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		By: Alcoboy		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593765&quot;&gt;Mockingbird&lt;/a&gt;.

Couldn’t have put it better myself.]]></description>
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<p>Couldn’t have put it better myself.</p>
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		By: Mockingbird		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593661&quot;&gt;Alcoboy&lt;/a&gt;.

I think that the contents of Hubbard&#039;s mind are equal parts insane and whacky. He was both a crank and a conman. He was a seeker of the truth for himself and a liar and fraud in his dealings with others. 

For ex Scientologists who read Mission Earth I think Hubbard was conflicted and had an idealized fantasy of himself as Jettero Heller as a handsome man who was strong, brave, a genius, desired by every woman and an expert on everything. He wanted desperately to be an idealized and perfect being. 

I think he had an inner image of himself as Soltan Gris, Gris was of course hated by everyone and a drug addict and rapist. Gris was a lying snake who imagined that he could have a way to escape from his office like Bugs Bunny in a cartoon. 

Hubbard was full of self hatred and narcissism, he couldn&#039;t stand his self image and fantasized about being the opposite of his perception of himself. He was damned to try unsuccessfully to escape himself.  

He used his creation of Scientology from plagiarized ideas and practices from hypnosis and the occult and a mad stew of other stolen ingredients to try to paradoxically both enslave others AND liberate himself!

He didn&#039;t lack audacity and ambition. Unfortunately he was bereft of compassion, decency, and honesty.]]></description>
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<p>I think that the contents of Hubbard&#8217;s mind are equal parts insane and whacky. He was both a crank and a conman. He was a seeker of the truth for himself and a liar and fraud in his dealings with others. </p>
<p>For ex Scientologists who read Mission Earth I think Hubbard was conflicted and had an idealized fantasy of himself as Jettero Heller as a handsome man who was strong, brave, a genius, desired by every woman and an expert on everything. He wanted desperately to be an idealized and perfect being. </p>
<p>I think he had an inner image of himself as Soltan Gris, Gris was of course hated by everyone and a drug addict and rapist. Gris was a lying snake who imagined that he could have a way to escape from his office like Bugs Bunny in a cartoon. </p>
<p>Hubbard was full of self hatred and narcissism, he couldn&#8217;t stand his self image and fantasized about being the opposite of his perception of himself. He was damned to try unsuccessfully to escape himself.  </p>
<p>He used his creation of Scientology from plagiarized ideas and practices from hypnosis and the occult and a mad stew of other stolen ingredients to try to paradoxically both enslave others AND liberate himself!</p>
<p>He didn&#8217;t lack audacity and ambition. Unfortunately he was bereft of compassion, decency, and honesty.</p>
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		By: Alcoboy		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593388&quot;&gt;Mockingbird&lt;/a&gt;.

<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f3b6.png" alt="🎶" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Come up to the Kooooooool taste!
The greatest taste in any cigarette!<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f3b6.png" alt="🎶" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />]]></description>
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<p>🎶Come up to the Kooooooool taste!<br />
The greatest taste in any cigarette!🎶</p>
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		By: Iamfromanywhere		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593602&quot;&gt;LoosingMyReligion&lt;/a&gt;.

The volcano bubbles like a radioactive radar antenna.
If you are sitting at the screen, you have to adjust the focus. Parallel to the straight road, you move the two symbols over each other and make the fine adjustments and go into the depth.
The zoom function is a bit like Carl Zeiss quality. Think of the images from body scanners at the airport. This is how the ether thetans saw our bodies in their younger years]]></description>
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<p>The volcano bubbles like a radioactive radar antenna.<br />
If you are sitting at the screen, you have to adjust the focus. Parallel to the straight road, you move the two symbols over each other and make the fine adjustments and go into the depth.<br />
The zoom function is a bit like Carl Zeiss quality. Think of the images from body scanners at the airport. This is how the ether thetans saw our bodies in their younger years</p>
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		By: Alcoboy		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593538&quot;&gt;Aquamarine&lt;/a&gt;.

