Cryptosophy: Selected Cides. Lovecraft H.F.

“Truly, the good of the human race, if the sacred secrets of this world will remain unsolved, for they have nothing to do with the descendants of Adam, but that unfortunate mortal who dares to penetrate them, risks losing his mind and becoming an outcast, doomed to doom. From now on, it is a miserable existence in sad loneliness, ”the American fantast Hovard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) warned the American fiction writer. The very well understood the monstrous danger of the profanity of esoteric knowledge, hidden from the secrets uninitiated under the impenetrable cover, the symbol and even the synonym of which was crypt from the beginning of time. In the complete “disturbing strangeness” of the enigmatical phantasmagoria of the master of black science fiction, which included in the real “make -up”, this gloomy image is reflected by a variety of faces: a cave, grotto, grave, a crypt, mausoleum, catacombs, ossuarias, Kenotaf, ancient Egyptian Mastaba, however, in No matter how exotic derivatives the ominous abode of death, which was converging in the darkness of the htonic gods, is always the abyss - the earthly abyss, the abyss of the sea, the abyss of the time, the abyss of the times, the “non -winging blackness” of which throughout his life was magnetically attracted by the writer, forcing him to hardly Not in every story to make a nightmare catabasis on a pitch night of underground labyrinths in futile search of what has never happened there and will not be - bottom. And only the fatal fascination of the abyss can explain this endless Tanatological quest of the writer obsessed with cryptomaniac, whose creative heritage is a strange and paradoxical complex of epistemological ideas, based on the denial of fundamental cosmological and anthropocentric concepts, fancifully refracted by the author’s imagination of mythological plots and fantastic worlds with their arts but Mimicing under real reality by toponymy and cryptozoological, borrowed from medieval bestiaries and demonological treatises by monsters - in a word, everything that can now be right called Lovecraft Cryptosophy.