The Franklin Files

From: "Blue Resonant Human" <density4@cts.com>
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 22:13:40 -0700 (PDT)

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is not the point. Their culture and the general goddess culture
of that time period was supplanted by a patriarchal culture that
has attempted to subjugate women to the most unbearable of
conditions. The male forces established control. Morality was
then generated by the power elite of that particular
civilization.

On a very primal level, the purpose of the female energies is to
regenerate through the sexual organs. This is the gateway to
immortality for the beast or animal form of the species. Only
through the female genitalia can the beast project its image
into a future circumstance and thus obtain perpetual life for
his/her kind. Bast symbolized this and also the idea of
uninhibited breeding practices which is sometimes known as
"catting". This is the derivation of the word "****", common
slang for the vagina but almost always used in a derogative
sense. This word is so taboo that it has earned its way onto
the "list of seven dirty words" that cannot be used on
television or radio. As you can see, Bast's influence has no
small part in our culture. One can easily see that the rancor
and enmity that generally accompanies the words "bastard" and
"****" derives from the ancient criticism of the culture that
was prevalent during the time of Bast.

Crowley's concept of the Scarlet Woman or Babalon is another
name for the goddess Bast. Scarlet is chosen because it is the
color of blood (also the color chosen for the cover of The Book
of the Law). As stated earlier, blood represents the passage of
the moon and the menstrual period. The lunar calendar is
therefore the calendar of Bast and represents the true time line.
This is in direct opposition to the Gregorian calendar that
was given to us by the decree of Pope Gregory, the same pope who
authorized the inquisition.

In regard to her lunar aspect, Bast's offspring were known as
children of the moon, hence the name moon child. In the
previous chapter, Crowley was identified as the incarnation of
the Priest Ankh-af-an-Khonsu which equates to the Priest of
Mentu. As Khonsu also refers specifically to the moon, Bast can
be identified as the Priestess of Mentu with regard to her lunar
aspect. It is in this respect that Bast could be considered to
have presided over the sexual and genetic experiments that are
said to have occurred at Montauk. In what is an amusing
correspondence, there are usually various cats that roam the
picnic area near the lighthouse parking lot at Montauk. They
have no apparent home but are always well fed by the tourists
who sometimes take one home for a pet. These cats are known as
the "Montauk Cats". I was once told that if you follow the cats
before a rainstorm, they will lead you to the underground.

Although Bast's correspondence with Montauk is a bit obscure,
Bast was glorified in ancient Egypt as the Sphinx. She had the
loins of a lion, symbolized by the constellation Leo and the top
half of a virgin woman, symbolized by the constellation Virgo.
The Sphinx had breasts at one point, but these were defaced as
the patriarchal culture established its foothold. The face was
also altered at one point to look more like a chimpanzee. This
desecration of the Sphinx prompts an important question: why did
we get a chimp?

The answer lies in our genetics. Human evolution on this planet
has been primarily restricted to the biology of the ape. It was
said previously in this book that Rh positive blood refers to
the rhesus monkey genetics being present in the human system.
Rh negative implies an alien blood type. One can also see a
resemblance to apes in human beings. If you don't believe me,
just go to the gorilla exhibit at the zoo.

The word "monkey" itself gives us an interesting play on words.
"Mon" refers to Montu, Montauk or the earlier definitions
provided for that phoneme while "key" refers to the "key to
Montauk". Although there is some contention about it amongst
scholars, "Monkey" derives from the Dutch word monnekijn which
traces back to the Roman word monne, the origin of which is
uncertain. The handwriting is on the wall. Manikan means
little man or an imitation of man. Monne is intimately related
to the root words already covered.

The word "ape" is said to be borrowed from a Teutonic word yet
there is argument and some say it is really from the Celts. It
all becomes clear when we consult the derivation of the word "
apex". This means several interesting things. It is the
highest culminating point of time and also refers to the vertex
of a triangle or the conical top of a pyramid. Apex strongly
suggests the concept of the Tower of Babalon or the mountain
aspect of Montauk. The word itself derives from tip, specifically
referring to the tip of a flamen's cap. (A flamen was a priest
or magician in ancient Rome, the word deriving from the Sanskrit
word brahman.)

