An e-mail I got:

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Dear Andreas, Thank you so much for the work you are doing to help set people free from Scientology. You website has been valuable for me and my friend, whose [family member] is being held in a Scientology compound against his willing after trying to escape.

Below is some information which I hope will be useful for you.

I've followed the Crowley-Hubbard connection and come up with some interesting things. The sources are given at the end.

I don't have bold and underline, so I'm justing using capital letters and spacing to separate items. It's not well formatted, but I hope that the information will be useful.

[NAME OF SENDER REMOVED] The source of this information is a book called "Scarlet and the Beast" by John Daniel. It is a book on Freemasonry. It includes information on Scientology and on the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) because they were founded by Freemasons. Information on Scientology is in Volume I. There are extensive endnotes and references. The book can be ordered by phone, using a credit card; the phone number is 800-333-5344. The address is JKI Publishing, P.O. Box 131480, Tyler, TX 75713, USA. The cost is $43. (Hardback, 947 pages, including 83 pages of endnotes) The author is a Christian who is concerned with conspiracies and the end times.

There is a connection between the O.T.O. and Scientology. Before Ron Hubbard founded Scientology, he was the leader of the O.T.O. in America. The O.T.O. practices human sacrifice. It was founded by Aleister Crowley, who performed 150 human sacrifices, mostly on boys.

The following material is all quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast" by John Daniel, Vol. I. It is not in quotation marks because I wanted to avoid the problem of having quotations within quotations.

ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THE O.T.O.

[The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1, pp. 429-430.] Maury Terry, and American investigative journalist, tells in "The Ultimate Evil" how the O.T.O. got started in our country:

"After internal dissension, elements of the Golden Dawn more or less merged into the Ordo Templi Orientis. Aleister Crowley won permission to head a British OTO branch, and the teachings of the OTO entered the United States with Crowley in 1916, during World War I in Europe."

"Later, during World War II, Crowley helped establish an OTO lodge in Pasadena, California, and OTO branches subsequently sprouted in a number of U.S. cities, including New York and Houston. In effect, a loose network was formed and already functioning via occult shops and bookstores, newsletters, ads in the underground press and other methods."

THE O.T.O. AND THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY [The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1, pp. 433-434.] After Crowley's death, Freemason L. Ron Hubbard acquired the O.T.O. leadership in America. Robert Anton Wilson, co-author with Timothy Leary of "Neuropolitics" in 1977, explains that "Hubbard's system is derived largely from Aleister Crowley.... Hubbard was a member of Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis in the 19402; and Hubbard later...invented a system which seems, to those of us who know both, very similar to the system taught by Crowley in the O.T.O.

Hubbard was initiated into the O.T.O. in 1944 by Aleister Crowley himself. After Crowley's death, the O.T.O. was headquartered for a time in Hubbard's Church of Scientology. In 1992 "The Auditor," the journal of Scientology, reports that there are 146 Scientology centers worldwide, with 54 of them in the United States and Canada alone.

"Time Magazine," May 6, 1991, reports "700 centers in 65 countries..."

This greater number includes Scientology affiliates, many of which are front organizations. "Time" lists them, along with their frightening implications. Sterling Management Systems (SMS), formed in 1983, recruits dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists and veterinarians, guaranteeing them increased income if they attend seminars and take courses that typically cost $10,000. SMS's true aim is to hook these professionals for Scientology, who in turn will recruit their patients.

Another such group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, is at war with psychiatry, its primary competitor. The Commission typically issues reports aimed at discrediting particular psychiatrists and the field in general. HealthMed, a chain of clinics run by Scientologists, promotes a grueling and excessive system of saunas, exercise and vitamins designed by Hubbard to purify the body. It solicits unions and public agencies for contracts. Narconon is a chain of 33 alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in twelve countries. Some of these centers operate in prisons under the name "Criminon." Both are classic vehicles for drawing addicts and cons into the cult.

Concerned Businessmen's Association of America holds anti-drug contests and awards $5,000 grants to schools as a way to recruit students and curry favor with education officials. Way to Happiness Foundation has distributed more than 3.5 million copies of Hubbard's booklet on morality to children in thousands of the nation's public schools. Applied Scholastics is attempting to install a Hubbard tutorial program in public schools. The groups also plans a 1,000-acre campus, where it will train educators to teach various Hubbard methods.

