Post by Scuba Steve1) Sonia Green and Alister Crowley meet in 1918, they both belong to
this literary club of some sort and spent a good amount of time together
discussing books poetry, etc.
As far as I know this is a factoid, composed about a decade ago for a
FAQ that provided a secret-history-of-everything approach to the
existence of a real Necronomicon. It was intended asa satire. The
problem with really good satire, esp. on the internet, is that years
later it can pop up as fact.
Post by Scuba Steve2)Sonia meets HPL in 1921
HPL first mentions Abdul Alhazred in,
THE NAMELESS CITY (1921)
And in 1922 he first mentions the Necronomicon in THE HOUNDS.
3) I've read that Alister had access to the Necronomicon and plagiarized
it quite a bit mostly in THE BOOK OF LAW,...so did Alistier mention any
of this to Sonia who then mentioned it to HPL?
And it's Aleister, BTW.
So where did you read this? It isn't true, but it is always
interesting to know what the latest source of crap information about
Crowley is.
When you read the Book of the Law, which parts did you feel were most
likely to have been plagiarized from the Necronomicon?
Lovecraft's correspondence makes it thoroughly clear that he and his
circle of friends (Howard, Smith, et al) devised this tasty
super-grimoire (and related literary works) and the related elder
critters who go with it, to form a mythology for some of their stories
of the fantastic. Some of the material comes from earlier literary
sources (Hastur is referenced in Chambers' "King In Yellow" stories,
for example). Others - like the Big C Himself, and Alhazred, a name
Lovecraft made up when playing make-believe Arabian Nights games as a
child - come from their own invention.
Paul
