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There's is a substantial amount that has been written re. how much of Scientology is derived from, not only the works of Aleister Crowley, but from that which Crowley himself took much: the Kabbalah.
Perhaps I'll add to this thread, over time, mostly re-posting background information that may be helpful.
The above diagram appeared in Crowley's late 1940s 'Magick Without Tears', and it presents the Kabbalistic Tree of Life with its key points explained in terms of the tri-grams of the Chinese I-Ching. The I-Ching is an ancient Book of Wisdom that was popularized as a fortune telling device. Such a popularization kept it alive and made it part of popular Chinese culture, however, behind that, it remained an ancient book of wisdom and one based on a mathematical model.
IMO, examining this diagram may assist in understanding the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, from which so much of the benign portion of Scientology's doctrine was derived.
As a footnote, there is the revelation that Hubbard was indeed the author of the bizarre "Lucifer HCOB," where he (briefly) acknowledged his debt to the Kabbalah. Hubbard was, by accounts, using mood altering medical drugs at the time, which, as with the Benzedrine and/or Cocaine use of the PDC lectures of 1952, induced a condition of "loose lips."
Perhaps more later.