Orangutan derives from oran which means man and utati which
equates to forest. The word oran is Malaysian word which is
suspiciously close to Orion. Chimpanzee derives from "pan"
which means all embracing. It also refers to Pan, the god of
the forest and fields. He was quite sexually active and Crowley
wrote a lot of poetry about him.

Gorilla was coined as a word by the real life Doc Savage based
upon a West African word for a race of hairy women. It is a
direct reference to a genetic specimen that we don't see or hear

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The Men in Black and their Magical Origins
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"...we are dealing with a full-size world-mystery and a real
fight between the Black and White Brotherhoods."

- Frater Achad, 1948

::: The Black Lodge :::

"Mathers, of course, carried on; but he had fallen. The Secret
Chiefs cast him off; he fell into deplorable abjection, even his
scholarship deserted him. He published nothing new and lived in
sodden intoxication till death put an end to his long misery.
He was a great man in his way..."

- Aleister Crowley

"What I am out to complain of is what I seriously believe to be
an organized conspiracy of the Black Lodges to prevent people
from thinking..."

- Aleister Crowley, _Magick Without Tears_

Often when a person or institution allied with the historical
Great White Brotherhood approaches success (variously defined)
or comes into possession of certain aspects of transcendent
wisdom, Something Intervenes. That something has been defined
as the Man in Black, the Men In Black, the black lodges, or The
Black Lodge. The latter term most nearly accommodates my own
view. That they need to do this, and that they often fail in
their efforts, is itself an indication that (A) the Black Lodge
is opposed by Something Else, equally as strong, and (B) they
are afraid of something we might find out -- about them, about
their opposition, about ourselves or all three.

The story of our interaction with the UFOnauts begins with the
Qabalistic Tree of Life, and the Chakra system of the body.

According to the primal occult and frequently secret and
subversive view, the manifest universe emerges from an Ultimate
NOT-Thing, a Consciousness or Beingness beyond words or
expressions sometimes referred to as the Unmanifest or The
Limitless Light. This Unmanifest cannot be understood in the
external sense, but can be Known in the Gnostic sense by the
initiate or perfected sentient being, the Ubermensch. It can
be plugged into.

For reasons equally inexpressible, this uniqueness unfolds
itself in manifestation. Thus, the limitless light becomes
a series of emanations or expressions or Intelligences that
devolve increasingly toward our material form of existence and
thus towards accessibility in the conventional sense. But the
manifestations also increasingly become subject to subdivision
into arbitrary concepts such as "good" and "evil" as these are
commonly understood. And they also become closer and closer
in form and content to our own mundane reality, though in the
relativity of things, these Higher Intelligences may seem
unspeakably powerful, mythic and divine.

The Gnostic view has tended to be that what the external world
of the conventional person understands as god, devil demon,
angel or, more recently, extraterrestrial beings are, in fact,
such emanations of the unspeakable ultimate. Indeed, the
ancient Gnostics saw the 'god' and 'devil' of conventional
theology as an ego-maddened entity under the delusion that it,
indeed, IS the Ultimate Being! The late Phil Dick, in his last
Gnostic allegorical fiction, eventually settled on the name
"V.A.L.I.S." or "Vast Active Living intelligence System" for
this being or Demiurge. He wrestled through his literary career
and secret life as a Christian Gnostic philosopher with whether
VALIS was a benevolent, if machine-like deity of a sort, or an
insane extraterrestrial supercomputer.

Throughout recorded history, and, from the evidence of primitive
objects and works of art, for aeons before, certain humans have
had the capacity to tune into or channel various of these Higher
Intelligences with varying degrees of accuracy. These humans
have been our Seers, Oracles and Prophets. It appears, in fact,
that much of the source-material of all religions comes from
such channelings, including, arguably, _The Book of Revelation_,
_The Book of Mormon_, and _The Book of the Law_.

