Lam

Lam (entity described by Aleister Crowley)

In December, he moved to New Orleans, his favourite US city, before spending February 1917 with evangelical Christian relatives in Titusville, Florida.^[125] Returning to New York City, he moved in with artist and A∴A∴ member Leon Engers Kennedy in May, learning of his mother’s death.^[126] After the collapse of The Fatherland, Crowley continued his association with Viereck, who appointed him contributing editor of arts journal The International. Crowley used it to promote Thelema, but it soon ceased publication.^[127] He then moved to the studio apartment of Roddie Minor, who became his partner and Scarlet Woman. Through their rituals, which Crowley called “The Amalantrah Workings”, he believed that they were contacted by a preternatural entity named Lam. The relationship soon ended.^[128]

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Have They Always Been With Us?

From Crowley’s Lam to Strieber’s Communion

Ritual Magic, Mind Control and the UFO Phenomenon – By Adam Gorightly

“It was through the Amalantrah Working — which included the ingestion of hashish and mescaline in its rituals — that Crowley came into contact with an interdimensional entity named Lam, who by the way just happens to be a dead ringer for the popular conception of the “Grey” alien depicted on the cover of Whitley Strieber’s Communion. Crowley called them “Enochian entities” because he purportedly contacted them by using “Enochian call”, a Cabalistic system/language devised by 17th century Elizabethan magician, Dr. John Dee. From this alleged encounter, some have inferred that the industrious Mr. Crowley intentionally opened a portal of entry through the practice of ritual magick, which allowed the likes of Lam and other “alien greys” a passageway onto Earth plane. Dr. John Dee and his “scryer”, Edward Kelly, had their own strange encounters with — as they call them — “little men” who moved about “in a little fiery cloud”, thus a pattern exists in the lore of ritual magic connecting UFOs to sorcery.”

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A noted disciple of Crowley’s, Jack Parsons — one time head of the California branch of the O.T.O., and renowned rocket scientist — carried on this tradition of interdimensional contact when, in 1946 — with the aid of “Frater H.” — he made contact with some sort of entities not at all unlike Crowley’s “Lam”. This all took place during a series of magic rituals deemed the Babalon Workings. What makes this story all the more bizarre is that Parson’s accomplice in this endeavor — the aforementioned Frater H. — became more commonly known afterwards as the charismatic cult leader L.Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.

Apparently, Hubbard played a role similar to that of Edward Kelly, “scryer” for the aforementioned Dr. John Dee, of whom Crowley was an ardent admirer. A scryer works as a receptor of otherworldly communications, often using a crystal ball or similar device in conjunction with the magician’s rituals and ceremonies to summon beings from other dimensions. Together magician and scryer work hand-in-hand in summoning these otherworldly beings: be they angels, demons or spirits of the dead. Crowley’s Scarlet Woman, in many instances, performed this same function; for instance Crowley’s first wife, Rose Kelly — while in a magical trance — received the first three chapters of the infamous Book of the Law, the manuscript that laid the foundation for Crowley’s “religion”, Thelema. Furthermore, the portal of entry for the extraterrestrial beings that Crowley theoretically opened (when he invoked the entity “Lam”) may have been further enlarged by Parsons and Hubbard with the commencement of the Babalon Working, thus facilitating a monumental paradigm shift in human consciousness. As Kenneth Grant wrote, “The [Babalon] Working began… just prior to the wave of unexplained ariel phenomena now recalled as the ‘Great Flying Saucer Flap!’ Parsons opened a door and something flew in.” Such researchers as John Carter suggest that the detonation of atomic bombs over Japan — during the latter part of World War II — may have also played a part in opening this door between dimensions or, at least, attracted the curiosity of our intergalactic neighbors.

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As if this entire story wasn’t already jumbled enough, the dawning of the 20th century ushered in a new generation of contacts paying homage to the “Dog Star”, expounding ever further upon the legend of the hovering eye upon the pyramid. Right around the turn of the century, a gentleman named Lucien-Francois Jean-Maine formed an order in Haiti called the Cult of the Black Snake that used rituals borrowed from Crowley’s O.T.O. in combination with certain voodoo practices. In 1922, these rituals reportedly summoned forth a disembodied being named Lam, the very same entity that Aleister Crowley made contact with a few years earlier. In fact, Kenneth Grant has stated that Crowley “unequivocally identifies his Holy Guardian Angel with Sothis(Sirius), or Set-Isis.”

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During this period — 1973-74 — noted author Robert Anton Wilson was having his own experiences with “Et denizens” which at the time he thought were “telepathic communications from Sirius” as recounted in his mind-blowing book, Cosmic Trigger. Although Wilson and Dick knew one another — and Wilson was aware that he had had some sort of transcendental experience in March of 1974 — Dick never mentioned Sirius in any of their conversations, or anything in reference to being contacted by “aliens”. It wasn’t until many years later — when he read VALIS — that Wilson became aware of this revelation. It should also be noted that in the late 60’s/early 70’s Robert Anton Wilson traveled down some of the same paths as Aleister Crowley, dabbling in ritual magic and psychedelic adventurism as a means of opening certain doors of perception, perhaps the very same ones that created a portal of entry for “Lam”.