The Franklin Files

From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 06:16:20 GMT

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function in the whole course of the Cosmos.

For he that is born in the years of the power of a God
thinketh that God to be eternal, one, alone. But he that is
born in the hour of the weakness of the God, at the death of one
and the birth of the other, seeth something (though it be little)
of the course of things. And for him it is necessary to
understand fully that change of office (for the gods neither die
nor are re-born, but now one initiates and the other guards, and
now one heralds and the other sanctifies) its purpose and
meaning in the whole scheme of things.

So I, in this year V of the Equinox of the Gods (1908)
wherein Horus took the place of Osiris, will by the light of
this my magical memory seek to understand fully the formula of
Horus -- Ra Hoor Khuit -- my god, that ruleth the world under
Nuit and Hadit. Then as Ankh-f-na-khonsu left unto me the
"stele" 666 with the keys to that knowledge, so also may I write
down in hieroglyph the formula of the Lady of the Forked Wand
and of the Feather, that shall assume his throne and place when
the strength of Horus is exhausted.

So now the service of the Gods was to be secret and their
magic concealed from men. They were to fall before the eyes of
men from their place, and little sewer-rats were to come and
mock at them, no man avenging them, and they utterly careless,
not striking for themselves. Yet was there knowledge of them
which an initiate might gain, though so much more difficult,
immeasurably higher and more intimate.

My life from this moment became highly concentrated upon
itself. I had no time either for ascetic practices or for any
pleasures; nor would I take any active part in the service of
the temple which, purified and regenerated, had become both
subtly perfect and perfectly subtle.

It was not all of the people who did at all comprehend the
change that had occurred; but the others obeyed and made believe
to understand, lest their fellows should despise them. So it
happened that the more ignorant and stupid any person was the
more he feigned understanding; so that the least devout appeared
the most devout -- as it is unto this day.

But for me all these things were as nothing; for I studied
ever the nature of Osiris, concentrating myself into mysterious
pure symbols. I understood why it was said that Isis had failed
to discover the Phallus of Osiris, and thus perceived the
necessity of Horus to follow him in the great succession of the
Equinoxes. Moreover I fashioned talismans of pure light
concerning Osiris, and I performed in light all the ceremonies
of initiation into his mysteries.

These were interpreted by wise men and translated into the
language of the twilight and graven on stone and in the memories
of men.

Yet was I even more intrigued in that great struggle to apprehend
the course of things, as it is seen from the standpoint of Destiny.
So that I might leave true and intelligible images to enlighten
the mind of him (whether myself or another) that should come after
me to celebrate the Equinox of the Gods at the end of the period
of Osiris.

As now hath come to pass.

Thus then three-and-thirty years I lived in the temple of
Osiris a High Priest; and I subdued all men under me. Also I
abolished the office of priestess, for had not Isis failed to
find that venerable Phallus without which Osiris must be so
melancholy a god? <> Therefore was Khemi to fall, and the world to
be dark and sorrowful for many years.

Therefore I made mine High Priestess into a serving-maid, and
with veiled face she served me all those many years, never
speaking.

Yet they being accomplished, I thought fit to reward her. So
magically I renewed about her the body of a young girl, and for
a year she served me, unveiled and speaking at her pleasure.

And her time being come, she died.

Then I looked again into my destiny, and perceived that all
my work was duly accomplished. Nor could any use or worth be
found in my body.

So therefore I determined to accept my great reward, that was
granted unto me as the faithful minister of the god F.I.A.T. that
is behind all manifestation of Will and of Intelligence, of whom
Isis and Osiris and Horus are but the ministers.

Of this, and of my death, I will speak on another occasion.

But first I will discourse of the inhabitants of the kingdom
that encircleth the world, so that they who "fear" may be
comforted.


CHAPTER X

BUT of these matters I am warned that I shall not now become
aware, for that there be great mysteries therein contained,
pertaining to a degree of initiation of which I am as yet
unworthy.