Concurrently, and not coincidentally, the two great initiatory
bodies, or orders have been generated and regenerated throughout
history. The so-called Great White Brotherhood, when undistorted,
appears (according to legend) guided by Intelligences associated
with the dual star system Sirius or Sothis in some manner [see
_The Sirius Mystery_ by Robert Temple for a discussion of the
Sirius connection -- also Kenneth Grant's _Outside the Circles
of Time_ discusses the matter from a magical perspective]. This
brotherhood also seems to have the purpose of uplifting human
character and initiating biological and social evolution designed
to move towards identification with Ultimate Being. What is
sometimes called "the Black Lodge," which we may associate with
the Gnostic Demiurge or Phil Dick's VALIS, is generated to keep
humanity in a state of materialist trance and evolutionary
stagnation.

Mystics generally consider that understanding the motivations of
either of these Sources may be beyond our knowledge or even our
capabilities. Existentially, however, it may be stated with
confidence that one is dedicated to keep us in subjugation,
misery and stagnation; the other to our betterment and
enrichment though both at times have made claims to being our
saviors.

There are keys for decoding which is which -- for example,
rituals that have been generated or handed down to the magical
lodges of modern times which refer to a star or the stars
directly or indirectly tend to be transformative and thus of the
Great White Brotherhood. Ciphers for decoding messages between
the black lodges and their alien sponsors have always existed.
But confusions of a deliberate nature exist; the ancient
Gnostics uncovered a cipher which clearly indicates that the
story of the Garden of Eden in its conventional form is turned
on its head. The Serpent is clearly the symbol of Knowledge,
Wisdom, the Kundalini Yogic force, the Will-current -- that is,
it is the symbol of Liberation and Self-Mastery. The jealous
"gods," as read in the original manuscripts, are clearly the
forces of blockage, self-denial and repression -- which is to
say, the Intelligences governing the Black Lodge. This
Knowledge of Good and Evil and Life and Death has been the
Terrible Secret of Initiates throughout history, recorded in
ciphers and myths, and passed on through ritual.

The Black Lodge may be defined as the organized institution
guided by VALIS for the purpose of holding back human evolution
and keeping a slave mentality in place. Its human leaders are
the "black brothers" who are not to be mistaken for mere black
magicians. Indeed, Aleister Crowley observed that "the 'Black
Magician' or Sorcerer is hardly even a distant cousin of the '
Black Brother.' The difference between a sneak-thief and a
Hitler is not too bad an analogy..." The Black Brothers are
highly advanced adepts of the Art who have simply, as the popular
phrase goes, "been seduced by the dark side of the Force." At
certain times and places in history -- for example, medieval
Tibet or, in more modern times, Nazi Germany -- the Black Lodge
has operated more or less openly with characteristic occult
symbols of human skulls, lightning bolts, etc. out in the open.
But like the Great White Brotherhood that it actively seeks to
subvert and overthrow (as it did in the time of the Knights
Templar), the Black Lodge has generally communicated by cipher
and myth, in silence and secrecy, often within religious,
fraternal and political institutions dedicated to the status quo.

In the West since at least the early 18th century, the Black
Lodge has tended to operate along crypto-Masonic lines, and its
development has tended to coincide with and mirror that of the
Great White Brotherhood. This development may, in fact, be
attributed to a cosmic principle of "equal generation of forces."
Thus, the birth of the modern form, as the fraternity of the
knights militant of the New Aeon in the cultural and political
turbulence of Germany in the 1890s, may fairly (along with the
coincident peak in the development of the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn and the Universal Gnostic Church) be characterized
as the resurgence of the Great White Brotherhood and its
rejuvenation out of the degeneration of classical speculative
freemasonry. This coincides closely with the "Great Airship
Scare" of 1897.

