The real “Necronomicon” of John Dee

The real “Necronomicon” of John Dee.

The Necronomicon is one of the most interesting banned books that exist. Its true creator, HP Lovecraft, used it as a tool to validate the impossible creatures that populate the Cthulhu Mythos. However, there are many who maintain that the Necronomicon It is not an apocryphal book, that is, false, but it could be inspired by an ancient real grimoire

According to the chronology established by HP Lovecrafthe Necronomicon was written by Abdul Alhazred, the mad Arab, in the 8th century. Over time, it was translated into Greek, Latin; until it finally fell into the hands of John Dee, the great Elizabethan necromancer, who translated it into English.

This is the version that interests us the most, precisely because it is the only real, or rather traceable, reference that offers HP Lovecraft.

Although the official opinion states that the Necronomicon It is an invention of HP Lovecraft; Others claim that the Providence author falsified the name and origin of the book, but that it is, in fact, a real book belonging to the Arab magician and astrologer Al-Kindi (801-873 AD).

According to the proponents of this theory, the cursed book of Al-Kindi, lost for centuries, fell into the hands of John Dee, who would have encrypted its mysteries in the dark pages of the Liber Logaeth.

Now, how could this version of the Necronomicon at the hands of HP Lovecraft?

In this regard, there are two hypotheses: one of them points to the maternal grandfather of HP Lovecrafta renowned bibliophile and member of Egyptian Freemasonry, who may have obtained a copy, or at least specific references, to John Dee’s translation.

Possible, although unlikely

The other theory, much more sustainable, points to the wife of HP Lovecraft, Sonia Greene, who maintained a close bond with the occultist Aleister Crowley. This hypothesis is known as the astral Necronomicon or the Lovecraft-Crowley connection, which has been widely studied.

John Dee was a passionate collector of cursed books, and owner of one of the largest libraries of his time, full of rare, even lost, works on esotericism and the occult. On the other hand, he also had strong ties to royalty; In fact, he worked as a spy for the Queen of England, Elizabeth I, in addition to being one of the most impressive scholars in the art of text encryption. This puts you in a prime position to obtain books from any corner of the world.

The three pillars on which the possibility that the Necronomicon be true are, in short, HP Lovecraft, Aleister Crowleyand John Dee.

Of course, for this theory to be plausible, we must first forget about the Necronomicon in terms of a physical book, but rather an ethereal work, which is constantly rewritten through its interpreters.

As well as HP Lovecraft created the Necronomicon Based on his dreams – see the Dream Cycle – Aleister Crowley claimed that his fundamental book, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis), was dictated to him by an entity called Aiwass. Likewise, John Dee maintained that The Book of Enoch was suggested to him by angelic powers, who in fact taught him the Enochian or language of the angels.

Now, if we mix these three visions we observe that each of them offers us similar testimonies about creatures before humanity, notably voracious, who were expelled from the reality we know.

HP Lovecraft mentions Cthulhu, Dagon, Nyarlathothep; Aleister Crowley does the same with Babalon and Hoor-Paar-Kraat. John Dee, finally, tells us about Choronzon and the Nephilim. All these beings ruled over men but were defeated in the past; although they all patiently await the return of their respective reigns.

Those who support the theory of Necronomicon real they affirm that in the combined work of these three men, in short, particular and subjective visions of an inconceivable truth, is the matrix of the original.

Of course, the supposed reality of Necronomicon it does not validate the possibility of it existing as a physical book that any of us can consult. This is, ultimately, a fantastic book, and decidedly engrossing.

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