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The Alien Face Introducing the UFO Age
I was going to go to a discussion of Jack Parsons next in this series, but
as I was starting to get into that I realized I had some earlier fish to fry.. Now we come to a strange and puzzling figure in the
UFO-occult connection.
His name is Lam. Or more carefully stated: Lam is the name attached to a
strange drawing produced by Aleister Crowley, the famous British occultist
and founder of the Thelemic system of ceremonial magic.
Crowley’s Lam image was published in 1919 as the frontispiece to his
commentary on The Voice of the Silence. Crowley’s main claimed
entity/revealer in Thelema was Aiwass. Lam is another entity contacted by
Crowley, associated with Crowley’s 1918 New York occult period and his
Amalantrah Working ritual.
The image is disturbing. It shows a bald, large-headed, narrow-faced,
nonhuman-looking figure. Modern viewers often notice that it resembles the
later image of the “grey alien” — the large head, the narrow chin, the small
mouth, the strange nonhuman presence.
That resemblance has led some people to think Crowley contacted
extraterrestrials before the modern UFO age. Others say Lam was a
portal-being, an interdimensional entity, or an early occult appearance of
the same beings later called aliens.
We cannot claim that Crowley “summoned grey aliens” as a proven fact. Much
of the later UFO interpretation came through later occult writers,
especially Kenneth Grant and those influenced by him. However, that is not
nothing. Kenneth Grant’s affiliation with Aleister Crowley was both personal
and institutional, rooted in his role as Crowley’s personal secretary and
later as a leading figure in the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). The point
is, Grant very well could have been passing on what he received from
Crowley.
At any rate, the importance of Lam is this: before the modern flying-saucer
era, before the grey alien became a popular cultural image, occult circles
were already dealing with strange nonhuman figures, alleged intelligences,
ritual contact, and the idea of communication with beings beyond ordinary
humanity.
That is exactly the pattern we are tracing. The “alien face” may not have
entered the modern world only through science fiction. It also appears at
the doorway of occult contact.
Although now long dead, Aleister Crowley remains one of the most influential
occult figures of the modern age. He was not merely a curiosity. His
writings, rituals, and occult system influenced later ceremonial magic,
esoteric groups, popular culture, and figures connected to the early space
age, including Jack Parsons, whom we will discuss before long. Crowley’s
system, known as Thelema, was built around the famous maxim: “Do what thou
wilt.”
From a biblical perspective, that phrase alone should alarm us. It is the
opposite of Messiah’s own submission to the Father: “Not my will, but yours,
be done.”
Crowley claimed contact with nonhuman intelligences, most famously Aiwass,
whom he said dictated The Book of the Law in 1904. In his
writings Crowley fondly calls Aiwass his "Guardian Angel" and "The Devil"
and "Lucifer" - leaving no doubt about the source of Crowley's occult
connections. Whether one sees
this as real or as occult imagination, demonic influence, psychological experience, or
deliberate deception, the pattern is unmistakable: a man receives a message
from an unseen intelligence and treats it as new revelation.
The UFO phenomenon often leads people to ask, “What if nonhuman
intelligences are communicating with mankind?” Crowley’s occult world had
already been asking that question long before “flying saucers” became a
household phrase. The language was different. The imagery was different. The
alleged beings were not described in modern space-age terms. But the
spiritual structure was already there: Contact, Message, Revelation, Hidden
knowledge, A new path for mankind.
The Lam Image
Around 1918 or 1919, Crowley produced the strange drawing now associated
with Lam. The image appeared in connection with Crowley’s occult writings of
that period and was later treated by others as deeply significant.
The drawing itself is simple but memorable. The figure is bald. The head is
large. The face is narrow. The expression is difficult to read. It does not
look like an ordinary human portrait. To modern eyes, it is hard not to
notice the resemblance to later “grey alien” imagery. Not exactly the same,
but close enough for some people to wonder if it was a prototype of the more
evolved alien face so familiar today.
A visual resemblance is not absolute proof. We cannot rightly say, “This
proves Crowley met aliens.” But we can say Lam stands at the intersection of
occult contact, nonhuman imagery, and later UFO interpretation. In this
series, we are not trying to prove every legend. We are unveiling patterns.
Lam belongs in the pattern.
The Amalantrah Connection
Lam is often discussed in connection with Crowley’s occult workings in New
York around 1918, especially the Amalantrah Working. The primary objective
of the Amalantrah Working was to open a dimensional portal to contact
non-human intelligences, a goal achieved through automatic writing, trance
states, and the use of substances like opium and hashish. Those workings
thus involved occult visionary and ritual activity, and they belong to the
same occult atmosphere in which Crowley claimed contact with intelligences
beyond ordinary human life.
Crowley did not give us a simple statement saying, “Lam is an alien from
another planet.” But Lam appears in the orbit of Crowley’s occult contact
practices.
