Hubbard’s novella “The Kingslayer“
Three days ago I discovered L. Ron Hubbard established the first headquarters of Scientology at 37 Fitzroy Street, where Joaquin Miller proposed to Emma Brown. Did Miller stay in this house, before, or after he had dinner at Rossetti’s? This is an astounding literary discovery. Hubbard wrote pulp fiction novels. When I lived in Camp Meeker, my neighbor showed me a box full of Hubbard’s early work he found in his attic and said there were five more boxes.
A member of Scientology found me. She was told Heather’s father had a famous sister, and she got on the computer and looked up Rosamond. She found an article, and contacted Stacey Pierrot. I stayed in this woman’s house that Patrice stayed in, while my daughter stayed in another house they owned. There was some conflict. I now understand that Scientology was very interested in me – and my literary work that involved the study of King Arthur and Knights Templar. Hubbard claimed he was reincarnated – and had a near-death experience that involved a vision of Excalibur. The Pre-Raphaelites were into Arthurian subject matter. I doubt Hubbard was aware of the connection. Hubbard was born in Nebraska and lived in Helena Montana, where my grandfather, Royal Rosamond lived. Wow! Consider Rena Easton and the Bozeman Arts Festival – where lovers Lovers of Hubbard show up – along with my Bond characters, that I have compared to Fleming’s Pulp Fiction.
Above is a photograph of members of the Bohemian Club throwing the ashes of Joaquin Miller on a pyre they built in the Oakland hills about the Stuttmeister-Broderick farm. I was concerned Scientology might make a claim to this real history they only had in part. I refrain from giving an opinion of what I think of Scientology’ – because it has changed! It appears I am Heir to Hubbard’s prolific writing. My blog may be the largest in the world, and, if L.Ron were alive, he would read it, religiously – and make contact? Perhaps Scientology should purchase Notre Dame Namur and make the Resident Wizard of Spies annd Science Fiction Prophets?
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
https://www.lronhubbard.ca/landmark-sites/fitzroy.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kgkwv/this-guy-claims-to-be-the-reincarnation-of-l-ron-hubbard
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kgkwv/this-guy-claims-to-be-the-reincarnation-of-l-ron-hubbard
I’m going to refer to the new, still-alive L. Ron Hubbard as Lafayette, and the deceased one as L. Ron Hubbard so you don’t have to do the same mental cartwheels I did every time I referred to the old L. Ron Hubbard while speaking to the new L. Ron Hubbard.)
The Church of Scientology says that most Scientologists remember past lives. Hubbard himself claimed to have lived previous existences as British imperialist and mogul Cecil Rhodes, a tax collector in ancient Rome, and an alien race car driver in a distant galactic civilization. In the late 1960s, his followers were so convinced by his tales of past lives, Hubbard was reportedly able to lead an expedition to dig up treasure he’d buried during previous existences (no treasure was found). The church allegedly maintains offices and a mansion for Hubbard to use upon his return.
Fitzroy House, 37 Fitzroy Street, London
Set in the heart of Fitzrovia, Fitzroy House is a fine example of London architecture dating back to the 18th century when this area was first built.
Fitzrovia itself has for many years been renowned for its writers and artists. From H.G. Wells and George Orwell, to Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf – its inhabitants have left an indelible mark.
Although it is well known that the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw resided in Fitzroy Square, it is a lesser-known fact that he also lived with his mother on the 1st floor of 37 Fitzroy Street from 1881-1882.
75 years later, writer and philosopher L. Ron Hubbard made 37 Fitzroy Street his London base. Mr. Hubbard wrote many of his best-known works whilst in London.
With 19 New York Times Bestsellers and 3 literary Guinness World Record Titles including ‘Most Published Author,’ he is one of the most prolific writers of his time.
Steeped in nostalgic memorabilia, Fitzroy House will take you on a trip down memory lane, with its faithfully restored communications office equipment including Adler typewriters, Grundig tape recorder and a Western Union Telefax.
