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Dedication

On the One Hundredth anniversary

of the Nativity of the Poet

ALEISTER CROWLEY

1875-1975

Ad Meiomrum Cthulhi Gloriam

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THE EDITOR would like to thank all of the people whose cooperation and dedication to

unspeakable horrors has made this book possible. First, our thanks go to that nameless monk

who presented us with the originals., who has since disappeared. Second, to that ever-changing

staff of translators who performed a most distasteful and oft'times unsatisfying task: to Ms. I.

Celms, Ms. N. Papaspyrou, Mr. Peter Levenda, Mr. X. and Mr. Y. Third, to Ms. J. McNally,

whose thorough knowledge and understanding of Craft folklore aided the Editor in assuming a

proper perspective towards this Work. Fourth, to Mr. J. Birnbaum who aided in some of the

preliminary practical research concerning the powers of the Book, and its dangers. Fifth, to

Mr. L. K. Barnes, who dared to tempt the awesome wrath of the Ancient Ones, rising

unspeakable eldritch horrors, in supporting the publication of this arcane treatise. Sixth, to all

those patient Pagans and Friends of the Craft who waited, and waited for the eventual

publication of this tome with baited breath . . . and something on the stove. Seventh, and

perhaps most importantly, to Herman Slater of the Magickal Childe (nee Warlock Shop),

whose constant encouragement and eternal kvetching was material to the completion of this
Work.
And, finally, to the Demon PERDURABO, without whose help the presentation of this Book
would have been impossible.
Blessed Be!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Introductory Essay
Prefatory Notes
Chart of Comparisons
Supplementary Material to 777
Notes on Pronunciation
The Spells (Translated)
Common Sumerian Words and Phrases in English
A word Concerning the Original Manuscript
Banishings
Bibliography & Suggested Reading List
 
 
The NECRONOMICON
The Testimony of the Mad Arab
Of the Zonei and Their Attributes
The Book of Entrance, and Of the Walking
The Incantations of The Gates
The Conjuration of the Fire God
The Conjuration of the Watcher
The MAKLU Text

The Book of Calling

The Book of Fifty Names

The MAGAN Text

The URILIA Text

The Testimony of the Mad Arab, the Second Part

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

THERE ARE THREE major individuals who must share the credit for the astonishingly good reception the

NECRONOMICON has enjoyed over the last two years since its publication. L.K. Barnes was lured into the

Magickal Childe bookstore in Manhattan one day by an incarnated thoughtform we may only refer to by his

initials, B.A.K. Both were in search of some casual amusement from the slightly distorted version of the

supernatural intelligence-dissemination that usually took place on those premises. L.K. Barnes, publisher of

this tome, has probably come to regret ever setting foot or tentacle inside those clammy precincts, for the

crazed proprietor of that institution commenced to wave before him the manuscript copy of this book, thereby

securing his soul forever in the service of the Elder Gods.

Needless to say, L.K. - a longtime pilgrim in the search for the genuine NECRONOMICON which he knew,

since childhood, really existed - was suitably impressed. Shocked, actually. He asked to see the dubious

personality who claimed responsibility for the editing and general research work that went into the volume.

This exotic individual, Simon by name, appeared suddenly one day in the living quarters of L.K. Barnes

attired in a beret, a suit of some dark, fibrous material, and a attache case which contained - besides

correspondence from various Balkan embassies and a photograph of the F-104 fighter being crated up for

shipment to Luxembourg - additional material on the NECRONOMICON which proved his bona fides. Also at

that meeting was the third member of the Unholy Trinity, James Wasserman of Studio 31 who - according to a

South American cult leader - died during the last year, but who has been able with assistance from the Stone of

the Wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man.

With Simon's manuscript, Barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and Wasserman's production

experience and tireless labour, the abhorred NECRONOMICON began to take shape and the first edition

smote the stands on December 22, 1977 - the ancient pagan feast of Yule, the winter solstice.

Yet, not without a number of bizarre occurrences that more than once threatened the lives, the sanity, and the

astral bodies of the three individuals most deeply involved.

