The classic occult text from the 1990’s New Age underground returns, revised and reissued, by Joshua Free, first writing as Merlyn Stone, in this special 21st anniversary collector’s edition hardcover of:
…setting the stage, in 1998, for Joshua Free’s future inception of the modern Mardukite movement, Mardukite Druid School and the NexGen Systemological Society!
A “sorcerer” seeks to unlock the secrets of the Universe, questioning human-fashioned truths of the “world” to transcend the animalistic nature of homo ferox—literally “man, the ferocious” as coined in T.H. White’s “Book of Merlyn.” The sorcerer may essentially do and become anything. It is this removal of trust and attention from abstract deities and concepts, placing it rightfully with “Self” that allows such an actualized being to be potentially the most powerful “system” functioning on the planet… and potentially the most dangerous.
“In 1995, the world was not ready for Mardukites. I worked within the paradigms that were much more accessible and did not require a lot of “background”—ritual magick, spellcraft, high psychology and even ceremonial systems.” –Joshua Free
From 1995 through 1999, Joshua Free assisted in producing not only several ritual collections—or “Book of Shadows”—for practicing underground groups, but also his own operating and experimental social circles, teaching workshops and lectures in local Denver-area New Age outlets and bookstores.
One of the popular workbook companions Joshua Free developed for his course on practical magick later expanded into the infamous Sorcerer’s Handbook by Merlyn Stone.
Simultaneously revolutionary and introductory in its delivery, SORCERER’S HANDBOOK—and early works such as THE DRUID’S HANDBOOK and DRACONOMICON—served as inspirational precursors to materials he later developed more thoroughly in order to establish the “Mardukite” brand of occult interpretation, including ELVENOMICON (formerly titled ‘Book of Elven-Faerie’), ARCANUM and remaining volumes of the ‘Mardukite Core’—such as NECRONOMICON: THE ANUNNAKI BIBLE and even the underground secret development of NexGen Systemology. It is due to the wider circulation of his more recently developed work that interests revived regarding early contributions and distant origins.
Over two decades after the fact, the Joshua Free Publishing Imprint am pleased to present these
works for returning fans and the next generation in a format prestigious enough to give true commemoration to the legacy of the SORCERER’S HANDBOOK OF MERLYN STONE—incorporating elements from all editions since produced, public and private—the end result: a collected works anthology of all surviving “Merlyn Stone” materials beyond even those restricted to the original Sorcerer’s Handbook proper—making this perhaps the finest edition of the Handbook ever to be released.
Archival YouTube Mardukite Course based on Sorcerer’s Handbook!
Archival YouTube Biographical Video on “Merlyn Stone”
Earliest attempts at understanding ancient Mesopotamia were made by “Assyriologists” of the late 19th and 20th century. These included: E.A. Budge, Edward Chiera, L.W. King, S.L. Noah Kramer, Franqois Lenormant, R.C. Thompson and L.A. Waddell among others. Their renderings have already received long-standing public attention for those who sought it. The variegated cultural influences and often violent history of Babylonia left a confusion of names, titles and images–all of which required over a century to flush out to any practical ends, by scholars and mystics alike.
Origins for the scientific field-name of “Assyriology” are derived from French excavations at the city ruins of Khorsabad, Nimrud, Nineveh, Sippar and Lagash (Telloh) in the 1840’s. However, a true scientific pursuit was ignited when the royal library archives of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal were discovered. Thousands of clues, in the form of cuneiform tablet writings, illuminated a prehistoric legacy formerly thought of as completely forgotten and never again salvageable.
Then, in the 1880’s, German archaeologists unearthed Babylon…
In 2008, a revolutionary esoteric underground organization known as the “Mardukites” appeared, publicly visible, and a completely new breed of next generation “Esoteric Assyriologists” emerged on the scene—one that would not blindly accept the given data from their predecessors—at least not at face value.
The Mardukite Core – (Necronomicon Version)
For over a decade this diversely organized research group sought out the most ancient writings rendered on clay tablets from Babylonia—now available to the public as a complete collection in Joshua Free’s “Necronomicon: The Anunnaki Bible” (also released in paperback as “The Complete Anunnaki Bible”). These writings demonstrate an integral link directly between our origins and the remaining evolution of human civilization. Our chosen method and the resulting clarity revealed concerning the identity, nature and progression of this incredible subject matter show undeniable superiority to what was previously available. But, that is what we call progress
(much needed for this field).
