The Book of Eibon Histories of the Elder Magi, Episodes of Eibon of Mhu Thulan, the Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom, Psalms of the Silent, and the Eibonic RitualsUltima Thule and Mhu Thulan by Laurence J. CornfordContents Mav OF MEU THULAN by Larne. orf x Tat EsoY BOOK: JnmoDNCrION 10 Tin Blow oF Eau by Rabo 8, Pri si Histoxy AND CaKONOLOGY OF Ty Book Ein by Lin Caner. <3 The Lire or Eivon ACCORDING To CeNON OF VaRAAD by Lin Carer .9 won Sa; of, THE APOMATHLGSATA OF ENON by Rais M Pre. 20 Book ONe: Hisrontes oF THE EupeR Mast Tat Dovots TOWER: The History oF Zegm che Necromancer by Lin Carer n Tit Devounie oF Sura HHA The Hitory of Xhyl he Apothecary by Jab RF 4 ‘Tht Swot oF Monto: The History ofthe Shaman Yhemos by Lin Cov 6 Th DUSCENT 0 THE ABYSS: The History af he Sorcerer Hann Doe by Lin Carter 8 Te Suc IN THE Panne: The Hicry of he Thaumatarge Promeron &y Li Cane 6 De fACk HOM BLLOW: The History af Prom che Exorcis by Lasrom. Cond Tht Sax oF ADCHAIS: The History ofthe Wied Hormogor by Levrns). Crfnd Tu Auxasnst: The History of Eayela he Alchemist by Lauren. Coin! ss Tie Cowine oF tH Wore Wout The Hier of Bagh the Warlock fy Clark Ain Swit 96 Tr Lice exon te POLL: The History of Phateayn the Enchant 65 Low Carr and Clark Ahan Sith us Te Sits 19 THe CrP The Hiory ofthe Necromancer Avenue 2 Clon Asn Smit and Lin Corr 0 The Fearon how Ti Stas: The Hor of Yaduggor she Eremiee by Lin Cover 4 Contents ‘Thre Gust Decay: The History of Nabus the Wonder Worker by ars MP Book Two: ErtsoDes OF Elton oF MHu THULAN Te Uraase AvosinaTion by Clark Aes Swish a Lin Cae Urmsson by Clr Ase Sith Laven J Conf, an and L Term ANNOTATIONS 0K THE BOOK OF GH by Kar M, Pie ‘Te Buisowen Bent by Rae M. Poi De THE VALE OF Pant by Lin Carter Shaun by Liv Cer [Tae Haun OF Unnwon by Las L Cin The Orsrune co 2H Yow by Lawrme Crfnd rie Damon OF HL RING by Lavoe J. Cm The DOOR 0 SATURN by Clk Ain Sith Book Trace: Paryaus oF THe Dank Wisoow Awour “Parva OF tht Dans Wisuon” by Kiet MP 1. Te Unucormen SouReE by Lie Cr Itt Pouan Ones fy a Carr it Ye uur Buns by Lax Carer INT Gnuar Race OF Yi by Lin Carer WTH Cary OF THE ARLKIS by Lin Carter YI. Tet Comme OF Crust by Lit Caer [Book FOUR: PSALMS OF THE SENT vou “PSA OF rt SMENY" Jp Ao Pre Powys Fo Toarnoccun by Rand L. Try “To ATMALNACNA by hed Le Try 1 v9Contents Contents The PaavEk OF Y2DUGGOR TG AMER by Rd Tome. 277 roe Avjunation or PROM & Spon Sit 307 Paayan 10 LonD Yox-LeCuons by Richard L.Temey ns the Laur OF XASTUE Spb Soni 308 rn avrssemunvt or GHI2CUTH by Rind L Tomy 2» Tw Hiv Foewuus by Sipe Set 30 Ta Sunmonine OF PHAKOL by Rich LT 280 re WasbING Ur Ras by Super Semi au Ta UNMsHONDING GODS by Rid L Tien 281 “ru Exons OF usar by Jongh Pber yn Te HOU OF HAON-DON by Rida LTemey 283 rhe BLACK RITE OF YADOIE & JosphS. Pb a Tie Dan Semcon by Rash Tr 284 ru FoncorTes iru or Mak byJphS Per 28 The Cone GoD by Rihana 285 The Konorbansan Dit byt S rb sat TH Don rons om ta thy Roun. re ura Vow bough SP wa Hrvernonea; OF 08S Pomcy by Rika Tame. 2 fom tne Arai fends Pale - Tae Minions oF Zvtzntnent by Ril L Ty 288 tvs aoourvor acs Haas bh Hr - evncnnne by Raddy oe rw Bac Lira or NG se0 Ve0 JOS Per 37 USeones by Mad Famine 290 ecu meta rsum T Fr wo Ataris by Mish Fone on To Sunwuon ano Isttuct Zire, THe ENANATION OF YOTH Teamioccn by Mik Fomine 2 by Jo. Pale. os Rum SHAMONT by Mia ening 294 ro Wax Feet Awone THs Hanns OF 21 by Jor ,Palor 346 uve or 1H Guns WEA cin) by Ane K: Shar 295 Two Nic OF He Nn by Midd Ch oa Mo THULAMStfhvoeasion 10 ABKOTH by Am K.Sduaer 296 The Bans Sunt oF Yar by Thomas Bren 3s oon Hy or Deuveenncs by An Sader a9 Tu Nw Buccs oF SeanHOM fy Thome: Br sz “Tw Surmucamon oF Caan by Rr ME Pre 28 The Scant Stn y Tas Bn x3 “Twa Tuts Deven Cuctt oF Powe by Thoma Bre st Book Five: THe Einosic ReTuats -AwaE THE Boone RUNS” Rab Pre 301 Arpenoices Te Gaatn Dvcay by Seen Seam 02 the AcourT oF ti Fant by Lin Carer as te DSLOKGING OF HA PT by Sipe eit 303 aos Ancnvis oF 1 MaDW by Li Cre 366 TH Yun INCANTATION by Spb Sein 305 “pu tncuus oF Antes by Roker ML Pie 340 Ta Fxscxaions or Guonen by Spon Som 306 Tw Ensns oF E00 by Re Pr and Laren Cfo 387 msThe Ebony Book: Introduction to The Bout of Eibon Bind up the esiony Sel she esching ang ny disciples, lel 816 bony and Isory ti af omy, et is ov Nain, Lvs i Trsmted ta Grinue ws rt aston Sts Bt Bor swe silent ard bow Loven per hs enw Vlg reece fo, Of cane he we unay font of Be Nutone owas Remy ott check at owt ah Mako ry mors hee 1 eng neh, Love oe Aba Anarene) br heed Rennie The How Stn toed Bans hace ins Doo Sr ny Jany 1980 bre eae Eo tea: Wa Ta uy 193) Tur wht Sth ee eae forbade nd thc aco bok oy cle HL" Oy Net ne Ose 197 eo My a gy. 13-47 A hl pss “heh seme vm bal As Ey Badr oa (cel Unu pat] Kn ee yn pans Bs on thvselog Fn ing ol eng aig en lal thu evo "Buf Chan Ey Bho ‘Scims ncoee om pry halen tw Hose tunis Onan Reli Ti lat Bos oe tig th th Bk im Bat ne of she lc She he ces “bon ant "on” Sy Net ih Te Bak Sproul wo tote The Eon Bok Le Seth he ha Iba ier eso“ che shy a re en Tove mow ih eh ess ends eed in Aue nto how fo He mee hem bese, A Enowashe pp wn aviator es rhe Diaper tes ine spe ol ogee Nas os Sec UsnptRt Chugh Ler German for Dele came aphasia De Tiwi The Bo of te ce st ir hy i tine tn Nora fc pra ha eeenamed ates tive books, he was doing the sme thing he din “The (Challenge fom Beyond” by supplying hs mm conception and background for Richard F Seargh’s Ehdoww Shan. (HPL blasts conerascted Searighe’s own preempted version, in his story "The Warder of Knowledge,” which Lovecrafe hadnt yet ssen—and which did nat see Brine sill my 1990 Fedogan & Bremer anthology Tae of the Lavra ‘Myth He was esceilly usurping his colleague’ creations, This becomes al che more eidene when we remind ures hi € 8 Bloch vicually eee cll his rimoie anything but goa old Myre of ‘he Wm in any of i sais, And Sih ade very ie ue of Ei, com pared with Lvecai mentioning he hoary volume na grand rl oer sori an that’s eaunting the fragment The Ifa Star He never used cicero vec’ any des Wiese erea phenomenon ano che Revision Mythos ha Ihave di cused eaewher, Jota Lovcrafe osruced a parallel Mychos fr ute in store ghost-aritien for cents, emuting 4 new broad of Old Ones that forinaily did oe apes ht acksomledged storie (Vig, Ghatanothos, RhancTegoth, Nug and Ye, it seems ha he ws sme eruble to change the cetvons of his ends jst ensagh ro sound gensinely Lover io ‘he context of his om ale, whatever the Books’ Signor might want co dbo withers in seiromn ition, cordingly Lovecraft hs sts ec, supplied mew author fr is versions, ai 40 eplace Smith's mage Eibon sltogethe! Philipps Faber ce cansatr ofthe Lain Lit Irom (eter to'Smih lanvacy 28,1932), while Gaspard du Nod is he renderer ofthe Liye dion. Admits, ds Nord comes fom Smiths "The Colosus of ‘Yeunjne” where however he hit ao connection te Eihor, Laver sso ied dt Nord a oe ofthe sgn res on the death warn Fo his tax heat to Rabert Bloc, who was gunning For hia in “The Shamble from the Sars el romped toward» puncepeual analysis of Lovet ile vers Smih’ 1 Sais “bon” purningly reminds os ofthe black oF ebony, Lavecas tained “von” may sggest the white of or. Thi why very onceina while ne uns ats yo that makes te COME ink "Laer Ins” Here the rip of« Kabbalsne ceberg a big hat which axed (lato. Here ew hie ofthe magia coincidence of opPOsKES, Ari the doctrine of the Tace absert, whercby Mythos grimoirs are sparingly quoted, since ei evocative Sorcery & more poten RESON Chan in play Here the germ ofthe pseudobisograpii device ofthe varia version ofa geimoie which becomes more and other than ies counerpare {eg Wier Halls conjectural eranlaton othe Elio Shr or Boey’s Inemetion i viginal Note pon th Navanomton, or dhe Sasex Mana) The bok i ‘ack but when canted becomes white Balefl Myths and Lieurgies ‘with Smith, se Fs of che ese ate simple and seighlorwar Ebon wrote a book called the Bio El, fe i ever called anything ele. But [veces in peus-pedaney So not ony de make up two ernae mares for the Batt he also hep swaching concepions of hs povk, Let us brie race hit eferenet 2 che shaping vole ‘Sich had writen all he wae going ro wre consteing Eton andi tome bythe tie Lewcerat rade hit fst reference cit. This i in “The (rams in she Witch Hose” Janury-febrry 1932), where me ead tae Gilman had we ereible hits fom. che fengmencaty Buk of i to coelace with bi abject Forma 60 the propenits of space and che Hokage of dimensions known ad wnkgows,” would st then, chat only foincns ofthe bask sureive. This igh mean shat only lier sera toys survive (swith the Oxyhyochus Paps hich aes rrred ot £0 Tarchecn agmene of the Gospel according ro Thomas, once a complete Franusripe ofthat ancient book wae discovered at Nag Hammad, Egy, ia 13) or tha we know he book ony From quotation of i from ancient chon who bad acest 0 like the Gospel according 0 che Hebrews But in he"The Man of Son Heald, Mad Dan Morcis hs fir tore thas Faget a is dpa He peak simply of the Bat f Eid and refers 10 page 679. Among abet sea ifered the ripe fora nasty res called “The Green Decay” the Ciptalzed proper aun implying bathe was reading an Enplish rans tien even chowgl e syst came from Holland, We cannoe rule out the Posy thar he was feading the Norman French Litre Ei, since ‘Aone ype found copy ofthat edition which Rad alo been broufit ‘om Polaad eo New York State, the lrale of both "The Man of Sion and “The Diary of Alonzo Tpper" (ober, 1983. The Var der Heyl copy sro alo a holes incace Soa, since Tyee speaks of “the Blakes chapters ofthe Live dion: "The Losin le was ot used in "The Maa of cone” simply because tovecaf had apparently aoe yet come up with this it of evi, which curs ire in a December 13, 193 le Simic “lais] Ales bone cnang references ering et of tbles—she Ler tod— inthe poncoon of ee Averones, which as sid ro have been brought by them fom tha lose ance land [in che western acean which fd sunk pseu che waves] whence chey came. Whether this cook be ential tick cha infamous Live wid whch inthe eweleh century the ward wien the sme year, 1932, for HazelGaspard du Nord translated fom some (4 fis) unasceraned language ingo the Fench of Averoign, isa problem wth whet scholaip mast sooner or larer wesc.” OF course they ate the shine book, The note of uncertainty Lovecraft is typical distancing device used sought his work 8 when che explorers ofthe Ansarccan city of the Comoude snake vague and conecural reading ofthe wal crvings "Don't had ne £0, now, but here's what [hike say” H's ginko kee the dane bropped open ro some postliy of mundane explanation 0 the render Wil rerain a vestige of wonder: bux what if they've Bot Fahe” tee Trvetan Tovey, Te Fata) [Notice chat Lovecraft ete makes no rfrence co codes, hour! Book, or even of eral bearing the ile Ler fom, Desi ee atch Innonty 28, 1932 leer steady menions “the Bas of Eon the medieval Latin vei of Philipps Faber fn] the Morany of Mskarnie Unies” he does oe refer thi inthe lester passage about Favs Alesis (or does he call he Mskaton’ Latin version the Lib fo) Noy Favs Alesis knew only ase oF inecribed tablets ike te Ten Command ens he Elo Shard, Ee El or the Bs of Moa, And wl ppeat that she cide is Flviss Alesis rather than that used hy che ‘Averoes, who would nat have spokea Lcin, We dons know fom tht ps ‘956, what their table version ofa “Buk En” would have unde ke Av any race, che implication ia the December 13. 199% leer hae Gaspard dv Nord craslated rom shete lystone cables, whic had therm selves been bough, ike che Tables oF che Lay with the Hyperbrean and ‘Aclanteans i hee wancerings. PresurayLovecrfe a this ime thought of Bon a cuting yp into tablets, a0 weting on patchrents, cho Smith always depcs sorcerers wrtng on seal ‘There's nothing co suggest thatthe Averonian abet wer Fagen tary, and in “Out ofthe Acone (written, sgnn, for Hazel Held, 1933), savant corse an apparently complete and inact “Bas of Ei, cept to descend from forgorten Hyperborea” Inthe same sentence the Prabore Maruscrips ae called the “Paakoic fragments” implying cnt eo 2 nonfagmentay Eid. Burin "The Shadow ou of Tame” Wingate esl consuls “he soriving Fagen of che piling Bu of En” (1934), Se Lovecrafe was by 0 means striving for & uniform repetentton of ‘he Book's pyiealsate. The contradictory images ewes for ar sly ‘aranecropes fr aecertusting che honyatiuy ofthe wok T cll fragmentary one way of sying how od i thas jt barely sve Co ‘ou day: Only enough remains ofthe text hint sts mol lot sce, ‘An analogous device i to spak af the undented language which the Eubniecablts were writen. Something i wren chere util the ens ‘mate giphs ell ris hat we done know what they tell se Confsion nly maps whe, in “The Haunce of she Dark (193), ober Blake dicosers “the snes Ltr fi a6 bound book sanding oa shel alongside ther comes. Thi ou fst reference io a story co Tain ea calle Lier ems, Lover chen eves has Gaspard da Nord’ area Eton maybe 8 endering of the Latin text of Philipps Faber ater shan ofthe inscribed cables ofthe Aver na 1937 lee o ry Leber he harmonizes: "Gaspard du Nor’ translation of che Lr lon (whether from the corp Lain texto Fm the acon Hyperborean orginal we cin be exe hiaccomplahments were dark and obscure) ao medieval enc inthe 12th cenury rough abou gh consequences” ‘The Analogy of Seriptare ‘When we come tlt 10 the ox ofthe Bak of ion presented in thi 0: lume, We widen our circ Frm ehe coneeprans oF fibon's book held by Clark Ashi Sith and H.R Lovecraft har of Lin Carter, ho wove ce ions share fe vide ico several pan he fae sction cons Ing of recipes and formulae, inure and incantations, sel, petals and the lke V envision the Fst ook a Histories of the Elder Magi’ tha ix precautionary accounes of wizeds who lived fore Ebon ime Since these sualy came co a ether sieky end, I presume that he used them a pare ‘es im teaching his sees. The second part fell Epes of Eibon of Mins Thulan, nd these are strative of fog’ own if, oi in he Fist person... The thin pte called Papyrus of the Dac Wador’ and an ‘extended mythologiel rate desabing che ceaion of the OXd Ones he causes of thet rebelon aga che Elder Gods, hom Earth came int the univene, ad capele hires of he ine slecllce races who do sated the cart in ur bei thecelution of amankind iu wl heey ae for yourself how Lin Care eed ou thi scheme, but forthe presen, let ut ace two chings om his description. Fist, che business about che nine ulea-ellne races smacks oF Madame Blavatsky, ‘whom Li, follwing Frit Leiber, righly lauded a one of che chi ins coce on pl aman. Icey to demonacrae the wide nluece the dest contained in Blavatsky eccentic volumes lst Onell and The Sent Darina on Edgar Rice Burroughs, HP Lovee nd Henry Koto mong others. Het varias “root rates” and “Children of oe Fre Mise ype in weid ftom atthe Martian Thar, the Lemurian Rahal, and (he Concheads of primal Australia. Second, the “Papyrus of che Dark Wisdom,” 2 tle desived fom Sih’ Blak Bask of ple germs, aes, aed