The Sirius Mystery and VALIS
T Allen Greenfield
"... the teachings of the Order of the Silver Star derive from the Star of
Set (i.e. Sirius)."
Kenneth Grant
People 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 The Ra Material generated
by the late Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert and others. The stellar references
in magick are numerous, and in speculations 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.I.S. ("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
messages 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 [actually he was 53 - ed.]
during the filming of Blade Runner based (very loosely) on his anti-machine
novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In his last year he became a follower
of 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, The 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 important 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, SIRIUS = 85 = AM ABOVE and VISIT and FOLLOW ME. The
Sirius tradition has apparently been perpetuated by many generations of priests,
so it is interesting that SIRIUS = 85 = BISHOP.
The cycle quoted here does seem to lend weight to the starseed transmission
concept as it applies to the Crowley Class A documents, including the deciphering
of Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law.
Valis.. p K Dick
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