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- From: rmr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Richard M. Romanowski)
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- Subject: Re: H.P.LOvecraft
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:18:30 GMT
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- ehenness@willamette.edu (Ethan D. Hennessey) writes:
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- > Lovecraft's books are very cold because that's the way he wanted
- >them. He was of the opinion that all this science stuff is going to lead
- >to the discovery of things we aren't meant to know, and that there is no
- >good in the universe. He had a very dark world view.....
-
- Now, now, compatriot, this attitude has brought most unwelcome
- attention from Control. Certainly the most merciful attribute of the
- human mind is its inability to correlate its contents -- and since mercy
- is for cowards, weaklings, slave-drivers, rapists, and the like, the
- Natural Order necessitates the evolution of superior creatures from
- within the very midst of humankind, beyond good and evil, fearlessly
- lusting for the Unknown. The darkness of the lower beings is their
- light.
-
- Of course, along the way, there must be sacrifices, such as those
- pale dreamers who are subject to lapses into weakness. But progress must
- have sacrifices, and it is better to be one of the progressive than one
- of the sacrificed.
-
- As to the inevitability of degeneration, madness, barbarism, and
- the like associated with any cult of Azathoth, meditate well on HPL's word:
-
- 'I am his messenger,' he said
- as in contempt he struck his Master's head
-
- (Fungi from Yuggoth)
-
- This is clearly a better kick than even vivisection. Remember to
- extend your madness above the celestial and below the cthonic, and when
- the time comes you'll realize it's much better to rise up and lust and
- slay, for you will have become LIKE the Elder Ones.
-
- Anti-thelemically yours in Yog-Sothoth,
- I mutate
- sub umbra alarum tuarum Nyarlathotep
- Rick
-