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How L. Ron Hubbard Made An Antichrist Using Sex Magic

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

What Is This Homunculus?

Dannell: Crowley suspected that Hubbard was playing along with his whole caper both for the sex, which he got in plentiful quantity. And because doing these rituals would help him build up trust with Jack Parsons so he could then rob the high priest blind. In May of 1946, L.R.H. and Betty Northrop fled California with something like 10 to $20,000 of Jack Parsons money. They stayed on the Eastern Seaboard, living off Jack's savings. The same day, Crowley sent a letter to the head of the American branch of the OTO. Apparently Parsons or Hubbard or somebody is producing a moon child. We'll talk about that at the end.

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