The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft's Legend by Daniel Harms & John Wisdom Gonce

Author:Daniel Harms & John Wisdom Gonce [Harms, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781633410084
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2003-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Cliff's Notes of the Necronomicon: Sinister Supplements

After its initial publication, it became obvious to the magick-using public that the Simon book was incomplete in many ways. Since the first publication of The Necronomicon Files, and the establishment of our website at www.necfiles.org, Daniel and I have been besieged with e-mails from people who want to know where they can find more in-depth information about the ways and means of performing the rituals from the Simon book. The publishers of the Simon Necronomicon (and other opportunists) also saw a need (probably financial) for “filling in the missing bits” themselves with supplemental material—a sort of diabolical Cliff's Notes for the dreaded Necronomicon. Those supplements published by Magickal Childe, Avon Books include:

Simon, Report on the Necronomicon (New York: Magickal Childe, 1981)

Simon, Necronomicon Spellbook (New York: Magickal Childe, 1987)

Simon, Necronomicon Spellbook (New York: Avon, 1998)

The Necronomicon Spellbook was the first published attempt to flesh out the bare bones of the Simon book. This book was out-of-print when we wrote the first edition of The Necronomicon Files. As of October 1998 (the same month that our book was first released), the Necronomicon Spellbook was reprinted by Avon Books.

Since I already had a copy of the original version of the Spellbook published by Magickal Childe and a photocopy of the Report, I bought a copy of the current edition by Avon in order to compare the three. After an extensive search of the texts, I found no detectable difference between them whatsoever. So the good news is there is no reason for readers to hunt down both editions to find some imaginary bit of “forbidden lore” they may have missed. The bad news is that, since there wasn't much to the Spellbook to begin with, both versions are equally useless. The Report was twenty-four pages, while the 1987 edition was a disappointingly slim volume of 169 pages of large double-spaced type. Though the formatting of the Avon edition is more honest, it cuts down the page-count even further, so that the book should probably be entitled the “Necronomicon Spell-Pamphlet.” The Spellbook is obviously modeled after the Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King and is merely an expanded version of “The Book of Fifty Names” in the Simon Necronomicon, elaborating on the use of the fifty names of Marduk. It lists the names with their accompanying sigils and words of power by which to evoke them.

The important difference in this book lies in the instructions for evocation that the author provides. Practitioners are instructed to make a copy of the seal of the name/aspect of Marduk they wish to evoke, on fresh paper. The spell should make use of white candles, incense, and a visualization technique. The readers are then instructed to focus their gaze on the seal, while controlling their breath with three deep inhalations; simultaneously, they are to mentally picture their goal. Then comes the incantation to invoke the desired entity, in which they chant the “word of power” like a mantra.19 In short, these are simple (downright minimal) visualization and evocation techniques.

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