Subject: L. Ron Hubbard: Frater X
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:46:51 GMT
L. Ron Hubbard: Frater X From http://www.zolatimes.com/jparart/JackParsons.html: [Start Quote]
Do you know anything about a Crowley follower named Jack Parsons?" I asked. "Just what I've read here and there. The Symonds biography of Crowley has some material. Then there are some books by the current head of an O.T.O. lodge in London, Kenneth Grant. One is called The Magical Revival and another Aleister Crowley & The Hidden God. They discuss Parsons' experiences with a `Frater X.' If you compare the events with Symonds' biography, Frater X is obviously L. Ron Hubbard, the Scientology founder. Grant chose not to use Hubbard's name, perhaps fearing a dirty tricks or character assassination campaign conducted by some of Hubbard's fanatical followers."[End Quote] Aleister Crowley appointed Charles Stansfeld Jones (aka Frater Achad, aka Parzival, 1886-1950) as his Viceroy to North America. [i] Frater Achad founded the Agape Lodge in Vancouver, B.C. As part of his own occult studies, he unlocked a key to Crowley's Book of the Law, the channeled material that forms the backbone of Crowley's magical career. Apparently Achad unlocked this key by reversing the schematic for the Hebrew cabala. [ii] Readers with a basic understanding of the cabala and of Scientology will find in Achad's writings some rather startling correspondences to Hubbard's teachings. Rather oversimplifying this for the sake of brevity: Achad's reworking of the cabala put stress on a triad of Light, Life and Substance, wherein "Life" was equal to Understanding. Hubbard's Understanding is the culmination of Scientology's most fundamental doctrine, the ARC triangle. Hubbard taught that theta is understanding. This contrasts with traditional cabala teachings, which places Understanding at a much higher echelon on the Tree of Life. Hubbard designated "Understandings" as the awareness characteristic for the Publications Department of Scientology's organizational template. The monitored statistic for this department is "Gross Book Sales." A person who has paid for a Hubbard book can thus be classified as an "Understanding." Similarly, the Sales Department in Scientology has as its awareness characteristic, "Enlightenment," the statistic for which enlightenment is "Gross Income." [iii] Achad had announced yet another era, which Crowley thought was about 1,956 years premature. (An Age is supposed to last 2000 years, and Crowley had already announced the Age of Horus.) Achad ended up joining the Roman Catholic Church in England, hoping to convince the Catholics to accept the Law of Thelema. ("Do what thou wilt...") The new era that Frater Achad, aka "Parzival", announced was called "Truth and Justice." For 50 years, Scientology attempted to sell Scientology as a religion that is compatible with Christianity. [iv] The Scientology cross is a symbol of Hubbard's Scientology Ethics and Justice system and a clear reference to Hubbard's elusive manuscript, Excalibur. The configuration of the Scientology cross has unmistakable correlation to freemasonry sword symbolism for "reason"; in Hubbard's system, ethics is defined as reason. [v] In Crowley's eyes, Frater Achad couldn't prove that he had honestly gone up through the secret grades of the A...A...--for one thing he did not write a thesis about the Universe. Was Frater Achad's second name of "Parzival" a key to Hubbard's Arthurian symbolism for Scientology's ethics and justice system? Was the author of Excalibur not Hubbard, but Parzival? Was Excalibur actually Frater Achad's thesis that could not pass the O.T.O. qualification for Adeptus Exemptus? Crowley eventually expelled Frater Achad from the OTO in California after determining that Frater Achad was trying to destroy his work, particularly wreaking havoc in the Agape Lodge in Pasadena, CA. Wilfred T. Smith, aka Frater 132, began his magical career under Frater Achad in Vancouver, B.C. Crowley met Frater 132 in Vancouver and analyzed his astrological chart; Crowley came to the conclusion that Frater 132 was not a human but was an Incarnation of some God. Frater 132 later also wrought havoc to the OTO Lodge in Pasadena, CA and seduced Jack Parson's wife, Helen. As Kenneth Grant puts it, "Smith had a child by Helen, and a series of entanglements ensued which provoked Crowley to issue an encyclical expelling Smith from the O.T.O." [vi] Frater X (L. Ron Hubbard) lived within sailing distance of Vancouver (Bremerton, WA.) and is placed in a sailboat called "The Magician" in 1940, on the coast of B.C., supposedly focused on a charting project for the US Navy. [vii] Yet the US navy confirmed (to me) that the insignia on the cap that Hubbard was wearing was never standard issue for the Navy. The Explorer's Club likewise confirmed that Hubbard's cap insignia had nothing to do with the Explorer's Club. Also, according to a confidential interview between Jon Atack and a high level Rosicrucian, Hubbard had already completed 2 neophyte degrees by 1940. In 1945, Frater X showed up at the Agape Lodge and chummed up to Jack Parsons. Though Hubbard denied any formal training, Parsons became convinced that Hubbard was the most thelemic person he had ever met. Frater X partnered with Parsons in the Babalon Working and eventually made off with Parsons' money and his girlfriend (Sara Northrup). Yet another hit on Parsons. Hubbard eventually married Northrup bigamously and began his Dianetics op. Crowley's take: Frater X was a confidence man. Though Scientology press people asserted in 1969 that Hubbard was called in by the Navy to "break up black magic in Pasadena", it was certainly not the Navy with which we are familiar. It seems inconceivable that the US Navy would require Hubbard to perform these well-documented activities in the line of his duty to the USA. [viii] By 1945, Crowley was getting old, and he needed a magical heir. Jones/Achad didn't cut the mustard. Neither did Smith/132. Parsons, however, was still definitely in the running. With Hubbard's 