The Mardukite approach to reconstructing the Babylonian vision begins with first revealing the incredible misnomer that the field of study has endured far too long, for essentially, the applicable term “Assyriology” is a lie. It is not even semantically correct for our current pursuits of analysis using the same physical evidences brought to light by late 19th and early 20th century archeology. The name questionably applies to the field at all! And although some early scholars acknowledge this grave misrepresentation of the science, it has as yet gone unchallenged in contemporary academics.
George G. Cameron explains in his foreword to Edward Chiera’s “They Wrote on Clay” (1938):
“Few there are indeed who know that the name of our science, ‘Assyriology’ is based on an accident—the fact that the first large group of texts ever discovered were written in Assyrian. Assyrian itself is but one dialect.”
Misapplication arises with use of the term to denote study of any and all ancient cuneiform-using cultures. Mardukites do not propagate this blatant disregard for the political and spiritual history of Mesopotamia. Although cuneiform-literate and sharing a similar “Anunnaki” tradition, the Assyrians were actually northwestern foreigners to Babylon. The two are not
the same.
True esoteric analysis or mystical application is absent from the earliest academic-archaeological pursuits. These efforts mainly emphasized the recovery and accumulation of translatable materials, much of which are not yet coherently transliterated into English language even a century after their discovery. Most materials readily available to seekers during the pre-mardukite era of research and development are severely fragmented, confounding itself in the information relay.
In spite of the best (or worst) human efforts across time, the Truth has survived to remind us of our origins, to instruct us on where we have to go and perhaps, most importantly, the standards we should live by to get there. Mere survival of Secret Doctrines by select cabals is not enough. For as the world was once plummeted into Dark Ages only to be reincarnated in an Age of Enlightenment, the “esoteric” truth did not resurface in public “exoteric” consciousness—in fact, it went the other direction: underground and into vaults of obscure “occult” factions…
We are entering the second active decade since the public modern Mardukite inception—ten years have now passed by since materials from the “Mardukite Core” started circulating privately among the Mardukite Research Organization (Mardukite Chamberlains). Anthology volumes comprising this comprehensive “core” esoteric research library are now available from the new Joshua Free Publishing Imprint as a 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Hardcover Trilogy—including original source book, NECRONOMICON: THE ANUNNAKI BIBLE, its companion GATES OF THE NECRONOMICON: THE SECRET ANUNNAKI TRADITION OF BABYLON and the concluding volume (release: May 30 2019) as NECRONOMICON-THE ANUNNAKI GRIMOIRE: A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL BABYLONIAN MAGICK.
The complete “Mardukite Core” library collection is a revolutionary “New Age” advancement in authentic historical, spiritual and mystical research drawn from a unique unparalleled combination of archeological findings and esoteric mystical-magical traditions. A wellsprings of hidden information and cuneiform tablet translations awaits the seeker—drawn from ancient folds of forgotten lore: Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Egyptian, Yezidic, Zoroastrian and more. A holistic research-intensive path, rooted in the heart and soul of humanity in Mesopotamia, is laid out clearly for the “Truth Seeker” to see—in its pure and undefiled state.
In the midst of this, now in the 21st century, the “Mardukites” are a very real modern philosophical and meta-spiritual “New Thought” movement aligned specifically with the Anunnaki paradigm (sometimes equated to “Mesopotamian Neopaganism”).
In ancient Babylon, this was famously founded upon the followers of Marduk—recognized among the local pantheon as patron of Babylonian tradition and “King of the Gods” for this branch of the Mesopotamian mythos with special assistance by the Nabu priesthood of “Mardukite” scribes…
“Yet—maps are not the journey—and while many are called; few are chosen. This path, although marked in signs and beacons, is not clearly or widely tread. This pure undefiled Self-Honest journey to the Source is not a path of the masses—and even those esoterically-inclined have many times retreated from its fundamentals and antiquated semantics, returning to more familiar veils and shadows run rampant throughout modern “New Age” movements.”
