| The oldest contactee of importance to mention would be John Ballou Newbrough (1828-1891), an American dentist who wrote through automatic writing a book titled Oahspe, a New Bible, in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Ambassadors (1882). Oahspe could be said to have been a precursor to the Urantia material we will cover in the next paragraphs. It included a galactic hierarchy, along with biblical characters like Jesus and angels called “ashars” who flew around in “etherial” vehicles much like the Asvins we read about in the Rig Veda with descriptions in language which sound a lot like the words of Meade Lynne in describing “ether ships.” (5) Being a dentist, one has to wonder if he had access to nitrous oxide, a popular method of getting high at the time, discovered first in 1772, which I consider to be an “etheric substance,” and which catapulted me into writing this book. The more modern part of our contactee story starts with Jack Parsons (October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952), who practiced magic with the founder of Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard. Parsons became a Thelemite under Aleister Crowley by joining the Ordo Templi Orientis lodge in 1941. Parsons was previously an American rocket engineer, rocket propulsion researcher and chemist who worked for Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL), but was fired due to his involvement with Crowley’s organization. Parsons would come to work hungover with some of his partying pals including his friends at JPL. Parsons was using alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, peyote, mescaline, and opiates as well. (6) The Agape Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis in Pasadena came under the investigation of the police and FBI who essentially took a hands-off approach to the organization. Upon leaving JPL, Parsons used his $11,000 to purchase the American mansion at 1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue, which had become home to the Thelemites. This became known as the “Parsonage” and soon people like science fiction writer and U.S. Navy officer L. Ron Hubbard would move in and Parsons and Hubbard would become good friends. The connection between Jack Parson and Hubbard would seem fitting, since Parsons as a youth, living in solitude during childhood, and took up an avid interest in Arthurian legend, Jules Verne Sci-Fi and read the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. (7) L. Ron Hubbard we will return to shortly. The next important event occurs when Parsons gets together with a new lover, Marjorie Cameron, who shared his interest in sex magick. At the time they met she was an unemployed illustrator and former Naval Reserve woman and he had previously done some kind of occult work with Crowley to attempt to invoke an entity he called Babalon. In December 1945, Parsons began working with Enochian Magick and ended up masturbating on some “magical tablets” “accompanied by Sergei Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto.” This was his great work. This was supposed to invoke messengers from beyond. This was his secret cabalistic ritual, a jerk off session. By this he had hoped to |
invoke a goddess Babalon. Cameron entered his life shortly thereafter and became his “Scarlet Woman.” Cameron had a UFO sighting in the Mohave Desert, reported it to Parsons and this became sensationalized as the “materialization of Babalon.” Did they ever make contact with any entities? I seriously doubt it. But being a sci-fi fan, Parsons certainly knew what to do with the information. It was stated by Kenneth Anger, member of the O.T.O., that: “The [Babalon] Working began in 1945-46, a few months before Crowley's death in 1947, and just prior to the wave of unexplained aerial phenomena now recalled as the “Great Flying Saucer Flap”... Parsons opened a door and something flew in.” And Anger also stated: “A Gateway for the Great Old Ones has already been established -- and opened -- by members of the O.T.O. who are in rapport with this entity [Lam, an extraterrestrial being whom Crowley supposedly contacted while in America in 1919].” Crowley, in his earlier years had claimed that he made contact with an entity he called Lam. Crowley included the portrait of Lam in his Dead Souls exhibition held in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1919. This next excerpt is taken from a website which attempts to link the particulars together but in fact is helping to create the “new mythology”: “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.” (8) I think we will soon see that this was an intentionally created piece of propaganda. It is a strange coincidence indeed that Roswell occurred the same year Crowley died, which I think we will see a fitting explanation for. (5) A is for Adamski: The Golden Age of the UFO Contactee, Adam Gorightly, Greg Bishop, 2018, p. xx (6) Pendle, George (2005). Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Physics Today; Rasmussen, Cecilia (March 19, 2000). "Life as Satanist Propelled Rocketeer". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Publishing. Retrieved March 24, 2014 (7) Pendle, George (2005). Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Physics Today, Page 33-43 (8) http://www.boudillion.com/lam/lam.htm |