Walter H. Breen. Numismatis and pedophile. Wrote Greek Love under pseudonym of J.Z. Eglinton.
A foundling child discovered in San Antonio, Texas (where Strieber was raised and attended the Secret School), Breen strove to distinguish himself academically from a young age and continued excelling academically throughout his post-secondary education. He endured a brief stint in the United States Army, and claimed that a 1947 plane crash while on duty contributed to his photographic memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Breen
In the Star Trek universe, the Breen (Norwegian for"The glacier") are a very warlike race. mostly appearing in the Deep Space 9 series. A Romulan saying was "Never turn your back on a Breen."
While I haven't discovered any direct connection, a character in a Robert Heinlein short story was named Potiphar Breen. The 1952 story "The Year of the Jackpot" was anthologixed in The Menace from Earth. The Breen in this story is a statistician who studies cycles of human behavior.
In his 1993 article "Whence Came the Stranger:Tracking the Metapattern of Stranger in a Strange Land," the late Adam Walks Between Worlds speculates that "Heinlein wrote Stranger as an allegorical recapitulation of Thelema."
"While some anecdotes survive that show Heinlein as some sort of Santa Claus or friendly wizard,34 he would have been a 'maybe' on the closet magician list were it not for his relationship with three of the most famous Thelemic magicians besides Crowley: John Whiteside Parsons, Marjorie Cameron and L. Ron Hubbard... [snip] Only several mentions of Hubbard are made in Heinlein's biographies and collected letters, but it is clear that they were close. Hubbard and Heinlein lived near each other, served as officers in the Navy, worked for the same magazines, and, from what one reads, seem to have been close personal friends.35 Hubbard also wrote copious science fiction, and even introduced Heinlein to literary agent and long time friend Lurton Blassingame."
"Cameron 40 and others recall that Heinlein and Parsons were quite close friends. They may have met at the Los Angeles Science Fiction Fan club wich maintained a reading room -- they were certainly seen there together. It was also common for science fiction authors to tour the Pasadena-based Jet Propulsion Laboratories that Parsons co-founded. Heinlein was particularly avid in availing himself of such tours."
"From an interview with Marjorie Cameron. Heinlein was a the first person Jack Parsons ever introduced her to. She didn't care for Heinlein too much, with his ascot and pipe he was 'too slick, too Hollywood. But Jack and he were quite good friends.'"
Footnote 41: ""Check out Heinlein's 1952 short story, "The Year of the Jackpot" (anthologized in The Menace from Earth, Signet, 1959) in which protagonist Potipher Breen is a mathematician who tracks odd cycles and develops a theory of periodicity which links UFOs and flying saucers to mass human behavior and which functions at the meta level of personal will. At one point, Breen discovers a church which has reinstituted ritual nudity, 'Probably [for] the first time in a thousand years, aside from some screwball cults in Los Angeles. The reverend gentleman claimed that the ceremony was identical with the 'dance of the high priestess' in the temple of Karnak.'"
http://pturing.firehead.org/occult/grok/thelema.htm
The centenary of Heinlein's birth will be on 7/7/7.
[i]"Sarfatti reiterated that the enigmatic phone calls he received occurred in the summer of 1953. “I met Walter Breen soon after that via Robert Bashlow who recruited me and Johnny Glogower. Also Robert Solovay (briefly). Breen was working for Professor William Sheldon at Columbia Psychiatry Department funded by Eugene McDermott, a World War II Intelligence leader, co-founder of Texas Instruments and University of Texas at Dallas – and part of the Charles Lindburgh, Arthur Young ‘Round Table’ group. Saul-Paul Sirag says that L. Ron Hubbard was part of that scene along with Puharich. "
http://www.uri-geller.com/stargate_conu ... argate.htm[/i]
Heinlein's continuing obcession with incest is detailed in the latter half of this article on Heinlein's depiction of parents in his books.
http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/work ... nting.html
Why I never thought to Google Breen, I've no idea. I guess to me he's always been a source of discomfort--my memories of him are the "squirm in your chair" type, if you know what I mean. My mind shies away from them.
I know The Skeptic's memory is accurate on this, since just yesterday I came across photos (that *I* took) of this strange event. But I still have no recollection of it at all.
