Sirag looked, and saw Geller’s head turn into the head of a bird of prey.
What is provocative about that inconclusive experience is that Sirag didn’t know at the time, and only learned much later, that SPECTRA had previously appeared in hawk-form to Dr. Andrija Puharich.
Dr. Puharich’s encounters with the SPECTRA-hawk are described in his book, Uri. It manifested several times in connection with the Arab-Israeli war — weirdly synchronistic connections.77
Even odder, shortly after "Sirag “saw” the Horus hawk through Geller, Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction magazine featured on its cover a man wearing a hawk-head hat, illustrating a story called “The Horus Errand.” The oddity was that the man’s face was that of Ray Stanford, a Texas psychic known to Sirag’s friend, Alan Vaughn.
A letter to the artist who drew the cover, Kelly Freas, drew a reply saying that Freas had never met Stanford and was not consciously aware, at the time, that he was using Stanford’s face in the illustration.
A letter to Stanford drew an even more amazing reply. Stanford claimed to have been in a car which Geller teleported 30 miles. Stanford also said that a hawk had appeared quite dramatically during another meeting with the remarkable Geller.
All that happened between April and December, 1973. I received my first Sirius impressions in July 1973 and Leary and Benner received the Starseed signals in August 1973. For a dramatic climax, while I was nearing completion of the first draft of this book in July 1976, Saul-Paul Sirag called me on the phone to tell me that a friend in Southern California had just reported another “teleportation” involving Geller, and another hawk associated with it.
While Saul-Paul was telling me this over the phone I was watching the TV picture in the next room. As he mentioned the hawk manifestation, on screen came an advertisement for a new movie, The Shadow of the Hawk, starring Chief Dan George.
Honest.
Uri Geller and Dr. Puharich were haunted by the hawk-like SPECTRA so often that they nicknamed it Horus.
(More synchronicity: while working on the third draft of this chapter in January 1977, I received the latest issue (Vol. 5, No. 4) of Gnostica, an occult journal to which I often contribute. Inside, in an article titled “Novus Ordo Seclorum,” editor-publisher Carl Weschcke claims the bird on the Great Seal is neither eagle nor phoenix but hawk — and the Horus-hawk specifically.)
In Crowley’s Book of the Law we find such texts as the following:
“Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods.” (Ra-Hoor-Khuit is another name for Horus, in his Warrior God aspect.)
“Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. But not now. Ye shall see that hour, O blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine of his desire! Ye shall be sad thereof. Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the curses. Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all.”
“I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence and Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky.”
The emphasis on Ra-Hoor-Khuit as “hawk-headed,” not just hawkish in general, is interesting in the light of Saul-Paul Sirag’s vision of the hawk-headed extraterrestrial in Uri Geller’s eyes. Sirag was not familiar with the above passages until I called them to his attention.
Crowley’s works are always hermetic, coded, inscrutable. Am I being overly-imaginative in suggesting, possibly, that some readers have committed what Sufis call “the error of literalism” and are currently sacrificing “cattle, little and big,” in order to prepare for the apotheosis of the Eighties when the Hawk-Headed Lord will cause the earth to “cower . . . and be abased”?
The cattle mutilations have covered 15 states by now and, unless we relapse into a supernatural explanation, the only plausible theory is that these sacrifices are the work of a large, well-organized and very disciplined occult organization.
Mike Reynolds, a writer for Oui magazine and the underground press, has been researching these mysterious mutilations for two years now and thinks he has found the explanation for the mystery most stressed by sensational tabloids, namely, the fact that many of the mutilated cattle are found in muddy areas with no footprints around them. Army-style helicopters, ranchers have told Mike, are often seen leaving the scene just before the cattle are found. Many of the animals have broken legs. The explanation, Mike suggests, is that those responsible pick up the cattle in helicopters and then drop them overboard after the mutilations.
