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Does the paradigm revealed through the Necronomicon offer one a "path" for a practitioner to walk that is akin to pursuring The Great Work?

If so:

What is it?
What is happens to a practitioner while engaging it?
What is the results from a practitioner completing it?


I ask that question (and the collaries) because I suspect that more exists with regard to dealing with the various Powers referenced in that book - beyond merely calling up Elder Gods and other sundry entities for the sake of satisfying mundane desires.

Hey, i was wondering, should.t the pentagram work in banishings, It is in the nec the 5 pointed star of war energy very much like that of guberah?

In the Nec that symbol is known as the Arra Star, and it does serve to remind the gods/names of their covenant with us, along with the Agga. For the darker entities that sometimes pop up, its never been useful for me, typically the eight pointed star, or the star of Anu (the eight spokes looking symbol) is more effective, although the pentagram may be effective as a sheild, assuming that you believe in it as a symbol of protection. I don't, so it never worked for me.

Also in the 'Gates of the Nec it says that set is the one who constantly is reborn and dies. I thought that was osirus.... I also think that it says that Set never dies earlyer on in the book and is immortal in a different way than the god who is reincarnated.

Ah, no, just finished this book, and it identifies osirus as the god who dies and is reborn. It explains that set never dies. And that he sodomized Osirus, which is something I never heard before.

i Just a bit skeptical because a lot of this book the ideas seem tied together when the comparrison is often a bit to removed for the implied facts of ancient cultures. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blablabla.gif)

Well, skepticism is good. Also, cultural knowledge has to be translated quite a bit into western thought in order to make comparisons, so in my own opinion, the book could only do so well and still be readable by an audience. If you're curious about the deeper aspects of what it brought up there, go do the research yourself, make your own interpretations, and decide if they also tie together. Research into ancient mysteries is perhaps the most exciting part about being a knowledgeable occultist! Well, for some of us any way...

In any case, you don't have to believe anything, none of it is real anyway, just stories, symbols, manifestations of a ceaseless, formless truth of being. So for that matter you might as well believe it, cause it's fertile ground for lots of other mysteries just as interesting and useful one way as the other.

peace