"Excalibur" contained many concepts and ideas that later turned up in

Scientology.
Hubbard married Margaret "Polly" Grubb in 1933, with whom he
fathered two children, L. Ron, Jr. (19341991) and Katherine May
(born 1936). They lived in Bremerton, Washington during the late
1930s. His introduction to Parsons is recorded One afternoon in
August 1945, Lou Goldstone, a well-known science-fiction illustrator
and a frequent visitor to South Orange Grove Avenue, turned up with
L. Ron Hubbard, who was then on leave from the Navy. Jack Parsons
liked Ron immediately, perhaps recognized in him a kindred spirit, and
invited him to move in for the duration of his leave.15
3. Sara Betty Northrup - In the summer of 1944, Helen Parsons
left her husband (Jack) and ran off with another member of the lodge,
by whom she was pregnant. Parsons consoled himself by transferring
his affections to Helen's younger sister, Sara Northrup, who was then
eighteen, a beautiful and vivacious student at the University of
Southern California. Within a few months, Sara dropped out of her
course and moved in with Parsons, to the great distress of her parents.
At South Orange Grove Avenue she became known as Betty (her
middle name was Elizabeth). Completely under the spell of her lover,
she was soon inculcated onto the O.T.O. and assisting in its
ceremonies.16
4. Marjorie Cameron - When (Parsons and Hubbard) returned to
South Orange Grove Avenue, they found the 'scarlet woman' waiting
for them. Her name was Marjorie Cameron and in truth she was not
very much different from many of the unconventional and free-spirited
young women who had gravitated to the Bohemian lodging house in
Pasadena. But Parsons was convinced that she was his libidinous
elemental spirit, not least because it transpired she was not only
willing, but impatient, to participate in the magical and sexual
escapades he had in mind. 'She is describable', he wrote in the 'Book of
Babalon', 'as an air of fire type, with bronze red hair, fiery and subtle,