" 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