Walking of the Gates

[Obsanity]

I recently borrowed a copy of the Necronomicon from a friend, and after reading have decided to attempt the Walking of of the Gates of the 7 Zonei. Raised a christian, I am incredibly new to magick in many ways, and am curious to know what your opinions/suggestions are.

[Spinel]

What is the Walking of the Gates of the 7 Zonei?

[Gandridur]

Learn to crawl before you try to walk. You have to start with basics first. You can't jump right in the middle and expect results. If you dont even have the basics and its understanding, how can you understand stuff that are above it?

[thief_and_a_liar]

I recently borrowed a copy of the Necronomicon from a friend, and after reading have decided to attempt the Walking of of the Gates of the 7 Zonei. Raised a christian, I am incredibly new to magick in many ways, and am curious to know what your opinions/suggestions are.

I say great! I started out with that book myself, and walking the gates teaches you a lot about magic. Myself I received lots of visions from doing them, just reading the book itself sparked my imagination back then, but I was very young and sadly books don't do that too me anymore at the same level [or the book itself may be very special ;-)]...

Anyway, that same book made me research some more, and pointed me to the writings of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and I gave myself a label for the first time: Lovecraftian!

So instead of working with the Zonei, I worked with Cthulhu, AZATHOTH, YOG-SOTHOTH, Nyarlathotep and so on [all very cool names methinks].

When working with fictional mythology [as most view lovecraft and also the simon necronomicon] it would not hurt to go into semiotics and memetics as well. A very good book on memetics is "Memetic Magic" by Robert Kirk Packwood [if you can't get the book yourself, send me a Private Message].

edit: Oh, and for the Olieribos for summoning the watcher you can substitute with common nettle.


-thief