Thomas Ligotti comes to mind: “The Sect of the Idiot” and “The Last Feast of Harlequin” dig deep into the philosophic underpinnings of the Mythos. created, few of them strive to capture or explore the philosophy behind those names. So we have Necronomicon Gnosis: A Practical Introduction (2007) by Asenath Mason and “The Book of the Forgotten Ones” (1977) by Nema Andahadna and many other works of esotericism, accounts of spiritual revelation or occult compilation.įor all that these individuals and groups pay homage to the names and ideas that Lovecraft & co. The irony of this is that the writings of the materialist would inspire in others true faith that his writings would be taken by some as revelations of occult truth, and others as something close to holy writ.
Lovecraft was a materialist he had no belief in gods, neither those of traditional religion or of his own making, and carefully informed fans that yes, Cthulhu and the Necronomicon and all the rest were totally fictional, that he and Robert E. Jones, introduction to Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis (2016) 5 When all is madness, there is no madness. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy.
That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth.
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