Jim Wasserman was subjected to what we may vaguely refer to as "poltergeist" activity during the time he

worked on production and design aspects of the book. A room which, for certain loathsome purposes, was

always kept locked was found one day to have been opened - from the inside. In the same building, just below

his loft, the typesetters were set upon by swarms of rats. The discovery of a small Hindu idol that had been lost

signalled the end to the plague, and the rats disappeared.

Simon usually lives in fear of his life, for reasons that do not always have to do with the NECRONOMICON.

However, he has been subject to constant surveillance by the Ancient Ones as they await one slip, the single

misstep, that will provide for them the entry they earnestly desire into this world.

L.K. Barnes, on the other hand, has had no rest whatever from the signals and messages from the

extraterrestrial intelligences that were the overseers and the guardians of the book's publication. He has been

plagued by an unremitting chain of numerological events which he cannot ignore. The predominance of the

numbers 13,333,555,666 and others too arcane to bear mentioning have been made his life a demonstration

(read, demon-stration) of Jungian synchronicity patterns. Also, his printing of the beautiful, full-colour

Denderah Zodiac on the first anniversary of the NECRONOMICON's publication in 1978 precipitated a rash

of UFO sightings in Australia and New Zealand - in which one pilot has disappeared.

Bizarre occurrences and humorous coincidences aside for the moment, the NECRONOMICON has caused

changes in the conscience of those people most intimately involved with it, as well as many strangers who

simply bought the book through the mail or at their bookstore. Judging by the letters we have received in the

last two years, these changes have been startling. Many have found the books' magick to work, and work

extremely well. Others, having once attempted certain of the rituals, felt compelled to retire from the occult

"scene" for lengthy periods of time. The mere fact that the books was generally considered never have existed -

and then found to exist after all - is itself a powerful psychic influence. A fantasy come true. A dream realised

in waking life. The quest for a lifetime search come to an end. The ultimate Book of Spells. The Godfather of

Grimoires.

Therefore it is with awe, and with something akin to dread, that I address this second edition to the courageous

reader of the NECRONOMICON. The Beast has told us, "I am the warrior Lord of the Forties : the Eighties

cower before me, & are abased." (AL, III:46) This edition of the NECRONOMICON is scheduled for early

delivery in January-February 1980, making it possibly the first occult book of the Eighties. A herald of doom ?

Or a harbinger of fate ?

Since the publication of this book in December, 1977, the ancient forces of erstwhile victory have been banging

and clamouring at the Gates. December 1977 was the middle of the killing spree of the calibre killer, known to

the press as the Son of Sam, who was motivated - according to recent reports - by membership in a satanic cult

in Yonkers. Several months after the capture of David Berkowitz in 1978, nearly one thousand people killed

themselves in Guyana at the orders of a crazed religious leader. Several months after that, the leader of a

mystical Islamic sect seized power in Iran and - at the time of writing - is calling for a Holy War against the

Infidel.

There is evidence that every New Age witnesses a baptism by fire. Christians and Muslims are turning on each

other and themselves; Israel is once again in serious jeopardy; Buddhism is being eradicated in Southeast Asia

as it was in Tibet. The Ancient Ones, Lords of a time before memory, are being drawn by the smell of

confusion and the hysteria and mutual hatred of the primitive life-forms on this planet: human beings. Unless

the Gates are secured against attack, unless humanity awakens to both the real danger and the real potential

for evolution . . .

Well, the vision of the Mad Arab - ancestor of the Muslim princes so much in the news in 1979/1980 - is one,

certainly of terror. The discovery of this book, however, like the discovery of the typesetters' idol, may be the

key, the link in our defence against the possible Enemy awaiting us, Outside. Events of the last two years have

shown us that the book is also an amulet, a protective shield, that guards its own from the machinations of evil.

Extraterrestrial or primevally elemental, alien beings or subconscious repressions, they are powerless against

us if we consider deeply the message of this book, and take the seeming ranting of the Arab at face value for

what they are: a warning, a weapon, and a wisdom. With these three we enter the New Age of the Crowned

and Conquering Child, Horus, not in a slouch towards Bethlehem, but born within us at the moment we

conquer the lurking fear in our own souls.

New York, N.Y.

