Simon Necronomicon

[Xenophon]

Ok, I am well aware that any Necronomicon published is, in some large measure, an imposture. Much as I think Lovecraft tapped inadvertently into something real, I certainly do not insist on a literal reading of his works nor on their inerrancy. That said, I just read the Simon Necronomicon. A certain degree of scholarship went into it, as well as some considerable occult knowledge. It dropped a few nuggets about Sumerian tradition that bear on the current bees on my bonnet.

Has anyone here worked the book's rites? With any result?

 

[Yazata]

One of the names (to heal a dying plant - didn't work) and another name that I don't even remember long ago. Did the banishing crown of Anu a couple of times and the incantation against evil sorcerers.
The gates are something that I at some point want to do.

 

[stalkinghyena]

I grew up with it. The SN was part a small cluster of my late Dad's books which were all I had to work with from pre to late teens, so I kind of consider it a "gateway drug". Aside from being my intro to grimoire magic, it was a big influence on my imagination and creativity.
I can't say I ever worked with it with any of the intensity it seems to recommend - I conjured the Watcher, and it didn't try to kill me, but took off and came back years later with a report. I ended up constructing a lot of tools inspired by it, including the AGA MASS SSARATU, of course, but I think I colored outside the lines. Just a little. I worked with the Gates as well, but I must say I really did not know what I was doing.

I did a love spell out of it - the thing with the apple? - but while I ended up dating the girl I didn't get laid because I was just too young (like 10 or 11, which is nothing these days). Besides, I think I made her uncomfortable with with a werewolf fetish I had at the time - I was always drawing them and I don't think she understood. I actually thought I could be a werewolf if I tried, but there were no guide books back then, just late night Cinemax movies to go off of. Now I think there are guide books on becoming lycanthropic, but I am not so interested. I also went into a semi-trance in her living room and started muttering something that could have been Sumerian, but was probably just pre-teen gibberish, though I think that if I was in a certain type of Christian church it would have been considered bona-fide speaking in tongues.

Let's see, I developed a sort of tutelary relationship with one of the Fifty Names. I actually drew his sigil on the head of a friend (the girlfriend's brother) who complained of a serious headache. I smacked it with the palm of my hand and the headache was gone. He ran off and told everyone about the miracle, and it was all distrustful and suspicious stares from then on. Middle school and high school proved to be fun just for that.

Me and a buddy of mine - who I still talk to - were about to get our asses stomped for inadvertent vandalism one night. We ran into the shadow of a fence and while he freaked out I told him to shut up and hold still. I called on the deity previously mentioned and prayed he would protect us. As we stood against the fence, two guys who were looking for us stopped right at the edge of the fence shadow and stared, asking where we had gone. If they had taken one step forward they would have seen us, but instead they turned and walked away. A moment later me and my friend bolted down the block in a clean escape. He actually reminded me of that a couple of times, though he never maintained much of an interest in magic when I left town.

I have other stories, maybe less believable, but there are fusions with Gerald Schueler's Enochian stuff, Paul Huson, Eliphas Levi and Anton LaVey. Ah, the memories.

 

[Konsciencia]

I had the book, but it did not interest me at all. I thought it was a whole bunch of giberish garbage. It felt like it was all made up. And it was one of the books a bought on Magick. It didn't have anything to do with Magick. However, I figured, I didn't need it. Because I call upon the Greatest God ever, Lucifer. Who came to me due to a Prayer I did. When I was a Christian.

 

[stalkinghyena]

It felt like it was all made up.

I know the feeling, mainly as I grew older and actually read Lovecraft. It's funny that as a kid I could find a copy of SN almost anywhere, including a common convenience store wedged between the comic books and the porno mag rack. It was almost impossible to find Lovecraft's stories at the time. I didn't until I came across them in a high school library.

The SN is Sumerian-Babylonian reconstructionism in a very modern sense, with add touches of the Chthulu mythos, such as names like KUTULU itself. The publication story - not just as recounted in the Introductory section - kind of fascinates me.

