By Bent Corydon
An in-depth biography that tells the no holds barred tale of Hubbard the rip-off artist and his Church of Scientology.
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Nobody could ride up along side of him. He had more women than he could count. It is of particular interest to note that he equates men of great deeds with men of murderous deeds: "... men of great and murderous deeds... " 4. " L. RON HUBBARD The following story, which occurred during the first year of the Apollo's voyage, is one of adventure and exploited idealism. This is a brief glimpse of the story of Hana (Eltringham) Whitfield, a young woman who had worked with Hubbard closely and loyally for many years.
I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled and the consoler! ) Did the young L. Ron Hubbard take special quote, when he read: ... in these runes ords and letters of The Book] are mysteries that no Beast [Crowley] shall devine [understand]. Let him not seek to try: But one coth after him... who shall discover the key to it all? (Emphasis and bracketed words added) According to Ron Jr. his father considered himself to be the one "who came after"; that he was Crowley's successor; that he had taken on the mantle of the "Great Beast.
Hubbard sent John O'Keefe off to pick up the Avon River (soon to be renamed the Athena), and to captain her to an appointed destination. HANA: Now LRH said that John's orders were to leave Gibraltar and sail due East and join us in Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia. John swore that those orders were not what he received from LRH. John said that his orders were to sail northeast and to join the ship up in Monaco. So John took the ship out of Gibraltar and sailed northeast. Aboard the Avon River, with John there was only a skeleton crew: a dozen to 15 or so, at most.