December, 1979

"Our work is therefore historically authentic; the rediscovery of the Sumerian Tradition." -

Aleister Crowley

INTRODUCTION

IN THE MID - 1920's, roughly two blocks from where the Warlock Shop once stood, in Brooklyn Heights,

lived a quiet, reclusive man, an author of short stories, who eventually divorced his wife of two years and

returned to his boyhood home in Rhode Island, where he lived with his two aunts. Born on August 20, 1890,

Howard Phillips Lovecraft would come to exert an impact on the literary world that dwarfs his initial

successes with Weird Tales magazine in 1923. He died, tragically, at the age of 46 on March 15, 1937, a victim

of cancer of the intestine and Bright's Disease. Though persons of such renown as Dashiell Hammett were to

become involved in his work, anthologising it for publication both here an abroad, the reputation of a man

generally conceded to be the "Father of Gothic Horror" did not really come into its own until the past few

years, with the massive re-publication of his works by various houses, a volume of his selected letters, and his

biography. In the July, 1975, issue The Atlantic Monthly, there appeared a story entitled "There Are More

Things", written by Jorge Luis Borges, "To the memory of H.P. Lovecraft". This gesture by a man of the

literary stature of Borges is certainly an indication that Lovecraft has finally ascended to his rightful place in

the history of American literature, nearly forty years after his death.

In the same year that Lovecraft found print in the pages of Weird Takes, another gentleman was seeing his

name in print; but in the British tabloid press.

NEW SINISTER REVELATIONS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY read the front page of the Sunday Express. It

concerned testimony by one of the notorious magician's former followers (or, actually, the wife of one of his

followers) that Crowley had been responsible for the death of her husband, at the Abbey of Thelema, in

Cefalu, Sicily. The bad press, plus the imagined threat of secret societies, finally forced Mussolini to deport the

Great Beast from Italy. Tales of horrors filled the pages of the newspapers in England for weeks and months to

come: satanic rituals, black masses, animal sacrifice, and even human sacrifice, were reported - or blatantly

lied about. For although many of the stories were simply not true or fanciful exaggeration, one thing was

certain: Aleister Crowley was a Magician, and one of the First Order.

Born on October 12, 1875, in England - in the same country as Shakespeare - Edward Alexander Crowley

grew up in a strict Fundamentalist religious family, members of a sect called the "Plymouth Brethren". The

first person to call him by that Name and Number by which he would become famous (after the reference in

the Book of Revelation), "The Beast 666", was his mother, and he eventually took this appellation to heart. He

changed his name to Aleister Crowley while still at Cambridge, and by that name , plus "666", he would never

be long out of print, or out of newspapers. For he believed himself to be the incarnation of a god, an Ancient

One, the vehicle of a New Age of Man's history, the Aeon of Horus, displacing the old Age of Osiris. In 1904, he

had received a message, from what Lovecraft might have called "out of space", that contained the formula for

a New World Order, a new system of philosophy, science, art and religion, but this New Order had to begin

with the fundamental part, and common denominator, of all four: Magick.

In 1937, the year Lovecraft dies, the Nazis banned the occult lodges of Germany, notable among them two

organisations which Crowley had supervised: the A\ A\ and the O.T.O., the latter of which he was elected head

in England, and the former which he founded himself. There are those who believe that Crowley was somehow,

magickally, responsible for the Third Reich, for two reasons: one, that the emergence of New World Orders

generally seems to instigate holocausts and, two, that he is said to have influenced the mind of Adolf Hitler.

While it is almost certain that Crowley and Hitler never met, it is known that Hitler belonged to several occult

lodges in the early days after the First War; the symbol of one of these, the Thule Gesellschaft which preached

a doctrine of Aryan racial superiority, was the infamous Swastika which Hitler was later to adopt as the

Symbol of the forms, however, is evident in many of his writings, notably the essays written in the late

'Thirties. Crowley seemed to regard the Nazi phenomenon as a Creature of Christianity, in it's anti-Semitism

and sever moral restrictions concerning its adherents, which lead to various types of lunacies and "hangups"

that characterised many of the Reich's leadership. Yet, there can be perhaps little doubt that the chaos which

engulfed the world in those years was prefigured, and predicted, in Crowley's Liber AL vel Legis; the Book of

the Law.

