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The Great Old Ones are atavisms of the pre-human strata of consciousness, dim
perceptions of the era when the primitive 'dragon brain' was the seat of awareness. In
his writings, Lovecraft continually alludes to the non-conceptual nature of the Old
Ones, and to the primitive methods of summoning them to Earth - blood sacrifice,
incense, sexual magick (especially incestuous interbreeding) and Primal, or monstrous
speech. All these methods act very powerfully upon the 'reptilian' areas of the brain;
the activity of which governs the basic behavior patterns - sex, hunger and the flightfight
response.
Of particular interest in Lovecraft's mention of primal speech; the kind of glossolalia
which can be heard at both Revivalist meetings and Voudou gatherings. When
ordered speech is replaced with gibbering, grunting and other non-ordered noises,
then patterning, inflection and tone/volume become the means for carrying a
message. In ritual, this deliberate 'blocking' of verbal communication with 'static' can
be a powerful means of assisting others into a state of possession, during which the
body is controlled by 'Nameless' Gods who can only gibber and flail 'their' limbs
about - a state somewhat reminiscent of the flopping of lizards, actually Seeing
someone in this state brings to mind Lovecraft's description of Azathoth as:
“A blind idiot god, the monstrous Nuclear Chaos.''
The value of such an experience is debatable. Full possession by a deity appears to be
rare in Western magick, implying as it does, a total dis-inhibition which most people
seem unwilling to tolerate. These rites of the Nameless Gods serve to hurl the
consciousness backwards into a level of awareness where the sense of being an
individual 'I' is blurred. Memories of such a state will, of necessity, be at best
fractured, or even totally absent, a phenomena not uncommon with possession
experiences.
To conclude then, the Great Old Ones can indeed be summoned, but the means of
doing so requires an approach which is very different to the established styles of
Western magick.