The Necronomicon
by Simon
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Book Reviews of The Necronomicon
Book Review: Good for reading translated Sumerian Text
Summary: 4 Stars
My Reiki teacher gave me a copy of the Necronomicon, he was telling me how it had all kinds of power and told me just to read it, but not mess with it......i opened it up, and i almost fell over. The WHOLE book is entirely Sumerian!! I mean everything....i was almost laughing histerically. It even has the entire Enuma Elish in it as a "story of past events that shouldnt be forgotten"....., and to the reader who is unaware of the what the Enuma Elish really is, will take it as some real deities or 'gods' who faught a magical battle of evil vs. good. Oh my goodness.....how funny!! To the person who knows what the Enuma Elish is, there wont be anything magical about it....it is simply a record of events on how our solar system was created. This is what is commonly called "encoded". Meaning, to the uninitated it reads like a story to be taken literly...and maybe to be worshipped and becomes "magical". To the initiated....it reads as a record of events that one wishes to pass on to the next generation. It it the ultimate tool in mind control.....your history and truth also doubles as the masses prison religion. The bible is also encoded. William Shakespears plays are also encoded (Which were written by several Freemason types who just used Shakespears name).But what i find most fascinating is this direct connection between belief and reality. If you 100% believe something is true....then it is true! If you believe, to the core of your being, that the Necronomicon is true....that it can open doors to "evil" beings, then it will come true! It is the thought that manifests reality....not the other way around. If or when one worships something like the Necronomicon...one is manifesting the energy of the planets of our solar system.....which are incredibly strong, to create this belief one holds, but the individual is unaware of the energy being accessed. There is a fourth dimensional force at work trying to suppress our 3rd, and they have many tools at their disposal. Worshipping the Necronomicon WILL open a gate to this consciousness...and guess what....so does the bible. The bible and the necronomicon come from the same source!! They are two sides of the same coin.
All religions and any religious belief system has come from the same source.....Sumer, like it or not.....
Book Review: a concerned reader
Summary: 1 Stars
I have read most of the reviews of the Necronomicon, and I'm bewildered that so many people doubt it's power. Forget about whether its real; that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether lovecraft wrote it himself or not. But it does have power. I write of experience. I have a friend, whose name I will not say, who was into the whole occult thing. Personally, I never believed in magic or the supernatural, but my friend did. When he purchased this book I told him that it was a waste of his money. He told me how powerful it was. I yawned and ignored him. One night, he called me and told me that he was going to perform a ritual from the book at the local cemetery. He wanted me there to act as some sort of protection or some thing, I'm not sure. Anyway, we both arrived at the local cemetery at midnight. He made a cirlce on the ground out of black string. He lit a few candles and then opened the book and read some lines. I didn't understand the language. I didn't know what was supposed to happen, but as he read I felt a cold sensation, as if it was snowing. The scary part of the whole thing, the thing that sent me running home, completely forgetting about my friend, was that I couldn't hear anything except his speaking of the I mean I literally couldn't hear anything else except that strange language!!!!!! While I was standing there in fear, a saw a bus drive by, but I couldn't hear it. Now, the creepy thing is that the bus stop was right next to side of the gate where we were working at. I'm talking just a few feet away. So, I ran home out of terror. The next morning, some gravediggers found my friend lying on the ground, unconscious. The strange thing is that blood was soaked all over in the ground, and police reports revealed that it was my friend's blood, however there was no cut on my friend's body. He was taken to the hospital. Doctors said that he was in a deep coma. They told his parents that only a dramatic experience would have caused such a severe mental breakdown. Ten years have gone since my friend performed an incantation from this book that one fateful night. He's still in a coma. The point of the story is not to doubt the power of this book, and more importantly not to perform any of its ritualsBook Review: SERIOUS OCCULTISTS...PLEASE see this for what it is!
