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ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

rs of the night, they who make images and burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn unlawful grasses and herbs, and raise tremendous evils, and their words are never written down, it is said. but there are. and they are prayers of emptiness and darkness, which rob the spirit. hymn to the ancient ones they are lying down, the great old ones. the bolts are fallen and the fastenings are placed. the crowds are quiet and the people are quiet. the elder gods of the land the elder goddesses of the land shammash sin adad ishtar have gone to sleep in heaven. they are not pronouncing judgements. they are no deciding decisions. veiled is the night. the temple and the most holy places are quiet and dark. the judge of truth the father o

n charged, for that is the covenant. and if it be too large, it will grow too large and too fast and will become difficult to control. and one such demon was raised by that priest of jerusalem, abdul ben-martu, and was fed extensively on the sheep of the flocks of palestine, whereupon it grew to frightening proportion and eventually devoured him. but that was madness, for ben-martu worshipped the old ones, which is unlawful, as it is written. remember that the essences of the ancient ones are in all things, but that the essences of the elder gods are in all things that live, and this will prove of value to thee when the time comes. remember the arra, especially when dealing with them of fire, for they respect it, and no other. remember to keep the moon pure. beware of the cults of death, a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

to take, and the result is we have some very fine houses built by these excellent bricklayers; but strange to say, this is the fatalist's point of view, and a fatalistic science is indeed a cruel kind of oxymoron. as a matter of fact he is nothing of the kind; for, when he has exhausted his supply of bricks, he starts to look about for others, and when others cannot be found, he takes one of the old ones and picking it to pieces tries to discover of what it is made so that he may make more. what is small-pox? really, my friend, i do not know where it came from, or what it is, or how it originated; when a man catches it he either dies or recovers, please go away and don't ask me ridiculous questions! now this indeed would not be considered a very sensible view to adopt. and why? simply bec

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

boast, never threaten, never say you would wish iu ofanyone* engrave 134 80. if any person not in the circle, speak ofthe craft, say 'speak not to me of such, it frightensmc, tis evil luck to speak ofit' 81. for this reason, the christians have their spies everywhere 'ihese speak as if they were well affected to us, as if they wouldn't come into our meetings. saying 'my mother used to worship the old ones. i would i could go .myself' 82. to such as.these, ever deny all knowledge. 83. but to .others .ever say 'tis. foolish .men talk ofwitches flying through the air. to do so they must be as light as thistledown. and men say that witches all be blear-eyed old crones, so what pleasure can there beat a witch meeting such as folks talk on' 84. and say 'many wise men now say there be no such cre

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

. 78. 79. never boast, never threaten, never say you would wish ill of anyone. if any person not in the circle, speak of the craft, say "speak not to me of such, it frightens me 'tis evil luck to speak of it" 80. for this reason, the christians have their spies everywhere. these speak as if they were well affected to us, as if they would come to our meetings, saying "my mother used to worship the old ones. i would i could go myself" 81. 82. to such as these, ever deny all knowledge. but to others, ever say"'tis foolish men talk of witches flying through the air. to do so they must be as light as thistledown. and men say that witches all be blear-eyed old crones, so what pleasure can there be at a witch meeting such as folks talk on" 83. 84. and say "many wise men now say there be no such c

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

itioned by certain karmic influences which the advanced man has overcome, or is overcoming. the horoscope will be cast eventually on the basis of the soul ray, and then the zodiacal signs which govern the activities and the influence of the present group of planetary rulers will be considerably lessened. new planetary potencies (conveying zodiacal energies) will control and take precedence of the old ones, thus putting the man in touch with different forces. finally the time will come when he will be sensitive to the whole range of vibrations; charts will then be set up which will be called "charts of the crosses" and not simply indications of planetary influences in the twelve houses. i question whether there is any living astrologer capable of doing this as yet. these are the kind of cha

BALANONES TEMPLE OF SET FAQ

the darkness! from: balanone sun, 20 dec 1998 it's a challenge. that hypothetical initiate would have to work at it- corresponding with as many setians as possible at the i* and ii* levels (for breadth of perspective) and with several members of the priesthood. he would have to take responsibility for maintaining correspondences, for establishing new ones to replace old ones that move on, and for demonstrating to the priesthood his level of knowledge, his activity and study, and his advancement, along setian lines. it's a job. it's not easy. magister l. was the only setian in finland, and he had to work to overcome the difficulties inherent in demonstrating his xeper into the ii. magister w. faced the same challenges in germany some years earlier. magister k

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

to, and regulated by, the spirit of the moon, for the breath of its waters (tides. toward the close of the age (kalpa) of a great (root) race, the regents of the moon (the pitar fathers, or pitris) begin drawing harder, and thus flatten the wheel about its belt, when it goes down in some places and swells in others, and the swelling running toward the extremities (poles) new lands will arise and old ones be sucked in" we have but to read astronomical and geological works, to see the meaning of the above very clearly. scientists (modern specialists) have ascertained the influence of the tides on the geological distribution of land and water on the planets, and the shifting of the oceans with a corresponding subsidence and rise of continents and new lands. science knows, or thinks it knows

d the same question may be put now that was put then; it may be once more asked "how does it happen that the most advanced standpoint that has been reached in our times, only enables us to see in the dim distance up the alpine path of knowledge the monumental proofs that earlier explorers have left to mark the plateaux they had reached and occupied "if modern masters are so much in advance of the old ones, why do they not restore to us the lost arts of our postdiluvian forefathers? why do they not give us the unfading colours of luxor- the tyrian purple; the bright vermilion and dazzling blue which decorate the walls of this place, and are as bright as on the first day of their application? the indestructible cement of the pyramids and of ancient aqueducts; the damascus blade, which can be

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

adepts deny the nebular theory" and "is the sun merely a cooling mass- for the true occult teaching[[vol. 1, page] 529 mysterious sun fluid. viii. life, force, or gravity. the imponderable fluids have had their day "mechanical forces" are less talked about; science has put on a new face for this last quarter of a century; but gravitation has remained, owing its life to new combinations after the old ones had nearly killed it. it may answer scientific hypotheses very well, but the question is whether it answers as well to truth, and represents a fact in nature. attraction by itself is not sufficient to explain merely planetary motion; how can it presume to explain the rotatory motion in the infinitudes of space? attraction alone will never fill all the gaps, unless a special impulse is adm

DONALDTYSON NOMICON

, but because of the terrible things it hints about, matters better left undisturbed in the mud at the bottom of the subconscious sea of the human race. lovecraft's cthulhu mythos is a group of stories, poems and novels written by him and by other writers centered around the premise that at some dim time in prehistory the earth was ruled by a race of monstrous and evil entities known as the great old ones. they were cast down from their seats of power and driven from our world, but they did not cease to exist. they continue between the dimensions of normal time and space, dreaming and waiting for the time when they shall be able to rule the earth once again, as they did in days of old. on the matter of the great old ones, lovecraft wrote in his story the call of cthulhu "in the elder time

seats of power and driven from our world, but they did not cease to exist. they continue between the dimensions of normal time and space, dreaming and waiting for the time when they shall be able to rule the earth once again, as they did in days of old. on the matter of the great old ones, lovecraft wrote in his story the call of cthulhu "in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something had happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchers, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the

, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, moldy and shadowy, and full of dim rumors picked up in caverns beneath forgotten sea-bottoms" connected with the lost city of the old ones is the hideous chant "ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" which translates into english as "in his house at r'lyeh dead cthulhu waits dreaming" the old ones count among their number the blind idiot god azathoth; the all-in-one and one-in-all yog-sothoth who can travel between time and space; the hideously-piping nyarlathotep who is the unwelcome herald of the old ones; the

ureth, the ever-fertile black goat of the woodlands with a thousand young. these dreaded beings are dead in every normal human sense of the word, yet they cling to a strange super-dimensional vitality that seems to derive from the human unconscious mind. in forgotten backwaters of the world where degenerate and twisted tribes practice evil rituals, or among groups of decadent black magicians, the old ones cause dim memories of their former power and glory to stir. they form a bond with those who abandon their humanity and worship them, as the precursors of the human race did millions of years ago. certain locations on the earth where the veil between dimensions is thin, such as the frozen plateau of leng in antarctica, or irem, the arabian desert city of pillars, or the drowned r'lyeh, are

ions is thin, such as the frozen plateau of leng in antarctica, or irem, the arabian desert city of pillars, or the drowned r'lyeh, are particularly favorable for making this unholy contact. hints of their existence, and of how they may be contacted, are sometimes recorded in obscure occult texts such as the necronomicon. this is why the book is supposed to be so powerful, and so evil. for if the old ones succeed in forcing a doorway permanently open onto our time and space, they will destroy and enslave the world. the underlying theme of lovecraft's cthulhu mythos has many powerful echoes in the mythologies of ancient cultures around the world. it is probably for this reason that it struck such a chord of response in readers. we find in it similarities to the myth of the archons of gnosti

all of atlantis is in harmony with lovecraft's mythos as well, as are the more modern enochian communications of the elizabethan magician dr. john dee. the other day while i was reading the magic arts in celtic britain by lewis spence (first published in london by rider in 1945, i happened across this passage, which has bearing on the general topic of mythic correspondences with lovecraft's great old ones "but i must not close this chapter without some more particular reference to the nature of the darksome spirits who populated the submarine localities of which i have spoken. as i have said, these were the fomorians. the word implies 'dwellers under the sea, and they are perhaps best described as the gods of an ancient discredited pantheon, who were in opposition to the deities of light

de of eden, both recently reprinted by skoob books. a very clear distinction must be made between the underlying mythic current that lends lovecraft's stories their intuited sense of plausibility, and the actual details contained in the stories, most of which are completely fictional and had no existence outside of lovecraft's fertile imagination. the actual names and characteristics of the great old ones are fictional. the places associated with them, such as the plateau of leng, are fictional. the book the necronomicon is fictional. perceiving that so many gullible human beings were willing to believe that such a book as the necronomicon existed, writers came along who wrote collections of quasi-occult gibberish and titled them the necronomicon. there is nothing particularly wrong with t

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

t of as occult in western society were integral to the traditional tribal religions in the southern two-thirds of africa, especially those concerning sympathetic magic, the cult of the dead, and witchcraft. during the history of this region, the basically pantheistic and polytheistic religions have also been cross-fertilized with islamic and christian teachings, creating new beliefs and modifying old ones. today a large but undetermined number of africans follow traditional beliefs involving deities, ghosts, and spirits as well as an array of special powers in nature presided over by the supreme entity adopted from christianity and islam. the latter, somewhat remote from everyday problems, is believed to largely operate on humans through the many other deities. southern africa among the zu

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

ked and bayed, sang and chanted, cried like babies, and fainted dead away, often remaining unconscious for hours on end. the third great awakening (1875.1915) followed the reconstruction period after the civil war, as the country attempted to redefine itself as it moved toward the industrial revolution. each of these awakening periods swept through the growing nation, creating new sects, reviving old ones, and inspiring an infectious spiritual fervor. among the most famous evangelists of the great awakenings included charles finney, dwight moody, and billy sunday, each paving the way for revivalists of future generations. a peculiar form of revivalism is said to have arisen by the late twentieth century, culminating with the explosion of television evangelists in the politically conservati

