The Mardukite NecroGate blog continues the amazing story from the new release from the Council of Nabu-Tutu (Mardukite Truth Seeker Press), an excerpt from the recent post: Simon Necronomicon – The History, Origins & Truth Behind the Legendary Grimoire.
Newly released for 2012, “Stargate to the Abyss: The Mardukite Guide to the Simon Necronomicon” (Liber 555) by Joshua Free, also released as “The Necronomicon For Beginners“, presents the Truth Behind the Legend…
“Significant attention is given toward H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos in the “Mardukite” volume “Liber R” (released as Necronomicon Revelations, also available in the Mardukite Year-2 anthology, Gates of the Necronomicon). Little of such details will be repeated in the current discourse, Liber 555, for the explicit purposes that: outside of the name and title Necronomicon there is actually no reflection between the Simon Necronomicon and the work of H.P. Lovecraft – with the exception that certain perceptions and world-views could be paralleled based on the way in which the surface Judeo Christian world might perceive the type of lore and knowledge genuinely (historically) alluded to concerning the ancient Anunnaki traditions of the Sumerian and Babylonian cultures.” (Excerpted from Liber 555)
“It is the title – Necronomicon – that seems to confuse some and force others into debate concerning what the Simon Necronomicon is in light of what we know or might allude from the references given in Lovecraftian renderings. If we remove the title from the work altogether, then we might see what the Simon work has to offer in a more self-honest angle and that it points not to a synchronicity with what we might glean from the writings of a poverty-stricken writer plagued with nightmares (referring to Lovecraft), but rather to a far more ancient pocket of lore able to be dug from the sands of Mesopotamia – where what we know to be the case concerning the prehistoric Anunnaki has a farsweeping difference than the pictures painted by the stories dubbed as the genre of “Cthulhu Mythos” after Lovecraft’s own death – for he never once referred to his writings in this way while living, nor did he intend for a true and complete ‘pantheon’ to be discerned from his references.” (Liber 555)
“Up until the current “Mardukite” efforts and the works of Joshua Free, few of the publicly visible “New Age” writers and occult spokespeople really had much to say concerning the Simon Necronomicon – many of them wishing it would just go away, or at the very least, that people would stop bothering them about it. Needless to say, in the post-Lovecraftian world it was, up until the “Mardukite” efforts, the only of the ‘possible versions’ available to the public that was of ‘true’ and ‘authentic’ merit in regards to a historical tradition. Many people criticized the Simon Necronomicon for not being Lovecraftian enough – which was interesting, since the same people also said that the book had been invented by Lovecraft.” (Excerpted from Liber 555, available as “Stargate to the Abyss” or “Necronomicon for Beginners“.)
“The myriad of arguments that ensue around the work are all easily dissolved with the acid-test of logic and semantics, but nonetheless, the debates become the more highly prized subject matter regarding the topic and the focus of most Necronomicon-oriented web sites, discourses, fact-files and other alleged “authorities” on the matter.” (Liber 555)
“Firstly, the debate over the title of the work has never been satisfactorily resolved by or to anyone. The use of the term by Lovecraft already comes from questionable sources (presumably his own dreams) – and why it should appear on an allegedly 7th-8th century manuscript is also unsettling, even assuming such to even be true. We have no real reason to believe that the Simon work should have held such a title, nor is the book ever referred to as such in its corpus. Therefore, the title itself may have been fabricated.” (Excerpted from Liber 555)
“One is then left to wonder: if the title used to label the work has been fabricated and is, in itself, the product of a fictional work by the hands of Lovecraft, to what validity might there even be to the Simon work using the title? Such is really an ignorant question, for the true seeker should not be so easily caught up in missing the forest for the trees. Again, the truth seeker is urged to disregard that one semantic for their pursuit into the mysteries in order to have a self-honest experience of the pathway – not one that is so easily tainted by an arbitrary filter put in your way to cause a distraction to any true ‘enlightenment’.” (Excerpted from “Stargate to the Abyss“, also available as “Necronomicon For Beginners“)
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“It may be the manifestation of a tangible book – wholly obscure for its time – with the title across the front: Necronomicon – is what really launched the success of the book (contents aside). For many, the chances to own and possess such a legendary work was a dream come true. But as with many dreams and wishes, the dreamer does not always know what is for their own higher good. As soon as the Necronomicon was celebrated or coming into being, it was just as quickly renounced for its existence – and not simply by the right-wing and others you would normally expect, but by the same pulp-fiction fans who rejoiced in its arrival!” ~ Liber-R, Necronomicon Revelations.