Previous Beginnings
Scientology and its connection to Freemasonry and the Occult (and obviously Hollywood)…..
http://torahcodes-mn.blogspot.com/2012/06/freemasonry-church-of-scientology.html
In August 1945 Ronald Hubbard moved into the Pasadena mansion of John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons. A leading rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and a founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Parsons led a double life as an avid occultist and Thelemite, follower of the English ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley and leader of a lodge of Crowley's magical order, Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO).He let rooms in the house only to tenants who he specified should be "atheists and those of a Bohemian disposition".
Connections between Scientology, Freemasonry, Church of Satan:
In the late 1940s, with Jack Parsons was already corresponding Anton Szandor Lavey, who went on to found the Church of Satan on Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966. LaVey (originally Levy) first worked in the circus, carnival and burlesque houses as a lion tamer and musician and became deeply interested in the occult, and ordered several of Crowley's works from Parsons.
Parsons met L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology in 1945 and introduced him to the OTO, though Hubbard claimed he joined the order as part of an infiltration assignment on behalf of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Incidentially, there is interesting information available about The Nation of Islam and Scientology and Freemasonry:
http://www.conspiracyschool.com/blog/nation-islam-and-scientology
Above has a lot of interesting tidbits, including the Nation of Islam is related to Prince Hall Freemasonry, which is a branch of North American Freemasonry composed predominantly of African Americans.
And as a possible explanation for some of the fantastic ET slides on /qresearch/ and who are behind them::
Crowley claimed in 1919 to have contacted an extraterrestrial named Lam, connected to the Sirius and Andromeda star system, and the sketch he produced of it is a crude version of the iconic “greys” that have now come to be associated with alien contact. Picknett and Prince say that when the “flying saucer” craze began in 1947, Parsons stated that the “discs” would “help to convert the world to Crowley’s magic religion.”
And as noted by Nikolas & Zeena Schreck, authors of Demons of the Flesh, “in many ways Scientology can be considered the most successful organizational offshoot of the Great Beast's work, having achieved a world standing and impact the various OTOs and other Crowleyan derivatives have not been.”[17] Hubbard also personally offered his Dianetics training to the ubiquitous Aldous Huxley. When Hubbard formulated Dianetics, he described it as “a mix of Western technology and Oriental philosophy.”[18] He said that Dianetics “forms a bridge between” Cybernetics and General Semantics, a set of ideas about education originated by Alfred Korzybski, which received much attention in the science fiction world in the 1940s.
I’ll keep digging on more connections between Scientology the cabal…