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The Babylon Working

By, Alexander Mitchell

John Whiteside Parsons, a brilliant Rocket fuel scientist, joined the American branch of Aleister Crowley's cult in 1939. He struck up an earnest correspondence with the Beast 666, as Crowley was known by his followers, and soon became his out - standing protege in the United States. By January, 1946, Parsons was impatient to break new frontiers in the occult world. He decided to take the spirit of Babalon, the "Whore of Babalon", and invest it in a human being.

But to carry out this intricate mission, Parsons needed a female sexual partner to create his child in the Astral (Spiritual) world. If this part of the fixture went successfully Parsons would be able to call down the spiritual baby & direct it into a human womb. When born, this child would incarnate the forces of Babalon. During his magical preparations for this incarnation Parsons found himself overwhelmed assistance from a young noviciate named Ron Hubbard.

Parsons wrote to Crowley at the beginning of 1946. "He (Hubbard) is a gentleman, red hair, green eyes, honest & intelligent & we have become great friends. Although he has no formal training in magic, he has an extraordinary amount of experience & understanding in the field. Ron appears to have some sort of highly developed astral vision. He describes his angel as a beautiful winged woman with red hair whom he calls the Empress & who has guided him through many times in his life. He is in complete accord with our own principles. I have found a staunch companion & comrade in Ron".

But within 3 months, the bonds of friendship were under some strain; Ron claimed Parsons wrote to Crowley, "She has transferred her sexual affections to Ron. I cared for her rather deeply but I have no desire to control her emotions". As if to cement their loyalties, Parsons, Hubbard & Betty decided to pool their finances & form a business partnership.

Meanwhile, preparations for the mystical mission were well under way.

From Jan. 4th. to 15th. 1946, Parsons & Hubbard engaged in a nightly ritual of incantation, talisman-waving & other Black Magic, faithfully described in Parsons Diary as Conjuration of Air, Invocation of Wand, & Consecration of Air Dagger. With a Prokofiev violin concerto blaring away, the 2 of them pleaded with the spirits for "An elemental mate” - a girl willing to go through sexual rites to incarnate Babalon in the spirit world.

Parsons mentions that windstorms have occurred on a couple of nights & one night the power suddenly failed. But nothing seriously responsive until Jan. 14th, when Ron was struck on the right shoulder & had a candle knocked out of his hand.

"He called me" Parsons wrote, "and we observed a brownish yellow light about 7 feet high. I brandished a magical sword and & it disappeared. Ron's right arm was paralysed for the rest of the night".

The following night was even more portentious. Hubbard apparently saw a vision of one of Parsons enemies. Parsons wrote, "He attacked the figure & pinned it to the door with 4 throwing knives with which he is expert". For 4 days Parsons & Hubbard were in a state of tension. Then on Jan.18th. Parsons turned to Ron and said "It is done". He added, "I returned home and found a young woman answering the requirements waiting for me".

The incarnate Ritual set out in Parsons manuscript, The Book of Babalon, is difficult reading for the unconfirmed Spiritualist. Broadly interpreted, Parsons & Hubbard constructed an Alter & Hubbard acted as high priest during a series of ceremonies in which Parsons & the girl shared sex.

The owner of the documents, who is an expert on Crowley's magic says that Parsons at this stage was completely under Hubbard's domination. How else can one explain Hubbard's role as high priest in the rites after only a few weeks in the trade?

For the first of the birth ceremonies which began on Mar.1st, Hubbard wore a white robe & carried a lamp while Parsons was clocked in a black, hooded garment, carrying a cup & dagger. At Hubbard's suggestion, they played Rachmanioff's Isle of the Dead as backround music.

Parsons account of the start of the birth ritual is as follows:-

"The Scribe (Hubbard) said, "The Year of Babalon is 4063. She is the flame of life, power of darkness, she destroys with a glance, she may take thy soul. She feeds upon the death of men. Beautiful-Horrible". The Scribe, now pale & sweating, rested awhile then continued".

There are 2 possible reasons why Hubbard showed anxiety at this stage of the ceremony, the owner of the papers says. He was either deeply moved by the spiritual depth of the ceremony or he couldn't think what to say next!

Hubbard further instructed Parsons: "Display thyself to our lady; dedicate thy organs to her; display thy mind to her; dedicate thy soul to her; for she shall absorb thee. Retire from human contact until noon tomorrow. Speak not of this Ritual. Discuss nothing of it. Consult no book but thine own mind. Thou Art a God. Behave at this Altar as one God before another".

