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Well, sort of – but sounds like a lot of fun anyway.
Grant: The whole Lam thing was started by Kenneth Grant, probably the most well-known of Crowley’s pupils. He spent time with him as a young man in the 1940’s, not long before AC’s death. There’s all sorts of rows and much frowning by occultists about Grant’s legitimacy as heir to Crowley’s OTO. Grant is head of the Typhonian OTO, one of the various rival orders. While Grant was with him, Crowley allowed him to choose one of his paintings, he chose one of a bulbous headed entity (referred to as a “bad drawing of an extra-terrestrial” in Kaos mag) which I think Crowley had entitled “The Lama” (I’m going from memory here so might have me facts a bit wrong). Grant has subsequently woven this entity, now referred to as Lam, into his Typhonian trilogies( a very influential but fucking weird series of occult books) – I think he states somewhere that Lam is leader or reprehensive of the Greys,– he doesn’t give that much details about Lam – he’s more a “mask” of alien-ness, the otherness associated with our the future, space etc. Michael Staley of the Typhonian OTO has since published some Kundalini yoga work incorporating Lam, the syllable, “lam” being the root mantra of the muhaladra charka in tantrism. |
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