Allen H. Greenfield

Allen Henry Greenfield is an American occultist, UFOlogist, 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 and editor of the Eulis Lodge journal LAShTAL, but has parted ways with the OTO in favor of the broadly-based Free Illuminist movement.

Ordination history of
Allen Henry Greenfield
History
Consecration to the Episcopate
Consecrated byMichael Paul Bertiaux (Tau Ogdoade-Orfeo IV, Tau Orfeo Bardesens I)
Date21 September 1986 and 4 December 1993
Second Consecration
Second ConsecratorWilliam Gary Keith Breeze (Tau Silenus) AKA Hymenaeus Beta
Date19 November 1988
Third Consecration
Third ConsecratorWilliam Wallace Webb (Frater Damon/Nemo Damon)
Date1995
Fourth Consecration
Fourth ConsecratorDavid Forrest Scriven (Tau Apiryon) (himself consecrated by Jorge Enrique Rodriguez-Villa now)
Date25 May 1997
Fifth Consecration
Fifth ConsecratorTau Dositheos (Tau Dositheos)
Date16 August 2008
Sixth Consecration
Sixth ConsecratorPatrick Mathis (Tau Samlah)
Date4 February 2010
Seventh Consecration
Seventh ConsecratorValdiveso Paschal Matthews (Tau Mikael III Basilides/Metran Mar Hermas Apollos)
Date23 May 2014
Mutual Consecration
Lineages Exchanged WithDavid Forrest Scriven (Tau Apiryon) (New Gnostic Lineage)
Date10 December 1993
Second Mutual Consecration
Lineages Exchanged WithJoe Joseph Payyapilly (Sir Leonis)
Date24 April 2010
Third Mutual Consecration
Lineages Exchanged WithTau Qadosh (Tau Qadosh)
Date14 July 2010
Fourth Mutual Consecration
Lineages Exchanged WithDarko Berović (Tau Donaticus)
Date14 July 2010
Fifth Mutual Consecration
Lineages Exchanged WithMartin Krogh-Poulsen (Tau Proprophegge)
Date22 July 2017
Sixth Mutual Consecration
Lineages Exchanged WithRoger Cole
Date22 July 2017
Seventh Mutual Consecration
Lineages Exchanged WithNakiim A. Bey (Tau Constantine II)
Date22 July 2017
Episcopal succession
People consecrated to the episcopate by Tau Sir Hasirim as principal consecrator
Lacy Coutu1987
James Mitchell Baker (Tau Heosphoros Iacchus)30 April 2005
Alexzandra Baker (Tau Peristera de Magdalene)30 April 2005
Khalid El Bey (Tau A.A.R.E., O:.O:.O:.)20 October 2007
Kyleigh Marissa Mituzas (Shin Asherah Iustus)20 October 2007
Tau Dositheos (Tau Dositheos)22 March 2008
Roger Cole3 April 2010
Valentino Damian Dzaja (Tau Tzaddi)12 July 2010
Amodali (Tau Amodali)12 July 2010
Laurie Hansen (Tau Pneumatikos)18 December 2010
Randi Jo Pixie Bruner (Shin Pixie Kleio Urania)13 August 2011
Alicia Cole (Tau Salix Alba)27 August 2012
Martin Krogh-Poulsen (Tau Proprophegge)13 August 2011
Bryan Dieppa (Tau Unnefer)December 2015
Víctor Andrés Mena Álamos (Tau Petrus Benedictus)20 August 2016
Manuel Fernando Núñez (Tau Damcar Judaeus)17 September 2016
Vladimir Milinovic (Tau Esau)February 2017
Piotr Wojdyla (Tau Agape)22 July 2017
Michael Robert McDonald (Tau Meinrad/Tau Nahash)21 April 2018
Joe Weigant (Tau Avram)21 April 2018
Michele Strevel (Tau Stella Maris)Unknown 2021
Olav Phillips (Tau Magnus Lux)18 October 2021

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 and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (from 1960), Greenfield has twice been the recipient of the "UFOlogist of the Year Award" of the National UFO Conference (1972 and 1992).[1]

Greenfield was elected to the mystical episcopate of the Neopythagorean Gnostic Assembly in 1986 and again in 1994.[2] He was consecrated within the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) by Frater Superior William Breeze on November 19, 1988.[3] He was consecrated Tau Sir Hasirim on December 4, 1993, by Hierophant Michael Bertiaux of Chicago, Illinois.[3] He was reconsecrated by OTO U.S. Grand Master General David Scriven on May 25, 1997.[3] As a member of Ordo Templi Orientis, he held the position of editor of the Eulis Lodge journal LAShTAL.[2]

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, William Breeze.[4][5] This was accepted as a full resignation from the Order.[1] Since then, Greenfield has devoted his energies to the worldwide Free Illuminist or Congregational Illuminist Movement.[6]

Works

His book Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts discusses UFOs in terms derived from Carl Jung, according to Robert Anton Wilson.[7] In it, he plagiarized the work of James Lees, referring to Lees' system of English Qaballa as the "ALW cipher" in an attempt to pass it off as his own "Cipher of the UFOnauts".[8][9]

His The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light includes discussion of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light vs. Helena Blavatsky's Brotherhood of Luxor but is, according to a reviewer in Aries, to be used "with care".[10]

Books
  • Saucers and Saucerers. PANP Press. 1975.
  • Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts. Dilburn, Georgia: IllumiNet Press. 1994. ISBN 978-1-881532-04-0.
  • The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Looking Glass Press. 1997. ISBN 91-88708-03-9.
  • The Compleat Rite of Memphis. Luxor Press. 1998. ISBN 1-891948-01-6..
  • The secret rituals of the men in black. 1998.

Contributions
  • Greenfield, Allen (1970). Introduction. Silver Bridge. By Barker, Gray. Saucerian Books. LCCN 70-119512.
  • Achad, Frater (1998). Greenfield, Allen (ed.). Liber Thirty-One. Luxor Press. ISBN 1-891948-00-8.
  • Metzger, Richard, ed. (2003). The Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult. Allen Greenfield, contributor. Disinformation Books. ISBN 0-9713942-7-X.

References

Citations
  1. Zagami (2018), p. 125.
  2. Zagami (2018), p. 117.
  3. Zagami (2018), p. 118.
  4. Greenfield (2006).
  5. Zagami (2018), pp. 125–126.
  6. Kaminsky (2012).
  7. Wilson (2009), p. 412.
  8. Stratton-Kent (2011).
  9. Collier & Keith (n.d.).
  10. French (2007).

Works cited
  • Collier, Wren; Keith, Alynne (n.d.). "About NAEQ". naeq.io. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  • French, Brendan (2007). "Blavatsky, Dostoevskii, and Occult Starchestvo". Aries. 7 (2): 161–84. doi:10.1163/157005907X202345.
  • Greenfield, Allen (2006). "A Statement Regarding the Ordo Templi Orientis". mindspring.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-21.
  • Kaminsky, Greg (July 18, 2012). "Congregational Illuminism". Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  • Stratton-Kent, Jake (2011). The Serpent Tongue: Liber 187. UK: Hadean Press. ISBN 978-1-907881-07-7.
  • Wilson, Robert A. (2009). Everything is Under Control. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061984310.
  • Zagami, Leo Lyon (2018). The Invisible Master: Secret Chiefs, Unknown Superiors, and the Puppet Masters Who Pull the Strings of Occult Power from the Alien World. CCC Publishing. ISBN 978-1888729702.

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