Must have since I currently live in Asheville North Carolina. Thanks for the prayers!]]></description>
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<p>Must have since I currently live in Asheville North Carolina. Thanks for the prayers!</p>
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		By: LoosingMyReligion		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593578&quot;&gt;Iamfromanywhere&lt;/a&gt;.

Sure. Whatever it means it couldn&#039;t have been said any better.]]></description>
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<p>Sure. Whatever it means it couldn&#8217;t have been said any better.</p>
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		By: LoosingMyReligion		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593530&quot;&gt;Mockingbird&lt;/a&gt;.

Very interesting. Thank you.]]></description>
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<p>Very interesting. Thank you.</p>
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		By: Iamfromanywhere		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593359&quot;&gt;LoosingMyReligion&lt;/a&gt;.

The two diamonds resemble the horse race track on Hubbard&#039;s ranch.
They are very important to regularly adjust the religious technology in Earth&#039;s orbit for a clear picture. The straight path with the bend is also important for the second generation of this technology to see through walls. BTs ride on the radar beam from China. The great leader of Korea bought his equipment from the same forge.]]></description>
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<p>The two diamonds resemble the horse race track on Hubbard&#8217;s ranch.<br />
They are very important to regularly adjust the religious technology in Earth&#8217;s orbit for a clear picture. The straight path with the bend is also important for the second generation of this technology to see through walls. BTs ride on the radar beam from China. The great leader of Korea bought his equipment from the same forge.</p>
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		By: Aquamarine		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 02:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593494&quot;&gt;Alcoboy&lt;/a&gt;.

My prayers to you and all those in the Tampa area also, Alcoboy.  Well done on surviving Helene :)  Funny, somehow I though you lived in Italy.  I must have you confused with someone else.]]></description>
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<p>My prayers to you and all those in the Tampa area also, Alcoboy.  Well done on surviving Helene 🙂  Funny, somehow I though you lived in Italy.  I must have you confused with someone else.</p>
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		By: Mockingbird		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-great-hubbard-archives-scam/#comment-593486&quot;&gt;LoosingMyReligion&lt;/a&gt;.

Jon Atack and several others have written excellent articles and books on the occultism that is hidden in Scientology.

We also have Hugh Urban, Jeff Jacobsen and several others. I have written on the likely plagiarism of the book, The OAHSPE which was a very similar cult test written in the 1800s. It has been my most popular series at ESMB and at my own blog. 

Below is a brief excerpt by Jon Atack on the occult origins of Scientology:


Factnet Report:
Hubbard and the Occult
by Jon Atack
Part three
Scientology surely has the distinction of containing the largest collection of teachings produced by one man. There are more than a hundred books and over 2,500 recorded lectures. But there are also thousands of registered trademarks, including many symbols.
Many of these symbols have magical significance. It seems highly unlikely given his study of the occult that Hubbard was unaware of the earlier use of these symbols. The Scientology cross which Hubbard claimed to have seen in an old Spanish church in Arizona 86)is markedly similar to the Rosicrucian cross 87)and also to Aleister Crowley&#039;s OTO cross. Hubbard had been a member of the Rosicrucians. He had also commented on Crowley&#039;s Tarot which carries the OTO cross on the back of every card. Hubbard cannot have been ignorant of these uses.

The Scientology cross could also be seen as a crossed out cross, with potentially Satanic implications. It seems strange that Hubbard who called Scientology a &quot;better&quot; activity than Christianity 88)called Christ an invention 89)and said that the &quot;Creator of Heaven&quot; would be found &quot;with beetles under the rocks&quot; 90), should have adopted the exclusive Christian word &quot;church&quot;, the garb of Christian ministers and the use of the cross as a symbol. But Scientology is based upon deception and contradictions.

