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"Like surrealism, occultism tries to
break the domination of rational philosophy and logic, stressed
by Descartes. Occultism is based on the belief in a higher
reality of certain forms of association through the cabbala,
faith in the power of dream- and trance-images, and in the
stream of words uncensored by the intellect."
- P. R. Koenig, "Ecstatic
Creation of Culture"
"Hubbard had experienced a peculiar hallucination in 1938, while
under nitrous oxide during a dental operation. He believed that
he had died during the operation and while dead been shown a
great wealth of knowledge."
- Tony McClelland, "The
Total Freedom Trap"
According to Forrest Ackerman,
Hubbard's former literary agent, Hubbard's vision appeared
when he "died" on an operating table during the war.
"Basically what he told me was that
after he died he rose in spirit form and looked back on the body
he had formerly inhabited. Over yonder he saw a fantastic great
gate, elaborately carved like something you'd see in Baghdad or
ancient China. As he wafted towards it, the gate opened and just
beyond he could see a kind of intellectual smorgasbord on which
was outlined everything that had ever puzzled the mind of man.
All the questions that had concerned
philosophers through the ages - When did the world begin? Was
there a God? Whither goest we? - were there answered.
All this information came flooding
into him and while he was absorbing it, there was a sort of
flustering in the air and he felt something like a long
umbilical cord pulling him back. He was saying 'No, no, not
yet!', but he was pulled back anyway. After the gates had closed
he realized he had re-entered his body."
"According to Ron, he jumped off the
operating table, ran to his Quonset hut, got two reams of paper
and a gallon of scalding black coffee and for the next 48 hours,
at a blinking rate, he wrote a work called Excalibur, or The
Dark Sword"
Hubbard, "said that as he shopped the
manuscript around, the people who read it either went insane or
committed suicide. The last time he showed it to a publisher, he
was sitting in an office waiting for a reader to give his
opinion. The reader walked into the office, tossed the
manuscript on the desk and then threw himself out of the
window."
"He said it was in a bank vault and
it was going to stay there. I think he was quite sincere. He
seemed like a man who had seen too many people go crazy or
commit suicide, who had enough on his conscience already. I
never did get to see the manuscript or show it to any publisher.
In fact, I never encountered anyone who said they had seen it."
- Forrest Ackerman
Art Burks, a fellow writer, did see the
manuscript, but in 1938.
"He told me it was going to
revolutionize everything: the world, people's attitudes to one
another. He thought it would have a greater impact upon people
than the Bible."
- Art Burks
"Burk's recollection of the manuscript was that it was about
seventy thousand words long and began with a fable about a king
who gathered all his wise men together and commanded them to
bring him all the wisdom of the world in five hundred books. He
then told them to go away and condense the information into one
hundred books. When they had done that, he wanted the wisdom
reduced into one book and finally one word. That word was
'survive'."
- Russell Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
"Hubbard had clear connections to
the occult. Even in the first publication of Dianetics in
'Astounding Science Fiction' [May 1950 p. 66], Hubbard in
explaining how he did his 'research' into what the mind was
doing, says he used 'automatic writing, speaking and
clairvoyance'."
Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
"Scientology bears substantial resemblance to much other
contemporary trance channeled material."
Dissertation Abstracts,
1954, volume 14, page 390
"Hubbard's intense curiosity about the mind's power led him into
a friendship in 1946 [actually August 1945] with rocket fuel
scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Parsons was a protégé of
British satanist Aleister Crowley and leader of
a black-magic group modeled after Crowley's infamous occult
lodge in England."
LRH, the story of L. Ron
Hubbard and the Church of Scientology", St. Petersburg Times,
June 24, 1990
"Parsons and Hubbard lived in an aging mansion on South Orange
Grove Avenue in Pasadena, Calif. The estate was home to an odd
mix of Bohemian artists, writers, scientists and occultists. A
small domed temple supported by six stone columns stood in the
back yard."
"Hubbard met his second wife, Sara Northrup, at the mansion.
Although she was Parsons' lover at the time, Hubbard was
undeterred. He married Northrup before divorcing his first
wife."
"LRH, the story of L. Ron
Hubbard and the Church of Scientology", St. Petersburg Times,
June 24, 1990
"Although he [Hubbard] has no formal training in Magick, he has
an extraordinary amount of experience and understanding in the
field. From some of his experiences I deduce that he is in
direct contact with some higher intelligence, possibly his
Guardian Angel ... He is the most Thelemic person I have ever
met, and is in complete accord with our own principles...
I think I have made a great gain,
and as Betty [Sara Northrup] and I are the best of friends there
is little loss. I cared for her rather deeply, but I have no
desire to control her emotions, and I can, I hope, control my
own. I need a magical partner. I have many experiments in
mind..."
Parsons in a letter to
Crowley (late 1945)
"Long before the 1960s counterculture, some residents of the
estate smoked marijuana and embraced a philosophy of
promiscuous, ritualistic sex."
"LRH, the story of L. Ron
Hubbard and the Church of Scientology", St. Petersburg Times,
June 24, 1990
Aleister Crowley had sought to bring
into being an Anti-Christ:
A "living being in form resembling
man, and possessing those qualities of man which distinguish him
from beasts, namely intellect and power of speech, but neither
begotten in the manner of human generation, nor inhabited by a
human soul."
- Aleister Crowley,
The
Book of the Law
"The core of this Working [by Parsons] consisted of the
utilisation of the Enochian Tablet of Air, or rather a specific
angle of it. This was to be the focus of VIII* sexual magick,
with the purpose of giving substance to the elemental summons.
Parsons continued with this for eleven days, evoking twice
daily. He noted various psychic phenomena during this period,
but felt discouraged by the apparent failure of the Operation.
However, success followed several days later."
- Michael Staley, "The
Babalon Working"
"The feeling of tension and unease continued for four days. Then
on January 18 [1946] at sunset, whilst the Scribe and I were on
the Mojave Desert, the feeling of tension suddenly stopped. I
turned to him and said 'it is done', in absolute certainty that
the Operation was accomplished. I returned home, and found a
young woman [Marjorie Cameron] answering the requirements
waiting for me.
She is describable as an air of fire
type with bronze red hair, fiery and subtle, determined and
obstinate, sincere and perverse, with extraordinary personality,
talent and intelligence. During the period of January 19 to
February 27 I invoked the Goddess BABALON [a particular aspect
of the Egyptian goddess Nuit] with the aid of magical partner
(Ron Hubbard), as was proper to one of my grade."
- Parsons in a letter to
Crowley (late 1945)
Reportedly the words of Babalon, consisting of 77 short verses,
communicated to Parsons by unknown means in the Mohave desert at
the end of February, "Liber 49 contains instructions for the
earthing of this Babalon current in the form of an avatar,
daughter or manifestation of Babalon, who was to appear amongst
us. It would seem that Parsons was expecting a full-blown
incarnation, and not simply the inauguration of a force."
- Michael Staley, "The
Babalon Working"
"With the assistance of his new friend [L. Ron Hubbard], he
[Jack Parsons] intended to try and create a 'moonchild' - a
magical child 'mightier than all the kings of the earth', whose
birth had been prophesied in the Book of the Law more than forty
years earlier."
- Russell Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
"The Aeon of Horus is of the nature of a child. To perceive
this, we must conceive of the nature of a child without the veil
of sentimentality - beyond good and evil, perfectly gentle,
perfectly ruthless, containing all possibilities within the
limits of heredity, and highly susceptible to training and
environment. But the nature of Horus is also the nature of force
- blind, terrible, unlimited force."
- Aleister Crowley
(unpublished paper)
"On March 1 and 2, 1946, I prepared the altar and equipment in
accordance with the instructions in Liber 49. The Scribe, Ron
Hubbard, had been away about a week, and knew nothing of my
invocation of BABALON, which I had kept entirely secret. On the
night of March 2 he returned, and described a vision he had had
that evening, of a savage and beautiful woman riding naked on a
great cat-like beast. He was impressed with the urgent necessity
of giving me some message or communication.
We prepared magically for this
communication, constructing a temple at the altar with the
analysis of the key word. He was robed in white, carrying a
lamp; and I in black, hooded, with the cup and dagger. At his
suggestion we played Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead as
background music, and set an automatic recorder to transcribe
audible occurrences. At approximately 8 am he began to dictate,
I transcribing directly as I received."
- Parsons in a letter to
Crowley (late 1945)
On March 2, 1946, Hubbard, Parsons and Marjorie Cameron, the
"scarlet women" engaged in sexual rites in the Ordo Templi Orientis
lodge in South Orange California.
