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Vol 12 No 2 (April 2018) from NewDawnMagazine Website
This presumption is based on the theory that alien-astronauts visited the Earth in ancient times to establish off-world colonies and engineer the process of human evolution.
Since the aliens
supposedly come from worlds other than our own, or so the theory
goes, it follows they must be extra-terrestrial.
Evidence of a kind, however, does exist for an alternate theory about the ontological nature of alien entities.
This is the view that aliens are trans-dimensional entities inhabiting the myriad layers of alternate dimensions that interpenetrate the Multiverse, 'in' the world as we know it and yet not really 'of' the world.
(1924–2011)
Similarly, Crowley's disciple and protégé, Kenneth Grant, head of the UK branch of the OTO for many years and author of the monumental 9-volume Typhonian Trilogies series, also made the argument that aliens are trans-dimensional.
Grant went a bit further than Crowley due to the fact that the UFO craze was gathering steam when Grant was starting his own career (Grant's Typhonian New Isis Lodge was in active operation between the years 1955-1962).
Studying the documents of the early contactees such as George Adamski, Betty and Barney Hill, and Howard Menger, Grant attempted to reconcile ufology, which he referred to as "ufologicks," with mainstream occult theory & practice.
When the order was wracked with schism, Crowley left and founded his own more congenial magickal order, the Argenteum Astrum.
Later, in 1912, Crowley became the Grand Master of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) in the UK, where he developed his special, stylized brand of sex magick based on Tantric and Yezidis sources.
(1875–1947)
The "change" Crowley refers to is,
This is accomplished by utilizing the latent, psychic powers of the mind and activating the psycho-sexual power zones that reside in key areas of the body and the brain, the areas known as the chakras...
As a necessary preliminary step towards making the "magick" happen, so to speak, the magickal practitioner must achieve contact with a genuine alien entity, something not connected to the practitioner's own mind or body.
Crowley referred to this entity by the rather fanciful name "Holy Guardian Angel" (HGA), and he described the experience of contacting the HGA somewhat less fancifully as obtaining "Knowledge & Conversation."
Crowley insisted that contact with the HGA was absolutely required before the magickal practitioner could hope to utilize the powers and energies of lesser entities such as spirits, elementals, demons and so forth (none of which, it must be remembered, can be wholly disassociated from the mind of the practitioner).
And finally, Crowley insisted that,
As Crowley writes:
Crowley offers a three-fold definition of an alien entity:
This last point is implicit in Crowley's statement but it is there nonetheless.
The magickal practitioner is expected to achieve the knowledge and conversation of the HGA via magickal or mystical methods:
In contrast, extra-terrestrial entities cannot be reached by using any of these methods:
In his lifetime Crowley achieved contact with only one alien entity of this nature, and that was the alien known as Lam or Aiwaz (the two are sometimes distinguished by occult scholars, but they were virtually synonymous in Crowley's mind and I shall therefore speak of them as one entity in this essay).
Crowley also had direct contact with Lam in America later in 1915 and 1919.
Crowley drew a portrait of Lam and included it with some of his expressionist paintings in an exhibition held in Greenwich Village, New York City, 1919.
This drawing was reproduced for the first time in The Equinox, Vol. III, No. 1 (1972); Kenneth Grant reproduced the same drawing in The Magical Revival (1972) and Outside the Circles of Time (1980).
Lam has a small, diminutive body visible only from the chest on up, covered by a coarse, wool-textured robe.
The area of the head above the eyebrows and the bridge of the nose is very high, bulbous and hairless; it is more than twice as long as the lower area.
There
is a faint, mushroom-cloud shape etched into the expansive forehead. The face itself is
scrunched down low between the eyebrows and the chin; the eyes are
narrow and slanted, the pupils tiny, the nose long, the mouth a mere
slit.
Grey-skinned humanoids have been reported as being 3-4 feet tall with bald, elongated heads, black almond eyes and slits for mouths. There are descriptions of diminutive green humanoids, also bald with elongated heads, slanted eyes, slit-mouths.
There are even accounts of small silvery creatures who resemble the other two types.
In this context, it is
worth noting that all of these alien archetypes are virtually
equivalent to the 1950s Hollywood Science Fiction versions of aliens
- the big-brained, bug-eyed, little green or gray men that still
crop up occasionally in SF films on TV and in the cinema today.
This is eerily applicable to our contemporary times where young millennials are addicted to their smartphones, cherishing them more, seemingly, than the hands that hold them, as they pump unceasing bits of social and entertainment data directly into their brains.
Perhaps in the future, as our technologies advance and proliferate, we will see increasing levels of "ocular anxiety" and depersonalization of the type mentioned by Skal.
But this is more or less a human thing.
Alien entities such as Lam do not have big heads because of information overload:
From its inception,
Grant's New Isis Lodge reflected Crowley's hopes, which he
articulated in his diaries during the last two years of his life,
for a fundamentally different, re-structured OTO, focused less on
initiation and more on promoting and fostering communication with
alien entities.
These power-zones would
form a loosely-knit network of occult groups using the Ophidian
Current to prepare human consciousness for intercourse with the
denizens of other dimensions.
The main lodge facility was reserved for visiting magickal practitioners and performance artists who were allowed to stage their own creative rites on a first-come, first-serve basis, using lodge members occasionally for support and backup.
Grant's guardian angel was named Aossic-Aiwass, and not surprisingly it closely resembled LAM.
Grant provides plates in the various volumes of his Typhonian Trilogies series that show the faces of the alien entities he communicated with over the course of his magickal experiments, both during his tenure as head of the New Isis Lodge and afterwards.
These aliens also resemble Lam.
An alien known only as Desmodus is shown in Plate 8 of Outer Gateways (1994), this was drawn by Grant.
These examples are clear
evidence the alien entities that haunted Grant's magickal chambers
and the chambers of his imagination are the same diminutive,
big-brained creatures that appear to countless contactees and
abductees.
In Outside the Circles of Time (1980), Grant calls into question the whole extra-terrestrial vs trans-dimensional dichotomy, seeing outer space as a form of inner space, especially when it comes to alien beings.
This takes aliens out of
their metal ships and plants them squarely in alternate dimensions.
Grant theorizes that aliens are largely "etheric," not quite astral-entities but closer in substance to the astral than they are to the physical. Grant extends this theory to include alien ships.
These ships, according to
Grant, are etheric - astral shells or capsules fabricated by the
trans-dimensional aliens as a necessary by-product to assist in
reification on the physical plane.
Sightings in this category appear to be far in excess of those in which the occupants of UFO's are considered to be flesh-and-blood beings... that suggests that ufonauts are of a substance more subtle than their vehicles, as the astral body of man is more subtle, or less dense, than his physical body.
Such might be the case,
for example, if an astral entity fabricated for itself an etheric
shell, or capsule, as in the practice known as the magickal
assumption of god-forms.
He defined ufologicks in obscure terms as,
When we get past the over-inflated terminology, the meaning is rather simple:
Unfortunately, Grant died before he could take practical steps to implement this new system.
But he did leave behind some notes on an improvised magickal rite which could be used to summon Lam. Grant instructs the magickal practitioner to gaze at the portrait of Lam, concentrating attention on the eyes.
As concentration deepens, the eyes will start to enlarge, and they will suck you into the portrait so that you have the sensation of being inside the entity's head.
Then, Grant tells us,
Grant doesn't elaborate on what might occur if the upward path is chosen, but he is very explicit about the downward option.
The results are quite dramatic, and they deserve full quotation here.
This rite serves as an excellent example of what the formal rites for a ufologick lodge might have looked like if Grant had lived to establish his proposed magickal system.
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At the present day, the
descendants of Lura are the magickal practitioners -
magickians, mystics and psychonauts - who seek supra-human knowledge
and power.
Real or Not Real?
This is especially true when it comes to the extra-terrestrial alien. In all fairness, it must be noted that the evidence for the existence of the trans-dimensional alien is equally weak.
We have examined the testimony of Crowley and Grant, but,
The issue here boils down to the distinction between the imaginary world and the so-called 'real' world.
In the last few decades, quantum physics has eroded our views about reality, and the theories of contemporary scientists are beginning to sound a lot like the theories of the magickal practitioners, both past and present.
The line between what is
real and what is not is no longer distinct, and in the absence of
certainty we are free to believe what we will.
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