On the 3rd. day the ritual began 4 hours before dawn. Ron tells his companion, "Lay out a white sheet. Place upon it blood of birth. Envision her approaching thee. Think upon the lewd, lascivious things thou coulds't do. All is good to Babalon. All. Preserve the material basis. The lust is hers, the passion yours. Consider thou the Beast raping". These invocations along with other passages in the indicates that Parsons had collected specimens of his own sperm & the girl's menstrual fluid.

The climax of the ceremony occurred the following day with Ron at the altar working his 2 subjects into a sexual frenzy. Over Rachmaninoff he intoned such gems as:- Her mouth is red & her breasts are fair, and her loins are full of fire.

An exalted Parsons wrote the next day, "Babalon is incarnate upon the earth today awaiting the proper hour of her manifestation. And in that day my work will be accomplished and I shall be blown away upon the breath of the father, even as it is written (In fact, Parsons was blown away in a rocket fuel explosion at his experimental laboratory in Pasadena in 1952)

Unable to contain his joy, Parsons decided to tell Crowley what had happened. On March 6th. he wrote:- "I can hardly tell you or decide how much to write. I am under command of extreme secrecy. I have had the most important devastating experience of my life". Crowley was dumbfounded by the news of the incarnation ceremony. He wrote back, "You have me completely puzzled by your remarks. I cannot form the slightest idea of what you can possibly mean".

With a distinct note of concern, he dashed off a letter on the same day to the head of his American Cult saying "Apparently Parsons or Hubbard or somebody is producing a Moonchild. I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these louts" ( This acid rebuke comes from a man whose activities were once summed up by a judge like this:- "I have never heard such horrible, dreadful blasphemous stuff as that which has been produced by the man who describes himself as the greatest living poet".

By May the same year, Crowley was not only concerned about Parsons' spiritual well-being. There was a small matter of certain monies. When the trio formed their business enterprise, Parsons is believed to have put in 17,000 dollars. Hubbard had about 10,000 dollars of the money, Hubbard and his newly acquired girlfriend Betty, bought a yacht. A report to the head of the American branch by another cult member says, "Ron and Betty have their boat at Miami, Florida & are living the life of Riley while Brother John (Parsons) is living at rock bottom and I mean rock bottom".

In a more sinister way, the report added, "Let us consider this matter of the magical child which John Parsons is supposed to turn loose on the world in 9 months (now 7) Ron, the Seer, was the guy who laid down the main ideas, technic (sic) etc. of the operation".

On reading Parsons' accounts of the ceremony & from the reports from the branch HQ in the States, Crowley cabled his U.S. office on May 22nd. "Suspect Ron playing confidence trick - John Parsons weak fool - obvious victim prowling swindlers"

In a letter a few days later he said, "It seems to me on the information of our brethren in California that Parsons has got an illumination which he lost all his personal independence. From our brother account he was given away both his girl & his money. Apparently it is the ordinary confidence trick.

A must chastened Parsons wrote to Crowley on July 5th. "Here I am in Miami, pursuing the children of my folly. I have them well tied up. They cannot move without going to jail.

However, I am afraid that most of the money has already been spent. I will be lucky to salvage 3,000 to 5,000 dollars". Just how Parsons managed to capture the errant lovers is in keeping with the other extraordinary chapters of this story.

"Hubbard attempted to escape me" Parsons wrote, "by sailing at 5p.m. & performed a full invocation to Bartzabel within the circle at 8p.m. (a curse). At the same time however, his ship was struck by a sudden squall off his sails & forced him back to port where I took the boat in custody".

Parsons recovered financially & possibly as a backlash to his experience with Hubbard he took the Oath of the Anti-Christ in 1948 & changed his name to Belarion Armiluss AlDajjal Anti-Chirst. In his scientology publications, Hubbard says of the period, "Crippled & blinded at the end of the war, I resumed my studies of philosophy & my discoveries recovered so fully that I was reclassified in 1949 for full combat duty".

Hubbard claims that more than 2 dozen thinkers, prophets & psychologists influenced scientology (which was launched in 1951); everyone from Plato, Jesus, to Sigmund Freud whom he says he studied under in Vienna.

The record can now be righted with the inclusion of Aleister Crowley, the Beast 666

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Hubbard continued the practice of Magick after leaving Parsons. During the Armstrong case, portions of Hubbard's "Affirmations" were read into the record, much to the protest of Mary Sue Hubbard's attorney, who said "this particular document is... far and away the most private and personal document probably that I have ever read by anybody." Armstrong's lawyer, Michael Flynn, tended to agree: "Most Scientologists . . . if they read these documents would leave the organization five minutes after they read them."

