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101 Among those passing: Carter, Sex and Rockets, pp. 84–86; Pendle, Strange Angel,
pp. 244–45.
102 “women in diaphanous gowns”: Carter, Sex and Rockets, p. 84.
103 captured in a portrait: Pendle, Strange Angel, p. 209.
104 “The breakup of the home”: Parsons, Freedom Is a Two-Edged Sword, p. 69.
105 Sara Elizabeth “Betty” Northrup: Pendle, Strange Angel, p. 255. Miller, Bare-
Faced Messiah, p. 116.
106 lost her virginity: Pendle, Strange Angel, p. 203.
107 “Her chief interest”: Ibid.
108 when she was fifteen: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard)
tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.
109 “He was not only a writer”: Ibid.
110 “He dominated the scene”: Alva Rogers, quoted in Carter, Sex and Rockets, p.
103.
111 “the most gorgeous”: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 117.
112 “a gentleman, red hair”: Ibid., p. 118.
113 angry debate: The Church of Scientology forced the authors of a 1952 Crowley
biography, The Great Beast, to remove any suggestion that there was a connection
between Scientology and black magic. Church of Scientology of California and John
Symonds, MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Limited, Hazell Watson & Viney. High Court
of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, 1971. The church also provided me with its
correspondence with the London Sunday Times in 1969 and 1970, in which the
newspaper agreed to retract similar statements and not make such references in
the future.
114 envious of his talent: Grant and Symonds, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, p.
18.
115 He may have served: Spence, Secret Agent 666.
116 “Do what thou wilt”: Grant and Symonds, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, p.
18.
117 Nibs—Hubbard’s estranged: Allan Sonnenschein, “Inside the Church of
Scientology: An Exclusive Interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.,” Penthouse, June
1983.
118 “What a lot of people”: Ibid. The church fiercely disputes any of the derogatory
remarks made by Hubbard’s son, especially in the Penthouse interview. In 1984, L.
Ron Hubbard, Jr.—who had changed his name to Ronald DeWolf—stated, “The
interview of me in the June 1983 issue of Penthouse is true and accurate, period.”
Transcript of Tape #1 of June 28, 1984—Ron DeWolf.