Simon Necronomicon Vs. Necronomicon The Wanderings Of Alhazred, I'm not familiar with either Options

I found Donald Tyson's Necronomicon in the library to day and I am about to start reading it ... I am looking for my purpose in life and for the few years I have been sober enough to realize it I have been drawn to darkness demons the opposition of the norn and what some may call evil but I call freedom...
This has me looking into things like Mystery Schools Fairy Magic Satanic philosophy and now the Necronomicon.... the Simon Necronomicon is the book I've heard of and do believe I have been reading from this website

http://www.lovespells-magicspells.com/Paid...on_Part_1_A.htm

(stumbled upon this very page not the home page wile looking for Info on the Lesser Key of the Goetia)

... Is there reason this is the more popular book? I suppose I'll find out when I finish reading them both and I'm sure there are other versions that I will read also but I am curious why Simon Necro is best.

This post has been edited by Edunpanna: Mar 29 2007, 07:41 AM

Some say Dr John Dee suggested ideas to Edward Kelly in the making of the Enochian Tables. But Im sure you would find any experimenters using those tables and callings hard pressed to say it is fake or a hoax when they have experienced success using that information. And that can apply to likely all grimoires. I have said this once and I will say it again, most magickal texts fall into the realm of forgery or hoax if one is hard pressed not to believe it can work. The Necronomicon is a fairly new text and is still being tested out. I for one have found significant success w/ it. Now if it is a forgery that says much for my will I suppose. Now if it is a legitamit magickal text CREATEED from a number of sources and processed thru the mind of Simon and then presented in its format we all know and love, then who is to say it is fake or a hoax. Sure Simon presented it (the Necronomicon) in a sensationalistic manner, but that was most likely to make it an interesting read for all besides serious magicians and therefore help sales. Now before anyone says that proves the text is a fake--look at all Crowley created in order to make money--Diary of a Drug Fiend comes to mind.