SCIENTOLOGY: A SATANIC LINK?

NY Post ^ | 03-16-03 | NY Post - Page Six

[JCG]

SCIENTOLOGY: A SATANIC LINK?

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.

[JCG]

Some pedigree for a "religion."

America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
New Link: Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)

Who is Steve Emerson?

[Petronski]

Hubbard's connection to Crowley is well known.

The one-stop shopping destination for Scientology debunking has to be Operation Clambake. Squick squick squick.

[strela]

Rumor has it that Scientology was actually based on a joke by L. Ron (a looneytune who was a subject-matter expert on looneytunes). He bet some friends of his that he could start his own religion, and that people would be stupid enough to believe it and practice its "tenets."

[agitator]

Here's an interview on Scamintology with Bob Minton before the body snatchers got to him:

Streaming Links

Windows Media version - RealPlayer version

[Scutter]

and that people would be stupid enough to believe it and practice its "tenets."

Interesting that it has attracted so many actors (draw your own conclusions as to the intellect of the average actor).

[MizSterious]

"Hubbard's connection to Crowley is well known."

News to me, at least. All I know is, Scientology seems downright weird to me. I find it as difficult to watch movies starring its followers as I do to watch movies starring anti-American "peace" niks. Once I find out a star is a Scientologist, I avoid their movies or cds, whatever. Sorry if I'm offending anyone, but those people give me the creeps.

[strela]

Interesting that it has attracted so many actors

True. The Scientologists spend a lot of money to make their "celebrity" parishioners as visible as possible. The problem is that the celebs aren't the ones eating rice and beans (if they get that) on the Freewinds and at other Scientology installations, like much of the rest of the congregation.

[lavrenti]

Mention John Whiteside Parsons to a long-time Scientolgist and watch the reaction.

[Physicist]

The version I heard is that Hubbard was having an argument with Robert Heinlein and A.E. Van Vogt, wherein Hubbard maintained that science could be made into a religion. Heinlein vehemently disagreed, so Hubbard bet them that he could do it.

[jackbill]

Interesting that it has attracted so many actors

And lawyers, like Greta Van Sustern and her husband.

[Belial]

Interesting that it has attracted so many actors

It draws the general public too. Drop by Clearwater, FL. People will latch onto any framework that directs their lives. The power of delusion is pretty incredible.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Greta Van Susteren and her husband, tobacco (and Julie Hiatt Steele's) lawyer, John Coale - Scientologists.

[aculeus]

Link to Paglia's article which I haven't read ... yet.


http://www.bu.edu/arion/paglia_cults00.htm

[Quilla]

My sister, her husband, their four daughters, and their husbands are all Scientologists. They all seem to be nice enough people, but they donate, tithe if you will, at least 50% of their substantial income to these cultists. When sis first joined she explained to me their purification ritual. She was required to take mega-doses of niacin, spend several hours a day (for weeks) in a sauna while having the beliefs of the group repeated to her over and over.

She's constantly sending me books written by Hubbard and I'm positive all his followers are just a bunch of kooks.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Once I find out a star is a Scientologist, I avoid their movies or cds, whatever. Sorry if I'm offending anyone, but those people give me the creeps.

I kinda feel the same way. I don't altogether avoid their movies, but I'll admit I'd like John Travolta a lot more if I didn't think he believed we were all posessed by the restless spirits of dead space aliens intentionally slaughtered on earth billions of years ago....

[Gal.5:1]

Alister Crowley: late 19th/early 20th cent. English magician/sourcerer/satanist who was a huge influence on philosophy of rock music bands and singers in 20th century and currently, along with the hippie movenent and general rebellion against God in our culture since the 1950-60's. Huge influence.

[dennisw]

I could have written the above and Paglia's essay too. This stuff has been on the internet for years .... even at Salon Magazine. "Love and Rockets"


http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:pZZNROOy7MsC:www.salon.com/tech/books/2000/02/15/parsons/print.html+jet+propulsion++hubbard++crowley&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Dr. Eckleburg]

http://www.steamshovelpress.com/sexandrockets.html

No discussion of Hubbard even makes sense without this book. It is illuminating.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

"Bowfinger" BUMP!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

"Sex and Rockets" BUMP!