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The Alchemist, v.1, issue 3, Summer 1940
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Page 40 THE ALCHEMIST volume so shocking, abhorrent, and revolting, that churches, reformers, etc. would immediatly supress it. It will be a long day, I fear, before even a carefully expurgated edition of the "Necronomicon" would be allowed by any socially-constituted authority to rest easily and obtainably on the shelves of the public libraries, bookshops, and private homes as the Bible. (Although, I am told, those who have read the "Necronomicon" say there is a close relation to parts of the Old Testament and certain sections around pages 450-456. This section, unfortuneatly, it is not open to my inspection as I have much to learn before I can persue it in safety.) Let this bit of fact remain with the enthusiastic, however: not one person has read the "Necronomicon" in toto, but has been known to have met his end under strange, mysterious, and often hideous circumstances soon after. Some have merely dissapeared; some have met fearful deaths, the details of which have been but partly known, and those carefully supressed. And some, like Alhazred himself, have been destroyed by unknown entities, horribly, in the presence of witnesses. There is only one member of the Dirka clan, man or woman, who was not in the end destroyed by his or her knowledge, and that is Lorranion, in the fifth century, who foreswore the sorcerous practices of his kinsmen, and, after learning enough to protect himself from their possible vengeance, attached himself to a church. At first, it seemed he would become a martyr because he refused to betray his family, but happily there arose in the province where he was staying, a plague of incubi and succubi, against which all the powers of the church seemed inadequate. Lorranion proceeded to rescue the province from these evils, and the church generously agreed to overlook his somewhat shady past and conferred upon him a bishop's hat as well. Finis
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Page 40 THE ALCHEMIST volume so shocking, abhorrent, and revolting, that churches, reformers, etc. would immediatly supress it. It will be a long day, I fear, before even a carefully expurgated edition of the "Necronomicon" would be allowed by any socially-constituted authority to rest easily and obtainably on the shelves of the public libraries, bookshops, and private homes as the Bible. (Although, I am told, those who have read the "Necronomicon" say there is a close relation to parts of the Old Testament and certain sections around pages 450-456. This section, unfortuneatly, it is not open to my inspection as I have much to learn before I can persue it in safety.) Let this bit of fact remain with the enthusiastic, however: not one person has read the "Necronomicon" in toto, but has been known to have met his end under strange, mysterious, and often hideous circumstances soon after. Some have merely dissapeared; some have met fearful deaths, the details of which have been but partly known, and those carefully supressed. And some, like Alhazred himself, have been destroyed by unknown entities, horribly, in the presence of witnesses. There is only one member of the Dirka clan, man or woman, who was not in the end destroyed by his or her knowledge, and that is Lorranion, in the fifth century, who foreswore the sorcerous practices of his kinsmen, and, after learning enough to protect himself from their possible vengeance, attached himself to a church. At first, it seemed he would become a martyr because he refused to betray his family, but happily there arose in the province where he was staying, a plague of incubi and succubi, against which all the powers of the church seemed inadequate. Lorranion proceeded to rescue the province from these evils, and the church generously agreed to overlook his somewhat shady past and conferred upon him a bishop's hat as well. Finis
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