What connections could I possibly have found between (1) the late 19th century master of the occult, Aleister Crowley, (2) Zahi Hawass, the current Director of Antiquites at Giza, Egypt, and (3) the enigmatic and controversial Face On Mars? And, moreover, what do these people, places and things have to do with UFOs and Extraterrestrials? Get ready for high strangeness. This isn't your Grandfather's nuts & bolts UFO scenario. To answer these questions I must first lay out a bit of background. And, as I do, keep in mind what Shakespear once wrote, "There are more things in Heaven and in earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy".
When doing research they say to follow wherever the research may lead. My research has consistantly led me to consider the paranormal, the mystical, the occultic elements and aspects of the UFO
phenomenon. Perhaps this was an unconscious bias stemming from our "ET contact" over a 3 month period in 1967-68 (Note: two other people were involved so I refer to it as "our" experience). The experience definitely had paranormal elements and bordered on what some would call "occult" because of the method of the communication. Having said that, and without launching into the whole story, suffice it to say my research over the years (as an attempt to explain our contact experience) has seemed almost "guided". By that I mean synchronicity has played a strong part in terms of how and where I found, and continue to find, information I need, when I need it. That, in itself, seems rather odd. Now, I'll try to put this whole thing in a nutshell and get to the point. It was our contact experience which first alerted me to the idea that there could be paranormal aspects to the UFO/ET phenomenon. But it would be several years before I would find out just how deeply connected our experience was and how far into the whole UFO/ET phenomenon the paranormal/occult influence actually ran.
Several years ago I discovered interesting similarities between our contact experience and that of one George Hunt Williamson, a character well known to serious students of UFO lore. Williamson was a friend of the more well publicized George Adamski. Williamson eventually journeyed into the Andes mountains of South America, changed his name to Brother Philip and founded the Brotherhood Of The Seven Rays. In the end, he found himself in Long Beach, California where he died. Not only was his contact experience significantly similar to ours but, in a fittingly synchronistic manner, he died in Long Beach, California; the same town where, ten years later, we had our contact experience. Williamson's contact experience and his subsequent activities definitely had paranormal/occult overtones. I was beginning to get a clue. I was standing at the door.
About the same time I discovered the Williamson story I also "happened" to find a book called "Secret Cipher Of The UFOnauts" by UFO researcher and student of the occult, Allen Greenfield. With the information in this book I was not just standing at the door, I was opening it. Again, to make a very long story very short, I'll just say that through this book I discovered what appeared to be real connections between our contact experience and the experiences of other contactees from the 1950s and into the early 1960s. The connections related to two elements of the shared experiences:
(1) names of ET "personas", and several words purported to be of an ET language
(2) the relationship of these words, by way of a cipher, to words and phrases in a mysterious little book called, "Liber AL vel Legis" or The Book Of The Law.
The Book Of The Law, was penned in 1904 by none other than that master of the occult arts, Aleister Crowley. But it was dictated to him by a non human entity which appeared to him while he was honeymooning in Cairo, Egypt. The name of this entity (which some claim, by Crowley's discription, bore an uncanny remblance to the modern Men In Black) was Aiwass (more on this in a minute). To give you an idea of what The Book Of The Law is like, I'll quote from my book, Convergence:
It is very enigmatic and reads with an almost poetic madness like the ravings of a spiritual entity venting its frustrations, feeling as if its self-proclaimed glory, wonder, power and perfection were being ignored. Much of the text made references to names and events which I could not understand. There were passages which reminded me of some of the "jealous god" ravings of the Old Testament. On the other hand, there are passages which present this entity in a rather familiar light, but not a very positive one:
"I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight & bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all! It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocense is a lie. Be strong, o man! Lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. I am alone. There is no God where I am."
I really didn't know what to make of this whole manuscript. On the whole, it seemed to be a confused blend of good and evil, almost schizophrenic. But the important part of this piece of work, at least for our experience, was the code or cipher which was embedded within it.
This cipher, it turns out could be applied to certain words and phrases purported to be from an alien language. Indeed, as I learned by way of correspondence with Greenfield, our experience did yield words and phrases which fit the cipher. This was another indication to me that I was on the right track.
Jumping ahead now to July of 1997 (four months after the extraordinary UFO event which took place in Phoenix, AZ, a location which I will tie in as we continue), while doing a search on the internet for something regarding Crowley, I came across the picture of him which accompanies this article. I sat back in my chair, almost stunned. The picture, to me, strongly resembled the well known Face On Mars (which I inserted for comparison). It was at that moment a lot of puzzle
Over the previous several weeks and months, Richard Hoagland had been talking about Mr. Zahi Hawass, the Director of Egyptian Antiquities at Giza and how Hawass was supposedly conducting illegal excavations under the Great Pyramid, and all sorts of other nefarious activities. Hoagland also claimed that Hawass, who had no apparent connection with NASA, had chosen all of the landing sites for the planetary exploration missions NASA had sent up over the past several years. While this seemed preposterous, I actually met a person who, with high level security clearance, worked for the Boeing Aero Space Division. He told me face to face that he was present one time when Hawass entered a planning room and did, in fact, choose the landing site for one of our Lunar missions. In addition to this, Hoagland had brought out other strange things, connecting ancient Egyptian ceremony and Masonic symbology with NASA. Then he went even further and began to bring Phoenix, Arizona into the picture.
Suddenly, staring at this weird photo of Crowley wearing an Egyptian head-dress, and resembling the Face On Mars, I was struck by the similarity between the name of the entity that appeared to Crowley in 1904 (while he was sitting at a table just a stone's throw from the Great Pyramid) and the name of the current Director of Antiquities at Giza. Aiwass? Hawass? For all I knew, the names were the same. After all, Crowley may have spelled the name phonetically yet incorrectly, based only on having heard it pronounced. I'm not suggesting Aiwass and Hawass are the same person. I'm suggesting it is another clue, by way of Jungian synchronicity, that something very strange may be happening: