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memoir Philadelphia, which is quoted in L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah Or
Madman? – a 1987 biography he wrote with ex-Scientologist Bent Corydon
– he alleged that his father remained embroiled in the Scarlet Woman concept
as of November, 1952, six years after the Babalon Working:
"In preparation for the next day's lecture, he'd pace the floor, exhilarated by
this or that passage from Aleister Crowley's writings.
Just a month before, he had been in London, where he had finally
been able to quench his thirst; to fill his cup with the true, raw, naked power
of the magick. The lust of centuries at his very fingertips
To stroke and taste the environs of the Great Beast, to fondle
Crowley's books, papers, and memorabilia had filled him with pure ecstasy!
In London he had acquired, at last, the final keys; enabling him to
take his place upon the 'Throne of the Beast' to which He firmly believed
himself to be the rightful heir ... 'I've made the Magick really work,' he says.
'No more foolish ritual. I've stripped the Magick to basics – access without
liability.'
'Sex by will' he says. 'Love by will – no caring and no sharing – no
feelings. None.' he says. `Love reversed.' he says. 'love isn't sex. Love is no
good; puts you at effect. Sex is the route to power.' he says. 'Scarlet women!
They are the secret to the doorway. Use and consume. Feast. Drink the power
through them. Waste and discard them.'.
'Scarlet?' I ask.
'Yes Scarlet: the blood of their bodies; the blood of their souls,' he
says."
If this account is accurate, it would seem that Hubbard's
understanding of sexual magic was entirely of a one-sided vampiric nature,
much more like Crowley's misogynist concept than the Shakti-centered
liberatory practice of his erstwhile fellow magician Parsons. The method
Hubbard Jr., ascribed to his father is also in keeping with the ancient Chinese
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Taoist tradition, in which the male partner is enjoined to sexually consume
his female partner's potent yin force, while losing nothing of his own yang, a
devouring of erotic energy which theoretically leaves her permanently
drained.
A further intriguing intimation that Hubbard may have observed
similar rites designed to "use and consume ... the power" of Scarlet Women
well into the 1970s is provided in another passage in Bent Corydon and
Hubbard Jr's biography of the Scientology founder. They claim that this
description of a possible Hubbard sex-magical ritual was excerpted from a
sworn affidavit made by a former Scientology member whom they identify
only under the alias Heidi Forrester. This incident is said to have occurred in
late 1975, when "Heidi Forrester" was supposedly ushered into the wellappointed
private suite of a "heavy-set older man" with "reddish grey hair,
slightly long in the back." The affidavit continues:
"He didn't say a word and slowly got up, motioned me to follow him into the
next room. I didn't know if it was Hubbard, and wondered if I was to have
either an auditing session or an interview I followed him.
I found myself in a lavish bedroom. This still didn't worry me as
sometimes interviews and sessions were held in bedrooms ... Without a word
he suddenly began to undress me. I was repelled by him.
I did not want to sleep with him. Yet, I felt really chilled and cold to
the bone at that moment.
I acutely sensed real fear and danger in the room. In an instant I
realized the calculated power coming from this person. If I resisted I knew
that my punishment would be extreme. His eyes were so blank, no emotion,
no interaction, nothing was there.
I made the decision to not resist no matter what happened ... He was
so strange that I realized that if I provoked him he could he extremely