At almost the same moment, and in the same unhappy land, the
Black Lodge reasserted itself in the form of such fraternities
as the Vril Society and the Thule Group. The full story of the
Vril Society, the Thule Group, the Ahnenerbe, the Schwartze
Orden (The Black Order) and other manifestations of the Black
Lodge in the pre-Nazi and Nazi era has yet to be told, though
Pauwels and Bergier take an informal stab at it in _The Morning
of the Magicians_. Rudolph Hess, the last known member of the
Thule Group, told Jack Fishman (_The Seven Men of Spandau_) that
Thule leader and occult initiate General Karl Haushofer (1869-194
6) "was the magician, the secret Master..." of Nazi Germany.
Hess believed in the cause to the end of his life. The last
prisoner at Spandau, Hess died at the significant age of 93,
proclaiming his loyalty to the Thule ideal to the very end. The
period, in the middle 1930s, in which these groups attained
their greatest, ruinous power over the German state coincides
closely with the reports of "ghost rockets" over Northern Europe.

The British Raj in India, and the European Christian
colonization of the East in general, had all but destroyed the
classical Tantrism and Illuminism of the Great White Brotherhood
in the East, finding such institutions as Temple Prostitution,
chakra-puji, Shiva devotion, etc. to be sexual obscenity. On
the other hand, fearing the power of the Black Lodge as a
political entity and eroding its hold on esoteric Eastern
Religion as a practical necessity had provoked the British to
effectively dismantle the classical Eastern manifestation of the
Black Lodge, and Western occultists visiting the East in the 19
th and early 20th century already could only find watered-down
remnants and secret adepts carrying on the hidden wisdom in
either form. The Great White Brotherhood survived in Tibet
along with the Dark Lodges, and, since the Chinese occupation,
many of its chiefs have found their way to India and around the
world.

As far as is known, the last classical chakra-puj to be observed
by a Westerner was in the 1930s, while the last ancient intact
body of adepts of the Eastern Black Lodge, ironically dedicated
to foisting upon sleeping humanity a rank and demoralizing
materialism, was discovered and destroyed in accordance with the
insipid Marxism which guided the Chinese "People's" Liberation
Army into Tibet in the late 1950s. Among various Tantric Buddhist
and Bon religious institutions, the P.L.A. liquidated the cavern
retreats of Schamballah and Agarthi, the former being possibly the
oldest surviving branch of the Black Lodge on the planet. (See
Ossendovski's _Men, Beasts and Gods_, circa 1925, for an account
of Schamballah and Agarthi.) As survivors of the Marxist massacre
from the Tibetan Great White Brotherhood are known to have come to
the West in subsequent years, it may be assumed that survivors of
the Black Lodge have set up operations in our own society as well.
We can see the marks of their presence in so-called right-handed
Eastern circles that have gained a certain currency among
Westerners, and which peddle a useless baggage of New Age
platitudes.

The traditions do survive here and there in the East; a friend
of mine -- for 10 years a high official of the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness in India -- was seduced by a
Black Tantric Magician, and wound up leaving a life of celibacy
as a Hari Krishna for the lurid existence of a Madame in an
upscale American house of prostitution. I leave it to my
readers to decide whether she was seduced from the Great
Brotherhood to the Black Lodge, or vice versa.

Certainly, prior to the destruction of the Tibetan black lodges,
the German SS -- under Thule and Vril influence and directed by
the infamous Ahnenerbe Group -- imported a number of Black
Brothers and Adepts from Tibet during and prior to the Second
World War. The Tibetan colony in Berlin in fact predates the
Nazi rise to power, having been established in 1926. One
Tibetan Monk, termed "the man with the green gloves" and a
reputed psychic, was frequently visited by Hitler and was
rumored to hold the keys to the Kingdom of Agarthi. Such keys
are best understood in terms of ciphers.

Western mystics including Karl Kellner, P.B. Randolph and G.I.
Gurdjieff received instruction from surviving institutions
of the Great White Brotherhood and carried their influence back
with them to Europe, just as the Templars had done centuries
before, and incorporated their teachings into the Western
Esoteric System.

