Rating  - Intense and Straightforward
This is an excellent book with the basic information needed to perform and practice nocturnal magick
Rating - JUST BEAUTIFUL
WHAT A GREAT BOOK.
FOR A PERSON WHO DWELL IN THESE MYSTERIES,KONSTATINOS PUT ALL THE ANGLES INTO THE DARK SCIENCES.IF U A BEGINNING MAGI, THIS IS A MUST HAVE TO OPEN THE GATEWAY(ANUBIS) TO THE UNDERWORLD.TO ALL WHO IS BASHING THE BOOK EITHER U HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OR YOU JUST PLAIN SCARED. REMEMBER LIGHT COMES FROM DARKNESS. CHAOS!!!!!!
Rating  - Good on the darker aspects of conventional imagination
This book is good on the darker aspects of conventional imagination - what most people think the occult to be - but it misses the point.
Sure, drugs can be a shortcut behind the veil, but the experience isn't lasting, and is quite dangerous for a good percentage of the population, especially when undertaken alone.
This book is a lot of things - if you want to imagine occultism as being easy - like it is in the movies - ok, but this book in not for a serious occultist. They will find it laughable.
Rating  - Fun Transgressive Magic You Can Do At Home
Konstantinos certainly seems to have decided that goth atmosphere is more potent for him, personally, than the trappings of traditional magick. He makes some remarkable claims in this little personal grimoire, including powerful personal healing resulting from the techniques he suggests. I see no theoretical reason why this might not have happened, and big results often lead magicians to publish the strange stuff that they did to get there. That's what this seems to be, if Konstantinos is telling the truth.
The book consists of a series of exercises that draw on classic motifs of dangerous or evil occultism - drugs, demons, sex with corpses, etc. In each case we are taught how to imitate some of the atmosphere of those experiences in ways that are, relatively, safe and sane. Of course, the author takes pains to explain why these things are just edgy, not evil - and the instructions are careful to avoid harm.
An effort is made to present entirely new framing rituals, openings and closings that replace 'circle castings' or other temple openings. I think the author sacrifices the baby with the bathwater here, presenting things that are simply not as cool or useful as traditional rites.
Personally, I'm too much of a Lovecraft fan to take Necronomicon occultism at all seriously, though the author explores the idea of the Dream Grimoire nicely. Some time is spent in a simple overview of early 20th century german occultism, and a fairly cool electro-occult rite is offered.
If you dig the notion of the Black Arts, and already have a solid ritual system that you can work in, you might find some inspiration in the Nocturnicon.
Rating  - Shoveling the old B.S.
If rites,ritual,prayers,incantations,and suchlike actually had any power to"alter reality",everyone-and I do mean everyone-would have everything he/she wanted...The world would be filled with people whose health was great,whose cares were zero,and whose lives were wish fulfilment personified...
Take a look around you now,and with your eyes open...Where do you see such a world,populated by such people?YOU DON'T!
This book,and all of the others like it,are written so that the authors might profit,as well as the publishing houses...And if one is interested in "gothic"styled fiction(and that is fiction with a capital F)then "Nocturnicon"or any of the hundreds of other bogus grimories that are published yearly will suffice...if,on the other hand,you are looking for some sort of an UNREALISTIC panacea,something that will involve a few chants,some sweet smoke,and ,presto!,you have regained your health,or have won the lottery,or have found your"soul mate",then keep dreaming...
"Nocturnicon"presumes that you are weak-headed enough to believe that because you want something enough,and you have a strong imagination,and are willing to follow the directions in this book,you can actually "change"reality or bend it to your will...Now I will be the first to admit that changing reality is easy,in the commonsense aspect..Everyday we make choices,and these choices ,those made and those not made,constitute our reality...Certain things,however,will not be changed just because we want it so,or think that our will is strong enough to make it so...This book,and all of the others like it,tap into that audience out there who will not accept reality as it is,and instead presumes that he/she can change it to his/her will and design,if ONLY the proper spells are cast,if only the right "spirit"is called upon,if only the right incantations are uttered...If this is you,then buy this book..if,on the other hand,you understand that,despite what we may want,or even need,there are limitations to what we can do,and that many aspects of this world are just not amendable to the sort of changes we might wish...if this is you don't bother with this book...
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