The Mythos and the Magick

We can profitably compare the essence of most of Lovecraft's short stories with the basic themes of Crowley's

unique system of ceremonial Magick. While the latter was a sophisticated psychological structure, intended to

bring the initiate into contact with his higher Self, via a process of individuation that is active and dynamic

(being brought about by the "patient" himself) as opposed to the passive depth analysis of the Jungian adepts,

Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos was meant for entertainment. Scholars, of course, are able to find higher, ulterior

motives in Lovecraft's writings, as can be done with any manifestation of Art.

Lovecraft depicted a kind of Christian Myth of the struggle between opposing forces of Light and Darkness,

between God and Satan, in the Cthulhu Mythos. Some critics may complain that this smacks more of the

Manichaen heresy than it does of genuine Christian dogma; yet, as a priest and former monk, I believe it is fair

to say that this dogma is unfortunately very far removed from the majority of the Faithful to be of much

consequence. The idea of a War against Satan, and of the entities of Good and Evil having roughly equivalent

Powers, is perhaps best illustrated by the belief, common among the Orthodox churches of the East, in a

personal devil as well as a personal angel. This concept has been amplified by the Roman Catholic Church to

such an extent - perhaps subconsciously - that a missal in the Editor's possession contains an engraving for the

Feast of St. Andrew, Apostle, for November 30, that bears the legend "Ecce Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi" -

Behold Him Who Taketh Away The Sins of the World - and the picture above it is of the atomic bomb!

Basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos : the Elder Gods, about whom not much is revealed, save

that they are a stellar Race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the

Christian "Light"; and the Ancient Ones, about which much is told, sometimes in great detail, who correspond

to "Darkness". These latter are the Evil Gods who wish nothing but ill for the Race of Man, and who

constantly strive to break into our world through a Gate or Door that leads from the Outside, In. There are

certain people, among us, who are devotees of the Ancient Ones, and who try to open the Gate, so that this

evidently repulsive organisation may once again rule the Earth. Chief among these is Cthulhu, typified as a Sea

Monster, dwelling in the Great Deep, a sort of primeval Ocean; a Being that Lovecraft collaborator August

Derleth wrongly calls a "water elemental". There is also Azazoth, the blind idiot god of Chaos, Yog Sothot,

Azathoth's partner in Chaos, Shub Niggurath, the "goat with a thousand young", and others. They appear at

various times throughout the stories of the Cthulhu Mythos in frightening forms, which test the strength and

resourcefulness of the protagonists in their attempts to put the hellish Things back to whence they came. There

is an overriding sense of primitive dear and cosmic terror in those pages, as though man is dealing with

something that threatens other than his physical safety: his very spiritual nature. This horror-cosmology is

extended by the frequent appearance of the Book, NECRONOMICON.

The NECRONOMICON, is according to Lovecraft's tales, a volume written in Damascus in the Eighth

Century, A.D., by a person called the "Mad Arab", Abdhul Alhazred. It must run roughly 800 pages in length,

as there is a reference in one of the stories concerning some lacunae on a page in the 700's It had been copied

and reprinted in various languages - the story goes - among them Latin, Greek and English. Doctor Dee, the

Magus of Elizabethan fame, was supposed to have possessed a copy and translated it. This book, according to

the mythos, contains the formulae for evoking incredible things into visible appearance, beings and monsters

which dwell in the Abyss, and Outer Space, of the human psyche.

Such books have existed in fact, and do exist. Idries Shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the

Book of Power by the Arab magician Abdul-Kadir (see: The Secret Lore of Magic by Shah), of which only one

copy was ever found. The Keys of Solomon had a similar reputation, as did The Magus by Barret, until all of

these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or so. The Golden Dawn, a famous British and

American Occult lodge of the turn of the Century, was said to have possessed a manuscript called "the Veils of

Negative Existence" by another Arab.

These were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not meant as textbooks or encyclopedias of ceremonial

magick. In other words, the sorcerer or magician is supposed to be in possession of the requisite knowledge

and training with which to carry out a complex magickal ritual, just as a cook is expected to be able to master

the scrambling of eggs before he conjures an "eggs Benedict"; the grimoires, or Black Books, were simply

variations on a theme, like cookbooks, different records of what previous magicians had done, the spirits they

had contacted, and the successes they had. The magicians who now read these works are expected to be able to

select the wheat from the chaff, in much the same fashion as an alchemist discerning the deliberate errors in a

treatise on his subject.