It is known that the Black Lodge -- which, as it opposes
evolution, inherently fights a rear-guard action -- has made
unceasing war on the Great White Brotherhood in the West from
the beginnings of the magical revival. Indeed, fallen and
failed adepts of the Great White Brotherhood have become the
tools and pawns of the Black Lodge, from Mathers to Hubbard and
beyond. It would seem that the immediate goal of the Black
Brothers is to delay the Manifestation of the New Aeon, the
birth of the magical child and the realization of the ubermensch
through diversion of the Will-current into less than useless
power plays, demoralizing materialist and superstitious
delusions, New Age jargon, etc. The classic example in the
Twentieth Century was the Nazi appropriation, under Black Lodge
influence, of the very concept of the ubermensch, and
sidetracking it into a pathetic racialist caricature of
Nietzsche's super being.

"We should found society upon a caste of 'men of earth,' sons of
the soil ..." said Crowley, "The worst thing they can do is what
is done in America, to disenchant the man of earth with his
destiny; to fill him with the facts and fancies that enthrall
etiolated and degenerated idealists and unfit him for his
evident purpose, that of supplying society with supermen." The
Black Lodge in the Nazi era totally discredited the concept of
the evolved human supermen by grafting it onto German
nationalist and racialist conceits, while suppressing the
Gnostic Church, the OTO, the Anthroposophical Society and even
lost-word freemasonry -- in short, anyone who might have an
actual understanding of the coming Being. The leading figure of
the OTO in Germany, the future Grand Master Karl Germer, was
placed in a concentration camp. His official crime was that he
knew and maintained relations with Aleister Crowley. The Chief
Bishop of the Universal Gnostic Church in France was executed by
the Nazis. Crowley, for his part, "on the outbreak of the War ..
.was invited to see the Director of British Naval Intelligence."
According to Gerald Suster, "Crowley claimed that he advocated
the use of two magical signs which were to boost British morale
and frequently used by Winston Churchill: the 'V' sign, which,
in magical terms, is the counter of the Swastika; and the '
Thumbs Up,' the Sign of the Phallus and Victory, which was
published in a pamphlet of Crowley poetry during the most
desperate days of 1940 and whose use spread throughout the
nation." War of the magicians, indeed!

I believe the New Age distortion of the New Aeon concept is a
direct attempt by the Black Lodge and its Inner Planes Rulers
(which we call, for convenience VALIS) to delay manifestation of
the Aeon by creating confusion among the receptive. Much of the
"White Light Channeling" clearly bears the stamp of the Black
Lodge and VALIS, an empty metaphysical blind of insipid psychic
trivia. Many self-improvement groups have their origins in the
ideas of failed magicians like L. Ron Hubbard. We have new age
centers that teach nothing useful, UFO message-oriented cults
waving flashlights on mountains, and, as I have shown
end-of-the-world doomsayers touting this or that grand cosmic
alignment, harmonic convergence or polar shift.

The UFO cults have clearly influenced even Kenneth Grant's
so-called "Typhonian OTO," which appears to use valid magical
currents to pursue the hideous old ones of H.P. Lovecraft's
fictional Cthulhu Mythos. Phil Dick's last efforts were marred
by insipid trivial UFO cult channelings -- the kind of stuff
that was old hat to hardened UFOlogists by the late 1950s.
Compare Phil Dick's musings in _The Last Testament_ with, for
example, the Mark Prophet or Dick Miller or Gloria Lee Bird
materials of UFO contactee lore.

The magick of the Black Lodge can be defined and thus identified
in only one way and by one set standard: the subversion of the
True Will. This is the essence of Black Magick, and is its only
true definition. Aleister Crowley explained it this way:

"The Magical Will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes
a beginning and an end, to will to be a thing is to admit you
are not that thing.

"Hence to will anything but the supreme thing is to wander still
further from it -- any will but that to give up the self to the
beloved is black magick -- yet the surrender is so simple an act
that to our complex minds it is the most difficult of all acts;
and hence training is necessary ...

"The majority of the people in this world are ataxic; they
cannot coordinate their mental muscles to make a purposed
movement. They have no real will, only a set of wishes, many of
which contradict others ...and at the end of life the movements
cancel out each other..."

Crowley's references to his wars with the Black Lodge are
scattered throughout his writings and bear further study. From
these writings, one can come to understand that the form of the
attack upon the magician can range from political repression to
seduction.

The great magicians, Theosophists and other Western sources have
devoted even more testimony to the other side of the coin -- the
"Great White Brotherhood" or "The Secret Chiefs" or "The Masters."
In the early days of the magical revival, the existence of an
inner order was taken for granted. This was followed by a long
epoch of expose, disillusionment and world weariness. But now,
revisionist historians are finding evidence that these groups,
usually described in mythic terms, are as material as they are
archetypal. They are, in very Truth, the "Inner Order" -- in
communication with and overlapping with Ultraterrestrial Sources.


::: The Reality of the Secret Chiefs :::

The mythology of the secret masters or chiefs and the myth of
the black lodge form an archetypal substratum of modern magical
lore which is almost a necessity if magick is not to drift into
a kind of bland parapsychological secular humanism or offbeat
psychology on the one hand, or a religious fundamentalism
grounded in a new faith substituted for Christianity. But one
should at least allow that the legend of secret chiefs may have
some rather literal basis in fact; that there are high masters
of the art scattered around the world, that they are in
communication with one another, and that how they use their
illumination depends upon their character and predisposition.
This is all that one must grant to consider the great
brotherhood, or secret chiefs, as well as their opposition
plausible.

In medieval Tibet, this was known as the "whispered succession."
It is an open part of the literature of Tantric Yoga, and the
often-invoked Tibetan connection of adepts and publicists comes
quickly to mind. It was the Hidden Church of Karl von
Eckartshausen that brought Aleister Crowley to the path, and
small wonder; von Eckartshausen wrote in the 18th century of

"...the society of the Elect, which has continued from the first
day of creation to the present time; its members, it is true,
are scattered all over the world, but they have always been
united in the spirit and in one truth ...

"It is from her that all truths penetrate into the world, she is
the School of the Prophets, and of all who search for wisdom,
and it is in this community alone that truth and the explanation
of all mystery is to be found. It is the most hidden of
communities yet possesses members from many circles; of such is
this School ...From all time, therefore, there has been a hidden
assembly, a society of the Elect, of those who sought for and
had capacity for light, and this interior society was called the
interior Sanctuary or Church."

In medieval European graal mythology, we find a strain of
accomplished Graal Templars going out in secret to govern and
protect far-flung populations, but (as in von Eschenbach's
Parzival), "...writing was seen on the Gral to the effect that
any Templar whom God should bestow on a distant people for their
lord must forbid them to ask his name or lineage, but must help
them gain their rights ...members of the Gral Company are now
forever averse to questioning, they do not wish to be asked
about themselves..."

As magical mythologist Aleister Crowley has a wonderful time
with both friend and foe in the fictional _Moonchild_, but his
nonfictional recounting of the same period comes uncomfortably
close to the metaphor of the war between the Great White
Brotherhood and the Black Lodge. Then we find the matter of
fact (if remarkable) essay on sexual magick, "Energized
Enthusiasm," interrupted, as it were, in midcourse by an
anecdotal accounting worthy of _Moonchild_.

"Thus far had I written when the distinguished poet, whose
conversation with me upon the Mysteries had incited me to jot
down these few rough notes, knocked at my door ...'If you come
with me now, we will finish your essay.' Glad enough of any
excuse to stop working, the more plausible the better, I
hastened to take down my coat and hat. 'By the way,' he
remarked in the automobile, 'I take it that you do not mind
giving me the Word of Rose Croix.' I exchanged the secrets of
I.N.R.I. with him..."

What followed was an account of a close encounter of a Most
Peculiar Kind, best read in the original.

Crowley, ever both rationalist and mystic, was aware of the
superficial difficulties in the idea of secret chiefs. Yet
he tended to be rather unambiguous on this matter.

"Yes; this involves a theory of the powers of the Secret Chiefs
so romantic and unreasonable that it seems hardly worth a smile
of contempt...I propose to quote it here in order to show that
the most ordinary events, apparently disconnected, are in fact
only intelligible by postulating some such people as the Secret
Chiefs..."