story ideas, 90 doube appesed to Lin Because of is echo of the various arcent Egyptian papys eg, The Raps of sn, aka The spin Bask ofsi The Hak of Eibon he Dead he mined for chapter eigen bis noel Ch of he Blk Pharab ee Th Nyarlatbep Cy, hive found chat she conceptual rok of biblical “Higher Cri’ ‘canbe surprisingly helpful in understanding even Fee ancient ens suck asthe Biko Eo. This possible because che great versal Sieh tnd Levecafe stain in ther inuitve and tute charactrztions of ‘hei sprout tomes. Le was the sme tof the poetics and composion of ancient sexs tha led bh co the Higher Coie’ analytical paradigms tnd co che Ficioners convincing ulavons. To ilaserace my post, ever {rial New Tesamene scholars believe he Secret Gospel of Mak ostens by dicorred by Morton Sith ws acvall a hoax perpetrated by hin. He new 40 well whar an ancient rex ought co ook like cathe would be able wh ate one damn well (like the inane drivel tha eis co ps fra Ancien ex in The Clipe Prope), Joseph Smith was 3 good bit more ‘cco even f he real a8 Mate Twain eid, “chlooform in pie Si che Book of Numbers! To put ehe shoe on the ote oo, Lovecraft sould have made anexcllen biblical cic had he been 50 indind. “The Bi Ebr you at holding cn be aminatingly compared with th Book of fens, Modern scolaship has convincingly divided the Book offs into nce basic sections, each primary the work of 2 dierent tuchor or gro of shor, Fist Isiah ithe Propecia ben Amos of Jerusalem wh lived in he time of Kings Heackis, Usui, and Abas. He is he greatest pt among ce bibhel ropes. His rales base with Ste as well as ight, Hs paiusagune acquisitive agicusinss barns fre ‘losing an sal frre oun asf hey were writen in the 1980s. His bli tering denunciations of religions hypacites who oppress he por have lst none of their ege He is che kindof man who would atace bac eneries nd diciples. Tradionlegend nays he was smn asunder by his pesecur. Bor his disciples kept hi fre alghe They pated down his orice in oa and seen form, This materi cin be Found alli interwoven with sumerous interplaions great and sal si chapters 1-39. These “son of the prophets,” dips of che popes, wee guile of prophets chemscives, anda eng sey ised their own prophesies, and the bes of them were placed alongside hove aeibted ro chee master Since ‘he axiom ofthe ancient world waeThe dcp ox above hs aches, but shen fully rained wll be like is teacher” the diciples and sucess {ough fetoun in dhe shadow of shih, shu thei rales were aiid so hi, The grates of thee echoes of lah was the anonymous prophet ‘thom we cll the Second Tea (r Devteo-nah) che author of Isiah fhaper 40-55. Deatero-aiah prophesied onthe ex of Cy conquest of ‘Babylon andthe cod ofthe Babylonian Exile He scl lesa pot than Issiah of Jerusalem, though his sles gute diferent, and he hss hs own, fit themes He he at of he moving ad mse Seat SEEING caper suse ow uous He wb geno sie rei opaming lacs chop down aces ol gia Shafran nl hewn he et nding 49-20" Chop 56-66 se 8 mised bg, spre a aly fy pow saan lee Kao Tied i oF Fah A en ok ace of dp hs sow. hey er champions of erp ash, he art myth o ave saying seein ple hana past te apt pile eer pe tk ofthe Pein goverment, sped te rnnng ese he pty side ofthe pure fund Numbers Sheng uct ae we cle Dokl hih wasn itseland sy al kan cpr fr Tei He of Bh, Esey ane et dno oe th cents naa pope of ish In rei fe tumeny th ie conan ues oes dng ee a a ahem uber nh ett Ala ene wrrescite ea jh ne sna wa Mol” Lan An fr is ae lec aly 25 lean” propcy. Heong 7 Tong ost oa” the eve aan impli ped in he eae of the Bak of ie Posn a Let inomed Reha FSerigh by 13, 1936 coop proeted by suc cl” Thee at the 8 Tee us Eon, (wham in Carer en ese Deserts Eer Mag” wal aay oh on aw sor pole st some ofthe cum 0 Sha serena, nvin ih ba beer sre, wr we cee dagen of ting te Sth as (Names 1532-20 cee cans prempases fhe pel rah Num 16 sere song cee ee aus 01-9) oth he A ee ca popes se prepa (2 Sone 667), dang © och Kags 225-23) hing onan schch lds See dad ing aca hy (Cotas 1128-32) “just a che Book of Isiah cin be apportioned among thee principal scons can the Biko ibn The first Ebon sof couse, Cla Ashon| Sich author of "The Comming of the Wie Worn,” caper FX, Deuter Tibor is Lin Carter who wrote by far the bulk of the book, The Tho tuboicserarum the work, primi, of Laurence J. Corford. who ta, pcly asa bobby, ventured vee many yes fil in some ofthe gaps the Bot a5 Carer had outed it. Ore Teco-Eibonic ater include John I. Fate and yours rl.so Th Book of itn 1 am proud to take a ole analogous co tha of Zayibn-Tiit, che Muslim savane charged by the Caliph Abu-beke 9 lle she ao ind vidal ura ofthe Korn for the fcr a bok Robert M Price Redactor of Mu Thus Api 18, 1997istry and Chrnslgy of TB of Ein 3 About “History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon” viously modeled pon Lovecaf's 1927 pamphlet “History of the Narnstion” and caking see From August Desltseiion of LPLs work CHtory and Chronology of che Naver hit ibi- -piclpreedohsory peers to provide the translating and publicon Tistory of che Back of Eilon. As such ic parallels my bra survey in che Tnooution of Loveerai's developing concep of the Bk of Ed. But suhereas I have soughe grave the (by a0 means ulna elation ofthe concep i HPL’ min, Lin Carter provided a harmonized arco nt fextual with se published sori themelves, pare oftheir narrative un ‘verse, the history of the ook sccusing implicitly ia and between che sto fies a0 ying Behind then inthe minds of HPL and CAS. 11 obvious hat bibliographic paige sch thi or chat given by Sober E Howard for Von Jars Unansdmchicer Kaen a "The Thing on the Roof") has the faction af supplying vevsiilitade Le makes che Bk of Ean ser more like areal book. Bus that is a0 ony fune.on. Seth 4 “istry and chronology” alo serves a «distancing devi e preven he send from too 40 oro easly sececing the emerging character of che rime at an actual revelation of arane truth Such a conlusion mot tevelop only gradually, a5 the reader i ae Fine encouraged co mania hi sundae dele and then wesned yay fom by slow degree. Only 0 an dread and ominous unease mount. Hf he supernatural be taken for stance atthe tare we ate dealing witha Fancy Te Lard ofthe Ring here che supernatural defined inc the ground ruler of the naretoe world and canna awe ws. Thus the hotor author wane rose eo discredit the magic book fist, ake ie appe like soe old scrap bok of superst tins and ae surprise ell works Let provide an naling. perfec one eink. In my reaching of i cal eas, |i students at epulaly dismayed shen use histor icam to ditenchant che Bible, They have learned to take che Bible a4 the ‘Word of God, niles inerrant, a8 age. For them cis racy 3 face of mature. Wha icin doer to peneteate the holy guerdo of pus propaganda an seazre she ible Fram he catepory of rere ro tha oF hi ‘ory. ABT ke 0p vt showa thatthe Bible did ot spy al ot oft sky one day. Tae marks of its origin ariong real harman beings, no gods, ave exeryshere evident, once one removes the dogmatic binders Almost every bibles wen, fr example an be show toe a patchaore of radians and incerplared reas having acurolted over the centutis “Thee texts sere hand-opied aver many age, sufering ex Gerpeons4nd "eoections which can aow never be ceeiny rested, Even the choice of which belong cose canon ofscriptre i hardly slevdeat, and the able of contencs as many centuries unde pute and temans 0 033) All his, however, makes te sical hes ofthe Bible or the