Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

On the other hand, the works focused on Hubbard make a point that is
often glossed in the occult chroniclers, namely the fact that while
Parsons was the performer of the rites (the operator) it was Hubbard
that acted as the Medium (called, confusingly, the scribe in Liber 49)
and so the communication came through him. It is this fact that opens
the Pandora’s box that is Hubbard’s (and thus Scientology’s)
relationship with magick. This is because nature of the ritual, an
invocation, requires that the spirit being summoned is drawn into the
body of the seer or clairvoyant. Therefore, leaving aside for the
moment the question of whether or not magick actually allows one to
call down gods or daemons or is, rather a generator of psychological
phenomenon, the ritual put Hubbard into direct communion with
Babalon, a phenomenon found in most religions in some sense and
known to most people as possession 14 .
The occult oriented writers usually point out that Hubbard was a con
artist (correctly) and dismiss him out-of-hand. The entire episode has
many striking parallels with the relationship between Jon Dee, the
English Renaissance man and creator of the Enochian (Angelic)
system of magic and his own clairvoyant or scryer Edward Talbot,
a.k.a. Kelley. There are several good studies of Dee and Kelley and
many more of their work which should provide some insight as to the
nature of both the relationship between Parsons and Hubbard and the
Babalon Working in general.
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Which, it should be pointed out, is not always regarded with the same horror found in
Christianity and Hollywood.
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