(Thus the record comes abruptly to an end.)

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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
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Original Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:08:29 GMT


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Brother Jacques at Crowleymas
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As told by Frater Robert Anton Wilson; Holy Discordian, OTO
Initiate and CAW Water Brother in his Outstanding Masterpiece of
Speculative Illumination "Cosmic Trigger." Recalling Crowleymas
(October 12) 1974, Brother Wilson hath eloquently stated:


...And then Jacques Vallee arrived.

I had wanted to talk to Doctor Vallee for several months now and
I immediately kidnapped him into a room which the other party-
goers were not informed about. On the way, we spotted Hymenaeus
Alpha (Grady McMurty), Caliph of the Ordo Templi Orientis, and
his wife, Phylis.

The Skeptic had heard Jacques Vallee talk at a conference on
Science and Spirit, sponsored by the Theosophical Society,
earlier in the year. He had taken a new approach to the UFO
mystery and was systematically feeding all the reports of
extraterrestrial contacts into a giant computer. The computer
was programmed to look for various possible repeated patterns.
Jacques said that the evidence emerging suggested to him that
the UFOs weren't extraterrestrial at all, but that they seemed
to be intelligent systems intent on convincing us they were
extraterrestrial. [Indeed, even as our Dear Brother Terence
McKenna hath said, "We are part of a symbiotic relationship
with something which *disguises* itself as an extraterrestrial
invasion so as not to alarm us." -B:.B:.]

Now the Skeptic started pumping Jacques about his evidence that
they weren't extraterrestrial. He started to explain that,
analyzing the reports chronologically, it appeared that They
(whoever or whatever they are) always strive to give the
impression that they are something the society they are visiting
can understand. In medieval sightings, he said, they called
themselves angels; in the great 1902 flap in several states, one
of the craft spoke to a West Virginia farmer and said they were
an airship invented and flown from Kansas; in 1940s-1950s
sightings, they often said they were from Venus; since Venus has
been examined and seems incapable of supporting life, they now
say they are from another star-system in this galaxy.

"Where do you think they come from?" I asked.

Doctor Vallee gave the Gallic form of the classic scientific Not-
Speculating-Beyond-The-Data head-shake. "I can theorize, and
theorize, endlessly," he said, "but is it not better to just
study the data more deeply and look for clues?"

"You must have some personal hunch," I insisted.

He gave in gracefully. "They relate to space-time in ways for
which we have, at present, no concepts," he said. "They cannot
explain to us because we are not ready to understand."

I asked Grady McMurty if Aleister Crowley had ever said anything
to him implying the extraterrestrial theory which Kenneth Grant,
Outer Head of another Ordo Templi Orientis, implies in his
accounts of Crowley's contacts with Higher Intelligences.

"Some of the things Aleister said to me," Grady replied
carefully, "could be interpreted as hints pointing that way."
He went on to quote Crowley's aphorisms about various of the
standard entities contacted by Magick. The Abramelin spirits,
for instance, need to be watched carefully. "They bite,"
Aleister explained in his best deadpan am-I-kidding-or-not?
style. The Enochian "angels," on the other hand, don't always
have to be summoned. "When you're ready, they come for you,"
Aleister said flatly.

(The Enochian entities were first contacted by Dr. John Dee in
the early 17th Century. Dr. Dee, court astrologer to Queen
Elizabeth and also an important mathematician, has been
controversial from his own time to ours, some writers regarding
him as a genius of the first rank and others as a clever lunatic.
According to two interesting books, "The World Stage" and "The
Rosicrucian Enlightenment," both by a most scrupulous historian,
Dr. Francis Yates, Dee was almost certainly a prime mover in
the "Illuminati" and "Rosicrucian Brotherhoods" of that time,
which played a central role in the birth of modem science. The
alleged UFOnaut from Uranus which communicated with the two
Naval Intelligence officers gave a name, AFFA, which is a word
in the "angelic" language used by the entities Dee contacted.
It means Nothing. George Hunt Williamson also got some words in
"angelic" from his Space Brothers, remember.)