Many small ranchers, Mike has also found, blame it all on the major agricultural corporations and think it is a plot to terrorize them out of the cattle business. Others, of course, have tried to link the mutilations to UFOs, to the C.I.A. (Army-style helicopters are often seen, remember), or to “Bigfoot,” the alleged half-ape half-human critter often reported in rural areas.
The sacrifice of cattle was, of course, part of many shamanic traditions throughout history.
The Mothman Prophecies
Our contemporary cattle mutilations began in West Virginia in 1968. At the same time, as recorded by reporter John Keel in his book, The Mothman Prophecies,78 the afflicted parts of West Virginia were also visited by several different kinds of unearthly or paranormal phenomena.
There were over 100 sightings of UFOs, and three “close contact” cases, in which people saw “extraterrestrials” or were taken aboard the “spaceships” for testing. There was also an outbreak of those noisy psychic explosions called poltergeist disturbances in the farms of the area. To add to the madness there were about 70 sightings of a traditional bogey of West Virginia, “Mothman” (a monster with giant red eyes, a human form, and huge moth-like wings). Dozens of encounters with the famous Men in Black also were reported.
The MIBs, as UFO investigators call these spooks, always dress in sinister black and drive black Cadillacs. They claim to be U.S. government agents, but are denied by all government agencies. They usually scare the blue bejesus out of people they visit, often leaving behind the impression that they are either demons or hostile extraterrestrials. They have been described by hundreds of UFO witnesses since the early 1950s.
Obviously, there was a lot of contagious hysteria in West Virginia that year, but there were also several objective radar sightings of the UFOs. The cattle mutilations were objective phenomena too. Keel received these predictions over and over from the Contactees:
1. The Pope would be stabbed while visiting the Mid-East.
2. Robert Kennedy was in danger, and the danger was in a hotel kitchen.
3. There would be a nationwide power failure on December 24 at noon.
The first prophecy had English on it, as they say in baseball. The Pope was not stabbed during his visit to the Mid-East. One year later, during a visit to Manila, he was stabbed.
The second prophecy was fulfilled when Kennedy was shot dead in a hotel kitchen.
The third prophecy was false. But at noon on December 24, while Keel waited to see if the power failure would occur, a bridge collapsed in West Virginia, in the middle of the UFO-Mothman-poltergeist area. Over 100 people were killed.
“They’ve done it again,” Keel said when he heard the news of the tragedy, “Those lousy bastards have done it again. They knew this was going to happen . . . They just didn’t want me to be able to warn anyone.”
From that time to this, Keel has regarded the “ultraterrestrials” (his name for the entities behind the UFO phenomena) as malicious and vicious.
Doggiez from Sirius
That innocent dog sleeping by the fire — little do you realize that he’s an invader from the Dog Star, Sirius.
-the Firesign Theatre’s comedy album,
Everything You Know is Wrong
In 1975, I met a young lady who claimed to be High Priestess of all the Druids in Ireland. In a psychic reading, she told me that I was writing a book about Crowley (I was) and that I am in contact with a Higher Intelligence (I sometimes think I am). She said the Higher Intelligence was the evolved spirit of an ancient Irish bard.
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n 1976, in Houston, I met another psychic, with the unbelievable name of Penny Loony. She told me that I was writing an article on Atlantis (I was), that the editors would demand some rewrite (they did) and that I would sell it on second submission (I did).
She also told me I’m in contact with a Higher Intelligence, but she described it as the spirit of an ancient Chinese Master. Can It be Irish, Chinese, and extraterrestrial all at once?
I have tried, experimentally, taking LSD with the assumption that the Higher Intelligence is actually the fairy-people of ancient Gaelic lore. I had a classic experience of being taken into fairyland, undergoing the usual time-warps characteristic of fairy-lore-I thought I was “over there” for several hours, but it all happened in a few minutes of the consensus-time of the witches with whom I was working. I even met Our Lady of Space in her familiar Celtic guise as La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
Later, I found the whole experience entered as a dream in my diary, two weeks before it occurred. And, of course, all the time I was over there in the Cosmic Fun House they kept trying to tell me something unintelligible about time . . .
