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> From: "DasGOAT@..." <DasGOAT@...>
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:44:02 EDT
> To: Robert Millegan <ramillegan@...>
> Cc: <EMael0@...>, <jim6263@...>, <Robalini@...>,
> <garyn2000@...>, <skh@...>
> Subject: Devotees of Aleister Crowley, "Ritual Human Sacrifice," and the Black
> Dahlia
>
> BACKSTORY:
> The most likely culprit in the ritualistic Jack-the-Ripper-like
> mutilation-murder of Elizabeth Short (young Hollywood starlet-wannabe
> nicknamed "the
> Black Dahlia") in 1947 is Dr. George Hodel.
>
>
>
>
> Former LAPD Detective Steve Hodel outlines in his book, BLACK DAHLIA
> AVENGER, collections of evidence heıs found in the Black Dahlia case. Hodelıs
> theory points to his father, George Hodel, a surgeon.
> In 1949, Dr. Hodel was tried for molestation of his 14-year-old daughter,
> Tamar. He was acquitted of that charge, however, he was added to the short
> list of suspects in the murder of Beth Short. His phones were tapped, and
> the younger Hodel presents transcripts of comments his father made in
> reference to the case. Hodel presents the statements, such as, ³What if I did
> kill (her)?² as admittance, and opponents of this theory look at the comments
> being made in jest, believing the doctor was teasing police.
> Hodelıs theory is the most prominent, as well as the most controversial.
> [But] he has backing from former LA prosecuter Stephen R. Kay who stated in
> a Cold Case Files interview that he was positive Hodelıs claims are
> accurate ...
>
>
>
> Hodel, a wealthy "mad genius," led multiple lives -- as forensics expert
> for the City of Los Angeles and director of a VD clinic (and abortion
> factory) discreetly visited by Hollywood stars; Oriental art collector/dealer
> who
> moved in avant-garde circles, hanging out with fellow eccentrics like Man
> Ray, Henry Miller, John Huston, Orson Welles, Vincent Price, and John
> Carradine; a frequent traveler to the Far East under some kind of special
> military security clearance (possibly OSS) ...
> In his carefully secreted private life, Hodel was also known to be a
> skilled hypnotist, as a doctor well versed in exotic drugs; a pedophile and a
> connoisseur of photographic pornography (much like Man Ray vis-a-vis Alice
> Prin and Lee Miller); and (much like the diabolical John Huston) one who
> aspired to fulfill his ideal of the Nietzschean "outlaw," "beyond good and
> evil" -- and as such (one assumes, based on circumstantial evidence) an
> admirer of "Great Beast" Aleister Crowley.
> [On p. 87 of "Black Dahlia Avenger," Hodel's son wrote: "My father
> conducted his life according to Aleister Crowley's dictum, 'Do what thou wilt
> shall be the whole of the law'" ...
> _http://www.bethshort.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=16926&sid=23d079e577ecf6fa0ab
> cad649a820ddc_
> (http://www.bethshort.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=16926&sid=23d079e577ecf6fa0ab
> cad649a820ddc)
> Elsewhere, however, he adds: "In conversations with me, he made it clear he
> had
> total disdain for anything metaphysical or 'occult.' That is not to say
> that he didn't identify with and personally subscribe to the thoughts of a
> kindred spirit such as the Marquis De Sade ..."
> Uniquely, Dr Hodel (and Man Ray?) ceremonially revered an obscure
> bull-headed (=horned) Tibetan deity of Hindu origin, Yamantaka ("Conqueror of
> Death"), who granted enlightenment and immortality. In the Sanskrit
> mythology, in order to overcome the god of death (Yama), a yogi (Yamantaka)
> assumed
> the form of that wrathful horned deity, BECOMING DEATH as a means of
> transcending fear of death. Perhaps Yamantaka was for Dr Hodel what BAPHOMET
> (the "Goat of Mendes," analogous to the Greek AION [=Persian Zervan] among
> Gnostics) was for Crowley?
> A key witness to Dr Hodel's whereabouts at the time of the Black Dahlia
> murder was his secretary, Ruth Spaulding, who, fortuitously, also wound up
> dead (injected with barbiturates) right after the investigation commenced.
> While only in the "top ten" suspects questioned in the Black Dahlia murder,
> in his secretary's death he was the chief suspect and no one suspected
> there was any connection between the two killings.
