QUOTE(Edunpanna @ Feb 11 2007, 03:36 PM)
Greetings Moloch,
So you heard we were talking smack about you and you joined to confront us. Maybe you are not so bad after all. I hereby retract my statement that you suck. If you had been a member before now maybe we would not have been talking smack about you. Lol.
Well if you think about it, how intelligent is it to say, 'Joe Sixpack sucks!' when you don't know Joe Sixpack?? That's like a redneck stating that a jacuzzi sucks when he's never been in one or the guy selling it sucks without giving him a chance to explain why. In fact, that's juvenile behavior that Jr. High school students regularly engage in, isn't it?
If you had bought the book, read it and then said, "Well overall this suck and here's why..." I could respect that. Why? My style of writing is not for everyone. I understand that. Some folks like glazed donuts, some like powdered and some like filling inside. It's a big world out there and I'm not some dumb*ss to believe everyone is in love with what I have to offer.
Read any of MY reviews on Amazon or Zodiac Bistro www.zodiacbistro.com and you'll not even when I hate a book, I NEVER say 'It sucks!' because that sounds like a 7th grade putz. I may say WHY I dislike it but I will also try to find at least ONE redeeming thing about the book. That's what the pros do.
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I purchased Alric Thomas Hidden Key of the Necronomicon. I must say it was well worth the $45.00 although it does not have a lot of material.
Sorry, I don't have that one. I remember it. The other one IGOS offered was something like
The Gates of the Necronomicon and it was only 20 pages or so long. It had the gates from the Simonomicon (Simon Necronomicon for short) and key words to allow you to safely pass the gates.
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I understand that in your book Necronomicon Revelations you reworked the 50 names system with new sigils.
Okay first off that is not my book. My book is called:
Necronomian: The Necronomicon Workbook.
Please understand that when my book came out on this topic, there was NOTHING else out there on working with the Simon edition in a practical manner other than the Simon book itself. The mainstream Occult community decried its validity - just as many today seem to carry on. I wrote about my own experiences concerning the Simonomicon (short for Simon Necronomicon) and I caught a BUTTLOAD of flack from the mainstream Occult community for creating a work to support something they believe to be pastiche let alone believe I've summoned entities out of it. You know what I'm talking about folks - you've all been there. You happily tell some ceremonial jackass you got results with the Simonomicon and then you hear, 'But there is NO Necronomicon! Lovecraft made it up!' and you just sigh and politely nod your head and let the moron have his rant or bury your dagger in his skull and hide the body. lol
When I first started working with this grimoire, I had no idea WHO Lovecraft was. I bought the book at a Waldens and read it for what it was. I read it several times and had that inside feeling that "Oooh! This is going to be fun to work with!" Because at that time I had no one to tell me it was 'fake' or 'wouldn't work'. That all came much later. This was 1988 and there was no Internet or no websites about it like they proliferate today on the Net. (For all I knew AT THAT TIME, Lovecraft was some old time scribe who lived and chronicled Abdul Alhazred's journies.)
Thus without anyone telling me it's 'fake' or causing me to doubt its validity, I began to work the grimoire in earnest. I didn't believe the Watcher Calling was needed - and still a not especially if you already have your own Patron Spirit. Though many Sorcerer's don't have a Patron thus it is prudent for one to have one when dealing with the forces from this system. I had my own Occult Patron that I've worked with since I first got into the Occult and felt that Its protection was all that I needed. Thus I began my foray into the grimoire and like any good Sorcerer, I experimented.
To me, a seal of a Spirit has always been sort of 'sacred' and it is my belief that I can create a sigil to tap into the effects that a Spirit can give by creating a sigil based on Its name. The idea that anytime you write out a Spirit's Seal, you're in effect summoning It's notice at least didn't quite appeal to me. Though if I want to give an offering to a particular Spirit for helping me, I draw It's Seal, and summon It then give It the offering or draw It's Seal onto the gift.
I have used these new sigils on talismans, a staff, even on a bathroom wall where I wanted to cause some problems for the business' owner, and so on.
There is also a method for accessing the Dreamlands thru an astral portal listed in the latter part of the book.
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If you could please give a little insight on what is in your book. Convince me that it is worth $60.00 and I will have no qualms in buying it.
Well I have no control over the price of it - that is set by the publisher. When it first came out it was $19.95 and it was hardbound at that price then. Folks were buying it thru B&N, Borders, and even Waldens though it was special ordered from them. When SONA took over, they increased the prices of ALL their books and booklets, not just mine.
Ever see how much Andrew Chumbley's
Azoetia is going for??? Well over a thousand but, he only printed like 77 copies at any one time. My book was never meant for mass market publication. So to compare what I offer to something like Alric's work is not comparing apples to apples even thoguh the subject matter may be similar.
Hope that helps explain where I'm coming from more.
All the Best,
Moloch
Moloch Sorcery
Jul 11 2006, 06:38 PM
