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Al Azif - The Cipher Manuscript known
as "Necronomicon"
Notes regarding this Etext edition
This etext version of the book, Al Azif has been entered into Hypertext by Ken
Ottinger over the course of some few months. This project was completely
funded by the Universal Life Trust.
The reason for the project was the realization that so many people were
fascinated by H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. Reading the newsgroups
alt.necronomicon and alt.necromicon and seeing so many requests for an
online copy of the Necronomicon, and then seeing the arguments and debates
as to whether the text actually existed or not prompted me to search out the
research work of Colin Wilson, George Hay, Robert Turner and David
Langford.
These men, publishing through CORGI Books of Chaucer Press, Ltd., Great
Britain, provided a translation of a cipher manuscript of Dr. John Dee's called
Liber Logaeth, a portion of a larger manuscript, the origin and nature of which
is not known. Due to its history and the similarity in content to the Cthulhu
Mythos, this document has been presented by these men as being, at least a
portion of, the document which was the inspiration for HPL's Necronomicon.
Because of copyright restrictions, I have included only quotes from the original
manuscript used in the CORGI edition. The bulk of this etext edition is the text
of the manuscript Liber Logaeth which has been translated to date. This is
presented as a Tool or Guide leading toward additional research.
Al Azif
Ye Book of Ye Arab, Abdul Alhazred, 730 at Damascus
Of Ye Old Ones and their Spawn
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are and the Old Ones shall be. From the dark
stars They came ere man was born, unseen and loathsome They descended to
primal earth.
Beneath the oceans They brooded while ages past, till seas gave up the land,
whereupon They swarmed forth in Their multitudes and darkness ruled the
Earth.
At the frozen Poles They raised mighty cities, and upon high places the temples
of Those whome nature owns not and the Gods have cursed.
And the spawn of the Old Ones covered the Earth, and Their children endureth
throughout the ages. Ye shantaks of Leng are the work of Their hands, the
Ghasts who dwelleth in Zin's primordial vaults know Them as their Lords.
They have fathered the Na-Hag and the Gaunts that ride the Night; Great
Cthulhuis Their brother, the shaggoths Their slaves. The Dholes do homage
unto Them in the nighted vale of Pnoth and Gugs sing Their praises beneath the
peaks of ancient Throk.
They have walked amidst the stars and They have walked the Earth. The City
of Irem in the great desert has known Them; Leng in the Cold Waste has seen
Their passing, the timeless citadel upon the cloud-vieled heights of unknown
Kadath beareth Their mark.
Wantonly the Old Ones trod the ways of darkness and Their blasphemies were
great upon the Earth; all creation bowed beneath Their might and knew Them
for Their wickedness.
And the Elder Lords opened Their eyes and beheld the abominations of Those
that ravaged the Earth. In Their wrath They set their hand against the Old Ones,
staying Them in the midst of Their iniquity and casting Them forth from the
Earth to the Void beyond the planes where chaos reigns and form abideth not.
And the Elder Lords set Their seal upon the Gateway and the power of the Old
Ones prevailest not against its might.
Loathsome Cthulhu rose then from the deeps and raged with exceeding great
fury against the Earth Guardians. And They bound his venomous claws with
potent spells and sealed him up within the City of R'lyeh wherein beneath the
waves he shall sleep death's dream until the end of the Aeon.
Beyond the Gate dwell now the Old Ones; not in the spaces known unto men
but in the angles betwixt them. Outside Earth's plane They linger and ever
awaite the time of Their return; for the Earth has known Them and shall know
Them in time yet to come.
And the Old Ones hold foul and formless Azathoth for Their Master abd Abide
with Him in the black cavern at the centre of all infinity, where he gnaws
ravenously in ultimate chaos amid the mad beating of hidden drums, the
tuneless piping of hideous flutes and the ceaseless bellowing of blind idiot gods
that shamble and gesture aimlessly for ever.
