Archive for April, 2008
The Beast 666
John Symonds (1914 - 2006) included in his biography of Aleister Crowley, a detailed account of L. Ron Hubbard’s involvement with Jack Parsons.
This excerpt plainly chronicles Hubbard’s rise to power, how he took over control of Jack Parsons, his participation and control of Parsons specifically during The Babalon Working. Crowley’s correspondence with Parsons show he personally intervened between Parsons and Hubbard, but was yet unable to maintain his magical authority over Parsons. Hubbard held Parsons to an oath of secrecy about their magical work, and to the extent Parsons was thereafter unable to speak of these things with Crowley, Hubbard clearly manifested his own authority. A series of unconscionable acts ensued.
Hubbard stole Parsons’ girlfriend Sara Northrup out from under him while living as a guest at Parsons’ house in Pasadena. Hubbard thereafter maintained a “friendly” relationship with Parsons, acting as his “Scribe” in the Babalon Working, and eventually scamming Parsons out of his life savings in a confidence trick.
Hubbard also succeeded in breaking Crowley’s bond of authority over Parsons, to the extent that Parsons became unable to talk to his mentor Aleister Crowley about the Working because Hubbard had sworn him to secrecy.
That Hubbard’s magical lineage and training is not revealed in the occult literature is not so strange; magical students guard their relationship with their mentors and often keep their training secret. (Ref. Eshelman, J. A. (2000). The Mystical & Magical System of the A…A… The Spiritual System of Aleister Crowley & George Cecil Jones Step-by-Step. Los Angeles, The College of Thelema.)
Symonds not only noted Hubbard’s “magical potential. By the end of his account, he noted Crowley’s dismissal of Parsons and others as his magical heir. Symonds also conferred Hubbard with the title of “Dr.”
Why Doctor of Divinity?
Hubbard justifies the title Doctor of Divinity for advanced graduates of his training curriculum. Gives the insider explanation for fashioning Scientology into a religion.
Tract: Man’s Search For His Soul
Scientologists handed out this tract during our 03 June 2004 picket in Vancouver:
Online claim
Source: http://www.rightscientology.org/For countless ages a goal of religion has been the salvage of the human soul. Man has tried by many practices to find the pathway of salvation. He has held the imperishable hope that someday in some way he would be free. Man has spoken of the second coming of Christ and of the Judgement Day. America has kept wide the doorway for this salvation by retaining religious freedom. And here, after these ages of grief and suffering, through terrible wars and catastrophe, the hope still lives—and with that hope, accomplishment. […]
Scientology site: http://www.rightscientology.org/
Note how the Scientology cross is positioned against other religious figures.
Test
Test
The links with links category slug “test” are:
Rajiv’s blog
http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/10/blogroll-links/#identifier_1_107
Chilliwack weather
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cabc0057/
Getting Your Ducks in a Pond
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/28
Happy Tuesday
Happy Tuesday
The links which should be here:
Tuesday, happy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday
Tuesday, the book
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/books/books_tues.shtml
Symptoms and indications of a sociopath
Below are just a few of the symptoms and indications of a sociopath and excepts from the Lieutenant Calley court marshal.