"The outstanding quality of UFO contactees," Jacques Vallee said
at this point, "was incoherence. I now have grave reservations
about all physical details they supply," he said.

"They are like people after an auto accident. All they know is
that something very serious has happened to them." Only the
fact that so many cases involve other witnesses, who see
something in the sky before the "contactee" has his/her strange
experience, justifies the assumption that what happens is more
than "subjective."

"Largely," Doctor Vallee summarized, "they come out of it with
a new perspective on humanity. A religious perspective, in
general terms. But all the details are contradictory and
confusing." He regarded green men, purple giant men, physical
craft with windows in them, etc., as falling into the category
psychologists call "substitute memory," always provided by the
ingenious brain when the actual experience is too shocking to be
classified.

I asked how many in the room had experienced the contact of what
appeared to be Higher Intelligence. Grady and Phylis McMurty
put up their hands, as did two young magicians from the Los
Angeles area, and myself. Jacques Vallee, curiously, looked as
if he might raise his hand, but then evidently changed his mind
and did not. I said I inclined to believe the Higher Intelligences
were extraterrestrial, and asked what the others thought.

Grady McMurty-Caliph of the Ordo Templi Orientis said, in effect,
that the theory of higher dimensions made more sense to him than
the extraterrestrial theory in terms of actual space ships entering
our biosphere.

The two Los Angeles magicians agreed.

Tom, who had been a witch for five years and hadn't raised his
hand when asked for contactee testimony, said that the Higher
Intelligences are imbedded in our language and numbers, as the
Cabalists think, and have no other kind of existence. He added
that every time he tried to explain this he saw that people
thought he was going schizophrenic and he began to fear that
they might be right, so he preferred not to talk about it at all.
Tom-who is a computer programmer by profession, a witch only
by religion-later added a bit to this, saying that all that
exists is information and coding; we only imagine we have bodies
and live in space-time dimensions.

Doctor Vallee listened to all this with a bland smile, and did
not seem to regard any of us as mad.

(A few days later, in discussion with the former Vacaville
prison psychologist, Dr. Wesley Hiler, I asked him what he
really thought of Dr. Leary's extraterrestrial contacts.
Specifically, since he didn't regard Leary as crazy or
hallucinating, what was happening when Leary thought he was
receiving extraterrestrial communications? "Every man and woman
who reaches the higher levels of spiritual and intellectual
development," Dr. Hiler said calmly, "feels the presence of a
Higher Intelligence. Our theories are all unproven. Socrates
called it his daemon. Others call it gods or angels. Leary
calls it extraterrestrial. Maybe it's just another part of our
brain, a part we usually don't use. Who knows?")

Since everybody in the room at this point had either had the
required experience, or was willing to speculate about it and
study it objectively rather than merely banishing it with the
label "hallucination," I went into my rap about the parallels
between Leary and Wilhelm Reich. "The attempt to destroy both
Dr. Reich and Dr. Leary reached its most intense peak right
after they reported their extraterrestrial contacts," I said.
"I keep having very weird theories about what that means..."

Grady McMurty nodded vigorously. "That's the $64,000 question,"
he said emphatically. "For years I've been asking Phylis and
everybody else I know: why does the gnosis always get busted?
Every single time the energy is raised and large-scale group
illuminations are occurring, the local branch of the Inquisition
kills it dead. Why, why, why?"

Nobody had any very conclusive ideas.

"I'll tell you what I think," Grady said. "There's war in
Heaven. The Higher Intelligences, whoever they are, aren't all
playing on the same team. Some of them are trying to encourage
our evolution to higher levels, and some of them want to keep us
stuck just where we are."

According to Grady, some occult lodges are working with those
nonhuman intelligences who want to accelerate human evolution,
but some of the others are working with the intelligences who
wish to keep us near an animal level of awareness.