The Rosicrucians and the Freemasons share a ritual called the &quot;grave of fire&quot; 91). A senior Rosicrucian who had also studied Scientology told me that the initiate lies on a carpet within a pattern of lapping flames. He claimed that Scientology&#039;s Religious Technology Center - or RTC - symbol was very similar.92)

The RTC symbol contains the Dianetics triangle, which is a common magicical symbol, representing the door of the Cabala, the letter Daleth. Hubbard indeed assigned it to the Greek equivalent of Daleth, Delta. The triangle on its base is also the symbol of Set, the Egyptian god called by some &quot;the destroyer of man&quot;, the male equivalent of Babalon. Indeed Crowley equates Set with Satan 93). The triangle is universally recognised as a sign of malign power. Alexandra David-Neel commented upon its use as such among the Tibetians. Her best-selling books of the 1930&#039;s contain many other possible comparisons with Hubbard&#039;s work.

The &quot;S and double triangle&quot; is a major symbol found throughout Scientology. The &quot;S&quot; supposedly represents &quot;Scientology&quot; and the two triangles Affinity-Reality-Communication and Knowledge-Responsibility-Control. There is another possible interpretation. The &quot;S&quot; seen on its own can easily be seen as a snake. To Crowley, indeed, the &quot;S&quot; represented the tempting serpent, Satan. Perhaps Hubbard&#039;s &quot;thetan&quot; is pronounced to match with a lisped &quot;satan&quot;? He was after all wry in his humour. The two triangles can be assembled differently to form the Star of David, called the Seal of Solomon by magicians 94). This symbol allegedly represents &quot;tetragrammaton&quot; the holy name of God which must never be spoken. Perhaps breaking it apart is simlar to hanging the Christian cross upside down.

Next we see the Sea Organization symbol. The five pointed star, or pentacle is the most commonly known symbol of magical power. It is held between two thirteen-leaved laurels. Armstrong told me in 1984 that judging by the papers in Hubbard&#039;s archive the creator of Scientology was more interested in numerology than any other aspect of magic.

Among the more seemingly fanciful claims of Hubbard&#039;s oldest son, L. Ron, junior, was that his father was the successor to the magicians who created Nazism. Nazism was certainly an authoritarian group, a protypical destructive cult. Recent revealations about leading Scientologist Thomas Marcellus&#039; long-running direction of the Institute for Historical Review can only add to speculation 95). Dusty Sklar has said that had she known about Hubbard she would have used him in the last chaper of The Nazis and the Occult rather than Sun Myung Moon 96). L. Ron, junior, was sure that the teachings of the Germanen Orden and the Thule Society had passed directly to his father by courier. In this light, the white circle on a red square of Scientology&#039;s International Management Organization 97)can be readily compared to the Nazi flag. The four lightning flashes or &quot;sig runes&quot; are also common to Nazism. No explanation is given for these sig runes by Scientology. They also appear on the RTC symbol. At the time that both of these symbols were introduced, Hubbard also created the International Finance Police, headed by the International Finance Dictator. An unusual choice of words.

Hitler too had been aware of the power of occult symbols and rituals. Speaking of Freemasons, he said &quot;All the supposed abominations, the skeletons and death&#039;s head, the coffins and the mysteries, are mere bogeys for children. But there is one dangerous element and that is the element I have copied from them. They form a sort of priestly nobility. They have developed and esoteric doctrine more merely formulated, but imparted through the symbols and mysteries in degrees of initiation. The hierarchical organization and the initiation through symbolic rites, that is to say, without bothering the brain by working on the imagination through magic and the symbols of a cult, all this has a dangerous element, and the element I have taken over. Don&#039;t you see that our party must be of this character...? An Order, the hierarchial Order of a secular priesthood.&quot; 98)

86) What is Scientology?&quot; Church of Scientology of California, first edition, 1978, p. 301

87) H. Spencer Lewis, Rosicrucian Manual, AMORC , San Jose, 1982.

88) Modern Management Technology Defined, definition of Church of American Science

89) HCO Policy Letter, Former practices, 1968

90) HCO Policy Letter, Heaven, 1963

91) cf Hubbard&#039;s use of &quot;wall of fire&quot; to describe OT III &#038; OT V. These may also be compared to gnostic ideas.