> Dr Hodel had been placed under surveillance, his home "bugged" and his
> telephone calls recorded and transcribed as potentially a source of evidence
> (especially needed in his case since he had important connections in high
> places and was bribing the famously-corrupt LAPD and DA's office). Many
> telephone calls were recorded in which Hodel discussed his alibi with a
> German
> gentleman who was either a fellow participant in one or more of the
> murders or a "higher-up" who had "authorized" them.
> That foreign-born accessory to Dr. Hodel's (presumed) murder of the Black
> Dahlia, whose name "sounded like 'Herringer'," has finally been identified
> beyond all doubt as a close friend and "magical associate" of the "high
> priest" of the Agape Lodge --Aleister Crowley's only American branch of the
> "Church" of Thelema-- and his priestess wife, who regarded him so highly, in
> occult matters, that he was called "a second Crowley."
>
> (http://207.56.179.67/steve_hodel/assets_c/2009/05/TheGermanArtDealer4-1054.ht
> ml)
> Baron von Harrunga
> What this means is that, in such close association with "the Baron,"
> Hodel acted at just one small degree of separation from Crowley's
> organization
> and teachings -- a fact highlighting the "ritualistic" nature of the Black
> Dahlia's rape, mutilation and murder, already so remarkable.
> As further background, Crowley himself was "on his deathbed" at the time
> (January 1947), finally dying in December of that year, and a spirited
> battle was being waged among his followers in America and abroad for
> succession
> to the "throne" of his Order (or rather orders, plural, since he used
> several "front groups"). At the Agape Lodge here, Jack Parsons (whose
> sidekick
> was the young L. Ron Hubbard) had risen to center stage, thrusting Wilfred
> T. Smith --the "Baron's" ally-- into the background after years of having
> being the High Adept, and abroad, Crowley's German devotees from the OTO,
> principally Karl Germer --whom the "Baron" also knew-- were struggling to
> wrest control of the Order in America from the "hijacker" Parsons.
> Not coincidentally, this was also a time of the most dramatic "magickal
> battles" and "Workings," e.g., the "Moonchild" sex-magick rituals of Parsons
> and Hubbard, and "Parsons' own "Babalon Working" and then taking the Oath
> of The Abyss, followed by Parsons' declaration in December 1948 that HE was
> born again as "the Antichrist," the Chosen One long awaited by
> Crowleyites.
> Remember, in times of "magickal stress," Crowley himself resorted to
> extreme magickal operations such as animal sacrifice (later acknowledging
> such
> was "less efficacious" than using a human victim)...
> "Crowley was much reviled for his belief in the efficacy of blood
> sacrifice (there is a furious trail of legends that have the Beast taking
> human
> lives in pursuit of magical power).
> "[Under] the influence of [Sir J. G.] Frazer's 'Golden Bough' which he was
> reading during this [period], Crowley [devised] a 'ceremony of the
> assumption of the Grade of Magus.'
> "A psychological crisis [was] now reaching desperate proportions within
> Crowley ... [In his diary he wrote:] 'I am tempted to copulate with a
> goat, or set a house on fire, or murder someone, with the idea --a perfectly
> good magical idea-- that some supreme violation of all the [inculculated]
> laws of my being would break down my Karma, dissolve the spell that binds
> me.'
> "That a Magus must break the bonds of karma --burn away his ego in the
> "urn" of initiation-- was basic to Crowley's conception of the grade ...
> "<On July 17, 1816, Crowley performed a blood-sacrifice, recorded in Liber
> LXX, corresponding to the Devil card in the Tarot>
> "... The [animal] was [first humiliated and then] executed, with [part of
> its body] eaten to confirm the magical link between Magus and [victim],
> which now served as a familiar. The rest of the body was burned to signify
> the
> end of the Old Aeon.
> "This was one of the rare <sic> magical occasions when Crowley sacrificed
> a living creature ...
> "Shortly after that ritual, Crowley received a telegram from [Charles
> Stansfeld] Jones in Vancouver, who claimed that he had [just] passed beyond
> the
> stage of a Babe of the Abyss and emerged as a Master of the Temple ...
> Crowley was delighted -- it confirmed that [Crowley's sex-magickal]
> operations
> with Jeanne Foster nine months earlier had indeed borne him a son ...
> Jones was a "Magical Son," one who absorbed, by way of etheric or astral
> influence, the spiritual intent of those operations. Crowley wrote to Jones
> to
> confirm him in his new grade."