Summary: 2 Stars
By his own admission, we know Lovecraft invented the legendary Necronomicon; it was a pure fabrication, a fictional tome serving as one of the many devices he utilized to tie the works of his "Cthulhu Mythos" together. Lovecraft's Necronomicon was not inspired by any "real" medieval magical grimoire (Abdul Al Hazred is a fictional character), rather HPL took his inspiration for the literary Necronomicon from "The King In Yellow", a series of stories by Robert W. Chambers in which Hastur, The Yellow Sign, Carcossa, Hali and the evil tome The King In Yellow itself first appear in American horror literature. Never-the-less, many fans of Lovecraft refused to believe that the Necronomicon was a fabrication.... And writers like this mysterious "Simon" are reaping the benefits of this naive misconception. What the "editor" has done here is present a primer on traditional ceremonial magic (in the tradition of MacGregor Mather's Golden Dawn and Crowley's A.A.), spruced it up with some (possibly authentic) Sumero-Babylonian mysticism, and then shamelessly worked in modified names of Lovecraftian beasties (Xastur=Hastur, Azag-Thoth=Azathoth, Ishniggarub=Shubniggurath)and then marketed this hodge podge under the name "Necronomicon" hoping that Lovecraft fans would buy it thinking it was real. He apparently was not disappointed... The only reason I gave this dishonest work two stars is because the intro information on Crowley is informative and the rituals themselves (if you can excuse the occasional use of Lovecraft's creatures' names) are apparently based on actual Golden Dawn magic ceremonies and authentic Sumerian traditions. So, the book is not totally useless, I just wish the original content (sans Lovecraft) would have been presented under a different name (and the fact that it wasn't is inexcusable and dishonors HPL, Crowley, and any serious practitioner of ceremonial magic). Do the rituals work? I don't know...I don't have the guts to try them out!Book Review: If the Shoe Fits
Summary: 5 Stars
I am still skeptical about the book. It has sat on my shelf for years. I bought it more as a conversation piece. After reading some of David Icke's work, as well as seeing some of his shows and watching various Alex Jones shows I realized there is a lot of stuff out there. I'd recommend reading Infinite Love is the Only Truth as well as the Holographic Universe to get a better understanding of the holographic nature of existence and some history on the serpent race. Then start cross comparing the Bible, especially Genesis, with Greek "Myths." Also read the Book of the Law. Simon's introduction in the Necronomicon already gets you started as it compares Aleister Crowley, Lovecraft, Sumer, and the Bible. With all this, and more, you can begin to understand the greater depths of this book.
I have been reading it as of late. I had cleaned my room today. I also got past the introduction and have been making my way into the Necronomicon itself rather strongly. I came into my room to set something down on my bed. I turned to walk away, I think perhaps the door was closed and I was in the other room. I heard a loud thud and returned to my room to see my Talking Board had fallen off my book shelf and was laying on the floor. Curious, as I had set it there some time beforehand that day. And when placing the items of my bed got nowhere near my book shelf that was on the other side of the room. Granted I sat it there today and it was not level. But that was a good five to ten minutes at least before hand and I doubt closing my door or setting items of my bed would cause something to fall from across the room. And, if so, why not fall instantly? Why wait until I mostly leave the room? I think it may have been knocked off the shelf by whatever is watching my read this. Tiny things like this, and stronger things, are common in many of the reviews on this book.
Understand that the mere reading of these texts bring forth things that like to let you know they're here.
Book Review: A true horror - in more ways than one
Summary: 1 Stars
The book is obviously a hoax. Many people have said so here: they will get no argument from me. It was put together by person or persons unknown who were associated with the old Magickal Child book store in New York City in the 1970s. They, in the midst of a drug stimulated revelries, constructed several pieces of rituals. These drew from several different magickal systems and mythologies (some of which clearly contradicted each other). They had originally agreed to destroy these writings; and this was assigned to whoever was last to leave these gatherings.
A man known to us as "Simon" was the last to leave. However, instead of keeping his word, he grabbed the writings and ran. For whatever reason, these rituals were compiled into a book and published. Thus, the Simon Necronomicon came into being.
Despite being a hoax, the book is nonetheless, quite dangerous. The rituals are clearly constructed with a number of booby-traps that leave the practitioner unprotected and exposed to psychic attack, invocations of entities that are not what they are said to be, and even deliberate invitations to demonic attack and possession that make it excessively dangerous for even the experienced practitioner.
The introduction mentions a group of people who tested the rituals before the book was published. I knew a few of these people personally. They all told me the book was extraordinarily dangerous, and warned me not to meddle with it. I have also personally known people who were made insane from attempting the rituals in this book. One poor fool ended up trying to carve new tunnels in the New York City subway system using nothing but a wire coat hanger.
I myself has a few frightening personal experiences connected with this book.
The author/s of this book are among the most irresponsible, sociopathic, and perverse people in the occult world (and that's saying a lot!). The text, and the very existence of the book itself is an obscentity.