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“Well, we had been planning for a few days on doing some sort of
conjuration. I did all of the reading involved, or everything I thought I
needed. Various books on ritual and sigil magick, the Necronomicon —”
Ken let out a snort that promptly turned into a full laugh.
“I’ve always been somewhat skeptical about the validity of the book,
to say the least,” Alexi caught himself breaking into a smile. “And they
just had to drag Crowley into it somehow. But you can conduct an effective
ritual with an eggplant and a copy of Winnie the Poo. What counts is
congruence, regarding your intention and within the structure of the ceremony
itself, and…will. To build ‘the Necronomicon’ all it takes is some
cursory Sumerian mythology, an understanding of basic Occult science,
any moron who’s read Agrippa and Crowley and understood even one
tenth of the content can construct a moderately convincing—and working—ritual.
It is as valid as any medieval grimoire that you will easily
find. It contains an initiatory process not unlike what I’ve found reading
about Merkevah mysticism, or Crowley’s 30 keys of the Aethyr… I suppose
I forgot one of the first lessons one should remember: never call up
something you cannot put down. That’s applicable in psychology as well
as magick.”
“I just love how off topic you can get sometimes,” Ken muttered.
“I’m even worse than usual, right now. That’s understandable, given
the recent circumstances…”
“Oh Jesus. Before you go on, I need to tell you what I found tonight
on the way home,” Ken said abruptly. “For some reason when you said
‘circumstance’ it reminded me. …Not like that makes any sense. Not like
anything makes any sense. Okay, so get this. I’m just off Egypt Road,
right, when I suddenly see something loom up out of the mist. I slam on
the brakes, and have to compensate a little to keep from flying off the
road or hitting it. I pull up short enough, and there standing in the beams
of my headlights, surrounded in mist like a prop from a horror movie, is
a wooden cage. I immediately leapt out of my car, and put it in my back
seat.”
Alexi laughed. Ken was the only person he knew who would stash a
wooden cage he’d just found in the middle of the road in his back seat.
“…When I got home, about fifteen minutes ago, I brought it up to my
room. Now, understand, this cage is a good four feet tall. It was fun trying
to sneak it by my mother’s room. Inside it was a figure, wrapped in
burlap, hanging from a noose. At first I was really terrified I’d find a
once living… I don’t know, something in there. Animal, baby, who
knows? But it was just newspaper. Written on the top of the cage, in red
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