The Necronomicon

[lord667]

H.P. Lovecraft wrote the Necronomicon.

Actually, even that isn't true. Lovecraft's Necronomicon never actually existed. At one point, after his Cthulhu mythos was fairly well established, he considered writing and publishing it, but decided that "If anyone were to try to write the Necronomicon, it would disappoint all those who have shuddered at cryptic references to it." If you have, or have ever had, a copy of "the" Necronomicon, it is/was a FAKE.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mnecromicon.html.

 

[lord667]

Hmm well it has got my attention. I read some of the history and whjat people believe about it. Certainly interesting I might read it some time, but as you said there lots of "fakes" out there. But by the look of it you will never be able to be certain you have read to original.

The reason for that is that there is no original.

 

[Wandrail]

H.P. Lovecraft wrote the Necronomicon.

Actually, even that isn't true. Lovecraft's Necronomicon never actually existed. At one point, after his Cthulhu mythos was fairly well established, he considered writing and publishing it, but decided that "If anyone were to try to write the Necronomicon, it would disappoint all those who have shuddered at cryptic references to it." If you have, or have ever had, a copy of "the" Necronomicon, it is/was a FAKE.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mnecromicon.html.

Indeed.

 

[manuelgv]

I bought a copy of it once.
It's cool to know names of ancient gods that are now considered evil

 

[Killerinme]

Lord667, you are the ugliest thing i think i've ever seen, or is it just that you're British?

 

[Naggamanteh]

Where can the Necronomicon be found?

Nowhere with certainty, is the short and simple answer, and once more we must suspect Crowley in having a hand in this. In 1912 Crowley met Theodor Reuss, the head of the German Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O), and worked within that order for several years, until in 1922 Reuss resigned as head in Crowley's favour. Thus we have Crowley working in close contact for 10 years with the leader of a German masonic group. In the years from 1933-38 the few known copies of the Necronomicon simply disappeared; someone in the German government of Adolf Hitler took an interest in obscure occult literature and began to obtain copies by fair means or foul.

Dee's translation disappeared from the Bodleian following a break-in in the spring of 1934. The British Museum suffered several abortive burglaries, and the Wormius edition was deleted from the catalogue and removed to an underground repository in a converted slate mine in Wales (where the Crown Jewels were stored during the 1939-45 war). Other libraries lost their copies, and today there is no library with a genuine catalogue entry for the Necronomicon. The current whereabouts of copies of the Necronomicon is unknown, but there is a story of a large wartime cache of occult and magical documents in the mountainous Osterhorn area near Salzburg - this may be connected with the recurring story of a copy bound in the skin of concentration camp victims.


I have the original under my bed.

 

[lord667]

Lord667, you are the ugliest thing i think i've ever seen, or is it just that you're British?

No, I'm the ugliest thing you've ever seen.

 

[lord667]

I have the original under my bed.

Jesus, dude, haven't you ever seen Evil Dead? Think of the trees, man! THE TREES!

 

[Killerinme]

LOL. Hell yea man, those trees have a thing for sex. After watching that movie, along with "The Blair Witch Project", which i liked no matter what anyone says, I stayed the fuck away from the woods, and for that matter, keep the original Necro tucked away in an envelope going to the Vatican. And Lord 667, just fucking around, I'm glad you took it cool.

 

[lord667]

LOL. Hell yea man, those trees have a thing for sex. After watching that movie, along with "The Blair Witch Project", which i liked no matter what anyone says, I stayed the fuck away from the woods, and for that matter, keep the original Necro tucked away in an envelope going to the Vatican. And Lord 667, just fucking around, I'm glad you took it cool.

Pfeh, the "Vatican". There's no secret occult books there. You know what's there? PORN. It is the collected pr0n stash of every Pope in history. Why do you think it's so hard to get access?