A review of Ron Hubbard's involvement with ritual magic from the age of 16 and into the Scientology years. Jon spent years unraveling Ron Hubbard's practice of sex magick from his first infatuation with Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law as a teenager to the attempt to incarnate the Whore of Babylon, the destroyer of mankind in 1946 and the incorporation of Crowley's ideas into Scientology. Jon advances the bold but carefully reasoned argument that Scientology is an enormous magical ritual intended to raise Hubbard to godhood.
Links:
Ron Hubbard: Black Magic, Dianetics and the Creation of Scientology
Hubbard and the Occult:
Possible Origins for Dianetics and Scientology:
the video
Jon's books:
Let's Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky
Spike's note: I was in a Crowleyan Ritual Magick order, where I was the group's Tarot geek. That's why I know Tarot.
