Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!todd From: todd@reed.UUCP (Todd Ellner) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Satanism, witchcraft, paganism,etc. Message-ID: <2075@reed.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:55:26 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2075 Posted: Wed Oct 30 05:55:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 12:36:57 EST References: <12090@rochester.UUCP> <599@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> <12312@rochester.UUCP> <37@birtch.UUCP> <445@scgvaxd.UUCP> <53@birtch.UUCP> Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 25 > Sorry if I have misrepresented my point. I'll try again: > > SATANISM: > > My impression of "Necronomicon" (which BTW is used as one of the source > books in Satanism) was that there was no requirement to sacrifice human > lives or commit crimes as a part of rituals. (Richard Ramirez is a nut > and is as typical of Satanists as Jim Jones is of Christians) > > *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I would be surprised if the Necronomicon were a source book for anything, Satanism included. While I have seen books purporting to be the real thing the sad fact remains that the Mad Arab Abd Al Azred (Abdul Al Hazred to Lovecraft fans) and his eldritch tome were and are the creations of H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, et alia. That is, they exist only in the pages of the great pulp stories of the '20's and '30's and in the minds of their readers. For more on this see James Blish's story in Alchemy and Academe or L. (does anyone know what the L is for?) Sprague de Camp's essay Lovecraft, the Books. Iconoclastically yours, Todd Ellner Sorry I posted this one Ellen. Cthulhu made me do it :-()