Scientologists
I haven’t viewed it, but the BBC is running an “expose” on the cult - and Scientologists are rather upset about it and seem to be engaged in an Internet attack against the program, which is increasing viewership nicely. Go here for that story.
I knew the cult was organized by L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer, and that their premise is we are descendants of aliens from another planet or something like that. (Check out “Ritual Magick and UFO’s” to understand the connection.) I know they have many Hollywood stars and celebs as members, and that money is a big deal with the cult. (In fact, there is some evidence from hubbard’s early writings that Scientology is more or less a business, masquerading as a Church and a psychological alternative to modern psychology.) I know Germany and others in Europe refer to the organization as a cult. I also know Tom Cruise was suggested by Scientologist leaders as being another Christ.
What I did not know is Hubbard was a devotee of Alister Crowley, a lunatic from the 1920’s who insisted he was the Beast - therefore establishing himself as the anti-Christ. He was of course a Satanist - a homosexual - really just a deviant - and everyone knew this well. So what does this say about Scientology?
From Wikipedia:
Ritual magic
One controversial aspect of Hubbard’s early life revolves around his association with Jack Parsons, an aeronautics professor at Caltech and an associate of the British occultist Aleister Crowley.
Hubbard and Parsons were allegedly engaged in the practice of ritual magick in 1946, including an extended set of sex magick rituals called the Babalon Working, intended to summon a goddess or “moonchild.” The Church insists Hubbard was a US government intelligence agent on a mission to end Parsons’ magickal activities and to “rescue” a girl Parsons was “using” for magickal purposes. In a 1952 lecture series, Hubbard recommended a book of Crowley’s and referred to him as “Mad Old Boy” and as “my very good friend”. Hubbard later married the girl he said that he rescued from Parsons, Sara Northrup. Crowley recorded in his notes that he considered Hubbard a “lout” who made off with Parsons’ money and girlfriend in an “ordinary confidence trick”. (There is no honor among thieves.)
Kinda creepy, huh?