Therefore it was (and is) insanity for the tyro to pick up a work on ceremonial Magick like the Lesser Key of

Solomon to practise conjurations. It would also be folly to pick up Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practise

with the same intention. Both books are definitely not for beginners, a point which cannot be made too often.

Unfortunately, perhaps, the dread NECRONOMICON falls into this category.

Crowley's Magick was a testimony of what he has found in his researches into the forbidden, and forgotten,

lore of past civilisations and ancient times. His Book of the Law was written in Cairo in the Spring of 1904,

when he believed himself to be in contact with a praeter-human intelligence called Aiwass who dictated to him

the Three Chapters that make up the Book. It had influenced him more than any other, and the remainder of

his life was spent trying to understand it fully, and to make its message known to the world. It, too, contains

the formulae necessary to summon the invisible into visibility, and the secrets of transformations are hidden

within its pages, but this is Crowley's own NECRONOMICON, received in the Middle East in the shadow of

the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, and therein is writ not only the beauty, but the Beast that yet awaits mankind.

It would be vain to attempt to deliver a synopsis of Crowley's philosophy, save that its 'leitmotif' is the

Rabelaisian

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

The actual meaning of this phrase has taken volumes to explain, but roughly it concerns the uniting of the

conscious Self, a process of individuation which culminates in a rite called "Knowledge and Conversation of

the Holy Guardian Angel"; the Angel signifying the pure, evolved Self.

Yet, there are many terrors on the Way to the Self, and an Abyss to cross before victory can be declared.

Demons, vampires, psychic leeches, ghastly forms accost the aspiring magician from every angle, from every

quarter around the circumference of the magick circle, and they must be destroyed lest they devour the

magician himself. When Crowley professed to have passed the obstacles, and crossed the Abyss of Knowledge,

and found his true Self, he found it was identical with the Beast of the Book of Revelation, 666, whom

Christianity considers to represent the Devil. Indeed, Crowley had nothing but admiration for the Shaitan

(Satan) of the so-called "devil-worshipping" cult of the Yezidis of Mesopotamia, knowledge of which led him to

declare the lines that open this Introduction. For he saw that the Yezidis possess a Great Secret and a Great

Tradition that extends far back into time, beyond the origin of the Sun cults of Osiris, Mithra and Christ; even

before the formation of the Judaic religion, and the Hebrew tongue. Crowley harkened back to a time before

the Moon was worshipped, to the "Shadow Out of Time"; and in this, whether he realised it as such or not, he

had heard the "Call of Cthulhu".

Sumeria

That a reclusive author of short stories who lived in a quiet neighbourhood in New England, and the manic,

infamous Master Magician who called the world his home, should have somehow met in the sandy wastes of

some forgotten civilisation seems incredible. That they should both have become Prophets and Forerunners of

a New Aeon of Man's history is equally, if not more, unbelievable. Yet, with H.P. Lovecraft and Aleister

Crowley, the unbelievable was a commonplace of life. These two men, both acclaimed as geniuses by their

followers and admirers, and who never actually met, stretched their legs across the world, and in the Seven

League Boots of the mind they did meet, and on common soil . . . . Sumeria.

Sumeria is the name given to a once flourishing civilisation that existed in what is now known as Iraq, in the

area called by the Greeks "Mesopotamia" and by the Arabs as, simply, "The Island" for it existed between

two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which run down from the mountains to the Persian Gulf. This is the

site of the fabled city of Babylon, as well as of Ur of the Chaldees and Kish, with Nineveh far to the north. Each

of the seven principal cities of Sumeria was ruled by a different deity, who was worshipped in the strange,

non-Semitic language of the Sumerians; and language which has been closely allied to that of the Aryan race,

having in fact many words identical to that of Sanskrit (and, it is said, to Chinese!).

For no one knows where the Sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared,

after the Assyrian invasions which decimated their culture, yet providing the Assyrians with much of their

mythology and religion; so much so that Sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as

Latin is today of the Roman Catholic Church. They had a list of their kings before the Flood, which even they

carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. It is believed that they had a

sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. Magick, as well in

history, begins at Sumer for the Western World, for it his here, in the sand-buried cuneiform tablets that

recorded an Age, that the first Creation Epic is found, the first exorcism, the first ritual invocations of

planetary deities, the first dark summonings of evil Powers, and ironically, the first "burnings" of people the

anthropologists call "Witches".

