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Allen H. Greenfield (born 1946), also known by his ecclesiastical name Tau Sir Hasirim, is an American occultist, ceremonial magician, UFOlogist, writer, editor, and Gnostic Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis[1] who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. His book The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light is one of the few sources of information on this subject. His book The Compleat Rite of Memphis is a comprehensive history of an Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry, and he edited an authorized, annotated edition of the work Liber Thirty-One by Charles Stansfeld Jones.

He was elected and consecrated a Bishop by the Holy Synod of the Neopythagorean Gnostic Church in 1986. In 1987 he was extended recognition as a Bishop within the Gnostic Catholic Church – Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and was consecrated in New York in November of 1988.[2] 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. A former editor of the OTO journal LAShTAL, Greenfield has more recently become a critic of the Order’s upper management. In February 2006, 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, William Breeze[3].

A past (elected) member of the Society for Psychical Research and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (from 1960), he has twice been the recipient of the “UFOlogist of the Year Award” of the National UFO Conference (1972 and 1992). He is a Borderland Science Research Associate (BSRA), and has conducted on-site UFO and alien abduction investigations in Brooksville, FL, Pascagoula, MS and Brown Mountain, NC. His book Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts was reviewed by Robert Anton Wilson in his book Everything is Under Control. This review discusses how Greenfield builds on the principles established in Carl Jung‘s 1952 book, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky. He is also a past President of the Atlanta Science Fiction Organization (ASFOII), and the editor of the periodical The Paraufologist.

He is the father of three sons. His eldest son, Alex Greenfield, is a network television writer and producer. [4]


Public and media appearances


Podcasts


Broadcast media

  1. KYW (Cleveland)

  2. WOR (New York)

  3. WTBS (Atlanta)

  4. CKTB (Toronto)

  5. Rob McConnell’s The ‘X’ Zone (TalkStar Radio Network) July 17th, 2007 [1] and Nov. 26th, 2008 [2]


Events

  1. International Fortean Organization (Washington, D.C., 1974)

  2. Atlanta UFO Society (Atlanta, Fernbank Science Center, 1975)

  3. National UFO Conference (1994 and 1995)

  4. UFO Forum (Atlanta, 1995)

  5. National OTO Conference (NOTOCON) 1997, 1999, 2003 (also chair of the Speaker Selection Committee), 2005


Quotations

  1. “The future must be built from the best material of past and present, and on the grave of those elements in both which were/are adverse to human life and living.” (quoted in Adler, p. 375)

  2. “We are dulled by technological overload.” (quoted in Adler, p. 393)

  3. “The scientific establishment is an organized faith that contributes heavily to our present sorry state as a civilization.” (quoted in Adler, p. 397)


Bibliography


Books

  1. Silver Bridge, by Gray Barker, introduction by Allen Greenfield. Saucerian Books, 1970. Library of Congress Catalogue Number 70-119512.

  2. Saucers and Saucerers. PANP Press, 1975.

  3. Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts. Illuminet Press, 1994; Revised Edition Manutius Press, 2005. ISBN 1-4116-6759-X

  4. The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Looking Glass Press, 1997. ISBN 9188708039

  5. The Compleat Rite of Memphis. Luxor Press, 1998. ISBN 1891948016

  6. Liber Thirty-One (The Authorized Edition by C.S. Jones (Frater Achad); edited and annotated by T Allen Greenfield. Luxor Press, 1998. ISBN 1891948008

  7. The Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult. Edited by Richard Metzger; Allen Greenfield, contributor. Disinformation Books, 2003. ISBN 097139427X

  8. Secret Rituals of the Men in Black. Manutius Press, 2005. ISBN 1-4116-6764-6

  9. The Roots of Modern Magick: Glimpses of the Authentic Tradition from 1700-2000, An Anthology. Revised edition, Manutius Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4116-8978-7


Articles

  1. A True History of Witchcraft, 1992. Internet Sacred Text Archive. (An ongoing essay project that was included in Richard Metzger‘s anthology from Disinformation‘s The Book of Lies in 2003)

  2. The Frankist Ecstatics of the Eighteenth Century in Agape, Vol. 1, No. 2, February 1998

  3. Hermetic Brotherhood Revisited: Thoughts on the Antiquity & Continuity of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light in The Scarlet Letter, Vol. V, No. 2, December 1998

  4. Paschal Beverly Randolph: Sexual Magick in the 19th Century, 2000.

  5. Emma Hardinge Britten and the Origins of OTO, 2002.

  6. Inquisition In 21st Century America, Greenfield’s personal account of how he was thrown out of the Ordo Templi Orientis, censored in U.S.A. but available from Russian Basileus Ordo Templi Orientis

  7. “Supermen” in Gray Lodge Occult Review, Issue #2, December 2002

  8. “A Most Unusual Cast of Characters” in Gray Lodge Occult Review, Issue #17, June 2005


Reviews

  1. Book Review: Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts in Saucer Smear, Volume 42, No. 1, January 5, 1995.

  2. Reviews: “Secret Cipher of The UFOnauts by Allen H. Greenfield” in Nexus New Times Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 24, Feb-March, 1995.

  3. Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts: Reviewed by Dean James in Journal of Possible Paradigms, Issue 5, Spring 1998.


