Allen H. Greenfield

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 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 1988. 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.

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.

Quotations

• "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)
• "We are dulled by technological overload." (quoted in Adler, p. 393)
• "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

• Silver Bridge, by Gray Barker, introduction by Allen Greenfield. Saucerian Books, 1970. Library of Congress Catalogue Number 70-119512.
• Saucers and Saucerers. PANP Press, 1975.
• Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts. Illuminet Press, 1994; Revised Edition Manutius Press, 2005. ISBN 1-4116-6759-X
• The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Looking Glass Press, 1997. ISBN 9188708039
• The Compleat Rite of Memphis. Luxor Press, 1998. ISBN 1891948016
• Liber Thirty-One (The Authorized Edition by C.S. Jones (Frater Achad); edited and annotated by T Allen Greenfield. Luxor Press, 1998. ISBN 1891948008
• The Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult. Edited by Richard Metzger; Allen Greenfield, contributor. Disinformation Books, 2003. ISBN 097139427X
• Secret Rituals of the Men in Black. Manutius Press, 2005. ISBN 1-4116-6764-6
• 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

• 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)
• The Frankist Ecstatics of the Eighteenth Century in Agape, Vol. 1, No. 2, February 1998
• Hermetic Brotherhood Revisited: Thoughts on the Antiquity & Continuity of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light in The Scarlet Letter, Vol. V, No. 2, December 1998
• Paschal Beverly Randolph: Sexual Magick in the 19th Century, 2000.
• Emma Hardinge Britten and the Origins of OTO, 2002.
• 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
• "Supermen" in Gray Lodge Occult Review, Issue #2, December 2002
• "A Most Unusual Cast of Characters" in Gray Lodge Occult Review, Issue #17, June 2005

Reviews

• Book Review: Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts in Saucer Smear, Volume 42, No. 1, January 5, 1995.
• Reviews: "Secret Cipher of The UFOnauts by Allen H. Greenfield" in Nexus New Times Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 24, Feb-March, 1995.
• Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts: Reviewed by Dean James in Journal of Possible Paradigms, Issue 5, Spring 1998.

See also

• Michael Bertiaux - consecrated Greenfield as Bishop

References

• Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. Penguin; Revised & Updated edition, 2006. ISBN 0143038192
• Godwin, Joscelyn. The Theosophical Enlightenment. State University of New York Press, 1994. ISBN 079142152X
• Godwin, Joscelyn (ed.). The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism. Weiser Books, 1995. ISBN 0877288380
• Greenfield, Allen H. Biographical Information on T. Allen Greenfield
• Holzer, Hans. The Ufonauts: New Facts on Extraterrestrial Landings . Fawcett Books, 1976. ISBN 0449135691
• Kazlev, M. Alan. The Hermetic Brotherhood Of Luxor. Retrieved 31 January 2007.
• Keel, John A. Disneyland of the Gods. Illuminet Press, 1995. ISBN 1881532062
• Keel, John A. Strange Creatures From Time and Space. Spearman, 1975. ISBN 0854353720
• Keith, Jim. Casebook on the Men in Black. Illuminet Press, 1997. ISBN 1881532119
• Reynes, Brent. Interview with Allen H. Greenfield. Alternate Perceptions Magazine online, #77, March 2004
• Wilson, Robert Anton. Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-ups. Collins, 1998. ISBN 0062734172

External links

• Assembly of the Knowledge & Wisdom of Solomon