More amusingly, I happened to see the old movie, Harvey, on TV a few weeks later, and began to notice that Elwood P. Dowd, the hero, has the same relation with “Harvey,” an invisible white rabbit, as any shaman has with his “ally.” I began to wonder if the author of Harvey might have been an initiate of some witch-coven, Crowleyan lodge or similar psychic group. At this point in the play, a character named Wilson, learning that Harvey is a pookah, looks up pookah in the dictionary. The entry begins, “A Celtic elf or vegetation spirit of mischievous nature . . .” and ends, remarkably, “and how are you tonight, Mr. Wilson?’’ The actor playing Wilson dropped the book in shock, and I was a bit startled myself.
A bit later, Elwood has a long speech about Harvey’s ability to stop time and enter eternity.
One more bit of spookery — a last haunting laugh from the Cosmic Fun House — and we will pass on to Part Two and the search for an explanation of all this.
In late 1976, quite independent of Discordianism, a group of political non-Euclideans, the Natural Surrealist Party, began running a chap named George Papoon for President. Papoon went around with a paper bag over his head and used the campaign slogan “Not insane!” Somehow, I got on their mailing list and one day they sent out the following press release:
The thing most feared by the people of San Francisco has come to its inevitable head. Office-workers and non-working executives in the prestigious financial district here were startled to see a huge doughnut perched atop the Transarmenia Pyramid Building . . . No one seems to know why it picked the Pyramid to be its parking place, altho one thing is certain according to Sur/Gen Zippo Klein, the foremost authority on the vehicle and its alleged occupants: “They won’t get a ticket up there . . . I’d bet my shoes those are the Doggiez from Sirius, and only Grid knows what they’re planning up there . . .”
This was followed by a series of equally humorous press releases about the “Doggiez from Sirius,” who are allegedly at large in our midst. This is all a joke, of course, just as Illuminatus was when Shea and I first conceived it. Probably, the Papoon people will think I am a bit over-imaginative if I suggest that none of us begin to understand what a joke is or where important ideas come from . . .
Of course, Illuminatus fans, at this point, are thinking about the mystery of Joe Malik’s disappearing dogs. That riddle was deliberately left unanswered at the end of the trilogy, as one of our time-delay jokes. On rereadings, close students will eventually discover that Malik’s dogs did not disappear because they never existed in the first place. They were inferential. The fact was that people heard doggy howls and barks from Malik’s apartment, and the dogs never did exist except as a hypothesis. The source was, of course, the Museum of Natural History album, Language and Music of the Wolves.
It is odd, however, that one of the theories discussed by the detectives (Vol. I, p. 49) is that Malik’s dogs came from the Dog Star, Sirius.
First there is a mountain,
Then there is no mountain,
Then there is.
Part II:
Models and Metaphors
Models and Metaphors
FURTHER FABLES AND ALLEGORIES
From the Sufi
A man who had studied much in the schools of wisdom finally died in the fullness of time and found himself at the Gates of Eternity.
An angel of light approached him and said, “Go no further, O mortal, until you have proven to me your worthiness to enter into Paradise!”
But the man answered, “Just a minute, now. First of all, can you prove to me this is a real Heaven and not just the wishful fantasy of my disordered mind undergoing death?”
Before the angel could reply, a voice from inside the gates shouted:
“Let him in — he’s one of us!”
From the Jewish
A young man went to his Rabbi and said, “I have lost Faith.”
“So,” said the Rabbi, “and how did you lose Faith?”
“I studied Logic at the university,” said the young man, “and I found out that you can prove either side of any case if you’re clever enough.”
“Indeed,” said the Rabbi. “Can you prove that you have no nose?”
“Certainly,” said the student. “To begin with —”
But at this point the Rabbi punched him hard right on the nose.
“What hurts?” the Rabbi asked solicitously.
