on@hpda.UUCP (Owen Rowley) (09/13/85)
It is not common Knowledge .......BUT
L.Ron Hubbard was involved in the O.T.O.
during the 1940's...
So what is the OTO you ask...
the OTO is the Ordo Templi Orientis, a Magickal Fraternity
that claims to be related to a hermetic lineage that stretches
back into history at least as far as the Knights Templar and further.
In the Early part of this century the OTO was put under the leadership
of Aleister Crowley who re-organised it and put it on a course
of Magickal discovery that continues to the present moment.
L.R.H. was a student and disciple of Jack Parsons who was an American
scientist in Southern California, and had formed a Lodge of the OTO
Parsons performed Many of the Rituals of the order with LRH as assistant
and details of their activities are available,though only to current
members of the OTO...(Order activities are generally kept secret from
non-members)
Parsons was killed in an accidehtal explosion (I beleive he worked
at the Jet propulsion Labs, it was Gov work in any case)
and L R H faded from the Order..
Those who follow the teachings of the OTO and Aleister Crowley
know that Hubbard has based his theories and practises on the foundation
of the training he received with Parsons, though it is apparent that
his tendency towards science fiction does not end with his Prose.
I may be wrong but I think that most present day order members consider
LRH a traitor ...
Parsons Ex wife and others who participated in OTO activities with
LRH are still very much alive and very active but maintain a low profile
I don't beleive I have ever seen anything from them concerning LRH or
his order activities. (nothing public anyway)
Through out history there have been writers who attatch themselves to
Occult organisations on the periphery and then run away with bits and
snatches of the "Mysteries" only to patch them together in fiction
written to thrill the masses. I guess some would call it research....
I call it a pity...
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