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'''''Amalantrah Manuscript''''', AKA "The Book of the Abyss"

Origin: (inspired by occultist [[Aleister Crowley]])

==Description==
A magickal work composed during the "Amalantrah Working" ritual performed by occultist [[Aleister Crowley]], attributed to the alien entity [[Grey Alien|Lam]], a spirit conjured into physical being at the threshold of a hole ripped through time-space by the working. The infamous sorcerer and cult leader would spend an exhaustive three days in interrogating the spirit "Lam" before releasing it back into the [[Astral Plane]] it had emerged from; the notes from that interrogation would form the bulk of the Tome.

===1938 Illustrated Limited Edition===
Language: English

Physical Description: this sole edition was of 20 limited-edition signed and numbered copies bound in Morocco leather and printed on pre-wartime paper, each with a set of surreal colour plates in the evocative style of Tarot cards depicting the scenery of the [[Astral Plane]] as envisioned by Aleister Crowley based on the spirit Lam's descriptions.

General Content: The work describes a surreal, allegorical "Geography of the Abyss" between Earth's solar system and the alien world from which the spirit "Lam" originated, by way of the [[Astral Plane]], including important "landmarks" and other points of interest marking the way between worlds, as well as locations in the interstellar Astral Plane to be avoided, along with a brief catalogue of the alien spirits, both harmless and malevolent, that people the route between worlds, such as the "[[Tiamat|Witch-Dragon]] who walks the shadows of the Abyss beyond the far-off house of Pluto, in the wise and true Dreamland of the philosophers, of the palace of our knowledge." The book also contains a detailed description of Lam's home world, an in-depth description of the mystical, moral, and ethical beliefs of that world, and their matter-of-fact obedience to a god-serpent ruler over their world which Crowley identified with the "Serpent of Eden, Tempter and Inspiration of Enlightenment and Love in Man - Love Under Will".

Number of known copies (if rare): Originally 20 limited-edition signed-and-numbered copies; some of these were known to have been lost in book burnings during the European chaos of the 1930s and 1940s; it is estimated that fewer than a dozen copies survived the 20th Century.

Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): A few copies are presumed to still be accessible in private occult libraries in [[England]], continental Europe, and possibly the United States, though the copy in the U.S. known to have been in possession of the magician and serial killer the [[Great Garibaldi]] disappeared before his trial and is presumed lost.

====Mythos Content====
Spells: A few references to spells relating to Dreaming and Dream manipulation.

* Sanity Loss: minimal
* Mythos Knowledge: minimal
* Occult Knowledge: minimal

==Associated Mythos Elements==
Contains allegorical references to such topics as...
* race: [[Grey Alien]]s and their system of worlds in Zeta Reticulus
* race: [[Reptilian]] Aliens
* race: [[Mi-Go]]
* race: [[Nightgaunt]]s
* race: [[Byakhee]]
* deity: [[Yig]]
* deity: [[Nodens]]
* location: [[Astral Plane]]
* location: [[Yuggoth]]
* location: [[Tiamat]]
* location: [[Star Wormwood]]

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==Appearances==


==Heresies and Controversies==


==Keeper Notes==


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 * Author: unknown
 * Language: English
 * Number of known copies (if rare): Originally 20 limited-edition signed-and-numbered copies; some of these were known to have been lost in book burnings during the European chaos of the 1930s and 1940s; it is estimated that fewer than a dozen copies survived the 20th Century.
 * Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): A few copies are presumed to still be accessible in private occult libraries in [[England]], continental Europe, and possibly the United States, though the copy in the U.S. known to have been in possession of the magician and serial killer the [[Great Garibaldi]] disappeared before his trial and is presumed lost.
 * Sanity loss: minimal
 * Mythos Knowledge: minimal

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