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almost humorous. In any case, most of what one hears about Crowley's wickedness is based upon false rumors and Crowley’s experimentation with drugs and various forms of sexuality as methods for consciousness expansion, when such methods were decidedly out of favor. (Those who lived through the experimentation of the 1960s would actually find his activities relatively tame.) But Crowley developed his reputa- tion in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. (Oscar Wilde and D. H. Lawrence suffered similar fates.) That Crowley was a master occultist, though, is certainly true. Central to our premise is a single occult event in which Crowley, then on an extended honeymoon with his wife Rose in Cairo, acted as scribe in the transcription of what purports to bea Holy Book for the New Aeon, known as Liber AL vel Legis, or The Book of the Law. Liber AL in some ways follows the same pattern as Newborough’s Oahspe or The Book of Mormon. It differs in its outlook, the richness of its poetry, and, for our purposes, in one other way. I¢ refers to an internal cipher or secret code which, it predicts, Crowley himself would never transcribe. Predicted, however, is its deciphering by another, who turned out to be Crowley's magical child and one-time heir-apparent, Charles Stansfeld Jones, sometimes called Frater Achad. Achad, in his Book 31, does indeed find the key to the code, but 70 years passed before a ful transcription of the code was made. In the original handwritten manuscript of The Book of the Law, a single page is inexplicably overlaid with a grid, a line, and an enigmatic mark sometimes referred to as a “Rose Cross,” although it looks much like one of the four keys to the Roya Arch Masonic Cipher. Liber AL was dictated in 1904, according to Crowley, by a praterhuman — some of his successors say extraterrestrial — intelligence calling itself Aiwass. Long after both Achad and Crowley were dead, one Carol Smith and a group in England calling itself the OAA fully deciphered the code. Another 10 years were to pass before a member of OAA’s American counterpart, Frater Lamed of QBLH, was to apply computer technology to the cipher solution and produce Lexicon, a computer program that provides a vast, powerful tool for deciphering the code of Liber AL, as well as many variants. I had been a UFOlogist for 30 years and a student of the western occult tradition for almost as long before I hit upon a discovery that could completely change forever the way any intelligent student thinks—or should think—about either UFOlogy or the occult. I had long noted, for example, that in the earlier contactee cases, when names were given by the purported aliens for themselves, their home world, etc., they often were very odd names. I looked many years ago for puns. I mused that perhaps, for example, Woodrow Derenberger’s 1966 encounter in West Virginia with INDRID COLD from the planet LANULUS had something to do with myth and legend. Jacques Vallee and John Keel had both pointed out the connection with mythic names and legends, and I thought LANULUS might be a play on “LAND YOU LOST” or “LAND YOU LUST” — a reference to Atlantis lore, or legendary shadow lands such as Ferie or Magonia. But such answers seemed, like the Masonic Third Degree, somehow incomplete. Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts