I have followed with some interest the career of rocket scientist John "Jack" Parsons and Hubbard. In fact Parsons just had a new biography published.
Hubbard and Parsons worked together on a ritual called the Babalon working which was a rite to incarnate "Babalon", essentially a form of Kali, in human form. The idea was that this would be Parson's spiritual mate who could help him manifest anything, including complete enlightenment. Well something backfired. As the ritual working came to climax, Parson ended up killing himself in an explosion at Cal Tech and Hubbard got the manifested form of Babalon as his wife. Shortly thereafter Hubbard begins his rise to power. This is all very Gnostic. In fact if one looks closely at Hubbards system, it clearly has parallels to the Neoplatonic idea of the *idios daemon*--the personal "Daemon" (not to be confused with *demon*). The same practice is what became the ideal of the "Holy Guardian Angel". Its primary practice is that of "Knowledge and Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel". Correct completion of this path often manifests as an elaborate system of attaining various ends, mundane and spiritual, not unlike what Scientology has become in our modern scientific era. The parallels between Scientology and Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel are undeniable in my opinion, there are just too many examples in that system for it to be otherwise. Given both Parson's and Hubbard's interests, one only has to look as far as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn for a source of these ideas. Unfortunately it seems the purity of that system of attainment seems to have been obscured in Scientology as is often the case in any institution or hierarchical system. In any event, its interesting to see how a western tradition of enlightenment can manifest in a scientific era. On Jun 22, 2005, at 9:45 AM, t3rinity wrote: > Hubbard was a colorful personaility to say the least. Just last night > I did some internet research on all I could get hold on about > scientology. I have clearly experienced how through enlightenment > experiences concepts vanish, and realized that our conditioning is > holding us back. The idea to work on this conditioning is therefore > interesting to me. I found that Hubbard was obviously a big fan of > Aleister Crowley, and made some very secret mackic rituals with one of > his disciples called Jack Parson, he even overtook his girlfriend. > http://www.religio.de/atack/occ1.html > There is also some speculation that the word Dianetics is reminescent > of the Goddess Diana. Hubbard had appearances of a goddess he called > the Empress. Scientology became an amalgan between psychotherapy, > mackic and basically gnostic thought. In its later stages, from OT3 > on, it becomes a sort of psychotherapeutic exorcism. There is a > strange story called OT3,a sort of science fiction fairy tale you can > read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu > which accounts for the existence of quasy demonic uncounscious > souls,which occupy our body limbs by the thousands according to > Hubbard,and are conscequently exorcised,i.e. liberated through > auditing from OT3 to OT7. > See http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/fishman/index2.html > There is also a controversy about that according to sci religious > ideas have been implanted by the 'bad guy' xenu intohuman brains in > order to control us called R6. In the highest level OT8 one alledgedly > has to abondan these ideas see > http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/fishman/ot8b.html This is clearly > gnostic thought,were the creator of the heavens is being looked down > at as basically the imprisoner of thought. So scientology does retain > its originally gnostic/mackic attribute. In having a great emphazis on > reincarnation, karma, release of karma, identifying ourselves as Gods, > it is much closer to Hindu and Buddhist philosophy than to Xthianity, > which I think is a good thing. It also seems that the everage > practitioner is not necessarily acquqainted with these higher > philosophical aspects, and simply uses the tools to become more > 'aware' about his own conditioning, and releases it in a > non-judgemental way. I came across webpages of people who parted with > the organization for ovious reasons, but still did auditing, also of > the higher levels, and there are independed organizations offering it, > like http://freezoneamerica.org/ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
