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The 13 Gates of the Necronomicon: A Workbook of Magic

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I believe that the people who reviewed this work misunderstood what Tyson was trying to do.
First this book is not a Grimoire he actually tells you to go to his version of the Necronomicon if you want to get a series of rites and magical formula. In this work he brings forth a ritual that he made, then he brings up the material that he used to create the ritual. This is a work book not a book of spells. He wanted the people to actually do research and develop there own work by taking Lovecraft's work of fiction. I really liked this book while I do not see my self working the rite that he created I did see the pattern to which he made, Keys, gates, etc made since after I got done reading this tome.
second, Yes this is a catalog of Lovecraft's work but it has also been put there that the practicing magician can put together his own work. This has been lost at this modern time. People nowadays just find rites on the Net or by books and just blindly go through those rituals. The lost art of magic creation is a lost art form. Most originality is gone and this book brings back this.
third, There is a few books out there that tells the practicing magician to create interesting magic that resonates your personal paradigm,by using works of fiction. This holds true for example in chaos magic. Here Tyson does that same I started working of several small rites that I made from this book
Last, I believe he wanted the user of the book to also read these stories for him/herself and see what he did.

Some of you guys may not agree with me but I really like this book. It was good as a source for lovecrafts work but also a inspiration for your own magic that he wanted the user to develop his/her own spells and rituals.

You know I really brought this book for my Friend and he love it, so it was consider a gift from me to him

I have all of Tyson's Necronomicon works and this one is the most useless of all.. It is pretty much just an encyclopedia of Lovecraftian characters and creatures. There is some stuff in here, but you would do better to just take the first books and add your own creativity. I do agree with many that have said these works are far too sanitized. Definitely far away from the LHP. My hope is that Mr. Tyson writes a work like Liber Lillith in the Necronomicon vein. Perhaps a Necronomicon Bible as it was intended? Just a suggestion.........

This book should likely be called "Lexicon of Lovecraft terms". Because that is all this book is. It covers it with a few symbols of obscure origin. Any occult practitioner experimenting with the VERY few symbols will realize they are just intellectual constructs with no deeper connecting. It is not that they are made up, which I critizise. A person attuned with deeper sources can make up things, but if they are authentic, connected with real currents, people will resonate with it. You will feel the living current behind it.

This book and everything in it is entirely devoid of it. The author gathers all terms of Lovecraftian mythology and sorts it in some odd fashion. It has neither the entertaining drama of a Lovercraft story, nor the occult function to make any connection or gain any useful understanding. Everything shows the author has merely picked things together as a sort of intellectual plaything.

It breahtes zero atmosphere.

I enjoy Tyson's writing style and ideas. I think the material may be of interest to his fans who also like the Cthulhu mythos. That is where my praise stops.

I found the systems of magic to be too safe and fluffy for truly embracing the energies described. Perhaps that was intentional, due to his publisher's demands (they are a pretty airy-fairy group) or possibly because he wanted to make the material safe for readers and keep him from possible law suits.

The entities hinted at within these pages simply cannot be worked with fully without exposing the truly chaotic and malevolent. They are risky and dangerous by nature. I would expect that anyone seeking them out honestly would want something more direct and in line with their willingness to expose themselves (or others) to possible madness, spiritual harm, or physical pain/disfigurement/death.