Sara Northrup Hollister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American occultist
Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1924
Place of Birth: Pasadena, California, United States
Date of Death: 19-Dec-1997
Profession: occultist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Sara Northrup Hollister
- Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister (April 8, 1924 – December 19, 1997) played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology.
- She was the second wife of science-fiction author L.
- Ron Hubbard, who would become the leader of the Church of Scientology.Northrup was a major figure in the Pasadena branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), a secret society led by the English occultist Aleister Crowley, where she was known as "Soror [Sister] Cassap".
- She joined as a teenager along with her older sister Helen.
- From 1941 to 1945 she had a turbulent relationship with her sister's husband John Whiteside Parsons, the head of the Pasadena O.T.O.
- Although she was a committed and popular member, she acquired a reputation for disruptiveness that prompted Crowley to denounce her as a "vampire." She began a relationship with L.
- Ron Hubbard, whom she met through the O.T.O., in 1945.
- She and Hubbard eloped, taking with them a substantial amount of Parsons' life savings and marrying bigamously a year later while Hubbard was still married to his first wife, Margaret Grubb. Northrup played a significant role in the development of Dianetics, Hubbard's "modern science of mental health", between 1948 and 1951.
- She was Hubbard's personal auditor and along with Hubbard, one of the seven members of the Dianetics Foundation's Board of Directors.
- However, their marriage was deeply troubled; Hubbard was responsible for a prolonged campaign of domestic violence against her and kidnapped both her and her infant daughter.
- Hubbard spread allegations that she was a Communist secret agent and repeatedly denounced her to the FBI.
- The FBI declined to take any action, characterizing Hubbard as a "mental case".
- The marriage ended in 1951 and prompted lurid headlines in the Los Angeles newspapers.
- She subsequently married one of Hubbard's former employees, Miles Hollister, and moved to Hawaii and later Massachusetts, where she died in 1997.
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