Koran the Upanishads, of which the same chings may be shown al the more ‘wondrous, sexing chat che break oth fen pages which are eniely su is 1 che wicsicudes of aff merely human wekings, which is jst wht they sr “We have this resnure in earthen vessel” (2 Cointhians 47), Even so With the Ba of Eibn fr ehe Nevonowian). The books ate shown fo hang trickled doa the centuries by hack ae by crook, somerimes alse hap hazard, becoming gabled in eansation, Lowered, errata ‘Wilbur Wharce'sincamplee “Dee copy,” whch nonetheless able co tel bist how to “open ro Yog-Sachth." Here she revelations ae anything but ‘edifying, but the eck whe same. Despite the fact that these book are reveled robe mere man books, jus a6 Wizard Whatley and Ean amd Alhsaed are noc gods bur eccenti old ne, she blck eth they slate Surprie us by earings be aft el ‘Hisory and Chroology ofthe Bank f Eien” ws criginaly published 264 Chamel Howte Chapbook by Lin Cae in 1984 History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon by Lin Carter Tue Histosy cording to the tadiional account, the so-called Book of A™ ‘es ogame ne fgsen Tho lane guage somewhat mare chao acentuy before the onset of the usr ce Age by the wirard Eibon of Mhu Thulan ina prehistoric polar land which the Greek and Roman writers, ages later, knew at Hyperborea ‘Ths “primordial manual of sorcery” was a “cllecton of dark tnd baleful mths, leurs, rituals and incamtacons both evil and esoteric” Also, ic preserved “the oldest ncantaions, and the secret, manvforgoten lore of log-Sotot (Yos-Sothoth) and of Sodagul (Bahosgv:)” ‘Alcer the death (or dsapperance) oft orignal author, the exe was come, fom manuscripts and treatises found among his papers by Eibo'sfvorite disciple Cyron of Vitaad. Cyeon himself ‘wre an acount, the Vite oo, of hi Masters ie, ad something of his lst days (which became chapter x of hk 1)" ‘century os see, when Hypesbores was absndoned bore che advance ofthe glaciers, copy or copies ofthe Book were saved from che collapse of Hyperborean civilization and wee carted to che mainland of Europe by the members ofa secret brotherhood of so. eres, who revered Ebon memes Copies of the Book probably existed in che ftse post Hypeaborean setlements of Zabna, and Lomar, and in the later ies of Sanath i the souchely land of Mar ‘Many centuries later, followers of the great Prophet Kish (who foretold che destruction and Fal of Sarnath) rendered che Buk in the lnguage of ther epoch, cher shortly before ora some period aver thigh form Stoath the Dood! The Ba of bw i suid to have come down through a seis of manifold rranslaion fom‘ Tn posto a (ehe) prchiscorc original,” and his che fast of these of which we have any record. * The ceadition asserts char a Punic eranslacon from che Kishite ‘was made, about 1600 &.C, by the Syro-Phoenivian Scholar, lise [Narbu. There are thine eraces of a Byrantine-Greek (or Graeco Baccrian—the authorities differ widely) version made at some date subsequent to the Punic by an unknown write, but we have merely rumors of this and sean evidence Sil later, peas as easly asthe ninth ora lat asthe rent cen tury A, the Medieval Latin eranslaion of C Pilippus Faber copy ‘of which is preserved in che Library of Miskatonic University was [At Some period before the year 1200, i is ehoughe most likely the novorius necromancer Nathaire (whose name was ried fe quendy and censoriusly in he iter witcheeafe eas in the ancient French province of Averoign) discovered a copy ofthe Geek version Jn, ie was rumored, the tomb of an ancient wizard. (Some have spec slated that i wus the Same Graeco-Bactrian somls in which the Taamens of Caruamegss, co which Hyperborean origins ae abo ascribed, was uncovered about 935 4.0.7 Ie vas probably dering the closing yeas ofthe 1h century that the celebrated alchemist and occu scholar, Gaspard du Nord of YYvones, made bis famous translation of the Boab into. Norman French, calling it the Lior Ein, He had for his ext nt the Latin version of Caius Philippus Faber, the Lider fos, but dhe Greek, te ‘wold alraos have co have ben the same copy excavated by Nathaite, since da Noxd had studied dabolm and agceomany, oF 30 ie wae lace testified, from Nastaire, and only quit the coven of Nathaire about a year before the commencement of the shocking event (called the "Ylourgne Horror") which broughe abou ye dowofll of is for- ‘mer mencor, and which began ia the spring of the year 1208." Insofar as Scholarship knows, throughout its lng history, che Bo of Eidou has never been prince, only circslated in manusctipe among the sere clk of Europe and Ameries. Even ducing che persecutions, when eclesiatc authorces mistakenly (but understandably) sup presed such cults, believing chem al Satan-worshippers or witchcraft Hisar ond Chslgy of Te Bf Ein 2 ceovens, it fale £0 extispae the circlation of Eibon's maleic and nighemarish come. ‘Only in this cencuy, 2 far as we know oF may presume, his any axtempt been made to pot du Noed's Norman-French into English hhomever the version whereof I speak has only, as yet, appeared in pare, ards no yee compleced U, Tie CHronovosy append here an outline of the chronology as given by the famed German occults,Fredrich-Wilhelm von Junzt From Dir Unansprclibe Kalo, Appendix i (Dusseldors, 1839) 1. Witten by the wizasd Eibon in che Tsath-yo language in Hiyperorea before the fe Age 2. Arcanged and edited into is present form by Eibon's pupil, CCyron of Varad, who conetibuced the Vite frowi and the ext of ib, ch. 3. Carved to Zabna avd, later, to Lomar and Sarnath when LHyperborea was abundoned co the advancing glaciers “The KishiteReeston. Translated into the tongue of Mar by fo: lowers ofthe Prophet Kish, probably after their fight fom ee doomed city 5. The Panie Vson, Made by che Syro-Phoenician writer, mile Narba circ 1600 8. All copies of the original Thay text by thie ci. probably 6. Lier lenis, Latin version by €. Philipps Faber (10h Century 42) 1. Line dbo, Tanslated inca Norman-French, late 13eh Gentry, by M, Gaspard du Now. 8. Copies of the ds Nord ceanslarion were circulated in secret throughout Europe during the Medieval period. The book, in any version, is noc known co have ever been printed8 The Bak of Eon (Nove shat the Hert Dokgor sems unaware ofthe rumored Greek translacion) NL Novrs to THe Hisrony ‘Gack Asheon Smith, “Ubbo-Sathla Smith, "The Holiness of Azederse "Thats, "The Door o Satur, " "Enact daca regadiag the Prakotic Mss. ae lacking. They were brought down from Hyperborea by a seceet cult fal eo that which preserved che Book of Exon) & ae inthe secrec Hypetborean language.” H. P Lover in a leet to Richard F Seanghe, dated February 15, 1936, Seated Lenn, vol V. * Lovecraft, “The Doom chat Came ro Saenath.” Cate, “The Scone From Moar,” (unpublished, Smith, “Ubbo Sats According 0 Lovecraft ina lete published in Dram an Fai, According to Smith in "UbboSatble” Gaspard du Nord trans lated he Eide fom a Greek version For the histories of Gaspard du Nord ofthe infamous Nathaire and the “Ylourgne Horeos,” see Smith's story “The Colossus ol Yow me Gest ‘The presumed date of du Nord ceanslation "te 3th cen ‘ury”—is argued because Smith, in "Ylourgae,” informs us that du Nord, sho obtained the manuscripc in 1281, “lvad fn much honoe ca ripe age.” In hs published lers, H. B-Lovecralt per sistent refers dui Nord roche 12th cenrury, which is incoerec. ® tye io Eton Acocing to Cron of araad 2 About “The Life of Eibon” he purpose oF ancine document ike hi one watt serve as: casters fo he author who Ws o posed a he dpe of the sin he Iogiaed, Who beter to ead the community in the Master’ abiene? One icine example Th Lif of Suit Antony by Athans. He m2 in ne midst af his contest with Aras oer the ue ofthe vine nature Othe {Cris Lig The pone was vo ci che legacy ofthe great hermit foe ‘huni, a 6c clan the ascetics sanctity om bell of Athanasiog ‘eclagalopinis. Anathes well known example would be che Gotpel of Joh. As the Laue "who fin the Laxom of he Father” the ony one «cave seen the Father and made bin Known Jahn 1:18, s9 the “Beloved Disciple” who hes “in Jens’ bom” (15°25) atthe Last Supper che ri legs channel of acces he Rien Chris. Te ancients did aes in cha, 1 dine but ly on couche or on the Hr, propping themseles on one clbowe With thireen men reclining aroued ow tale hey woul al be prety mich “in each ote’ bosoms.” andthe Beloved Dicple relies ext to Jesus Jas ak one must come che Father hzough Jes (146), 50 Peet, Phe wants 0k fess something (13-24-25) or flow Jesu in it Pasion, must go through the Beloved Disciple (18: 15-16), Jost as Jeet ‘he Door to che Father (10°9; 16), one only acces oh, anda he ‘Bal (doo. che Hidden Imam fancied ag his ible spokesmen tthe Shiite comunity, so dats the Beloved Disciple fanction a che destined Praclee (167-15) forthe Johannine commie ence she cis ensuing upon his death the presuppoion ofthe Johannine Append chapter 21) Soin the present cane: wing hihapigraphy of the wiard For, {Cyn aught to posion his a the caliph of che group of Ebon di: les, playing Elsa co his mate's Ela. As the wie of such a document, Cyron (ike the Beloved Oiscile oe Athanasius exablished hime a the beer of ce ofc, caronzal picture of Elton thar would continue ©: ice the fash, “The Life of Eibon by Cyon of Varad” was fra aed a « Charl House chapboot in (988The Life of Eibon according to Cyron of Varaad by Lin Carver 1 he sr Eo, on ln, ns born in sy gs T: the ar othe Mel Worm. T a ume eat doom heel che Whe yi a pe ema Bie come den por the nus sy of Commerom andthe Kn ee, Torqumeshs and al hifi se up and Ne mo the oh ‘sbi sh yo dao as ej Zh nd li of Pash, sani lose sped Commas 0 she thom Ken Zh Th Mla al ben Keeper f th Arne 0 Kacy rine oF tga ong hal eben fh in che ave hat monarch Shur ohen he the chi Eton ha rained hs eond lsum, shah wa about the tine ofthe death of King Lvuaneras, che “cscs ofthe goles Yhouneh deve th the fly Bila nee ums the wider ef henge xh he pe {restn, serio theater af a dt we ogee ad the hom and oped chil ugh tee ith endl tse one Za eam he wes psc ne yer ing Pharaoh ce of Under Now ths 2 plac was» celebrated anagician who was then wel entered inco the second century of his ie, which by his er he had extended co a inordinate lngeh as i bo hanselin hi own ive The mage ws then in his one hundeed elevenh year, having, been born a year before the Sybil cme into these parts ot ofthe dear and frozen wastes of Polaron eo prophesy concerning tha which would in time befall great Consmoriom, which i 0 say the Doom thereof. La his owa youth che eminent Zylac had been the foremos of che disc ples of Hotmagor, the wizard of Abormis, whose curious history was ‘wee dosn by Eibon in his Chapeer che Seventh From his ench into is theee-and-twentiech year di Eibon dwell ‘es the blac house of Zac, which arose on che westeramost shores “rhe Ue of ikon According Cyn of Varad " ‘The ie of ton Acco Cyn fad of Miu ‘Tholan, the province being a6 that cime batten and unin habieed of men, There did he study che aes of necromancy and the thee kinds of magic under the tutelage of that savant who was eounted che foremost in all of Hyperborea during his age. And ire inthe house of Zylac cid Eibon bethink himself secure forever fram the vengeance ofthe inquisitors of Yhoundeh, for chat he elk vie from the customary habitations of men. ‘When dar ie came to pass, ia the fllass of ime, chat Zac per she fron his imprudent wes of ee Zoigmish seul, 38 Eibon hath Feloeed in his Chapter ce Fis, dhe youthfal sorcerer sos up an led therefrom, lewing behind him the house of blac gaeis on is slicary headland which overlooketh the cold waters of che boreal main, This T consider to ave eventustd in the thirteenth year that Pharnavootra rogned in Uzuldarouss, Thus did Eibon commence his wanderings ‘through eany land, a¢ che fst aloe, but Iter in the company of tain Zals whom he encountered ia Oggon-Zhai. Ths youth was a fellow seeker after dubious and occult knowledge, and cogether chs twain sought wisdom wherever ie might be found, whether in che ditch fanes of age forgotten Unestor or amongst the shadow- hawt combs of Ulphar, OF he many and uncanny perl encoun tered by the eaaio beneath che purple spites of Mars, and ofthat Curious afliction which befell the aged king of Zaroul, [shall say ‘uit for ofthese matcers ach Eibon hime aforesime wri. I. [ocaintserotesin de Emp amps as coe at che sorcerer Eibon returned from his ravelings co thac dear andl des late promontory of Mhu Thulan which fronted upon che sea, and abode once more in the black house of Zylac which time had cleansed ofits hore as all things are cleanse by ce passage of he years. ‘And therein di he abide chereafer fr all of che yeas of his ie «apon chis Earth a is well known amongst men. For by this time he waned exceeding grea in his fame, snd was accounted as eminent as ad been the chaumararge Zylac before him. Theoughouc the one sind-thicy year reign ofthat empees id Eibon seve mighaly to per fee himself in his scence and i was inthe Yea of che Green Spices, ‘when the old empeess succumbed and the prince consor scene co the throne as Emperor Charnametees, chat I, Cyron, i become2 The Bast of in spprenciced ro the celebrated Eibon, {m3 the the cerminus of my fourth usteum and from my natal city of Varaad in the land of Phenguor ad I come co study atthe fer ofthe master, for tha al of my lif had 1 heard sung che Famousnes of Eibon He was chen in his ive-and-sateth year and by chac time was he reckoned che most potent and sagacious of she sorcerces oF Hyperborea. For ewency years chereafcr did {serve as his lily apprentice, stodying the ares of necromancy and the tice kins of ‘agic, and ever cid | find him to be the kinliest of men, as he was the wises of teachers and she mast accomplished of magicians In his peson che Master Eibon ss slight of build and sallow of complexion, with a round face for ever beardless, his lips adorned with thin and silken and drooping mustichios. His eyes were ‘thoughtful and hooded and amused, and he held himself fstidiusly aloof from the ways of men; however, he posessed & whimsical est of mind and a mocking humor, and was much given to iron del levies | behink me that few things mattered aught ¢0 him, and fewer stil he cared for overmuch; ad litle of life or of che world did hh rake very seriously the least of al himself 4.can ste hie now oftentimes I sae him esting in his gue den of curious tees, his sight form arcged in thin robes of silk, bepaccerned rosecnd-golder afer the manner of weavers of Phar Wich his hands clasped behind his back he would saunter to and feo tbe length of his plessuunce, all che while dscoutsing with subtle ‘wisdom and wey wit upon some deep und arcane topic, his brows ‘wrap inthe immense and voluminous, bescafedtachoosh which he affected after che fshions ofthe days of his youth Fall many were the disciples of Eibon who came ca the house of| black gneiss co seudy shaumaturgy at the master’ fet, Buc