"The Book That Makes Readers Insane" sounds like an attempt to sell a modern bestseller by a popular author, doesn't it? However, this is a description of an ancient book that cannot be sold or bought today. What is this book and is it really magical or even real?
Author
According to the main connoisseur of the book "Necronomicon" (and, according to some claims, its author) Howard Lovecraft, its author was the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, who lived in Damascus in the first century AD. The original of the Necronomicon has never been seen, but a certain number of passages and incomplete copies circulate. The book is best known for its eerie details.
Genre
This book is classified as a grimoire, that is, a textbook on magic and witchcraft, describing rituals and spells. Full of eerie details, legend has it that this book drives readers to madness and suicide.
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The book tells how Alhazred wandered through the desert in an attempt to master ancient knowledge.
Content
The book describes the pantheon of gods, the main of which is Azathoth, and about the time when people were not yet on Earth. The book teaches the reader how to connect and communicate with ancient gods and spirits, and also tells about the origins of world religions.
According to the information indicated in the Necronomicon, before arriving on Earth, people lived on other planets. According to Neoplatonism, other stars have life. And all living things in the Universe have an evolutionary hierarchy.
Secret knowledge
Using special symbols and definitions written on the pages of the Necronomicon, people can communicate with the Elders and receive the information they need to control the past and future.
The book warns that this is a dangerous path, because a person must carry only a burden that he can lift on his shoulders.
In addition, Nostradamus, in his predictions, talks about the method of seeing the future, described in the Necronomicon, which makes people believe that the book at some point belonged to the soothsayer.
The book is surrounded by rumors that the secret knowledge hidden in its pages can throw people into the depths of madness. Because the book challenges everything normal, it reveals truths that normal people cannot bear. Most cannot bear the truth, and their limited minds are trapped from which they cannot escape.
Original version
There are many different versions of the book circulating in different circles. Officially, it is believed that the book is a fiction of Lovecraft and no "Necronomicon" and Alhazred did not exist. However, even during Howard Lovecraft's lifetime, the Necronomicon was legendary.
Some people claim that the original book is in the Vatican, in secret archives, and is closely guarded under the complete control and prohibition of the Papacy.
According to alternative sources, interest in magic and the otherworldly made Hitler look for the original book, and he managed to get hold of the Necronomicon, which led to the fact that the already mentally ill Fuhrer lost his last common sense and committed suicide, ordering the destruction of all of Germany and all Germans …
You can read the book itself here.
Hope Chikanchi