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”
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!
“Obsessions with the Undead; a fascination with Vampires; these are the things We can expect all throughout the 21st Century. Futurist Darksiders continue to grow in numbers, particularly in the denser metropolitan areas…” explains Joshua Free in the Mardukite CyberVamps anthology VAMPYRE MAGICK, which includes the books “Vampyre’s Bible” and “Cybernomicon” in one volume!
Now, in the 21st Century, Creatures of Night remain bonded through a chain of books, films and music. Having no authoritarian system in place, no “large public secret societies” to destroy individualism of this path, the GothVamp and CyberVamp lifestyle still remains one loosely connected to Gothic, Occult or Dark Media. Except now… there is a lot more to choose from.
DARKSIDER conditions of the “VWZ” (vampire-werewolf-zombie) variety all involve a divergence in perception, awareness, and consciousness from the societal norm—which is to say what is experienced by at least 33% of the population. Understanding magic requires a magical mind—one that is able to step outside, even if just for a moment, and experience what it means to operate as “more than human.”
Whether under the guise of Undead Zombie Ravers or Vampyric Occultists, recent shifts in “Gothic” and “Vampyre” subcultures proves how dynamic the Underground really is in keeping relevant with the times – and how successful they’ve become at pushing it up into the mainstream media Realm. CyberVamps emerged out of a futurist need to evolve genres of fantasy and history, theory and practice to sustain the times. It seems to fit the NexGen far more than outdated styles of bikers, clowns and “post-punk punk” punks.
Our world is now the realm of a new elite; the hackers, neuroengineers, nanotechnicians, cybernetics developers all have the upper-hand on some of the kinds of magic that will be employed in the future. The goal seems to be elimination of “processing,” a form of NewSpeak that will effectively remove “language” and the “interpretation of symbols” and simply link straight to the brains direct processes.
CREATURES OF NIGHT other than Vampyres are experiencing a modern paradigm shift in global consciousness too. In a world already rampant with EDM and EBM, Dark Electro-Industrial performing artist and musician, “Zombie Girl” brings something uniquely revolutionary to the Community – “EZM” – Electronic Zombie Music! …and now, with recent success of television series “iZombie,” yet again, the Realm demonstrates just how beautiful Death can be for an i-Generation.
It is no stretch of imagination that electrical impulses or other devices can be used to trigger sectors and receptors of the brain—inducing specific emotional responses; generating chemical motion of peptides, neurotransmitters, amino acids, hormones—all of which generate an EMF of their own. So, there are many variable beneath the surface; but, the one “variable” that seems unchanging, even as we approach an age of very possible zombie apocalypse and artificial intelligence gone astray—is that humans really want to be able to manipulate and control each other. After examining thousands of years of esoterica in our mardukite archives, and this dirty word—CONTROL—seems to be the god that everyone is really worshiping.
We already have a mass-conditioned society—that is a very integral part of civilization dynamics. As the system evolves and becomes more complex, larger encompassing methods are employed to maintain order in a system that is only increasingly more unstable the more complex it becomes. Programming the “human condition” is a practice of “artificial stimulation” by definition—except now, instead of symbolism and psychological conditioning, technology is being used for biological stimulation; going after the physiological-behavioral directly with chemical stimulation.
DISCOVER HOW these processes are being implemented and how-to maintain your SELF in the wake of changing times with books by Joshua Free including the VAMPYRE MAGICK anthology and other NexGen titles in the “systemological series” such as AWAKENING: SYSTEMOLOGY-101 and its companion REALITY ENGINEERING, both available from the Mardukite Truth Seeker Press.
LISTEN TO the latest CyberVamps Music Mixes including this year’s “ONE NIGHT IN BABYLON” with DJ Nabu and DJ Kyra Kaos, celebrating two years of “CyberVamps,” launched with the “UNDEAD” mix from 2015.
“If we truly examine what the Kabbalah represents: the entire orchestra of existence, the bands and rays of light and life that intertwine to cause manifestation, are all illustrated as separation or ‘fragmentation’ from the Source – even though they remain connected to it. They are perceived as being a continuous unfolding or expansion of the first cause or first move or first form, which the Sumerians actually identified as a dragon. Where the Hebrew and Judeo-Christian tradition speaks of the “primordial sea” and the “separation” of this sea to bring forth life, the more antiquated tablets from Mesopotamia fully describe the same event as the birth of the first-form dragon TIAMAT out of the ooze of the ‘primordial Abyss’ (ABSU) that initially occupied all existence before being separated into forms.“ —Joshua Free in ENOCHIAN MAGIC & KABBALAH
Once the method or ‘pattern’ for life had taken place with Tiamat, the “Enuma Elis” tablet series (see the NECRONOMICON ANUNNAKI BIBLE) describes a host of creatures of varying types being ‘spawned’ by the dragon, who is also identified as the All-Mother of the fragmented identity-bodies of the same beings later given in lore as gods,
angels, messengers, watchers and otherwise: “Anunnaki.” Since TIAMAT, the genetic ‘coil’ (DNA) that programs the pattern into life-existence has been referred to as the ‘serpent coil’ by mystics; the snake coiled around the Tree of Life.
