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Olaf Stavrand’s book, Dianetics and The Dynamics of Mind, was published in 1947, the same year that a physical human incarnation of Babalon was brought to Earth during a series of rituals performed by Jack Parsons in a secret temple in Pasadena, California. These rituals were later revealed in his book L. Ron Hubbard Presents Dianetics, and described in some detail in the section above.

Although Ron Hubbard was not a Thelemite, the Order did in fact have a member who had been initiated in the service of Babalon and had in fact been present at the ritual described in the previous section, and who later wrote in his book L. Ron Hubbard Presents Dianetics, “You get a blue tinge in the Venus-sign, if you will, of the time-dimension, when a baby is being born with that sort of vision for the first time.”[59] This member, who was given the pseudonym Olaf Stavrand, was a descendant of the royal houses of Sweden and Denmark and was raised in the occult elite of Europe, who was a powerful magician and a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Rosicrucian Order and the Freemasons. He was a Thelemite and a descendant of the Illuminati bloodline, who had attended a ritual in which Olaf Stavrand was present, and who had been transformed by this experience.

Hubbard eventually described the Babalon Working in some detail in the Dianetic Process Training Course and an extract is transcribed below.[59] The description has been noted in prior accounts to have many similarities to the rituals of the Gnostic-themed magical group known as the I AM Activity. In 1953, Hubbard likewise stated that “the I AM Activity is really a branch of Dianetics.”[60]

Hubbard’s initial interest in Babalon was that she represented the ultimate attainment of the goals of Scientology. According to W. Scott Morgan in Sex and the Married Man [59], Hubbard’s personal interest in Babalon was behind much of the inner and public change in Hubbard’s attitudes, and behind the dramatic change in his work. In Dianetics and Beyond: The Road to Freedom, W. Scott Morgan writes that Hubbard’s attraction to Babalon was behind his decision to get married. He was also attracted to Babalon because he believed she could help him get back his first wife Mary Sue, who had left him in 1940 after discovering he was having an affair with Scottie Peck. After the wedding, when he discovered that Mary Sue had come to visit him in Los Angeles, she told him that she had not gone to see him, but she had gone to see Babalon. She stated that after she saw Babalon, Hubbard had admitted to her that he had indeed been having an affair with Scottie. Bitterly disillusioned, Mary Sue returned to England and later divorced Hubbard.

Parsons performed the Babalon Working with Hubbard and a few friends in the Pasadena area of California on January 16, 1946. According to the book, this was the first time the ritual had ever been performed on Earth and it generated so much energy that it caused a large flood in the Pasadena area.[59] 827ec27edc