From the DU, from Az.OtEp XI

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Aleister Crowley's Lam & the Little Grey Men
A Striking Resemblance
By Daniel V.Boudillion

Preface:
This report presupposes two very outlandish things: that there are
"aliens", and that some people (occultists) have "magickal powers." It
is not the point of this report to prove whether or not there are such
beings or powers. What is known is that there are people who believe
that there are such beings and believe that they have such powers. The
crux of this report is based on what people believe, which may be very
different from the way things really are. Please bear this in mind.

This report also recounts some very curious behavior on the part of a
number of people. These behaviors and events actually did take place
and are fact. However, the supposed results of these events are
entirely subjective and entirely in the realm of belief. It is not my
purpose to try to prove or disprove the beliefs of the people
involved. It's what they did (and do) because of these beliefs that
interest me.

Introduction:
I first became curious about a possible connection between the "grey
aliens" of popular UFO culture and the activities of certain
occultists after seeing several of UFO investigator Ray Fowler's books
on the recommended reading list of a satanic website. In an idle
moment I had done a Google search on Ray's book, The Watchers II, and
one of the spots that listed it - much to my surprise - was the
recommended reading list of a satanic group. (It is not my moral
judgment that this group is satanic, the group itself calls itself
satanic.)
I found this both disturbing and inexplicable - for what reason would
a UFO book be included in the curriculum of a satanic group, and why
Ray's book in particular? I emailed Ray and asked him if he had any
insight into the situation, but he was as perplexed as I was. And
there matters rested for a year or so until additional information
came into my hands, information that may indicate - much as John Keel
himself believed (Mothman Prophesies) - that occult activity may be an
ingredient of the "grey alien" mystery.
The pictures below bear a resemblance and may hold the key. The first
picture is a drawing made by occultist Alistair Crowley of an entity
he had invoked repeatedly in 1918 and called "Lam." The second picture
is a composite drawing by Ann Direnger (Contact of the 5th Kind -
Imbrogno) of an "alien" type reported throughout 1980's in the Hudson
Valley. Having noticed the similarity, I proceeded to investigate the
connection.

Lam "Alien"

Purpose of the Report:
It is the purpose of this report to investigate a similarity and
possible connection, and particularly answer the question "For what
reason would a UFO book be included in the curriculum of a satanic
group, and why Ray Fowler's book The Watchers II in particular?"

Investigation

Aleister Crowley:
The Englishman Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947) was one of the most
notorious occultists of his day, and perhaps of modern times. Self-
styled as "The Beast 666," he went out of his way to live up to it
with his sensationalism and self-promotion. He wrote a number of
textbooks on ceremonial magick, most of which are still in print
today. He also founded and was head of a number of occult
fraternities. In short, he exerted a significant influence on occult
circles that has continued to grow dramatically, long after his death.

The Amalantrah Working:
In January through March of 1918 Crowley began a series of magickal
workings called the Amalantrah Workings in furnished rooms in Central
Park West, New York City. These were a performed via Sexual &
Ceremonial Magick (his spelling) with the intent to invoke certain
"intelligences" to physical manifestation. In actuality, the workings
typically manifested as a series of visions and communications
received through the mediumship of his partner, Roddie Minor.
Be that as it may, at least one such "intelligence" was brought into
physical manifestation via the Magickal Portal they created. (A portal
in this context is a "magickally" created rent in the fabric of time
and space.) The entity that came through is the one pictured above
left. Crowley maintained the picture is actually a portrait and drawn
from real life. This entity either called itself "Lam," or was named
"Lam" by Crowley. Either way, he considered it to be of
interdimensional origin, which was the term then for extraterrestrial.
In communications with Lam, the symbolism of the egg featured
prominently.
Crowley included the portrait of Lam in his Dead Souls exhibition held
in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1919. In that same year it was
published as a frontispiece labeled The Way to Crowley's commentary to
Blavatsky's The Voice of the Silence. Beneath the picture was the
following inscription: "LAM is the Tibetan word for Way or Path, and
LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the
Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical value is
71, the number of this book."
Other than this, there is no commentary extant from Crowley upon the
subject of Lam except for material published by disciples such as
Kenneth Grant. Interestingly, Crowley gave the drawing to Grant in
1945.