Prior to the Fall or the “disposal of humanity” (via the Flood or some other calamity), there was a mass ‘exodus’ of the gods and other angelic (Anunnaki or Igigi) beings; a period where the ‘highest beings’ withdraw from this existence so as not to become confined to its more condensed 3-D reality. By remaining outside the ‘system’ (so-to-speak), they could be allowed access to it by a ‘higher order’ and thus be able to later more directly interact with it again by incarnating into appropriate genetic vehicles – so that they might appear as gods and angels to the later post-diluvial humans, which they successfully did and out oldest available literature is overflowing with such renderings.
( Illustration originally appeared in systemology handbook : “Reality Engineering” by Joshua Free )
It is during this ‘shift’ in consciousness on the planet (and the local universe) that we also see a ‘division’ or polarity of “power” begin to swell up – some pendulum movement of the cosmos that forces the illusion of 3-D movement in an otherwise entangled existence.
Now we witness the rise of the “Dark Brotherhood,” beings which preferred to ‘master’ this existence from inside, rather than withdraw into ‘higher orders’. In the fractured and fragmented material existence, the crystalline nature of lights and shadows could be easily manipulated.
The diverse array of currents and energies that formed the fabric of the screen and the lights that displayed
thereupon could all be manipulated to change the nature of reality – and so they did.
In the truest nature of reality, that which exists apart from the fragmentation of the ‘zones’ of manifested existence, you see a very static and amoral force that is raw and primordial, all-encompassing and all-present in the heart of all existences that were ever energetically ‘separated’ from this Source.
This is essentially what is being described in the Mesopotamian accounts that relay information about a time before even the Anunnaki existed and before they fashioned a physical existence to occupy – possibly even to get away and remove themselves from these chaotic primordial forces and into a different existence. Thus, we now have the manifested expanding pattern-programmed universe around us!
Discover even more about angels, aliens and UFOs in the history of human experience with Divine encounters in the new Fifth Anniversary Second Edition of ENOCHIAN MAGIC & KABBALAH (Liber-K) by Joshua Free.
“Most classifications of the ‘Otherworld’ include both an ‘overworld’ and ‘underworld’ that exists ‘outside’ or ‘beyond’ the confined parameters or ‘perceived reality’ capable to humans. It is for this reason only that it is considered ‘other’…“ —Joshua Free in NECRONOMICON GRIMOIRE (anthology)
The OTHER is not separate ‘matter’ in the sense of what most people envision as dimensions or “physical” layers. The veils as we perceive them simply represent filters that keep us from experiencing the All-as-One for the benefit of an individualized existence.
These “fragmented” veils do, however, have some ‘attributes‘ whereby they were acknowledged or defined in awareness as being separate in the first place. In the original division of ‘control’ or ‘authority’ in the universe was between four distinct parts:
1.) Heights – in the heavens 2.) Air-Space – the airs 3.) Depths – physical earth 4.) Underworld – in the deep
The only materially visible realm in this list (for the sake of ‘human perception’) is the Depths which humans interact with as the ‘physical’, condensed, reality around them.
Notice that the Depths are also home to the “Underworld”, which is also divided in a visible and invisible dualism: the “underground” that is physical beneath the ‘surface’ world and the “Underworld” proper, which connects the ‘Other’ with the ABYSS…
One commonly overlooked facet is that the ‘all-encompassing’ All-as-One entangled and interconnected aspect of the universe can be found within and as all existences and perceptions of existence. This means that the ‘Other’ is directly connected (by some realization) to all ‘perceived levels’ and all ‘sentient intelligence’ in the universe; whether it be in the Heights or Depths or in the between – it is there.
On the initial pathworking via the LADDER OF LIGHTS, the self-honest initiate is exposed to a battery of ‘tests’ or ‘rays’ involving energetic currents…
These currents are likewise akin to specific color ‘frequencies‘, celestial bodies (planets) and notes of music (among others) that esoteric priests and magicians have worked to ‘correspond’ to them after adopting the original archetypal (ancient religious) magic systems from Mesopotamia – and specifically ERIDU (by way of ENKI, MARDUK and finally NABU).
Emotional stimulus of the ‘Underworld Initiation’ is very similar – though the ‘lights‘ and ‘colors‘ are all but washed out completely and the Observer is left with bleak and abysmal visions if they are unprepared. “Fear” neural-chemicals will distort the reception of these experiences – a typical concern for all non-adepts who venture into these advanced efforts.
“Those of us who are drawn to the quest are those of us who are propelled by ‘personal demons’, and they must be met or materialized. For, after the ‘personal demons’ have been mastered, other ‘demons’ await – The Gods of the Other Side, the Ancient Ones.” – Simon
NECRONOMICON GRIMOIRE A Magical Workbook of the Sumerian Anunnaki in Mesopotamian Religion and the Babylonian Magical Tradition
an anthology edited by Joshua Free
A master compilation of mystical exploration into the heart of the ancient Mesopotamian Mysteries, this complete practical companion to the Mardukite “Necronomicon Anunnaki Cycle” illuminates the revolutionary teachings and source materials of the Modern Sumerian-Babylonian-Anunnaki Tradition of the Mardukite Chamberlains (Ordo Nabu Maerdechai), edited by Joshua Free, the presiding Nabu of the organization since its inception.
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 