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

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Subject: nagasiva's alt.magick FAQ
Summary: This is a file of biased responses to frequently
         asked questions in the alt.magick newsgroup.
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     in fact, the power objects such as the Necronomicon which may
     be used by Lovecraftian storytellers (whether between the
     pages of a book or in such interesting contexts as role-
     playing games) are usually coercive, corrupting of those who
     come into contact with them, and yet there is the promise, as
     with so many Cosmic Antagonists, of some future role of power
     as an underling to the New Aeon Rulers. sometimes the very
     experience of having contact with the book at all is
     sufficient to warrant its pursuit without regard for the
     possible consequences (compare how Dr. Pretorius and his
     assistants and obsessed followers react to his Resonator in
     the Lovecraft-inspired film "From Beyond": their search for
     extended human experiences and becoming a part of an ambiguous
     psychic conglomerate monster defies rationality).

     the Necronomicon specifically contains the rituals and symbols
     needed to summon powerful entities who, if they don't decide
     to have hir for dinner, may (here is the lure) be beneficent
     to the spell-worker, no matter the price that one must pay for
     the ritual. this appears to be a kind of Faustian pact, untold
     short-term glories and promises of future shelter from a
     coming Apocalypse which one is helping to make happen
     exchanged for assisting antagonists to the human species in
     gaining a foothold (compare the corporate enterprise in films
     like 'Aliens' who try to keep and breed the alien species, yet
     in Lovecraftian stories assistance more often activates
     through ritual summoning, conversion of other cultists, or
     merely laying the groundwork for others to do likewise). some
     of the cultist conversion occurs through the dimension of
     dreams (as with Cthulhu, who is said to be contacting converts
     therein).

     here is an egregore of the Book of Power, including grimoires
     such as "The Lesser Key of Solomon" or "The Goetia", the "Book
     of Shadows", which may be said to contain (at least access to)
     unspeakable power and a technological description beyond the
     bounds of ordinary scientific understandings. the Necronomicon
     falls into the coercive or destructive end of these books,
     which span from simple books of spells and formulae to cosmic
     formularies and tools of the Sorcerer Supreme ("The Book of
     the Vishanti" in Doctor Strange comics), to social contracts
     with deities ("Torah", "Old Testament", "New Testament",
     "Qur'an") of a presumed positive attitude toward humans and
     reservoirs of mystical power ("The Book of Five Rings", "Tao
     Teh Ching", "I Ching", "Diamond Sutra", termas of various
     sorts, cf. "Liber Grimoiris" by Frater Nigris at:

        http://www.luckymojo.com/avidyana/gnostik/grimoiris.tn ).

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