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The Hubbard-Parsons Connection
I spent the day in an old dusty and dark bookstore in downtown Stockholm, where
I'm currently living for now. I happened upon two rare and previously unknown
books published by Don Hubbard, one in 1947 as a pulp and a reprint from 1954.
Both books were in worn condition. The cost me 9,520 SEK (just under $1,000 US).
Ron Hubbard moved into Jack Parsons' mansion in Pasadena in Aug 1945.
He joined Parsons' occult circle and participated in rituals, including the
"Babalon Working." This was a historic intersection of Hubbard with Jack
Parsons' occult workings and began what would later become Scientology.
Babalon Working was a series of occult rituals performed in 1946 by Jack Parsons
and Ron Hubbard, attempting to incarnate goddess Babalon into a human woman.
Parsons, a follower of Aleister Crowley's Thelema, believed Babalon represented a
powerful feminine force, and the rituals were intended to manifest her here on Earth.
Don, skeptical as always of his brother's antics, stood to the side and watched,
but would not take part in the mumbo jumbo these two were chanting all night,
according to his memory of events taking place at the mansion in 1945.
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