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The essential characteristic of the Grade [of Magus] is that its possessor utters a Creative Magical Word,1 which transforms the planet on which He lives by the installation of new officers to preside over its initiation.
— Aleister Crowley
Liber ABA Book 4 (pp. 491-493)
1 Hubbard's "One Word" is of course Survive, first announced in an unpublished 1938 manuscript he titled first The One Command and then Excalibur The Dark Sword, and repeated thereafter throughout his Dianetics and Scientology material. Scientology does not relate Hubbard's research into the mind to any occult training curriculum.
Although I trained extensively in Scientology, to Class IX Auditor, at no time was I taught about Hubbard's occult background, or the true nature of his pre-Scientology "research." |
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