31-03-2014, 06:35 PM
Keith Millea Wrote:Has anyone yet mentioned the fact that Tom Cruise,the lead actor,is a high degree Scientologist?And,I think Scientology also has connections to OTO,through L. Ron Hubbard.Which begs the question...Why did Kubrick choose Tom Cruise to star in this movie???
Yes Keith, I was aware of that thanks.
In fact there are some older threads on the forum where both these aspects have been discussed (Cruise as top Scientoloigist, and Hubbard as a member of the O.T.O. and occult buddy of Jack Parsons). Hubbard also, according to his son, received the entire very nasty occult secrets of the Nazi Thule Gesellschaft too, after WWII.
Crowley was initiated into Scottish Rite Freemasonry in Mexico City in June 1900 by an "irregular" Lodge. Furthermore, Crowley's O.T.O. was authorised by the German mason Theodor Reuss, who had access to a significant Celtic Grimoire on the occult, a manuscript called The Book of Secret Knowledge - that later passed on to Rudolf von Sebottendorff, who founded the Thule Society. It is believed this same Celtic manuscript was acquired by the Knights Templars.
When Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland in 1941, he had a copy of this book that he planned to give to the Duke of Hamilton as a gesture go goodwill. The book ended up in the possession of the Occult Division of Her majesty's Security Service - which is poetic when you realise that England;s secret service was originally devised in the mid 1500's by Dr. John Dee, a magician of some renown, who's secret sigil was 007.
The poetry I mention above is the fact that that very same book had once been owned by none other than Dee himself, but was stolen, possibly by his associate Edward Kelly who ended up living in Bohemia - what is now called the Czech Republic.
It's a small world isn't it.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14