Frazer calls these principles, the 'Law of Similarity' and the 'Law of Contact or Contagion' respectively.(l) Rituals, charms, spells, and incantations are used to produce the willed result, based around two principles, according to Frazer: 'first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause and second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed'. Magic is based on the irrational, on the intuitive, the unseen - literally that which is 'occult' or hidden, being summoned forth for individual or communal purposes by circumventing the causal relationships of the material universe. The adoption and adaptation of a theme from Lovecraft's horror stories, that of the Cthulhu Mythos, is no less plausible than any other occult system or doctrine of magic. This essay examines some of the individuals, orders and doctrines of the adherents of the Cthulhu Mythos. The Cthulhu Mythos of the Old Gods with Unspeakable names are evoked and worshipped, and respected practitioners of the esoteric use the symbolism and mythos as the basis of a magical system. Lovecraft's horror stories have become not just a literary cult like many others, but a tangible cult of the occult.
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