By calculating the numeric value of a word using the embedded cipher (like INDRID COLD), and then matching up that value with the numeric values of words contained in Liber AL vel Legis, you gain insight into the true nature of the ultraterrestrials and possibly even eavesdrop on their communications with each other. Greenfield’s hypothesis was that a cipher was purposefully buried into Liber AL vel Legis, which the UFOnauts – or ultraterrestrials – used to communicate symbolically with us and other ultaterrestrials. But such answers seemed, like the Masonic 3rd Degree, somehow incomplete. I had been a UFOlogist for 30 years and a student of the western occult tradition for almost as long before I hit upon a discovery that could completely change forever the way any intelligent student thinks-or should think-about either UFOlogy or the occult. I had long noted, for exampl e, that in the earlier contactee cases, when names were given by the purported aliens for themselves, their home world, etc., they often were very odd nam es. I looked many years ago for puns. I mused that perhaps, for example, W oodrow Derenberger’s 1966 encounter in W est Virginia with INDRID COLD from the planet LANULUS had something to do with myth and legend. Jacques V allee and John K eel had both pointed out the connection with mythic names and legends, and I thought LANULUS might be a play on “LAND YOU LOST” or “LAND YOU LUST” - a reference to Atlantis lore, or legendary shadow lands such as Færie or Magonia.

Greenfield thus applied this knowledge to the high weirdness of the contactee movement and the menagerie of weird alien entities and their vaguely Greek, sci-fi nomme de guerres. It was dubbed the New Aeon English Qabalah, or NAEQ for short. It was long speculated the book contained some sort of secret cipher or code, and work began on decoding it almost from the very beginning, starting with the work of Frater Achad.Īs described by Greenfield in his book, the cipher was finally decoded (or so we believe) in 1974 by a group of researchers including Jake Stratton-Kent, based on the curious grid on Sheet 16 of Chapter III in Liber AL vel Legis.

Written over the course of three days and nights in a Cairo apartment, Liber AL vel Legis serves as the primary holy text of the Ordo Templi Orientis, or OTO for short. Greenfield’s book, title aforementioned, is an exploration of what he claims is a secret cipher embedded into Aleister Crowley’s channeled message from ultraterrestrial herald Aiwass, The Book of the Law, or Liber AL vel Legis. Wriste, the Shaver Mystery, and Greenfield’s infamous Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts. Allen Greenfield is back on the scene, along with his pal Terry R. Suddenly, our old saucerian and former OTO clergyman T. Tonight I decided to embark on a completely ludicrous quest, inspired by the Planet Weird documentary series Hellier that premiered last week.

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