The "Affirmations" are voluminous. The introduction alone runs to thirty pages. They are in Ron Hubbard's own hand. Only a tiny portion was read into the court record, and the originals were held under court seal. In the "Affirmations" Hubbard hypnotized himself to believe that all of humanity and all discarnate beings were bound to him in slavery. Mary Sue Hubbard's attorney claimed these statements were pan of Hubbard's "research."

Also under court seal was a document with the tantalizing title "The Blood Ritual." The title was Hubbard's own. This document was apparently so sensitive that no part of it was read into the record. The Scientology lawyer asserted that the deity invoked in "The Blood Ritual" is an Egyptian god of Love.

Parsons had mentioned Hubbard's guardian angel, "The Empress." Nibs Hubbard says his father also called his guardian angel Hathor, or Hathoor. Hathor is an Egyptian goddess, the daughter and mother of the great sun god Amon-Ra, the principal Egyptian deity. She was depicted as a winged and spotted cow feeding humanity; a goddess of Love and Beauty. But she had a second aspect, not always mentioned in texts on Egyptian mythology, that of the "avenging lioness," Sekmet, a destructive force. One authority has called her "the destroyer of man." This is the "God of Love" to whom "The Blood Ritual" ceremony was dedicated. Since doing my research I have seen a copy of "The Blood Ritual," and it is indeed addressed to Hathor. Nuit, Re, Mammon and Osiris are also invoked. The ceremony consisted of Ron and his then wife mingling their blood to become One.

Arthur Burks has left an account of a meeting with Hubbard before the Second War, where Hubbard said that his guardian angel, a "smiling woman," protected him when he was flying gliders. 8 One early Dianeticist asked Hubbard how he had managed to write Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in three weeks. Hubbard said it was produced through automatic writing, dictated by an entity called the "Empress." In Crowley's Tarot, the Empress card represents, among other things, debauchery, and CrowIcy also associated the card with Hathor. 9

To Crowley, Babalon was a manifestation of the Hindu goddess Shakti, who in one of her aspects is also called the "destroyer of man." It seems that to Hubbard, Babalon, Hathor, and the Empress were synonymous, and he was trying to conjure his "Guardian Angel" in the form of a servile homunculus so he could control the "destroyer of Man."

There was also a correspondence between Diana and Isis to Crowley, and the Empress card represented not only Hathor, but Isis, in Crowley's system. Diana is the patroness of witchcraft. Hubbard later called one of his daughters Diana, and the name of the first Sea Org yacht was changed from Enchanter to Diana. 10

Nibs has said he was initiated into Magickal rites by Hubbard, even after Dianetics was released, that his father never stopped practicing "Magick," and that Scientology came from "the Dark Side of the Force."

After the settlement with Parsons, Hubbard left Florida for Chestertown, Maryland. On August 10, 1946, he married Sara Northrup, the girl he had "rescued" from Parsons' black magic group. The marriage was bigamous since Hubbard was still legally married to Polly.

The couple turned up next at Laguna Beach, California. By the end of 1947, Hubbard was living in Hollywood, and complaining to the Veterans Administration of his mental instability. He also mentioned that he was attending the "Geller Theater Workshop," presumably brushing up his acting skills. The VA was paying for this under the GI Bill.

In December, Hubbard's pension was increased (to about a third of a living wage), and his first wife's divorce from him became final, more than a year after his second marriage. Hubbard was not satisfied with the increase in his pension, and wrote to the Veterans Administration complaining about his poor physical condition, and saying that if he did not have to worry so much about money, he would be able to produce a novel which had been commissioned.

That novel, The End Is Not Yet, had already been published in Astounding Science Fiction, in August 1947. It is about a nuclear physicist who overthrows a dictatorial system with the creation of a new philosophy. It has been suggested that the novel had some bearing upon the creation of the Scientology movement.

Hubbard's writing and the VA pension combined apparently did not provide sufficient funds, and in August 1948 Hubbard was arrested in San Luis Obispo for check fraud. He was released on probation. 11

By January 1949, the Hubbards were in Savannah, Georgia. In a letter written that month, Hubbard said that a manuscript he was working on had more potential for promotion and sales than anything he had ever encountered. Hubbard was referring to a therapy system he was working on. In April, he wrote to several professional organizations, offering "Dianetics" to them. None was interested, so Hubbard had to find another outlet for Dianetics, which he very promptly did.

