In Aleister Crowley's notorious Book of the Law or Liber AL Vegis, we read the following in the third chapter, in which the god Ra-Hoor-Khuit speaks: 7. I will give you a war engine.
8. With it you shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you.
9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. Crowley's secretary Kenneth Grant would later write of Jack Parsons' Babalon Working as the initiation point to the flying saucer wave of the 40s and 50s. "The [Babalon] Working began in 1945-46, a few months before Crowley's death in 1947, and just prior to the wave of unexplained aerial phenomena now recalled as the 'Great Flying Saucer Flap'...Parsons opened a door and something flew in." The Babalon Working coincided with Project Diana. In fact, Diana took place on the day of the "nine knocks" that Parsons recorded in his journal (in the next post, we'll learn of another Babalon "coincidence"). In addition to the concurrent phenomenon of the ghost rockets in Scandinavia, Naval Intelligence Officer Marjorie Cameron claimed to witness a UFO at Parsons' home at the conclusion of the Working: In March of 1946, Marjorie Cameron witnessed a flying saucer hovering over the Parsonage; Writing about the incident to Jane Wolfe in 1953, Cameron associated the craft with the "war engines" promised in Crowley's Book of the Law: "The flying saucers - the miracle! - our war engine! I saw the first one in the spring of 1946..." Given this chain of events and symbolism, is it any surprise then that history's most notorious UFO event took place in the middle of the month (Mesore) the Egyptians named for the same god who had apparently prophesied this war engine? Or that as many have noted, the supposed beings recovered from the crashed "war engine" at Roswell resembled the being Crowley claimed to have contacted in 1918?