The deities in the book are real and the rites are workable, but I can understand any aversion. According to publishers, after recounting all the mysterious misfortunes that went into making the book available, they could not share the original manuscript because it did not belong to them. So no one will ever know the "source" of the SN. But word has it that "Simon" is in fact Peter Levenda, most known for his research in the Nazi occultism. He denies this.

There is also a notion (er, cough, uh, Grant, cough), which I find interesting, that the actual Necronomicon is not a physical book, but rather an "astral grimoire" imprinted on this earth's aura which manifests itself to different authors at different times, making its mysteries know piecemeal. Lovecraft's introduction of the title and his snippets was part of a process that begins outside of this earth. So the implication is that the Necronomicon is an extraterrestrial projection into certain minds, even before Lovecraft, some of whom go insane and leave only fragments behind them. So, Simon Necronomicon...

Anyways, I was looking at it last night and had an impression of Saturnine resistance and the semi-conscious need to rationalize as to "fakery". The book, labeled an Avon paperback for the original price of $6.99 USD when I bought it. It felt so feather light in my hands. My Dad's original disappeared, sadly, a bit frightfully - that one had red dye on the edges of the pages. This one is a later print. My resistance to the book I look at as a barrier, btw - a prejudice that afflicts progress. Pushing through it, browsing the sigils, and forgetting Levenda and other culprits associated with it, I had the sense that there was something "behind" the book. Not of human agency. This, of course, connects with my reminiscences from when I was a kid. With a little twist of chaote thinking, I got a sense somewhat like a get with LAM - but also the sort feeling I get when pondering deep cosmic fields of stars. That's all potential, I suppose - there are other visions, in the Gates, but this sense pertained more to the notion mention above. IT is a projection, a surface, a door...

 

[Xenophon]

I know the feeling, mainly as I grew older and actually read Lovecraft. It's funny that as a kid I could find a copy of SN almost anywhere, including a common convenience store wedged between the comic books and the porno mag rack. It was almost impossible to find Lovecraft's stories at the time. I didn't until I came across them in a high school library.

The SN is Sumerian-Babylonian reconstructionism in a very modern sense, with add touches of the Chthulu mythos, such as names like KUTULU itself. The publication story - not just as recounted in the Introductory section - kind of fascinates me.

The deities in the book are real and the rites are workable, but I can understand any aversion. According to publishers, after recounting all the mysterious misfortunes that went into making the book available, they could not share the original manuscript because it did not belong to them. So no one will ever know the "source" of the SN. But word has it that "Simon" is in fact Peter Levenda, most known for his research in the Nazi occultism. He denies this.

There is also a notion (er, cough, uh, Grant, cough), which I find interesting, that the actual Necronomicon is not a physical book, but rather an "astral grimoire" imprinted on this earth's aura which manifests itself to different authors at different times, making its mysteries know piecemeal. Lovecraft's introduction of the title and his snippets was part of a process that begins outside of this earth. So the implication is that the Necronomicon is an extraterrestrial projection into certain minds, even before Lovecraft, some of whom go insane and leave only fragments behind them. So, Simon Necronomicon...

Anyways, I was looking at it last night and had an impression of Saturnine resistance and the semi-conscious need to rationalize as to "fakery". The book, labeled an Avon paperback for the original price of $6.99 USD when I bought it. It felt so feather light in my hands. My Dad's original disappeared, sadly, a bit frightfully - that one had red dye on the edges of the pages. This one is a later print. My resistance to the book I look at as a barrier, btw - a prejudice that afflicts progress. Pushing through it, browsing the sigils, and forgetting Levenda and other culprits associated with it, I had the sense that there was something "behind" the book. Not of human agency. This, of course, connects with my reminiscences from when I was a kid. With a little twist of chaote thinking, I got a sense somewhat like a get with LAM - but also the sort feeling I get when pondering deep cosmic fields of stars. That's all potential, I suppose - there are other visions, in the Gates, but this sense pertained more to the notion mention above. IT is a projection, a surface, a door...

Your feeling is parallel to mine own. On the one hand, the book is in large part "made up." On the other, it seems to have tapped into something. I knew a guy who was a writer. After he got into the occult, his daimon was a character from a novel he wrote. On first acquaintance when the other presented himself, tge writer told the daimon "I made you up!" The other replied, "I authored YOU!" Theirs was a fruitful collaboration, last I knew. Something similar might be afoot here.