FAUST

rling smoke and glow come into view. a host is streaming to the devil! see them ride! full many a riddle there must be untied. mephistopheles yet many a riddle will be tied anew. just let the great world whiz and riot; we ll house us meanwhile here in quiet. we ve known it as a fact of ancient date that men make little worlds within the great. i see young witches stripped and naked over there and old ones wisely veiled, they don t go bare. for my sake be a friend to all; the fun is great, the trouble small. i hear the sound of instruments arise! accursed din! one must get used to that ado. come! come with me! it can t be otherwise. i ll step up here; i ll introduce you too, and thus in debt to me bind you anew. that is no little space. what say you, friend? just look out there! you scarce

w but none may enter in. the dragons, mottled, golden-scaled, are playing; there gapes the shark but you laugh at his baying. though now the court surrounds you in delight, still such a throng has never met your sight. yet long you re not deprived of forms endearing; the nereids come curiously nearing your splendid palace in the cool of ocean, the young with fish-like, shy, and wanton motion, the old ones prudent. thetis learns of this, gives her new peleus hand and mouth to kiss.the seat, then, on olympus wide domain. emperor. over the air i leave to you to reign; quite soon enough does one ascend that throne. mephistopheles earth, lord supreme, already is your own. emperor what brought you here to ravish us with sights directly out of the arabian nights? if like scheherazade you are inve

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

hey are occupiers of the goods of others, or enlargcrs of their own goods; and finally whether those who take their part, increase and establish the public good, as did their predecessors who were of an opposite way of thinking, or whether they unite with these men to dissipate, squander and devour it, and whilst they discourage works, extinguish all zeal both to perform new works and to conserve old ones.2 in these and other passages against the "pedants" who despise good works (the reference, of course, is to the doctrine of justification by faith) and destroy the good works of their predecessors, 1 spaccio, dial, i (dial, ital, pp. 623-4. 2 ibid, dial. 2 dial, ital, p. 662. 226 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform there rises, by a curious kind of double reference, a vision of

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

c) and empowered with solar phallic energy (set as midnight sun. an interesting note (with some biblio-mancy) is that in the last page of chapter 7 of nightside of eden page 76, grant brings reference to "the book of dyzan, and then this heralds chapter 8 (the number of submind and chaos. there also seems to be some relation to watery primordial teratomas which shall herald a return to chaos- the old ones, water signs: scorpio)"my sun is in scorpio. the relation to babalon also holds some connection with binah and we definitely have some crone type destructive energies here. the number of babylon is 156 which is also the number of chaos. with binah we have links to set, which was integral with the rite of god-hood. 76=7+6=13 and we have a ton of links here, but check out the relations to g

s if you will) each had their own idea as to how the game should be played. she vanished after this and i knew she wanted me to partake of her bliss, instead of thinking on it. now i speak of the void. this was terrifying. it was isolated, cold, bleak, black and empty (all in one breath. it was here that things dwelled which were not and would not be. these things were very much like the chthonic old ones. they existed in another universe that touched our manifold at every point. magick is the ultimate language. there were things in the void which were not magick. this was very, let me repeat, very, scary, dark, hopeless, and dead beyond any words i could use. the holy guardian angel operation is a revelation of ones wholeness. this being, which is many beings comprised together "in the fu

y "guardian angel" to meet (myself of god. the sigils were received after each ritual of the rog. each rite was performed as instructed by a (this was written of previously, but i did not know it's name. the first two rituals were formalized, but the third was done (astral invocations) on my birthday night with dance astrally. ketamine was used throughout. mdma (babalons sacrament) with ketamine (old ones sacrament) tonight. i offered prayers and desire for communication and researched the sigils and found some interesting links. the sigil [2] was revealed tonight and is a fusion of heaven and earth. i have not found any "practical" use of these sigils yet, but they have brought me in contact with, what i firmly believe to be my hga, the "perfected" form of me "in the future" of whom i am

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

ance of subsequent stories, an underlying pattern began to appear in lovecraft s work. in the central theme of the call of cthulhu, written in 1926, this design is clearly revealed. the subject of the story is the suggestion that, at certain times when the conjunctions of the stars assume the correct aspect, certain dark forces can influence sensitive individuals, giving them visions of the great old ones, godlike aliens of extraterrestrial origin. these entities exist in another dimension, or on a different vibrational level, and can only enter this universe though specific window areas or psychic gateways- a concept fundamental to many occult traditions. cthulhu is the high priest of the old ones, entombed in the sunken city of r lyeh, where he awaits the time of their return. he is desc

of r lyeh, where he awaits the time of their return. he is described as a winged, tentacled anthropoid of immense size, formed from a semi-viscous substance which recombines after his apparent destruction at the conclusion of the tale. the narrative also gives evidence, drawn from various archaeological and mythological sources, of the continuing existence of a cult dedicated to the return of the old ones, its exponents ranging from inhabitants of the south seas islands to the angakoks of greenland, and practitioners of voodoo in the southern united states. lovecraft also gives a brief description of the world after its re-inheritance by the great old ones: the time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the great old ones; free and wild beyond good and evil, with law

land, and practitioners of voodoo in the southern united states. lovecraft also gives a brief description of the world after its re-inheritance by the great old ones: the time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the great old ones; free and wild beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling injoy. then the liberated old ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. 2 there is a marked similarity between this passage and the teachings of many actual secret societies of the past, including the assassins, the gnostics, and the templars, but in particular to the law of thelema, as expounded by lovecraft s con

owley saw the return of such atavistic deities as being in full accord with the progression of the aeons. following the call of cthulhu, lovecraft produced a series of a dozen or more stories which contain the central core of the inter-related mythology which later became known as the cthulhu mythos. in these stories, he describes various rites surviving on earth since the primordial reign of the old ones, and preserved in more recent times in esoteric grimoires such as the necronomicon through which the evocation of the alien gods could be effected. in the case of charles dexter ward, he suggests that the very roots of the magical arts lie in the ritual veneration of these trans-dimensional beings, attributing a common and unifying source to the many and diverse strands of occult belief

n both ways within the same text. by comparing the references to each of these deities in the mythos stories, it is possible to reconstruct their inter-relationship in terms of a hierarchy, and to examine the correspondences between lovecraft s imaginary pantheon and those of pre-existing religious and mythological systems. basically, the gods of the cthulhu mythos fall into two groups, the great old ones and the elder gods, though of the latter, only nodens is mentioned by name. between ultimate chaos and the physical world stand yog-sothoth and azathoth, who share dominion over the lesser deities, pre-human races, and mankind. yog-sothoth is the outer manifestation of the primal chaos, the gate though which those outside must enter. in the dunwich horror, lovecraft writes, the old ones w

and the elder gods, though of the latter, only nodens is mentioned by name. between ultimate chaos and the physical world stand yog-sothoth and azathoth, who share dominion over the lesser deities, pre-human races, and mankind. yog-sothoth is the outer manifestation of the primal chaos, the gate though which those outside must enter. in the dunwich horror, lovecraft writes, the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be. not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. yog-sothoth knows the gate. yog-sothoth is the gate. yag-sothoth is the key and the guardian of the gate. past, present, future, all are one in yog-sothoth. he knows where the old ones broke through of old, and where they shall break through again. his

cle, which is unleashed via nuclear fusion. he is the antithesis of creation, the ultimately negative aspect of elemental fire. magically, his attribution is to passive spirit. subservient to the idiot god is a group referred to as the other gods the amorphous dancers who attend azathoth at the throne of chaos. their soul and messenger is nyarlathotep, the crawling chaos, who mediates between the old ones and their human followers. his avatar manifests as a human figure dressed in black, with jet black skin but caucasian features. in this form he is recognisable as the black man of the witches sabbath an incarnation commonly associated with satan. he is depicted in seventeenth century tracts on witchcraft as a creature with ebony skin, the long black robe of a priest, and a conical hat a d

copy in december 1917. however, from passing references to crowley in one of lovecraft s letters, identifying him with a character in a story by h. r. wakefield6, it would appear unlikely that lovecraft knew much of the great beast, except by reputation. the elemental nature of shub-niggurath is that of earth, symbolized by the sign of taurus. his station is the north. hastur is the voice of the old ones an elemental deity assigned to the air, or the void of outer space. on earth, the station of hastur is the east, and his sign is aquarius. the god dagon was appropriated by lovecraft from ancient hebraic texts, in which he features as a god of the philistines. in the mythos, he is the progenitor of the seas, the watery equivalent to shub-niggurath and lord of the amphibious deep ones. his

t, and his sign is aquarius. the god dagon was appropriated by lovecraft from ancient hebraic texts, in which he features as a god of the philistines. in the mythos, he is the progenitor of the seas, the watery equivalent to shub-niggurath and lord of the amphibious deep ones. his elemental attribution is water, and his number is 777. cthulhu himself is referred to as the high priest of the great old ones. his other titles include, he who is to come, lord of r lyeh, and lord of the watery abyss. cthulhu is the initiator of the dream-visions sent forth to mankind from the tomb-city of r lyeh. the formula of his invocation is supplied by lovecraft in the curious ritual phrase, of non-human origin, which is chanted by the worshippers of the cthulhu cult: ph nglui mglw nafh cthulhu r lyeh wgah

eady stated, nodens is the only member of the elder gods to be mentioned by name, and lovecraft gives no further information concerning him. the sign of the elder gods is described as an upright pentagram containing an eye-shaped sigil. the points of the pentagram symbolize the four elements, plus that of spirit, the fifth or hidden element. combined, they balance the mono-elemental nature of the old ones, suggesting that the elder gods may exist on a higher plane the eye suggests the opening if the ajana chakra, or third eye, symbolizing the facility of astral vision. in one sense, the beings described above are designated gods in as much as they are worshipped by great numbers of other beings, both human and non-human. amongst these are the elder races, who inhabited the earth in prehist

or third eye, symbolizing the facility of astral vision. in one sense, the beings described above are designated gods in as much as they are worshipped by great numbers of other beings, both human and non-human. amongst these are the elder races, who inhabited the earth in prehistoric times, and from whose presence man s very existence derives. the first of these races to visit the earth was the old ones, who came down from the stars to build their black stone city on the continent of antarctica. they are described as having starfish-shaped heads, and tubular bodies covered with tentacles and cilia. their servants are the mindless, protoplasmic shoggoths. in the novel, at the mountains of madness, lovecraft records the wars which took place between the old ones and other extra-terrestrial

gs, the head and organs attached to extendable limbs spreading out from their apexes. according to the story, the shadow out of time, the great race were able to effect mind transference with any living being, and had accumulated a vast collection of information on the various cultures that exist in the universe. this completes the pantheon of non-human entities. in turn, the worship of the great old ones is continued on earth by secret societies whose traditions and rituals preserve the hidden knowledge of these elder races. lovecraft documents three such cults, the cult of cthulhu, the esoteric order of dagon, centred in innsmouth (actually newburyport, massachusetts, and the starry wisdom sect. in the haunter of the dark, lovecraft describes how the latter sect held meetings in a church

rough him a series of magical calls, or keys, in a language called enochian. this language has since been studied and analysed by many historians, who confirm that it is indeed an authentic and consistent idiom, without resemblance to any other still in existence. it is even more remarkable that, in recently deciphered passages from the book of enoch, words approximating to the names of the great old ones, as they appear in the cthulhu mythos have been discovered. from around 1930, lovecraft periodically assured his correspondents that he was about to give up writing, but forced himself to continue to make the effort to produce new fiction. in 1935, a year after the completion of his final story, the shadow out of time, he developed an illness which was finally diagnosed in 1937 as cancer

