Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

place which makes the connection to Hubbard’s name that much more
likely to be a coincidence 198 .
Greenfield also points out that 248 = BABALON AND I SHALL BE
FREE, though this suffers from the same issue as the previous quote in
that it is formed from a string of words chosen, apparently, at random.
Finally, Hubbard’s son Ron, Jr. has said that his father told him the
blood of the Scarlet Woman (is) the key to ‘real power’. Aside from
the fact that Hubbard’s son had an axe to grind with Daddy 199 , the idea
could have been gotten from any number of lurid paperback books that
mentioned Crowley and, as the Scarlet Woman concept was obviously
not original to Parsons nor a secret, this seems weak at best. The
statement by “Junior” was to the effect that Hubbard valued "The
blood of their bodies, the blood of their souls," which sounds more like
something out of a Dennis Wheatly novel not something Hubbard
would say to his son. So if (i)t should therefore come as no surprise
that L. RON HUBBARD = 115 = BLOOD TO BLOOD in The Book of
Babalon 200 , it should equally come as no surprise that I see it as
essentially worthless. The last bit from Secret Rituals we will look at
does have significance, though Greenfield seems to ignore it: The
Book of Babalon also refers to future witch covens as of eleven,
strange wording (as covens are traditionally 13), until one applies
NAEQ66: COVENS = 74, or 7+4= 11! 201 As mentioned previously,
the number 11 is important to the book – in fact the Key to it – and as
Crowley says; "Firstly", 11 is the number of Magick in itself. It is
therefore suitable to all types of operation. "Secondly", it is the sacred
number par excellence of the new Aeon. As it is written in the Book of
the Law: "...11, as all their numbers who are of us." 202
198
and these sorts of “coincidences” do occur – if you look hard enough - as the crop of “Bible
Code” books show.
199
He’d apparently been cut off from his fathers money when the statement was made.
200
Greenfield, ibid, pp 80
201
Greenfield, ibid, pp 80
202
Aleister Crowley, Magick In Theory And Practice, Kenneth Grant and John
Symonds ed., Samuel Weiser.
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