Scientology and the KRC Triangle The KRC triangle is the upper triangle in the Scientology symbol. The corners stand for Knowledge, Responsibility and Control. As with other triangles in Scientology, Hubbard employed a Rosicrucian principal of the philosophical triangle: in addressing one corner of the triangle, the other two corners are simultaneously affected.

Hubbard's KRC Triangle is his version of Aleister Crowley's maxim: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."[1] The way Hubbard taught it however, was "Do what I will shall be the whole of the Law." Scientology is all about doing Hubbard's will, not the member's will.

In order to understand this clearly, it will be helpful to know a little about how Aleister Crowley's system of magic and how he taught his law.

Aleister Crowley's system of magic centers around the results of an occult ritual he performed in Cairo, Egypt in 1904. During that ritual he channeled an extraterrestrial by the name of Aiwass, and wrote down what Aiwass dictated. Crowley named that dictation "The Book of the Law." Crowley understood Aiwass to be a messenger for and part of an extraterrestrial group called the "Secret Chiefs." Crowley had many subsequent conversations with Aiwass, whom he considered to be his "Holy Guardian Angel." Crowley believed that Aiwass chose him to be the prophet of a new age of mankind, as John the Baptist had been chosen to be the prophet for Christianity.

The Book of the Law was the central message for Crowley's occult system. It contains the the "Law of Thelema." Thelema means "the Will."
The surface implication of "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" is that one is given license to do whatever he feels like. This was not Crowley's message, however. The point of Crowley's system was to get in touch with one's holy guardian angel, and to identify with the angel to the point where the angel's will is synonymous with the will of the magician.

Crowley developed a system of ceremonial magic(k) that largely came from secret teachings of a Rosicrucian order called The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. (He spelled magic as magick to differentiate his system from other occult magical systems.) He called his training system A ... A ...

He taught that it was not possible to simply call up one's holy guardian angel and be done with it--those attempting this task without adequate psychological and spiritual preparation often became very unbalanced psychologically. Put simply, if one's mental condition was not correct, and one's external life and psychological complexes weren't dealt with first, the magician would identify with the wrong spirits and risk going crazy.

Here one can get the idea of why Hubbard may have been interested in developing Dianetics as a psychological therapy. Crowley's system did not work for him--he died addicted to drugs and was extremely unbalanced.

Adequate documentation elsewhere reveals that Hubbard suffered a similar fate. Nevertheless, well-known contemporary magicians such as Israel Regardie and Christopher Hyatt strongly advise that aspirants undergo a course of pyschotherapy before attempting their magical practices. [2] Gareth Knight recommended Scientology for this exact purpose in A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism. [3] Crowley's system of grades prepared the magician for the ultimate ritual called Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. The ritual is performed at the A ... A ... grade called Adeptus Minor (5° 6°.) This ritual is the pivot point in Crowley's system.

There are grades above it, but this grade is more or less the "make-break point" of the A ... A ...

The lower grades of the A ... A ... employ a symbolic form taken from freemasonry practices. The magician gradually builds various components of his "magical temple." Each "weapon" component represents a quality necessary for effective magical workings. For example, at the A ... A ... grade of Zelator, the magician works on his analytical faculties. The "weapon"

developed at this grade is the sword.[4] (See Excalibur and the Scientology Cross for further discussion on this and how it relates to Scientology's ethics system.)

Crowley recommended that his aspirants practice magical memory to learn more about their true Will and purpose for this life. Magical memory was a set of mind control techniques that Crowley adopted from his yoga instructor, Ananda Metteyya. It was designed to assist the eventual process (ritual) of identifying with one's holy guardian angel.

After the magician attains conversation with his holy guardian angel, he does a sort of expanded grade, called Adeptus Major. At this grade, the magician learns to stabilize his relationship with his angel.

The next grade is called Adeptus Exemptus. This is the highest grade in Crowley's training system.

"The Adept must prepare and publish a thesis setting forth his knowledge of the Universe, and his proposals for its welfare and progress.

He will thus be known as the leader of a school of thought." [5] Hubbard's thesis was originally titled Scientology: A New Science. It was published for psychiatrists in 1948 under the title Abnormal Dianetics.

