Personal Mythology: Rob Miller Of Tau Cross & Amebix Interviewed

So I guess I had quite a lot of fun with it – those areas of fantasy mixed with other stuff as well. 'Fire In The Sky' was about tracing a line from the Enochian stories in the Old Testament, with their allusions to strange goings-on in the heavens, right on through to John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 16th and 17th century, and how that led in turn to Aleister Crowley and his story of the Amalantrah Working [a gateway created on Earth to allow the visitation of aliens] back in 1916. He was supposed to have opened a portal between the worlds, but since he was an intelligent man he sealed it back as best he could, no bother at all. Until Jack Parsons came along – I don’t know if you’ve heard of Jack Parsons?

Heard the name, but don’t know who he is.

RM: He was the founder of JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratories in California, and they were the ones who made the rockets that took man to the moon. But what most people don’t know about him was that he was an arch-occultist, a real Crowleyite, and in correspondence with Crowley. He produced another working which was not parallel, but complementary to, the Amalantrah Working, or so he thought, in 1947. It was called The Babalon Working [a series of rituals designed to invoke the Thelemic godess], and it was to create the whole Moonchild thing as well. [Parsons and the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, aimed to "magically fertilise" a child by immaculate conception which would be born nine months after the Babalon Working ended. The Moonchild was the subject of a work of fiction of the same name, published by Crowley in 1917.] Crowley disagreed with the whole thing, he said they didn’t know what they were doing, but he died that year, and they went ahead with it. The direct result of that was the biggest UFO flap in history – the very start of the Mt. Rainier sightings. So there’s speculation that they may have opened up a portal between two worlds. There are these “fires in the sky", these lights that have been seen throughout the millennia, and have always had some of the same features, and I was trying to take the narrative all the way through, and say, “How are these things connected?”

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