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Hitler - Nazis - And The Occult
By M. SABEHEDDIN

"By 1975, the thirtieth anniversary of [Hitler’s] death, there were already 50,000 serious works about him and his Reich. In 1976 there appeared yet another 1000-page volume which was proclaimed ‘the definitive biography for generations to come.’ And so it goes."

- Robert G. L. Waite, The Psychopathic God

Over half a century after the capitulation of the German Third Reich and the end of the Second World War, Hitler and National Socialism still loom large in the public imagination. Adolf Hitler is upheld as the very personification of absolute evil. Countless books and films ensure we never forget the concentration camps, horrific images of death and destruction. To this day, Western governments introduce legislation outlawing the public display of the notorious swastika, while diligently seeking out octogenarian Nazis suspected of war crimes. Hitler and his Nazis reign supreme as the universal symbol of abomination that the modern world loves to hate.

Despite decades of study into the Hitler phenomenon, there is not much attention paid to Nazi connections with mystical and occult elements as perhaps there should be.

A respected British writer on Ancient Wisdom, Nigel Pennick, sees in Hitler and the Nazi phenomenon the perversion of occult forces. "The whole Nazi ethos grew out of a magical view of the world," says Pennick in Hitler’s Secret Sciences, "and the history of Nazi Germany was forged by strange fanatics whose actions can only be explained in occult terms. To orthodox historians, their crimes can only be dismissed as crazy obsessions, yet in terms of certain well-established occult beliefs, they fit a well-defined pattern. Far from being just another political doctrine, Nazism was nothing less than a deliberate magical attempt to alter the world."

There is certainly an undeniable occult link in the early history of the Nazi Party. Unfortunately, it is buried in an avalanche of disinformation and sensationalism, promoted in largely spurious books by authors like Trevor Ravenscroft, a former British intelligence officer. Such exaggerated and wildly inaccurate writings serve to screen and distract attention from the real power sources of the Nazi occult connection.

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The modern mythology of Nazi occultism, concludes respected historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke in his excellent book The Occult Roots of Nazism, is "typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources is common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims are repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant literature exists, based on wholly spurious ‘facts’ concerning the powerful Thule Society, the Nazi links with the East and Hitler’s occult initiation. But the modern mythology of Nazi occultism, however scurrilous and absurd, exercises a fascination beyond mere entertainment."

Goodrick-Clarke’s book does identify a wide circle of philosophers, occult societies and mystical groups, who saw in the chaos that beset Germany after the Treaty of Versailles the working out of ancient prophecies. At the pinnacle of this ‘mystical underground’ was the Thule Gesellschaft (Thule Society).

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"Among the secret societies burgeoning in Germany immediately after World War I...the Vril Society and the Thule Society, otherwise known as the ‘Thule Gesellschaft’ seem most clearly to have given birth to the Hitler movement."

- The Occult and the Third Reich

Formed toward the end of World War I as an offshoot of the Germanen Order, the Thule Society quickly grew into the most powerful secret organisation in Germany. One of its most influential and shadowy leaders, Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff, portrayed the Thule Society as the custodian of an Ancient Wisdom perverted by Freemasonry.

"The old Freemasonry," wrote Sebottendorff, "had been a keeper of secrets which they had learned from the Aryan wisdom and from the alchemists." An article in the July 21, 1918 edition of the Society’s journal Runen gives Sebottendorff’s view on the antithesis between modern Freemasonry and the Thule Society: "We look at our world as a product of the people. The Freemason looks at it as a product of conditions..."

Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff, the chief architect of the Thule Society, was born Rudolf Glauer in Silesia in November, 1875. After an early life at sea and exploring distant lands, Rudolf found himself in Turkey where he was adopted by an aged Austrian nobleman, becoming Rudolf Sebottendorff.

It was during this Turkish phase of Rudolf Sebottendorff’s life (he actually became a Turkish citizen) that he acquired his vast knowledge of the teachings and techniques of both Oriental and Occidental mysticism. Sebottendorff was initiated into the Muslim Bektashi Dervishes and studied alchemy, astrology and Rosicrucianism.

In 1910, while living in Istanbul, Sebottendorff founded his own secret society based on a combination of Islamic Sufi mysticism, masonry, alchemy and anti-Bolshevik ideology. He fought heroically in the Balkan War of 1912-13 and directed the Turkish Red Crescent. He was also named Master of the Order of Rose Garland (Rosenkrantz). Years later he titled his autobiographical novel Der Talisman des Rosenkreuzers (The Rosicrucian Talisman), confirming a special link with the original Rosicrucian Order.