Cult of Lam:
Since Crowley's time, several occult groups and individuals following
in his footsteps have claimed to have intentionally and successfully
contacted "Lam." Most notably, Michael Bertiaux in the 1960's followed
by a group of O.T.O initiates in the 1970's. (The O.T.O. is the Ordo
Templi Orientis, a Magickal order run by Crowley.) These individuals
consider "Lam" to be a trans-mundane or extraterrestrial entity and
claimed remarkable success in their invocations - if they are to be
believed.
Following the success of these contacts, interest in occult circles,
especially Crowleyian ones, gathered considerable steam. In 1987,
Kenneth Grant, the generally acknowledged successor to Crowley, went
so far as to formalize the Lam Workings into something called the Cult
of Lam. To quote from Grant's Typhonian O.T.O.

website:
"The Cult [of Lam] has been founded because very strong intimations
have been received by Aossic Aiwass, 718'.' to the effect that the
portrait of Lam (the original drawing of which was given by 666'.' to
718'.' under curious circumstances) is the present focus of an extra-
terrestrial - and perhaps trans-plutonic - Energy which the O.T.O. is
required to communicate at this critical period, for we have now
entered the Eighties mentioned in The Book of the Law. It is Our aim
to obtain some insight not only into the nature of Lam, but also into
the possibilities of using the Egg as an astral space-capsule for
travelling to Lam's domain, or for exploring extra-terrestrial spaces
in the sense in which O.T.O. Tantric Time-Travelers are exploring the
Tunnels of Set in intra-cosmic and chthonian capsules.
Members of the O.T.O. who feel strongly attracted to this Cult of Lam
are invited to apply for participation therein. It is open only to
Order members. They should contact Frater Ani Asig, 375'.' of the
Sovereign Sanctuary, O.T.O. and submit a formal, typewritten and
signed acceptance of the conditions of Working outlined here.
It should be understood that proficiency in the magical formulae of
this Cult does not necessarily comport eligibility for advancement in
the O.T.O., its parent Order."
Concurrently, a manuscript called "The Lam Statement" was circulated
among O.T.O. initiates with a view to "regularizing the mode of
rapport and constructing a magical formula for establishing
communication with Lam."

Who is Lam?:
It is interesting to note that since Crowley's time, in occult terms
at least, Lam is considered a class of entity rather than an
individual being. When one invokes Lam, they are invoking an entity of
that type, rather than a specific being. For occultists operating
along O.T.O. lines, the idea is to invoke these Lam entities through
Magickal Portals (intentionally created rents in time and space) into
physical manifestation on planet earth. Why this is desirable is not
always so clearly stated. (It often appears that within Crowleyian
circles the working rule is often: "If Crowley did it, I want to do
it, too.")
Michael Bertiaux, a Lam contactee and invoker of note, viewed Lam as
the "subterranean burgeoning of Lucifer-Gnosis." Considering that
Gnosis means an intuitive knowing, this would mean that knowing Lam is
to know a welling-up from the unconscious of an inner knowing of
Lucifer. (The Occult being the occult, it is important to bear in mind
that occultists at least may not necessarily see Lucifer as the devil,
but rather as a "light bringer" who fell to earth.)
Bertiaux goes on to say that Lam is the natural mode of human
evolution in the present Aeon - indicating that to him and his
followers this Lucifer-Gnosis is the appropriate path of human
spiritual growth at this time.
Crowley termed the intentional cultivation of spiritual growth the
"Great Work." And the Great work for Crowley, "...involved precisely
the establishment of contact with non-human intelligences."
Intelligences such as Lam. Using the language of Crowley's time,
certain non-human intelligences such as Lam were what we today would
term "extraterrestrial."

A Portal Opened:
It is generally agreed within occult circles that Crowley
intentionally opened a portal of entry via magick ritual in the
Amalantrah Workings which allowed the likes of Lam and other similar
entities a passageway onto the earth-world. The rift "in-between the
spaces of the stars," created by the Amalantrah Working, created a
gateway through which Lam and other extra-cosmic influences could
enter the known universe, and most particularly, our earth-world.
According to occultists involved in such things, the Portal has since
widened.