Hubbard, as scribe, intoned:
"Make a box of blackness at ten
o'clock. Smear the vessel which contains flame with thine own
blood. Destroy at the altar a thing of value. Remain in perfect
silence and heed the voice of our Lady. Speak not of this ritual
or of her coming to any person..."
"Display thyself to Our Lady; dedicate thy organs to Her,
dedicate thy heart to Her, dedicate thy mind to Her, dedicate
thy soul to Her, for She shall absorb thee, and thou shalt
become living flame before She incarnates..."
- Russell Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
"The neighbors began protesting when the rituals called for a
naked pregnant woman to jump nine times through fire in the
yard."
- L. Sprague de Camp
(science-fiction author who knew both Hubbard and Parsons)
"Apparently Parsons or Hubbard or somebody is producing a
Moonchild. I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of
these louts."
- Aleister Crowley, in a
letter to the head of the OTO in the U.S.
"After the Babalon Working had been concluded, all that Parsons
could do was watch and wait. He had been told that the Operation
had succeeded, that conception had occurred, and that in due
course the avatar or Daughter of Babalon would come to him,
bearing a secret sign that Parsons alone would recognise, and
which would prove her authenticity.
Hubbard, though, had rather more
mundane considerations on his mind, and several weeks later he
and Betty absconded with a vast amount of Parsons' money. This
amounted to many thousands of dollars as an investment in Allied
Enterprises, a fund set up by Parsons, Betty and Hubbard, and
into which Parsons was pursuaded to sink most of his savings."
- Michael Staley, "The
Babalon Working"
"About J.W.P. - all that I can say is that I am sorry - I feel
sure that he had fine ideas, but he was led astray firstly by
Smith [former head of the Agapé Lodge of the O.T.O. in
California], then he was robbed of his last penny by a
confidence man named Hubbard."
- Aleister Crowley, in a
letter to Louis T. Culling (October 1946)
"Hubbard and Parsons finally had a falling out over a sailboat
sales venture [Allied Enterprises] that ended in a court dispute
between the two. In later years, Hubbard tried to distance
himself from his embarrassing association with Parsons, who was
founder of a government rocket project at the California
Institute of Technology that later evolved into the famed Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. Parsons died in 1952 when a chemical
explosion ripped through his garage lab."
"Hubbard insisted that he had been working undercover for Naval
Intelligence to break up black magic in America and to
investigate links between the occultists and prominent
scientists at the Parsons' mansion. Hubbard said the mission was
so successful that the house was razed and the black-magic group
was dispersed. But Parsons' widow, Cameron, disputed Hubbard's
account in a brief interview with the Los Angeles Times.
She said the two men 'liked each
other very much' and 'felt they were ushering in a force that
was going to change things'."
- "LRH, the story of L.
Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology", St. Petersburg
Times, June 24, 1990
"Hubbard continued the practice of Magick after leaving
Parsons....The 'Affirmations' are voluminous. The introduction
alone runs to thirty pages. They are in Ron Hubbard's own hand.
Only a tiny portion was read into the court record [during the
Armstrong case], and the originals were held under court seal.
In the 'Affirmations' Hubbard hypnotized himself to believe that
all of humanity and all discarnate beings were bound to him in
slavery. Mary Sue Hubbard's attorney claimed these statements
were part of Hubbard's 'research'.
"Also under court seal was a document with the tantalizing title
'the Blood Ritual'. The title was Hubbard's own. This document
was apparently so sensitive that no part of it was read into the
record. The Scientology lawyer asserted that the deity invoked
in 'The Blood Ritual' is an Egyptian god of Love.
Parson had mentioned Hubbard's guardian angel, 'The Empress'.
Nibs Hubbard says his father also called his guardian angel
Hathor, or Hathoor. Hathor is an Egyptian goddess, the daughter
and mother of the great sun god Amon-Ra, the principal Egyptian
deity. She was depicted as a winged and spotted cow feeding
humanity; a goddess of Love and Beauty. But she had a second
aspect, not always mentioned in texts on Egyptian mythology,
that of the 'avenging lioness', Sekmet, a destructive force.
One authority has called her 'the
destroyer of man'. This is the 'God of Love' to whom 'The Blood
Ritual' ceremony was dedicated. Since doing my research I have
seen a copy of 'The Blood Ritual', and it is indeed addressed to
Hathor. Nuit, Re, Mammon and Osiris are also invoked. The
ceremony consisted of Ron and his then wife mingling their blood
to become one."
