dreaming thelema of kenneth grant and h. p. lovecraft

He made a nice a cup of tea, had a warm bath, did some yoga exercises and then imagined himself walking down a stairs to the center of the world. We are less than shit to Cthulhu, yet Brother Moloch suggests that we should ask him to help us make some money. In At The Mountains of Madness, Lovecraft explains that human beings were created solely for the amusement of a race that were in conflict with Cthulhu’s spawn. Yes, performing this spell involves asking the great priest Cthulhu for cash. It’s mostly the usual stuff: to kill an enemy, to increase sexual potency, to hold back evil… but, there’s also a spell to get money that directly addresses Cthulhu. Next, there’s a bunch of bullshitty grimoire styled spells with the names of a few Lovecraftian entities thrown into the mix. This ritual mixes names from Lovecraft’s pantheon and quotes from Crowley’s Book of the Law into a ritual that sounds like it comes straight from a Solomonic grimoire.

Large quotations are taken from Simon’s book.Īlthough Moloch has warned his reader not to contact Cthulhu, he gives a ritual to do exactly that. What follows is basically a bunch of tips on how to perform each of the different rituals and prayers in the Simon Necronomicon. Brother Moloch acknowledges that they might be fake, but posits that coherent forgeries can still give effective magical instruction. There’s at least 2 versions of the Necronomicon out there. discovered the Necronomicon, but he told himself it was all just a dream. He claims that Lovecraft astrally traveled to another dimension where Abdul Alhazred was real. His book on the Necronomicon isn’t much better. This is actually the same guy that published The Dark Arts of Tarantula, one of the silliest books I’ve ever read. This was written by Darren Fox, otherwise known as Brother Moloch. International Guild of Occult Sciences – 1996 Necronomian Workbook: Guide to the Necronomicon – Darren Fox I have previously reviewed the Necronomicon itself and Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon. This post delves a little deeper into Lovecraftian Occultism, focusing on two books about the Simon Necronomicon, a book that is itself directly inspired Lovecraft’s work. I’m finding it quite insightful to read through the bizarre works inspired by Lovecraft’s horrors while these horrors are still fresh in my mind. In this series of posts, I’m reviewing books on Lovecraftian Occultism alongside the Wordsworth collections of Lovecraft’s tales.

Dreaming thelema of kenneth grant and h. p. lovecraft