Regardless of one’s interpretation of such, it is fact that there are definite connections (or, at the least) coincidences between Scientology and certain types of Satanism. The following discusses some of the connections and/or coincidences.
And it all began when Hubbard was 16, and read the book by Aleister Crowly, founder of the Church of Satan, Called ‘The Book of the Law’. After further study, and an eventual relation between the two (to the point of Hubbard jr. claiming that his father believed he was Crowley’s successor, and Hubbard saying ”The only modern work that has anything to do with them is a trifle wild in spots, but is a fascinating work in itself, and that’s the work of Aleister Crowley – the late Aleister Crowley – my very good friend.”), Hubbard developed Scientology, and we find, today, the following elements:
1. The Church of Satan says, “And if a man smite you on one cheek, smash him on the other!” L. Ron Hubbard himself said, “The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.”
2. Church of Satan = CoS
Church of Scientology = CoS
3. Satanism either traditionally denies the divinity of Christ, or believes that man himself is his own being, and there is no higher religious authority. Hubbard said, “Anyway, Everyman is then shown to have been crucified so don’t think that it’s an accident that this crucifixion, they found out that this applied. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 BC, found some pieces of R6, and I don’t know how they found it, either by watching madmen or something, but since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the Cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs who says they are Christ. Now, there’s two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified.”
“Assists” lecture. 3 October 1968. #10
4. Certain occult elements call their lodge “Ordo Templi Orientis”, or OTO’s. Scientology calls their “inner circle” group the OT’s.
5. The Church of Satan believed that embreyo implants- satanic or demonic spirits- can inhabit the body of a fetus. Scientologists believe that Thetans inhabit the body of a fetus.
6. Both the Church of Satan and Scientology oppose psychiatry, with Crowley saying, “Official psychoanalysis is therefore committed to upholding a fraud… psychoanalysts have misinterpreted life, and announced the absurdity that every human being is essentially an antisocial, criminal, and insane animal”. Hubbard, of course, was staunchly anti-psychiatry.
7. Both CoS’s advocated a return, mentally and emotionally, to birth.
“Having allowed the mind to return for some hundred times to the hour of birth, it should be encouraged to endeavor to penetrate beyond that period” -Crowley
“After twenty runs through birth, the patient experienced a recession of all somatics and ‘unconsciousness’ and aberrative content.” “Thus there was no inhibition about looking earlier than birth for what Dianetics had begun to call basic-basic” -Hubbard
8. Crowley created his own terot card design. The symbol on the back of the terot cards is the exact same as the scientology cross. (http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/DEMONS/Aleister%20Crowleyt.jpg)
9. Many of hubbard’s statements, after studying and following the works of Crowley, were in line with the Church of Satanic teachings and writings. For example, Hubbard used “power affirmations”, writing such things as “Men are my slaves”, “Elemental Spirits are my slaves” and “You can be merciless whenever your will is crossed and you have every right to be merciless” “All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why.”
Most chilling, may be a prediction from Crowley himself. In his book ‘Moon Child’, Crowley claimed that one of his followers would form a new world religion. Of the known followers of Crowley, Hubbard is the only one known to have done so.
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