92) The RTC symbol is frequently used, e.g., What is Scientology, 2nd edition, 1992, p. 92

93) Magick Without Tears, p. 259

94) Cavendish, p. 243

95) Paul Bracchi, The Cult and a Right-Winger, Evening Argus, Brighton, England, 4 April 1995.

96) Letter to the author. Sklar&#039;s book was published by Crowell, NY, 1977. It was originally released as Gods and Beasts. See also Gerald Suster Hitler and the Age of Horus, Sphere, London, 1981.

97) This symbol is frequently used, e.g., What is Scientology, 2nd edition, 1992, p. 358

98) Suster, Hitler and the Age of Horus, p. 138]]></description>
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<p>Jon Atack and several others have written excellent articles and books on the occultism that is hidden in Scientology.</p>
<p>We also have Hugh Urban, Jeff Jacobsen and several others. I have written on the likely plagiarism of the book, The OAHSPE which was a very similar cult test written in the 1800s. It has been my most popular series at ESMB and at my own blog. </p>
<p>Below is a brief excerpt by Jon Atack on the occult origins of Scientology:</p>
<p>Factnet Report:<br />
Hubbard and the Occult<br />
by Jon Atack<br />
Part three<br />
Scientology surely has the distinction of containing the largest collection of teachings produced by one man. There are more than a hundred books and over 2,500 recorded lectures. But there are also thousands of registered trademarks, including many symbols.<br />
Many of these symbols have magical significance. It seems highly unlikely given his study of the occult that Hubbard was unaware of the earlier use of these symbols. The Scientology cross which Hubbard claimed to have seen in an old Spanish church in Arizona 86)is markedly similar to the Rosicrucian cross 87)and also to Aleister Crowley&#8217;s OTO cross. Hubbard had been a member of the Rosicrucians. He had also commented on Crowley&#8217;s Tarot which carries the OTO cross on the back of every card. Hubbard cannot have been ignorant of these uses.</p>
<p>The Scientology cross could also be seen as a crossed out cross, with potentially Satanic implications. It seems strange that Hubbard who called Scientology a &#8220;better&#8221; activity than Christianity 88)called Christ an invention 89)and said that the &#8220;Creator of Heaven&#8221; would be found &#8220;with beetles under the rocks&#8221; 90), should have adopted the exclusive Christian word &#8220;church&#8221;, the garb of Christian ministers and the use of the cross as a symbol. But Scientology is based upon deception and contradictions.</p>
<p>The Rosicrucians and the Freemasons share a ritual called the &#8220;grave of fire&#8221; 91). A senior Rosicrucian who had also studied Scientology told me that the initiate lies on a carpet within a pattern of lapping flames. He claimed that Scientology&#8217;s Religious Technology Center &#8211; or RTC &#8211; symbol was very similar.92)</p>
<p>The RTC symbol contains the Dianetics triangle, which is a common magicical symbol, representing the door of the Cabala, the letter Daleth. Hubbard indeed assigned it to the Greek equivalent of Daleth, Delta. The triangle on its base is also the symbol of Set, the Egyptian god called by some &#8220;the destroyer of man&#8221;, the male equivalent of Babalon. Indeed Crowley equates Set with Satan 93). The triangle is universally recognised as a sign of malign power. Alexandra David-Neel commented upon its use as such among the Tibetians. Her best-selling books of the 1930&#8217;s contain many other possible comparisons with Hubbard&#8217;s work.</p>
<p>The &#8220;S and double triangle&#8221; is a major symbol found throughout Scientology. The &#8220;S&#8221; supposedly represents &#8220;Scientology&#8221; and the two triangles Affinity-Reality-Communication and Knowledge-Responsibility-Control. There is another possible interpretation. The &#8220;S&#8221; seen on its own can easily be seen as a snake. To Crowley, indeed, the &#8220;S&#8221; represented the tempting serpent, Satan. Perhaps Hubbard&#8217;s &#8220;thetan&#8221; is pronounced to match with a lisped &#8220;satan&#8221;? He was after all wry in his humour. The two triangles can be assembled differently to form the Star of David, called the Seal of Solomon by magicians 94). This symbol allegedly represents &#8220;tetragrammaton&#8221; the holy name of God which must never be spoken. Perhaps breaking it apart is simlar to hanging the Christian cross upside down.</p>
