Liber Nyarlathotep

By Dark Angel

An insolent guide to chaos magic of what works best for you by using the mythology of ancient Egyptian myths combined with Lovecraft’s Nyarlathotep. Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos, the Black Pharaoh is a dark psychopomp who reveals the mysteries of the dark realm of the Duat gives insight into the nature of the human mind. He was known as the “Black Man of the Witch cult” who persuades humans to make a dark pact to gain forbidden knowledge. This book shows how the Dark One is the archetype of the Trickster, chaos and how we can learn to use this archetype to see through the Eye of Chaos to advance sorcery not only to navigate these trying times, but to triumph as well, and not let something as such as the pandemic get in the way of it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716559891

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Liber Nyarlatgotep

BOOKS BY DARK ANGEL

The Unholy Bible: The Book of Concealment

The Nine Gates to the Kingdom of Shadows

Delomelanicon: Novem Portis

Copyright © 2020 by Dark Angel

Published by lulu.com

ISBN 978-1-71655-989-1

"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die."

Part I

Gods of Chaos

Table of Contents

Part I  Gods of Chaos

Introduction

I Outer Darkness

II Black Tree

III The Eye of Chaos

IV Starry Wisdom

V Starry Fire

VI The Trickster

Ordo ab Chao

VII The Magician

VIII Azathoth

Tempter

Part II  Book of Azaroth

IX Sign Your Name

X Path of Night

Astral exercise

Dark Baptism

XI  Honor the Beast

Breath is Life

Experiment

XII  Chaos of Night

The Third Body

Seven Black Candles

Raising the Serpentine force

Bibliography

Figure 1 Eye of Nyarlathotep and Sigil of Chaos used in chaos magic.

Figure 2: Third Eye comparison between Egypt and India.

Figure 3: The Eye of Nekhbet and Eye of Wadjet. One is Evening Star and the other is Morning Star.

Figure 4: an emblem of 33 degree of Freemasons

Figure 5:The caduceus

Figure 6: The Magician of Rider Waite tarot

Figure 7: : Baphomet by Eliphas Levi.

Figure 8: Isis goddess with open wings

Figure 9: a woman doing the Isis open wing posture

Figure 10: Postures of other neters resembling yogic postures

Figure 11: from the Egyptian book of the Dead, depicting seven energy centers.

Figure 12: The goddess Nut

Figure 13: Our dual nature. The physical body and psychic body

Figure 14: connection of dual nature

Figure 15: The tenth Tarot card from two different decks

Figure 16:  Nyarlathotep  as The Beast

Figure 17: Belly breathing, proper breathing

Figure 18: Ra as Mau slaying Apep.

Figure 19: Set slaying Apep, serpent of darkness

Figure 20: the Black Pharaoh smiting the enemies of Egypt using the Shining Trapezohedron.

Figure 21: psychological center root

Figure 22: second chakra

Figure 23: medical caduceus

Figure 24: Third Chakra

Figure 25: Heart chakra

Figure 26: counterpart of chakras

Figure 27:Throat chakra

Figure 28:The God of the Bloody Tongue

Figure 29: Third Eye chakra

Figure 30: wings representing Third Eye

Figure 31:Staff of Thoth

Figure 32:Starry wisdom symbol

Figure 33: Crown chakra

Figure 34: All comes from the One and disappears into the One.

Figure 35: Serpent eating its own tail representing the complete circle.

Figure 36: Pixel squares change color frequency 30th of second giving the illusion of movement.

Figure 37:Sigil of Nyarlathotep

Figure 38: Another sigil of Nyarlathotep

Introduction

In the works of H. P. Lovecraft and other writers, Nyarlathotep is an association with its role as a malign deity in the Lovecraft Mythos fictional universe, where it is known as the Crawling Chaos. Within the Cthulhu mythos Nyarlathotep, is the only outer god that takes an interest in humankind. The rest are all indifferent to humans. Some humans worship them, and they notice humans on a whim, and that’s it. In myth, his father is Azathoth, the Blind Idiot God, Lord of all things who is mindless and unconscious but is omnipotent and the most powerful being of all. He created all of existence as part of his dream and is not even aware of it. He is also called Nuclear Chaos, or The Cold One The Deep Dark. He is the ruler of the Outer Gods. Azathoth is the demiurge. Cthulhu is his great-great-grandson.

Azathoth’s only son is Nyarlathotep. Nyarlathotep is known by many faces and many forms, he is The Crawling Chaos, Chaos King, The God of a Thousand Forms, The Black Pharaoh, The Dark One, The Faceless God, The Floating Horror, Randall Flagg, He Who Walks Behind the Rows, The Man in Black, The Black Man, The White Man, The Moon Presence and many other names.

