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Originally posted by Scarcer
I'm a sovereign citizen, I reserve my right to freedom of speech.... and reserve my right from people like YOU choosing what people like ME can and can't view and what I can and can't think!
I think this world would make so much more sense of I put on a blind fold and gag and think and do exactly as told for my entire life and live in blissful ignorance of never second guessing what I'm told.
kay thanks.
Originally posted by ashanu90
reply to post by Theone2000
idk about all that magical mumbo jumbo but if its a book, you read it, so what?
lets say i read through the book the entire book and nothing happens? what would you say abput that? what if i read the necronomicon and nothing happened?
or the bible? are you really saying that reading a book will magically change you?
sorry im not buying it
im a bit of a skeptic as you can tell sorry if i came off harsh
Originally posted by born2BWild
Why should the book be banned? After all writing's from David Wilcock to David Icke, all the way to full religions are questioned and controversial to say the least. Why should this one be any different? Heck it's not technically illegal to share Nazi views in the U.S. so why should this book be any different?
Originally posted by Scarcer
If you aren't making me do anything and you reserve you right... then what's the point of this discussion?
Yea it was written for entertainment purposes only. But calling upon the watcher is one of the spells in the Necronomicon. You can call him if you like, its a free country I myself will stay far away from the watcher. lol www.horrorseek.com... In the Name of G. and GOD. May GOD bless us and keep the Watchers and the IGIGI away. ( Even if the IGIGI were the GOD's of the Sumerians lol) My GOD is Christ and Buddha my enlightemet
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
reply to post by Theone2000
I don't really have anything to relate to your original post, Theone2000. Instead, I have some personal qualms with your stance that the Necronomicon is somehow an "evil" book. I'm not really sure which "Necronomicon" you've read, so I'm just going to cover the three most common Necronomicon books available in various forms on the market today, and why none of them are anything negative, evil, or bad.
H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon
This is the book that started it all. Lovecraft had a dream, in his dream there was an ancient tome, titled Necronomicon, meaning "Book of Dead Names" in the Greek tongue. Upon waking, Lovecraft — a writer of long-winded horror-fiction — decided to include his fictional, dream-induced Necronomicon as an aspect of his fiction.
Now, there are two things to know about H.P. Lovecraft's work:
The first is that the Elder Gods invoked and mentioned are actually not spirits, angels, demons or gods at all. Lovecraft intended this "race from behind the stars" to actually be extra-terrestrial in origin. Not spiritual/mystical/religious.
The second, for every evil ritual a character from Lovecraft's work participates in that can be found in the Necronomicon, there is also a positive "Elder God banishing" ritual also contained in the book. This is akin to all religious texts. It teaches both positive and negative values: like the Christian God who spares the Jews from Egypt, but later has Moses slaughter women, children and newborns in conquered lands. Good and bad in the same book.
The Necronomicon, by Donald Tyson
This version of The Necronomicon is a lovingly crafted homage to H.P. Lovecraft's fictitious work. All of the locations, beings, and spells are lifted from H.P.'s horror-fiction. None of this is original material, nor is any of it effective occult, esoteric, or magickal formulae.
Tyson has, in fact, gone on to continue his loving homage by crafting a Tarot deck related to H.P.'s tome, and one or two follow up tomes as appendices to the original homage. An homage which he compiled and completed based off of H.P.'s persona letters, notes and hints from various short-stories.
Nothing evil in this book, unfortunately.
Finally, the most "infamous" Necronomicon of them all: the Simonomicon. That is, the Necronomicon according to Simon. Now, I don't really believe that you have read Simon's Necronomicon, nor his book Dead Names, the Dark History of the Necronomicon, or his work The Necronomicon Spellbook, or his final say on the work: The Gates of the Necronomicon. I have though.
Nowhere in any of these books is there anything remotely evil. In fact, all of these books are thinly veiled Babylonian mythology, coupled with rituals and rites from cultures as diverse as India, China, Meso-America, Native American, and tribal shamanism. Unless you believe that 90% of humanity's religious history is "evil" then you have no idea what is contained in these books.
Read them sometime. Even if you ignore the superstitious rituals and rites, you'll actually find the archeology, anthropology, religious history, and detective work to be quite fascinating in each book.
And there you have it, no evil in the Necronomicon.
~ Wandering Scribe
[edit on 27/4/10 by Wandering Scribe]
Is this book evil? Is it a thought crime?
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
reply to post by Theone2000
I know the Watcher ritual you speak of. It's not the Igigi. The Watcher is supposed to be a beast of flame and earth (much like the Balrog in Lord of the Rings). It's a metaphysical being. It comes to watch over your physical body while you travel through the Gates/Spheres. It's purpose is to prevent any other spiritual being from inhabiting/possessing your body while you are on your metaphysical journey.
In The Simon Necronomicon, Simon devotes an entire chapter to the Watcher. Again in The Gates of the Necronomicon, Simon devotes several chapters to this mysterious being. It's not "evil" like you mentioned.
I won't start with the Babylon/Igigi references since I assume you are of the belief that humanity was once imprisoned to some combination of the Igigi and the Annunaki; unfortunately Babylonian mythology does not agree with this. The Igigi and Annunaki were the ones who fought the overlord Tiamat to free everything from her evil binding spell.
That's all I'll say on that though, I've had enough debates over this on these boards.
Blessings to you too.
~ Wandering Scribe
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Originally posted by zaiger
reply to post by Theone2000
Is this book evil? Is it a thought crime?
Evil is relative and thought crime is a fictional crime made up in 1948 (sic).
So no it is not evil or a thought crime. I do see it as you trying to sensationalize it in an effort to get people to read it.