From: drb@cs.cmu.edu (Dean Benjamin) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: CO$ and The Cross Date: 14 Oct 1995 05:03:16 GMT Organization: Guest of, not affiliated with, CMU, Pittsburgh PA USA Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <45lv6b$40o@cs6400.mcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cocorico.speech.cs.cmu.edu > I notice that on http://www.theta.com/relfreedom the opening image > contains a cross. > > What is this supposed to mean? The cross imagery has no connection > with the printed ravings of a demented SF writer. The Scientology Cross resembles the "crossed-out cross" of Aleister Crowley. Crowley was an English practitioner of occult and "magick", a satanist who called himself "Beast 666". Hubbard's occult dabblings and exposure to Crowley's writings, circa 1940, are detailed in several books on Scientology. The two crosses are portrayed side-by-side on the last page in the picture section of Bent Corydon's "L.Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman", 1987. On the same page, above the crosses, are uncannily similar photos of ElRon and Aleister. Hmm, there may be something to the theory of past lives after all (except that AC and LRH lived largely *concurrent* lives)!