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ife. many of his tales came to embody a mythos he seemed to be consciously unaware of. it was the tale of the necronomicon. i certainly do not aim to spend much time outlining the necromonicon myth, however, a basic summary will give you the drift. the necronomicon outlines a period in time when savage and heartless gods ruled the earth, these were violent and malefic entities who were called the old ones (archons. at some time in the dim reaches of the past they caused so much havoc on earth that the elder gods locked them away in another dimension and sealed the gateway. modern necronomicon tales discuss how atomic energy and the decay of modern society has eroded the seals and that the old ones are returning. legend has it that man will have to decide on which side to fight in a cosmic

ty has eroded the seals and that the old ones are returning. legend has it that man will have to decide on which side to fight in a cosmic battle of frightening proportions. another modern link with this myth is the work of occultist kenneth grant, a enigmatic figure who originally carried on the research of aleister crowley. his published works seem to be obsessed with attempting to manifest the old ones, indeed many occultists believe he is perhaps possessed by the very forces he evoked. in his later works, hecate's fountain and the mauve zone there is little to save his reputation. descriptions of alien sexual encounters and the death of students through possession by the old ones certainly suggest that grant and many others are under the influence of the demiurgic kingdom. while we may

e influence of the demiurgic kingdom. while we may think some of these occult occurrences are just madness, if we correlate the tales with the biblical story of fallen angels we begin to see a hauntingly similar pattern. we are moving at lightning speed towards the omega day and the gateway is opening, if you are not on the side of treasury of light (the elder gods, then you are fair-game for the old ones. perhaps some of the strange descriptions of the books of revelation and daniel are not that farfetched after all! gnostic theurgy page 220 the resurfacing of the gnosis as the heraldic period moves towards aquarius mankind is heading towards a new period of both hope and destruction. the kali yuga is also accelerating towards its conclusion in blood and annihilation, ragnarok is certainl

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ubbard. we have new age centers that teach nothing useful, ufo message-oriented cults waving flashlights on mountains, and, as i have shown end-of-the-world doomsayers touting this or that grand cosmic alignment, harmonic convergence or polar shift. the ufo cults have clearly influenced even kenneth grant s so-called typhonian oto, which appears to use valid magical currents to pursue the hideous old ones of h.p. lovecraft s fictional cthulhu mythos. phil dick s last efforts were marred by insipid trivial ufo cult channelings- the kind of stuff that was old hat to hardened ufologists by the late 1950s. compare phil dick s musings in the last testament with, for example, the mark probert or dick miller or gloria lee bird materials of ufo contactee lore. the magick of the black lodge can be

, in the hands of crowley or king, is now no longer obscure. 68 allen h. greenfield ancient gnostic symbol. 69 11 how to defeat the ufonaut body snatchers: law of the battle of conquest the purpose of this series of ceremonies performed by parsons and hubbard was to unseal an inter-dimensional gateway that had been sealed in deep antiquity, thereby allowing other-dimensional entities known as the old ones access to our space/time continuum. george c. andrews, extra-terrestrial friends and foes enochian is the lingua franka of the space races, much as swahili was the lingua franka of the many african !dnguages. enochian is the correct time-tested traditional way for earthlings to communicate with extra-terrestrials. george c. andrews, ibid. the inner order tells us clearly, through the new

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nf. as. gesceap-hwil, orleg-hwtt, beow. 52. 4849. 5817, os. orlag-huila, hel. 103, 8, and ohg. hmlsdlida.1 then there is an on. audha, swed. ode, destiny, and au^inn fato concessus: auffna rae^r hvors manns lifi/ rules every man s life, fornald. sog. 1, 95. our modern words, not introduced till late, achicksal (fr. schicken aptare, conf. geschickt aptus, verhangnis, fiigung, do not come up to the old ones in simplicity or strength. to the nouns scapu, lagu/ correspond the verbs to shape, to lay, which are used in a special sense of the decrees of fate (pp. 407. 410: ist tha kindee sfcepen (is it shaped for the child) says the 0. fris. law 49, 10. but we also meet with an on. cetla (destinare, to intend for some one, ohg. ahton and perhaps ahtilon, mhg. ahten, and beslahten, as ahte and sla

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hin which they could he cal led forth. the visions that they imparted to us concerning the optimum environment for conjuration definitely belonged to the .baroque. school of magic- cellars, clouds of incense, lots of paraphernalia etc. 27 evoking yog-sothoth introduction one of the aims of the esoteric order of dagon is to develop effective magical techniques with which to interact with the great old ones. as a member of the pylon of yog-sothoth lodge, i have become increasingly interested in the possibility of ritually evoking this entity as a tangible phenomena. the aim of this article is to expound a possible methodology by which entities such as yog-sothoth can be contacted, drawing together research in different fields of enquiry, and exploring how they relate to the cthulhu mythos. i

ch as the qabalah (though obviously, it may provide a useful parallel, the most obvious place to look for guidelines is lovecraft.s fiction itself. from this, we find that for example, in the dunwich horror, lovecraft clearly illustrates that .hilltop rites, associated with stone circles and strange geophysical phenomena, are a key when approaching entities such as yog-sothoth. bringing the great old ones into our dimension requires some form of .gate, which in mythos tales, is often a wild outdoor site, a stone circle, tower, or a similar type of power spot. lovecraft is also careful to point out that such sites have, in historical terms, a long history of strange manifestations associated with them. again and again, he places great emphasis on the folklore of those who live on the border

hts theory which in part explains ufo encounters as a purely terrestrial phenomena, earth mysteries research is continuing 29 to document evidence to support and further edify deveraux.s ideas. reading accounts of earth light sightings and their relationship to specific regions and underground activity is for me, very reminiscent of lovecraft.s accounts of the activities associated with the great old ones. what is perhaps also significant for the modern magician is that very often, stone circles and other sacred sites are situated in regions where geological faulting takes place. deveraux proposes that the sites perhaps served to amplify and focus the natural occurrence of light phenomena. there is a wealth of folklore worldwide which could be related to the appearance of earth lights, fro

y sources. as to the entity yog-sothoth, who.s appearance in the mythos triggered this lengthy chain of synthesis; some modern magicians, notably those drawing heavily upon the ideas of kenneth grant, have drawn a parallel between yog-sothoth and the demon choronzon, evoked by aleister crowley and victor neuburg in the gobi desert. again, the dunwich horror provides us with a key passage: 39 .the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be, not in the spaces we know, but between them. they walk serene and primal, undimensioned, and to us unseen. yog sothoth knows the gate. yog-sothoth is the gate. yog-sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. past, present, future, all are one in yog-sothoth. he knows where the old ones broke through of old, and where they shall break thr

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could deal with computers was mr. spock! so he proceeded to invoke mr. spock, by learning all he could about spock and going round saying i never will understand humans until he was thoroughly spock-ified. and he got an a, so there! and so, back to the cthulhu mythos. lovecraft himself was of the opinion that fear, particularly fear of the unknown, was the strongest emotion attached to the great old ones. the reason why i like to work with that mythos occasionally is that the great old ones are outside most human mythologies, reflecting the shadows of the giants in norse myths, the pre- olympian titans in greek myths, and other groups of universebuilders who are thought to be too chaotic for the polite company of the gods of the ordered universe. for me too, the nature of the great old on

ther groups of universebuilders who are thought to be too chaotic for the polite company of the gods of the ordered universe. for me too, the nature of the great old ones as shadowy beings who can only be partially glimpsed is attractive- they can t be assimilated and bound into any orthodox systems of magick and i get much fun from working out suitable approaches for working with them. the great old ones have a very primal nature, which for me provides the emotional buffer for magical exploration. having said all that, and no doubt left you thinking uurgh, weird person, he likes messing round with tentacled slimies, 40 phil hine i might also mention that i ve had some interesting results from working with a mythic system based on (blush) c.s. lewis s narnia books. the interesting thing ab

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rava portuguese from the cape verde islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. but before many questions were asked, it became manifest that something far deeper and older than negro fetishism was involved. degraded and ignorant as they were, the creatures held with surprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith. they worshipped, so they said, the great old ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. those old ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. this was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark

bring the earth again beneath his sway. some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him. meanwhile no more must be told. there was a secret which even torture could not extract. mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few. but these were not the great old ones. no man had ever seen the old ones. the carven idol was great cthulhu, but none might say whether or not the others were precisely like him. no one could read the old writing now, but things were told by word of mouth. the chanted ritual was not the secret- that was never spoken aloud, only whispered. the chant meant only this "in his house at r'lyeh dead cthulhu waits dreaming" only two

of them, he said the deathless chinamen had told him, were still be found as cyclopean stones on islands in the pacific. they all died vast epochs of time before men came, but there were arts which could revive them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. they had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought their images with them. these great old ones, castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. they had shape- for did not this star-fashioned image prove it- but that shape was not made of matter. when the stars were right, they could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, they could not live. but although they no longer lived, they would never really die. they all lay in stone

ir bodies. the spells that preserved them intact likewise prevented them from making an initial move, and they could only lie awake in the dark and think whilst uncounted millions of years rolled by. they knew all that was occurring in the universe, for their mode of speech was transmitted thought. even now they talked in their tombs. when, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the great old ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals. then, whispered castro, those first men formed the cult around tall idols which the great ones shewed them; idols brought in dim eras from dark stars. that cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great cthulhu fr

whispered castro, those first men formed the cult around tall idols which the great ones shewed them; idols brought in dim eras from dark stars. that cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great cthulhu from his tomb to revive his subjects and resume his rule of earth. the time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the great old ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. then the liberated old ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient

illing and revelling in joy. then the liberated old ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return. in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchres, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and the high-priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the

the high-priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, mouldy and shadowy, and full of dim rumours picked up in caverns beneath forgotten sea-bottoms. but of them old castro dared not speak much. he cut himself off hurriedly, and no amount of persuasion or subtlety could elicit more in this direction. the size of the old ones, too, he curiously declined to mention. of the cult, he said that he thought the centre lay amid the pathless desert of arabia, where irem, the city of pillars, dreams hidden and untouched. it was not allied to the european witch-cult, and was virtually unknown beyond its members. no book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless chinamen said that there were double meanings in t

a heightened vividness and darkened with dread of a giant monster's malign pursuit, whilst an architect had gone mad and a sculptor had lapsed suddenly into delirium! and what of this storm of april 2nd- the date on which all dreams of the dank city ceased, and wilcox emerged unharmed from the bondage of strange fever? what of all this- and of those hints of old castro about the sunken, star-born old ones and their coming reign; their faithful cult and their mastery of dreams? was i tottering on the brink of cosmic horrors beyond man's power to bear? if so, they must be horrors of the mind alone, for in some way the second of april had put a stop to whatever monstrous menace had begun its siege of mankind's soul. that evening, after a day of hurried cabling and arranging, i bade my host ad

nd well, finding it a thing of balefully exquisite workmanship, and with the same utter mystery, terrible antiquity, and unearthly strangeness of material which i had noted in legrasse's smaller specimen. geologists, the curator told me, had found it a monstrous puzzle; for they vowed that the world held no rock like it. then i thought with a shudder of what old castro had told legrasse about the old ones "they had come from the stars, and had brought their images with them" shaken with such a mental revolution as i had never before known, i now resolved to visit mate johansen in oslo. sailing for london, i reembarked at once for the norwegian capital; and one autumn day landed at the trim wharves in the shadow of the egeberg. johansen's address, i discovered, lay in the old town of king h

ly chose, dr armitage looked involuntarily over his shoulder at the open pages; the left-hand one of which, in the latin version, contained such monstrous threats to the peace and sanity of the world. nor is it to be thought (ran the text as armitage mentally translated it) that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be. not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. yog-sothoth knows the gate. yog-sothoth is the gate. yog-sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. past, present, future, all are one in yog-sothoth. he knows where the old ones broke through of old, and where they shall break thro

