical speculation in which these beings were part of a cosmic hierarchy of spiritual evolution. He was also convinced that he had contacted these "Old Ones" using magical invocations, and warned of terrible powers waiting to return to re-claim the Earth - he interpreted this belief in the light of the Apocalypse of St. John, but reversed the ending so that the Beast triumphs after a great war in which the earth is laid waste. The famous H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon is a work of fiction, undoubtedly based on the Necronomicon of Alhazred, which is believed Lovecraft never read, but learned of its existence and content through his wife, Sonia Greene, which had been one of Aleister Crowley's disciples, and possibly his lover. There is no question that Crowley read John Dee's translation of the Necromonicon in the Ashmolean; too many passages in Crowley's The Book of the Law read like a transcription of passages in that translation. He was surprisingly reticent about his real sources - there is a strong suspicion that 777, which Crowley claimed to have written, was largely plagiarized from Allan Bennet's notes. (See also: Necronomicon, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)
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Necronomicon Necronomicon: {Latin - literally:: Book of Dead Names"') The Necronomicon of Alhazred is not, as popularly believed, a grimoire, or sorcerer's spell-book; it was conceived as a history, and hence "a book of things now dead and gone", but the author had a tendency to garner and stitch together fact, rumor, speculation, and complete balderdash, and the result is a vast and almost unreadable compendium of near-nonsense. In times past the book has been referred to guardedly as Al Azif, or The Book of the Mad Arab. It was written in Damascus in 730 AD by Abdul Alhazred, in seven volumes, and runs to over 900 pages in the Latin edition. The book is best known for its antediluvian speculations. Alhazred appears to have had access to many sources now lost, and events which are only hinted at in the Book of Genesis or the apocryphal Book of Enoch, or disguised as mythology in other sources, are explored in great detail. His speculations are remarkably modern, and this may account for his current popularity: he believed that many species besides the human race had inhabited the Earth, and that much knowledge was passed to mankind in encounters with being from other "spheres". He shared with some neoplatonists the belief that stars are like our sun, and have their own unseen planets with their own life-forms, but elaborated this belief with a good deal of metaphysical speculation in which these beings were part of a cosmic hierarchy of spiritual evolution. He was also convinced that he had contacted these "Old Ones" using magical invocations, and warned of terrible powers waiting to return to re-claim the Earth - he interpreted this belief in the light of the Apocalypse of St. John, but reversed the ending so that the Beast triumphs after a great war in which the earth is laid waste. The famous H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon is a work of fiction, undoubtedly based on the Necronomicon of Alhazred, which is believed Lovecraft never read, but learned of its existence and content through his wife, Sonia Greene, which had been one of Aleister Crowley's disciples, and possibly his lover. There is no question that Crowley read John Dee's translation of the Necromonicon in the Ashmolean; too many passages in Crowley's The Book of the Law read like a transcription of passages in that translation. He was surprisingly reticent about his real sources - there is a strong suspicion that 777, which Crowley claimed to have written, was largely plagiarized from Allan Bennet's notes. (See also: Necronomicon, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)
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