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Summary: Very useful, but a little lacking
Review: This book is highly useful for working the fifty names in the Necronomicon, and it provides a bit of useful information on the invocation. However, its too bad that they only included the fifty names (with simple explainations that really help you understand the concept behind each name), because the book is rather small, and price seems kind of steep. For anyone highly interested in the Necronomicon, and not very knowledgable in magic, this is an excellent place to start.
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Summary: A grain of truth
Review: I bought the _Necronomicon Spellbook_ several years ago because it was (a) cheap, and (b) somehow connected with the occult. Reading the "historical information" preceding the rituals, I realized it was a fabrication--there were too many little discrepancies and plot holes, most of which I can't recall offhand. Looking through the full _Necronomicon_ later on, I came to the came conclusion about the larger book. This Simon guy cobbled the books together using Lovecraft's work, his own imagination, and a bit of real Sumerian mythology.Yes, there is something real here. Several years after consigning the _Necronomicon Spellbook_ to the bottom of a box in my closet, I read the Babylonian creation myth, as found in _Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia_ by N.K. Sandars. After Marduk slays the chaos-mother Tiamat, the other gods honor him by giving him fifty names. Sandars says that the names actually belong to earlier gods who were assimilated into the figure of Marduk. As I read the list of names, I found that most of them were identical to the Fifty Names listed in the _Spellbook_, and some of the attributions were similar. The Names are real, and belong to Mesopotamian gods who were actually worshipped at one time. Simon evidently read the myth and made use of it. Simon's rituals may or may not be a load of hooey. If they work for you, so be it. He probably made them up, but that doesn't mean they don't work. Still, I'd recommend reading the Babylonian creation myth instead--go straight to the primary source if you want to know about Marduk's fifty names.
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Summary: Laugh
Review: Oh yes..We must beware this book for it is great evil.."It should not be touched by armchair magicians"..hahaha..I've read the spells outloud, have done the instructions..I am still alive..Nothing "horrible" no old ones have escaped..People who believe in this are the ones who try to cast "D&D" spells and blur fantasy and fact just because they both start with F...
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Summary: Hair-raisingly creepy...
Review: I've always been fascinated by occult and other such works, and have collected numerous books on it (and those written by the infamous LaVey, while not neccessarily occult, seem to be filed in the same category). I'm not a practitioner of magick by any stretch, but merely a curious reader who takes heed the warnings stressed by the author, even just for safety's sake. But once I got a little curious bored staring at the title, so I began to sketch out some of the glyphs contained within them into a spiral notebook, while contemplating how much I was displeased with a friend of mine at school. The next day in a math class (which I had with that friend), I pulled out that spiral notebook (since it held my math homework). Opening it to the last page, I saw the glyphs I sketched the night before. 'Coincedently' he then tilted too far back in his chair and fell to the floor and began to choke on a Jolly Rancher he had in his mouth. The sheer eerieness of the situation made me torch that piece of paper (which had my homework on it -- lost credit for the assignment) While it's likely the two events weren't connected, it was enough to freak me out. Whether the authenticity of this information is far from being proven, one thing remains constant: the mind is a much more powerful beast than we let on. Perhaps texts such as these are merely a tool for focussing harnassing the arcane power locked away in that other 90% of unused brain space. A word to the curious: be weary of these books. While I don't 100% believe it, you won't catch me even trying to summon some of these 'deities'. Too many other strange occurances happened to me while I read this book. For example, I was reading through some of the descriptions late at night, and finally got so tired I fell asleep at my desk (on the book, no less). I awoke around 2am from a nightmare of whirling brown shadows repeating the same thing over and over. Picking my head up off of the book, and turned a few pages *forward* (which I had not read before), and saw those words -- syllable for syllable. After scanning through the portion I had read, they were not repeated once...now how do you explain that? Too creepy for me...they are locked in a metal filing cabinet in my closet as we speak ^^
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Summary: Waste Your Life and Money on This Book
Review: There is no REAL necronomicon and hence this book contains no real necronomicon spells. So if you are someone looking for serious stuff, I have this much to say: * the moment you buy this book, you are wasting your money * the moment you read this book, you are wasting your time (life) away Don't make these two mistakes. If you want real spells, look elsewhere.... They aren't in this book.
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Summary: The Horror! The Horror!
Review: An amusing hoax. Personally I detect the dead hand of Robert Anton Wilson or one of his cronies in its production. If you took it 'seriously' and used it as a system of magickal evocation, you could probably attratct a few elemental energies, masquerading qlippoth or whip up a tulpoid type entity, but why bother.As for the ancient gods & demons of Sumer, they were a bad tempered bunch of creeps- leave em in the dust
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Summary: Complete Hoax
Review: This book is a complete hoax. It has absolutely no correlation with reality what so ever, nor is it a surviving Sumerian magical text. If you want to learn about anceint Sumerian culture and religion, I suggest the following books: The Sumerians by Samual Noah Kramer, Sumerian Mythology by Samual Noah Kramer, Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Anceint Mesopotamia by Jeremy Black, and Inanna by Diane Wolkstein. If you are interested in actual Left Hand Path/Dark Side philosophy, I suggest joining the Temple of Set, which has a wide variety of pylons(schools) surrounding Left Hand Path philosophy all of the world and throughout different time periods. A good book to get you started is Uncle Setnacht's Guide to the Left Hand Path by Don Webb. Xeper!
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Summary: The Carrots are not the SAME
Review: Wow. Yes. Yes it is good, but the mahjucks contain inaccuracies with the carrots -- and we all know what THAT means.
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Summary: Don't read it ever!
Review: I had a friend who bought it and he burned it directly after he had started to read! The things in the book is realyy easy to do and it works! So don't ever, ever read it och try to get it! Please! Sure, it's cool and all that but... the dark side is very powerful!
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Summary: Efficient and fascinating
Review: It never ceases to amaze me what miracles NECRONOMICON can work.Although I was dissapointed that these spells could only be cast in ritual and not any time I was satisfied with the results.Also it was so interesting reading about Sumerian society even though I was kind of suprised to hear that the being that helped them emerged from the sea wearing a diving suit(probably not the modern kind).Since my internal clock can keep me up really late this book was easy to use.
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