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THE FABLE -- HOLLYWOOD, SATANISM, SCIENTOLOGY & SUICIDE |
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PART TWO: THE SATANIC ELEMENTS OF SCIENTOLOGY There are two main types of Satanism, classical Satanism and neo-Satanism. Although Scientology contains many elements of neo-Satanism, this story will focus on the classical elements. In classical Satanism there are numerous elements that help to characterize it as a classical satanic church. One of those elements is the prediction of an ultimate conflict between God and God's representatives (pure good) and Lucifer and his representatives (pure evil). Classical Satanists identify with the devil or Antichrist and believe or act in opposition or with disgust to the values, ritual and symbols represented by the Christ figure, and the values, ritual and symbols of traditional Christianity. Classical Satanists often worship through use of reversal of traditional Christian symbols and ritual such as the black mass, or by reversing crosses or other religious symbols. Classical Satanists often practice their beliefs among their own members and with the outside world by reversing truth with deception and lies. Much biblical prophesy states that there is to be a final conflict for possession of the world between Lucifer and his representatives, and God and God's representatives. Part of this conflict involves Satanists -- before the final conflict -- trying to possess, destroy or indelibly mark the souls of its members. Biblical prophesy also implies as the time of the final conflict approaches, the forces of the Beast will place a number on their members to mark their own. While classical Satanists often talk about this upcoming great spiritual war, a major part of their energy seems to be directed toward acquiring secular power in the forms of political and financial leverage, and slave master-like control over the personal lives of those around them. Keeping the above elements in mind, read this story's examination of these elements for their parallels in Scientology and its origins. When you look at the origins of a group, you look at its roots and the "signature" of its genetic inheritance. Even though the organizational roots may be hidden from sight, the organization will always bear the type of "fruit" dictated by its "genetic" heritage and origins. The main origins of Scientology are revealed in Hubbard's imitation of Aleister Crowley and his "Ordo Templi Orientis" (OTO). Aleister Crowley is surely the most famous Satanist and black magician of the twentieth-century. It is impossible to arrive at an understanding of Scientology without taking into account L. Ron Hubbard's (Scientology's founder) extensive involvement with his religious and ideological mentor, Aleister Crowley. Crowley is significant because his ideology and OTO organization is considered to be the root and mother cult responsible for birthing classical and neo-Satanism into the U.S. and western society. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was reared in the Plymouth Brethren. Crowley had been introduced to magic in a book by A.E. Waite. His Cabalistic studies led him in 1898 to the OGD (another secret society.) Crowley rose quickly in the order, but was refused initiation to Adeptus Minor because of his moral turpitude (in this case homosexuality). Crowley gained a reputation through the next two decades for breaking every conceivable moral law, from fornication to murder. Crowley went to Paris and was initiated by Mathers, which led to a split in the order in London. In 1904, Crowley received a "communication from the astral," with instructions for the establishment of a new order, which he set up in 1907. It was called the Astrum Argentinure (silver star). In 1909, Crowley began publishing the Equinox to spread his ideas. Aleister Crowley called himself "The Great Beast", a reference to The New Testament's description of the Anti-Christ. In his masses he used cocaine, opium and hash. While traveling in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Crowley was taught yoga by his guru Ananda Metteya, alias Allan Bennett. Bennett had emigrated to the island in 1900 to become a Buddhist monk. In 1904, Crowley stayed in Cairo and, during a seance, got a "revelation" by his guardian angel Aiwass (Aiwaz), which was communicated in the form of a prose poem entitled Liberal Vel Legis, i.e., The Book of the Law. This became the textbook for the lodges of the Crowley Satanists. In chapter two, Aiwass states: "We have nothing to do with the outcast and the unfit; let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings; stamp down the wretched and the weak; this is the law of the