I have raised demons, and the dead.
                    I have summoned the ghosts of my ancestors to real and visible appearance on the
               tops of temples built to reach the stars, and built to touch the nethermost cavities of
               HADES. I have wrestled with the Black Magician, AZAG-THOTH, in vain, and fled to
               the Earth by calling upon INANNA and her brother MARDUK, Lord of the
               double-headed AXE.
                     I have raised armies against the Lands of the East, by summoning the hordes of
               fiends I have made subject unto me, and so doing found NGAA, the God of the
               heathens, who breathes flame and roars like a thousand thunders.
                    I have found fear.
                    I have found the Gate that leads to the Outside, by which the Ancient Ones, who
               ever seek entrance to our world, keep eternal watch. I have smelled the vapours of
               that Ancient One, Queen of the Outside, whose name is writ in the terrible MAGAN
               text, the testament of some dead civilisation whose priests, seeking power, swing open
               the dread, evil Gate for an hour past the time, and were consumed.
                    I came to possess this knowledge through circumstances quite peculiar, while still
               the unlettered son of a shepherd in what is called Mesopotamia by the Greeks.
                    When I was only a youth, travelling alone in the mountains to the East, called
               MASSHU by the people who live there, I came upon a grey rock carved with three
               strange symbols. It stood as high as a man, and as wide around as a bull. It was firmly
               in the ground, and I could not move it. Thinking no more of the carvings, save that
               they might be the work of a king to mark some ancient victory over an enemy, I built
               a fire at its foot to protect me from the wolves that wander in those regions and went
               to sleep, for it was night and I was far from my village, being Bet Durrabia.

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