Allen Henry Greenfield is an American

occultist The occult, in the broadest sense, is a category of esoteric supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving otherworldly agency, such as magic and mysticism a ...

UFOlogist Ufology ( ) is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors). While there are instances of government, private, and ...

, and author long involved in the free illuminist movement. He was consecrated as Tau Sir Hasirim in 1993 by Hierophant Michael Bertiaux of Chicago, Illinois. He was a member of

Ordo Templi Orientis Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.; ) is an occult initiatory organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century. The origins of the O.T.O. can be traced back to the German-speaking occultists Carl Kellner, Heinrich Klein, Franz Hartmann and T ...

and editor of the Eulis Lodge journal ''LAShTAL'', but has parted ways with the OTO in favor of the broadly-based Free Illuminist movement. His episcopal title "Tau" is sometimes abbreviated as "T" and prefixed to his legal name, and thus he may also be referred to as T Allen Greenfield.

Career

A past (elected) member of the

Society for Psychical Research The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is a nonprofit organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. It describes itself as the "first society to co ...

and the

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) is an unidentified flying object (UFO) research group most active in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s. It remains active primarily as an informational depository on ...

(from 1960), Greenfield has twice been the recipient of the "UFOlogist of the Year Award" of the National UFO Conference (1972 and 1992). Greenfield was elected to the mystical episcopate of the Neopythagorean Gnostic Assembly in 1986 and again in 1994. He was consecrated within the

(OTO) by Frater Superior

William Breeze William Breeze, also known by his neo-Gnostic bishop title of Tau Silenus (born August 12, 1955) is an American author and publisher on magick and philosophy. He is the Sovereign Patriarch, or supreme governing cleric, of Ecclesia Gnostica Ca ...

on November 19, 1988. He was consecrated ''Tau Sir Hasirim'' on December 4, 1993, by Hierophant Michael Bertiaux of Chicago, Illinois. He was reconsecrated by OTO U.S. Grand Master General David Scriven on May 25, 1997. As a member of Ordo Templi Orientis, he held the position of editor of the Eulis Lodge journal ''LAShTAL''. In February 2006, Greenfield began to criticize Ordo Templi Orientis upper management. He called for their resignation and stepped down from all managerial duties in protest, issuing a strong criticism of the current Outer Head of the Order,

. This was accepted as a full resignation from the Order. Since then, Greenfield has devoted his energies to the worldwide Free Illuminist or Congregational Illuminist Movement.

Works

His book ''Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts'' discusses UFOs in terms derived from

Carl Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, phi ...

, according to

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilson ...

. In it, extended the work of James Lees, Carol Smith, and Jake Stratton-Kent, by taking the

English Qaballa English Qaballa (EQ) is an English Qabalah, supported by a system of arithmancy that interprets the letters of the English alphabet via an assigned set of values, discovered by James Lees in 1976. It is the result of an intent to understand, in ...

, also known the "ALW cipher" or "NAEQ Cipher" and started to put non-Thelamic words and phases through it with very interesting results. His research into non-standard use fo the cipher eventually culminated in his book "The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts". His ''The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light'' includes discussion of the

Hermetic Brotherhood of Light The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light was a Fraternity that descended from the Fratres Lucis in the late 18th century (in turn, derived from the German Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross), and was the seed from which Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) ('O ...

vs.

Helena Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, uk, Олена Петрівна Блаватська, Olena Petrivna Blavatska (; – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 187 ...

's Brotherhood of Luxor but is, according to a reviewer in ''

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'', to be used "with care".

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Allen H. Greenfield: Astrological Article and ChartLetters from Doreen Valiente to Rev. T. Allen Greenfield
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