strong; this is our law and the joy of the world." When Crowley heard the voice, he looked over his shoulder and claims he saw his guardian angel, who appeared like a 30 year-old dark-skinned man, trim, and with a face like a tyrannical king, with eyes that could spoil everything. John Symond reported this happening in his book about Aleister Crowley: "He had caught a glimpse of the Devil. Aiwass was the messenger of Hoor-Paar-Kraat, that is to say Set, the destroyer god, the brother and murderer of Osiris. Set was also called Sheraton, and Sheraton is the prototype of the Christian Satan". Crowley enthusiastically expounded the text of The Book of The Law when he performed masses. From the basic ideas of Satanism, he declared: "There are no other gods than man". Accordingly, man has the right to live after his own law, has the right to eat what he wants, has the right to think what he wants, to love whom he wants, to kill those who try to take these rights from him. Aleister Crowley is known to have driven all of his mistresses and wives to hysteria, madness, or divorce with his demands. John Symond records in his introduction to "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley," that Crowley's female scribe wrote in her magical diary: "it was damn hard to think of the rottenest kind of creature as a Word." The "Word" was Crowley's self-assumed title as teacher of the Aeon. Crowley drove several of his disciples to suicide, and humiliated others to madness. He is accused of infanticide, and never denied the charge. (Interested readers should consult his "Confessions," a work of unmitigated egotism.) In the beginning of the 20th century, a manufacturer from Vienna, Dr. Karl Kellner, and a German theosophist, Dr. Franz Hertmann, founded a secret occult lodge which they named "Ordo Templi Orientis" (O.T.O.). Soon after they were joined by Theodore Reuss (1855-1923) who had connections with many lodges. It was he who led Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, into such a group. Reuss, whose lodge-name was "Brother Merlin", contacted Aleister Crowley in 1912, and he became a member of this additional lodge receiving the name "Brother Baphomet". Baphomet, the symbol of the satanic goat, was usually portrayed as a half-human, half-goat figure, with a goat head. It is often misinterpreted as a symbol of witchcraft in general. (It is used by Satanists who worship the devil, but is not used by neo-Pagan witches who do not worship the Devil.) The origin of the name Baphomet is unclear. It may be a corruption of Mahomet (Mohammed). The English witchcraft historian Montague Summers suggested it was a combination of two Greek words, baphe and metis, meaning "absorption of knowledge." Baphomet has also been called the Goat of Mendes, the Black Goat and the Judas Goat.) The O.T.O. developed its sexual rites quickly under Reuss, and later broadened them under Crowley. Not long after, Crowley took over the leadership of the lodge. Like other secret lodges, members may not disclose their knowledge. HUBBARD AND CROWLEY, THE PARSONS TRANSITION Hubbard's fascination with Crowley's brand of religion goes back to when he was sixteen [years old] living in Washington, D.C. He got hold of the book by Aleister Crowley, called The Book of the Law. He was very interested in several things that were the creation of what some people call the Moon Child. It was basically an attempt to create a miraculous conception - except by Satan rather than by God. Another important Crowley principle was the creation of what was called embryo implants - of getting a satanic or demonic spirit to inhabit the body of a fetus. This would come about as a result of black-magic rituals which included the use of hypnosis, drugs, and the dangerous and destructive practices. Hubbard’s initial exposure to Crowley and the dark side of spirituality would get the opportunity to be further developed through his association with Jack Parsons. Jack Parsons was an acknowledged genius in the field of chemistry, and a major figure in the first stirrings of rocket research at Cal Tech. Parsons was involved with the U.S. branch of an occult secret society called the O.T.O. The ideological leader of this U.S. O.T.O. group was none other than Master Therion, the "Beast 666," or as the contemporary world press described him, "the wickedest man in the world," Aleister Crowley. During the first World war, Aleister Crowley had written a novel called the "Butterfly Net," later to be published under the name "Moonchild." This novel tells the story of a magical operation based on the theory that a particular type of spirit can be induced to incarnate in an unborn human embryo by surrounding the mother with the appropriate