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certain experiment and the lurking horror came. It began with glowing blue lights. Then came the stranger with the luminous eyes in the darkened theatre, and later on a dusky street. It culminated when the Men in Black, three of them, paid him a visit ....” - Gray Barker, The Silver Bridge. UFOlogist Gray Barker got his one and only best-selling book in detailing the Albert K. Bender story and the world-wide wave of silencings. They Knew Too Much about the Flying Saucers was an international success. It was widely assumed that the Men in Black were either government agents or extraterrestrials, but as researchers Wilgus and Keel have shown, the eye in the triangle was sometimes their only insignia, while my own research showed startling parallels to certain black magick rituals in medieval times which provoked visitations by what was often called “the Man in Black” -- widely understood to be the Devil himself. Even Barker noted that Albert K. Bender's experiments were more like a magical conjuration than an attempt at extraterrestrial communication. Any initiated magician reading Bender's accounts would recognize the elements of magical conjuration immediately. Maybe, I mused, we were dealing more with magick than with Martians. “Mathers, of course, carried on; but he had fallen. The Secret Chiefs cast him off; he fell into deplorable abjection, even his scholarship deserted him. He published nothing new and lived in sodden intoxication till death put an end to his long misery. He was a great man in his way...’- Aleister Crowley “What I am out to complain of is what I seriously believe to be an organized conspiracy of the Black Lodges to prevent people from thinking...” - Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears. Often when a person or institution allied with the historical Great White Broth- erhood approaches success (variously defined) or comes into possession of certain aspects of transcendent wisdom, Something Intervenes. That ‘something’ has been defined as the Man in Black, the Men In Black, the black lodges, or The Black Lodge. The latter term most nearly accommodates my own view. That they need to do this, and that they often fail in their efforts, is itself an indication that (A) the Black Lodge is opposed by Something Else, equally as strong, and (B) they are afraid of something we might find out -- about them, about their opposition, about ourselves or all three. ‘The story of our interaction with the UFOnauts begins with the Qabalistic Tree of Life, and the Chakra system of the body. According to the primal occult and frequently secret and subversive view, the manifest universe emerges from an Ultimate NOT-Thing, a Consciousness or Being- ness beyond words or expressions sometimes referred to as the Unmanifest or The Allen H. Greenfield The Black Lodge