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Occult Term of the Week: Necronomiquandry

NECRONOMIQUANDRY: When magic that is successful and effective is linked to a book or tradition with a deliberately fake or hoax origin.

“I summoned Lucifer using John Dee’s Ordines Descendens, which leaves me in a bit of a Necronomiquandry, because it turns out the book was an elaborate April Fools prank. “

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Julie Miller

I have done some summoning in previous rituals for bindings and hexing. When I did, I summoned Cthulhu. His energy went well to what I was working on and was successful for quite a long time.

I read the bit of your history.
I too had an experience when I was about 5 or 6. Every night around 7pm a dark presence, not a ghost, but dark form would threaten me if I stepped out of bed to look out the window. This creature would often have a blade that swings like a pendulum at my window as a promise to what would happen if I didn’t listen. I was never asleep when this happened, so I know I was not dreaming.
I performed my first spell around the age of 12/13 and before I was a teen I deep into studying the Supernatural and the Occult. My mother even gave me a tarot deck to help me learn more of who I was meant to become.
Since my younger days, under the influence of the Elder Gods and Goddesses I have learned that I have a gift of seeing beyond this world, I am a medium, channel, and healer. I am a silent healer, one that heals by being among others through energy.
I am grateful for the work and experiences you have shared and I look forward to reading and sharing more of your material. Thank you.

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Rodrigo Montemayor

Awesome, lol.

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James Bulls

There are folks who’ve argued that the entire work of Anton LaVey viz a viz greater magic is a necronomiquandry, and that’s an interesting discussion that comes up even among Satanists. I mean, as far as the Enochian Keys go, LaVey lightly edited them to replaced all instances of God with Satan, and so I heard, also embraced a “harder” pronunciation of the consonants. Does it matter if it’s not “authentic?” Well, LaVey was a show-man first and foremost, and from what I’ve read, he never seemed particularly concerned with the historical validity of his work. But – from what I’ve read – he was deeply concerned with the validity of the performance. In other words, it didn’t matter if the source material was ahistorical, because – ultimately – every grimoire that every magician uses is the invention of a human mind and whether so intended or not, will in some place or time become a necronomiquandry. Whether it’s a joke doesn’t matter so long as the ritual serves its purpose.

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