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 Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:02 am
The following are a few quotes by H.P. Lovecraft from several of his works. The Öskari believe to have stumbled upon something, more than what it seems as it were. ---"What I had thought morbid and shameful and ignominious is in reality awesome and mind expanding and even glorious-- my previous estimate being merely of mans eternal tendency to hate and fear and shrink away from the utterly different." -'The Whisperer in the Darkness'
"The space time globule which we recognize as the totality of all cosmic entity is only an atom in the genuine infinity which is Theirs. And as much of this infinity as any human brain can hold is eventually to be opened up to me, as it has been to not more than 50 other men since the human race has existed." -'The Whisperer in the Darkness'
"To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law -- to be linked with the vast outside -- to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate -- surely such a thing was worth the risk of ones life, soul, and sanity." -'The Whisperer in the Darkness'
"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal..." -'The Tomb'
"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon." -'Beyond The Wall of Sleep'
"Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world." -'Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family'
"I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness..." -'From Beyond'
"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die." -'The Cthulhu Mythos'
"But he was still content, for at one mighty venture he was to learn all. Damnation, he reflected, is but a word bandied about by those whose blindness leads them to condemn all who can see, even with a single eye." -'Through the Gates of the Silver Key'
"The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter." -'Through the Gates of the Silver Key'
"Things seen by the inward sight, like those flashing visions which comes as we drift into the blankness of sleep, are more vivid and meaningful to us in that form than when we have sought to weld them with reality." -'The Night Ocean'
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -'Supernatural Horror in Literature'
"It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief." -In a letter to the Providence Evening News, September 5 1914
 H.P. Lovecraft----
Tell me now, what do you take of this? Discuss Lovecraft's Astral travels. What have you pieced together?
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:20 am
These truths will baffle the minds of most mortals, to be fearfully honest...
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SkellyCoolBones Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:57 pm
I had a boyfriend who claimed to be wiccan. I'm not sure now, if he was or not. But anyway, he didnt want anything back after things went bad, so i went ahead and read his copy of H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon. I found it pretty interesting. I wish i had read more of it before i dropped it into the abyss known as my book pile. D:
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:08 pm
StrangeOvertones I had a boyfriend who claimed to be wiccan. I'm not sure now, if he was or not. But anyway, he didnt want anything back after things went bad, so i went ahead and read his copy of H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon. I found it pretty interesting. I wish i had read more of it before i dropped it into the abyss known as my book pile. D: 
I remember that boyfriend. I remember hating his guts.
What you read, darling, was no work of Lovecraft. The accursed book, The Necronomicon, was in fact written by the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, who had contact with things not of this universe. I'm delighted to hear that those demented transcripts have reached your eyes and mind twisted
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SkellyCoolBones Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:31 pm
Skalleg StrangeOvertones I had a boyfriend who claimed to be wiccan. I'm not sure now, if he was or not. But anyway, he didnt want anything back after things went bad, so i went ahead and read his copy of H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon. I found it pretty interesting. I wish i had read more of it before i dropped it into the abyss known as my book pile. D:
I remember that boyfriend. I remember hating his guts.
What you read, darling, was no work of Lovecraft. The accursed book, The Necronomicon, was in fact written by the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, who had contact with things not of this universe. I'm delighted to hear that those demented transcripts have reached your eyes and mind twisted
D; oh my. misinformed again. story of my life. ah well... i do remember the name H. P. Lovecraft popping up in the foreward of that book, now that i think about it. I have to find it again. D:< gah. -is running around cleaning, looking for the book again-
edit: it is found. and in The Mythos and The Magick section of the introduction he's mentioned quite a lot. I remember first reading this and bitching that it didnt have an authors name on the cover. xD
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:18 pm
StrangeOvertones Skalleg StrangeOvertones I had a boyfriend who claimed to be wiccan. I'm not sure now, if he was or not. But anyway, he didnt want anything back after things went bad, so i went ahead and read his copy of H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon. I found it pretty interesting. I wish i had read more of it before i dropped it into the abyss known as my book pile. D:
I remember that boyfriend. I remember hating his guts.
What you read, darling, was no work of Lovecraft. The accursed book, The Necronomicon, was in fact written by the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, who had contact with things not of this universe. I'm delighted to hear that those demented transcripts have reached your eyes and mind twisted
D; oh my. misinformed again. story of my life. ah well... i do remember the name H. P. Lovecraft popping up in the foreward of that book, now that i think about it. I have to find it again. D:< gah. -is running around cleaning, looking for the book again-
edit: it is found. and in The Mythos and The Magick section of the introduction he's mentioned quite a lot. I remember first reading this and bitching that it didnt have an authors name on the cover. xD
The Necronomicon is believed to be a 'fictional' grimoire of the dark arts first appearing in the stories of Mr. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned in his 1924 short story "The Hound", written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred.
Who is Abdul?
Abdul is the author of Kitab al-Azif (the Necronomicon), and as such an integral part of Cthulhu Mythos lore. The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five years. According to Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon" Alhazred was:
"a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia—the Roba El Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients—and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus."
In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly wrote a book of ultimate evil in Arabic, al-Azif, which would later become known as the Necronomicon. Those who have dealings with this book usually come to an unpleasant end, and Alhazred was no exception. Again according to Lovecraft's "History":
"Of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. He is said by Ebn Khallikan to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses. Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu."
Since then modified versions of the dark text have been published and distributed world wide.The Öskari are aware Lovecraft was indeed contacted by an ethereal creature of darkness. Being able to read 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of five is certainly a noteworthy accomplishment. His literature in itself along with this simple fact proves how far advanced Lovecraft's intellect truly was. Knowing this, it is safe to say his mind ventured into deeper, darker crevices of the universe the norm couldn't begin to imagine. Skalleg has researched thoroughly and found many, many intricate details and messages. This, however, is as far as I shall go.
I'd wish for you to always remember, there is truth behind every tale. Regardless of how heinous it may sound.
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 3:15 pm
SGT aksO TT I'd wish for you to always remember, there is truth behind every tale. Regardless of how heinous it may sound.
I never said i didnt believe any of it...
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