> --"Do What Thou Wilt," Lawrence Sutin's biography of Aleister Crowley,
> pages 23 and 260-261
>
> ---------------
>
>
>
> Basic doctrine in ³Magick in Theory and Practice² by Aleister Crowley
> CHAPTER XII: OF THE BLOODY SACRIFICE: AND MATTERS COGNATE
> <condensed> _http://raumfahrer.wordpress.com/manson/crowley-on-sacrifice/_
> (http://raumfahrer.wordpress.com/manson/crowley-on-sacrifice/)
> The bloody sacrifice has from time immemorial been the most considered
> part of Magick. The blood is the life ... There is some ground for the
> belief
> that there is a definite substance, not isolated as yet, whose presence
> makes all the difference between live and dead matter. ... It was the theory
> of the ancient Magicians, that any living being is a storehouse of energy
> varying in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in
> quality according to its mental and moral character. At the death of the
> animal this energy is liberated suddenly.
> The animal should therefore be killed within the Circle, or the Triangle,
> as the case may be, so that its energy cannot escape. An animal should be
> selected whose nature accords with that of the ceremony ... and it should
> be virgin ‹ the whole potential of its original total energy should not have
> been diminished in any way. For the highest spiritual working one must
> accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force.
> A male child <=youth?> of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the
> most satisfactory and suitable victim.
> For evocations it would be more convenient to place the blood of the
> victim in the Triangle ‹ the idea being that the spirit might obtain from the
> blood this subtle but physical substance which was the quintessence of its
> life in such a manner as to enable it to take on a visible and tangible
> shape.
> The practical details of the Bloody Sacrifice may be studied in various
> ethnological manuals, but the general conclusions are summed up in Frazerıs ³
> Golden Bough², which is strongly recommended to the reader. Actual
> ceremonial details likewise may be left to experiment. The method of killing
> is
> practically uniform. The animal should be stabbed in the heart, or its throat
> severed, in either case by the knife. All other methods of killing are
> less efficacious; even in the case of Crucifixion death is given by
> stabbing.
> One last word on this subject. There is a Magical operation of maximum
> importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon ... Before man is ready to accept
> the
> Law of Thelema, the whole planet must be bathed in blood ... This Bloody
> Sacrifice is the critical point of the World-Ceremony of the Proclamation
> of Horus, the Crowned and conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon.
>
>
> Perhaps it IS more than just "coincidence" and "tabloid" journalism that
> the Crowleyites' Agape Lodge, with Wilfred T. Smith <friend of the "Baron">
> as its leader in both cases, had TWICE earlier been linked to mysterious
> deaths -- the unsolved murder in 1922 of Hollywood director William Desmond
> Taylor, in which both the victim and his wife (actress Mabel Normand) were
> found to be in possession of Crowley's "Equinox" (used as an "instruction
> manual" for acolytes) and the Beast's smuttiest literary porn (nigh
> unobtainable in America at the time), and in 1939 the death, after an
> aggravated
> rape, of a young starlet whose drama coach turned out to be a priestess of
> the Agape Lodge (who could not have avoided pressuring her to join the
> oversexed Crowleyite bunch):
> "On February 26, 1939, while the Agape Lodge had about ten practicing
> members, a former Zeigfeld Follies dancer attending drama classes at Los
> Angeles City College was attacked on campus and died from her wounds.
> Although
> there was no [apparent] connection between the girl's murder and the OTO, an
> avalanche of newspapermen soon descended on the house, keen to get the
> scoop on what had been termed the "Purple Cult." Headlines such as HIGH
> PRIESTESS IS COLLEGE TEACHER and PURPLE CULT RITES BARED sprawled across the
> newspapers. [Wilfred T.] Smith did his best to make the most of the
> publicity,
> inviting reporters in ..."
> =========================
> Bugging Tapes "Baron" Identified!
> Genealogist's tip leads to identity of George Hodel's confidant/accomplice
>
> By _Steve Hodel_ (http://www.stevehodel.com/)
> on May 25, 2009 8:50 PM
>
> _http://207.56.179.67/steve_hodel/2009/05/german-baron-from-1950-black-d.htm
> l_
> (http://207.56.179.67/steve_hodel/2009/05/german-baron-from-1950-black-d.html)
>
>
> Thanks to a recent email from JIL ANDERSON, a genealogist/researcher, the
> fifty-nine year-old mystery of the identity of "The German Baron" overhead
> speaking in conversation with my father on the February 18, 1950, DA HODEL-
> BLACK DAHLIA SURVEILLANCE TAPES has been solved. Here is JIL's verbatim
> e-mail to me, describing her findings:
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:42 PM
> Subject: Identity of Baron Herringer
> Dear Steve,
>
>
> (http://207.56.179.67/steve_hodel/assets_c/2009/05/TheGermanArtDealer2-1039.ht
> ml) After having read all of your website, I forgot to mention that I
> think I may have discovered the identity of "Baron Herringer" - not that it
> will make any difference, but thought you might be interested to know what
> popped up on a genealogy website. (I have frequently done "random acts of
> genealogical kindness" for people searching their ancestry; and likewise,
> people have helped me with discovering my own family tree.)
