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were a sprained knee, an ulcer, conjunctivitis, arthritis and malaria.
He was eventually awarded a small partial disability rating, and his
efforts to have his disability allowance increased continued for several
years. In a pathetic letter to the Veteran's Administration dated
October 15, 1947, Hubbard writes:
This is a request for treatment.
After trying and failing for two years to regain my equilibrium in
civil life, I am utterly unable to approach anything like my own
competence. My last physician informed me that it might be very helpful
if I were to be examined and perhaps treated psychiatrically or even by
a psychoanalyst. Toward the end of my service I avoided out of pride any
mental examinations, hoping that time would balance a mind which I had
every reason to suppose was seriously affected. I cannot account for nor
rise above long periods of moroseness and suicidal inclinations, and
have newly come to realize that I must first triumph above this before I
can hope to rehabilitate myself at all.
I cannot leave school or what little work I am doing for
hospitalization due to many obligations, but I feel I might be treated
outside, possibly with success. I cannot, myself, afford such treatment.
Would you please help me?
Sincerely, L. Ron Hubbard (16)
After being discharged from the Navy in December of 1945, Hubbard
did not head for home, where Polly and his children were still living in
Bremerton, Washington. He instead headed directly for a house in
Pasadena, California, which housed an interesting and eclectic
assortment of people including one
Jack Parsons, leader of a satanic organization called the Ordo Templis
Orientis. That was the U.S. name for the organization headed in England
by the infamous black magician, Aleister Crowley.
So began a new chapter in Hubbard's life, although in actuality it
was but the continuation of an old chapter, begun, reportedly when young
Hubbard went as a teenager to the Library of Congress with his mother,
and there discovered a work written by Crowley.
Thereafter, he was fascinated by Crowley's "Magick," and Crowley
became a mentor for Hubbard, a relationship that would last until
Crowley's death in 1947. In one of his later lectures, Hubbard would
refer to Crowley as "my good friend."
Crowley's most famous work was called The Book of the Law in
which he expressed his philosophy of life: "Do what thou wilt shall be
the whole of the Law." It is a philosophy Hubbard was to live by
throughout his life.
Crowley wrote, in The Book of the Law:
We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in
their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of Kings: stamp
down the wretched and the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is
our law and the joy of the world.
I am of the snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight, and stir the
hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange
drugs.... They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against
self.... Be strong, Oh man! Lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture
... the kings of the earth shall be kings forever: the slaves shall
serve.
Them that seek to entrap thee, to over throw thee, them attack
without pity or quarter, and destroy them utterly.
I am unique and conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be
they damned and dead! Amen.
Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console
not: I hate the consoled and the consoler! (17)
Perhaps this explains why, in Scientology, sympathy is considered to
be a "low-toned" emotion. Scientologists learn in their training not to
feel sympathy.
According to Ron (Hubbard) Jr., his father considered himself to be
the one "who came after"; that he was Crowley's successor; that he had
taken on the mantle of the "Great Beast." He told him that Scientology
actually began on December the 1st, 1947. This was the day Aleister
Crowley died. (18)
Following in Crowley's footsteps, Hubbard adopted some of the
practices of the black magician, including the use of drugs and the use
of affirmations.
According to Hubbard's son, his father regularly used illegal drugs
including amphetamines, barbiturates and hallucinogens including
cocaine, peyote and mescaline. (19)
Also, according to Hubbard, Jr., his father occasionally put
phenobarbital in his son's bubble gum.
Among the many affirmations that Hubbard was known to have used was
the following:
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms!
All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why! (20)
Hubbard and Parsons struck up an occult partnership, the result of
which was a series of
rituals they carried out with the objective of producing a "moonchild,"
an incarnation of "Babylon" in an unborn child. A woman in the house was
chosen to be the mother of this satanic child.
During these rituals, which took place on the first three days of
March 1946, Parsons was High Priest and had sexual intercourse with the
girl, while Hubbard, who was present, acted as skryer, seer, or