<p>Next we see the Sea Organization symbol. The five pointed star, or pentacle is the most commonly known symbol of magical power. It is held between two thirteen-leaved laurels. Armstrong told me in 1984 that judging by the papers in Hubbard&#8217;s archive the creator of Scientology was more interested in numerology than any other aspect of magic.</p>
<p>Among the more seemingly fanciful claims of Hubbard&#8217;s oldest son, L. Ron, junior, was that his father was the successor to the magicians who created Nazism. Nazism was certainly an authoritarian group, a protypical destructive cult. Recent revealations about leading Scientologist Thomas Marcellus&#8217; long-running direction of the Institute for Historical Review can only add to speculation 95). Dusty Sklar has said that had she known about Hubbard she would have used him in the last chaper of The Nazis and the Occult rather than Sun Myung Moon 96). L. Ron, junior, was sure that the teachings of the Germanen Orden and the Thule Society had passed directly to his father by courier. In this light, the white circle on a red square of Scientology&#8217;s International Management Organization 97)can be readily compared to the Nazi flag. The four lightning flashes or &#8220;sig runes&#8221; are also common to Nazism. No explanation is given for these sig runes by Scientology. They also appear on the RTC symbol. At the time that both of these symbols were introduced, Hubbard also created the International Finance Police, headed by the International Finance Dictator. An unusual choice of words.</p>
<p>Hitler too had been aware of the power of occult symbols and rituals. Speaking of Freemasons, he said &#8220;All the supposed abominations, the skeletons and death&#8217;s head, the coffins and the mysteries, are mere bogeys for children. But there is one dangerous element and that is the element I have copied from them. They form a sort of priestly nobility. They have developed and esoteric doctrine more merely formulated, but imparted through the symbols and mysteries in degrees of initiation. The hierarchical organization and the initiation through symbolic rites, that is to say, without bothering the brain by working on the imagination through magic and the symbols of a cult, all this has a dangerous element, and the element I have taken over. Don&#8217;t you see that our party must be of this character&#8230;? An Order, the hierarchial Order of a secular priesthood.&#8221; 98)</p>
<p>86) What is Scientology?&#8221; Church of Scientology of California, first edition, 1978, p. 301</p>
<p>87) H. Spencer Lewis, Rosicrucian Manual, AMORC , San Jose, 1982.</p>
<p>88) Modern Management Technology Defined, definition of Church of American Science</p>
<p>89) HCO Policy Letter, Former practices, 1968</p>
<p>90) HCO Policy Letter, Heaven, 1963</p>
<p>91) cf Hubbard&#8217;s use of &#8220;wall of fire&#8221; to describe OT III &amp; OT V. These may also be compared to gnostic ideas.</p>
<p>92) The RTC symbol is frequently used, e.g., What is Scientology, 2nd edition, 1992, p. 92</p>
<p>93) Magick Without Tears, p. 259</p>
<p>94) Cavendish, p. 243</p>
<p>95) Paul Bracchi, The Cult and a Right-Winger, Evening Argus, Brighton, England, 4 April 1995.</p>
<p>96) Letter to the author. Sklar&#8217;s book was published by Crowell, NY, 1977. It was originally released as Gods and Beasts. See also Gerald Suster Hitler and the Age of Horus, Sphere, London, 1981.</p>
<p>97) This symbol is frequently used, e.g., What is Scientology, 2nd edition, 1992, p. 358</p>
<p>98) Suster, Hitler and the Age of Horus, p. 138</p>
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