Joaquin Miller And Emma Brown
Posted on September 4, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
I learned yesterday that Joaquin Miller proposed to Pre-Raphaelite Muse, Emma Hill, who became the wife of Ford Maddox Brown. Joaquin spent some time in Maddox’s famous home at 37 Fitzroy Street that is regrettably owned by Scientology. Some of the greatest artists, poets, and writers of Britain met here, especially the Pre-Raphaelites, of which I declared I was one in 1969. I shared these artists with my late sister, the world famous artist known as ‘Rosamond’ who took up art in 1972. I have posthumously titled Christine a Pre-Raphaelite Artist. One of the artists that spent time at William Morris whom had a great influence on J.L. Tolkien. The painting Brown rendered are moviesque. I will try to get the director of my movie ‘Hromund’ to use the work of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Joaquin Miller was friends with William Michael Rossetti, and his brother, Gabriele. William married Lucy Maddox Brown. If Joaquin had married Emma, then he would be kin to the most literary and creative people in the West. For years I have been trying to get City Manager, Neil Laudati, interested in making Springfield Oregon, the Home of the Pre-Raphaelites, because the Miller family lived down the road apiece, and were Oregon Pioneers. My family knows nothing about this history. Since Christine’s death, Drew Benton, Shannon Rosamond, and Shamus Dundon have not written and published ONE WORD about the Artists and Writers in their family, yet, they claim so much! This is an astounding Creative Legacy that will be recognized by Great Britain, once they are made aware of it.
I modeled Royal Rosamond Press after The Germ. I elevated the famous commercial success of Drew and Shannon’s mother, and I have never been thanked. Christine said she owed her success to me, her teacher. The proof of this is evident.
Yoni Noguchi was at the Fitzroy House and lived with Miller in the Oakland Hills. My family knew Miller who may have modeled his Bohemian enclave after the Pre-Raphaelites and the creative souls who knew the Brown family. Yoni appears to have been a Japanese Spy sent by the Emperor to learn Western Culture through poetry. This is so Tolkienish! Here is the Japanese Bilbo who travels to a strange land and bonds with Gandalf. Joaquin write about their small statue. More of his “brown” people came to the Hights.
So soon after I gave my family a flash of bright light, there are dark problems about why I was not told Vicki died ten days ago. It has been suggested I was both the mother and father to my parents, and my siblings. I have been avoiding the possibility I am……..The Family Giver…………and I have been severely ripped off? Or is it a case of the naughty stupid children hiding everything from their brilliant parent who may be their superior, and a genius. No one but me took the time to learn anything about art, and, literature!
Joaquin Miller was the editor of Eugene’s first newspaper – before there was a Springfield. His brother George married a Cogswell who are the founders of the Eugene Register Guard. There’s newspaper men surrounding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Sisterhood. George could have been the brother-in-law of Emma Hill.
Joaquin put the make on English Women dressed as a cowboy, or, Californian Hippie. He came to conquer – with poetry! I would like to employ Miller’s poetry in my book and movie the same way Tolkien did with the poetry of William Morris. Joaquin did his best to wed English Literature to the Wild West. Joaquin’s influence on the culture of Japan needs a collegiate study. The Invasion of Pearl Harbor may have contained Miller’s poetry.
“The Californians like to laze about all day reading poetry to one another, and painting pretty picture. Then, when the mood strikes them, they roll over on one another and fornicate like beasts. Our Imperial Marines will make quick work of them. Bonsai!”
The Beauty that Joaquin really wanted to roll over one, was Mathilde Blind. But, he met his Waterloo! Alas I think I have found the Teutonic Woman that broke Miller’s heart. Did he propose to Emma after Blind body-slammed his cowboy ass in the Bohemian Cage of Pathos, Life, and Death? Our Orgonian was out of his league. There is no Pathos, here, here! Lucy Maddox Brown did a portrait of Blind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Madox_Brown
With the passing of my sister my thoughts went to the loneliness of Rena Victoria Easton, my Waterloo. It is this connectivity that motivates and moves these Bohemians across a flowery dance floor seeking first the attention of their Sisters and Brothers. Here are the original Hobbits and Hippies, the timeless root of the New Cooperation.
The other day, when my beloved sister came to me while I took my old man nap, she thanked me! From heaven she could behold the Big Picture now that her artistic siblings allowed her to be a part of. She was – wowed! She could not believe her good fortune, and the great choice she made, to be born from the same Rosy womb!
Are those California poppies? Did Joaquin bring a pot of them, over there, on a ship?
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Copyright 2019
The Philosopher Detective
Posted on February 9, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Capturing Beauty
by
John Presco
Copyright 2021
Above is a photo of Austrian Philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, who studied the Black Mack Writers and other authors of Detective novels. He was fascinated with Norbert Davis who was a friend of my grandparents – who have redeemed THEIR family from beyond the grave. I am the head of my family. Here is a movie about Ludwig. In this scene he is attending a movie based on detective writers like Dashiell Hammet and Erle Stanley Gardener who were friends of Royal Rosamond.