"Arthur Burks has left an account of a meeting with Hubbard
before the Second War, where Hubbard said that his guardian
angel, a 'smiling woman', protected him when he was flying
gliders. One early Dianeticist asked Hubbard how he had managed
to write Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health in three
weeks. Hubbard said it was produced through automatic writing,
dictated by an entity called the 'Empress'. In
Crowley's Tarot,
the Empress card represents, among other things, debauchery, and
Crowley also associated the card with Hathor.
"To Crowley, Babalon was a manifestation of the Hindu goddess
Shakti, who in one of her aspects is also called the 'destroyer
of man'. It seems that to Hubbard, Babalon, Hathor, and the
Empress were synonymous, and he was trying to conjure his
'Guardian Angel' in the form of a servile homunculus to he could
control the 'destroyer of man'.
"There was also a correspondence between Diana and Isis to
Crowley, and the Empress card represented not only Hathor, but
Isis, in Crowley's system. Diana is the patroness of witchcraft.
Hubbard later called one of his daughters Diana, and the name of
the first Sea Org yacht was changed from Enchanter to Diana."
- Jon Atack, A Piece of
Blue Sky
Use of Magick in Scientology
"The whole and sole object of all
true magickal training is to become free from every kind of
limitation."
- Aleister Crowley,
Magick in Theory and Practice
"Our whole activity tends to make an individual completely
independent of any limitation."
- L. Ron Hubbard,
Philadelphia Doctorate Course lecture (December, 1952)
"Conventional religions, with their colorful mythologies
analyzed in terms of the underlying philosophical principles,
represent simply the primitive longing of man to feel 'at one'
with the Universal harmony he perceives about him. 'White'
magic, as advocated by primitive pagan and modern institutional
religions, offers devotees the illusion of 're-inclusion' in the
Universal scheme of things through various ritualistic devotions
and superstitions.
"The Black Magician, on the other hand, rejects both the
desirability of union with the Universe and any self-deceptive
antics designed to create such an illusion. He has considered
the existence of the individual psyche - the 'core you' of your
conscious intelligence - and has taken satisfaction from its
existence as something unlike anything else in the Universe.
The Black Magician desires this
psyche to live, to experience, and to continue. He does not wish
to die - or to lose his consciousness and identity in a larger,
Universal consciousness [assuming that such exists]. He wants to
be."
-- John Youril, "The
Temple of Set FAQ"
Hubbard defines
operating thetan, a spiritual
being freed by Scientology practices as "an individual who could
*operate* totally independently of his body whether he had one
or didn't have one. He's now himself, he's not dependent on the
universe around him."
- Scientology Technical
Dictionary
"In the Philadelphia Doctorate Course lectures taped in 1952,
Hubbard discusses occult magic of the middle ages, and
recommends a current book - 'it's fascinating work in itself,
and that's work written by Aleister Crowley, the late Aleister
Crowley, my very good friend.' The book recommended was The
Master Therion, (published in London in 1929) later re-released
as
Magick in Theory and Practise. L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. asserts
that during the time when the Philadelphia course was given his
father would read Crowley's works 'in preparation for the next
day's lecture...'
- Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
"...In these runes I are mysteries that no Beast shall divine.
Let him not seek to try: But one cometh after him . . . who
shall discouer the key to it all?"
- Aleister Crowley, The
Book of the Law
"According to Ron Jr., his father considered himself to be the
one 'who came after'; that he was Crowley's successor; that he
had taken on the mantle of the 'Great Beast'. He told him that
Scientology actually began on December the Ist, 1947. This was
the day Aleister Crowley died."
- Brent Corydon, Messiah
or Madman
"There are interesting similarities between Crowley's writings
and the teachings of Hubbard. Dianetics' Time Track, in which
every incident in a person's life is chronologically recorded in
full in the mind, is quite similar to Crowley's Magical Memory.
The Magical Memory is developed over time until 'memories of
childhood reawaken which were previously forgotten, and memories
of previous incarnations are recalled as well'. Hubbard gives
examples in the Philadelphia Doctorate Course of several people
remembering lives earlier on earth, some up to a million years
ago.
The similarity between the Magical
Memory and Time Track, then, is that they both can recall every
past incident in a person's life, they both can recall incidents
from past lives, and they both must be developed by certain
techniques in order to make use of them. Both Hubbard and
Crowley consider it important to have the person recall his or
her birth."
- Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
"Having allowed the mind to return for some hundred times to the
hour of birth, it should be encouraged to endeavour to penetrate
beyond that period."
- Aleister Crowley, Magick
"After twenty runs through birth, the patient experienced a
recession of all somatics and 'unconsciousness' and aberrative
content." "Thus there was no inhibition about looking earlier
than birth for what Dianetics had begun to call basic-basic."
- L Ron Hubbard, Dianetics
"Both Hubbard and Crowley are avowedly anti-psychiatry."
- Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
"Official psychoanalysis is therefore committed to upholding a
fraud...Psychoanalysts have misinterpreted life, and announced
the absurdity that every human being is essentially an
anti-social, criminal, and insane animal."
- Aleister Crowley, Magick
"Hubbard considered that psychiatry controlled most of society
and was struggling to create their own 1984 world. Hubbard and
Crowley both posit the ability of the person to leave his or her
body at times. Crowley states that the way to learn to leave
your body is to mock up a body like your own in front of your
physical body.
"Eventually you will learn to leave
your physical body with your 'astral body' and travel and view
at will without physical restrictions. Hubbard teaches the same,
and his method of "exteriorization" is to tell the person to
'have preclear mock up own body', which will send the person
outside his body."
"Both Crowley and Hubbard use an equilateral triangle pointing
up in a circle as one of their group's symbols. Both use Volume
0 instead of Volume 1 to begin enumerating their works. One
could go on for quite some time listing the similarities between
Crowley's and Hubbard's theories and writings, but for more the
reader is encouraged to look for him or herself."
"In Crowley's Organization are several grade levels. To reach
the Grade of Adeptus Exemptus 'The Adept must prepare and
publish a thesis setting forth His knowledge of the Universe,
and his proposals for its welfare and progress. He will thus be
known as the leader of a school of thought' [Magick]. It is
apparent that Hubbard has fulfilled this requirement."
- Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
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"For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places."
- Ephesians 6:12
"Basically, gnostics believe that we as humans are 'outsiders'
to this material universe. Our immortal godlike souls were
trapped here in a body by evil forces, and we are reincarnated
continually, while our true spiritual identities are clouded
from our memory. It is our task to discover the hidden
knowledge, or gnosis, that will allow us to escape this evil
material world of illusion and return to our rightful place. We
keep reincarnating until we learn how to escape."
- Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
"The world seems to be 'the epitome of evil'. Because it is
alien to their true nature, human beings must renounce it and
flee from it in order to be able to return to their heavenly
home. To achieve this aim they must possess Gnosis, be reborn in
their true nature, and be baptized in the cup of knowledge into
which the divine intellect has been poured."
- Giovanni Filoramo,
Gnosticism
"Salvation begins with a messenger from beyond bringing the
necessary knowledge to mankind, but this knowledge is given only
to those deemed worthy, and even then one must follow certain
steps in order to arrive at the ultimate Truths. The individual
must struggle to earn and then incorporate the secret knowledge
needed to return to his rightful place. There is a need for
someone to bring this gnosis or knowledge to mankind:"
- Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
"It follows that this divine reality cannot be known through the
ordinary faculties of the mind. Illumination, revelation, the
intervention of a celestial mediator is required. He descends
from above to call the Gnostic, to rouse him from earthly sleep
and drunkenness, to take him back to his divine homeland."
- Giovanni Filoramo,
Gnosticism
"While on this earth, man is plagued by many difficulties which
lessen his real abilities and being. One problem to us all is
that within each of our bodies is a plethora of spirits or
souls, causing us harm."
- Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
"A hierarchy of demons, servile and ready, is continually at
work in everyone's body, transformed into a remorseless inferno
in miniature."
- Giovanni Filoramo,
Gnosticism
"For many spirits dwell in it [the body] and do not permit it to
be pure; each of them brings to fruition its own works, and they
treat it abusively by means of unseemly desires. To me it seems
that the heart suffers in much the same way as an inn: for it
has holes and trenches dug in it and is often filled with filth
by men who live there licentiously and have no regard for the
place because it belongs to another."
- Valentinus (300 AD)
"Human beings, so Hubbard said, are actually a collection of
Thetans [spirits], a cluster of 'Body Thetans'."
- Jon Atack, A Piece of
Blue Sky
The supposed incident 75 million years
ago in which thetans in this sector of the galaxy became clustered
together is revealed in the confidential doctrine of
OT III.