NECRONOMICON : THE ANUNNAKI BIBLE Collector’s Edition – Hardcover
edited by Joshua Free Complete Year-1 Liber-N,L,G,9,W+M+S
10TH ANNIVERSARY
A masterpiece of Mesopotamian history and spirituality, providing a complete Sumerian & Babylonian tablet collection in one volume, composing in itself — a ‘bible’ — the predecessor and basis of civilization and religion thereafter. Join thousands of others who have discovered this amazing NexGen resource! Newcomer? Wondering where to start? The ‘Mardukite Core’ begins with this book.
Also available in an abridged paperback as: NECRONOMICON:
THE ANUNNAKI BIBLE (Abridged Pocket Edition)
edited by Joshua Free
10th Anniversary Edition
Global Release: April 30, 2019
An alternate edition portable abridged paperback of the original amazing underground source book of esoteric archaeology!
GATES OF THE NECRONOMICON :
THE SECRET ANUNNAKI TRADITION OF BABYLON Collector’s Edition – Hardcover
edited by Joshua Free Complete Year-2 Liber-50,51/52,R+555
10TH ANNIVERSARY
Sumerian secrets and Mesopotamian mysteries are revealed in the first complete guide to to Babylonian “Mardukite” tradition. An anthology of arcane history, mystical theory and esoteric practices spanning thousands of years. Contains four discourses released as: “The Sumerian Legacy” (formerly “Sumerian Religion”), “Sumerian Traditions” (formerly “Babylonian Myth & Magic”), “Necronomicon Revelations” and “Crossing to the Abyss.” The definitive follow-up companion to the Necronomicon: The Anunnaki Bible.
NECRONOMICON – THE ANUNNAKI GRIMOIRE:
A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL BABYLONIAN MAGICK Collector’s Edition – Hardcover
edited by Joshua Free Complete Year-3 Liber-E,W/Z,M+K
10TH ANNIVERSARY
Raw Power. Real Magic. Primordial. Nearly Forgotten… The path of true Babylonian magic is a spiritual dedication to the Sumerian Anunnaki, a path once seemingly inaccessible–beyond our reach and understanding. Rediscover the most ancient magical system on earth, secretly recorded on cuneiform tablets thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia… Includes revised and rewritten materials from “Magan Magic–the Enuma Elish, ” “The Complete Book of Marduk by Nabu,” “The Maqlu Ritual Book” and “Enochian Magic & the Kabbalah.” The final volume of the Mardukite Core “Necronomicon Trilogy” series.
A full year before the word “Anunnaki”— and even the concept of “Ancient Aliens”—really became a household term, a young prodigious mystic, Joshua Free, publicly launched his vision for the modern Mardukite “New Thought” paradigm of esoteric research and experimentation on the Summer Solstice of 2008, coinciding with underground releases of two occult publications—“Arcanum: The Great Magical Arcanum” and “Book of Elven-Faerie: Secrets of the Druids.” For the first year of development, these were the only real “Mardukite” volumes on the shelves of our newly founded “Mardukite Truth Seeker Press”—what’s more: in the beginning, the only existing significant “New Age” interpretation of ancient “Babylonian Anunnaki Mardukite Tradition” at our disposal was none other than Simon’s popular bastardized Mesopotamian-inspired “Necronomicon.”
THEN SOMETHING INCREDIBLE HAPPENED!
At the first Akiti/Akitu Babylonian New Year Summit on March 21, 2009, an esoteric research and experiment team began banding together—a group often referred to now as the “Mardukite Research Organization,” but then exclusively calling itself “Mardukite Chamberlains,” those ushering in a new global consciousness shift emphasizing “establishment of the Anunnaki” paradigm.
Joshua Free, elected as “Director” of the new research organization, gathered together with various esoteric practitioners, academic and archaeological seekers to ignite a modern spiritual movement rooted in—and revitalizing—Mesopotamian archetypes of the Anunnaki pantheon using the specific systemology established in ancient Babylon in dedication to Marduk and Nabu. Using a combination of rituals, ceremonies and meditations drawn from numerous sources, the “Mardukite Chamberlains” incited a shift in global collective consciousness by conducting synchronized personal workings and rituals by up-and-coming “Mardukite Truth Seekers” at all points around the world grid—the infamous Global 2009 Marduk Star-Gate Opening Ritual!
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT ???
