The Dark Lord Quotes

“Instead of Freud's famous Interpretation of Dreams it is a book of dreams that interprets us.”
― Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic

“the Necronomicon is also a manual not only of dream interpretation (a la Freud) but of dream control.”
― Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic

“the Shadow,” an unconscious element of the personality that is linked to the same animal instincts we have described,140 and which is the repository of a person's darkest desires as well as the source of human creativity141.”
― Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic

“Science fiction authors have made contributions to science, such as Arthur C. Clarke and his invention of geosynchronous satellite, among other ideas. Fantasy and horror authors make (unconscious) contributions to occultism and magic by identifying information at deep levels of the human psyche. By focusing on fear and horror, these authors directly address our most hidden nature, which is another way of saying that they open a Gate into the Mauve Zone.”
― Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic

“What difference is there, after all, between the narrative we find in fiction and that which we find in the myths and legends that make up scriptures and Tantras? If a story works - if it conveys a truth, elicits an emotional response, tells us something we did not know before and allows us to own that something - then it has much the same function as a scriptural text. The first dramas were religious in nature; the first theatrical performances were rituals.”
― Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic