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patrick-darcy
when a group has *more* in common with something
doesnt mean it doesnt have something in common with
something else.
true.
Crowley did not practice Satanism. he practiced his own religion which he called Thelema. he did not worship Satan except in the broad sense of opposing institutional Christianity and believing that the time of the Father (the patriarchal age, represented by Jesus and the Trinity) had passed and that humanity had moved onto a new phase.
crowley may not have called his belief system satanism. but
if an individual or group uses satanic ritual by another name
it still is satanism.
if someone were to start another new religion today and if
they used some parts of satanism they would probably
not call it satanism. they would of course call it something else.
to call it satanism would put off too many people. it would
be repulsive to many. so if u call it something else people
are not threatened by it. that would be a very good tactic.
Crowley, the magician and the man, did engage in some mean-spirited acts intended to indicate his personal hatred of Christianity, true. Crowley mystic, however, respected the truth of some elements of Christianity in the same way that all religions had truth. he had a lot of contradictions and a reductionist analysis does not really apply to him.
i find this very interesting. and u
say that he had a personal hatred of christianity. i would agree
with that.
either LRH, LRH's son or the interviewer of this article may have gotten this wrong. immaterial.
i have heard this before. i have heard that his son who was
so close to hubbard maybe just said this because he was
upset with hubbard. what if he was telling the truth. then what ?
he could have been speaking the truth. he did later disappear
and was never heard from again. satanic belief systems would
have no problem with getting rid of him to shut him up.
LRH may have practiced Thelemic or Satanic or none-of-the-above magic, it really does not matter to me. it matters what he did when he did not practice magic.
I think of as Scientologists as the dupes of a man (LRH) who practiced Thelemic magic (and for all I know, Satanic magic) and who themselves do not practice Thelema (or Satanism).
i believe most scientologists practice some satanic religion,
they have been duped by hubbard. they are practicing satanic
religion and are unaware of it.
again , another good tactic.
like I said, I think that Crowley and Erhard have some philosophical similarities which they arrived at independently from each other.
it seems that werner didnt have much in common if anything
with crowley but hubbard did. werner got much of his belief
system from scientology. even the people that are in
landmark will tell u that werner went to scientology to learn.
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one of the things that helped me to do my research was jinnendra
himself.
his name tag was changed to jinnenriah, i looked jinnenriah
in a book i found at book stop in austin.
jinnendriah is suppodly the leader of the satanic group
called the jinn.
logically, then, you would expect the founder of est to have the most Satanic name of all. maybe you could do a numerology analysis of the name WERNER ERHARD if you have abanoned critical thinking entirely.
actually i havent abandoned critical thinking. in this day and time
if u want to become rich, like hubbard said, start a religion.
if u dont want the people to shy away from religion, dont mention
that u went to the devil to get it :)
this has as much significance as saying that having the name James makes you Christian, because the influence of the New Testament has caused parents to name their children James or Aaron or Ruth without any thought as to why the names have gotten used in this culture.
the reason i brought it up was jinnendra was very very self
assured when he gave out the forum to my group. he was
braggy. he even mentioned that none of the other form leaders
were his equal. he mentioned that part of his job was to
train the other forum leaders. his name tag said jinnenriah, not
jennendra through part of the forum. i later took some notes,
even though i was told we could not do that. when i realized
not so much the satanic connection i was astonished about
the mind control techniques.
even some Satanists will have Christian names. they do not nessecarily mean anything in and of themselves.