influences, carrying out certain rituals, etc. Parsons wished to carry out such an operation designed to achieve in an unborn child the incarnation of Babalon, an aspect of the great Mother goddess Nuit. He decided that Hubbard would make an ideal co-worker. In order to obtain a woman prepared to bear this magical child, Parsons and Hubbard engaged themselves for eleven days in rituals. These do not seem to have produced any marked result until January 14, 1946 when, so Parsons said, Hubbard had a candle knocked out of his hand. Parsons went on to record that Hubbard called him and said, "We observed a brownish yellow light about seven feet high. I brandished a Magical sword and it disappeared. Hubbard's right arm was paralyzed for the rest of the night." All this work seemed to have its desired result and on January 18, 1946, Parsons found a girl who was prepared to go through the required incantation rituals and become the mother of Babalon. Parsons was the High Priest, and had sexual intercourse with the girl, while Hubbard, who was present, acted as a skryer, seer, or clairvoyant, and described what was supposed to be happening on the astral plane. Hubbard and Parsons were attempting the most reckless magical feat imaginable. They were trying to incarnate the Scarlet Woman described in the Book of Revelation as "Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlot and Abominations of the Earth ... drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus." The foregoing ritual bears some resemblance to that of a girl who defected from Scientology in 1979. She had been coerced into a perverted act of sexual intercourse with a man fitting Hubbard's description in Hubbard's private quarters at the Fiefield Manor in Los Angeles. She describes the event as one where "my mind was being ripped away from me by force," while the man lay on her for one hour without erection and without ever saying a word. Around the time of the Parsons connection, it is documented that Hubbard used huge amounts of testosterone and stilbestrol (a female sex hormone). Taking the sex hormones were his solution to an impotence problem. Another solution Hubbard attempted was to resort to "affirmations." The "Affirmations" were commands stated to himself as part of self-hypnosis. Sometimes you will see in his hand written notes a statement of fact, like, "Yeah, I'm screwed up on sex." And then he'll come back with an affirmation: "You are sexually wonderful! Your sexual prowess has never before been equaled on the face of the Earth!" Impotence was on Hubbard's mind a lot at that period. He wrote page after page about how "after Fern" he had been too afraid to go to a doctor with the clap. Fern was the girl in Miami who he claims gave gonorrhea to him. So he dosed himself with sulfur, and then he says the sulfur depressed his libido, and his solution to that was the testosterone and stilbestrol. "It so depressed my libido," he said, that he needed someone like Sara to stimulate him. (Sara was Sarah Northrup who later became Hubbard's mistress and wife.) L. RON HUBBARD, JR. SPEAKS ON HIS FATHER (From an interview with L Ron Hubbard Jr.) Ron Jr. says that he remembers much of his childhood. He claims to recall, at six years, a vivid scene of his father performing an abortion ritual on his mother with a coat hanger. Ron Hubbard Jr. remembers that when he was ten years old, his father, in an attempt to get his son in tune with his black magic worship, laced the young Hubbard's bubble gum with Phenobarbital. According to Ron Jr., drugs were an important part of Ron Jr.'s growing up, as his father believed that they were the best way to get closer to Satan, the Antichrist of black magic. "In my father's private circle," Ron Jr. explains, "there were lots of mistresses. When I was younger, I participated in private orgies with him and three or four other women. His theory was that one has to open or crack in a woman's soul in order for the satanic power to pour through it and into him. It got kind of far out, culminating in a variety of sex acts. Dad also had an incredibly violent temper. He was into S & M and would beat his mistresses and shoot them full of drugs." When asked by an interviewer how this "soul-cracking" worked, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. said,
The following is from a piece, written by L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. about his father in 1985 entitled "Philadelphia."
It is perhaps coincidental that Hubbard, in the late fifties, set up his headquarters at Saint Hill Manor in England, less than half an hour's drive from what had been Aleister Crowley's former house in Tunbridge Wells.
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