Nyarlathotep is also known by the titles Faceless Blind Man, Inhabitant of Darkness, Howling in the Night.
The forbidden scriptures say that his earthly abode is the forest of N’gai.
But the colossal ancient forest of N’gai extends not in the earthly, but in the Dream World, however, with many of its places – edges, edges, clearings, thickets, etc. – it goes directly into our real world.
These locations of contact and transition between worlds exist all over the earth, scattered all over the globe, sometimes in the most unexpected places.
Most of all, they are known as “abnormal zones”, “cursed or unclean places”.
People and animals often disappear there without a trace, there are places of ancient worship (standing stones, megaliths, cromlechs, temples) and signs of the presence of Nyarlathotep or Shub Niggurat.
Note that Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurat are spontaneously associated with the earth. The Creature of the Beyond itself descends from outer space to such places - the interstellar Wanderer Nyarlathotep and sometimes takes on human form, which is encountered in such places by random witnesses, more often with tragic consequences for themselves.
Therefore, because of this connection with the forest, Nyarlathotep is also known as the Forest Man, the Green Man or the Black Forest Man.
Nyarlathotep has many acolytes.
Most of them are disgusting creatures, similar to incubi from medieval engravings, or completely shapeless creatures that are particles of Nyarlathotep himself, therefore Nyarlathotep is also called "The Father of a million chosen ones dear to his heart.
" The sign of its manifestation is low, humming, unpleasant sounds.
The mighty Messenger of the Ancients, the Inhabitant of Darkness in the form of a Black Man can take on any human form or even the appearance of a famous person, as well as manifest mentally or simply through another real person, taking possession of his mind and subjugating his will.
Such an encounter with the Messenger of Chaos can be either accidental or deliberate. Meeting with a Black Man for a seeker is the beginning of the initiation of the Dark Path, and he himself will act as a guide – initiator on this Path, a teacher and mentor in forbidden knowledge. Therefore, seekers of magical knowledge have long been eager to meet a Black Man
in the earthly world. Religious and mystical natures, as well as creative and simply gifted people, in moments of what is commonly called “darkness of the soul”, loneliness, alienation and melancholy, this mysterious being with strange knowledge may meet or appear.
He may look like any person, but he is not a person, however.
This is the one who is commonly called the “Black Man” in the witch cult, and in the tradition of the Ancients he has, as already mentioned, the name Nyarlathotep - the Messenger of the Ancients.
In his image, it is the Black Man, in the Magic of the Ancients, he has the name Ebonor, and in the witchcraft Sabbaticus cult, the Black Man is known as Apetiui.
He is the Great Initiator of the mysteries of the Dark Path, who can bestow magical knowledge and power. But know this, he is a trickster, he is a liar and a Fool of the Chaos Gods, dancing before the throne of the Lord of Chaos Azathoth to the sound of his flute.
Nyarlathotep is also an eternal Hermit, wandering alone in empty space, both between the stars in space and across deserts, intersections, forests of the earth.
He will make a fool of you and laugh at you.
He will pervert and ridicule all your ideals, abuse your faith and shrines.
Everything he tells will be a lie and an evil mockery.
As stated in the Necronomicon: “Nyarlathotep is a deceiver who can temporarily take any form to mislead the minds of those before whom he appears.
He loves to lie and mislead and will destroy thoughts for entertainment, so do not overly trust his teachings, because sometimes they are useful and valuable, but other times they are fatal.” And yet…
In Gustav Meyrink’s short story “Meister Leonhard”, a young mystic is looking for initiation, and on his way he meets a wandering magician and medicine man, Dr. Schrepfer.
"Leonhard understood that this tramp, who could neither read nor write, was an ordinary charlatan, but every day before his eyes the charlatan worked miracles: the lame threw down their crutches; the women, screaming obscenities in cruel labor pains, suddenly quieted down and were safely released from the burden, as soon as he laid hands on them; epileptics were released convulsions; rats left the houses in hordes and rushed into the water.
At the sight of such omnipotence, Leonhard, without noticing it, fell more and more under the spell of Dr. Schrepfer every day…
Everything, absolutely everything coming from the doctor, was twofold, his every word, every act could be understood this way and that, and he himself was an example of a paradox: he cheated – and his fraud turned out to be good, lied – and in his chatter the highest truth was suddenly revealed, he told the truth – and from every word lies peeked out, he talked nonsense – and utter nonsense turned into a prophecy, he brewed medicines from roadside grass – and they acted as miraculous potions; when he was asked a question, he immediately, without batting an eye, gave out an answer made up of the words of the question itself, only shuffled in some incomprehensible, cheating way, and – lo and behold! “I didn’t hit him in the eyebrow, but in the eye.”
In this context, Dr.
Schrepfer is the Messenger of the Forces of Chaos and the Initiator of the Dark Path for the main character. So, only a truly wise and firm in intention and will, seeking Initiation, is able to accept the Dark Initiation of a Black Man, to see in his lies the way and the truth, in delirium and ridicule – knowledge.
And then everything false will turn into another, unknown side.
But for all others they will be fatal, and the Black Man will only become a messenger of death. As the hero of the story says: “… if you see only a charlatan in the doctor, then all his revelations turn into nonsense and nonsense, but if you make allowances for that omnipotent force that is reflected in him, then the fairground actor will immediately appear overexposed, into a herald and guide, and his speeches into a storehouse of imperishable truths.”
Such is the Trickster Initiator Nyarlathotep and his Dark Initiation of the Left Path. You may have already seen him and met him.
On some lonely street, at a deserted bus stop, at a twilight stop, in an empty subway car or train at night.
Or maybe in the evening at the cemetery or at sunset in an empty park, at a forest intersection or on a windswept hill.
Deep down, something told you that this was not a man, although he looked like a man, and that he knew you and about you, and that he could bestow forbidden knowledge inaccessible to man, satisfy all your darkest desires.
The Black Man, or the Man in Black, known as the messenger of the Forces of Chaos and Evil to our world under his name Nyarlathotep – Ebonor, has thousands of masks and thousands of forms.
Perhaps it was an elegant gentleman in a black coat and patent leather shoes, or maybe it was a figure wrapped in black and barely distinguishable.
Or a tramp with a strange look? Or perhaps he appeared to you in dreams, in even more bizarre and sinister forms? Did you approach him or did he talk to you, did he give you secret knowledge, opened the Way to the Beyond, did he become an Initiator into the world of dark wonders? Most likely not, because our diet is daytime
the mind experiences an instinctive fear of the embodiment of Chaos, insistently demands to pass by, not to notice, to forget, even in dreams.