Order of the Necronomicon

Welcome to the Order of the Necronomicon: Disciples of Enki.

Conjuring and The Circle

The Necronomicon makes mention of using a double circle, however many misunderstand the meaning of the use of circles in the Necronomicon. When using circles in the working they are more about increasing the ritual's potency and less about protection. The circle creates and defines a ritual space. That space is for a time dedicated entirely to the working, and therefore is more clean and open to the forces you are working with. When using a double circle the watcher resides between the two circles guarding its circumfrence. This may be useful for gatewalking or performing other potent working in a new place, or a place that you have not properly purified over time. Make no mistake that the when conjuring the spirits of the Necronomicon via the book's methods they are usually being invoked into your circle and not outside of it. What protection the circle provides is not against what you are conjuring but rather against any outside energies that may be attracked to such workings e.g. the idimmu. Even then, the circle is rarely needed for that purpose if you are working within a space that has been properly cleansed and used over time for your ritual workings.

For those of you used to conjuring spirits and commanding them from within the safe space of your circle, there really is not much of that in the Necronomicon. Exceptions may occur when the Priest endevours to work with something that is particularly malevolent. While those merely experimenting with the Necronomicon are encouraged to use their normal methods of evokation, others should work the spirits in the method given in the Book, the shamanic method. In that method the Priest (or Priestess) is both evoking and invoking the spirit. That is to say that when the spirit manifests, inside of your circle and/or mandal if you are using them, it is manifesting before you, around you, and inside of you. This may seem a scary idea for many of you, however it was not uncommon for early mesopotamian people to declare that each limb and part of their body was possessed by its own protective spirits. If worked properly, this method is exceedingly beneficial and more potent than working the spirits within a hermetic framework.

Below is an example of a mandal inside a double circle.

Double Circle

Here is a picture taken after an evokation using a single circle.

Circle