Gates of the Necronomicon | Anunnaki Revival - Crowley vs. Lovecraft

[nabu]

The point being made about the Lovecraftian "Necronomicon" is that the work alludes to a semantic and mythos that does not have a historical reference point or history of usage. I steer away from the purely "Lovecraftian" semantics for this reason alone. If anything, it does allude to Mesopotamia and the Anunnaki aliens but that doesn't mean it makes any more sense to confound the subject with more jargon. Just because we can give God, Enki, Marduk or in the above case, Inanna, an additional name doesn't mean we've gotten any farther or manifested a new being or cracked some code. I could just as easily create a planetary pantheon based on some other names instead of Norse, Roman or Greek ones more commonly seen in traditions - or we can create a host of demons and angels with various names ending in -AL or -EL or -LA ... or better still we can try to give numeric equivalents to all of these figures and see if anything lines up that way... ...the ridiculousness of the New Age is unending. While I firmly believe and have witnessed the verification behind the concepts, the interpretations themselves that run rampant in the world... ...well, what can I say? Sometimes it gets hard to hold back the vomit.

[hybride]

We may have not cracked a code, but it's a step toward unification (at least, I like to think of it that way).

[lil gremlin]

the concepts are rooted to the ancient of days as they can be actually understood and resarched and not just compared to fantasies and interpretations along the way. why would i want to know marduk as thor or whatever when he's not, hes just seen that way later. i like this work because it puts me back in touch with where things really came from and not just where people think they came from

[hybride]

It's a way to trace the evolution of gods as well - to see how far they went, to what cultures they've influenced, etc.

Then again, am more of a historical buff, and stuff like this fascinates me than the magick and the summoning.

[lil gremlin]

history is nice...if you can apply it to the present...and the future...otherwise it just seems like stories. maybe the emphasis shouldnt be on evocation but it should be on something pragmatic or essential to this world and life.

[nabu]

Our emphasis is self-honesty truth seeking as always - ritualism simply aids in reconditioning the human psyche, sometimes requiring dramatic enactments in order to rival existing programming.