He remarks in this manner in his autobiography, but is still
quite convinced 20 or so years later when he notes, in _Magick
Without Tears_:

"They can induce a girl to embroider a tapestry, or initiate a
political movement to culminate in a world-war; all in pursuit
of some plan wholly beyond the purview or the comprehension of
the deepest and subtlest thinkers...But are They men, in the
usual sense of the word? They may be incarnate or discarnate:
it is a matter of Their convenience..."

We should take note of Paul Johnson's recent trailblazing study
of the theosophical masters. The essence may be boiled down to
this: secret chiefs or hidden masters may have good reason to
mythologize themselves, and encourage those in direct contact
with them to follow suit on the border where magical philosophy
meets with its political implications, the need for secrecy
assumes a more practical rationale. The Secret Chiefs may be
secret not because they are myths or immortals, but because they
are neither.


::: Do the Gods Leave Footprints? :::

The recent revisionist histories, especially Paul Johnson's _The
Masters_, Joscelyn Godwin's "hidden hand" articles, and our own
work with the "ciphers of the Secret Chiefs" (identical with
that of the UFOnauts) have begun to restore the political
component to historical understandings of the magical revival of
the late 19th century.

For Westerners, especially in America, the separation of Church
and State has been sufficient to make it difficult even to think
in terms of spirituality and political philosophy as a continuous
sphere. Even hardcore Bible-belters are unable to truly imagine
an established religion in the European sense, let alone in the
Asiatic. I believe most of us have virtually no idea of what makes
Islamic Republicanism tick, and we stand appalled not only at the
atrocities of Islamic Government, but at its sheer zeal. The idea
of Pat Robertson driving a truck filled with explosives into an
enemy military compound shouting "Jesus is Lord!" is ludicrous in
our imaginations. Put Billy Graham behind the wheel ... but you
get the point.

Yet, it has been shown that the founders of speculative
freemasonry in the 18th century, especially in its continental
version, were upholders of a radical spiritual, sometimes
republican political vision that captured the imagination of
many, including early socialists on the one hand and occultists
on the other. These tendencies meet and overlap, and explain
much about the nature of Masonic and occult secrecy, the cell
structure common to political radicals and occultists, and the
hostility of the established State and Church to both.

The Secret Chiefs of Theosophy, the Golden Dawn and the OTO may
be able to, as Crowley said, "initiate a political movement to
culminate in a world-war" (or prevent one), but if Paul Johnson's
thesis is correct, one should not conclude from this that they
are immune to arrest, torture and execution. Alessandro di
Cagliostro, almost certainly a (rather more public than would
seem judicious) Secret Chief, was arrested and condemned by the
Inquisition, dying in a Roman prison.

Johnson observes of some of his successors: "They were all
committed to an international effort to combat religious
dogmatism, extend the range of democratic government, and direct
public attention to the values of liberty, equality and
fraternity ...Sotheran's acquaintance with HPB began in Europe
among the disciples of Mazzini. Sotheran's account of
Cagliostro makes it clear that he regarded the work of Mazzini
and the Carbonari to be direct continuation of Cagliostro's
mission..."

Johnson's cast of characters in early Theosophical history
overlaps with occultist-magical history considerably. The great
Magi Papus, P.B. Randolph and John Yarker all come under
consideration by Johnson.

But before we inaugurate Karl Marx or Anarchist Emma Goldman as
"Secret Chiefs," we do need to avoid losing sight of the fact
that those who professedly encountered these hidden beings were
apt to describe them in terms of, at the least, superbeings in
human form.

Consider Henry Steel Olcott's account of an encounter at Lahore
with the legendary "K.H.":

"I was sleeping in my tent, the night of the 19th, when I rushed
back towards external consciousness on feeling a hand laid on me.
The camp being on the open plain, and beyond the protection of
the Lahore police, my first animal instinct was to protect
myself ...'Do you not know me? Do you not remember me?' It was
the voice of the Master K. H. A swift revulsion of feeling
came over me, I relaxed my hold on his arms, joined my palms in
reverential salutation, and wanted to jump out of bed to show
him respect. But his hand and voice stayed me, and after a few
sentences had been exchanged, he took my left hand in his,
gathered the fingers of his right into the palm, and stood quiet
beside my cot, from which I could see his divinely benignant
face by the light of the lamp ...Presently, I could feel some
soft substance forming in my hand, and the next minute the
Master laid his kind hand on my forehead, uttered a blessing,
and left ...I found myself holding in my left hand a folded
paper enwrapped in a silken cloth..."

The letter, as it turned out, predicted the death of two enemies
of the Theosophical Society, which swiftly came to pass. The
actual identity of "Master K.H." seems to be one Thakar Singh,
an enlightened radical Sikh leader, in contact with the worldwide
network of radicals of the 19th century.

Contrast Olcott's encounter with S.L. MacGregor Mathers' account
of his relations with the Secret Chiefs:

"It was found absolutely and imperatively necessary that there
should be some eminent Member especially chosen to act as the
link between the Secret Chiefs and the more external forms of
the Order. It was requisite that such a member should be me who,
while having the necessary and peculiar educational basis of
critical and profound Occult Archaeological Knowledge, should at
the same time not only be ready and willing to devote himself in
every sense to a blind and unreasoning obedience to those Secret
Chiefs..."

Israel Regardie described Mathers' fateful encounter in this way:

"While walking in the Bois de Bologne one day, meditating ...
Mathers claimed triumphantly that he was approached by three men.
He asserted that these were Adepts belonging to the hidden or
Secret Third Order, and therefore belonged to that category of
men described in The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary. Apparently, so
he claims, they had materialized themselves, and in that tense
emotional and spiritual atmosphere of Psychical phenomena,
confirmed him in the sole rulership of the Order."

Mathers observed that, for his part, "I believe they are human
beings living on this Earth, but possessed of terrible and super-
human powers."

As outre as these tales are, they coincide remarkably with close
encounter accounts from as early as St. Paul's fateful
experience on the road to Damascus, to Albert K. Bender's three
Men in Black.

The most intelligent discussion of what is delusion, dishonesty
and deception in all this, and what is not, is in Crowley's
_Magick Without Tears_. That it is scattered through the work
and written under an implicit assumption that the proofs of a
residue of concrete reality, however bizarre, are readily
obvious to the reader is unfortunate, in today's (properly) more
wary magical and UFOlogical circles. All that we attempt to
demonstrate here is that a plausible case can be made for
historical revision at this time. Johnson's tentative
identification of Theosophical Masters both demythologizes them
and adds to the credibility of their existence. If Johnson is
correct, the Secret Chiefs are not only real but they probably
have phone numbers -- doubtless unlisted.

Crowley observed dryly in a postscript: "A visitor's story has
just reminded me of the possibility that I am a Secret Chief
myself without knowing it: for I have sometimes been recognized
by other people as having acted as such, though I was not aware
of the fact at the time."

Brad Steiger observed in 1988, that, apparently, "...Space
Beings have placed themselves in the role of messengers of God,
or that we, in our desperation for cosmic messiahs who can
remove us from the foul situation we have made on this planet,
hope that there are such messengers who can extricate us from
the plight we have brought on ourselves." Only with the coming
of cipher knowledge can we decode the Pretended Saviors from
Authentic Benefactors or, better Allies. Taking into
consideration that UFO contactee George King and his Aetherius
Society are earnestly engaged in the war being waged by the
(Great White) Brotherhood against the Black Magicians, a group
they feel seeks to enslave the human race," as Steiger puts it,
the UFOlogy mythos and the magical mythos are shown clearly to
be cut from the same cloth. The nature of that cloth, in the
hands of Crowley or King, is now no longer obscure.


Excerpt from:

Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts
1994 by Allen H. Greenfeld
ISBN 1-881532-04-6
Illuminet Press, P.O.B. 2808, Lilburn, GA 30226