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According to "History of the Necronomicon" the very act of studying the text is inherently dangerous, as those who attempt to master its arcane knowledge generally meet terrible ends.
Reprinted 2011
The Simon Necronomicon is a grimoire attributed to "Simon", allegedly a pseudonym of occultist, conspiracy "researcher" and writer Peter Levenda.
Materials presented in the book are a blend of ancient Middle Eastern elements, with allusions to the writings of H. P. Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley, woven together with a story about a man known as the "Mad Arab". The ritual magic elements of this work of fiction are directly taken from academic work on the Assyrian language meaning that all of the passages relating to exorcizing demons are in fact magical formulae to summon demons. Not everyone thinks this is an accident. The magical system and philosophy behind it exactly match those of the Brooklyn "magic shop" frequented by Levenda and others in the late 1960s and early 1970s and of the Process Church of the Final Judgement and its splinter groups based in New York. This book also directly references Pazuzu and other demons and devils who rose to popularity and notoriety in movies such as The Exorcist.
The book was released in 1977 by Schlangekraft, Inc. in a limited edition hardback printing, followed by a paperback release by Avon Books, and a subsequent paperback release by Bantam Books.
The book is cobbled together from a mishmash of recontextualized Sumerian and Babylonian texts peppered with added references to fictional deities created by Lovecraft and the orientalist magical system of Aleister Crowley.
Simon’s text plagiarizes the work of pioneering Assyriologists like R.C. Thompson, from whose Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia many of the translations are lifted. In their original context, these texts were incantations against evil spirits and the problems and plagues they caused, not spells for conjuring them.
The author of the Simon Necronomicon presents descriptions of the demons and their portfolios in English, but slips into transliterated Akkadian when the texts begin to call for the spirits to be cast out, leading to an implication that the demons are being invoked rather than exorcised. This is also the clearest evidence of the plagiarism from Assyriologists since there is no modification from the original sources in the material quoted in the book.
These ancient Mesopotamian incantations have come to be considered “satanic” through a centuries-long process of reinterpretation. The Simon Necronomicon reads its ancient sources through a combination of medieval demonology, 19th-century Theosophy, and 20th-century pulp fiction, predominantly that of the Mythos authors. It follows the Derleth adoption of the reconciliation of Old Ones with various Elemental forces and the Paracelsian Elements.
Fictional Book, Real Life Murder
In keeping with virtually everything else arising from the same Brooklyn milieu, mental illness and violence has followed in the wake of this published hoax. However, as with the work of several modern-day occultists such as Kenneth Grant, the source material being fictional is in no way considered a bar to it being used in "real" ritual magic and witchcraft. In this way, as with the fictional eponymous book in The King in Yellow, printed pages become the functional equivalent of psychotropic drug use.
The Crowley motto "Do As Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law" is front and center in the philosophy of the book.
Despite its clear origins as a hoax, the Simon Necronomicon has been used as evidence in murder trials like that of Rod Ferrell and his so-called “Vampire Clan.”
In 1996, Ferrell murdered the parents of one of his friends in a brutal but mundane home invasion. But numerous factors that emerged in media coverage of the crime-- including Ferrell’s self-identification as a vampire and the discovery of a copy of the Simon Necronomicon in his car--led to the murders being reframed as a satanic ritual killing. Laycock discusses the Farrell case in his 2009 sociological study Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism.
In cases like Ferrell’s, crusading prosecutors, self-proclaimed “cult cops,” and the sensation-seeking news media have held the Necronomicon up as proof of a shadowy satanic conspiracy. However it is worth remembering that this hoax is demonstrably the inspiration for a wave of occult acting out culminating in savage murders. Irreality or absurdity is no bar to magical thinking leading to the most spectacularly unhealthy of outcomes which is what makes Magic beliefs in our society potentially dangerous in general. The border between reality and fiction blurs in real life just as in stories such as In The Mouth of Madness and similar media offerings, albeit not to the same egregious extent.
It is interesting to note that the memory of the hoax is kept alive predominantly by Peter Levenda's arch denials of authorship, offered quite often out of the blue and apropos of nothing. It is also interesting to note that despite having both an ISBN and a publisher's global distribution network key number, the work was circulated in pamphlet form in 1976 prior to publication and has since been perennially released digitally as a free download with no challenge. This is because the original work carefully did not claim copyright in a normal and straight forward way, meaning that it was in effect an orphaned work within the meaning of copyright law as in effect. In other words it was meant to circulate widely and possibly was even meant to cause the chaos (or Chaos) that it did, given who wrote it and the network of like minded individuals who promoted it and used it.
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