The Gnostic L. Ron Hubbard: Was He Influenced by Aleister Crowley?
Scientology was defined by its founder himself, L. Ron Hubbard, as a “Gnostic religion.” In 1969, however, a Trotskyist Australian journalist and an opponent of Scientology, Alex Mitchell, disclosed in a Sunday Timesarticle that Hubbard had been involved,in 1945-46, in the a...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
[2019]
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The journal of CESNUR
Год: 2019, Том: 3, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 53-81 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Crowley, Aleister 1875-1947
/ Parsons, Jack 1914-1952
/ Ordo Templi Orientis
/ Hubbard, L. Ron 1911-1986
/ Магия (мотив)
/ Эзотерика (мотив)
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AZ Новая религия BF Гностицизм |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
L. Ron Hubbard
B O.T.O B Agapé Lodge B Babalon Working B Aleister Crowley B Jack Parsons B Сиентология |
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| Итог: | Scientology was defined by its founder himself, L. Ron Hubbard, as a “Gnostic religion.” In 1969, however, a Trotskyist Australian journalist and an opponent of Scientology, Alex Mitchell, disclosed in a Sunday Timesarticle that Hubbard had been involved,in 1945-46, in the activities of California’s Agapé Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis, an occult organization led by British magus Aleister Crowley. The article generated a cottage industry of exposés criticizing Hubbard as having been a member of a “black magic” organization. Some scholars also believe Hubbard to have been influenced by Crowley in his subsequent writings about Dianetics and Scientology. While conflicting narratives exist about why exactly Hubbard participated in the activities of the Agapé Lodge and his leader, the rocket scientist Jack Parsons, the article argues that Hubbard researched magic well before 1945, came to conclusions about the role of magic in Western culture that are largely shared by 21stcentury scholars, and created with Scientology a system that is inherently religious rather than magic. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2019.3.3.3 |