Lovecraft's mythos deals with what are known chthonic deities, that is, underworld gods and goddesses, much

like the Leviathan of the Old Testament. The pronunciation of chthonic is 'katonic', which explains Lovecraft's

famous Miskatonic River and Miskatonic University, not to mention the chief deity of his pantheon, Cthulhu, a

sea monster who lies, "not dead, but dreaming" below the world; an Ancient One and supposed enemy of

Mankind and the intelligent Race. Cthulhu is accompanied by an assortment of other grotesqueries, such as

Azathot and Shub Niggurath. It is of extreme importance to occult scholars that many of these deities had

actual counterparts, at least in name, to deities of the Sumerian Tradition, that same Tradition that the Magus

Aleister Crowley deemed it so necessary to "rediscover".

The Underworld in ancient Sumer was known by many names, among them ABSU or "Abyss", sometimes as

Nar Mattaru, the great Underworld Ocean, and also as Cutha or KUTU as it is called in the Enuma Elish (the

Creation Epic of the Sumerians). The phonetic similarity between Cutha and KUTU and Chthonic, as well as

Cthulhu, is striking. Judging by a Sumerian grammar at hand, the word KUTULU or Cuthalu (Lovecraft's's

Cthulhu Sumerianised) would mean "The Man of KUTU (Cutha); the Man of the Underworld; Satan or

Shaitan, as he is known to the Yezidis (whom Crowley considered to be the remnants of the Sumerian

Tradition). The list of similarities, both between Lovecraft's creations and the Sumerian gods, as well as

between Lovecraft's mythos and Crowley's magick, can go on nearly indefinitely, and in depth, for which there

is no space here at present. An exhaustive examination of Crowley's occultism in light of recent findings

concerning Sumeria, and exegesis on Lovecraft's stories, is presently in preparation and is hoped to be

available shortly. Until that time, a few examples should suffice.

Although a list is appended hereto containing various entities and concepts of Lovecraft, Crowley, and

Sumeria cross-referenced, it will do to show how the Editor found relationships to be valid and even startling.

AZATOT is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the Cthulhu Mythos, and appears in the

NECRONOMICON as AZAG-THOTH, a combination of two words, the first Sumerian and the second

Coptic, which gives us a clue as to Its identity. AZAG in Sumerian means "Enchanter" or "Magician";

THOTH in Coptic is the name given to the Egyptian God of Magick and Wisdom, TAHUTI, who was evoked

by both the Golden Dawn and by Crowley himself (and known to the Greeks as Hermes, from whence we get

"Hermetic"). AZAG-THOTH is, therefore, a Lord of Magicians, but of the "Black" magicians, or the

sorcerers of the "Other Side".

There is a seeming reference to SHUB NIGGURATH in the NECRONOMICON, in the name of a Sumerian

deity, the "Answerer of Prayers", called ISHNIGARRAB. The word "Shub" is to be found in the Sumerian

language in reference to the Rite of Exorcism, one of which is called Nam Shub and means "the Throwing". It

is, however, as yet unclear as to what the combination SHUB ISHNIGARRAB (SHUB NIGGURATH) might

actually mean.

There was a battle between the forces of "light" and "darkness" (so-called) that took place long before man

was created, before even the cosmos as we know it existed. It is described fully in the Enuma Elish and in the

bastardised version found in the NECRONOMICON, and involved the Ancient Ones, led by the Serpent

MUMMU-TIAMAT and her male counterpart ABSU, against the ELDER GODS (called such in the N.) led by

the Warrior MARDUK, son of the Sea God ENKI, Lord of Magicians of this Side, or what could be called

"White Magicians" - although close examination of the myths of ancient times makes one pause before

attempting to judge which of the two warring factions was "good" or "evil". MARDUK won this battle - in

much the same way that later St. George and St. Michael would defeat the Serpent again - the cosmos was

created from the body of the slain Serpent, and man was created from the blood of the slain commander of the

Ancient Army, KINGU, thereby making man a descendent of the Blood of the Enemy, as well as the "breath"

of the Elder Gods; a close parallel to the "sons of God and daughters of men" reference in the Old Testament.

