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From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Wed Feb 21 2001 09:59 pm

>... (cont)
Subject: nagasiva's alt.magick FAQ
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   06.01 is the Necronomicon real and can magic be based on it?

     that all depends on what you mean by "the Necronomicon" and by
     "real".
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   06.02: ok, is there a Necronomicon?

     there are several books with this name, but none of them
     appear to have the historical background provided. first we
     must consider what a Necronomicon IS OR MIGHT BE.

     my aim here in part is to carve out a neutral ground with a
     reference document (on par with Kendrick Kerwin Chua's FAQ

             http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/nconref

     but more succinct) that may go some distance in ending the
     noise between magicians and academics while challenging
     magicians to put their arcanum where their mouth is, so to
     speak. I would simultaneously push the point that by all
     accounts there are NO pre-Lovecraft Necronomicons.

     the obsession with the Necronomicon is typically on the part
     of hyper-intellectuals (academics) whose knowledge and
     experience would otherwise preclude the belief in said object
     by virtue of their solid grounding in the sciences. one might
     compare the Lovecraftian scenarios involving the Necronomicon
     and "Cthulhu Mythos" with certain episodes of short stories or
     television series like "The Twilight Zone", "Outer Limits",
     "The Night Stalker", and, especially, "X-Files" (in its
     single, monster-episodes).

     the Necronomicon is both cherished by supposed cultists who
     would like to assist the Old Ones or some other Lovecraftian
     entity to achieve its pinnacle of power ("when the stars are
     right"), often at the expense of the human species, and feared
     by conspiracy-buffs who are somehow clued to the nefarious
     cosmic interlopers ready to gobble up our little planet. this
     brings to light immediately the tendency of participants and
     converts to the ostensible goals of these extraterrestrials to
     be insane, mad, sociopathological, or twisted into shadows of
     their former human selves. those who research on the fringes
     of such cults tend to begin resembling that which they are
     studying (compare Mulder in the X-files and how he is seen in
     the FBI as a fruitcake).

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