Perhaps the greatest debate among the new age and literary community concerning the NECRONOMICON is the issue of its “authenticity.” This is a semantics argument that really has become a stumbling block for what has evolved to become an entire genre of true and verifiable methods of “Necronomicon Gnosis.”
This issue is raised in the introduction to NINE GATES OF THE KINGDOM OF SHADOWS, edited by Joshua Free:
“The writings of H.P. Lovecraft prompted a new face of the consciousness of the mystical movement (one obviously enshrouded in the freedom gained in fiction what some less artistic and creative occultists would only dream of attaining in their plethora of undertakings) but it was alluding to something that many misunderstood – as was undoubtedly the intention of the intelligences that prompted his visions. Too many folk have come and gone preaching their opposition to the “Necronomicon” – a title that may very well have been the absolute creation of Lovecraft (as this editor has never resolved to debate on that issue), even if by his own admission, for the sole purpose of amusement. To what end does this discredit the role taken in merely giving to the idea a name – to be the neo-biblical Adam of this generation, completely innocent in the undertaking of giving trivial names to the beasts and images encountered.“
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