Over the last 2 weeks I've viewed a fair amount of commentary by participants on ARS on the subject of Hubbard and black magic. I haven't seen anybody approach what I understand about this. So may I please put in my tuppenceworth?

IMO Hubbard studied Black Magick with the intention of dominating people and gaining power. This happened in the late 1940's. In his diary affirmations for that time he wrote "men are my slaves", and he had a familiar. I agree that he pinched Parson's girlfriend and yacht, but that was IMHO a part of practicing thelema. In his tape about evolution of the OT3 incidents he claimed he'd cast a spell on the land where people couldn't see it because divided within themselves. (Or words to that effect, precise wording quoted in SSOT3 paper). When America went witch hunting communists, Hubbard visited Cuba, and in many events he showed a willingness to be the Joker (magical term) and be completely outrageous. He aslo said at one point that if you become too outrageous, you become invisible.

Scientology is oriented around THETA, and the higher level practitioners of Scientology are called OTs (Operating Thetans). What I spotted early on is that Theta means Thelema - dominating by the will. I understand that the symbol for thelema is the greek letter theta. "OT" I also read as a pun on OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis), and Hubbard made another pun on his cherished OTO by using a fictitious firm called Operating and Transport Liaison Office (OTLO) whose shingle remained on the cellar door at Saint Hill Manor, UK until at least the early 1980s.

A Theta/Thelema person dominates others by direct willpower and by casting spells. Thelema is practiced on OT3 by beaming a narrowly focussed intention on some imaginary entity and command it to recall..

do.. scram.. This is done many thousands of times over and strengthens the person's capacity to exert thelema even whilst it debilitates the person's own mind and independent thinking. But training in thelema happens actually in Scientologists right from the start with training in TRs and bodyrouting, with doing auditing and CCHs on people, and with the constant emphasis on being causative.

On casting spells and enchanting people. You can spellbind a person for awhile with an exciting film of piece of theatre. A woman can spell a man by wearing makeup, clingy clothing, show a lot of leg, and by the way she moves. (This used to be directly called witchcraft) A salesperson can spellbind a person by getting very aaaiiiirrrreeeeyyyy fffaaaiiiirrrreeeeyyyy, by overwhelming the senses with masses of perfumed flowers, by talking very slowly or very fast so that the recipient's mind jams, by pre-trancing the person via a personality test, by badly upsetting them then salving the upset, by strong thelemic presence, by authoritarian uniforms, by conversation which first paces then leads and then induces trance, and especially by guiding the target's imagination via vivid imagery. I doubt that this list is exhaustive but hope you get the idea. Casting of spells is real and it gets done right here in this 21st century. Scientology casts spells via the personality test, Purif. Rdn. hokus-pocus which includes exciting effects from Niacin, auditing and training (which most participants here know is trance-inducing).

The irony is that as fast as a person learns to exert thelema over another, they are also being enslaved and becoming more subject to enslavement. I could enlarge on that but this is a Usenet posting and should be kept shortish.

The Scientology emblem is a crossed-out cross, and witchcraft is anti-christian. The Christian as I understand things is exhorted towards service and lowliness, not thelema and self-aggrandisement.

The Christian uses plain speech, plain dress, doesn't use imagery and makes no oaths. The Christian does not fight outward wars but is sooner willing to be taken slave. Does not argue but as often as speak anything at all, entreats via silence and walking away. I've often asked myself whether the Christian uses thelema, and don't know how one can completely avoid it, but it certainly isn't central.

Enough said for the moment, and I hope this helps.

Peter Forde

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