Yet, though the identity of the Victor is clear, there were - and are - certain persons and organisations that

dared side with the vanquished, believing the Ancient Ones to be a source of tremendous, and most

unbelievable, power.

Worship of the Ancient Ones in History

"Let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse Leviathan." -

JOB 3:8

S.H. Hooke, in his excellent Middle Eastern Mythology, tells us that the Leviathan mentioned in JOB, and

elsewhere in the Old Testament, is the Hebrew name given to the Serpent TIAMAT, and reveals that there was

in existence either a cult, or scattered individuals, who worshipped or called up the Serpent of the Sea, or

Abyss. Indeed, the Hebrew word for Abyss that is found in GENESIS 1:2 is, Hooke tells us, tehom, which the

majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon TIAMAT or Leviathan that is

identified closely with KUTULU or Cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other,

indicating that somehow KUTULU is the male counterpart of TIAMAT, similar to ABSU.

This monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. In China, however, there is an interesting twist.

Far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated to the erasure of mankind from the page of

existence, the Dragon is given a place of pre-eminence and one does not hear of a Chinese angel or saint

striving to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. The Chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced

fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same

telluric energies that are distilled in such places as Chartres Cathedral in France, Glastonbury Tor in England,

and the Ziggurats of Mesopotamia. In both the European and Chinese cultures, the Dragon or Serpent is said

to reside somewhere "below the earth"; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with

mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many.

However, in China, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known

in Europe and Palestine, and the symbol of might and kingship in China is still the Dragon. In the West, the

conjuration, cultivation, or worship of this Power was strenuously opposes with the advent of the Solar,

Monotheistic religions and those who clung to the Old Ways were effectively extinguished. The wholesale

slaughter of those called "Witches" during the Inquisition is an example of this, as well as the solemn and

twisted - that is to say, purposeless and unenlightened - celibacy that the Church espoused. For the orgone of

Wilhelm Reich is just as much Leviathan as the Kundalini of Tantrick adepts, and the Power raised by the

Witches. It has always, at least in the past two thousand years, been associated with occultism and essentially

with Rites of Evil Magick, or the Forbidden Magick, of the Enemy, and of Satan . . .

. . . and the twisting, sacred Spiral formed by the Serpent of the Caduceus, and by the spinning of the galaxies,

is also the same Leviathan as the Spiral of the biologists' Code of Life : DNA

The Goddess of the Witches

The current revival of the cult called WICCA is a manifestation of the ancient secret societies that sought to

tap this telluric, occult force and use it to their own advantage, and to the advantage of humanity as was the

original intent. The raising of the Cone of Power through the circle dancing is probably the simplest method of

attaining results in "rousing Leviathan", and has been used by societies as diverse as the Dervishes in the

Middle East and the Python Dancers of Africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the

Gnostic Christians, and the ones held every year in the past at Chartres.

The Witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the Male element of telluric Power,

generally prefer to give the greater honour to the Female Principle, personified as the Goddess. The Goddess

has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same Goddess.

That TIAMAT was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the Chinese as well as the Sumerians

perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. The Green

Dragon and the Red Dragon of the alchemists are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that

compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous Chinese yin-yang symbol.

But what of INANNA, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the Sumerians? She is

invoked in the NECRONOMICON and identified as the vanquisher of Death, for she descended into the

Underworld and defeated her sister, the Goddess of the Abyss, Queen ERESHKIGAL (possibly another name

for TIAMAT). Interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the Christian concept of Christ's death

and resurrection, among which the Crucifixion (INANNA was impaled on a stake as a corpse), the three days

in the Sumerian Hades, and the eventual Resurrection are outstanding examples of how Sumerian mythology

previewed the Christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years - a fact that beautifully

illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth.

Therefore, the Goddess of the Witches has two distinct forms: the Ancient One, Goddess of the Dragon-like

telluric Power which is raised in Magickal rituals, and the Elder Goddess, Defeater of Death, who brings the

promise of Resurrection and Rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and

between incarnations in what is called the "Summerland".

Sumer-land?

Another hallmark of the Craft of the Wise is evident within the NECRONOMICON, as well as in general

Sumerian literature, and that is the arrangement of the cross-quarter days, which make up half of the Craft's

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