SCIENTOLOGY RECRUITS FOR THE O.T.O.

[The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1, p.

435.] In 1967, the O.T.O. in England founded the Process Church of the Final Judgement soon after the rise of The Beatles rock group. In the late sixties and early seventies, the Process set up cells in a number of U.S. cities. Maury Terry says that the Process Church took over the O.T.O. in the United States. The Church of Scientology reverted to the position of Blavatsky's Theosophical Society a century earlier -- that of a recruiting agency for the O.T.O. Terry said of Michael Carr, who, before his violent death was one of the leaders in the Process Church and a ranking Scientologist:

"If he's counselling lost souls for Scientology, allegedly helping them discover themselves, he could certainly be working both sides of the street and plucking a few out for recruitment in the Satan stuff. That Scientology movement is fertile ground for latching onto confused people. He'd have his pick of candidates."

O.T.O AND HUMAN SACRIFICE [The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1, pp. 775-776.] Aleister Crowley, a 33rd degree Mason and head of the British branch of the O.T.O., performed 150 human sacrifices, killing the victims with a silver knife. He wrote instructions for O.T.O. human sacrifices in his book "Magick," published in 1930, p. 93:

"The blood is the life. This simple statement is explained by the Hindus by saying that the blood is the principal vehicle of vital Prana. There is some ground for the belief that there is a definite substance, not isolated as yet, whose presence makes all the difference between live and dead matter."

"It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of those savages who tear the heart and liver from an adversary, and devour them while yet warm. In any case, it was the theory of the ancient Magicians, that any living being is a storehouse of energy varying in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in quality according to its mental and moral character. At the death of the animal this energy is liberated suddenly."

"The animal should therefore be killed within the Circle, or the Triangle, as the case may be, so that its energy cannot escape.

An animal should be selected whose nature accords with that of the ceremony, thus, by sacrificing a female lamb one would not obtain any appreciable quantity of the fierce energy useful to a Magician who was invoking Mars. In such a case a ram would be more suitable. And this ram should be virgin -- the whole potential of its original total energy should not have been diminished in any way. For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim."

"For evocations it would be more convenient to place the blood of the victim in the Triangle, the idea being that the spirit might obtain from the blood this subtle but physical substance which was the quintessence of its life in such a manner as to enable it to take on a visible and tangible shape."

"Those magicians who object to the use of blood have endeavoured to replace it with incense. For such a purpose the incense of Abamelin may be burnt in large quantities."

"But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best."

(O.T.O. Law as quoted from "Liber CI" in "Occult Theocrasy," p. 685) SOURCES Maury Terry, "The Ultimate Evil" (New York: Doubleday, 1987).

Edith Starr Miller, "Occult Theocracy", 1933. Published in 1980 by the Christian Book Club of America, Hawthorne, California.

Leon de Poncins, "The Dictatorship of the Occult Powers," 1932.

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> It was founded by
> Aleister Crowley, who performed 150 human sacrifices, mostly on boys.
You are misquoting Crowley...he actually claimed to perform 150 such sacrifices a year...for about 20 years. It takes wilfull ignorance these days not to know he is referring to masturbation as part of a magical operation.

Hubbard's connection to OTO, popular as it is for you folks who dislike Scientology to cite one, is that he defrauded a member of the American branch of the Order (Jack Parsons).

> The following material is all quoted from "Scarlet and the
> Beast" by John Daniel, Vol. I. It is not in quotation marks because I
> wanted to avoid the problem of having quotations within quotations.
Or, apparently, of quoting source material, rather than incorrectly quoted excerpts from a secondary source with an obvious agenda.

> ALEISTER CROWLEY AND THE O.T.O.
> [The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1,
> pp. 429-430.]
> Maury Terry, and American investigative journalist, tells in "The
> Ultimate Evil" how the O.T.O. got started in our country:
Maury Terry was sued for slander by the OTO, by thw way, and forced to retract the statements directly accusing us of criminal activity.

> "After internal dissension, elements of the Golden Dawn more
> or less merged into the Ordo Templi Orientis.
This is absolutely incorrect, as any study of the Golden Dawn's history will show. I recommend the scholarly studies of that Order by R.A.