of chem all believe chat it was 1, Cyron, was che dearest to his heat, and this belief cherish within mine owa, Thaoughout che empery of CCharnamettos, and the fise years of Saphirion whieh Axfowed, 1 abode in the call house of Ebon, Bur in the eighth year of Saphition’sempery, when that J eas atcined ro che age of forty, did 4 part in amicable fishion fom my master and eloigned mys hence eo the city of Naraad where 1 dwelt ever afer, devoting my years co the practice of wizardry, Many wete the merchants and at sans of chat city aye, and che lords and burghers, a8 well, sho vied “The Me of itn Acco o Cyn of Varad in <0 purchase sheir charms and spells, their petlapes and diviaasions from the wizard Cyron that had lear his crafe fom none other than the celebrated Eiboa, ‘But no ore shall area in his vein, lest that i be said of me thar E wave more ofthe pupil chan ofthe teacher tH srdana waste lst ofthe Dynasty of he Ulin o name Nim by che ume of emperor Whe be ded ine enh ee afer his coronation and his ster, Queen Canam, ised vo tie toe i tuld be een hougou the and that the us Yond wat prow ws aed prodigious power the hi pinned granu the ek goes, one Mochi by ane, Gk pol fa and ide othe fat my acer Eton ‘ara epoved nino bet; se which he wuld ee hve frkene co doin ar of Ebon, had hen fl mel secre ond confide nthe preminnce thi thoy The inguiiorMorghi farther aed io be ried abot chat ny maser me ent worn secret and by seth ways the ‘bominaton atau an obser and suppresed vy which bauer enjoyed the eleva ofthe bg Yorn pre tonne ope These grunting and fry «ogee, dvoding seg of rial ons, ye lingered svi oF frgen age the mounainwt or eemate or Bunge prs of Hiypetoes which wer the cite of men shunned fr ta sme reson, “Thus sak he ingustor Moh Bu it was whispered abroad cha the puscson of my maser ns du oor reasons than cert the tli ino rea rats whee he ond Sccused, Foch Morghi was msl become a houmaturge of oe renown: but a he scended inthe mastery ofthe peut a, tse he found co Ws dgencemene thatthe ret Ebon had ran ended his every achievement. Whether fom pou hoor ache sn damon 2 Be sy dame ote elu ofa ester mag fr one who hath excl ht in he ma tery ofthe utemos arena, snd ha the biroph 1 exaced fs quis in 3 mane ‘would never rest until Eibon sufficiently sanguinary and gruesome a¢ co prove exemplary £0 all oghers who wavered witha in eis recvcude“ Ta Bok ton In che fllness of time I came to far for my master, fr all 00 swell didst | know che somber trath of che imprecations spewed forch ‘upon his name by the fanatisl Morghi. In shove lusums which hac followed upon the demise of Zyac, during his wanderings through ‘pany ands, Eibon had in sooth become » devorce ofthe obsolete snd incerdited cultus of Tathoggua, a5 he himself hath writ in his CChoptes che Ficeenth. This demon dwells in the gloom of subtr- ancan Nk,» cavernous region situate beneath the roos of Mount Voormithadeeth in the high Eiglophians, And thither did Eibon descend inthe daring and valor of his youth, led by Pheaaponthus, ‘the shamtab-bird, the which beckoned hin on, leep and ever deepie, ino the Abys. ‘Thercins he descended in seurch of such tenebeous and demon: _puarded lore as might only be ha from the vile and unspeakable lps (of That hich abidesh from the eldeamost beginnings of the earth unto this very hour amidst che poeescence ofthe Pie. And what he sought, he gained: For the Abomination Suthoggua is equivocal and ambiguous of mind, and doth not invariably ew all moral men ‘with malign of aethropophagic intent, buerakech, betimes, an odd ‘auitksome liking for some of they who descend ehiher co che place ‘wherest He wallows, in quest of Elie Lore Thus had 1 cause enowgh and more co entertain feats for my ‘aster, knowing that like his faher afore him he had hearkened t0 the shsperings of che Black Thing thac squatceth inthe gloom of Nilai. Of, indeed, had he ueged upon me thar 1 should betake rayyself thither and do likewise, for only thas (he would solemnly rterate) ate the Ultimate Mysteries co be plumbed. Buc ever, and tha steadfastly, did I dectne to-do this for Iam of Varaad, and from that day, now ages gone, wea frst our ancestors came hither igo these parts from dreamy Kemula amidst the Hill: of Zalgats in rime-forgotten Thuria, fled bfore the coming-dowa of the warlike Atlanteans, have me Varaadishmen worshipped the tribal goddess of ‘our forefathers, From that far day to his have we staunchly adhered ro oue tutlary totem, which be, asall men kaoos leera the cat god- dss, Mayhap it be tue chat the goddess be naught more chan the primal Fetih of my rice, as mine own master hath ofzemmes admonished, but ever have I devoutly numbered myself aniong her Celebrant, Even now, [ale these words with reed-pen cut fom -e ue of ition Accom Caen of Vad bs the ronded calamus, die in the inky exudations of che squid, one ve qcer’s small and supple foliar rubs its round and sitken head vr yware my knce-with many affections slumbrous purrings. Noc sr such aL the worshipping of Tathogpua! IN luc tocetuen to my History in ordinary times ‘ewould have been | sant concetn 9 such as Eibon of Mhu Thulan, did the fren: sied zealos of Yhoundeh cave against him spitefully, for he dwelt far off at che utermost excremity of Mhu Thulan, and all chat fexion from Paar ro the polar sea hath never beer subject co the magistacy of lagu Bt inthe past hundked year or sch, the cult of Yhounde had risen to ascendancy; not aly in Iqqua, whese ic Fist displaced and then deave out che antiqee sosship of quaint, chehyoida litle {Quulk, che kindly god of Fishermen; but also in the great city of Ougon-Zhai, where of old the folle thereof made homage «0 Katheuole, whose fanes be aow neglected oveemuch; in Zuth and [Naroob, oo; wari a length ll of the land of Zabdamar which fones upon the sea groaned beneath the dominion ofthe eclesiarchs ofthe clk goddes. “And ever since Prince Tuluum followed his aged grandsic, Xacturd, co the throne of Eqgua, have the priests of Yhoundeh ‘wilde both the poser temporal and che power spintual over that Secaffrontng eal: and in che seign of Raanot, who succeeded ‘Tuluum, the princedom of che Iqquasians lid claim to Mhu Thulon, or to those parts thereof che which bordered upon their country co the north, which isto say the westernmost portion of the province, al established jurisdiction and authority over chat desolate region Fovmerly untenaated by men, notin sooth daainion thereover. The present prince, Parool, second of shat name, had ysl supinely co ‘he encroaching usurpations ofthe hierophant 35 meekly 2 ever did ‘he four sovereigns which preceded him. Thus had Morghi aoc only the sanctions of law but also che royal prerogative co indice che Master Eibon, the which authorities he was noe overlong co employ against hie Te was in the vernal month of the Yeas of che Black Tiger, in the ‘hind lstrum of Queen Cunambri’s eign, when my master camesukenly and in sectee daring the nocturnal hours unto any lapis minaret which overgazeth the glories of Varaad. Seven-und-forty years had eranspiced since las I clasped his hand, or looked iaco his smiling and hooded and cynical eyes, ve heard his wry, humoroxs, fonce-familiar mode of speech; but in all chat time, whist [had grown grey and infirm and was much stricken in years, he had nat altered by 2 whic Albee char he was then attained unto che prod ‘gious age of one hundred and ewo-and:-thirty, having thence eclipsed by no fener chan eighe years the