1945-1946 foray, Jack's magical career finally fizzled. Parsons resigned from the OTO a month later. Achad and company very likely did not take Crowley's snubs and excommunications too well. Did Hubbard represent Achad's solution for his squirreled New Age of "Truth and Justice"? Did Hubbard perform, not as an undercover agent for the US Navy per se, but as an agent provocateur for a disgruntled Vancouver faction of the O.T.O.? Though Crowley's ceremonial magic system (A.A.) was apparently used widely in an effort to properly prepare magicians for advanced workings, Crowley's fate must have caused serious doubts as to its efficacy in preventing the psychological condition Crowley found himself in at the end of his life. Let's get over the current propaganda that Scientology evolved out of Dianetics as a technical development. Scientology claims that Hubbard's original manuscript was written as Scientology A New Science. [ix] Hubbard's original THESIS, written under the title of "Scientology A New Science" was finished in 1947-within months after Crowley's death. It was published for psychiatrists (but not well received) under "Abnormal Dianetics" in 1948. In 1951, (the year following the release of Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health), Hubbard re-published the same manuscript under "Dianetics: The Original Thesis." The title was changed to "The Dynamics of Life" in 1983. [x] Hubbard's original thesis did not fully meet the qualifications necessary for Adeptus Exemptus, as it did not provide a manual for lay application. Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health was published in 1950, apparently "passing" for this manual. An interesting note about Hubbard's original manuscript: In the Introduction of the June 1975 reprint version of Dianetics: The Original Thesis, Hubbard stated that he had been testing Dianetics since 1945. This date corresponds to the year Hubbard met Jack Parsons at the OTO Agape Lodge. One of Hubbard's tasks while infiltrating the Agape Lodge was to manipulate a psychological factor called the transference to seduce Parson's girlfriend. (Transference, simply stated, is the displacement of unconscious affinities in the mind.) Prominent magicians such as Israel Regardie and Christopher Hyatt strongly encourage aspirants to undergo psychological therapy before starting their magical practices. [xi] Crowley died a drug addict and was insane. Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad) displayed obvious psychotic behavior on his return to Vancouver after attempting to infiltrate the Roman Catholic Church. He was found wandering the streets naked, "to affirm his intention of casting aside all restriction." [xii] And of course, now we know that Hubbard suffered a comparable fate.[xiii] It was the dream of Hubbard's mentor, Commander Joseph Cheesman Thompson, that lay psychologists be given the same status as medical psychoanalysts. From this perspective, it is not hard to see how Hubbard attempted to bring Thompson's wish to realization with his thesis and with Dianetics as the operation. Between the dates of Crowley's death and Parson's death, Hubbard was satisfied with promoting his pseudo-psychological abreaction therapy called Dianetics. Parsons' poorly investigated death took place on June 17, 1952. Hubbard gave his Technique 88 Lectures in Phoenix AZ between June 23-28, 1952. The book What to Audit was published in July, 1952, and later became the text for OT 8, (History of Man). In August 1952 Hubbard issued "What is Scientology?" thus publicly introducing "Scientology" into the curriculum as his sci fi freemasonry. Only six months after Parsons death, Hubbard did a demo session in which he quite apparently attempted to invoke Parsons with his "creative processing" technique.[xiv] Hopefully, this brief look at the early history of Hubbard's "achievements" against known external events will cast a little further light upon the true nature of Scientology today. ---------- References: Grant, Kenneth, The Magical Revival 1991 Skoob Books Publishing Ltd.; 1991 Kenneth Grant Carter, John, Sex and Rockets The Occult World of Jack Parsons 1999 John Carter and Feral House ---- [i] http://www.diax.ch/users/prkoenig/html/history.htm [ii] http://www.internetstore.bc.ca/starofisis/revival.html
http://members.ficom.net/ditch/diftarot2.htm [iii] See Organization Executive Course Basic Staff Hat, by L. Ron Hubbard (Organizing Boards) 1991 L. Ron Hubbard Library [iv] See alt.religion.scientology post, "Scientology and the Golden Dawn." [v] See alt.binaries.scientology post, "Excalibur and the Scientology Cross" [vi] Grant, Kenneth, The Magical Revival 1991 Skoob Books Publishing Ltd.; 1991 Kenneth Grant [vii] See Images of a Lifetime, copyright 1996, L. Ron Hubbard Library. See also Barefaced Messiah, Timeline: http://home.kvalito.no/~xenu/archive/books/bfm/timeline.htm [viii] See Sex and Rockets by John Carter for Scientology's press release. [ix] See also http://www.scientologie.de/domain_dispute.htm for the dispute and denouement of the word Scientology. [x] See Technical Bulletins Volume 1, page 3 for chronology. 1991 L. Ron Hubbard Library [xi] Regardie, Israel, What You Should Know about the Golden Dawn The Israel Regardie Foundation, Inc. (Especially foreword by Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.) Knight, Gareth, A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism 1993 Gareth Knight (Knight specifically recommended Scientology for magicians.) [xii] The Magical Revival, by Kenneth Grant 1991 Skoob Books Publishing Ltd.; 1991 Kenneth Grant [xiii] http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/rvy-death.html
http://www.ronthenut.org/corpse.htm (Links to gif images of the coroner's report.) [xiv] Hubbard, L. Ron Philadelphia Doctorate Course 2 December 1952 E-Meter Demo 1986 by L. Ron Hubbard Hubbard, L. Ron, Philadelphia Doctorate Course 3 December 1952 Creative Processing Demo of E-Meter Auditing 1986 by L. Ron Hubbard 2001 Caroline Letkeman
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