ledge, and demanding monstrous sacrifices. some of blake's entries show fear lest the thing, which he seemed to regard as summoned, stalk abroad; though he adds that the streetlights form a bulwark which cannot be crossed. of the shining trapezohedron he speaks often, calling it a window on all time and space, and tracing its history from the days it was fashioned on dark yuggoth, before ever the old ones brought it to earth. it was treasured and placed in its curious box by the crinoid things of antarctica, salvaged from their ruins by the serpent-men of valusia, and peered at aeons later in lemuria by the first human beings. it crossed strange lands and stranger seas, and sank with atlantis before a minoan fisher meshed it in his net and sold it to swarthy merchants from nighted khem. th

could not but feel a kind of terror at the changes which recent months had wrought. truly, the boy had drawn down nameless horrors from the skies. when the room with the formulae and the greenish dust was mentioned, charles shewed his first sign of animation. a quizzical look overspread his face as he heard what willett had read on the pad, and he ventured the mild statement that those notes were old ones, of no possible significance to anyone not deeply initiated in the history of magic. but, he added 'had you but known the words to bring up that which i had out in the cup, you had not been here to tell me this 'twas number 118, and i conceive you would have shook had you looked it up in my list in t'other room 'twas never raised by me, but i meant to have it up that day you came to invit

ingly scant, and was dealt with through highly efficient policing. punishments ranged from privilege deprivation and imprisonment to death or major emotion wrenching, and were never administered without a careful study of the criminal's inotivations. warfare, largely civil for the last few millennia though sometimes waged against reptilian or octopodic invaders, or against the winged, star-headed old ones who centered in the antarctic, was infrequent though infinitely devastating. an enormous army, using camera-like weapons which produced tremendous electrical effects, was kept on hand for purposes seldom mentioned, but obviously connected with the ceaseless fear of the dark, windowless elder ruins and of the great sealed trap-doors in the lowest subterranean levels. this fear of the basal

they was able to live both in ant aout o' water- what they call amphibians, i guess. the kanakys told 'em as haow folks from the other islands might wanta wipe 'an out if they got wind o' their bein' thar, but they says they dun't keer much, because they cud wipe aout the hull brood o' humans ef they was wiliin' to bother- that is, any as didn't be, sarten signs sech as was used onct by the lost old ones, whoever they was. but not wantin' to bother, they'd lay low shun anybody visited the island "when it come to matin' with them toad-lookin' fishes, the kanakys kind o' balked, but finally they larnt something as put a new face on the matter. seems that human folks has got a kind a' relation to sech water-beasts- that everything alive come aout o' the water onct an' only needs a little cha

of when the sea-bottom throws up some island with ruins older'n the deluge. pious cusses, these was- they didn't leave nothin' standin' on either the main island or the little volcanic islet excep' what parts of the ruins was too big to knock daown. in some places they was little stones strewed abaout- like charms- with somethin' on 'em like what ye call a swastika naowadays. prob'ly them was the old ones' signs. folks all wiped aout no trace o' no gold-like things an' none the nearby kanakys ud breathe a word abaout the matter. wouldn't even admit they'd ever ben any people on that island "that naturally hit obed pretty hard, seein' as his normal trade was doin' very poor. it hit the whole of innsmouth, too, because in seafarint days what profited the master of a ship gen'lly profited the

man ever walked the earth. i met also that which had been her grandmother. for eighty thousand years pth'thya-l'yi had lived in y'ha-nthlei, and thither she had gone back after obed marsh was dead. y'ha-nthlei was not destroyed when the upper-earth men shot death into the sea. it was hurt, but not destroyed. the deep ones could never be destroyed, even though the palaeogean magic of the forgotten old ones might sometimes check them. for the present they would rest; but some day, if they remembered, they would rise again for the tribute great cthulhu craved. it would be a city greater than innsmouth next time. they had planned to spread, and had brought up that which would help them, but now they must wait once more. for bringing the upper-earth men's death i must do a penance, but that wou

l change, and who were shunned and whispered about as mortals who had sold themselves to the strange beings. in one of the northeastern counties it seemed to be a fashion about 1800 to accuse eccentric and unpopular recluses of being allies or representatives of the abhorred things. as to what the things were- explanations naturally varied. the common name applied to them was "those ones" or "the old ones" though other terms had a local and transient use. perhaps the bulk of the puritan settlers set them down bluntly as familiars of the devil, and made them a basis of awed theological speculation. those with celtic legendry in their heritage- mainly the scotch-irish element of new hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in vermont on governor wentworth's colonial grants- linked them v

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nd certain other attributes clearly indicated; yet one could not be exact as to the limit of its later adaptations. the wings, after all, held a persistent suggestion of the aerial. how it could have undergone its tremendously complex evolution on a new-born earth in time to leave prints in archaean rocks was so far beyond conception as to make lake whimsically recall the primal myths about great old ones who filtered down from the stars and concocted earth life as a joke or mistake; and the wild tales of cosmic hill things from outside told by a folklorist colleague in miskatonic s english department. naturally, he considered the possibility of the pre-cambrian prints having been made by a less evolved ancestor of the present specimens, but quickly rejected this too-facile theory upon con

ousand million years- rocks laid down before the true life of earth had advanced beyond plastic groups of cells- rocks laid down before the true life of earth had existed at all. they were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths which things like the pnakotic manuscripts and the necronomicon affrightedly hint about. they were the great "old ones" that had filtered down from the stars when earth was young- the beings whose substance an alien evolution had shaped, and whose powers were such as this planet had never bred. and to think that only the day before danforth and i had actually looked upon fragments of their millennially fossilized substance- and that poor lake and his party had seen their complete outlines- it is of course

rary organs under hypnotic influence and thereby forming ideal slaves to perform the heavy work of the community. these viscous masses were without doubt what abdul alhazred whispered about as the "shoggoths" in his frightful necronomicon, though even that mad arab had not hinted that any existed on earth except in the dreams of those who had chewed a certain alkaloidal herb. when the star-headed old ones on this planet had synthesized their simple food forms and bred a good supply of shoggoths, they allowed other cell groups to develop into other forms of animal and vegetable life for sundry purposes, extirpating any whose presence became troublesome. with the aid of the shoggoths, whose expansions could be made to lift prodigious weights, the small, low cities under the sea grew to vast

allowed other cell groups to develop into other forms of animal and vegetable life for sundry purposes, extirpating any whose presence became troublesome. with the aid of the shoggoths, whose expansions could be made to lift prodigious weights, the small, low cities under the sea grew to vast and imposing labyrinths of stone not unlike those which later rose on land. indeed, the highly adaptable old ones had lived much on land in other parts of the universe, and probably retained many traditions of land construction. as we studied the architecture of all these sculptured palaeogean cities, including that whose aeon-dead corridors we were even then traversing, we were impressed by a curious coincidence which we have not yet tried to explain, even to ourselves. the tops of the buildings, wh

rs of thin, horizontal scalloped disks capping cylindrical shafts. this was exactly what we had seen in that monstrous and portentous mirage, cast by a dead city whence such skyline features had been absent for thousands and tens of thousands of years, which loomed on our ignorant eyes across the unfathomed mountains of madness as we first approached poor lake s ill-fated camp. of the life of the old ones, both under the sea and after part of them migrated to land, volumes could be written. those in shallow water had continued the fullest use of the eyes at the ends of their five main head tentacles, and had practiced the arts of sculpture and of writing in quite the usual way- the writing accomplished with a stylus on waterproof waxen surfaces. those lower down in the ocean depths, though

ntacles, and had practiced the arts of sculpture and of writing in quite the usual way- the writing accomplished with a stylus on waterproof waxen surfaces. those lower down in the ocean depths, though they used a curious phosphorescent organism to furnish light, pieced out their vision with obscure special senses operating through the prismatic cilia on their heads- senses which rendered all the old ones partly independent of light in emergencies. their forms of sculpture and writing had changed curiously during the descent, embodying certain apparently chemical coating processes- probably to secure phosphorescence- which the basreliefs could not make clear to us. the beings moved in the sea partly by swimming- using the lateral crinoid arms- and partly by wriggling with the lower tier of

back into the sea. for their prehistoric flights through cosmic space, legend said, they absorbed certain chemicals and became almost independent of eating, breathing, or heat conditions- but by the time of the great cold they had lost track of the method. in any case they could not have prolonged the artificial state indefinitely without harm. being nonpairing and semivegetable in structure, the old ones had no biological basis for the family phase of mammal life, but seemed to organize large households on the principles of comfortable space-utility and- as we deduced from the pictured occupations and diversions of co-dwellers- congenial mental association. in furnishing their homes they kept everything in the center of the huge rooms, leaving all the wall spaces free for decorative treat

rency. though the culture was mainly urban, some agriculture and much stock raising existed. mining and a limited amount of manufacturing were also practiced. travel was very frequent, but permanent migration seemed relatively rare except for the vast colonizing movements by which the race expanded. for personal locomotion no external aid was used, since in land, air, and water movement alike the old ones seemed to possess excessively vast capacities for speed. loads, however, were drawn by beasts of burden- shoggoths under the sea, and a curious variety of primitive vertebrates in the later years of land existence. these vertebrates, as well as an infinity of other life forms- animal and vegetable, marine, terrestrial, and aerial- were the products of unguided evolution acting on life cel

to possess excessively vast capacities for speed. loads, however, were drawn by beasts of burden- shoggoths under the sea, and a curious variety of primitive vertebrates in the later years of land existence. these vertebrates, as well as an infinity of other life forms- animal and vegetable, marine, terrestrial, and aerial- were the products of unguided evolution acting on life cells made by the old ones, but escaping beyond their radius of attention. they had been suffered to develop unchecked because they had not come in conflict with the dominant beings. bothersome forms, of course, were mechanically exterminated. it interested us to see in some of the very last and most decadent sculptures a shambling, primitive mammal, used sometimes for food and sometimes as an amusing buffoon by th

decadent sculptures a shambling, primitive mammal, used sometimes for food and sometimes as an amusing buffoon by the land dwellers, whose vaguely simian and human foreshadowings were unmistakable. in the building of land cities the huge stone blocks of the high towers were generally lifted by vast-winged pterodactyls of a species heretofore unknown to paleontology. the persistence with which the old ones survived various geologic changes and convulsions of the earth s crust was little short of miraculous. though few or none of their first cities seem to have remained beyond the archaean age, there was no interruption in their civilization or in the transmission of their records. their original place of advent to the planet was the antarctic ocean, and it is likely that they came not long

y. with the upheaval of new land in the south pacific tremendous events began. some of the marine cities were hopelessly shattered, yet that was not the worst misfortune. another race- a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding to fabulous prehuman spawn of cthulhu- soon began filtering down from cosmic infinity and precipitated a -monstrous war which for a time drove the old ones wholly back to the sea- a colossal blow in view of the increasing land settlements. later peace was made, and the new lands were given to the cthulhu spawn whilst the old ones held the sea and the older lands. new land cities were founded- the greatest of them in the antarctic, for this region of first arrival was sacred. from then on, as before, the antarctic remained the center of the o

were founded- the greatest of them in the antarctic, for this region of first arrival was sacred. from then on, as before, the antarctic remained the center of the old ones civilization, and all the cities built there by the cthulhu spawn were blotted out. then suddenly the lands of the pacific sank again, taking with them the frightful stone city of r lyeh and all the cosmic octopi, so that the old ones were again supreme on the planet except for one shadowy fear about which they did not like to speak. at a rather later age their cities dotted all the land and water areas of the globe- hence the recommendation in my coming monograph that some archaeologist make systematic borings with pabodie s type of apparatus in certain widely separated regions. the steady trend down the ages was from