Wittgenstein – Derek Jarman (1993).avi – YouTube
Wittgenstein: Philosophical discussion in Cambridge – Part 1 – YouTube
I have seen the light! I just sent this to my ex-wife, Mary Ann Tharaldsen;
“You saw greatness in me Mary Ann and so did my famous sister. Our destructive parents filled us with the most vile low-self esteem one could imagine. Not able to believe I was great, people I came in contact saw that my energy was exposed to them, and they too took from me – and Christine!”
Yesterday I talked to my diabetic nurse about my lower readings, and thanked her for the support from the staff at my clinic. She asked why by reading were high around the third. This was the day I found out Bill Arnold’s sister is dead. Bill was born on February 3, 1945. He took his life on October 9, 1964. The suggestion by Tom Snyder that I could have saved Bill’s life, if I had passed my famous sister’s note to him like she asked, is the most outrageous accusation in the annals of Art History, and Psychiatrics History. Christine Rosamond Benton was seeing as many as three psychiatrists -one whom she was having an affair. When we were in our teens, our mother Rosemary kept saying; “I have a scholarship to Camarillo State Mental Hospital.” She would then laugh that infamous laugh. Consider Ken Kesey working on a mental ward where he says he was exposed to LSD. Then there is the wonderment if Thomas Pynchon sat in on Nabokov’s class and Cornell.
With the revelation that Ludwig Wittgenstein took a keen interest in the writing of Norbert Davis, the last piece of the Labyrinth Puzzle has fallen into place. You can say the Minotaur is Ludwig, a famous philosopher that was looking for a way out of our mental predicaments. It has been suggested that if he had contacted Norbert, he could have saved his life.
Last night I exchanged e-mails with my friends, Mark Gall, and hinted he might want to co-author my autobiography because he graduated from Harvard and Berkley with degrees in psychology.
I debated about revealing the Wittgenstein connect because my Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde acquaintance – stabbed me in the back again – after we discussed for a year getting a grant to do a radio show. He mocked me saying he is going after money, chaffer, a maid, while I muddle along with my very long study – that has hit the Mother Load! Casey Farrell a.k.a ‘The Green Swastika’ is beside himself in his need to rip me off and assume my identity – some more! Then there is the terrible Rosamond Cult where women I share DNA with, are drawn to the work and drama of Rosamond. They know it is the Mind Game to end all Mind Games! If Ludwig were alive, and aware of The Rose of the World Labyrinth, he would put his students to work researching all the strange twists and turns, that are most diabolical, a Philosophers Dream. I will now apply for several grants so this work can continue.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Wittgenstein: Philosophical discussion in Cambridge – Part 1 – YouTube
Prophets of the Tree Rings
Posted on April 18, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday I found a Grail at the Lane County Historical Society, that hopefully will change the way we look at things today, and the way we live and communicate with one another. I beheld the beautiful master plan put forth by the Miller Brother Prophets, who are right out of the Lord of the Rings, as you will see.
Jon Presco
The Society also publishes the Lane County Historian, a tri-annual periodical of local historical information. It also prints a quarterly newsletter and other publications, such as diaries, cemetery records, and local census records. Throughout the year the Society hosts general meetings featuring presentations of historical interest. It also participates in many projects such as historic preservation and the collection of oral histories. For further information, contact the Lane County Historical Society at P. O. Box 5407, Eugene, OR 97405-3819, via email, or phone (541) 682-4242. To join The Lane County Historical Society, you may complete our Membership Form.
The Society’s vision for the future is to create a history center in a visible, accessible location. It would house the Museum, possible related organizations, and a cafe–in a space twice the size of the current facility. It would include a larger, more accessible exhibit space, adequate workspace for collections management and exhibit preparation, storage for current and expanded collections, a well designed library and archives, an expanded gift shop and bookstore, and a multi-purpose room or theater with kitchen facilities for events. The center would also be climate controlled, secure, well-lit and ADA accessible. It would be a dynamic education, research and entertainment destination.
http://www.lanecountyhistoricalsociety.org/aboutus.html
First marriage and early literary career
See also: Written works of L. Ron Hubbard
Hubbard’s “Yukon Madness” was originally published in the August 1935 issue of New Mystery Adventures.
Hubbard’s novella “The Kingslayer” was reprinted in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1950 after its original publication in a 1949 Hubbard collection.