 

[BloodOfBakula]

Simon wrote a spellbook version of the Necronomicon.

Man, did I abuse that thing. There wasn't a meeting/court date/speech/etc where I didn't have deity's symbol in my breast pocket.

 

[Xenophon]

Simon wrote a spellbook version of the Necronomicon.

Man, did I abuse that thing. There wasn't a meeting/court date/speech/etc where I didn't have deity's symbol in my breast pocket.

Must've worked, eh? You're still striding the earth a free man I take it.

Me, I've only had two kinds of dates: court and first.

 

[Parallax]

Ok, I am well aware that any Necronomicon published is, in some large measure, an imposture. Much as I think Lovecraft tapped inadvertently into something real, I certainly do not insist on a literal reading of his works nor on their inerrancy. That said, I just read the Simon Necronomicon. A certain degree of scholarship went into it, as well as some considerable occult knowledge. It dropped a few nuggets about Sumerian tradition that bear on the current bees on my bonnet.

Has anyone here worked the book's rites? With any result?

I’ve seen the book a lot but one day looking at the cover something clicked and I don’t know what. When I went to sleep I dreamed I entered higher dimensions and was pulled through coldness to a white planet and saw the visage of chtuluh or however it’s spelled. Was extremely scared and forced myself to wake up before getting there.
Haven’t played with it much since.

 

[Xenophon]

I’ve seen the book a lot but one day looking at the cover something clicked and I don’t know what. When I went to sleep I dreamed I entered higher dimensions and was pulled through coldness to a white planet and saw the visage of chtuluh or however it’s spelled. Was extremely scared and forced myself to wake up before getting there.
Haven’t played with it much since.

Dang, that is a reaction and then some.

 

[stalkinghyena]

to a white planet

Perhaps you were gifted a vision of "Yuggoth", which is Lovecraft's name for Pluto. While I do not find this reference in Simon, Yuggoth figures heavily in Grant's analysis as the gateway to "trans-plutonian" power zones that lead to Yog-Sothoth, who seethes amidst "nuclear foam".

 

[Parallax]

Perhaps you were gifted a vision of "Yuggoth", which is Lovecraft's name for Pluto. While I do not find this reference in Simon, Yuggoth figures heavily in Grant's analysis as the gateway to "trans-plutonian" power zones that lead to Yog-Sothoth, who seethes amidst "nuclear foam".

Well, Idk what to make of the work. I may try it again but am unsure when or where.

 

[stalkinghyena]

Well, Idk what to make of the work. I may try it again but am unsure when or where.

I know from my own experience that things like this reveal their usefulness in time. "When the stars are right", so to speak. There is an element of "creep" in terms of general "averse" energetic spectrums, which I believe that the SN in the Urilia Text portion refers as "ensnarers" and "liers-in-wait".

 

[Parallax]

I know from my own experience that things like this reveal their usefulness in time. "When the stars are right", so to speak. There is an element of "creep" in terms of general "averse" energetic spectrums, which I believe that the SN in the Urilia Text portion refers as "ensnarers" and "liers-in-wait".
If it works into my qliphothic practice then I’d welcome it, do you know if there are forums specifically for the SN?

 

[stalkinghyena]

If it works into my qliphothic practice then I’d welcome it, do you know if there are forums specifically for the SN?

I am not aware of any SN forums, but I can definitely confirm that it would fit quite well with any Qlippoth paradigm approach. One simply needs to be open to the various Sumero-Babylonian correspondences as they connect with the "Tree of Death", which is partly provided in the SN via 777 style format in the Intro. Also, some familiarity of the Cthulhu mythos is a plus, but not immediately necessary for the SN.
That said, I have found there is a great deal of room for personalization, so long as one keeps in mind the "creeping" aspect.

