Veda
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Crowley's correspondences between the Hebrew Kabbalistic Tree of Life,
and the eight tri-grams of the Chinese Book of Changes
and the eight tri-grams of the Chinese Book of Changes
Hubbard's simplified, and reworked the four components of the Tree of Life: the Kabbalistic Tetragrammaton, the four basic and successive postulations of the/a Life force.
The four fundamental ingredients of existence, so the idea goes.
Which, oddly enough, correspond with the four bi-grams, of the ancient Chinese Book of Changes:

Which derive from the two primordial conditions: Yang and Yin, which derive from the great mystery - a nothingness with infinite potential.
We'll probably never know the extent to which Hubbard's "Axioms," and many of his other ideas, were inspired by his late night conversations with self taught chemist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons. No doubt Hubbard was aware of Crowley's "Theorems of Magick," and possibly aware of Nordenholz' Scientologie and its Axioms.
Painting by Patricia Waldygo
The top corresponds with Scientology's Static, the next two, lower, correspond with Scientology's As-isness and Alter-isness, next is a collection that corresponds with Is-ness, and the bottom corresponds with Not-Isness.
Many of Scientology's scales, as well as its The Factors, and even the Scientology symbol of the "S with the double triangle," derive from these earlier sources, notably through the writings of Aleister Crowley.
Some were lured into Scientology by exposure to these things.
While explanations can, sometimes, seem strange, they can also loosen the glue that holds a person to Scientology.
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