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24 Koot Hoomi. But she was long dead when The Book of the Law appeared in 1904. As to UFOlogy, we have indicated that the cipher seems to have been introduced early on by such persons as Meade Layne and Ric Williamson. Williamson may have helped Adamski concoct or develop his Orthon story and the like. How great their individual knowledge was of what they were doing is unclear. Layne seems an exemplary person, a student of Aleister Crowley’s prodigal son Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad), and, from the 1940s, one of the saner, more decent sorts that occupied the more esoteric side of UFOlogy. Frater Damon, later to head one of the organizations following up on Frater Achad’s work, recalls that it was Layne who introduced him to Achad’s work in the mid-1950s. He also recalls how Layne would visit him in Arizona while on expeditions in search of UFO land- ing sights in the desert ‘These events become curiouser and curiouser. Damon's organization, the Quabalis- tic Alchemist Arcanum, and its British counterpart the Ordo Argentium Astrum or Order of the Silver Star, discovered and promulgated the very cipher we are discuss- ing, and, indeed, does so to this day. I believe that through his occult sources, Layne knew the cipher and knew that the establishment of a “magical link with the Secret Chiefs,” or contact with the UFOnauts in other words, could be effected by examin- ing the available literature, and seeking the key words for clues to who and where the Secret Chiefs were to be found. Both Aleister Crowley and Frater Achad were in contact with the Secret Chiefs. When Crowley engaged ina magical working, these praterhuman intelligences would consistently arrive on the scene. One of them, calling itself LAM, was sketched by Crowley and is the prototype of the current alien types seen in present-day abduction cases. In the cipher of Liber AL, which Crowley himself did not know, LAM is the equivalent of GOD. Crowley only associated the word with the Tibetan Lama, the living, consciously reincarnating Buddha. ‘The peculiarity of LAM being the proto- type of the current abduction type has been noted’ by UFOlogists, but without the KEY they can only remark of the coincidence. Does this mean that ORTHON is JESUS, or LAM is GOD? Hardly. The cipher, as becomes apparent to the diligent researcher, only uses the name or key-word for those in the know to examine and find a curious correspon- dence, pointing the way to whatever the essence of the encounter is. The clues in the Adamski case would have yielded to the initiate of these runes, for example, that the Yamski reincarnation episode was bound to happen immediately upon Adamski’s death. This leads to the well-known scientific prerequisite —the ability to predict the results of an experiment. For example, Truman Bethurum’s contact, Aura Rhanes, a female and thus unusual in the history of contactee accounts, has the cipher meaning of female. One would then expect, in future funny-name cases with female entities, some cipher reference to the femaleness of the being hidden in the being’s name. Thus, when Semjase arrives in Fred Bell’s life, we are not surprised to find her name the equivalent of gynander, the female in a so-called male role. Further, when we find Allen H. Greenfield