The Babylon Working:
According to occult lore, the Portal was further enlarged by a Jet
Propulsion Laboratory founder and rocket fuel scientist named Jack
Parsons, and Scientology and Dianetics founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1946,
facilitating - so it is said - a monumental paradigm shift in human
consciousness. This Magickal working was called the Babylon Working,
and like the Amalantrah Working on which its ritual was patterned, it
was based on ceremonial sex magick.
Together they "endeavoured to ... incarnate a physical aspect of
Babylon, the Scarlet Woman of the Book of Revelations (17:3-6). They
believed that Babylon was the herald of the new Age of Horus, and that
Revelations was the understandably negative interpretation by those of
the dying Age of Osiris."
The gist of it was that Parsons desired to take the spirit of Babylon,
the "Whore of Babylon," and invest it in a human being. The idea was
to create a child in the spiritual world, and then call down the
spiritual baby and direct it into a human womb. When born, this child
would incarnate the forces of Babylon, which they considered to be a
good thing.
(Although Crowley had previously written the somewhat hilarious book
Moonchild - concerning a similar experiment - he wrote in a letter:
"Apparently Parsons and Hubbard or somebody is producing a moonchild.
I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these louts.")
In any event, the rites were duly performed as written from January
4th to 15th of that year. It is not known if a spiritual child was
enwombed from them. What is known is that the Magickal Portal first
created by Crowley, and which originally let Lam into the earth-world,
was reestablished with considerable intensity by Parsons and Hubbard.
From the diaries of the participants, it is also clear that they were
not as adept as Crowley in the closings of portals. What they seemed
to have accomplished was the drastic enlargement and ripping of an
existing Magickal Portal and the subsequent non-closure of it. Perhaps
the rip they created was not possible to close. In any event, the
modern UFO era began exactly a year and a half later on June 24th,
1947, with Kenneth Arnold's sighting over the Cascade Mountains in
Washington State.

Grey Aliens:
The "grey aliens," slight-bodied, big-headed, large-dark-eyed manikin
creatures are primarily an American phenomena. And, it is interesting
to note that all the Lam workings were done in America.
Reports of these UFO-associated entities became prevalent in the
1980's and made the big time with Whitley Strieber's book Communion.
The "greys" appear eerily similar to Lam, with the exception of Lam
not having the large insectoid wraparound eyes reported of the
"greys." However, there are variations of these small manikins that
very much resemble a Lam. See the second of the two pictures at the
top of this page. This entity is a composite of a variation commonly
seen in the 1980's. Rather than grey, its skin tone is clay-white and
the facial features are different. In fact, the resemblance to the Lam
pictured by Crowley is virtually exact.
Also and perhaps most significantly, Kenneth Grant, head of the
current O.T.O., states that: "Lam is a Great Old One whose archetype
is recognizable in accounts of UFO occupants." It would seem from this
official Typhonian statement that the current invokers of Lam are
absolutely clear that Lam and the grey-aliens are one.

Discussion

Back to the Questions:
The questions that initiated this investigation and report were: What
possible connection is there between the "grey aliens" of popular UFO
culture and the activities of certain occultists & for what reason
would a UFO book be included in the curriculum of a satanic group, and
why Ray Fowler's book The Watchers II in particular?

Question One Discussion:
Based on face value of the evidence, a theory could be constructed
that not only are the Lams "grey aliens," but that the arrival of the
"grey aliens" in American UFO culture was facilitated solely by the
magical workings of Aleister Crowley and later disciples working in
his footsteps. There are official O.T.O. groups today, such as the
Cult of Lam, that are dedicated to invoking the Lam entities into the
earth-world. According to their literature, not only is contact with
non-human entities an integral component of spiritual growth, but the
"Lam Consciousness" of Lucifer-Gnosis is the "natural mode of human
evolution in the present Aeon." Thus these grey-alien/Lam entities are
deemed worthy of invocation into the earth-world on behalf of the
interests of humanity's evolution.
According to the face value of the evidence, one could also theorize
that the Magickal Portal that Crowley created in the Amalantrah
Working brought through the first of these beings. However, the Portal
constructed was properly closed. In contrast, when Parsons and Hubbard
did their similarly constructed Babylon working involving the opening
of the same Portal, either they ripped the portal beyond ability to be
repaired and closed, or it was enlarged beyond their ability to close
it. In either case, the Portal - according to the evidence - has
remained opened ever since to all manner of interdimensional entities
to ingress upon the earth-world at will. The Parsons/Hubbard working
effectively opened the world to the modern UFO entity situation. And,
based on the Lucifer-Gnosis construct, O.T.O.-style occultists have
continued to pull further interdimensional entities through this rip
or unclosable portal.
Of course, Kenneth Grant's statement noted above ("Lam is a Great Old
One whose archetype is recognizable in accounts of UFO occupants") is
the final proof that the Crowleyian occultists fully believe that they
are indeed invoking "grey aliens" into the earth-world.

Two Cents for John Keel:
Noted UFO/Fortean researcher and author John Keel felt that much of
the paranormal situations he investigated, such as the "Mothman," were
at root due to occult activity of some sort. And it looks like he was
on to something.
Interestingly, part of the ritual for invoking Lam, or Lams, is to
begin by meditating on the eyes of Crowley's Lam portrait. To quote
Kenneth Grant: "To gaze into the eyes of this entity is to invite
potent contact. One feels an immediate sensation of lightness, of
weightlessness, and then a sensation of falling... of being sucked
into a vortex...." Sound familiar? It is well known among UFO
investigators that the eyes of the "grey aliens" have a powerful
effect on the witness. Witnesses often feel like they are being sucked
into their eyes. They also invoke deep feelings of fear.
Grant continues with instructions: "The eyes will enlarge and will
suck in [your] consciousness until there arises a sensation of being
within the entities head." (Again, this is presented as a good thing.)
In any event, the first gate of consciousness is obviously through the
eyes. And thus one who would meditate upon the eyes of a portrait of
such a entity will indeed begin the process of opening a portal within
themselves to the entity. In other words, you don't have to be a
trained occultist to raise hell in yourself, which is also one of
Keel's contentions.

Question Two Discussion:
Why would Ray Fowler's Watcher series be recommended by Satanists as
part of their curriculum? First, most Satanists have an interest in
magick. Second, the kind of magick is almost always Crowleyian magick.
Third, a significant portion of the Crowleyain world feel that
invoking Lam, or Lams, is a necessary part of moving human evolution
ahead. Fourth, Lams are the occult label for "grey aliens." Fifth, the
most comprehensive books on the habits and idiosyncrasies of the
"greys" are Ray Fowler's Watcher series. If you want to know all about
the "greys," you read Fowler.

Summary:
1) "Grey Aliens" are Lams, and were first contacted via magickal
ritual by Alistair Crowley. Further magickal ritual along similar
lines created a situation where direct access for these entities to
the earth-world was established. Certain groups and people believe
this to be beneficiary to humanity, and continue to draw these beings
into the earth-world through magickal ritual via the original access
point.
2) Satanists are involved in Crowleyain Lam invocations and recommend
Ray's books for their extensive content on the habits and
idiosyncrasies of the "greys" (Lams).

Conclusion:
It is now clear why Ray Fowler's books were recommended reading. This
part of the puzzle, and the primary reason I wrote the report, has
been solved to my satisfaction.
The secondary question raised by investigating the first (do "aliens"
or "lams" actually exist) is a far different matter. People's actions
are objective, but the motivations are based on the subjectivity of
beliefs. What one person believes to be "reality" may not be in the
least "real" to another.
At a certain level - and for the purposes of this report - it does not
really matter if these beings and powers are objectively "real" or
not. What is significant and of pertinence here is that many members
of the occult community (O.T.O./Crowleyian) do indeed believe these
beings and powers to be "real" and govern themselves accordingly. They
spend considerable time attempting communication and invocation of
them. They believe it is for the benefit of us all, although if this
were generally known, I would think it would be a point of some
considerable debate.

Addendum

Lam Lore:
According to O.T.O.
chief Kenneth Grant:
Lam is known to be a link between the star systems of Sirius and
Andromeda.
Lam is the gateway to the Void. Its number, 71, is that of "NoThing",
an apparition.
Lam, as a Great Old One, whose archetype is recognizable in accounts
of UFO occupants.
Lam has been invoked to fulfill the work set afoot by Aiwass; as a
reflex of Aiwass.
Lam as the transmitter to AL of the vibrations of LA via MA, the key
to the Aeon of Maat.
Lam is the occult energy beaming the vibrations of Maat and may
proceed from that future aeon...

Finis

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Is this true, not true? Does man need any intervention? We have our
Religions, and our ties that bind, our loves and our lusts, do we
really need alien intervention, would it in anyway be beneficial for
us.

My take on this is No, for now. We need Divinity, or at the very basic
level, Paradise.