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available publications seem to support this. Notwithstanding this doubt,
the Magan text of the Necronomicon does reflect a number of authentic
works from the Creation Epic of the Mesopotamians such as the Descent
of the Inanna and with the same missing ending as traditional sources.
In The History and Chronology of the Necronomicon, H P
Lovecraft writes that Abdul Alhazred of Sanaa in Yemen originally wrote
the Dread Book before his death in about 738CE. In 950CE, Theodorus
Philetas of Constantinople translated it into Greek under the title
Necronomicon. Pope Gregory IX subsequently banned the work in 1232.
In principle, it remains officially suppressed today.
The Dread Book seems to have some similarity with the horrific
tortures carried out by Landulf II of Capua in southwest Sicily. 1304 This
was the theme of black magic followed by Dietrich Eckart and Aleister
Crowley.
The Dread Book contains a collection of spells for awakening the
monsters of the Abyss and dark places of the human imagination. We
easily recognize this as St George’s dragon, but more on this later. The
Magan text within the book deals with a time before worship of the Moon
God. In fact, Dr John Dee translated part of the Dread Book as the Liber
Logaeth while he was Warden of Christ's College Manchester from 1590
to 1604. 1305
Dee’s Liber Logaeth passed into the collection of Elias Ashmole
and with Ashmole’s collection to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It
seemingly disappeared from the Bodleian Library following a break-in
during the spring of 1934, at a time when the agents of Germany were
collecting occult literature.
The Liber Logaeth told the story of the Old Ones, who arrived on
primal earth from dark stars. They swarmed from the oceans to build
cities at the poles and raise temples to those cursed by the Gods. They
ruled the earth in abomination until the Elder Lords finally acted:
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.
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