MrRING
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Just read the banned Alan Moore/Melinda Gibblie comic about this event, Jack Parsons & his association with L. Ron Hubbard, the homoculous creating "moon-child" Babylon Working, and Parson's influence in the creation of high output rocket fuel.
I think it's fascinating, thought I'd include a bit about it here - anybody else think this is interesting stuff? This link has good into:
labyrinth13.com/Parsons.htm
Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040228095544/http://labyrinth13.com/Parsons.htm
As does this one:
From Disinformation:
disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id592/pg1/
Link is dead. The complete MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184549/http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id592/pg1/
I think it's fascinating, thought I'd include a bit about it here - anybody else think this is interesting stuff? This link has good into:
Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040228095544/http://labyrinth13.com/Parsons.htm
As does this one:
From Disinformation:
When the history of the American space program is finally written, no figure will stand out quite like John Whiteside Parsons. Remarkably handsome, dashing and brilliant, 'Jack' Parsons was one of the founders of the experimental rocket research group at Cal Tech and the group's seven acre Arroyo Seco testing facility would eventually become Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's rocket design center.
Werner von Braun claimed it was the self-taught Parsons, not himself, who was the true father of the American space program for his contribution to the development of solid rocket fuel. Although Parsons has been memorialized with a statue at JPL and has had a crater on the dark side of the moon named in his honor, his story remains shrouded in mystery – for what is little known about this legend of aerospace engineering is that Parsons was an avid practitioner of the occult sciences, and for several years, Aleister Crowley's hand-picked leader of the US branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Southern California-based Agape´ Lodge.
Parsons was born in Los Angeles on October 2, 1914, the son of a wealthy and well connected family living in a sprawling mansion on Pasadena's 'Millionaire Row.' His father worked for Woodrow Wilson. After his parents divorce, the solitary childhood of Parsons imbued him with a deep hatred of authority, and a contempt for any sort of interference in his activity. Parsons interest in the occult apparently commenced at an early age and in one of his diaries he claimed to have visibly evoked Satan at the tender age of 13.
After discovering Crowley's philosophy of Thelema (Greek for 'true will'), Parsons joined the Agape´ Lodge in 1941. Wilfred T. Smith, the expatriate Englishman who started the order in the early 1930s with a charter from the Great Beast himself, wrote of Parsons in a letter to Crowley: "I think I have at long last a really excellent man, John Parsons. And starting next Tuesday he begins a course of talks with a view to enlarging our scope. He has an excellent mind and much better intellect than myself . . . John Parsons is going to be valuable." ...
Link is dead. The complete MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184549/http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id592/pg1/
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