Hubbard returned from Puerto Rico to D.C. in February 1933. He struck up a relationship with a fellow glider pilot named Margaret “Polly” Grubb.[28] The two were married on April 13. She was already pregnant when they married, but had a miscarriage shortly afterwards; a few months later, she became pregnant again.[29] On May 7, 1934, she gave birth prematurely to a son who was named Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr., whose nickname was “Nibs”.[30] Their second child, Katherine May, was born on January 15, 1936.[31] The Hubbards lived for a while in Laytonsville, Maryland, but were chronically short of money.[32]
Hubbard became a well-known and prolific writer for pulp fiction magazines during the 1930s. His literary career began with contributions to the George Washington University student newspaper, The University Hatchet, as a reporter for a few months in 1931.[22] Six of his pieces were published commercially during 1932 to 1933.[33] The going rate for freelance writers at the time was only a cent a word, so Hubbard’s total earnings from these articles would have been less than $100 (equivalent to $2,261 in 2022).[34] The pulp magazine Thrilling Adventures became the first to publish one of his short stories, in February 1934.[35] Over the next six years, pulp magazines published many of his short stories under a variety of pen names, including Winchester Remington Colt, Kurt von Rachen, René Lafayette, Joe Blitz and Legionnaire 148.[36]
Although he was best known for his fantasy and science fiction stories, Hubbard wrote in a wide variety of genres, including adventure fiction, aviation, travel, mysteries, westerns and even romance.[37] Hubbard knew and associated with writers such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur J. Burks, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp and A. E. van Vogt.[38]
In the spring of 1936 they moved to Bremerton, Washington. They lived there for a time with Hubbard’s aunts and grandmother before finding a place of their own at nearby South Colby. According to one of his friends at the time, Robert MacDonald Ford, the Hubbards were “in fairly dire straits for money” but sustained themselves on the income from Hubbard’s writing.[39]
His first full-length novel, Buckskin Brigades, was published in 1937.[40] He became a “highly idiosyncratic” writer of science fiction after being taken under the wing of editor John W. Campbell,[41] who published many of Hubbard’s short stories and also serialized a number of well-received novelettes that Hubbard wrote for Campbell’s magazines Unknown and Astounding Science Fiction. These included Fear, Final Blackout and Typewriter in the Sky.[42]
He wrote the script for The Secret of Treasure Island, a 1938 Columbia Pictures movie serial.[43]
Hubbard spent an increasing amount of time in New York City,[44] working out of a hotel room where his wife suspected him of carrying on affairs with other women.[45]
Dental procedure, near-death experience, and Excalibur
Main article: Excalibur (L. Ron Hubbard)
In April 1938, Hubbard reportedly underwent a dental procedure and reacted to the drug used in the procedure. According to his account, this triggered a revelatory near-death experience. Allegedly inspired by this experience, Hubbard composed a manuscript, which was never published, with working titles of The One Command or Excalibur.[46][47]
Arthur J. Burks, who read the work in 1938, later recalled it discussed the “one command”: to survive. This theme would be revisited in Dianetics. Burks also recalled the work discussing the psychology of a lynch mob.[48] Hubbard would later cite Excalibur as an early version of Dianetics.[49]
According to Burks, Hubbard believed that Excalibur would “revolutionize everything” and that “it was somewhat more important, and would have a greater impact upon people, than the Bible.”[48] According to Burks, Hubbard “was so sure he had something ‘away out and beyond’ anything else that he had sent telegrams to several book publishers, telling them that he had written ‘THE book’ and that they were to meet him at Penn Station, and he would discuss it with them and go with whomever [sic] gave him the best offer.” However, nobody bought the manuscript.[48]
Hubbard’s failure to sell Excalibur depressed him; he told his wife in an October 1938 letter: “Writing action pulp doesn’t have much agreement with what I want to do because it retards my progress by demanding incessant attention and, further, actually weakens my name. So you see I’ve got to do something about it and at the same time strengthen the old financial position.”[50] He went on:
Sooner or later Excalibur will be published and I may have a chance to get some name recognition out of it so as to pave the way to articles and comments which are my ideas of writing heaven … Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. That goal is the real goal as far as I am concerned.[50]
L. Ron Hubbard purchase[edit]
L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology organisation, bought the mansion from Sawai Man Singh, the Maharajah of Jaipur, in 1959 after meeting at a casino in London. The Maharaja needed to settle his gambling debts. Hubbard claimed in a subsequent lecture that he purchased the property for £58,000. He lived there with his family until early 1966 before moving abroad.
