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60 times have made claims to being our saviors. There are keys for decoding which is which—for example, rituals that have been generated or handed down to the magical lodges of modern times which refer to a star or the stars directly or indirectly tend to be transformative and thus of the Great White Brotherhood. Ciphers for decoding messages between the black lodges and their alien sponsors have always existed. But confusions of a deliberate nature exist; the ancient Gnostics uncovered a cipher which clearly indicates that the story of the Garden of Eden in its conventional form is turned on its head. The Serpent is clearly the symbol of Knowledge, Wisdom, the Kundalini Yogic force, the Will-cur- rent—that is, it is the symbol of Liberation and Self-Mastery. The jealous “gods,” as read in the original manuscripts, are clearly the forces of blockage, self-denial and re- pression—which is to say, the Intelligences governing the Black Lodge. This Knowl- edge of Good and Evil and Life and Death has been the Terrible Secret of Initiates throughout history, recorded in ciphers and myths, and passed on through ritual. The Black Lodge may be defined as the organized institution guided by VALIS for the purpose of holding back human evolution and keeping a slave mentality in place. Its human leaders are the “black brothers” who are not to be mistaken for mere black magicians. Indeed, Aleister Crowley observed that “the “Black Magician’ or Sorcerer is hardly even a distant cousin of the ‘Black Brother.’ The difference between a sneak- thief and a Hitler is not too bad an analogy...” The Black Brothers are highly advanced adepts of the Art who have simply, as the popular phrase goes, “been seduced by the dark side of the Force.” At certain times and places in history -- for example, medieval Tibet or, in more modern times, Nazi Germany—the Black Lodge has operated more or less openly with characteristic occult symbols of human skulls, lightning bolts, etc. out in the open. But like the Great White Brotherhood that it actively seeks to subvert and overthrow (as it did in the time of the Knights Templar), the Black Lodge has generally communicated by cipher and myth, in silence and secrecy, often within religious, fraternal and political institutions dedicated to the status quo. In the West since at least the early 18th century, the Black Lodge has tended to operate along crypto-Masonic lines, and its development has tended to coincide with and mirror that of the Great White Brotherhood. This development may, in fact, be attributed to a cosmic principle of “equal generation of forces.” Thus, the birth of the modern form, as the fraternity of the knights militant of the New Aeon in the cultural and political turbulence of Germany in the 1890s, may fairly (along with the coincident peak in the development of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Universal Gnostic Church) be characterized as the resurgence of the Great White Brotherhood and its rejuvenation out of the degeneration of classical speculative free- masonry. This coincides closely with the “Great Airship Scare” of 1897. At almost the same moment, and in the same unhappy land, the Black Lodge reas- serted itself in the form of such fraternities as the Vril Society and the Thule Group. The full story of the Vril Society, the Thule Group, the Ahnenerbe, the Schwartze Or- den (The Black Order) and other manifestations of the Black Lodge in the pre-Nazi Allen H. Greenfield