as from water to land- a movement encouraged by the rise of new land masses, though the ocean was never wholly deserted. another cause of the landward movement was the new difficulty in breeding and managing the shoggoths upon which successful sea life depended. with the march of time, as the sculptures sadly confessed, the art of creating new life from inorganic matter had been lost, so that the old ones had to depend on the molding of forms already in existence. on land the great reptiles proved highly tractable; but the shoggoths of the sea, reproducing by fission and acquiring a dangerous degree of accidental intelligence, presented for a time a formidable problem. they had always been controlled through the hypnotic suggestions of the old ones, and had modeled their tough plasticity i

lled through the hypnotic suggestions of the old ones, and had modeled their tough plasticity into various useful temporary limbs and organs; but now their self-modeling powers were sometimes exercised independently, and in various imitative forms implanted by past suggestion. they had, it seems, developed a semistable brain whose separate and occasionally stubborn volition echoed the will of the old ones without always obeying it. sculptured images of these shoggoths filled danforth and me with horror and loathing. they were normally shapeless entities composed of a viscous jelly which looked like an agglutination of bubbles, and each averaged about fifteen feet in diameter when a sphere. they had, however, a constantly shifting shape and volume- throwing out temporary developments or for

g shape and volume- throwing out temporary developments or forming apparent organs of sight, hearing, and speech in imitation of their masters, either spontaneously or according to suggestion. they seem to have become peculiarly intractable toward the middle of the permian age, perhaps one hundred and fifty million years ago, when a veritable war of resubjugation was waged upon them by the marine old ones. pictures of this war, and of the headless, slime-coated fashion in which the shoggoths typically left their slain victims, held a marvelously fearsome quality despite the intervening abyss of untold ages. the old ones had used curious weapons of molecular and atomic disturbances against the rebel entities, and in the end had achieved a complete victory. thereafter the sculptures showed a

-coated fashion in which the shoggoths typically left their slain victims, held a marvelously fearsome quality despite the intervening abyss of untold ages. the old ones had used curious weapons of molecular and atomic disturbances against the rebel entities, and in the end had achieved a complete victory. thereafter the sculptures showed a period in which shoggoths were tamed and broken by armed old ones as the wild horses of the american west were tamed by cowboys. though during the rebellion the shoggoths had shown an ability to live out of water, this transition was not encouraged- since their usefulness on land would hardly have been commensurate with the trouble of their management. during the jurassic age the old ones met fresh adversity in the form of a new invasion from outer spac

mensurate with the trouble of their management. during the jurassic age the old ones met fresh adversity in the form of a new invasion from outer space- this time by half-fungous, half-crustacean creatures- creatures undoubtedly the same as those figuring in certain whispered hill legends of the north, and remembered in the himalayas as the mi-go, or abominable snow men. to fight these beings the old ones attempted, for the first time since their terrene advent, to sally forth again into the planetary ether; but, despite all traditional preparations, found it no longer possible to leave the earth s atmosphere. whatever the old secret of interstellar travel had been, it was now definitely lost to the race. in the end the mi-go drove the old ones out of all the northern lands, though they we

ones out of all the northern lands, though they were powerless to disturb those in the sea. little by little the slow retreat of the elder race to their original antarctic habitat was beginning. it was curious to note from the pictured battles that both the cthulhu spawn and the mi-go seem to have been composed of matter more widely different from that which we know than was the substance of the old ones. they were able to undergo transformations and reintegrations impossible for their adversaries, and seem therefore to have originally come from even remoter gulfs of the cosmic space. the old ones, but for their abnormal toughness and peculiar vital properties, were strictly material, and must have had their absolute origin within the known space-time continuum- whereas the first sources

their abnormal toughness and peculiar vital properties, were strictly material, and must have had their absolute origin within the known space-time continuum- whereas the first sources of the other beings can only be guessed at with bated breath. all this, of course, assuming that the non-terrestrial linkages and the anomalies ascribed to the invading foes are not pure mythology. conceivably, the old ones might have invented a cosmic framework to account for their occasional defeats, since historical interest and pride obviously formed their chief psychological element. it is significant that their annals failed to mention many advanced and potent races of beings whose mighty cultures and towering cities figure persistently in certain obscure legends. the changing state of the world throug

d. and in the latest discoverable specimen- dating perhaps from the pliocene age- the approximate world of today appeared quite clearly despite the linkage of alaska with siberia, of north america with europe through greenland, and of south america with the antarctic continent through graham land. in the carboniferous map the whole globe-ocean floor and rifted land mass alike- bore symbols of the old ones vast stone cities, but in the later charts the gradual recession toward the antarctic became very plain. the final pliocene specimen showed no land cities except on the antarctic continent and the tip of south america, nor any ocean cities north of the fiftieth parallel of south latitude. knowledge and interest in the northern world, save for a study of coast lines probably made during lo

me very plain. the final pliocene specimen showed no land cities except on the antarctic continent and the tip of south america, nor any ocean cities north of the fiftieth parallel of south latitude. knowledge and interest in the northern world, save for a study of coast lines probably made during long exploration flights on those fanlike membranous wings, had evidently declined to zero among the old ones. destruction of cities through the upthrust of mountains, the centrifugal rending of continents, the seismic convulsions of land or sea bottom, and other natural causes, was a matter of common record; and it was curious to observe how fewer and fewer replacements were made as the ages wore on. the vast dead megalopolis that yawned around us seemed to be the last general center of the race

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

brava portuguese from the cape verde islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. but before many questions were asked it became manifest that something far deeper and older than negro fetishism was involved. degraded and ignorant as they were, the creatures held with suprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith. they worshipped, so they said, the great old ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. these old ones were gone now inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first man, who formed a cult which had never died. this was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark

bring the earth again beneath his sway. some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him. meanwhile no more must be told. there was a secret which even torture could not extract. mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few. but these were not the great old ones. no man had ever seen the old ones. the carven idol was great cthulhu, but none might say whether or not the others were precisely like him. no one could read the old writing now, but things were told by word of mouth. the chanted ritual was not the secret- that was never spoken aloud, only whispered. the chant meant only this 'in his house at r'lyeh dead cthulhu waits dreaming' only two

them, he said the deathless chinamen had told him, were still to be found as cyclopean stones on islands in the pacific. they all died vast epochs of time before man came, but there were arts which could revive them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. they had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought their images with them. these great old ones, castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. they had shape for did not this star-fashioned image prove it- but that shape was not made of matter. when the stars were right, they could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, they could not live. but although they no longer lived, they would never really die. they all lay in stone h

ir bodies. the spells that preserved them intact likewise prevented them from making an initial move, and they could only lie awake in the dark and think whilst uncounted millions of years rolled by. they knew all that was occurring in the universe, for their mode of speech was transmitted thought. even now they talked in their tombs. when, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the great old ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could their language reach the fleshy minds of mammals. then, whispered castro, those first men formed the cult around small idols which the great ones showed them; idols brought in dim eras from dark stars. that cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great cthulhu fr

whispered castro, those first men formed the cult around small idols which the great ones showed them; idols brought in dim eras from dark stars. that cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great cthulhu from his tomb to revive his subjects and resume his rule of earth. the time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the great old ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. then the liberated old ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient

illing and revelling in joy. then the liberated old ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return. in the elder time chosen men had talked with the entombed old ones in dreams, but then something had happened. the great stone city r'lyeh, with its monoliths and sepulchres, had sunk beneath the waves; and the deep waters, full of the one primal mystery through which not even thought can pass, had cut off the spectral intercourse. but memory never died, and high priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the

and high priests said that the city would rise again when the stars were right. then came out of the earth the black spirits of earth, mouldy and shadowy, and full of dim rumours picked up in caverns beneath forgotten sea-bottoms. but of them old castro dared not speak much. he cut himself off hurriedly, and no amount of persuasion or subtlety could elicit more in this direction. the size of the old ones, too, he curiously declined to mention. of the cult, he said that he thought the centre lay amid the pathless deserts of arabia, where irem, the city of pillars, dreams hidden and untouched. it was not allied to the european witch-cult, and was virtually unknown beyond its members. no book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless chinamen said that there were double meanings in

d a heightened vividness and darkened with dread of a giant monster's malign pursuit, whilst an architect had gone mad and a sculptor had lapsed suddenly into delirium! and what of this storm of 2 april- the date on which all dreams of the dank city ceased, and wilcox emerged unharmed from the bondage of strange fever? what of all this- and of those hints of old castro about the sunken, star-born old ones and their coming reign; their faithful cult and their mastery of dreams? was i tottering on the brink of cosmic horrors beyond man's power to bear? if so, they must be horrors of the mind alone, for in some way the second of april had put a stop to whatever monstrous menace had begun its seige of mankind's soul. that evening, after a day of hurried cabling and arranging, i bade my host ad

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

they was able to live both in ant aout o' water- what they call amphibians, i guess. the kanakys told 'em as haow folks from the other islands might wanta wjpe 'an out if they got wind o' their bein' thar, but they says they dun't keer much, because they cud wipe aout the hull brood o' humans ef they was wiliin' to bother- that is, any as didn't be, sarten signs sech as was used onct by the lost old ones, whoever they was. but not wantin' to bother, they'd lay low shun anybody visited the island "when it come to matin' with them toad-lookin' fishes, the kanakys kind o' balked, but finally they larnt something as put a new face on the matter. seems that human folks has got a kind a' relation to sech water-beasts- that everything alive come aout o' the water onct an' only needs a little cha

of when the sea-bottom throws up some island with ruins older'n the deluge. pious cusses, these was- they didn't leave nothin' standin' on either the main island or the little volcanic islet excep' what parts of the ruins was too big to knock daown. in some places they was little stones strewed abaout- like charms- with somethin' on 'em like what ye call a swastika naowadays. prob'ly them was the old ones' signs- folks all wiped aout no trace o' no gold-like things an' none the nearby kanakys ud breathe a word abaout the matter. wouldn't even admit they'd ever ben any people on that island "that naturally hit obed pretty hard, seein' as his normal trade was doin' very poor. it hit the whole of innsmouth, too, because in seafarint days what profited the master of a ship gen'lly profited the

man ever walked the earth. i met also that which had been her grandmother. for eighty thousand years pth'thya-l'yi had lived in y'ha-nthlei, and thither she had gone back after obed marsh was dead. y'ha-nthlei was not destroyed when the upper-earth men shot death into the sea. it was hurt, but not destroyed. the deep ones could never be destroyed, even though the palaeogean magic of the forgotten old ones might sometimes check them. for the present they would rest; but some day, if they remembered, they would rise again for the tribute great cthulhu craved. it would be a city greater than innsmouth next time. they had planned to spread, and had brought up that which would heip them, but now they must wait once more. for bringing the upper-earth men's death i must do a penance. but that wou

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

es enshrined in them survived in a more or less repressed form in italy, france and england, although they were kept extremely secret for fear of the barbarian invaders. it was from these survivals that the lodges of the guild masons of the middle ages were derived. 506. decline of the collegia 507. mackey shows how the collegia declined after the fall of rome, and how new guilds were started and old ones revived under the patronage of the christian clergy, and asserts that after the tenth century the whole of europe was perambulated by bands of wanderers called travelling freemasons, who erected churches and monasteries in the gothic style. authorities differ seriously in opinion as to whether the fraternities who built the great cathedrals were joined together by any central organization