Under Hubbard’s ownership, the manor was extensively modified, with a series of extensions and new buildings constructed on the estate during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to accommodate the training facilities and attendant administration functions. The largest is a mock-Norman castle built adjacent to the main manor house after 1968 to provide a purpose-built training facility for Scientology followers. The East Grinstead Urban District Council initially refused planning permission. After a public enquiry, however, the Church of Scientology was granted permission to go ahead with the construction of “Saint Hill Castle”.[2]
Saint Hill Manor served as Hubbard’s organisational headquarters until 1967. It was inaugurated in 1955 and was the site where Hubbard “announced Scientology milestones emerging from his research.” It was also the site of the organisation’s first Distribution Centre, which was operative for the organisation’s missionary outreach.[3]
The Church of Scientology’s renovations on the Saint Hill Manor were completed in the summer of 2015 and are reported to have cost a total of US$16 million. The organisation claims that they are preserving it as a “historic monument.” Its leader David Miscavige and Scientologist actor Tom Cruise donated $10,000 to cover the local rugby team’s costs and invited team director Phil Major to an annual gala when their activities were disrupted for six months because of the renovations.[4] Saint Hill Manor is now a museum that features the works of L. Ron Hubbard, and exhibits about what the Scientology organisation claims are his accomplishments.[5]
Following the completion of the renovations, the Church of Scientology purchased seven brand new 29-seater ADL Enviro200 midibuses to transport the 400 staff members between the manor and the town of Crowborough, 14 miles (23 km) away.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_in_the_United_Kingdom
In 2013, a case was brought against the Registrar General by 2 Scientologists who wished to be married in the chapel at the Church of Scientology in London but had been refused on the basis of a court ruling in the 1970s that Scientologists do not worship a god and therefore Scientology could not be considered a religion. On 11 Dec 2013, the Supreme Court in the UK overruled the previous ruling in R (on the application of Hodkin and another) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages. In the Supreme Court’s judgement, it established a new legal definition for religion as “a spiritual or non-secular belief system, held by a group of adherents, which claims to explain mankind’s place in the universe and relationship with the infinite, and to teach its adherents how they are to live their lives in conformity with the spiritual understanding associated with the belief system.” Lord Toulson concluded that Scientology subsequently does meet that definition of a religion in the UK and ordered the Registrar General to recognise the Chapel at the Church of Scientology in London as a place of worship and as a place for the solemnisation of marriages under section 41(1) of the Marriage Act.[27] The ruling does not affect the legal status of the Church of Scientology in charity law.[28]
Born in Tilden, Nebraska, in 1911, Hubbard spent much of his childhood in Helena, Montana. After his father was posted to the U.S. naval base on Guam, Hubbard traveled to Asia and the South Pacific in the late 1920s. In 1930, Hubbard enrolled at George Washington University to study civil engineering but dropped out in his second year. He began his career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories and married Margaret Grubb, who shared his interest in aviation. Hubbard was an officer in the Navy during World War II, where he briefly commanded two ships but was removed from command both times. The last few months of his active service were spent in a hospital, being treated for a variety of complaints.
Hubbard returned to the United States in 1975 and went into seclusion in the California desert after an unsuccessful attempt to take over the town of Clearwater, Florida. In 1978, Hubbard was convicted of fraud after he was tried in absentia by France. In the same year, eleven high-ranking members of Scientology were indicted on 28 charges for their role in the Church’s Snow White Program, a systematic program of espionage against the United States government. One of the indicted was Hubbard’s wife Mary Sue Hubbard, who was in charge of the program; he himself was named an unindicted co-conspirator. Hubbard spent the remaining years of his life in seclusion in a luxury motorhome on a ranch in California, attended to by a small group of Scientology officials. Following his 1986 death, Scientology leaders announced that Hubbard’s body had become an impediment to his work and that he had decided to “drop his body” to continue his research on another plane of existence. Though many of his autobiographical statements were fictitious, the Church of Scientology describes Hubbard in hagiographic terms and says its account of his life is factual.
L. Ron Hubbard was born in 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska,[2] the only child of Ledora May (née Waterbury), who had trained as a teacher, and Harry Ross Hubbard, a former United States Navy officer.[3][4] After moving to Kalispell, Montana, they settled in Helena in 1913.[4] Hubbard’s father rejoined the Navy in April 1917, during World War I, while his mother worked as a clerk for the state government.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_Square
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