See also

  1. Michael Bertiaux – consecrated Greenfield as Bishop


Notes



References

  1. Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. Penguin; Revised & Updated edition, 2006. ISBN 0143038192

  2. Godwin, Joscelyn. The Theosophical Enlightenment. State University of New York Press, 1994. ISBN 079142152X

  3. Godwin, Joscelyn (ed.). The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism. Weiser Books, 1995. ISBN 0877288380

  4. Greenfield, Allen H. Biographical Information on T. Allen Greenfield

  5. Holzer, Hans. The Ufonauts: New Facts on Extraterrestrial Landings . Fawcett Books, 1976. ISBN 0449135691

  6. Kazlev, M. Alan. The Hermetic Brotherhood Of Luxor. Retrieved 31 January 2007.

  7. Keel, John A. Disneyland of the Gods. Illuminet Press, 1995. ISBN 1881532062

  8. Keel, John A. Strange Creatures From Time and Space. Spearman, 1975. ISBN 0854353720

  9. Keith, Jim. Casebook on the Men in Black. Illuminet Press, 1997. ISBN 1881532119

  10. Reynes, Brent. Interview with Allen H. Greenfield. Alternate Perceptions Magazine online, #77, March 2004

  11. Wilson, Robert Anton. Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-ups. Collins, 1998. ISBN 0062734172


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NOTE BY ALLEN GREENFIELD-


Please note that, as Tau Michael Bertiaux has held, since June 16, 1979, all major independent lines of the traditional apostolic succession through consecration at that time by Bishop Forest Gregory Barber, all such lines flow to me by virtue of my consecrations by Bertiaux. Bertiaux, later reconsecrated by Jorge Rodriguez, then also consecrated me. In line with MY FORMER ASSOCIATES AT OTO’s Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, Patriarch Tau Silenus and Primate Tau Apiryon, I hold that there is a distinction between, on the one hand, Spiritual Appointment and Consecration in the lineage of Edward Alexander Crowley (Baphomet XI°) and, on the other, the traditional Apostolic Succession. Both have their importance and validity. In my view, and, in having held both, I believe I can render a rather well informed and detached opinion on this. I held the succession of Baphomet as a Bishop “now and forever” through Consecration by both the Absolute Grand Patriarch of the Ordo Templi Orientis Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (November 19, 1988). While I am no longer associated with EGC-OTO, I hold with the Augustinian doctrine “once a bishop-always a bishop” though I claim – and would have – no authority within OTO as of late July, 2006. As Tau Silenus recognized me in writing unconditionally as Bishop in writing prior to my becoming an OTO initiate, I maintain I hold the succession of Baphomet, such as it is. Others are free to disagree; nobody questions my Full Apostolic Succession, which is what counts magically. The “Baphomet descent” doctrine peculiar to the current OTO management was, in my opinion, a reaction to questions about their own Apostolic Succession, and nothing more, a silly over reaction typical of them. I also hold the Latter Day Saints succession through Bishop Conway, and the Doinel Succession through various consecrations. The Honorary Title of “Rabbi” was recently also given me by the Fellowship Assembly, which I accept in the sense of being a “teacher of spirituality” in the Reform Jewish tradition.

What Allen Greenfield Really Believes

It is my own conviction that verifiable spiritual powers are demonstrably attributable to various lineages of spiritual succession, be this the so-called “Succession of the Apostles” (which descends from the ancient Roman State Religion through Roman Christianity), various non-apostolic but similar lines of succession (Latter Day Saints, Doinel Gnostic, New Aeon, et al), or blood lineages as in the hereditary Hindu Brahmins or Hebrew Kohenim, from which I descend. I profess only two fundamental convictions in these endeavors: I advocate Scientific Illuminism, or the method of science employed in pursuit of the aims of religion, and I holds firmly to the conviction that the world as-it-is is sufficiently unsatisfactory that exploration of almost any ethical “out-of-the-box” alternative, however unconventional, is worth the effort. We consider this Tikkun Olam, the attempt to improve the world as envisioned in our native great Hebraic tradition.

I hold also with Tau Michael Bertiaux that “Apostolic Succession” is of value as a continuation of the most ancient priesthoods of Egypt and Rome through the Christian communion, and that special mystical powers “objectively” are transferred by consecration in these lineages. My particular assertion is that this can be objectively verified through scientific experimentation, similar to that performed in parapsychology with spiritual healers. The legend of Ormus, the Egyptian Priest converted in apostolic times to Christianity, and transforming Egyptian Rites into a mode suitable to the Aeon of Osiris is, at least allegorically, a fair hint of the orderly continuity between ancient Near Eastern religions and the Christian Succession in the Eastern Churches, making it a suitable vehicle for continuity in our times. In the Western Churches, the Apostolic Succession existed in the many currents of the long-enduring state religion of Rome, which can be traced to the early Roman ruler Numa Pompilius, founder of the College of Pontiffs and the office of Pontifex Maximus, hundreds of years before Pauline Christianity; passing through the Roman Imperial State as one with the Emperor as Pontifex Maximus from the time of Julius Caesar until the Christian Emperor Gratian renounced the title in 379 E.V., apparently in favor of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Damasus I. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, “The title pontifex was used of Roman Catholic bishops and pontifex maximus of the pope by the end of the 4th century.” The continuity from the most ancient spiritual sources should be obvious here, and its historical value in continuity for the New Aeon equally valid, all other considerations and theories aside.

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