The soul of Azathoth dwelleth in Yog-sothoth and He shall beckon unto the
Old Ones when the stars mark the time of Their coming; for Yog-sothoth is the
Gate through which Those of the Void will re-enter. Yog-sothoth knowest the
mazes of of time, for all time is one unto Him. He knowest where the Old Ones
came forth in time along long past and where They shall come forth again when
the cycle returneth.
After day cometh night; man's day shall pass, and They shall rule where They
once ruled. As foulness you shall know them and Their accursedness shall stain
the Earth.
Of Ye Times and Ye Seasons to be Observed
Whenever thou would'st call forth Those from Outside, thou must mark well
the seasons and times in which the spheres do intersect and the influences flow
from the Void
Thou must observe the cycle of the Moon, the movements of the planets, the
Sun's course through the Zodiac and the rising of the constellations.
Ye Ultimate Rites shall be performed only in the seasons proper to them, these
be: at Candlemas (on the second day of the second month), at Beltane (on the
Eve of May), at Lammas (on the first day of the eighth month), at Roodmas (on
the fourteenth day of the ninth month), and at Hallowmas (on November Eve).
Call out to dread Azathoth when the Sun is in the sign of the Ram, the Lion, or
the Archer; the Moon decreasing and Mars and Saturn conjoin.
Mighty Yog-sothoth shall rise to ye incantations when Sol has entered the fiery
house of Leo and the hour of Lammas be upon ye.
Evoke ye terrible Hastur on Candlemas Night, when Sol is in Aquarius and
Mercury in trine.
Supplicate Great Cthulhu only at Hallowmas Eve when the Sun abides within
the House of the Scorpion and Orion riseth. When All Hallows falls within the
cycle of the new Moon the power shall be the strongest.
Conjure Shub-Niggurath when the Beltane fires glow upon the hills and the
Sun is in the Second House, repeating the Rites of Roodmas when ye Black
One appeareth.
To Raise up Ye Stones
To form ye Gate through which They from ye Outer Void might manifest thou
must set up ye stones in ye elevenfold configuration.
First thou shalt raise up ye four cardinal stones and these shall mark ye
direction of ye four winds as they howleth through their seasons.
To ye North set ye the stone of Great Coldness that shall form ye Gate of ye
winter-wind engraving thereupon the sigil of the Earth-Bull thus:{Taurus sigil}
In ye South (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye North), thou shalt raise
a stone of fierce-heat, through which ye summer winds bloweth and make upon
ye stone ye mark of ye Lion-serpent thus:{Leo Sigil}
Ye stone of whirling-air shall be set in ye East where ye first equinox riseth and
shall be graven with ye sign of he that beareth ye waters, thus:{Aquarius Sigil}
Ye Gate of Rushing Torrents thou cause to beat the west most inner point (at a
space of five paces from ye stone of ye East) where ye sun dieth in ye evening
and ye cycle of night returns. Blazon ye stone with ye character of ye Scorpion
whose tail reacheth unto the stars:{Scorpio Sigil}
Set thou the seven stones of Those that wander ye heavens, without ye inner
four and through their diverse influences shall ye focus of power be
established.
In ye North beyond the stone of Great Coldness set ye first ye stone of Saturn at
a space of three paces. This being done proceed thou widdershins placing at
like distances apart ye stones of Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Sul and Luna
marking each with their rightful sign.
At ye center of the so completed configuration set ye the Alter of ye Great Old
Ones and seal it with ye symbol of Yog-Sothoth and ye mighty Names of
Azathoth, Cthulhu, Hastur, Shub-Niggurath and Nyarlathotep.
And ye stones shall be ye Gates through which thou shalt call Them forth from
Outside man's time and space.
Entreat ye of ye stones by night and when the Moon decreasetth in her light,
turning thy face to ye direction of Their coming, speaking ye words and making
ye gestures that bringeth forth ye Old Ones and causeth Them to walk once
more ye Earth.
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