"In truth he is making slaves . Love and compassion are negated and wisdom is replaced with delusional blind certainty as a fanatic who becomes more deluded and delusional". "He had a bridge to total freedom that leads to total slavery." Unfortunately I think you are right. It would be interesting to study the Crowley connexion, I started reading the book of the law a couple of years ago but didn't get through for lack of time.
Recommend obtaining a copy with the 'Introduction'. The copies I've seen on the Net lack the 'Introduction'.
Reading Crowley is one of my next projects, I'll see what resemblances I can find.
Have a look at the 'Sole Source Myth' thread:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?510-The-Sole-Source-Myth&p=4696
Here's a rambling conversation with someone who thought he was the reincarnation of Crowley. It looks at the dark side, including the main text of 'The Book of The Law' (Scroll down page):
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...-science&p=958310&highlight=law,+blood,+unfit
It would be interesting to read Nibs book, the one Jamie was talking about.
AFAIK, there is not likely to be a book by Nibs.
The introduction read by Jamie, a while back at an event, was Jamie's not Ron Jr.'s.
The main part - after the introduction - was a piece, which is maybe 5 pages long - titled 'Philadelphia'.
I was in communication with Ron Jr. and saw everything he had written up to his second settlement with $cientology in 1986. With the settlement came a lengthy retraction. This was Ron Jr.'s 2nd settlement and retraction, the first was from around 1973.
Excerpts from most of 'Philadelphia', and a small amount from a 50 or so page manuscript, 'One Tenth of One Percent', written in 1972, were used in the 1986, 1992, and 1996 book, 'Messiah or Madman?' I'd want to read 'One Tenth' again, but my impression - then - was that most of the material was not of great interest.
As for 'A telling of me, by me', that sounds like a new title for old material, although there's a slight possibility that Ron Jr., after settling in 1986, and before passing away in 1991, wrote some more material, but I tend to doubt it.
The only way Jamie would be able to obtain enough material for a book would be to interview Ron Jr.'s now grown children and, perhaps, if she's still alive, Ron Jr.'s wife, Henrietta.
If he did that - with a little bit of luck - it might help restore his grandfather's damaged credibility, and explain the unusual circumstances in which Ron Jr. - the only offspring of Hubbard Sr. to ever speak out - found himself.
Nibs said: "The book Alice in Wonderland (which of course some of the TRs are based on) and the companion book Alice Through the Looking Glass, were written by a master adept at the Magick. And he was, as they all are, unknown and secret. He was also a secret member of the Order of the Golden Dawn of which Aleister Crowley, the English black magician was involved in. And of course it was purposely used and put there by Dad because of its Magick association. And Dad used it secretly in the Scientology training to gain a higher degree of control over staff, students and preclears for himself personally."
Lewis Carroll was an interesting fellow.
"The same individual that transmitted the various Magick tech to Adolf Hitler as a young man also transmitted them to Dad. And like Dad, Hitler, when he came to power, promptly had his teachers and the occult field in general wiped out" L Ron Hubbard Jr - 1984 tape transcript
TRANSCRIPT OF TAPE #1 OF JUNE 28, 1984 - RON DE WOLF (Found at Lermanet)
I'm not sure what Nibs was saying here. Is he referring to Crowley? "Magic" with a "K" is Crowley's "Magic(k)." If so, then the same individual who transmitted "Magic(k)" (by books, just way Hubbard received it) also transmitted the "Magic(k)" to me and many others.
Perhaps someone else can provide a clarification.
As for the 1963 Interrogation manual, no doubt, Hubbard used confusion technique on Scientologists, however, IMO, it's a bit of a stretch to say that the 1957 'Dear Alice' from 'TR-1" is derived from this interrogation manual - even supposing that there might have been an earlier interrogation manual that also used the term "Alice in Wonderland" to describe confusion technique.
"Alice in Wonderland" has a long history as an adjective used to mean distorted or strange.
In the interrogation manual, the person being interrogated is not told what is occurring, whereas, with TRs, at least the person is made aware that he's reading from the book 'Alice in Wonderland' ('Through the Looking Glass').
Granted, the person thinks he's on a "Communications Course," or is doing "Auditor training" to sharpen his "auditing communication cycle skills," and, as usual, in Scientology, something else is also (covertly) happening, but I hesitate to leap into assuming the interrogation manual/TR 1 connection.
In any event, here's a chronology, AFAIK fairly complete, of references to 'Dear Alice':
1952: During the 'PDC' lectures, Hubbard speaks positively (a rarity) of a book that he calls 'The Master Therion'. The alternate title for this text is 'Magick in Theory and Practice'. In one section, Crowley presents a long list of books 'For serious study'. One of these is, 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'. It's described as being "Valuable to those who understand the Qabalah."
1955: The next reference is a medical/psychiatric term
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=24174
1955: The first reference to 'Alice in Wonderland' in Hubbard's writings appears in his ("Russian") 'Textbook on Psycho-Politics', a.k.a. the 'Brainwashing Manual' (which denounces Dianetics multiple times), originally written as a black propaganda vehicle for identifying his critics, including psychologists and psychiatrists, with Russian Communism, and then, later, used by him as a kind of blueprint for his Scientology operation. (And if Scientology is anything, it is a 'psychological-political operation', but I don't believe one initiated by any government.)
Says Hubbard - in the guise of a Russian psychiatrist - "There are those who have foolishly embarked upon some spiritual Alice-in-Wonderland voyage into what they call the 'subconscious' or 'unconscious' mind... There is no strength in such an approach."
Next is a quote from the out-of-print compilation book from the 1970s, 'Dianetics Today', which is taken from a recorded lecture (probably in the late 1950s), where Hubbard says, "Why 'Alice in Wonderland'? Well, that's just beacuse it is, no further significance."
So Hubbard, as usual, is hiding something.