By Timothy Fitzpatrick
March 18, 2026 Anno Domini
Mystics who took out an ad in a Portuguese newspaper predicting the 1917 Fatima apparition signed it using the name of an occult society tied to Aleister Crowley.
Stella Matutina (latin for “morning star”) was the credit given to one of the ads that successfully predicted the first apparition of Fatima on May 13, 1917, an apparition that was sold as an appearance by the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. It was one of two ads placed by occult groups in Portugal’s Diário de Noticias and Jornal de Noticias, some two months before the event occurred (another mystic group took out ads in other newspapers also predicting the May 13 apparition).
Although the name “morning star” has references to both Jesus and Satan in Christian theology, the occult world uses it to describe enlightenment through a number of different beings or goddesses. Stella Matutina, however, was the name of a Kabbalistic society that succeeded the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1887-1903), to which belonged British occultist Aleister Crowley, who was once deemed the wickedest man alive, and Crowley’s then secretary Israel Regardie, a Jewish kabbalist who published the Stella Matutina rituals.
Stella Matutina believed that cosmic beings relayed messages to them through the devilish use of trance and automatic writing (spirits direct the author’s pen). A medium calling himself Carlos Calderon, who was allegedly head of one of the Lisbon group of mystics who penned their letter as Stella Matutina, claimed to have channeled a message from cosmic beings (or secret chiefs) using automatic writing and sent it to Diário de Noticias, along with the ads (edition of March 10, 1917). It is not clear whether the newspapers published a facsimile of the automatic written letter; however, accompanying editorials were written by newspaper staff mockingly addressing the prognostications contained in the ads, some of which appeared in the newspaper on the very day of the first apparition, May 13.
Stella Matutina’s allegedly automatic written leader reads,
“It is not thy place to be judges. He who is to judge thee would not favor thy prejudice. Have faith and be patient. It is not our custom to predict the future. The archanes of the future are impenetrable, although, on occasions, God does allow the corner of the veil cloaking it to be slightly displaced. Have confidence in our prophecy. The day 13th of May shall be a day of great joy for all the good spirits of the world [emphasis mine]. Have faith and be good. Ego Sum Charitas (I am Charity). Thou shall always have thy friends at thy side, who will guide thee and help thee on thy work. Ego Sum Charitas. The brilliant light of the Morning Star shall light thy way.”
Crowley was also an automatic writer. He wrote an entire book (The Book of the Law) allegedly channelled to him through a being calling itself Aiwass. At first, Crowley called Aiwass his guardian angel but then later admitted that it was Lucifer. Crowley’s description of another channeled entity of his, “Lam”, bears a striking similarity to what UFO researchers call “grey aliens”.
“I was bound to admit that Aiwass had shown a knowledge of the Cabbala immeasurably superior to my own,” Crowley wrote in his Confessions.
The apparition at Fatima was purported by the children (Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco) to be approximately three-feet tall—a height that is commonly described by UFO contactees for the grey aliens they allegedly encounter. Incidentally, what is little talked about by the Roman Catholic Church are the contradictory eyewitness descriptions of the so called “miracle of the sun” as a silvery, shiny disc, according to a priest present at the Fatima apparition (flying saucers, or UFOs/UAPs are often described as shiny and disc like). What’s also little mentioned is that Lucia initially believed the Fatima apparition was the devil and only later accepted it as the virgin Mary after it was suggested to her by Church authorities.
Is it possible that the Stella Matutina taking credit for the accurate predictions of the Fatima apparitions is the same one that succeeded Crowley’s Golden Dawn order? It seems highly unlikely that an occult group would use the Latin name in its Catholic context but more likely in its occult context. If true, it tends to lend credence to the possibility that the apparitions at Fatima were not the Blessed Virgin Mary but were some kind of demonic manifestations. Also, if the apparitions at Fatima really were Mary, why would the occult world, which hates Jesus Christ, want to draw attention to something associated with Him? Could Crowley, the wickedest man alive, have somehow opened a portal that invited demonic spirits into the physical realm that culminated in the Fatima apparitions?
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