David Miscavige is the “Chairman of the Board” of “Religious Technology Center,” the top and controlling corporation in the Scientology organization Pyramid. The RTC logo, which was designed under his direction after Hubbard’s death, is taken from the entry page of his site www.rtc.org.

Hubbard initiated the snake and double triangle Scientology symbol in 1952. He used the Rosicrucian philosophical triangle concept, with which a pair of concepts are modulated by a third concept. In the Scientology symbol, the lower triangle represents Affinity-Reality-Communication. Combined, ARC represents Understanding. The upper triangle is the KRC triangle, consisting of Knowledge-Responsibility-Control. Although not mentioned in Scientology literature or definitions, the S is obviously a snake. The 1952 design shows the triangles in green and the snake in yellow.

The Dianetics triangle has been in use since 1950. Now depicted in gold to represent the completion of Hubbard’s “Great Work,” the triangle’s original design was 4 green stripes for “growth” and the 4 dynamics defined in Hubbard’s 1950 Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The three narrow yellow stripes represent “life.”

The RTC logo has been in use since the time of the inception of the RTC network in the mid- 1990s, and certainly since 1996, when DM announced the “Golden Age of Tech.”

The 58 lightening bolts include the following correspondences in Gematria:

Mechi - Battering ram; 64th name of Shem ha-Mephorash. Associated with the 4th quinance (period of 5°) of Gemini.

The angel or ruler of the 4th quinance of Gemini is Mekekial (also spelled Mochayel or Mochaiel), angel by night of the Nine of Swords in the Tarot; associated with Psalm 33:18 in the Bible.¹

The following diagram depicts the 72 names of God. Compare the arrangement of rays with DM’s arrangement of lightning bolts.

From Crowley’s The Book of Thoth:

The Swords no longer represent pure intellect so much as the automatic stirring of heartless passions. Consciousness has fallen into a realm unenlightened by reason. This is the world of the unconscious primitive instincts, of the psychopath, of the fanatic.

The celestial ruler is Mars in Gemini, crude rage of hunger operating without restraint; although its form is intellectual, it is the temper of the inquisitor.

Scientology often uses sword symbolism, particularly in association with recruitment and in their elite inner organization called the Sea Organization. Sea Org members must sign billion-year contracts of loyalty and service to “get ethics in on the planet.” Getting ethics in on the planet means eradicating all opposition to Scientology. As Captain of the Sea Organization, DM directs his troops to that end.

DM closed his 2001 IAS “Mission Briefing” to the International Association of Scientologists (IAS) with the following:

I thank you for what you will do, and leave you with this from LRH:

‘Now, I am going to need your help to carry the fort. I’m going to need good, solid, loyal cooperation, a deaf ear to the entheta merchants, a turned back to those who would stop us. We need to be a close-knit, one goal group, individually and collectively strong enough to make ourselves felt, and felt like a battering ram in the cause of sanity. Forget yesterday. Let’s be sane enough to capture tomorrow. Are you with me?

As mentioned earlier, the 58 lightening bolts on DM’s logo relate to the 64th name of God: Mechi, the Battering Ram.

The fourteen “rivets” around the perimeter of DM’s logo associate with the 14th key of the Tarot. In Crowley’s deck, the fourteen key is named Art, but usually the dominant concept for the card is Temperance, which relates to the activity of changing or modifying.

Temperance, in the day when Tarot was invented, meant “tempering” or “modifying.” It therefore suggests adaption. (Here note that the digit value of 14 is 5, and 5 means adaptation.) Adaptation is the basis of all practical work in Hermetic science. The Emerald Tablet says: “As all things are from One, so all have their birth from this One thing by adaptation.” ² Hermetic scientists endeavor to imitate nature, and adaptation is their method. To adapt is to equalize, to adjust, to co-ordinate, to equilibriate. Therefore it is written: “Equilibrium is the basis of the Great Work.” — Paul Foster Case ³

Hubbard was very familiar with the Tarot card from the Rider or similar deck. In a 1950 lecture he revealed that the ARC triangle was inspired by this card. ⁴

Jack Parsons, head of the Agape Lodge of the OTO, wrote to Aleister Crowley in 1946, relaying that Hubbard’s holy guardian angel had sent in the archangel Michael (depicted on Key 14) for protection. ⁵ Unbeknownst to Parsons, Hubbard was then running a confidence trick on him, which ended in Hubbard making off with Parsons’ money, girlfriend, and the highest secrets of the OTO.

Aleister Crowley’s deck and interpretation emphasizes the alchemical Art of uniting the opposites to produce a new, androgenous creation.

This state of the great Work therefore consisted in the mingling of the contradictory elements in a cauldron. This is here represented as golden or solar, because the Sun is the Father of all Life, and (in particular) presides over distillation. The fertility of the Earth is maintained by rain and sun; the rain is formed by a slow and gentle process, and is rendered effective by the co-operation of air, which is itself alchemically the result of the Marriage of Fire and Water. So also the formula of continued life is death, or putrefaction. Here it is symbolized by the caput mortuum on the cauldron, a raven perched upon a skull. In agricultural terms, this is the fallow earth.

There is a particular interpretation of this card which is only to be understood by Initiates of the Ninth Degree of the O.T.O.; for it contains a magical formula of such importance as to make it impossible to communicate it openly.

Rising from the cauldron, as the result of the operation performed therein, is a stream of light which becomes two rainbows; they form the cape of the androgyne figure. In the centre, an arrow shoots upwards. This is conneted with the general symbolism previously explained, the spiritualization of the result of the Great Work. — Aleister Crowley ⁶

Hubbard’s “Great Work” is of course Scientology, the supposedly successful marriage of science and religion. ⁷ But Hubbard was a black brother, who willed himself to believe that all men were his slaves. The OTO’s ninth degree secrets contain instructions on how to attract elemental spirits and make them do the magician’s will. ⁸

In 1996, DM declared a Golden Age of Tech, which celebrated the completion of Hubbard’s “Great Work.” The 14 rivets on his logo no doubt affirm his apprenticeship and his own “great work.”

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¹ Ref. Godwin, David Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia ©1994 David Godwin (pp. 191, 202, 287. Image of The Shem-ha Mephorash from p. 285. )

² Hubbard was familiar with the Emerald Tablet. See The Scientology Cross article. However, he often wrote that the correct action (perhaps, “art”) is to get your environment to adapt to you, not the other way around.

³ Case, Paul Foster The Tarot ©1990 Builders of the Adytum, Ltd.

⁴ Ref. Axioms and Fundamentals About Data (excerpted)

⁵ Jack Parson’s letter to Aleister Crowley.

⁶ Crowley, Aleister The Book of Thoth ©1944 Ordo Templi Orientis (p. 103)

⁷ See Scientology site: bonafidescientology.org/Chapter/index.htm

⁸ Ref. Symonds, John The Beast 666 (excerpts)