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36 precise function of the INNER CIRCLE. Deciphered, the name describes the Inner Circle itself as an instructional, initiatory body of 16 members. Another member of the INNER CIRCLE is called MAHARAJA NATCHA. Again, both words have the same cipher value—in this case 57. Added together, this gives us a value of 114, which equals THE NAME. But what name? 57 = KING. Thus, “Maharaja” means “great king.” So THE NAME describes the function. We will return to the Inner Circle presently. When we jump ahead to modern UFOlogy lore, we find contactee George King’s MASTER AETHERIUS of the “Third Order” or, as it is otherwise known, “Great White Brotherhood,” in cipher is closely akin to contactee Mark Probert’s Ascended Master, known as the YADA DI SHI-ITE. Consider that MASTER AETHERIUS = 224 = ELIXIR OF GOD & LIFE, while YADA DI SHI-ITE = 156 = ELIXIR OF GOD. The connection is dearly there, but who made it, how, and why? And some- times the values have a humorous touch, but who is the humorist? The Cipher contained in Liber AL is indeed the secret code of the initiates of 19th century magick and occultism, and the Cipher of the UFOnauts themselves. Much is to be said for the revisionist historical notion, best expounded by Paul Johnson (Jn Search of the Masters), that Theosophical “Mahatmas” and magical “Secret Chiefs” are very human Adepts deeply enmeshed in the spiritual and political revolutions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Madame Blavatsky may indeed have been the first to change the names to protect the adept, but the fact that they can be decoded via the Ciphers of AL—revealed by Aiwass years after Blavatsky’s death—indicates perhaps a secret code known to Blavatsky and later to Crowley and his heirs. As I have pointed out, the basic documents of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, for example, were written in a cipher, the originals still being readily available. I have also pointed out that all Royal Arch Masons were (and are) taught a cipher, since Lo. e a -+-41 frequently reprinted." If there was a common occult cipher, it seems to have emerged in the world of mediumship. The cipher continues in the similar world of UFO contacteeism and trance channeling, which resembles mediumship as well as extraterrestrialism. The UFO contactees emerged as a distinct branch of mediums hip in the 1940s, first in Meade Layne’s Borderland Sciences Research Associates (BSRA) and later all over the occult map. Officially, UFO lore begins in 1947 (the year of Crowley’s death), but BSRA was developing contactee information a few years earlier. Strictly speaking, the crossover from cosmic communication, as with John Newbrough and his Oahspe, or 1. Louis Bimstein may have selected “Max Theon” as a pseudonym in part for the initials “M.T.” In Rosicrucian circles, M.T. is the abbreviation for “Magister Templi” or “Master of the Temple”—the 2=8 degree. According to Kenneth Mackenzie, historian and initiate of that secret order, this Circle held assemblies at Camra in Poland every nine years. Bimstein was originally a Polish Jew. In his native Warsaw, the Adepts of the Philosophus Degree (6 = 4) assembled every five years. These degrees are closely paralleled in the A.A. system, and that of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Note that Crowley regarded Blavatsky as a High Intitiate of the Great White Brotherhood, or A.A. He ranked her an 8 = 3 (Master of the Temple) in his class B commentary on The Voice of the Silence, in which he pointedly credits himself the lesser grade of 7 = 4. Allen H. Greenfield