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To: alt.magick,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.necronomicon,alt.horror-cthulhu From: ny'rl'th't'pSubject: The Necronomicon Ritual (was Grimoires) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 04:41:46 GMT "David" : > The Necronomicon is presented in a disjoined and disorderly fashion. In > order to gain anything functional from it the student must read the entire > thing, then go back and peice together, on his own, all of the elements of > the composite ritual central to the practice described in this book. As > they are found in no particulatr order, and are scattered throughought the > text this operation is actually quite entertaining. care to specify your construction of the text? this is a valuable argument in FAVOUR of the use of the Necronomicon as a ritual construction-book. do you maintain that 'The Necronomicon Spellbook' (by Simon also) is of some value in doing what you maintain? I didn't see anything in the book's introduction or content which suggested this. where did you first hear or see reference to such a construct? > When the final composite ritual, central to the various rites described > in the Necronomicon, is fully assembled, it can be seen to be what it really > is: a simplified reproduction of the Watchtower Ritual with Lovecrafty > vocabulary and Sumarian imagry substituted for that traditional Golden Dawn > vibe.... care to give some clues as to the names of the Four Watchtowers? ny'rl -- emailed replies may be posted ----- "sa avidya ya vimuktaye" ----- "that which liberates is ignorance" http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html hoodoo catalogue: send postal address to catalogues@luckymojo.com
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