Hollywood Cult Files - Episode 1

Eyes Wide Shut = O.T.O.

Eyes Wide Shut = O.T.O.

Although the film is fiction, not a documentary, Kubrick offered clues and added unmistakable visuals that allude to the Ordo Templi Orientis, an organization that follows a theology primarily based on the Thelemic writings of Aleister Crowley.

Garrison wrote that the "love cult" was initially established on the West Coast in 1940, "when Wilfred Smith, an Englishman who had been a disciple of Crowley, opened the Ordo Templi Orientalis at 1746 Winona Blvd., Hollywood."

James Franco and Brian Butler to perform Aleister Crowley ritual in Los Angeles art gallery
[link to dangerousminds.net] 12/3/2012
Occult artist / musician / filmmaker Brian Butler will be performing Aleister Crowley’s “Bartzabel Working” tomorrow night, Tuesday, December 4, at the L&M Arts gallery space in Venice Beach, CA. This occult ceremony is part of the gallery’s current “Martian Chronicles” theme exhibit and will employ custom robes made in the original A.'.A.'. (Crowley’s magical order) designs and a circle, altar and triangle fabricated in vivid colors. Actor James Franco and Noot Seear from Twilight: New Moon will also participate in the ritual:

"In conjunction with the current exhibition For the Martian Chronicles, L&M Arts is pleased to present The Bartzabel Working, a performance by filmmaker and artist Brian Butler. Based on a ceremonial evocation of the spirit of Mars, first written and performed in London in 1910 by the famed British occultist Aleister Crowley, the ritual later became part of Los Angeles history in 1946 when Jet Propulsion Laboratory rocket scientist and Crowley protégé Jack Parsons conducted his own version of this rite, with the intention of placing a martial curse on a pre-Scientology L. Ron Hubbard."

...the ritual later became part of Los Angeles history in 1946 when Jet Propulsion Laboratory rocket scientist and Crowley protégé Jack Parsons conducted his own version of this rite, with the intention of placing a martial curse on a pre-Scientology L. Ron Hubbard."

Alexander Mitchell, who writes for the Sunday Times in England, claimed that Hubbard was once practicing witchcraft with John [a.k.a. Jack] Parsons, who joined the American branch of the [O.T.O.] cult of Aleister Crowley, the reknowned sorcerer and mystic.

Parsons got Hubbard to act as a high priest during a number of rituals, during which time Parsons had sexual relations with his girl friend, Betty, who was also allegedly having relations with Hubbard. Hubbard seemed unconcerned about the competition, though, since Mitchell wrote that in the "climax" of the ritual, he allegedly "worked" his two subjects into a "sexual frenzy."

In addition to these sexual unions, there seems to have been some pooling of finances on a business partnership. Parsons was believed to have invested $17,000, Hubbard about $10,000, and Parson's girl friend Betty nothing. But it was said that Hubbard used about $10,000 of this to buy a yacht, while his friend Parsons was "living at rock bottom and I mean rock bottom," according to another cult member. Aleister Crowley cabled his United States office that he "suspected" that Hubbard was playing a "confidence trick" since Parsons had given away his girl friend and his money to Hubbard.

Eventually Parsons did recover the yacht, describing how in a letter to Crowley, reprinted by the Sunday Times:

"Hubbard attempted to escape me by sailing at 5 P.M. and I performed a full invocation to Bartzabel within the circle at 8 P.M. (a curse). At the same time, however, his ship was struck by a sudden squall off the coast which ripped off his sails and forced him back to port where I took the boat in custody."

Scientology and the Occult
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Timeline of L Ron Hubbard with Aleister Crowley
From "Jack Parsons and the Fall of Babylon" by Paul Rydeen

Oct 12, 1875 - Aleister Crowley Born in England

c1890s - Wilfred T Smith born

Oct 2, 1914 - Jack Parsons born

1915 - Crowley comes to America

1919 - Crowley leaves America

1924 - Sara "Betty" Northrup born

1929 - Crowley publishes "Moonchild"

1930 - Smith moves Agape lodge to LA

1939 - Parsons meets Smith

1941 - Malina, Parsons, Forman move to Arroyo Seco, Parsons officially joins the OTO and the A .'. A .'.

1942 - Lodge moves to Parsons house. Police investigate Parsons for the first time Parsons assumes role of acting head of Lodge. Parsons takes Betty Northrup as his new mistress added note: (Betty refers to Sara Betty Northrup, she was 17 at the time)

May 1945 - L Ron Hubbard moves in with Jack Parsons

December, 1945 - Hubbard returns to Pasadena after stint in Navy Hospital

January 4, 1946 - Parsons opens Temple with Hubbard present

Jan 18, 1946 - Hubbard and Parsons go to Mojave Desert, meet "Venusian"

Feb 27 or 18, 1946 - L Ron Hubbard leaves on personal business

March 2, 1946 - L Ron Hubbard returns, tells of "Empress." Three day working with Cameron and Hubbard begins, "Book of Babylon" produced as result.

April, 1946 - L Ron Hubbard and Betty Northrup leave for Florida

April 19, 1946 - Crowley derides Parsons working, in letter

July 5, 1945 - Parsons invokes "Bartzabel" in Miami, storm catches Hubbard and Betty and forces them back to shore