The Babalon Working was a series of magical rituals performed in 1946 by Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and Lodge Master of the Agapé Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis and L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology. Read Alexander Mitchell's shocking expose published on 5 October 1969: Revealed for the first time...the odd beginning of Ron Hubbard's career. From the magical record of Jack Parsons: This book contains the record of a magical experiment relating to the invocation of … [Read more...] about Hubbard and the Babalon Working
Jack Parsons
Blog article: William H. Patterson, Jr.: “The New Yorker knows who I am” (2011)
The author [Lawrence Wright] contacted me when a high church official [1. Church spokesperson Tommy Davis] said the biography confirmed that Heinlein as Hubbard’s naval intelligence handler sent Hubbard to Jack Parsons to break up “black magic” practice. The author of the article[1. The New Yorker article: The Apostate] noted that the biography doesn’t say anything about this. He contacted me by email and we had a short exchange a couple of months ago in which I said I had investigated that … [Read more...] about Blog article: William H. Patterson, Jr.: “The New Yorker knows who I am” (2011)
Factchecking: The Apostate (2011)
In his Paul Haggis profile in The New Yorker, Lawrence Wright touched on Hubbard's involvement with Jack Parsons and quoted some new claims in this story made by Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis about Hubbard and Robert Heinlein. After the war, Hubbard’s marriage dissolved[1. Hubbard married Sara his second wife bigamously while still married to Polly. Ref. Barefaced Messiah, p. 129], and he moved to Pasadena[1. In November 1945, Hubbard lived with Robert A. and Leslyn Heinlein at 8777 … [Read more...] about Factchecking: The Apostate (2011)
Article: Hubbard and Black Magick: Sub-Figura vel Liber Babalon (ca. 2010)
"Like surrealism, occultism tries to break the domination of rational philosophy and logic, stressed by Descartes. Occultism is based on the belief in a higher reality of certain forms of association through the cabbala, faith in the power of dream- and trance-images, and in the stream of words uncensored by the intellect." - P. R. Koenig, "Ecstatic Creation of Culture" "Hubbard had experienced a peculiar hallucination in 1938, while under nitrous oxide during a dental operation. He believed … [Read more...] about Article: Hubbard and Black Magick: Sub-Figura vel Liber Babalon (ca. 2010)
Book: Magia Sexualis: The Beast with Two Backs (2006)
by Hugh B. Urban "The whole trouble comes from humanity's horror of Love. For the last hundred years, every first-rate writer on morals has sent forth his lightnings and thunders, hailstones and coals of fire, to burn up Gomorrah and Sodom where Love is either shameful and secret or daubed with dug and sentiment." — ALEISTER CROWLEY, The Law Is for All "The point about Crowley is that he seems to contain all these sorts of ideas and identities—indeed, most of the vices of the twentieth … [Read more...] about Book: Magia Sexualis: The Beast with Two Backs (2006)
Book: The Key to the Abyss (2006)
The Babalon Working In 1946, Jack Parsons went alone into the Mojave Desert and made contact with a force he identified as the Mother of Abominations in the Book of Revelation. Parsons recorded the event in what became one of the most notorious documents in the history of Western Occultism; Liber 49, the Book of Babalon. A star from heaven fallen 1n 1909 Aleister Crowley performed a ritual that mirrored an event described in the Book of Revelation; the opening of the Abyss. He spoke the words … [Read more...] about Book: The Key to the Abyss (2006)