Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts

Shamelessly pimping my own NAEQ application over the others!

Years back, when I first started getting into all this craziness, I wanted to learn to use magic for two purposes.

1. I wanted to study and practice The Great Work, as it were. To heal my broken spirit. To learn to love myself and inhabit the powerful person that I am. To tame the rage inside me and come to terms with a certain darkness that set the tone for the rest of my life to follow.

2. See a UFO

What can I say? I’m a simple man with simple needs.

I’ve written at some length about point numero uno. Let’s get stupid and talk about UFOs, instead.

I discovered very early on in this quest that there was actually a tremendous amount of crossover between spirituality and UFOlogy. Prior to this exploration, my opinion of UFOs was not terribly deep. I thought they were craft that are likely not from another planet, but from another dimension. But that they were also nuts and bolts crafts that could be utilized by the ordinary monkey people of Earth. I’m not so certain of that anymore. I read Peter Levenda’s The Dark Lord, which draws a lot of lines of commonality between Aleister Crowley and HP Lovecraft and the ways in which Kenneth Grant used these connections to steer his own New Isis Lodge in the Typhonian Current of magic, a concept that I still don’t fully grasp. I have read a couple of Grant’s books and find them to be practically impenetrable. One of these days I’ll actually finish Outer Gateways.

But then I found a book what’s title just grabbed the shit out of me. Secret Rituals of the Men In Black by Tau Allen Greenfield. I was hoping for a grimoire of sorts but that’s not what this is. It’s actually an elaboration on Greenfield’s previous book, Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts, which was at first terribly disappointing to me, but a book that I would eventually come around to once I actually began corresponding with Brother Greenfield.

Before we go much further, let’s take a quick look at Liber AL vel Legis book 1, 2:76

4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chose none, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.

The above passage is why I believe that The Book of the Law was recorded by Crowley as claimed. Crowley was a raging ego-maniac and what the above passage says is that there is a hidden code in the book. A code that he would never know but that someone who came after him would crack. Crowley died having never cracked the code. As predicted, the ALW cipher, as it has come to be known, was discovered in the 1970’s. Crowley was a bad guy and full of shit in so many ways but had this been a ruse, he would never have been able to take the mystery to his grave. He would have promptly announced that he cracked the code and was truly the genius he claimed to be if he had the answer all along. But he didn’t. The ALW cipher is what Greenfield calls The Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts. Crowley’s contacts with the other world, Aiwass and Lam, read very much like beings from outer space on the page and the Lam drawing, by Crowley in 1917, bears a striking similarity to the beings that we have come to call Greys.

Greenfield’s book is a real relic of the old internet. Before it was taken over by commerce, the internet was a real wild west of weirdness. It was mostly repositories of scientific publications, fan pages for TV shows, and frantic green-text-on-black-background pages about paranoid conspiracies and Secret Cipher has those same qualities to it. Since then, Hellier propelled Secret Cipher into modern conspiracy thought and in spite of there being a couple of NAEQ/UFOnaut Cipher apps already available on the web, I had to go ahead and build my own.

Maybe you know this, maybe you don’t. But I’m a professional web developer. I write code for a living. I’m a partner in an agency. I got skills! Hire me. But I saw a few problems with those other Cipher apps.

1. They’re both basically the same app. There are subtle differences. One of them will run as many characters or words you enter against Liber AL, the other returns, at most, a phrase (I actually think this is the better way to do it).

2. They only compare against Thelemic texts.

On that last point, that’s how this is supposed to work, actually. Jake Stratton Kent says that the difference between Qabalah and Gematria is the comparison against a holy document vs just finding words with similar values. I just happen to find it crazy handy if it’s also figuring out other phrases and words.

In my working with Greenfield, he’s a wiz at the ALW. I’ll throw a number at him or a word and he’ll reply back with other words that match the value. It’s nuts. The Hellier crew also does it a bunch and I am jealous as fuck. So my version of the app sets out to not only runs user input against Liber AL, but also against saved user input. If you go to certain Gematria websites like Gematrix, you can see that they’re clearly saving user queries to run your entries against. This is why you’ll turn up phrases like Trump Antichrist when you search for, say, Papa Johns. I also wanted you to be able to share and deep link to queries, which I don’t think the others do.

I used React.js for the front end with Material UI for the base component library and Emotion as the CSS in JS library. React is the shit. In the world of front-end UI libraries, it’s the one that I have chosen to specialize in. I also build fucking rad websites with it and Gatsby.js. I put it together and wrote the algorithms to process user input in a couple of days. I’ll likely port it over to React Native once I have a working 2.0. The Native version will be available on app stores for your preferred mobile device. I need to find a way to affordably store and query the user data on some XaaS platform like AWS DocumentDB or MongoDB Atlas (which seem to be the same thing???). Before I get that going properly, though, I’d like to add the ability to query by integer.