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a. Introduction
IT IS NOT very easy to find out just what it was that got Aleister Crowley interested in taking up The Path. If we were to believe his autobiography, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, it would seem that he was incarnated specifically to be on The Path. This is usually the case with such men, when they get to writing their autobiographies, they must invoke predestination somehow. Even Wilhelm Reich, towards the end of his life, was convinced that his real father was an extraterrestrial. Be assured, we do not state this out of disrespect. It comes with the job. All the biographies we can consult are silent as to the early events which led Crowley to seek that "Secret Church," which Eckhartshausen portrayed in The Cloud Upon The Sanctuary.
We must examine the facts of the case as we have them. And then we must apply them to what is said of him by Duncan Cameron (or Al Bielek), in reference to events which took place on 12 August 1943 (the Second Test of the U.S.S. Eldridge, commonly known as "The Philadelphia Experiment"….) Of course, that is, if indeed it really happened. But, it is clear to us that something of this nature did in fact happen, the events of the years following would not have taken place in the manner in which they did, had something like this not taken place.
What might have happened in 1943 and what might have been perceived by people involved in that experiment, might not be perceived the same way in other space-time references. In much earlier times, such tears in the fabric of space-time and intrusions upon the consciousnesses of persons in the past would be experienced much like the lucid dreams we speak of today, or at least as visions and prophecies, or apparitions of spirits and demons.
[Was Unkie Al friends with the mysterious Wilson brothers of Thorne? Who knows? DID Parsons and Forman’s presence during that fateful summer of ’43 mean anything? Was a battleship rendered invisible, but causing a rip in the fabric of space-time? Who knows? SOMETHING happened.]
This is important, because throughout the magical writings of Aleister Crowley and his magical partners, are certain items which stick out as unexplainable by any rational means. These events usually occurred during the course of workings, such as,
the Cairo Working in 1904
the Scrying of the Aethyrs, in 1909
the Abuldiz Working in 1911
the Paris Working in 1914
the Amalantrah Working in 1917-8,
…and later events, some of which took place in Cefalu, some much later. And, to a great extent, the events in Jack Parsons’ life and Magical career. These, too, play an important role, once the Current is imported into the United States. Also, the relationship between Crowley and Frater Achad (C. S. Jones) on the one hand, and between Frater Achad and Meade Layne, founder of the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation. This latter foundation is the prima materia when it comes to the UFO contactee phenomenon. Even though its importance has been minimized by much lesser men, and its work sabotaged by its competitors, it truly is the first of its kind, and the only one of its kind surviving today. And, it has ancestral roots in the Authentic Tradition.
There is a common thread in all of these, one which is less obvious, because it is not usually written of. There is a story being told, a special mission being given, which was never carried out. And, there is the constant idea that the entities communicating with Crowley and friends are not necessarily communicating to him in present time, but from the future.
Indeed, it would seem that in certain cases, certain entities were communicating information to Leah Hirsig in 1924, about the nature of the war-engine of Chapter III of The Book of the Law, in which the secrets of splitting of the atom are referred to, before this was common knowledge. Remember, in 1924, this was not an everyday topic. Even Niels Bohr himself had not made his important discoveries entirely, by that time. But… we are jumping ahead.
What, then, was the event in Crowley’s life which caused him to enter upon "The Path of the Wise?"