Book of Elven-Faerie | The Development of a Literary Legacy

[nabu]

Ever popular in the underground New Age movement and among many revival traditions today, The Book of Elven Faerie by Joshua Free has remained the cornerstone volume since 2006. While the “beta-version” reached high esteem on the internet, the Mardukite Truth Seeker Press opted to release a printed version of a revised and expanded edition on the 2010 Autumn Equinox (September).

Quote:For nearly five years we have been asked to release a printed version of the Book of Elven-Faerie, something that has been passed around in its “beta-version” among the electronic underground for nearly as long in various editions. The project was originally completed around the time of the Crossquarter release of “Merlyn’s Magick” (circa 2005) and then was rewritten again in the more commonly depicted (circa 2006). This began a cycle of continuous revisions that never satisfied me enough. It also seemed like I was going to be footing it alone – not depending on third-parties – if any work beyond the “Merlyn Stone Chronicles” was going to reach print.

This work is an enigma in the literary sense. It is a book of ever-changing light that cannot be truly made static in the mundane world of books and form that most folks have grown accustomed to. The very concepts themselves are enigmatic and require an entire re-evaluation of semantics and terminology that has been so conveniently impressed upon the masses. It was only after I set aside the idea of working with this specific perspective for a time that I was motivated to begin writing “Arcanum” in 2006, (now in a two volume set titled Magick & Mysticism) a work set forth under the same premise of the Book of Elven-Faerie.

Releasing the various “Mardukite Reports” (also known as the Mardukite Necronomicon Cycle) requires intensive research and experimentation conducted by the “umbrella” under which the Mardukite Chamberlains have functioned. For example, new directions are sometimes explored as a result of even the most innocently small comment or question raised on our network forum or from a fan. These things require our printed and published words to be in constant re-evaluation, an exceptionally time consuming task for myself even in the midst of the supplemental work performed by the Council of Nabu-Tutu…

…To get back to the original story, any attempts at examining the fundamental emphasis or main tenet (that actually served as the basis for founding Mardukite Ministries in 2008) would have to wait for their proper time, or else be completely misunderstood, washed away in a sea of trivial new age puffery.

The first year of the ministry was spent in essentially “grounding” it into solidity. “Arcanum” (the original Mardukite reference) was incorrectly interpreted as simply another A-to-Z reference (as had been prophetically predicted in the book’s preface). To secure some type of organization to the studies of those who have written to us to buy our books (most of which are not widely distributed outside the reach of our ministry), we had to bring the scope of the “unification” attempted in “Arcanum” down to the most reachable level. This was easy enough – to start at the beginning, the very well-spring source that had prompted this from the beginning – the Anunnaki. Our intent was then to culminate the most complete reference of this for our Year 1 participants, resulting in, after many editions and printings, an entire Necronomicon – The Anunnaki Bible.

Referencing the Necronomicon is touchy business, in both the academic world of book worms and the occult realm of spell-casters. I personally have had no fear in doing so since I was so publicly dragged into the arena from my teenage years by Daniel Harms & John Gonce when I was writing under the name “Merlyn Stone” (my pseudonym as a teenager, just in case people like Harms & Gonce did exactly what they did to the work I was releasing at that time…lmao). However, the ancient mythos and mysticism that we were intrigued by very closely resembled the type of work found in the Simon “Necronomicon” and hence the connection to the title. These days, for me at least, it has become familiar territory – a place to call “home”.

The legacy brought forth by the ancient Mesopotamian world (and Egyptian for that matter) did not die with them or we would not have anything near to the world that we have today. Their influence remains true. One might believe (or prefer to believe) that since we no longer live under the same conditions and guises of our ancestors, that we have somehow been able to escape their Truth – that it could not longer have application for us. Such is clearly not the case, nor did things end entirely with the lore and sagas of the Sumerians and Babylonians and other desert dwellers in a forgotten world – no indeed.

Mesopotamia was only the beginning. As time and geography took its hold onto the ancient source traditions, it… evolved! If it can be said that this ancient stream is indeed our well-spring of civilization (examined very intensely in the Necronomicon Anunnaki Bible), and if we are to try to seek the most complete “systems” that have been brought forth through time and space, there are no others that compare to both the beauty and current and functional revival relevance as the Druids – an aspect that is undoubtedly as misunderstood and just as often misrepresented as the mythos and magick of ancient Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt – and, as it turns out, is directly related via a “dragon lineage” that was seeded by a race that we can identify with as “Elves” or “Faerie” begun in ancient Sumeria and Eurasia and carried forth into the Western World by distinct tribes of Europe.

[Baylin]

Is everything in here found in the Druid of Necro that I purchased Nabu?

[nabu]

Yep. This is the original title of that work - and how most people, we found out, would prefer to have it. Some really don't like owning books that say "Necronomicon" - others can't live without 'em.

[Baylin]

Its whats inside that intrigues me, how does that old adage go???? lol

[nabu]

I agree - and yet we DO live in a world where titles and covers count. The Book of Elven Faerie was getting exposure before the Chamberlains were really even founded, so its kinda like going back to the roots. In either format - its still Liber D. I think its funny I will often get questions like this from posts when the post is actually taken from the same introductory preface in Druids.

[lil gremlin]

i can see why the tree would represent the book called elven faerie where the stonehenge cover was on the same book but called druids.

[nabu]

I love how this thread became about the aesthetics. LOL

[James Shammash Thomas]

I love this book in genrel. It was the one that really helped me to understand the connection between the two major cultuers I mainly study and begin to use them as one which feels much more complete to me.

[lil gremlin]

me too!

[James Shammash Thomas]

And for the record, Personally I love owning books with the tilte necronomicon somewhere! haha