Scientology and The Golden Dawn

[Pimander]

I was asked in another thread about the link between Scientology and the esoteric society The Golden Dawn.  There is a lot more but I just thought I'd post some pretty solid links.

The possibility that Hubbard was borrowing from Crowley's symbolism
for his early Scientology teachings might seem a bit tangential at first glance,
but it is supported by several other facts. The first is that Hubbard first began
to promote his new Church of Scientology as a "religious" organization in
1954 through a newsletter titled The Golden Dawn, probably named for the
well-known British occult group. As Stephen Kent notes:

Late in the summer of 1954, Hubbard mailed an advertisement news-
letter called The Golden Dawn (most likely named after England's
famous occult group of which Aleister Crowley had been a member)
to about 500 Phoenix, Arizona, homes and initiated a door-to door
recruitment in the city.91

http://www.scribd.com/doc/153581109/Bogdan-Starr-Aleister-Crowley-Western-Esotericism#download {page 352}


I will publish the details of the newsletter in the next post for anyone not convinced.

A second, even more obvious, borrowing from Crowley and from the
Golden Dawn, however, was Hubbard's choice of an eight-pointed cross as
the key symbol for his new church. As many observers have pointed out,
Hubbard's cross seems to be closely modeled on the Golden Dawn cross,
which also adorned the back of every card in Crowley's famous tarot deck—
the "Thoth" deck—one of the most influential and widely used tarot decks
to this day (see Figure 14.2).92 Even though Hubbard's theological explana-
tion of the image was of course very different,93 there seems to be little
doubt that the image of the eight-pointed Scientology cross—still today the
central symbol of the church—is taken from the Golden Dawn/Crowley
Rosy Cross.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/153581109/Bogdan-Starr-Aleister-Crowley-Western-Esotericism#download {page 352}



REVERSE OF THOTH TAROT.  SOURCE: http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/DEMONS/AleisterCrowley.php

[Pimander]

The Golden Dawn

    Official Publication of the Church of Scientology
    A non-profit corporation incorporated in Arizona, New Jersey and California.
    Copyright, 1954 by the Church of Scientology
    Price 10 ¢ per copy
    Issued by the authority of the Board of Trustees.
    Editorial office 806 North Third Street, Phoenix, Arizona.

    The use of materials and techniques of Scientology, the name Scientology, and the right to use the publications of Scientology by the Church of Scientology are by express and explicit permission of the trademark and copyright owner and may not otherwise be quoted, used or employed. The right to quote or use these may be procured only through the Church of Scientology from the trademark and copyright owner.1

More details can be found here: http://www.carolineletkeman.org/archives/233

[Sinny]

Great post.

I took notes on this subject from somewhere just recently, i'll try and locate and add my source.

[Ellirium113]

Good stuff Pimander...I got some reading ahead.

[Amaterasu]

In reading Peter Moon's work, One discovers that:

Jack Parsons and LRon were close.  So were Parsons and Crowley.  I think We can presume that LRon and Crowley ran in the same circles.

[Pimander]

Crowley initiated him

[burntheships]

Ah,

Of important note that Hubbard was collaberting
with A. L. Kitselman too.

John W. Campbell Jnr:


dianetics and the engram theory did not explain or handle certain
aspects of aberration ..  the ultimate understanding of the human being must include and explain all of the observed results.
dianetics must be included, both Hubbardian, Kitselman's work, Altman's, everybody's.

https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/leak-many-newsletters-and-mags-from-the-50s.97268/

Kitselman....rings a bell where have I heard that name recently?

[Amaterasu]

Beau chance!

My dad was in with Kitselman to some degree.  I just know I met the man.

[burntheships]

@ Amy, very interesting.
I dont recall you mentioning your Dad before.

[Pimander]

Beware the Mikado effect.

Tracking down A. L. Kitselman

Postby Mikado14 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:12 am
This thread topic will be used to present information in regard to A. L. (Beau) Kitselman. There appears to be a dearth of information in regard to his mathematics background as well as other information. Most information that turns up is in regards to "E-Therapy" and L. R. Hubbard. His several books turn up on Amazon.com but none appear to be available for purchase.

If anyone has any information in regard to Mr. Kitselman, please present it along with the source.

More to come.

Mikado

http://www.ttownsendbrown.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=1033

Suffice to say there was no more.