From the German
Erwin Schrodinger, Nobel Laureate in physics, propounds the following riddle for theoretical physicists: A cat is in a locked room where it will be killed eventually by a poison gas pellet (or a gun) activated by a quantum decay process. After an interval, t, is the cat dead or alive?
The theoretical physicist cannot go into a laboratory and try this experiment (which only gives the result in one case anyway). He sits down with pen and paper and calculates, by quantum mechanics, what has happened after interval t. He finds that the equations yield a minimum of two solutions. In one possible universe or eigenstate, the cat is still alive; but in another equally possible universe the cat is dead.
This is the famous Schrodinger’s Cat paradox. It is basically asking whether our physical models describe the universe objectively or just define the limits of our own knowledge.
The Sirius Evidence
Have real honest-to-God extraterrestrials from Sirius been meddling in the affairs of this backward planet?
Let us review some of our evidence. I became obsessed with the number 23 and the eye-in-the-triangle design years before I found any link between them and Sirius. After July 23, 1973, I definitely experienced impressions which I thought were communications from Sirius, keyed off by a Crowley ritual. Kenneth Grant, one of Crowley’s closest associates in the Ordo Templi Orientis, repeatedly links Crowley with Sirius and seems to be hinting that the “Holy Guardian Angel” contacted by Crowleyan mind-expansion techniques is a denizen of Sirius. J.G. Bennett, one of the closest of Gurdjieff’s associates, also tells us of coded references to Sirius in Gurdjieff’s writings. Sufi historian Idries Shah traces the name of the Illuminati back to a verse in the Koran which mentions a shining star, and Crowley’s alternative name for the Illuminati was the Order of the Silver Star (Argentum Astrum). George Hunt Williamson, a flying saucer Contactee, claims to have spoken to natives of Sirius who use a language containing some of the same words as the “Enochian” or “angelic” language used by such magicians as Dr. John Dee and Crowley. Williamson also tells us a secret order on Earth has been in contact with Sirius for thousands of years and that the emblem of that order is the eye of Horus.
We have also seen that there was a certain amount of telepathy or idea-transference between Dr. Leary and myself in the summer of 1973, before I received permission to correspond with him and visit him. Leary and Benner received the Starseed message during the “dog days” of 1973, when the link between Earth and Siri
us is strongest according to Egyptian tradition, synchronizing with my own initial Sirius transmissions. And a separate group of UFO Contactees in England have received jumbled interstellar messages concerning the Discordian 23, the Masonic 33, Crowley’s favorite number 666, and variations on the name of Leary.
We have, at minimum, an extraordinary amount of coincidence or propinquity here. For some stranger coincidences, let us look at astronomer Temple’s Sirius Mystery.
First of all, Temple is scholarly, cautious and honest. Don’t take my word for it; here’s what a few reviewers said: “Well-documented” (Oxford Mail); “honest with his readers, careful with his sources” (Daily Telegraph); “Robert Temple is cautious. He has intellectual integrity.” (London Sunday Times); “a work of respectable scholarship” (Manchester Guardian). Temple even claims to be embarrassed to be writing about such a sensational subject (p. 4) and I, for one, believe him, since I am embarrassed myself.
Temple reprints, in full, an anthropological study of the Dogon tribe in Africa, and their knowledge of Sirius is astonishing indeed.
The Dogon know that Sirius has an invisible companion (the white dwarf, Sirius B). Sirius B’s existence was not suspected by our astronomers until this century and was photographed successfully only in 1970.80
The Dogon know the exact period of Sirius B, which is 50 years.81
They even know that Sirius B is one of the heaviest stars in the universe.82
In evaluating this knowledge, please keep in mind that Sirius B is not only invisible to the naked eye, but was invisible to the most powerful telescopes until this very century; and that the determination of its periodicity and its weight involve extremely fine instrumentation and decidedly advanced mathematics. How could a tribe barely advanced beyond the Stone Age know such things? They say they know about it because a visitor from Sirius, several thousand years ago, told them about it. Is it more logical to assert that they are just damned lucky guessers?
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