On Beltane 2009, the collective focused energy drawn toward the experiments conducted at the Mardukite Offices resulted in the compilation and production of the definitive source book and materials that have since gone on to spur the entire modern “Mardukite” movement—but, specifically the definitive source book available today in numerous formats and editions brought forward from the underground by Joshua Free as:—
The remaining events throughout 2009 and thereafter were unlike anything others were expecting from our smallish operation—a complete revitalization of the Anunnaki paradigm and semantics all over the world, sparking hundreds of traditions around the world. The concept was soon popularized in film and audio media, television programs and throughout the internet—although the original Mardukites seemed to become “black sheep” amidst the greater growing movement, often attributed to inadequate marketing funds and the revolutionary “New Thought” ambitions of the founder, Joshua Free, who was later banned from Coast-to-Coast-AM and the History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” program for advocating a serious—real—practical approach to bringing this system meaningfully into our actual lives today, and of course, for even uttering the forbidden word “Necronomicon” in relation to these historical mysteries.
WHERE DID THIS LEAVE US TODAY?
The years immediately following the Mardukite inception were dedicated to the research and development of an experimental library of literature produced as the “Mardukite Core”—consisting, in addition to the infamous source book, “Necronomicon: The Anunnaki Bible,” of several discourses now available within the anthology:—
Coinciding with all of this is a special collection of materials developed exclusively for private use among the “Mardukite Chamberlains” and which could effectively be used by others all throughout the world thereafter to tap energies first unleashed into the modern world from the original observance of the Mardukite 2009 Global Beltane Gate Ritual Working, now preserved and refined in the most beautifully presented edition of the work to date in:—
The Mardukite Chamberlains will be hosting details for a 10th Annual observance of the Mardukite Global Beltane Gate Ritual Meditation Working—for many who have come to discover the legacy presented within the “Mardukite Core” since 2009, this will be the first time to participate in such an organized mass-consciousness intention-based movement of focused energy from your own remote location around the globe. Additional details will be provided in a blogpost on our sister-site mardukite.com.
ALSO AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME FOR AKITI-AKITU 2019
The first specially designed oracle system developed by the Mardukite Research Organization now has only TWO WEEKS REMAINING in its current Kickstarter Campaign as: The Anunnaki Tarot: Babylonian Oracle of Cosmic Wisdom by Joshua Free and Kyra Kaos. This limited edition set is only available until April 7, 2019 by those pledging/preordering from the campaign page. Take advantage of this incredible opportunity to invest in this amazing personal tool of spiritual technology that is sure to be a treasured part of your esoteric collection.
Conflict. . . Unrest. . .
On earth as it is in heaven. . .
At the precipice of a planetary evolution, the world ends.
It always does.
Global tensions rise to unprecedented heights with the passing of each day. The bright future once wrought for mankind grows dark for the race as a whole. To it: arcane philosophy failed; ageless religion failed; humanistic ideals failed; and every magic spell and scientific formulae furthers sealing mortal man in his own self-made systematic prison, driving the coffin nail home—a single-track to travel upon furthering our journey into the downward spiral sending a world into inevitability. . .
. . .apocalypse
And this is my hope for the world, shared from the depth of my soul and joined in the voices of many self-honest truth seekers who have seen for themselves. . . renewal!
The mystics know; the children know; even the birds know – the world is ending. Of course, this does not imply the blatant physical, material and totalitarian destruction of humans (so let us not employ the same scare tactics of every evangelizing preacher under the sun), it is instead the ending of a human world.
Recorded legends on ancient tablets point toward an era of renewal that will give way to the fabled Golden Age, a Brave New World—a true new age. But this is no new idea at all, rather it is something predicted by the main tenets of every true spiritual path throughout history, differentiated solely by semantics and appearing as varied as opinions from the Second Coming of Christ to the the cosmic collapse of the material universe by some rift in space-time or even dark matter and black holes.
You can label and interpret, even sugarcoat, what is happening any way you like—the simple fact remains: There is an undeniable feeling shared throughout the collective human consciousness that something is about to happen—that something is happening—and yet it all seems to endlessly cycle back and forth in some determined fragile balance.
So what are we to do?
While the bungled confusion of the world plagues the mind with anxiety demons and victimization tendencies, the answer couldn’t be simpler: we must provoke the end of the world, in this case, through a massive paradigm shift, meaning the necessary return of the true spirituality. By this, I mean the original stuff; untainted; undefiled through time by the analytical minds and personal truths of men corrupted into systems—fragmented from the whole; never the tween shall meet;
thank you, call back later. It may seem like nothing new; but no, this time it is different.
In the wake of this self-honest planetary need for a Great Awakening, and on the cusp of a true new age, many “cults” have risen in recent past, loosely termed “pagan.” Yet, in all of their once revolutionary efforts marked upon human consciousness, what they have to offer is often really only a “turn of the wheel,” simply providing a different container for the same content, proving to us once again that humanity has not evolved much since the days of antiquity.
Understand we are not here to tell you what to think, raising our “Mardukite literature” to some new authoritarian heights, but we are offering critical information and data correction for your noggin so that you might self-honestly think for yourself. The emphasis here on self is not merely some glorification of individualism or newfangled ego-worship, but an affirmation that if we really want to change the world, we had better clean up and change our self first.
When each
human being takes the responsibility to grasp the self-honest realizations of who they are and where they come from, what the world is and how it was made, of the stuff dreams and stars are made of, the universe and everything—when the experience of all these things can be done honestly from self, then the race will see an end to the current melancholy, heinous nonsense that is happening and has been happening for quite some time—a condition that is actually anathema to the survival of the very creatures that keep these things the way they are!
The premises we use to chart a new world are simple enough:
• Every human being has the potential and responsibility to experience life in self-honesty.
• Every human being has the right and freedom to demand this of their existence.
• Every human being has to embrace some universal oneness in order to live in harmony with itself as a race of brethren; with the Earth as a base of homestead; and with the universe as a matrix of existence. Only then can humans experience true unity with all life, the universe and everything!
This is our true and destined existence.
But what has kept man from achieving these ends? Why is it that the shortcomings of humanity throughout history seem to keep repeating recursively? Why has everything failed? As with all else, we find that the answer is again quite simple:
because humans are forgetful.
We forget easily; we are often sad; we suffer; we lose sight. To regain anything meaningful for the present and any hope for the future, we must remember what once was, and fortunately for us, an order of some of the earliest mystics thought of just that—so they created cuneiform-writing.
GATES OF THE NECRONOMICONorTHE SUMERIAN LEGACY, as with the remaining “cycle” of literature produced by the “Mardukites,” is sure to present to you ideas of “history” and “magic” in ways you have never seen, or maybe even imagined before. The tradition that it represents does not deal in rudimentary hierarchical grimoires or the application of general hermetic principles upon some historical ethnocentric tradition. The “Mardukite” work runs much deeper than even this. It presents The System—the archetypal system—that has formed the basis for every mystery tradition to later emerge.
In other words: if you can correctly understand the means and motives of the mysteries and religion of Babylon and Sumer, you will correctly be able to interpret “history” and “magic” as a whole—whatever these words may mean to you. You will become privy to the beauty of the original efforts that have mostly deteriorated with time, probably attaining its lowest evolutionary depths in Christian-controlled medieval Europe – or even in the practices of modern day Jews and Muslims who use religion to shroud political reasons for killing one another. Even more important perhaps, you will become aware of what really happened in ancient Babylon, and understand whether or not it really was the right way to execute Divine Order, and why.
Indeed—the focal point of the modern Mardukite movement has never been about bringing back the verbatim “Babylonian paradigm” one-to-one, because this would only be the “turn of the wheel” again, and we’ve already grown dizzy and tired by such ventures. This time, it’s all about fixing what went wrong, actually fixing the problem of systems, the root of all problems really, at the core. When every individual takes up the Sword of Truth against the world, executing the acid test of self-honesty on reality, then no doubt a new, better, upgraded aeon will really begin for mankind. This, we call: New Babylon!
To those who also feel called to pursue this with us, we say:
WELCOME HOME!
A “sorcerer” seeks to unlock the secrets of the Universe, questioning human-fashioned truths of the “world” to transcend the animalistic nature of homo ferox—literally “man, the ferocious” as coined in T.H. White’s “Book of Merlyn.” The sorcerer may essentially do and become anything. It is this removal of trust and attention from abstract deities and concepts, placing it rightfully with “Self” that allows such an actualized being to be potentially the most powerful “system” functioning on the planet… and potentially the most dangerous.
Over two decades after the fact, the Joshua Free Publishing Imprint am pleased to present these
Mardukite NecroGate 