"The god of the Jews became known as 'Iao', which is an ancient Mystery name of Dionysus." The Jesus Mysteries, page 178, by Freke and Gandy "This name I.A.O. is qabalistically identical with that of THE BEAST and with his number 666, so that he who invokes the former also invokes the latter." Crowley, sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/chap1.htm "Siva is the Babylonian Bel, identical with the Sun-god I A O, and as represented by Lithoi or Pillars." A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, page 405, A.E. Waite "...I.A.O. as a magick formula it should be remarked is that it is essencially the formula of Yoga or medita- tion; in fact, of elementary mysticism in all its branches." -- http://www.sacred-texts/oto/aba/chap5.htm [Note: 'Yoga' means the process of being yoked with the god Siva, or Shiva, i.e., IAO, Bel, or "Jah", the sun god. The KJV Bible contains the term 'jah ' 101 times; in contrast, the Catholic DR version contains the string 'jah ' zero times, not once, although the text string 'jah' without a space following the three letter characters does occur in the DR 27 times in names such as Jahelel; 'jah' occurs in the KJV 203 times.] search | KJV Bible 66 books | DRV Catholic Bible, string | | Challoner revision: ------------------------------------------------------ 'Jehovah' | 7 | 0 IAO, the god of the O.T.O., is claimed to be the Greek form of Jah, or Yah; 'j' in 'Jah' is pronounced as 'y' according to Mackey's Lexicon of Freemasonry, where 6 pages of text are devoted to explaining 'Jehovah', the word 'Jah ' is shorthand for Jehovah: "Jah. The Syriac name of God. It was also used by the Hebrews as an abbreviation of Jehovah, and seems to have been well known to the Gentile nations as the triliteral name of God; for, although biliteral among the Hebrews, it assumed among Greeks the triliteral form, as AIΩ. Macroius, in his Saturnalia, says that this was the sacred name of the Supreme Diety, and the Clarian Oracle being asked which of the gods was Jao, replied, 'The initiated are bound to conceal the mysterious secrets. Learn thou that AIΩ is the Great God..." In the occult, 'AIΩ' is suggestive in meaning to 'IAO' because the 'O' letter signifies the Ourobouros, which is the "the Alpha and Omega", as explained by Clymer, a Freemason, in his book "The Mysteries of Osiris or Ancient Egptian Initiation", p. 137: "The letter 'I', or rather the erect - upstanding pillar- creative, denoting the wisdom and strength that stands alone and is self-existing. The letter 'A', is a pyramid or mountain of strength. The 'O' is the serpent with its tail in its mouth", i.e., "the Alpha and Omega."

The Eye Is Watching by Joe Sansone, USA Daily, 11/30/2002 "In J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastic work of fiction The Lord of the Rings, the dark lord Sauron, not yet able to maintain a physical form, attempting to dominate middle earth, is depicted as an evil eye. Able to penetrate time, space, and the human mind, the evil force sought to dominate 'Middle Earth'. In a bizarre and frightening case of life imitating art, the United States defense department has created an office that seeks those same limitless powers as Tolkien's dark lord. The Information Awareness Office (IAO) seeks what it calls 'Total Informatoin Awareness'. The agency even adopted the new world symbol of the pyramid with the all knowing eye hovering above it.... Any reasonable American citizen, with the exception of pure left wing totalitarians , must find a visit to the IAO website chilling. It is like something out of a sci-fi horror movie, only, it is real...."