Nyarlathotep In all his many forms he is the embodiment of the sum total of humanity's psychological power. Therefore he like his father is God and also Satan. Like in

Buddhism, in the Theravāda tradition, Buddha is a man, in the Mahayana version he is a god and is thus a form of Nyarlathotep. In one of Buddha’s form, he is the god Yamataka, The Indestructible Destroyer of the Lord of Death who is hideous in appearance who has a face of a blue yak Buddha as Yamataka is one who destroys the concept of death as being ‘separate from birth.’

Nyarlathotep isn’t always evil, and he is rarely all good. All the gods in the myth are not fully good or bad. He is as we desire him to be, and he acts as an intercedent between our physical selves and our psychophysical powers in nature. Of course, Nyarlathotep does not exist in a literal way.

In myth, Nyarlathotep enacts the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger, heart and soul; he is also a servant of Azathoth, his father, whose wishes he immediately fulfills. Unlike the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep, the true powers of the Cosmos. Nyarlathotep fucks with us because it is conscious; seem to have a gift for showing sentient creatures what they want to see, and likes fucking with things. Humanity is a blip from Nyarlathotep's point of view.

  Symbolically, Nyarlathotep created the version of Christianity that is mainly accepted just for kicks. He twisted it for his purposes. Jesus’s teachings were hijacked. Some say by Paul. Some say by Rome. Whoever it was symbolically was Nyarlathotep. The religious impulse was hard-wired into our brains. As humans, we have a desire to know why things happen as they do. When humans don’t have the facts, then that is when people make up stuff that seems more interesting to explain things. They generalize by claiming patterns as facts. Anytime we look outside ourselves for saviors, then Nyarlathotep plays the trickster. People have the right to believe what they want. It’s a problem when it’s ram it down others' throats or violates people's rights, and use it as an excuse for war.

Nyarlathotep means ny  no har at or through lut- gateway or place of judgment and hotep meaning rest or peace, thus meaning There is no peace at this place of judgment or there is no peace at this gate.

  Nyarlathotep often plays the trickster and tempter. In myth, he uses the human ego and greed to play tricks on people. HP Lovecraft short story Nyarlathotep, Nyarlathotep was a man who was a little bit of a con artist, a manipulator, and a performer. The narrator describes him as being a mysterious man that appears out of nowhere he radiates a vibe that makes others cautious and curious when they see him, but no one can put their finger on it (Lovecraft 1). He has no background story as to where he came from, just that he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries

  Nyarlathotep sometimes gives man advanced technology that often goes wrong. He uses his knowledge and peoples’ ignorance of new discoveries, was able to create an event that would bring mass hallucinations to a group of people. His knowledge of electricity allowed him to make their minds more susceptible to his imagery and through his knowledge of psychology he was able to control their images so that they all would see similar things. By doing this it was easier for them to believe that what they experienced was real. He has formed destructive cults that act as the opiate of the masses.

    As tempter and trickster, Nyarlathotep can be used for our benefit on the alchemical Left Hand Path. The saying in the Cthulhu mythos is That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons, even death may die. This refers to man’s strive for immortality and eternal life. From the LHP, this represents the path of self-deification. Nyarlathotep in this aspect performs the role of the Adversary.

"I am the prophet of the Old Ones and the bringer of chaos. I am the faceless and the unknown. I am entropy."

  In life, we are faced with temptation. We are either tempted to do something unhealthy or tempted to do something healthy. When we are tempted to do something healthy, it’s called motivation. That energy of temptation is always there and doesn’t go anywhere. When one is tempted toward self-destructive behavior, to resist it isn’t the way. We are told to resist temptation. Resisting only feeds it. Temptation cannot be resisted, it can only be redirected. When you are tempted toward an unhealthy behavior, instead of ignoring or resisting it, transmute it.  An example would be you may have a smoking habit and trying to resist only makes it harder. This is why so many people fail in trying to break a habit. So instead of trying to quit, redirect that energy toward how good would it feel to have cleaner lungs and more money in your pocket. By focusing on the benefits then the temptation is redirected toward that and the temptation to smoke begins to fade away. This transmutation builds character and leads to Illumination toward self-god realization. 

I

Outer Darkness

The Outer Darkness in Christian mythology is a place into which a person may be cast out, and where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Generally, the outer darkness is thought to be hell; however, many Christians associate the outer darkness more generally as a place of separation from God or from the metaphorical wedding banquet that Jesus is expected to have upon his Second Coming.

    The Outer Darkness is an allegorical story and is also the Lake of Fire that also exists in Egyptian mythology. It is the mindset of experiencing agony. When we look outside our self and cut off from our true self, we experience anger and sorrows. This could also be the Tree of Sorrows created by David LaRocca, an illustrator who created Journey To the Tree of Sorrows.

    In Egyptian mythology, the Lake of Fire is a place of annihilation. It is considered the Egyptian hell. This place is also considered the second death. It’s obvious that this concept of the Lake of Fire and the terminology the second death within Christianity was borrowed.