Forbidden in Canada
by the Religious
Technology Center.
In a lecture to students of first Class VIII course on
the flagship Apollo, October 3, 1968, Hubbard briefly
describes that people are afraid of Body Thetans and
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"Another gnostic idea, that this is
a world of illusion, is in about Scientology doctrine as well.
Scientology teaches that this
universe we live in is the MEST (matter, energy, space, time)
universe that exists solely because the non-MEST beings known as
thetans decided to agree to bind themselves to the rules and
laws that we see operating here, such as gravity and the speed
of light: 'a Thetan may postulate a material or mental condition
and subsequently consider that he cannot escape that condition,
and succumb to the resulting illusion of entrapment within it.'
Theta beings (Hubbard's name for the
soul) lived here on earth by dwelling in a human body. Humans,
that is, the living body, existed without the theta being before
the thetans were trapped in this material universe. Theta beings
are "trapped" into human bodies by trickery and forget their
true nature."
- Jeff Jacobsen, "The
Hubbard is Bare"
"Consider that theta [spirit] in its native state is pure reason
or at least pure potential reason. Consider that MEST in its
native state is simply the chaotic physical universe, its
chemicals and energies active in space and time."
"The cycle of existence for theta consists of a disorganized and
painful smash into MEST and then a withdrawal with a knowledge
of some of the laws of MEST, to come back and smash into MEST
again."
"MEST could be considered to be under onslaught by theta. Theta
could be considered to have as one of its missions, and its only
mission where MEST is concerned, the conquest of the physical
universe."
- L. Ron Hubbard, The
Science of Survival
"Hubbard saw the individuals' current state as a fall from
grace, but the individual's own grace, not that of God. He saw
the Thetan as an all-capable individual, who has gradually
restricted his powers, over 'quadrillions' of years, in part to
have a 'game', and in part for fear of hurting others. He called
this degeneration of the 'dwindling spiral'. In Scientology
counseling, the Preclear is directed back to incidents in his
past existences which have shaped his way of thinking (and
consequently his current circumstances).
A better future is to be obtained by
release from quadrillenia of long forgotten conditioning and
guilt. Sociologists use the term 'neo-gnosticism' to describe
such beliefs when they are allied to a supposed system of
enlightenment (many of the original Christian gnostic sects
spent their time learning the passwords which would give them
entry to heaven after death)."
"In the mid-1970s while in Washington, DC, Hubbard inaugurated a
secret project to find out all he could about the 'Soldiers of
Light' and the 'Soldiers of Darkness'. The notion that people
are born either good or evil and engage in a cosmic spiritual
war can be found in Zoroastrianism, and in the Dead Sea Scrolls
of the Essenes, whence it found its way into certain Gnostic
Christian sects. In the early 1950s Hubbard had talked about
people being 'players', 'pieces' or 'broken pieces' in the
'game' of life. This concept is fundamental to Scientology. He
later spoke of 'Big Beings' existing in a ratio of one to
eighteen compared to 'degraded Beings'.
Separately from this estimate, he
said that
Supressives make up two and a
half percent of the population, and Potential Trouble Sources
(PTSes)
who are in their sway a further 17.5 percent. He categorized
some people simply as 'robots', incapable of decision. In short,
there are a small number of 'players', some Soldiers of Light,
some Soldiers of Darkness. They are engaged in an eternal
battle, using the 'pieces' and 'broken pieces' to achieve their
ends."
- Jon Atack, A Piece of
Blue Sky
"Hubbard undeniably had great talent; some would call it genius.
He led an extremely active life, and met his goals except for
one, emotional comfort - for which his wealth and power could
only substitute. Dianetics/Scientology was to be his cure, but
it didn't work. He fell victim to the delusions he fostered in
others, and it is known that, right up to his demise or shortly
before, he audited himself, or was audited, on his pack of
"creatures."
- Robert Kaufman,
"Scientology Auditing and Its Offshoots"
"I was advised by Richard Aznaran, Sinar Parman and Annie
Breeder that Hubbard was an unhandled
PTS III [psychotic] when he
died. According to Sinar Parman, Hubbard was a psychopathic
insane person screaming about BT's [Body Thetans] and
clusters at the top of his
lungs."
- Andre Tabayoyon
(Tabayoyon was an ex-Marine Vietnam verteran who became a
Scientologist for 21 years and knew Hubbard personally.)
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