 

[Xenophon]

I am not aware of any SN forums, but I can definitely confirm that it would fit quite well with any Qlippoth paradigm approach. One simply needs to be open to the various Sumero-Babylonian correspondences as they connect with the "Tree of Death", which is partly provided in the SN via 777 style format in the Intro. Also, some familiarity of the Cthulhu mythos is a plus, but not immediately necessary for the SN.
That said, I have found there is a great deal of room for personalization, so long as one keeps in mind the "creeping" aspect.

You've had experience of working with the Qlippoth? That's something I am laying plans for. Collecting intell right now (I.e., reading everything that looks promising as referenced in "Nightside of Eden.) I might be pestering you with queries in the future.

 

[stalkinghyena]

You've had experience of working with the Qlippoth? That's something I am laying plans for. Collecting intell right now (I.e., reading everything that looks promising as referenced in "Nightside of Eden.) I might be pestering you with queries in the future.

For myself, I consider dealing with and learning from the Qlippoth is a part of a necessary holistic approach working the Kabbalah in spite of all the histrionics against and for such studies. It's been a while since I read Nightside, but I plan to circle back around so I can dig into the Tunnels of Set a bit better. Those are AC's visions, but a good addition to the general pathology. But if you like original source intel, here's a thread to pull on:

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[initmul]

From an ancient scribbles person perspective, the Simonomicon mainly consists of butchered phrases and incantations from the Neo-Babylonian/-Assyrian ritual series Maqlû "Burning", which includes nothing but angsty banishings of evil sorcerers and sorceresses. (The 1st millennium BCE was weird like that, they had invented "sin" not long before.) So the opposite of what the stuff is supposed to do. And with just enough little fun traps for the unwary to get some nasty side effect.

The combination of HPL's work with Mesopotamian stuff in the Simonomicon has led to the current popular trend of attributing poor entities who have done nothing wrong (but are completely misinterpreted by certain modern authors) with the qlippoth. If you want to work with the qlippoth, stick to the original stuff that does not randomly throw Mesopotamian critters at everything. It's also very confusing for the entities in question.
I used Liber 231 etc as a starting point for my own explorations - and there's always Kenneth Grant's work.

If you are interested in the Simonomicon BECAUSE it has Mesopotamian stuff I volunteer to share my own material.

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

I was once worshipping Innana and Marduk, in a shared apartment. I was into Wicca, satanism, and the Simon necromomicon. I started uttering incantations from it aloud, and not to be normal weather, a rainstorm began to ensue. When I stopped, it cleared up. There was no forecast of rain.
Decades later back in 2016, I paid down outside target on a concrete tree well, and started uttering various permutations of Hebrew letters. A weather change occurred, not in line with the weather forecast.

 

[Xenophon]

From an ancient scribbles person perspective, the Simonomicon mainly consists of butchered phrases and incantations from the Neo-Babylonian/-Assyrian ritual series Maqlû "Burning", which includes nothing but angsty banishings of evil sorcerers and sorceresses. (The 1st millennium BCE was weird like that, they had invented "sin" not long before.) So the opposite of what the stuff is supposed to do. And with just enough little fun traps for the unwary to get some nasty side effect.

The combination of HPL's work with Mesopotamian stuff in the Simonomicon has led to the current popular trend of attributing poor entities who have done nothing wrong (but are completely misinterpreted by certain modern authors) with the qlippoth. If you want to work with the qlippoth, stick to the original stuff that does not randomly throw Mesopotamian critters at everything. It's also very confusing for the entities in question.
I used Liber 231 etc as a starting point for my own explorations - and there's always Kenneth Grant's work.

If you are interested in the Simonomicon BECAUSE it has Mesopotamian stuff I volunteer to share my own material.

Good post. The book in question struck me as a bit opportunistic. The author had all this neat s*** about Sumerian deities lying around. Why not slap a marketable label on it and pay off the Hyundai a few months early?

A query. Grant has some great stuff, but having read most all of his Typhonian trilogies, does he ever get past what he adumbrates in Nightside of Eden? The other volumes contain some nuggets, yes. (E.g., the Cult of Lam working.) But the rest of it tends to be the same 7-8 Crowley/Frater Achad/et al anecdotes reworked for the umpteenth time from a slightly different angle. That and gematro-mania interspersed with the 34 kalas-savors of Tantric cunninglus.