  When it comes to the path of Pharaoh Nyarlathotep, then the idea is Annihilation. This is similar to Arabic mythos and magic that mentioned the Old Ones and connecting them to Irem and the Rub al Khali. Irem is the lost city, the Lost Atlantis of the Arabian Desert. The Crimson Desert is the central division of the Arabian Desert that connects the an-Nafud desert in the north to Rub' al-Khali desert in the south. In the allegory, the Rub al Khali is the state where one entered an altered state of consciousness (somewhere between dreams and the complete absence of thought) by Arab magicians called the Muqarribun. Irem represents that part of the Rub al Khali Empty Quarter that acts as the connection to the Void. In this state of consciousness, the Muqarribun can receive knowledge and interact with the Old Ones.  The magicians receive knowledge and communes with the Void and then he or she achieves Annihilation.

Annihilation is the supreme attainment where the magician’s entire being is devoured and absorbed into the Void. The self or soul (nafs i ammara) is utterly and destroyed by this process. The Old Ones are the Djinn. One who achieves this is called a Majnun which means Possessed by Jinn. In English, this translates as Mad. The Mad Arab is the one who has entered this Void. From the orthodox Muslim perspective, the Majnun is perceived as insane. Therefore what was once considered an honorary title, such as Mad has become used in a derogatory way to mean insane.

    In this mythos of Nyarlathotep, this Void to be annihilated in is the Outer Darkness. Annihilation of the self is about letting go of ego attachment. The ego cannot be annihilated as many in the Right-Hand Path are led to believe. All we can do is annihilate the concept that we have about the self.

    The Lake of Fire is a place within us that burns away ignorance. Nyarlathotep the greatest magician in all worlds acts as judge of the soul instead of Osiris. There is no rest at the gate. there is no peace at this gate.

  The (Right Hand Path) RHP teaches that once you reach higher consciousness you reached a state of peace. This peace is used in allegory such as Noah whose name means rest, the Sabbath which is the day of rest and Jerusalem which means the City of Peace. These all represent the state of mind. The (Left Hand Path) LHP realizes that suffering never ends. In life, there will always be ups and downs. There will always be challenges. That which many perceive as problems are real challenges that are opportunities for growth.

    The Pentecostal Fire in Christianity is another name for the allegory of the Lake of Fire. It is the ancient fire that indicated the Presence of God or the Holy Spirit appearing to bless or to judge humans. It is the kundalini fire in Hinduism also called serpent fire in ancient Egyptian mythology.  The name changes based on perspective. When one allows it to burn away ignorance, then it’s perceived as Pentecostal Fire in esoteric Christianity. When one clings and refuses to let go of ignorance then it's perceived as hellfire or Lake of Fire because it's more painful. 

    As the serpent fire rises within us, there will always be ups and downs, with each overcoming of challenges brings victory. We gain pride which must be earned. The pride that isn’t earned is counterproductive. That serpent fire resides in the back. The back is where unbounded energy (Buto-Uraeus) resides. The Uraeus is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, ... The center of her cult was in Per-Wadjet, later called Buto by the Greeks. The initiate is urged to develop the fire in the back. 

This Lake of Fire is also the bottomless pit which in Greek mythology called Tartarus is far beneath the place called Hades. In Greek mythology, Tartarus is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. The bottomless pit is also called Apollyon in Greek and in Hebrew called Abaddon means place of destruction. It symbolizes old patterns that need to be eliminated if we are to grow and develop. Trying to ignore it will be havoc, physical and emotional upheaval. The ascending and descending in and out the bottomless pit is the process of the cycle of letting go of old patterns.

There is a cycle in everything and every cycle contains the seed of its opposite. The cycle is rest and motion. Rest seeks motion and motion seeks rest. An example is if a ball is in your hand, it is at rest, as soon as you toss it up, the ball is in motion. When that ball reaches its peak, it is at rest for maybe for a millisecond before it moves as it descends back to rest in one’s hand. You cannot have motion without rest, cannot have one without the other. I will use a lever and fulcrum as an example. A lever cannot move without the fulcrum that represents rest. To quote the philosopher Walter Russell, The Light of Mind is the zero fulcrum of the wave lever from which motion is projected. It's zero condition is eternal. Therefore everything returns to itself, like the serpent eating its tail or the circle. Another example I will use is the sun. As the gases that make up the sun expand, it comes in contact with cold space. It is in motion, once it’s in contact with cold space the gases are at rest as the cold space causes it to move back inward. Cold causes contraction. Contraction causes friction. Friction causes heat. Again the contraction movement of the gases comes to a pause and the heat causes it to expand again. This is the cycle that is in all matter, it’s what gives matter the appearance of form.  It is the seed of the opposite in every cycle that keeps it going on infinitely. As energy expands it comes in contact with cold space and then

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