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EOPLE speculate about extraterrestrialism and its relationship to the “Secret Chiefs of the Order.” Although many consider this poetic metaphor (at best), magical writers Kenneth Grant and Michael Bertiaux, along with a few perceptive UFOlogists, have made serious speculations in this direction. Certainly, the Aiwass, Lam and other experiences of Aleister Crowley relate to certain types of contactee material. An example is Zhe Ra Material generated by the late Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert and others. ‘The stellar references in magick are nu- merous, and specula- tions along the lines of Philip K. Dick’s gnostic VALIS trilogy, along with the more creditable visitation literature (as in Robert Temple’s The Sirius Mystery) seem worthy of examination in the light of New Aeon English Qabalah. Indeed, New Aeon Cipher work with Lexicon and the Star 26 program have some resemblance to the kind of communication we have proposed for transmission via radio telescope. Phil Dick’s V.A.L.LS. (“Vast Active Living Intelligence System”) seemed a suitable point of departure. The phrase value of the complete term VAST ACTIVE LIVING INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM = 515 = I AM LIFE AND THE GIVER OF LIFE OF EVERY STAR, a most suggestive phrase considering that VALIS is supposed to be a kind of god-computer capable of transmitting meaningful transformative mes- sages to Earth. The acronym VALIS = 41 = HER (repeated many times), but also = WHOLE. In the VALIS story, a magical child is created as a messiah. The child is female. Phil Dick died at age 54 during the filming of Blade Runner based (very loosely) on his antima- chine novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In his last year he became a follower of British contactee Benjamin Creme and maintained that his earlier works of fiction—allegory, really—contained a sort of cipher. The last of his novels published in his lifetime, Zhe Divine Invasion, dealt with this theme from a Gnostic religious vantage point He maintained that the phrase “King Felix” was a cipher for the coming of a New Being, who would deliver humanity from the “black iron prison.” KING FELIX = 147 = RESISTANCE. Much of the starseed speculation centers on Sirius or Sothis, the Dog Star so im- portant as a calendar yardstick in ancient Egypt, and the object of The Sirius Mystery speculations on ancient visitations from the stars. SIRIUS = 85 = OF OUR LADY (see VALIS = 41 = HER), a phrase’from Crowley's Liber Cheth. From Liber AL. SIR- 78 APPENDIX TWO: THe Sirius Mystery anp V. A. L. I. S. Kenneth Grant