span achieved by rhe venerable Zylac, he seemed nonetheless still nimble and slim, vnbent by old age, his sly and mocking visage smooth and unlined, and his deep sardonic eyes undimmed, With his» he bore a plenitude of books and scrolls, of graven tablets and flos, the which I recognized to be the choicest and mose valuable comes and teases fom his librarium: and these he beseched me fo preserve against thefe or husm and 10 keep sae gainer the occasion of his return, These were sangst this cre ‘many a tome or document of sorcerous lore most precious sad exceeding rare—aye, precious heyond the dreams of avarice and rare above the keenest aspirations ofthe bibliopile. And whea Finguired ‘oF Eibon wherefore I shoulde ward these books and crprazes, he but ‘ily smiled and answered, saying, So chat they fll not inca she hhands of Morghi! And, these admoniions having spake, he suid naught more, bur bade me a brief farewell, And sever aguia thenceater did I look wpon his face, or leastfse nor with the eyes of the flesh, Bor no lng afer this dd there come down upon hien the ireful Morghi, and che henchmen of Morghi, whereupon befell the scrange and fll marvelous evanishment of Ebon from the bourns of ‘nen, and with him Morghi, roo, wherea the wold still wondes v [ie 2 this allowed upon hes of ses ve ve roiled over the scrolls and volumes of Eibon, and perused the duck and terrible volumes af equivocal lore thus bequeathed ino my keep ing. No che lease amongst che which were the Voormish Tablets, swhercon of old the dreadtal arcana of the troglodytes wast engraven by uncouth and besial paws; and that which sill decipherable by men of the Pnakotie Manuscrips; and the Kadath Record, whose ile fon Acsoding to Cyan of nad 7 nightmare pages contain euch thats suggestive ofan authorship in tho wise co be considered remotely human nor even maenmalian; and those af ehe Rituals of Yhe which survive into ovr epoch to preserve ‘hose black rnychs which are the exible legacy of elder Mus and the Parchesents of Paom, containing both che Greater and che Lesser Tnoicims of that magus, cogether with his unwholesome speculs: ninco the tae agin of man, with disturbing hints ofa parent= Se costrica, awesome, blasphemous and, happily, wnProven “There were angst ches ull many of te profound and incom- mensurable writings of Ebon himeelf, and ceases upon the supet= mundane sciences, rogether with a scripture of iardinate length con- Corning the Descent of Teathoggua and His Brethren out of he ven- ‘ceible Prom; which i rosy aaughe of the veritable and unques- tioned Grimoire of Eibon, into whose more cenebrous pages Ihave leoked bur once, then nevermoe: For an old mar needeth his rest and there be that within the estamenes of Fibon which would render for ver uaendurable che dreams of a mere Gyron His folios contained redactions of chac which his abseruse and econdte studies into antiquarian matters had uncovered concerning the lives and times ofthe primal magi of former cycles, Well and fonaly do I remem these fables from che years knee atthe mas ef fee imbibing wisdom; fr ic had ever been his wont co lace these co his students in che acute of parbles or cautionary tals, in bvious hope that we might learn fios the several guaine and besimes, giucsome ends which had befallen these unforcunace savant, to exhibit in our own practice of sorcery a rescraine and prudence superior o cei Tr became in time apparent from «scrutiny ofthese parchments| ha he ad been inthe midst of aszembling them inco a sequential ratatve, which labors were ineorupted by che unvmmely persec: tions of Morghi. Ubetook upon mys the easks of completing chat which bad beea begun. “Time pused, az wat ever rime’ way, and my master ecurned noe +o resume his customary habitation in cha house of black gneiss upon ite drear and sliudinous promontory whose step and precipitous shores are washed-about by the cold waves ofthe ulate polar sea. [Nor would he return ever again feom whence he had led, for at lengsh slid J ascertain by esine are the curious and unlikely termination of hiscareer, ia penumbral spheres remote ftom our own, and that whit transpired in the far and fabulous bouens which le beyond the ill rumored tabler of wlera-ellri metal whereof the elder magi whisper ‘much, and lee that be wholesome, and the which wast known of old as the Door to Cykeranosh This uncanny Portal had been a gift made unto Eibon by the dark divinity whose votary he had long accounted himself even che dite and dubious Teathoggua; the daemon had made present of i, saying, in a manner sy and crypti,thac inthe utermose extremity ‘of his need my master should find i a « Door the which ladeth co a far haven of safe repose. But what the Black Abomination spake not of, was that oace a man puseth therethrough, he can never retaen thereby again, OF hese mysteries did I ingute of my master's coma spite, conjured by mine art into a wizaa’s speculum of black steel as he himself had raughe we aforetime, therefore | know ‘whereof L speak; but ofthese mater I chall speak 0 more in cis place, foe | have elsewhere writ an account of the later days of Eibon, snd of that Door ro Cykranosh, and the prodigies whereof, in a nae ‘ative 4e¢ down in mine own poor words, the which have { added hhesein as Chapter the Twencieth VL he old queen hath died, and sith her the dynasty of the UUnuldasnes is ended, as well, and ic be rumored amongst ren that her nephew, Zorquus, prince of Ceragoth, wil reign hencefor ‘ward in Uruldaroum, and his oo, Pharapha, ater him, But these are matters which concern me lee, fr I doubr me chit ever shal | lve to see them come to pass. “This very eve did I raise Chanadis from the shadows, even ‘Charade che Daemon of Time, 0 whom the ages past and ages yet ro come ure as on, for such is che fulles of che vision of Charnadis And from the diemen did | inguite afer the manaer of ray demise, and from the lps of Chareadis did I lear tha eelong and inthe frst yer of the empety of Zorquus stall journey hence into chat wast and mysterious Enigma the which lie beyond Deaths black and inelucable gates. Bu ere sine eyes grow dim and my hand lseth his cunning, have 1 se down, in words however curiory and unequal co _he tie of ikon Acorn eo Cyan of Varad 8 task, this poor account of che life and times of the Master Ebon, a his name shall noe be forgoeten on the lips of men, “aad into the hands of mine ot pupil, Alabbac, shal { deliver ince hour of my death this very Bas of Eibo hic Ihave at length in in the fllnes of time compiled from amongst his scrolls and ar ptares, 0 thatthe wisdom of Eibon may survive my cime to the nightenmeat of generations yet unbora. This is as my master would have witheds and so 1 discharge my crust co him, vn rend he Lil fiona ye of a HHS ant nto scorn she or hs tel te sch sped on oe, Hoo Ko ae eda of Kg Php nthe ead a tga ofthe trnaan of Tenn he ich ae eel woe wit omic own des shen at fry last hour death nigh, s0 that this lore and wisdom shall not be This true and veritable copy ofthe Beal of Eibw was set down in nine own hand in the sixteenth year of che reign of King Rhastazoul, the fourth monatch of the Ceragothie Dynasty to hold the cone of UUnuldagourn, the which was even che one hundsedth year since the sanishment from this Each of che grea sorcerer Eibon. In this same eat was the Coming of the Great Ice whereby was the province of ‘Mhu-Thulan whelmed under the eteraal sows und thereby rendered forever usinhabitable by men. #» The Book of ion About “Bibon Saich” Mie re ois atte cage he aig ems of thoughe spun out by che grt thinkers. Ancient pilomphers and sages were many of them noes systematic their shaking chan thei ‘modern heir, a witness Place and Anstole- But a numer of the ancients saw thac they could communicive bee by meas oF aphorams ined ike rows ingot Bad conciences and befuddled consciousness oftheir com remporaies, Like the Hatidie mises of East European Jewry, sages and sophats like Diogenes of Sinope and Socrates were best enghned in the [Eee of aupibpmate, andres, o¢ pronouncement sons (ls clled ‘dna) These were bce tore supplying just enough athe way of sein, and characcers coset the readesTbemer op forthe punch line: ari bewee-the-eyes saying Irom the Maser. Thimight bea proverb o joke, in any cas, woul Be memorable and bie could, = pronouncement story woul be ony a pronouncement, not ato but sometimes he rcke ee launch pad “There are many, may cetins of uch applesate she word ove. The gospels concin many Diogenes Laertis relied upon them for hi tock in eae in his Lis of Eminent Philp, There were many making the rounds, beau in the Hellenic age, stadens eet wee commonly ‘euigntd to show how well hey understood a gure ike Socrates by mak Ing up anecdotes 1 depict hin sang what one would expert Soca £0 say oa given question, in a partial hypotheil situation, Thus we can soe tellin. many coses which fany such anecdotes actualy go back 9 he sage whowe name hey bea, even when chey see 60 ing tue 1 have hee adopted the technique of Diogecs Laci who summa ised what be could of the life of each thinker he chronicle, an then sopeaded lst of apophehepme to bring the Figure to lie Fr the reader Lin Carter Cyon of Vara hs told us the if of is master Eibor have erly appended some ofthe great mages pearls of wisdom, Iwill not Fe he fact ha Eibon of Mh Thulin, athe spoke to me, parakes more than lle of Diogenes of Sinope the Gy, of Jess 8 we ent hin sn the Sf sayings tadton, and of Nitache'sZarchustes, He who hse, Jee him hee Eibon Saith; or, The Apophthegmata of Eibon by Robe M. Price When asked why he preferred the company af demons 0 that of men, Bibon relied, “Because demoas are noc hypocrites 2, Once when Morghi the Inquisitor accosted Fibon the mage in che marketplace, saying, “O Bion, how long. wile chow worship false ods” hei sad co have replied, “Until someone showeth me a true tne €0 worship.” 3. One of his disciples asked him why a wizard must never take @ ‘ve, Fibon said co him, "For a wizard mast needs silence the demons, anda wife can no man silence, 4. ceca ich span suid unto Eibon, “O mage, what profteth chee thy learning, when thou hase no possessions from ie” Eiboa nswered, saying, “He who knows che world owns the world 5. A devil mocked the sorcerer Eibon, saying, "O mowal, iif is chy loe or thy knowledge can never make che aughe but mortal!” But Eibon answered him, "Iam not the wapour the strains cil he sky is lose: rather, am che empey jar chat serketh but tobe filled 6. A youth came and sti to him, "Eibon of Mh Thalan, mea say ‘how at very evil" The magus smiled upon hie and answered, “I is ha they lack the word fra greater good. 7. One day Fibon sue ceaching his disciples of the ways of magic, say- ing, "Suppose I say unto you, the sum of wo and evo ischree, Would ‘ny of you believe ie? Rightly not.” He shen tk in his hand a ball of zn, "Now if ell you the sum of two and wo is three and L make the bal co vanish—" and here, before all thee eyes, ehe ball did van- Ish what have ‘And one ventured, "My lord, chou hase proven that che sum of us proven” ‘mo and oma is indeed three!”Nay" sal Eibort, "Ihave bue proven shat Lar able go mae che bull to vanish, and nothing more 8. bon of Mu ‘Thulan was sad 10 be expert in the arts of eceo rmancy They say how once he held converse with « mummy many centuries ded. The mummy ssid to him,“ sill knowest chy joys.” But Eibon answered, “And | eney the, for chee, for that eho that thy soreows ar all behind thee. 9. In elder times the land did suffer enuch on acount ofthe ill-will becween the wizards who little eusted one another, and each did begrudge his fellow his own secrets. When asked why he stood aloof From such fusing, Ebon answered, "My quarel is with ignorance, ot with ee Sgnorant 10, A fesfal man besoughe che age Eibon eo give him some eli: rman ro procect him against demon possession, But Eibon ssid, “O ian, ae devils geeatr fools than men, chat they sould see to pos. sess chat which bath no value? 11, One day asthe sorcerer Eibon made his way through the coun ceyside, sain did spcak co him with che voice of a man, saying, Have mercy, gentle Eibon! 1 am in eeuth Beli and. wech hath impesoned me in the body oa swine!” Whereupon lon did ansver, "Rather, O pig, | should say che cone did but reszoe thy tue four, Feecing thee from che fale seeming ofa man. oth the merchaar, 2, OFall che disciples of Fon, one Found it harder than the rest xo comprehend the magical precepts, sth himself. One day, in chae discipl’s absence, the others gathered round their master and asked him, “Lord Eibun, wherefore bearst ‘hou with such obeusenes?” And he dil ebuke them, saying, "For Jn another lie, | am he oft had the mage to repeat 13. A droughe wasted ee land, and many died, both men and beasts ‘And most of che villagers looked! unto Eibon's tower and sid ic wat ‘even his doing, Reporting these things to him, his servant asked why his master sought co vindicate himself He answered, "For it bette char men should blame than chat they should despa |. bon suit, “Ifthe Lord of the world oller thee the world wich the sight hand and knowledge wth the let, choose knowledge, foe the woed not known is wan, (rhe offer tice everlasting life with che right hand and know ccige with the let, choose knowledge; for better ist co know oneself Lying than ro ive forever heeds.” 15. A comely succubus appeared unto Eibon and soushe co cempc tim, wooing bien with honeyed tones: "Come and rake me, O Fibon, foram I not delightsome” Eibon looked up from his scrolls, saying, ‘Nay, bue | should say thow are dhe most exceedingly wretched among creatures, for that, being bur the semblance of flesh, thow hase nonetheless & carnal mind, fareking the blessings boch ck sh, hich chou ate not, and of spirit, whieh thow art.” 6, Some approached Eibon, having been warned by che Sybil cae all ‘of Hypetborea should one day fall prey o the eveping ice, “Whither Shall we ee, © Eibon?” He answered them, "What, chink ye theres tome sountry wherein che Grim Reaper shall et fia man a ast? 7. When asked whar advantage he found in serving Zhothaqquah the sleeping god Eiboa replied, “Rather would [believe in a god chat sleepeth than that éhe swale of che world should be the wll of @ svaking providence 18, Once Eibon se inthe drinking-house when one began co cau niace the Voormis and to urge war be made againse cher ‘Whereupon quoth Eibon, “Wherefore? Whar evil have they done thee, © man?” “The man smote the table and answered, "They ae lice more chan beasts, with thee shamllinggaie and shagey pels And Eibon laughed, saying, “Just yesterday I sat among the \oormis, and much sport did chey make of you men, pebald and lep 12 a you seem to therm” 19, bon saith, “Becter to die from ignorance than 10 Kil rom 20, When asked why he kepe no slaves, he replieg, “Por the spire Dithin man isa wild beast, and if one spend al his cime eaming a best, he hath no ine lef side che beast.”