A Magick Life: the biography of Aleister Crowley by Martin Booth

Booth, M. (2000). A magick life: The biography of Aleister Crowley. London: Hodder & Stoughton. [Worldcat] In the austere postwar years, Crowley had little money. His main source of income was the Agape Lodge of the OTO in Pasadena, California. Germer, living in New York, also sent him a percentage of OTO initiation fees. […] […]

Birth of a Religion by Gordon Melton

Immediately after the war, in December 1945, but while still a commissioned officer and on active duty, Hubbard became involved in one of the most intriguing episodes in his long life, participation in the activities of the Ordo Templi Orientis. The OTO is a ritual magic group, then headed by the aging Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), […]

The Road to Total Freedom by Roy Wallis

It has also been suggested that Hubbard secured some of the material incorporated into Scientology from Jack Parsons, a follower of Aleister Crowley and briefly the head of a Lodge of Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis in Pasadena.[1] That Hubbard was associated with Parsons early in 1946 is not in doubt, although a press release issued […]

The Beast 666 by John Symonds

In the spring of 1945, Parsons met a new aspirant to the Great Work, a young man called Ron Hubbard. Hubbard’s magical potential was very great and he made a considerable impression upon the members of Agape Lodge, especially on Betty, the mistress of Dr Parsons; she soon found herself sleeping with him. Frater 210 […]

Attorney Jeremy Malcolm letter of 3 April 2001

Source: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/DownloadDoc.aspx?doc_id=974559 Bradley Woodward PO Box 92 Tuart Hill, WA 6060 Dear Sir www.sweenytod.com – defamation I act for the Church of Scientology in Perth. I refer to my recent telephone conversations with you in relation to your Web page at http://www.sweenytod.com/cos/index.html. As discussed, contained on this Web site are a number of allegations regarding […]