The Necronomicon: Fact or Fiction?

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Originally posted by I, Brian
In which case, couldn't Satan be therefore be reduced to nothing more than a powerless squeaky talking bunny, by the right number of people in the right place at the right time believing that this is all Satan is?

Originally posted by WHKeith

Satan as Harvey [of the eponymous 1950 Jimmy Stewart movie]! I love it!

I personally picture Satan (sometimes) as the Eveready Energizer Bunny (a battery operated pink bunny that is/was used to advertise a particular brand of battery) rather than Harvey.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Satanist]

Lovecraft is great.

His is a nihilistic universe where morality is noexistant and gods are chaotic beasts that don't care about us.

But the best is that knowlegde and understanding always i horrible and painfull in his universe.
Science is doomed to destroy mankind becouse it's knowlegde will awaken the elder ones or make humanity into the Old Ones..

Order is illusion and every understanding of cosmos comes through chaos
since understanding opens us up to new dimensions.
All order is human futile attempts to believe that humans emotons and human or moral thoughs matters but it doesn't.

I love it.
I love reading about small minded characters who dies or harm themselves becouse they are stupid.
I love it.

I think that he didn't fear so much his own monsters as he was making parody of others useless and small minded fears.

[Popeyesays]

Originally Posted by Satanist

Lovecraft is great.

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I think that he didn't fear so much his own monsters as he was making parody of others useless and small minded fears.

There are a large number of letters written between Lovecraft and other authors. He was a prolific correspondent.

His letters disclose that all he was interested in was squeaking a living out of horror stories, and how to write more effectively.

He had no belief in his own mythos of "ancient lore better left forgotten".

He was a recluse and semi-hermit who lived in the house kept by his mother and sisters and was most often near destitute.

A master of a literary niche, but not a mystic by any estimate.

Regards,
Scott

[Hustle Kong]

I always thought that the insistance that Lovecraft "stole" the Necronomicon from reality does a HUGE disservice to HPL's imagination.

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by thorn

Any thoughts?

Hmm any thoughts.... A mere book written by Lovecraft.. Just "another" book like many others to be taken with a pinch of salt.

[moseslmpg]

Originally Posted by Satanist

Lovecraft is great.

His is a nihilistic universe where morality is noexistant and gods are chaotic beasts that don't care about us.

Hmm, it's not exactly nihilistic actually. It's cosmicism, where humanity is simply just another insignificant race randomly placed somewhere in the vast cosmos. But yeah, he is great.

I'm not sure if I posted in this thread yet, but Michael Szul has an interesting opinion on the reality of the Necronomicon...And, I can't find it anymore. I think he might have taken it down. But anyway, it was basically explaining the similarities between Lovecraft's mythos with the post-Crowleyan explication of the Qlippoth as presented in Nightside of Eden. It also touched on other things, but I can't remember them...