Don't fail to see Nyarlathotep if he comes to Providence. He is horrible--horrible beyond anything you can imagine--but wonderful. He haunts one for hours afterward. I am still shuddering at what he showed.
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I had never heard the name NYARLATHOTEP before, but seemed to understand the allusion. Nyarlathotep was a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in publick halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions. These exhibitions consisted of two parts--first, a horrible--possibly prophetic--cinema reel; and later some extraordinary experiments with scientific and electrical apparatus. As I received the letter, I seemed to recall that Nyarlathotep was already in Providence.... I seemed to remember that persons had whispered to me in awe of his horrors, and warned me not to go near him. But Loveman's dream letter decided me.... As I left the house I saw throngs of men plodding through the night, all whispering affrightedly and bound in one direction. I fell in with them, afraid yet eager to see and hear the great, the obscure, the unutterable Nyarlathotep. (1)

It was the Concealed One that revealed the twin configuration of the matrix and appeared before me speaking the Word by which the pattern is initialized. The Word in question is spoken over the brink of the very abyss, thus projected across the waters thereof, reveals the mystical configuration of the MchA cultus. And this mystery is a curse upon the Worlds and the revelation of it.
The Demon appeared in the form of a flayed corpse, an avatar that is known to certain cults that practice abominable rites, including human sacrifice, torture of the most inhuman kind and others only whispered about. The god was worshipped by the blood priests and sorcerers of the Maya and Aztecs and there is indications he was known in both the Vedic and Celtic mysteries. The most detailed descriptions come, of course, from the fantastical accounts of the European witch trials in the Middle Ages.
He vibrated a Word, a formula of great power when used to activate certain configurations of the matrix . This formula is not simply a “barbarous name”; the structure of it and the associated QBL analysis reveals the theological definition of the forces implied in the use of the configuration.

The numerical value 88 contains the primary key of the revelation; the completion of the Gnostic formula IAO (10+1+70=81) in silence (Zain) provides the proof of the formula as IAOZ (10+1+70+7=88) is kabbalistically equivalent to Word of the Silent Aeon, which itself is the completion of the Cycle. Beyond this I shall not write



1. H. P. Lovecraft, letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, December 21, 1921; cited in Lin Carter, Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, pp. 18-19.(quote Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep)