Hello Sabina,
I would suggest "The Necronomicon Files" by Harms and Gonce III as well as
"Rebels and Devils" Hyatt ed. I can't recall if the latter mentions HPL but
it would be a useful read for an undergrad >:-).
One way of treading softly with Grant would be reading some of the
"Starfire" journals. Not sure if any library has them though.
It would be hard to talk about HPL in NRM without looking at Grant to some
degree.
Aquino's Behemoth (lol) "Church of Satan" could help (
www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/COS.pdf )
So too, Bertiaux's "The Voudon Gnostic Workbook" is good...however, like
Grant, he can take a while to "get".
Davis's chapter in "Book of Lies" Metzger (ed.) would be a good source.
I'll see if I can find anything else...a year after my doctorate I've just
now put away research notes so I'll have to dig! Lol
All best
Lloyd Keane
On 16/09/08 7:50 PM, "D E" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> excellent list David,
>
> - however Sabina- for an undergrad I'd advise they steer away from Kenneth
> Grant in particular for two reasons
>
> they are an undergrad, and Grant is *hard* to read academically
>
> and desperately longwinded; there will be articles about Grant that will be
> useful though, there is an article about him by Henrik Bogdan to be found on
> the Fulgur website, which I think is www.fulgur.org
>
> the other reason is that Grant's stuff tends to be published in small print
> runs, and in the USA especially might be hard to find, and expensive even if
> you can find it
>
> and to specifically not blow my own trumpet, I have an article about Grant
> in one of the JSMs, but it says absolutely nothing about Lovecraft, but
> Justin Woodman does have a great piece about Lovecraftian chaos magic in one
> issue of the Journal
>
> dave e
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David and Jasmine" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Lovecraft & NRMs
>
>
> Hi Sabina,
> Off the top of my head, Kenneth Grant was into Lovecraft in a very big
> way and used Lovecraft's ideas overtly in his work. This was
> particularly relating to whole LAM statement shenanigans and Grant wrote
> a fair amount on how Lovecraft's Old Ones correspond to the ascended
> masters etc Phil Hines has lots of bits and pieces on Cthulu rituals and
> using Cthulu in magic. There is all that work Jung did on the phenomena
> of UFO mythology. Ian Blake has written a fair bit too. There is also a
> wealth of material on the psychological or psychoanalysis side of things
> as well.
>
> I can also recomend specifically,
> Saliba, John. ³The Psychology of UFO Phenomena². In Partridge, Chris
> (Ed). UFO Religions. Routledge: London, 2003.
> Mack, J. Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transofrmation and Alien
> Encounters. New York: Crown. 1999.
> Thompson, J.L Aliens and UFO¹s: Messengers or Deceivers? Bountiful UT
> Horizon publishers, 1993
> Jung, C.G. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of things seen in the Skies.
> New York: Signet Books, 1969.
> Partirdge, Chris. UFO Religions. Routledge: London, 2003.
>
> Hope that helps with a starting point. I am sure there are some
> theosophists and OTO people who could add a great deal to that.
> Cheers
> David Waldron
>
> Sabina Magliocco wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> An undergraduate student of mine would like to write a paper on the use of
>> material from H.P. Lovecraft in NRMs, especially among Pagans, theistic
>> and non-theistic Satanists, and chaos magicians. (I realize the latter do
>> not necessarily consider themselves to be practicing a religion.)
>>
>> Can anyone suggest some preliminary academic sources for him to consult? I
>> admit this is a bit beyond my bailiwick.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sabina
>>
>> Sabina Magliocco
>>
>> Professor and Chair
>>
>> Department of Anthropology
>>
>> California State University - Northridge
>>
>> 18111 Nordhoff St.
>>
>> Northridge, CA 91330-8244
>>
>> "If we want things to stay the way they are, everything will have to
>> change." ~ Giuseppe di Lampedusa, /The Leopard/
>>
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