Hi everyone
I was wondering if it is better to perform a Fifty Names of Marduk rite more than once to increase the energy level of the working and improve focus.
Any input welcome.
Many thanks
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Depends on your intention and reason for repeating, in any ritual.
if you are repeating this as part of the ritual design to build the energy incrementally, but confidently, there’s no issue with this.
If you’re repeating it from a sense that the ritual is inadequate or some fear of lack in execution, the universe will hear that and more lack is what you’ll manifest.
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I cant figure out how to post this question, so I’m stapling it here as it relates to the necronomicon. The ritual of the walking asks for an Invocation of the god and goddess every day of the full moon, what are these invocations? I don’t see one in the book for this purpose
Invocation means inviting the spirit into your being so that you take on their traits and in some sense become them. It was very popular in Egyptian magick, and the pyramid texts explain how to use invocation to pass the tests of the afterlife.
It’s not a specific ritual unique to Lovecraft or the various necronomicons inspired by his universe.
We have a tut here on how to invoke:
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I appreciate your answer, I was more wondering what god and goddess I’m supposed to invoke for this ritual particularly, it just says “invoke thy God in the dawn of the morning and thy goddess is the dusk” I haven’t found any such goddess or God in the book, and no specific invocation for it, can it be any god and goddess of my choosing?
Which “Necronomicon” are you talking about? There’s about five of them and each one is different.
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Sounds like you might as well do what you feel is best. As DarkestKnight mentions, it would be helpful to know which book you mean but I might not have a copy to look at. Someone here might though.
What are you trying to do with your ritual?
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Is it the Simon Necronomicon? Looks like this
What page are you on?
Edit: Nevermind, I found the quote. It is the Simon Necronomicon. I’ll look through and see what I find.
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It’s the Simon necronomicon, the exact one you’ve pictured
I wasn’t aware until now that there was multiple iterations of this book, good to know, might have to go through the others and see if there’s common denominators
The ritual of the walking is to start on the ladder of lights, to open the gates of the elder gods and thus be able to summon them for further workings
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That’s the direction I was leaning from what I was seeing but I looking around for confirmation. On page 89 in the binding of evil sorcerers it a line reads “My God and my Goddess cry over me.” Here to it doesn’t name them either so another point for it being your choice.
Then I looked through The Gates of The Necronomicon by Simon. It is basically a commentary on the gate walking process, and probably what I should have checked first. On page 173 it has commentary on what the significance of the god and goddess were and concludes with this
So it is definitely up to you
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So it’s basically a meet and greet? You get the first contact out of the way, and once you have that energy signature locked in, it’s easier to get hold of them for other rituals? Ok cool.
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I have very little experience when it aligns to working with any of the 50 entities in the necronomicon. An older gentleman at a spiritual store near my neighborhood downplayed it by saying “That was just made by a bunch of college students with no life those sigils don’t actually work.” I replied back by saying “With energy and intention I would assume it works.” He just brushed me off and rushed me out of the store.
Is this the case? Was he right about it or was he just in one of those moods?
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Sorry @Dinetico I didn’t see your post at the time.
I believe you are correct. The sigils are tools, and anyone who knows how to use a tool can make it work, and apply the right tool for the right job. So if a certain old gentleman doesn’t know how to use a tool, that is not the tool’s fault. 
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No problem at all! Thank you for the reply. I had the same thought. The sigils worked out for me so I figured the older gentleman was being a bit pretentious at the moment so I let it be.
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The book itself is just a mishmash of Sumerian made up things with a bit of historical stuff thrown in. A lot of people were upset after they got it in the 70s because it has almost nothing to do with Love craft’s mythos. I bought it when it was still very new. Not having the internet it was hard at the time to figure out what books actually had in them without buying and reading them.
That being said, yes it does work. As you and others have mentioned it all depends on the magick user and their ability.
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I have the spellbook with the 72 Names of Marduk, and I noticed something familiar. In the book Lucifer and the Hidden Demons, it advises you to petition the other demons and to not really bug Lucifer unless it’s really crucial…well in the Marduk book, it practically says the same thing. It says only approach Marduk as a last resort or the spirits in the book won’t work for you anymore.
Just a thought. 
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Greetings,
I am using the Necronomicon paperback grimoire. Should I be wary of negative rebounds? Shouldn’t that be taken care of by the banishing rites?
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Which Necronomicon - the Simon Necronomicon?
It depends what you’re doing. All baneful magick risks backlash.
If you are attacking people, and they successfully protects themselves with, in a way that reverses the magick on you, like, having ancestors or shields, then you automatically made yourself a target by being the source. So yes you should set up protections.
It’s a different thing. Banishing clears your area of unwanted energy and entities attracted to the working that you maybe didn’t expect, and/or don’t want hanging around.
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