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

w see how creationism and neocreationist id thinking and achievements are positioned in the field of general science. are id and creation science sciences? it is true that controversy is the gist of science and that critical thinking is one of its key ingredients. theories are established, revised, accepted, or rejected, always depending on the gathering of new observations or reinterpretation of old ones. what have been the contributions so far of creation science and id? both are critical of evolutionary theory and critical of the interpretation of many empirical facts that support it. so far, so good. but as we described in chapter 1, science can advance only by putting hypotheses to the test and by building theories that make predictions regarding future observations. in that sense, cr

ons occur before the new environment is present. these mutations are then selected for survival and proliferation. this is exactly how darwin envisioned evolution by natural selection. and as we showed, his vision was confirmed in the above case well over six decades ago. what all creationists and neocreationists reject, however, is the notion of macroevolution, the appearance of new species from old ones. this concept, unlike microevolution, clearly violates the precepts of the old testament that stipulate that kinds were fixed by god once and for all. in other words, species cannot evolve into other species, such as amphibians evolving from fishes and h. sapiens evolving from australopithecus. they claim, with some degree of justification, that no one has ever seen a mouse sprouting wing

ned above. therefore, the development and evolution of the heart is an excellent example of a genetic cascade involving many genes, each of which is potentially able to mutate, be duplicated, and thereby create complexity from simplicity. the evolution of genetic networks does not explain everything, however. in addition to mutation, natural selection, and drift, the formation of new species from old ones must be accompanied by reproductive isolation. in other words, two populations in the process of branching away from one another and in the process of forming two potentially different species must stop mating with each other. this actually has been observed in nature. one 166 evolution and religious creation myths example is that of the cichlid fish that live in lakes victoria and tangan

MAGIC AND SPELLS

rget of many ambitious and powerful mages all over faerun. the magister is, the personal champion of mystra. this doesn't mean the magister fights on mystra's behalf, but rather that the office is intended to further the influence and power of mystra by making magic more available to any who would seek to know its secrets. magisters often goad or teach other wizards to develop new spells, improve old ones, and increase their own magical powers as pupils or challengers of the magister. a magister gains special powers and access to many spells s 57 with runes, and the wreckage of ancient dweomers lie scattered across the land in the form of a portal network riddling the fabric of space. the shadow weave during the course of her eternal war with the goddess sel ne, the goddess shar created th

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

akes an excellent additive for the wine, if not consumed by itself. thus concludes this witchcraft primer. many things, of course, remain to be said and will have to wait for a later date. the rudiments, however, are here presented. the old gods are not dead. they still live, ever ready to harken to man and his requests. you need but ask; the way is open to you. let us celebrate the return of the old ones! so mote it be! appendix 1- the planetary hours when your magical operation is not organized to coincide with a specific event, such as your victim's sleeping or waking hours, if you plan on being true to a fully traditional point of view, try to perform your witchcraft on the relevant "planetary day" at the right "planetary hour" failing this, simply the right planetary hour will suffice

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

gence processes. the center is directed by stephen grossberg, graduate of stanford. grossbergalso held positions at mit and rockefeller university. grossberg would become head of a new depart-ment of cognitive and neural systems in 1988. the center for adaptive systems would, with the help ofgail carpenter, adaptive resonance theory (art. art would allow learning of new patterns withoutforgetting old ones, as well as the ability to accomplish fast-learning of new and unexpected patterns. inapplications for which back-propagation would require 20,000 supervised training rounds, art wouldaccomplish in 5. it would incorporate mismatch and reorientation signals. it has been determinedthat art represents at least one of the operations of the brain necessary for ai learning nets. 1981 at the hea

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

the terms ancient ones and elder gods to refer to the titans and angels, respectively. a fact related in his novels, and echoed by a few in the occult, is that the ancient ones are chained in darkness, and that there is a certain celestial radiation arriving from space that is utterly toxic to these titans. there is a day coming, however, when the rays of the stars will no longer be toxic to the old ones, and this day will be marked by some kind of rare astronomical event. after this event in the sky, the wicked god azag-thoth, also called hades and pluto, will free and lead the titans out of their prison. the black magicians also have a long list of titles for lilith, and have much reverence for her because she is among those who give them the dark gift of transformation. among these tit

and rendered sightless in some battle. the mad god sits upon a black throne, where he rules the dead spirits of the outer void. the black man of the sabbat, baphomet is considered the messenger of azag-thoth and his will made fresh. when the stars assume the correct positions and the rays that come from them are no longer poisonous, azag--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 81 thoth will lead the old ones (the aforementioned titans) out of the abyss, and into the world of man; the old ones intend on ruling the earth as they once did. in this new age the human race will of coarse be reduced to slaves and food (we already are slaves and food, but in the future we ll know we re slaves and food. in egyptian mythology apep, called the chaos serpent, lurked in the tuat (also called duat, which w

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

ter of the circle with her hands tied behind her back, and blindfolded. at the center of the circle she repeats a solemn vow, then she is presented to each member of the coven who greet her with a kiss. next she is introduced to the spirits of the four cardinal points. she then kneels in the center of the circle and repeats another vow. she is asked what she most desires, and answers to serve the old ones. finally she is asked if she realizes that before she can be accepted her body must first be purified, and answers i do. she is then whipped forty times across the quivering flesh of her naked behind. the blindfold is removed with the words, so be it. her bonds are removed with the words, now you are free. once again she is presented to each member of the coven who greet her with a kiss

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

oming and fecund ties with all religions and traditions the common patrimony of humanity. notes part 1: the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages chapter 1 the ancient corporations: the colleges of builders in rome 1. o. wirth, les mysteres de l'art royf al azif- the cipher manuscript known as "liber logaeth" al azif ye book of ye arab, abdul alhazred, 730 at damascus of ye old ones and their spawn the old ones were, the old ones are and the old ones shall be. from the dark stars they came ere man was born, unseen and loathsome they descended to primal earth. beneath the oceans they brooded while ages past, till seas gave up the land, whereupon they swarmed forth in their multitudes and darkness ruled the earth. at the frozen poles they raised mighty cities, and upon

tars they came ere man was born, unseen and loathsome they descended to primal earth. beneath the oceans they brooded while ages past, till seas gave up the land, whereupon they swarmed forth in their multitudes and darkness ruled the earth. at the frozen poles they raised mighty cities, and upon high places the temples of those whome nature owns not and the gods have cursed. and the spawn of the old ones covered the earth, and their children endureth throughout the ages. ye shantaks of leng are the work of their hands, the ghasts who dwelleth in zin's primordial vaults know them as their lords. they have fathered the na-hag and the gaunts that ride the night; great cthulhuis their brother, the shaggoths their slaves. the dholes do homage unto them in the nighted vale of pnoth and gugs sin

slaves. the dholes do homage unto them in the nighted vale of pnoth and gugs sing their praises beneath the peaks of ancient throk. they have walked amidst the stars and they have walked the earth. the city of irem in the great desert has known them; leng in the cold waste has seen their passing, the timeless citadel upon the cloud-vieled heights of unknown kadath beareth their mark. wantonly the old ones trod the ways of darkness and their blasphemies were great upon the earth; all creation bowed beneath their might and knew them for their wickedness. and the elder lords opened their eyes and beheld the abominations of those that ravaged the earth. in their wrath they set their hand against the old ones, staying them in the midst of their iniquity and casting them forth from the earth to

their wickedness. and the elder lords opened their eyes and beheld the abominations of those that ravaged the earth. in their wrath they set their hand against the old ones, staying them in the midst of their iniquity and casting them forth from the earth to the void beyond the planes where chaos reigns and form abideth not. and the elder lords set their seal upon the gateway and the power of the old ones prevailest not against its might. loathsome cthulhu rose then from the deeps and raged with exceeding great fury against the earth guardians. and they bound his venomous claws with potent spells and sealed him up within the city of r'lyeh wherein beneath the waves he shall sleep death's dream until the end of the aeon. beyond the gate dwell now the old ones; not in the spaces known unto m

sleep death's dream until the end of the aeon. beyond the gate dwell now the old ones; not in the spaces known unto men but in the angles betwixt them. outside earth's plane they linger and ever awaite the time of their return; for the al azif page 1 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 earth has known them and shall know them in time yet to come. and the old ones hold foul and formless azathoth for their master abd abide with him in the black cavern at the centre of all infinity, where he gnaws ravenously in ultimate chaos amid the mad beating of hidden drums, the tuneless piping of hideous flutes and the ceaseless bellowing of blind idiot gods that shamble and gesture aimlessly for ever. the soul of azathoth dwelleth in yog-sothoth and he shall b

oul and formless azathoth for their master abd abide with him in the black cavern at the centre of all infinity, where he gnaws ravenously in ultimate chaos amid the mad beating of hidden drums, the tuneless piping of hideous flutes and the ceaseless bellowing of blind idiot gods that shamble and gesture aimlessly for ever. the soul of azathoth dwelleth in yog-sothoth and he shall beckon unto the old ones when the stars mark the time of their coming; for yog-sothoth is the gate through which those of the void will re-enter. yog-sothoth knowest the mazes of of time, for all time is one unto him. he knowest where the old ones came forth in time along long past and where they shall come forth again when the cycle returneth. after day cometh night; man's day shall pass, and they shall rule whe

fluences shall ye focus of power be established. in ye north beyond the stone of great coldness set ye first ye stone of saturn at a space of three paces. this being done proceed thou widdershins placing at like distances apart ye stones of jupiter, mercury, mars, venus, sul and luna marking each with their rightful sign. at ye center of the so completed configuration set ye the alter of ye great old ones and seal it with ye symbol of yog-sothoth and ye mighty names of azathoth, cthulhu, hastur, shub- niggurath and nyarlathotep. and ye stones shall be ye gates through which thou shalt call them forth from outside man's time and space. entreat ye of ye stones by night and when the moon decreasetth in her light, turning thy face to ye direction of their coming, speaking ye words and making y

l of yog-sothoth and ye mighty names of azathoth, cthulhu, hastur, shub- niggurath and nyarlathotep. and ye stones shall be ye gates through which thou shalt call them forth from outside man's time and space. entreat ye of ye stones by night and when the moon decreasetth in her light, turning thy face to ye direction of their coming, speaking ye words and making ye gestures that bringeth forth ye old ones and causeth them to walk once more ye earth. al azif page 3 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 of diverse signs these most potent signs shall be so formed with thy left hand when thou employeth them in ye rites ye first sign is that of voor and in nature it be ye true symbol of ye old ones. make ye thus whenever thou wouldst supplicate those that

and guardeth ye pathways. ye forth sign is that of ye elder gods. it protecteth those who would evoke ye powers by night, and banish ye forces of menace and antagonism. al azif page 4 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 (nota: ye elder sign hath yet another form and when so enscribed upon ye grey stone of mnar it serveth to hold back ye power of ye great old ones for all time) to compound ye incense of zkauba in the day and hour of mercury with the moon in her increase, thou shalt take equal parts of myrrh, civet, storax, wormwood, assafoetida, galbanum and musk, mix well together and reduce all to the finest powder. place the so assembled elements in a vessel of green glass and seal with a brazen stopper afore inscribed with the characters of mar

lent brood the titan towers and rear forbidden walls. curse-runes guard the nighted gate carved by forgotten hands, and woe to he that dare pass within those dreadful doors. earth's gods revel where others once walked in mystic timeless halls, which some have glimpst in sleeps dim vault through strange and sightless eyes. to call forth yog-sothoth for yog-sothoth is the gate. he knoweth where the old ones came forth in times past and where they came forth again when the cycle returneth when thou would call forth yog-sothoth thou must waite until the sun is in the fifth house with al azif page 10 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 saturn in trine. then enter within the stones and draw about thee the circle of evocation tracing the figurines with th

e the sign of cauda draconis) al azif page 11 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 talubsi! adula! ulu! baachur! come forth yog-sothoth! come forth* and then he will come unto thee and bring his globes and he will give true answer to all you desire to know. and he shall reveal unto you the secret of his seal by which you may gain favour in the sight of the old ones when they once more walk the earth* and when his hour be past the curse of the elder lords shall be upon him and draw him forth beyond the gate where he shall abide until he be summoned. editor's note: included on this page are a number of sigils and a magic circle. these illustrations are not in the manuscript but were referenced from other texts, including, but not limited to; key of so

