Scientology roots in OTO, Jack Parsons, and Aleister Crowley

Jack Parsons was a student of Aleister Crowley and high ranking member of the OTO. Parsons, also a genius/prodigy, was also the father of the modern space program. Modern rocket and jet engines were developed by him at JPL in California. JPL for Jack Parsons Lab, changed by Nasa to Jet Propulsion Lab.

L Ron Hubbard was also an OTO member, and met up with Parsons. L Ron acted as the scribe during Parsons' Babalon Working, where he invoked the Scarlet Woman, Holy Whore of Babalon, known as the 'Babalon Working'.

Soon after L Ron took off to Florida with many of Parsons and the OTO grade papers, and some say Parsons wife. He then began recasting OTO and Crowley's work into what is now Scientology by inventing a new mythos and symbolism. These new symbols however masked the same underlying principles of OTO, in which are kernels of fundamental truth about the universe. This is why Scientology continues to grow. However at its essence is derivative of OTO and 'do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law'. These principles are firmly at the core of Scientology behind the many veils L Ron created. Soon after L Ron took off, Parsons died in an explosion in his garage lab, where some speculate he was working on rocket fuel and others say it was an alchemy experiment that went wrong.