woah....hold on. i think the argument is thin.
first, according to the excellent book "bare faced messiah", crowley wasnt exactly a "good friend" to the red-headed idiot. its been a few years since ive read it, but if i recall correctly, crowley thought of lafayette as an annoying groupie.
also, the threads conneting revelations and the whole thing w/ lucifer? hubbard wanted nothing more than to be the shock jock of his day.
i apologize to the freezoners if they are reading this, but the whole school of thought behind dianetics and scientology is stupid, based on nothing substantial, and is simply a made-up pseudo science.
but satanic? lets give the devil more credit than that! he's been responsible for some awesome music over the last 3-4 decades, after all.