In the ongoing research to document all the sources
Scientology's founder L Ron Hubbard stole his key
ideas (that scientologists thing are cool) much has
been discovered lately..
Study Tech - from a 19th century schoolteacher in Richmond Virginia
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/studytech/
Dianetics - from discarded psychiatric techniques called
abnormal reaction therapy -
http://www.lermanet.com/reference/whyworse.htm
Purification Rundown - dangerous application of mega vitamins
combined with the American Indian Sweat Lodge...
Scientology - The word is from a book from 1904 or so,
and originally was coined as a word for FRAUD
The good ideas of Volney Mathesin's creative processing
sure sound like what Hubbard perverted to give us
scientology auditing.
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/hubbard-the-hypnotist4.htm
recently a reader on ars newsgroup asked about the
source of OTIII...which was promoted widely in Ron's Journal 1967
as:
THE WALL OF FIRE
from the footnote at the bottom of this page:
http://www.lermanet.com/excalibur/
End Note 1 - It is apparent that the great charlatan L Ron Hubbard
wanted you to think OTIII and the NOTS, NEDS and other secret upper
levels came from Excalibur. However, the true source is from a book
also published around the turn of the last century, © 1882 by John
Ballou called "OHASPE", notable is that OHASPE was claimed to have
been written by "automatic writing" mentioned by Hubbard in Dianetics.
The concepts use to describe the condition the OT levels are supposedly
a cure for are in this book. The dense, esoteric, nomenclature does
not make for easy reading of OHASPE
or of Dianetics.
On the "OT Levels" is where you get rid of infestations of body
thetans
drujas is a word used for evil spirit or hubbard's "body" "thetan"
" A knot was bound upon me: foul smelling slaves were clinched upon
me, millions of them, tens of millions; and the shafts of their curses
pierced my soul: I was as one lacerated and bound with salt" page 490
P. 21
"Oh that I could be freed from them" page 491 P.24
"2. Gessica had the vessels constructed with
walls of fire around the
margins, to prevent the drujas escaping. And there were built in all
four hundred vessels. Each capable of carrying one hundred million
drujias.
"the ethereans drove the drujas into the vessels, whereupon the door
way in the wall of the ship closed. And then the workers of the ship
put it under way…
In the first year, Gessica delivered five thousand million drujias, in
the second, he delivered thirty five thousand million drujias
Page 497 P 2 - 498 P 4
The drujias were being delivered to Earth
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