> Maybe you already know about him, but your intriguing statement that no one
> knew who he was, made me wonder if I could locate him in the genealogical
> databases. Since he was German, and I know that families wanting to express
> nobility frequently use the name "von" in their names, I looked him up
> that way. The fact that he was called "Baron" makes me think that was a
> nickname, leading people to believe him to be of noble heritage. So I have
> attached some records of one "Ernst Von Harringa" who emigrated from Germany,
> via
> Chungking China, to the United States. He applied for naturalization 5
> times and wed an American in 1939. (Actually he had changed his name from
> Ernst Franz Meyer which was his name in Germany.) He was a writer and an art
> dealer and married a socialite by the name Alene.
> Also in a book about Aleister Crowley, titled The Unknown God, there is a
> mention of "Baron Ernst Von Harringa".
> I've attached these documents . . . the extent of my suspicion of who
> "Baron Herringer" was.
> Best,
> Jil Anderson
> Having just completed two months of research on the name provided by JIL
> , I can say with complete confidence that-SHE HAS IDENTIFIED THE RIGHT MAN.
> The Back-Story on "Baron Herringer"
> Those of you who have read the updated version of BDA will be familiar with
> the heretofore unidentified "Baron" from the DA/LAPD- HODEL - BLACK DAHLIA
> TAPES. ("Black Dahlia Avenger" pages 468-471)
> This man initially identified by LAPD on the tapes as "a man with a German
> accent" (and then in later transcripts named as "Baron Herringer"
> (phonetic) is first heard on the tapes in conversation (live, not phone tap)
> with
> Dr. George Hodel at the Franklin House on February 18, 1950.
> In that conversation, George Hodel makes the following incriminating
> admissions implicating both himself and "The Baron" in various criminal
> activities. Here is a brief recap [sic] from the DA transcripts:
> 7:35 PM
> Hodel to the German - "This is the best pay off I've seen between Law
> Enforcement Agencies. You do not have the right connection made." Hodel
> states,
> "I'd like to get a connection made in the D.A.'s office."
> General conversation between the two - "Any imperfections will be found.
> They will have to be made perfect. Don't confess ever. Two and two is not
> four. Much laughter. "We're just a couple of smart boys." More laughter.
> Hodel then --in exact detail-- explained to the German about his wife being
> stopped on Wednesday morning by McGrath and Morgan of the District
> Attorney's office when they stopped her going up her steps to the house on
> Franklin. It should be noted that every question asked of Mrs. Hodel was
> repeated
> verbatim by Hodel to this German. He then began to explain to this German
> about his recent trial - making statements that, "They're out to get me. Two
> men in the D.A.'s officer were transferred and demoted because of my
> trial." Hodel then explained about his being questioned at the D.A.'s office
> on
> Wednesday morning, and told in great detail as to questions perpounded to
> him at that time.
> One statement made to the German was as follows: "Supposin' I did kill the
> Black Daliah. They couldn't prove it now. They can't talk to my secretary
> anymore -- because she's dead."
> One point of the conversation was also, "Have you heard from Powers".
> 7:45PM-
> Hodel talking to a man with an acent, possibly German. "Telephone men were
> here. Operator..? Realize there was nothing I could do put a pillow over
> her head, and cover her with a blanket. Get a taxi. Call Georgia Street
> Receiving Hospital right away. Expired at 12:39. They though there was
> something fishy. Anyway, now they may have figured it out. Killed her. Maybe
> I did
> kill my Secretary."
> (SKH Note- This conversation relates to the murder of [Dr. Hodel's]
> personal secretary, Ruth Spaulding in 1945 by overdose of barbiturates. LAPD
> actively investigated [Hodel] at that time, but were unable to prove a case.
> Two weeks after these statements are made, we find in DA Lt. Jemison's March
> 4, 1950 notes that he has reactivated that investigation and is preparing
> to reinterview all of the original 1945 witnesses in the Ruth Spaulding
> investigation.(See B

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