[Amaterasu]

@ Amy, very interesting.
I dont recall you mentioning your Dad before.

Linda and I discussed Him at some length.  He worked at Convair in the 50's as an electrical engineer.  I remember meeting Beau and thinking it was a weird name and My mom teaching Me My first French word.

I am also sure I met TT Brown.  Some guy from work came over several times and I was freaked out by the missing finger.

Here's an interview where I discuss My dad talking about electrogravitics.

[zorgon]

The Holy Thelemic Church

There is a letter authored by H.P. Blavatsky (the prophet's official forerunner) on the night Crowley was born, when she was staying at a house in Ithaca, New York, stating the following:

"I pray thee, Brother mine, to take necessary steps to adjourn the meeting until Saturday [Oct 16] which will be. Sister [Blavatsky] has a labour to perform. Be friendly to the English seer, Emma [Emma Hardinge Britten, author of Art Magic, at whose house the October 16th Theosophical Society meeting, originally scheduled for October 12th – the Prophet's birthday – was held], for she is a noble woman and her soul hath many gems hidden within it. Begin not without our Sister [Blavatsky] -- Unto the regions of Light I send for thee my prayer. Serapis". Then sentence in
Latin that closes with three words in Greek. The Latin sentence translates as: "Under the pretext of justice, a strict application of law is often the gravest injury, Brother. Be gentle in manner though resolute in execution. Can such Wrath towards divine souls befit one fully Adept?" And three words in Greek: "In Nomine, ABLANATHALBA SEMES EILAM"

Needless to say, the strange phrase "a great labour to perform" -- along with the fact that this was the very week of the Prophet's birth – suggests a work of magical conception along the lines of what Crowley himself postulated in the case of Frater Achad. At any rate, the message purports to come from Serapis, a discarnate agent of the Beast, who insists on postponement of the forthcoming meeting owing to Blavatsky's mysterious preoccupation. She had, this supposed Master insisted, "a great labour to perform". It is extraordinary, of course, that this was the week of Crowley's nativity. The meeting postponed was rescheduled and actually held, per Serapis'
instruction, the following Saturday, which was October 16th, 1875. - form the Paidi Tou Prophete's book " The AngloQabalistic Key"

[burntheships]

Suffice to say there was no more.

Wow, great find Pim! I looked high and low for that
post, knew it was here all along. Funny the John
and Nancy show ushered in by Soloma initially was
all about Kitselman; well suffice it to say the opening
scene was Hello Stupid was one of those unexpected
gifts. I think of it as the second act of The Mikado...
I bet they were not counting on us having
the lights on.

Someone trying to revive a long forgotten work,
that just happened to be making  a debut on Amazon
shortly after it landed at Peggy. We just reverse engineered
the thing, and ....well is there anything new they have
in the works?



More curious....this old clipping

A late January visitor to The ABERREE office was Charley Bartleson of San Antonio, who was in Enid to check on whether the students at Vance Air Base had worn the soles off their shoes from dragging their feet while test-flying the two-engined planes. Whether he sold the Air Base any shoes or not, we don't know, but he did sell us on how badly he needed Infinite Card No. 39... And another Infinite, A.L. Kitselman of Reno, Nev., was sent Card No 41 just a day or two after his 41st birthday. Of course, he didn't ask for No. 41, and we didn't know it was his 41st birthday -- but "infinity" is a pretty potent piece of "space"...

Infinite? This is new to me....

[burntheships]

This paper is also of significance.
Cosmic Awareness
Bob Dobbs Interviews David E. Worcester:
The DEW-Line for Xenochrony

Cosmic Awareness... a quality or state of being;
thought, thinking;
neurological reaction, or neurolinguistic reaction;
conditioned thought;
modified behavior;
attention to reaction and source of trigger;
mind control;
power of suggestion - the most powerful force on
Earth and possibly beyond;
the control-that-controls control;
first motion - only one move;
[A. L. "Beau"] Kitselman [1/24/14 - 9/28/80, Aumakua
Therapy] - original thinkers;

http://www.fivebodied.com/archives/audio/bob/Miscellaneous/Bob%20Dobbs%20Interviews%20David%20E.%20Worcester.pdf

[Pimander]

There are one or two members who I expected to contribute to this thread who remain conspicuous by their absence.  Do I have to name names?  You know who you are....