This is a standard idea in occult circles and it can safely be
stated, without exaggeration, that every "school" or "lodge of
adepts that exists is regarded, by some of the others, as
belonging to the Black Brotherhood of the evil path. Grady's
own Ordo Templi Orientis, indeed, has been accused of this more
often than have most other occult lodges. I have personally
maintained my good cheer and staved off paranoia, while moving
among various occult groups as student or participant, by always
adhering rigidly to the standard Anglo-Saxon legal maxim that
every accused person must be regarded as innocent until proven
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. This obviously spares me a
lot of worry, but the more guarded approach is very well argued
by Isaac Bonewitz, the author of Real Magick. "Paranoid
magicians outlive the others," Isaac says.

Somehow the conversation drifted away from Grady's concept of
"war in Heaven." Several times, Grady tried to steer us back
there, but each time we wandered on to a different subject. Tom
said later that he felt a presence in the room deliberately
pushing us away from that topic...

Dr. H. -- the psychiatrist whose bad acid-trip had started the
Crowleymas party off so jumpily for me -- dropped by the next
day, to thank me for "talking him down" from his anxiety attack.

He also, it soon appeared, wanted to tell me about his
accelerating experiences with magick. It had started over two
years earlier, after an intensive seminar at Esalen. Dr. H.
suddenly found that he could see "auras." (The aura of the
human body, known to shamans and witches since time immemorial,
has been repeatedly rediscovered by scientists, most of whom
were thereupon denounced as "cranks." Franz Anton Mesmer called
it "animal magnetism," in the 16th century. In the 19th, Baron
Reichenbach called it "OD." In the 1920s, Gurvich named it "the
mytogenic ray." Wilhelm Reich rediscovered it in the 1930s,
called it "orgone energy," and was destroyed by AMA bigots who
charged that he was hallucinating it. Kirlian photography has
now demonstrated beyond all doubt that this aura exists.) Dr. H.
soon found, further, that he could use the aura as a diagnostic
tool in analyzing new patients. This experience, Leary's books,
and a lecture by me on Crowley's magick, led him to further
experiments.

On a beach in Sonoma County, after taking LSD the day before and
programming an opening of the self to higher beings or energies,
Dr. H. (no longer under the direct influence of the drug) had
an experience with Something from the sky. "It wasn't exactly a
Higher Intelligence," he said carefully, "or, at least, I didn't
receive that aspect of it, if it was Higher Intelligence. To me,
it was just energy. Terrible energy. My chest was sore for
hours afterward. I thought it would kill me, but I was absolutely
ecstatic and egoless at the peak of it. If the chest-pain weren't
so intense, it would have been a totally positive experience."

(MacGregor Mathers, Outer Head of the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn, and the first occult teacher of such worthies as
Aleister Crowley, poet William Butler Yeats and novelist Arthur
Machen, once recorded a meeting with the Secret Chiefs. These
ambiguous entities, known in several schools of occult training,
are variously believed to be discarnate spirits of the great
Magi of the past, living Magi who can teleport themselves about
as easily as you or I telephone a friend, "angels" in the
traditional sense, or merely "beings we cannot understand."
In any case, Mathers noted that the meeting, although pleasant,
left him feeling as if he'd been "struck by lightning" and he
also suffered chest pains and extreme difficulty in breathing.
Dr. Israel Regardie has also noted that Alan Bennett [probably
no relation to Diane "Andrea Chen" Bennett -B:.B:.], who was
Crowley's chief teacher for many years, developed asthma, a chest
disease. Crowley developed asthma himself as his contacts with
the Secret Chiefs occurred more often; and Regardie finally
"caught" asthma for several years after studying with Crowley,
a condition which was only cured when he went through the
bioenergetic therapy of Wilhelm Reich.)

Khabs am Pekht, etc.;

-Frater Caeruleus, B:.B:.