Scientology?> A Satanic Link?
AGGreen
By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON
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THE trendiest religion in Hollywood was founded on the teachings of a
Satanist,
a new essay by Camille Paglia claims.
The Church of Scientology - which boasts Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Lisa
Marie
Presley, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis and Kirstie Alley among its members -
was
founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. According to an article by
Paglia in Boston University's Arion journal, Hubbard got many of his ideas
from
infamous devil worshipper Alistair Crowley.
"Hubbard had met Crowley in the latter's Los Angeles temple in 1945," Paglia
writes. "Hubbard's son reveals that Hubbard claimed to be Crowley's
successor:
Hubbard told him that Scientology was born on the day that Crowley died."
According to the article, Scientologists perform some of the same rites that
Crowley invented, all designed to free practitioners from human guilt.
"Drills used by Scientologists to cleanse and clarify the mind are evidently
a
reinterpretation of Crowley's singular fusion of Asian meditation and
Satanic
ritualism, which sharpens the all-conquering will . . . Guilt and remorse,
in
the Crowley way, are mere baggage to be jettisoned," Paglia says.
She writes that Crowley, a Nazi sympathizer who used opiates and
hallucinogens
and called himself "The Great Beast," advocated total sexual freedom,
including
orgies and bestiality.
Long after his death in 1947, the diabolist attracted even bigger followers
than Hubbard, who founded Scientology in 1954.
"Crowley's influence fell heavily on the late sixties and seventies . . .
The
Beatles inserted Crowley's face (back row, second from left) in the cartoon
cover collage of their landmark 'Sgt. Pepper' album," Paglia writes. In
fact,
some people say the famous first line of the album, "It was 20 years ago
today," is a reference to the year of Crowley's demise.
Other Crowley fans include Ozzy Osbourne, who dedicated an entire song to
him
on his first solo album. David Bowie refers to Crowley and his cult, The
Golden
Dawn, on his early song "Quicksand," and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page bought
Crowley's mansion, Boleskin House, in Scotland.
[New York Post -- 03/16/03]
Rasta Robert
alt.religion.scientology:
>SCIENTOLOGY: A SATANIC LINK?
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>By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON
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>THE trendiest religion in Hollywood was founded on the teachings of a
>Satanist,
>a new essay by Camille Paglia claims.
>
>The Church of Scientology - which boasts Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Lisa
>Marie
>Presley, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis and Kirstie Alley among its members -
>was
>founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. According to an article by
>Paglia in Boston University's Arion journal, Hubbard got many of his ideas
>from
>infamous devil worshipper Alistair Crowley.
>
One wonders about the level of research if they can't even spell
the name of the man right. Sounds like this 'essay' is better
qualified as cheap sensationalist journalism.
>"Hubbard had met Crowley in the latter's Los Angeles temple in 1945," Paglia
>writes. "Hubbard's son reveals that Hubbard claimed to be Crowley's
>successor:
>Hubbard told him that Scientology was born on the day that Crowley died."
>
I'm quite sure Hubbard and Crowley never met each other.
>According to the article, Scientologists perform some of the same rites that
>Crowley invented, all designed to free practitioners from human guilt.
>
I suppose the article doesn't give any proof or examples of this
assertion.
>"Drills used by Scientologists to cleanse and clarify the mind are evidently
>a
>reinterpretation of Crowley's singular fusion of Asian meditation and
>Satanic
>ritualism, which sharpens the all-conquering will . . . Guilt and remorse,
>in
>the Crowley way, are mere baggage to be jettisoned," Paglia says.
>
And the evidence of this is?
>She writes that Crowley, a Nazi sympathizer who used opiates and
>hallucinogens
>and called himself "The Great Beast," advocated total sexual freedom,
>including
>orgies and bestiality.
>
I have never seen any evidence of Crowley being 'a Nazi sympathizer' and
also not aware of Crowley having advocated 'bestiality'. The other
characterisations are more or less accurate, but it leaves out that
Crowley seems to have gotten addicted to opiates as a result of a
legitimate medical treatment with morphine. The fantasy of this
writere seems more morbid that Crowley's person was.
>Long after his death in 1947, the diabolist attracted even bigger followers
>than Hubbard, who founded Scientology in 1954.
>
>"Crowley's influence fell heavily on the late sixties and seventies . . .
"I am the warrior lord of the Forties: the Eighties cower before me &
are abased"
"Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time
is nigh at hand."
(Liber Legis)
>The
>Beatles inserted Crowley's face (back row, second from left) in the cartoon
>cover collage of their landmark 'Sgt. Pepper' album," Paglia writes. In
>fact,
That must be a rare snippet of truth in her cheap trash essay that seems not
worth the paper it was written on.
>some people say the famous first line of the album, "It was 20 years ago
>today," is a reference to the year of Crowley's demise.
Oh dear! How shocking!
>
>Other Crowley fans include Ozzy Osbourne, who dedicated an entire song to
>him
Terrible!
>on his first solo album. David Bowie refers to Crowley and his cult, The
>Golden
>Dawn, on his early song "Quicksand,"
The Order of the golden Dawn can hardly be called 'Crowley's cult',
it existed before Crowley joined it and after Crowey left it
(or mabye he was even kicked out, i don't remember.
Tss, I wish people would do some research before they
write a book. And that teh newspaper journalist who wrote this article
could have done soem research too instead of mindlessly
reflecting the load of nonsense that is in the reviewed 'essay'.
(essay used to denote something a bit more thorough and scientific
that badly researched sensation-journalism.
>and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page bought
>Crowley's mansion, Boleskin House, in Scotland.
That last statement is true.
>
>[New York Post -- 03/16/03]
>
While it is true that Crowley did sometimes act out pretty
crazy stuff, reading what the man wrote shows much more
depth and profoundness than the superficial sci-fi pop-psychology
of Hubbard, Crowley certainly had better contol of language and was
a far better writer than Hubbard, and had actually made a very in-
depth study of all the different magical/religious systems and traditions
that were accessible to him and tried to establish the analogies and
correpondences between those different systems and traditions.
Rasta Robert
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