ONYX TABLET OF SET

se. enter freely and of your own will" the satanic priesthood is not an office that can be assumed or disregarded at whim. it will remain with you constantly. it will color your every decision, expression, and action. so marked will be the effect upon your personality that you may seem alien even to many of your closest friends. as you enter new spheres of interest, it may be necessary to abandon old ones. strange paths await the chosen of satan, and they may bring misery as well as majesty. you enter a realm characterized by challenge and choice, not by comfort and consolation. so it is written. as a priest or priestess of mendes, you will learn many things about the true prince of darkness and the forces under his control. much will become clear to you that has heretofore seemed obscure

into night; the darkness of their own universes, they must face maat alone. they must go through a total transformation. to wear a pentagram of set and read all of the books does not cut it. the elect must live the magic, be the magic, and use the magic until each one's past existence is but a silly, fading memory of another world gone mad and left to its own destruction. the ancient priests, the old ones, knew this. we who are here this day must learn this. to reach the naos, one must first walk the darkest of corridors and utter the most unspeakable names. look to the orders of the temple; they are as ancient as you. on focus first you have a human being: full of randomly selected traits, oddly assorted ideas, chaotically assembled training for talents they may or may not possess. any re

PATH OF INITIATION

d abuses power and other people; this is why the path is kept shaded with secrecy, and for no other reason. when those of pure heart, ready to cast away all for the wisdom born of the underworld and ready to sacrifice for love of the land show themselves, they are taken into the group and introduced to its mysteries. there is no other qualification. it is a strange love, a strange desire that the old ones use to lure people to the ways of the hidden craft. human witches cannot and should not stand in the way of this, for in so doing, they fail in their true role as guardians. the "outward" initiations that people in groups perform are supposed to be mere representations of a great and timeless pattern of transformation, great and timeless realities that no human being or group can claim a

RUBY TABLET OF SET

prevail against the six. h gfrom the eighth angle are the masters of the realm, who raise the temple of the eight trihedrons unto the daemons of creation, whose seal is at once four and five and nine. h gfrom the ninth angle is the flame of the beginning and ending of dimensions, which blazeth in brilliance and darkness unto the glory of desire! h celebrant lights the black flame, and says: gthe old ones were, the old ones are, the old ones shall be again! they came, and we are here. they sleep, and we watch for them. they shall sleep, and we shall die, but we shall return through them. we are their dreams, and they shall awaken. hail to the ancient dreams! h invocation of set and the great old ones celebrant: gin the name of set, the prince of darkness, we embark upon the journey inward

come one with the eternal set, whose seat is behind the constellation of the thigh. as we turn our eyes and ears within to seek our question and come to know our most exalted and sublime selves, arm us with the pentagram of set and the sceptre of tcham, and fortify us with the courage to stand before maat and look upon ourselves in her dark mirror. h gwe invoke and greet the presence of the great old ones who walk serene and primal in the undimensioned spaces between. appear in our midst, reveal yourselves unto us, and aid us in this work whereby we manifest that which is within us. h ghail nyarlathotep! neter of eldritch lore and forbidden knowledge, patron of this pylon here gathered, help us to know ourselves and to find the key of the mysteries in the secret center of our being wherein

for we are lords of life, death, and life in death. we go forth on our secret journeys. let us find truth and become it. h the formula of the dark graal keeper of the graal: gwhat is the secret of the graal? whom does it serve? h participants: git serves the prince of darkness, and the dark brotherhood of his elect. h keeper of the graal: gecce vinum sabbatti! behold here the nectar of the great old ones, the wine of the black sabbath of the sorcerers of eld. this is the grail of the undefiled wisdom. this is the horn from which all inspiration flows. in it is blended the might and main of the mead dripping down from valhalla. in it is the very essence of life everlasting. h keeper of the graal partakes of the sacrament and then brings the chalice to each participant in turn. the summonin

aspirant can be conscious of all this, but he must work for it. the elect who shall work toward xem must also know that alone the work cannot be completed. the elect must realize that the work shall require assistance from set and the other ancient ones, for xem is many-sided. in order to work with them, the elect must be constantly aware of themselves and consciously aware of set- as well as the old ones with whom they shall work. xem shall not otherwise be accomplished. to become and to maintain the new level of being while aspiring even higher is an enormous task, and to incorporate human weaknesses, imperfections, emotional insecurities, and other personal flaws into the xeper process will result in those impurities being later magnified, intensified, and manifest in xem. this would in

willed. one's inner vision is carried well beyond normal limitations, and the aspirant may be forced to see a terrifying yet awesome glimpse of man, xem, the neters, the work ahead, as well as the fate for failure- and his own relation to each of these. it is again a journey into the very essence of ma'at and the self in regards to her. the being will definitely feel itself in the presence of the old ones. the gates of xem are opened to those who would see, and shall not be closed again. initiation is the directing of one's own powers of darkness inward to open the gates of self. here the aspirant may find the true source of and answer to his question. through initiation the aspirant can be born into a new dimension of being. it is being that was not. here awakens a conscious intelligence

s then stood behind ra-n-set and proclaimed "he who wears the two crowns! behold exalted man" anubis then spoke to the priesthood. two lands. invisible world. world of darkness; and the world of light- xem, being fused- the time of the great fusion. it is rightly written that this is the time of the coming into being of the gods. during the speech medu-n-xonsu and anubis felt the gathering of the old ones to share in this event, and within their midst like a black pillar was set, sharing this night with his children. anubis also had the sensation that "here we go- again" but with optimism. after 5,000 years, we have a chance to make it. then ra-n-set said that if this be truth, let it be known. at that point, nexbet saw before her maat's gray form with her feather. nexbet stepped forward a

s not ask for assistance, but even then set is called upon to witness and share in the setian's xeper. as discussed above, i reject priest cole's supposition(42) that set would not give assistance with the quest for xem. the setian will and must work closely with set in all aspects of xeper. let's take a look at the neters. ptah described them so:(43) if we are to be "aware of set- as well as the old ones" does this imply that the neters too possess separate, objective existence in the same manner as set? who sanctions the "old ones" in their interest in our work? why are the "old ones" so necessary to our work that the magus tells us we must use their aid if we desire to achieve xem? the first question is the easiest to answer. the book of coming forth by night bluntly tells us that these

d ones" does this imply that the neters too possess separate, objective existence in the same manner as set? who sanctions the "old ones" in their interest in our work? why are the "old ones" so necessary to our work that the magus tells us we must use their aid if we desire to achieve xem? the first question is the easiest to answer. the book of coming forth by night bluntly tells us that these "old ones" can not have such an existence when it states that "all other gods of all other times and nations have been created by men" although we have no direct statement in any of our documents which we regard as from set, in the pentagram of set working record, a record of a conversation with set,(44) ptah explains the blue spiraled field as emanations of essence, or neters "from a common center

a conversation with set,(44) ptah explains the blue spiraled field as emanations of essence, or neters "from a common center- you, when speaking with set. set agrees. it is therefore logical to conclude that the creation and sanction of the neters is due to set's desire to assist us on our journey. given the preceding, we are still left with the question of why we are encouraged to work with the "old ones" in conjunction with set, rather than with set alone? back to the book of coming forth by night we go "i am the ageless intelligence of this universe" if you take a few minutes to think about it, that statement of power and authority is difficult to comprehend in its entirety. it would be much easier to know and understand set if we could do so slowly- more gradually- as if in bits and pi

do so slowly- more gradually- as if in bits and pieces. enter now, the natures of the neters. thus we may know the whole better by learning from its parts, as well as the sum of its parts. in the book of coming forth by night, set did not say "all the gods of all other times and places have been created by either you or me" men created their own gods, all except set and harwer, and including the "old ones, the egyptian neters (and those from other cultures. yet we accept the neters as aspects of set, and work with them as aspects of set. this is not a contradiction. set gave his gift to mankind, and gave his essence to his elect among mankind. those elect who most strongly absorbed and shared this gift created the neters (perhaps with the help of their followers and/or set. note that set d

god in the dream of eternity. i am the fool in the holy quest, an ancient one thrice great of the black earth. i am without parent or mortal lineage; i shall become the continuum of my love in ma'at most high. i am life; i shall be death; i shall become life in death. in xeper i am tehuti remanifest within the mysteries of xem; hear the words of my ba and let my ka come amongst you. may the great old ones come, to create through us in the day of be with us. i am. i shall be that i shall become in the glory of my creation. i shall be that i shall be; ma'at in matter, ma'at in transformation, i will become i am. as it is spoken; so is it done. how the "proclamation of i shall be" remanifested on november 11, xxvii a.s, magistra reynolds, magister menschel, and i gathered to perform a xem wor

t their function of one of those aspects of the set composite; and reaching up as it were from the physical plane and touching classification: v2- b6m.19- 1 (u5) author: ricco a. zappitelli iii date: september/october xv subject: personal xeper reading list: on their individual color or aspect of set that they related to. they were able this way to give life to it in this dimension, so indeed the old ones could come through. i saw a symbol then of the pentagram with its five points (only after comprehending first what this "order" of set was, indicating five phases that would be. i understood this to be only as an aid to help me remember the five important steps: 1.that i (or any being that would want to help in this transmutation) would first have to understand the reason for and the work

roducing the layout: choosing the layout, determining how cards will be selected, and finally, actually selecting the cards. o choosing the layout: many layouts can be chosen. books on the tarot discuss several different layouts, and we will [eventually](25) examine some of these. we may also examine others, developed by setians, in later lessons. i find and develop new layouts (or modify/enhance old ones) fairly regularly. layouts have several characteristics, which are represented by the following questions. how many cards will be dealt. where will the cards be placed. in what order will the layout be filled. will reversed (inverse) cards be used. what does the position of any card mean (regardless of the actual card which falls into that position. how will cards relate to others in adja

the nine angles of the mighty trapezoid, and stand proudly before thy majesty with the name of abomination that you have bestowed upon me. o prince of the pit, examine my soul and delight that it is black. horned chaos from the sith, gaze approvingly upon the matrix of a hornless one, for tainted yods and infernal blood flow through the being from the plains of yuggoth. through the essence of the old ones, so shall my own will be actualized, and my words be as a solid form. i secure my bond and consecrate my pact through the ebony visage that my eyes have beheld, for the way is nyarlothotep, and the key is yog-sothoth. by the angles of 4, 5, and 9, i command the deathless hordes to make your presence manifest, even unto me, each one in turn, and according to my will, such are the names [ca