Gilbert (unlike Maury Terry and other scaremonfgers, Gilbert actually bothers to research the journals and other writings of the people he writes about).

> "Later, during World War II, Crowley helped establish an OTO
> lodge in Pasadena, California, and OTO branches subsequently sprouted
> in a number of U.S. cities, including New York and Houston.
Actually, Wilfred Smith, formerly of Vancouver, Canada, founded Agape Lodge in Pasadena, CA. The lodges in New York and Houston (and elsewhere, including Washington DC, where I sit as I write this) were founded decades later, under the leadership of Grady McMurtry, and his successor, Hymenaeus Beta, long after the Pasadena organization had closed down.

> THE O.T.O. AND THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
> [The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1,
> pp. 433-434.]
> After Crowley's death, Freemason L. Ron Hubbard acquired the
> O.T.O. leadership in America.
After Crowley's death, he was succeeded by Karl Germer, a refugee of Nazi opprression who moved to the States.

L. Ron Hubbard was never even a member of OTO, much less an officer in it at any level, much less a national leadership role.

> Robert Anton Wilson, co-author with
> Timothy Leary of "Neuropolitics" in 1977, explains that "Hubbard's
> system is derived largely from Aleister Crowley.... Hubbard was a
> member of Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis in the 19402
Dunno if RAW actually says Hubbard was a member - if so, he is incorrect.

Scientology may include aspects of Thelema (the philosopical and magical system on which OTO operates) - but it is cut-and-paste borrowing, like much else of Hubbard's work.

> and Hubbard
> later...invented a system which seems, to those of us who know both,
> very similar to the system taught by Crowley in the O.T.O.
No, not really.

> Hubbard was initiated into the O.T.O. in 1944 by Aleister Crowley
> himself.
Again, flatly wrong. Hubbard never even met Crowley. Crowley did refer to him as a probable con man when he got word of his interaction with Parsons, in Pasadena.

> After Crowley's death, the O.T.O. was headquartered for a
> time in Hubbard's Church of Scientology.
Nope. Germer's home (initially in Cherry Hill, NJ, later in California) was also his headquarters. After Germer's death, the OTO (at least the lineage of which I am a member) was headed by Grady, who incorporated it in Berkley, CA.

> SCIENTOLOGY RECRUITS FOR THE O.T.O.
> [The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1, p.
> 435.]
> In 1967, the O.T.O. in England founded the Process Church of the
> Final Judgement soon after the rise of The Beatles rock group.
Process was founded in New York independently of any OTO lineage.

> Maury Terry says that the Process Church took over
> the O.T.O. in the United States.
Maury Terry is either incorrect from ignorance or lying here. The Process, like Scientology, incorporated some material from Crowley's writings...that is their issues, not Crowley's or the OTO's.

> The Church of Scientology reverted
> to the position of Blavatsky's Theosophical Society a century earlier
> -- that of a recruiting agency for the O.T.O.
I know several hundred initiates of our 3000 odd members (yes, we, the fearsome, world-girdling OTO, that jumps the Church of Scientology, and the masons, and everyone else on the planet, it seems, through our hoops, number a whacking 3000+ members). I don't know any who were ever Scientologists.

>
> O.T.O AND HUMAN SACRIFICE
> [The following is quoted from "Scarlet and the Beast," Vol. 1,
> pp. 775-776.]
> Aleister Crowley, a 33rd degree Mason and head of the British
> branch of the O.T.O., performed 150 human sacrifices, killing the
> victims with a silver knife.
Proof of these murders...especially the silver knife part...would be good to see.

> He wrote instructions for O.T.O. human
> sacrifices in his book "Magick," published in 1930, p. 93:
...

> energy should not have been diminished in any way. For the highest
> spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which
> contains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect
> innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable
> victim."
This is the passage which Crowley footnotes to indicate he performed thousands of times...and which refers to using his sperm...the male child of perfect innocence...as the vehicle and source of energy.

> "But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more
> efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best."
> (O.T.O. Law as quoted from "Liber CI" in "Occult Theocrasy," p. 685)
It isn't in Liber 101 - and isn't OTO law.

As I've mentioned before when this kind of farrago pops up, I wish you folks would get over this inane tendency to use Crowley and OTO as a stick to beat Hubbard. If you absolutely must do so, I wish you'd get your facts straight.

Paul