Hubbard republished it in 1951 as Dianetics: The Original Thesis. The current title of the same manuscript is The Dynamics of Life.

At the grade of Adeptus Exemptus the magician must make a choice between two paths. He can either a.. Become a "babe of the abyss," which means that he strips himself of all his attainments and continues his relationship with his holy guardian angel, or b.. Become a "Brother of the Left Hand Path", which means he becomes a black magician.

Whether or not Hubbard formally went through Crowley's system, he apparently chose the Left Hand Path. He renounced his holy guardian angel and "sold his soul to the devil" for an equivalent in personal gain.

In Dianetics: The Original Thesis, Hubbard made the following announcement:

"It is a purpose of Dianetics to pass man across the abyss of irrational, solely reactive thought and enter him upon a new stage of constructive progression to the ultimate goal." [6] Scientology makes no effort, occult or otherwise, to seek one's holy guardian angel or any higher Being. Hubbard carefully stated that the science of Scientology does not penetrate the 8th dynamic of Infinity.

Instead, the whole system of Scientology grades results in the member becoming a perfect extension of Hubbard and Hubbard's Will. This idea can be seen through current Scientology propaganda:

" The dawning of a new age for all SCIENTOLOGISTS is here. The skills and knowledge vital to your eternity can be acquired faster and easier than you ever dreamed possible.

A new breed of perfect auditors is at hand...and if you can read these paragraphs, that perfect auditor can be you." Behind that statement is a path to auditing excellence that will turn you into the kind of SCIENTOLOGIST you've always wanted to be--a living embodiment of LRH tech.

It is a path you've always known you must travel but never conceived it could be so effortless--so accessible."

(From a promotional brochure by CSI © 1996) Another way of putting the same gruesome idea: Instead of referring the member to a Higher Source, Hubbard created the mundane Guardian's Office to fulfill the role of an "Aiwass." The GO became Scientology's "Holy Guardian Angel." Hubbard, as "Source" and his Watchdog Committee were the equivalent of the "Secret Chiefs" for whom "Aiwass" was the ambassador.

Hubbard's "knowledge" was stolen from earlier occult systems and from psychological sources. He applied his plagiarizing skills as a science fiction writer to lightly obscure the real sources, and he capitalized on copyright law to protect his "religion."

Scientology's hierarchal system is a sort of multi-level operation whereby expanded "responsibility" simply means the license Hubbard granted to advancing Scientologists to bypass the free will of others. Hubbard doled out responsibility to Scientologists in direct proportion to the degree of enslavement he could first inflict on the member.

Hubbard's control methods utilize "black" psychological methods that deny the member his own freedom and right to privacy. It is well-known in the mental health profession that unconscious psychological processes take place in the course of therapy that render patients especially vulnerable to their practitioner. (This phenomenon is called the transference, and is discussed in greater detail elsewhere.) Psychologists are required to adhere to codes which protect their patients from being taken advantage of by reason of their psychological counseling. This is not the case in Scientology. Hubbard capitalized on the transference--it is seamlessly written into every technical, marketing, ethics, dissemination and administrative practice in Scientology. Scientology hides behind a religious facade to avoid the limitations that would otherwise be placed upon their activities.

The more of Hubbard's "Knowledge" that Scientologists possess, the more that Hubbard's sense of Responsibility and Control can be invisibly imparted to Scientologists. Hubbard's private schizophrenia was projected outward to this degree: that he could entrap innocent victims into doing his will.
------------------------------------------------------- [1] Crowley, Aleister, Magick Book 4 ©1997 Ordo Templi Orientis [2] Regardie, Israel What You Should Know About The Golden Dawn © The Israel Regardie Foundation, Inc.

[3] Knight, Gareth A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism © 1993 Gareth Knight [4] Eshelman, James A. The Mystical and Magical System of the A ... A ... © 2000 James A. Eshelman [5] Eshelman, James A. The Mystical and Magical System of the A ... A ... © 2000 James A. Eshelman [6] Hubbard, L. Ron Dianetics: The Original Thesis © 1951, 1970 L. Ron Hubbard
------------------------------------------------------------- © 2001 Caroline Letkeman

Go Back