gical chamber to his own emotional responses and impressions. when the chamber is sufficiently charged, the sorcerer activates the stroboscopic lighting, and steps into the mirrored pentagon. he faces the mirrored altar, forms the nine angles of the trapezoid with the ritual sword, and then recites the litany, deliberately forcing his black magical essence into the angles, opening the way for the old ones [yuggoth text] behold, the black flames of the sith doth sting thy essence with the pains of realization, and the minds of the mighty shall rise up illustrious within the throne room of the skull, and that which it conceives, it shall create. move from behind the veil of darkness, o creeping chaos from space; speed thee quickly through the door of thanatos and blast forth from within the

ve been blotted out by the dark light. a pronouncement of doom upon the croakers with rotten tongues. the spiked and boned vault of the great barrier is the resting place for vile images that i exalt before the world. the abomination of desolation hath taken form on the plains of satan's asylum, and presented its command unto the will of a daemon. in the shapes that i have wrought for them do the old ones render the profane forever constrained to the realm of death. i'a yog-sothoth. the sith bell has been cracked, and the yellow sign seen within the eye of the star of wrath. yea! moving unseen upon the laird of mentu, the fiends without faces have welcomed me, and within the ebon keep the horrors in yellow hold council, seeking to devour the souls of the profane. from an angular matrix bor

and the work of the black pope has been laid to rest. new blood there is, ferocious in its magical word. know this, diabolos rex, my little horn, yours is not the word, but the form, and through the craft that i have given you, shall you exalt the world that the angels call hell, realm of horrors. with visions of unknown beauty, mingled with pain, can a new freedom be won. through the fork of the old ones and scepters of the ancients and the power of the dark light classification: v2- c32.s- 1 author: rex diabolos church i date: xxii html revision: dec 24, 1998 ce subject: satanic ritual reading list: 6k, 6l, 7 weapons shall you forge that you may master your own destiny. strange and wondrous shall they seem to the eyes that know me not, for my own dark soul only few have sensed. from the

he name of satan, archdaemon of hell, ruler of the world and price of the pit, have i brought my enemies to their knees, and made myself as a devouring demon strong in my doings. in nightly wanderings have my cloven feet pranced among the tombstones, and with twisted wraith-like creatures have i made merry to the syrinx from the void. low, my shadow moves within the subterranean caverns where the old ones cavort to make ready their imminent departure. in the name of lucifer, mighty minion who is exalted as satan, who has touched my mind in the depths of unknown thought, i pledge my soul and spirit to the execution of the great work and the continual search for the infernal grail! from the substance of the fourth angle, i push forth my will to touch the mind of the desolate one, master of t

gs be placed one upon the other, representing eternity and fidelity. in giving them to each other, your vows are cast, and i ask that you share with us the words you find in your hearts at this moment [the individual statements are given here] as lovers and mates you stand before me then, and by your intentions you have cast your vows. i therefore solemnize this union in the names of the majestic old ones and in the name of the prince of darkness, the lord of the earth whose priest i am, and in the name of set the most ancient, and whose semblance is manifest beyond the gate. i proclaim you husband and wife. may all the joys of the world be yours, and may your love grow stronger with each passing day. embrace and be as one. my dearest one; how magical indeed are those words upon my lips, u

oning the dark forces at the beginning of the ritual. tesla coil: the coil is used for angular bombardment of the chamber's atmosphere and ionization. coil frequency is tuned to the phi ratio, thus providing enhanced possibilities for separation of the objective and subjective universes through psyche alteration. hanging trapezoid: the hanging trapezoid serves as the gate by which cthulhu and the old ones shall enter the fifth angle. magicians stand beneath the trapezoid during the cthulhu litany and the invocation of the nine angles. classification: v2- c33.l- 1 author: rex diabolos church i date: halloween xxi subject: lovecraftian ritual reading list: 6k, 6l, 7 strobe light: activated during the litany and the invocation of the nine angles, the strobe serves to freeze the motions of tim

o through sinister images gives knowledge of the world of horrors. ia nyarlathotep. we move our swords within the fourth angle, and therein summon shub-niggurath, black goat of a thousand, prince of decadent khar, lord of the blasted heath and deathscapes. ia shub-niggurath. we move our swords within the fifth angle, and exalt the hornless ones who have raised the temple of the trapezoid unto the old ones whose sign is the star in the firmament of wrath. hail to the hornless ones. we move our swords within the sixth angle, and through the power of the black flame banish the sleep of symmetry. the sleep of symmetry, be it damned for a dog! we move our sword within the seventh angle, and behold the ruin of symmetry and the awakening of the daemons, for the sleep of the six hath been broken b

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orders about you. not many people get lucky two days running" when the girls of the curtain had been taken away, the eunuchs sat down and wept uncontrollably by the fountain of love. but baal, full of shame, did not cry. o o o gibreel dreamed the death of baal: the twelve whores realized, soon after their arrest, that they had grown so accustomed to their new names that they couldn't remember the old ones. they "were too frightened to give their jailers their assumed titles, and as a result were unable to give any names at all. after a good deal of shouting and a good many threats the jailers gave in and registered them by numbers, as curtain no. 1, curtain no. 2 and so on. their former clients, terrified of the consequences of letting slip the secret of what the whores had been up to, als

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the baptist he gathered certain herbs for medicine, as specified in the proceedings, and on bended knee he first adored them, then extracting them in the name of his devils, and in despite of almighty god, the creator of all k in these terms the classical grimoire may be seen as presenting a comprehensive and generally consistent pantheon of magical belief; masks beneath which the service of the old ones has been hidden. since the christian church has demonised the deity of the witches and magicians, so it is only natural that the witches response should be the deification of the church s demons. the result is an organic syncretism quite in keeping with the survival and evolution of witchcraft and sorcery throughout the ages and civilisations of mankind. when strangers ask me my religion

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russia adhering to the orthodox church. but the old gods were preparing a vehicle of retaliation: the men of "god" were revealed, as in other countries, as the real villains, but they were so steeped in their holy selfrighteousness, they were unable to imagine their own disintegration. out of the morass of "goodness" flickered an occasional secular spark of "wickedness" these flickerings kept the old ones alive. known erotic religious sects existed in russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, despite the prevailing orthodox climate. evidence indicates they were led and directed by men whose visionary abilities, practices, and goals revealed them as satanists of the first order. the sect of the khlysty demonstrates this more than any other. their wise men knew that the passions

t the element of servility is definitely lacking in the first. lovecraft, like the miltonian satan, chose to reign in hell rather than to serve in heaven. his creatures are never conclusive stereotypes of good or evil; they vacillate constantly between beneficence and cruelty. they respect knowledge, for which the protagonist of each story abandons every prudent restraint critics who consider the old ones as aristotelian elementals-or as a collective influence of malignancy which man must destroy if he is to prevail-suggest a philistine disposition. lovecraft, if he tolerated such analyses, can hardly have been impressed by them. assuming that lovecraft was an advocate of satanic amorality, what might have been the content of the ritual observances in innsmouth, r'lyeh, or leng? in his wor

have been a conscious projection of the idea expressed so eloquently by charles lamb in his witches and other night fears "gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition-but they were there before. they are transcripts, types-the archetypes are in us, and eternal" one cannot help speculating upon a reality suggested by the fantasy-the possibility that the old ones are the spectres of a future human mentality. it is as the result of such speculation that the ceremony of the nine angles and the call to cthuihu are presented. one emphasizes potential: the other reflects the dimness of an almost forgotten past. as for the phonetics, they bear no linguistic given name. the translation is as accurate as contemporary methods permit. ceremony of the nine a

gnhzy dys-n'gha k'dys-n'ghals k'fungn-akel zaht'h k'halrn ghr-kha n'fhtagn-gha. participants: hear me, for i cry the end of the god of death, and of the god of dying, and i speak of the laws of life that you may reject the curse of the death without sleep. celebrant: k'aemn'h kh'rn k'aemn'h kh'r kaemn'h kh'rmnu. n'ghan-ka fhtagni-kar'n gha'l. vnaa-glyz-zai v'naa-glyz-zn'a cylth. participants: the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be again. i am dead, but i sleep and am therefore not dead. from the depths of the waters i come, and from the depths the deep ones also have come. celebrant: v'szel kh'ra-fhtagn k'bahl'dys-n'gha yga'h-h'j n'fhtag'h z'aht. v'glyzz k'fungn cylth-a v'el cylth-cthulhu k'fungn'i. participants: for ages you also have slept through the reign of the

ticipants: for ages you also have slept through the reign of the god of death, and now you have awakened to life. from the sea i call to the deep ones, and from the earth the deep ones call to cthulhu. celebrant: n'kys ka-naaghs v'prh-gh'nya k'k'aemn'h az'zl-inkh'v naaghs k'zhem'nfi k'zhe-t'h ur-geyl n'el k'fungn i-inkh'v k'nga y'ilth-kai. participants: forget neither the abyss of origin, nor the old ones who brought to you the flame of the abyss, nor the ram of the sun, nor the eternal serpent who raised you upon the earth and delivered to you the flame from the messenger. celebrant: p'garn'h v'glyzz (go now from the sea [the celebrant casts the torch into the bonfire. he retreats to the darkness] celebrant: vuy-kin'e glyz-naaghs y'kh'rain k'r'heyl vuy-kin'el s'nargh's cylth (the angles o

lebrant: vuy-kin'e glyz-naaghs y'kh'rain k'r'heyl vuy-kin'el s'nargh's cylth (the angles of the watery abyss are no more, but other angles there are for the deep ones to command) participants: v'yn'khe rohz v'schm'h v'ragsh kyr-reng'ka w'nath-al y'keld v'fnaghn k'aemn'hi. i'a cthulhu! i'a sha-t'n (by the seal of nine and by the shining trapezoid, let none hazard thy wrath, for we are known to the old ones. hail, cthulhu! hail, satan) the satanic baptisms since the formation of the church of satan, many persons wishing to solemnize their newly acknowledged dedication to satanic principles have requested a "baptismal" rite, whereby they might utilize an established form of religious observance for more compatible beliefs. as a result, two distinct ceremonies have been created, one for infant

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e goddess and god still exist, as they have always existed, and to honor them we honor and preserve our precious planet. in wiccan thought, the deities didn t exist before our spiritual ancestor s acknowledgement of them. however, the energies behind them did; they created us. early worshippers recognized these forces as the goddess and god, personifying them in an attempt to understand them. the old ones didn t die when the ancient pagan religions fell to upstart christianity in europe. most of the rites vanished, but they weren t the only effective ones. wicca is alive and well and the deities respond to our calls and invocations. when envisioning the goddess and god, many of the wicca see them as well-known deities from ancient religions. diana, pan, isis, hermes, hina, tammuz, hecate

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a theme for their writings the influx of extra-terrestrial powers which have been moulding the history of our planet since time began; that is, since time began for us, for we are only too prone to suppose that we were here first and that we alone are here now, whereas the most ancient occult traditions affirm that we were neither the first nor are we the only ones to people the earth; the great old ones and the elder gods find echoes in the myths and legends of all peoples. austin spare claimed to have had direct experience of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligences, and crowley- as his autobiography makes abundantly cleardevoted a lifetime to proving that extra-terrestrial and superhuman consciousness can and does exist independently of the human organism. as explained in images

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rs of the night, they who make images and burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn unlawful grasses and herbs, and raise tremendous evils, and their words are never written down, it is said. but there are. and they are prayers of emptiness and darkness, which rob the spirit. hymn to the ancient ones they are lying down, the great old ones. the bolts are fallen and the fastenings are placed. the crowds are quiet and the people are quiet. the elder gods of the land the elder goddesses of the land shammash sin adad ishtar have gone to sleep in heaven. they are not pronouncing judgements. they are no deciding decisions. veiled is the night. the temple and the most holy places are quiet and dark. the judge of truth the father o

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