In 1939, Parsons converted to Thelema, a religious movement founded by English occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons and his first wife, Helen Northrup, joined the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO); he became the California OTO branch leader in 1942.

2024年3月12日 · He was especially enamored with the British satanist Aleister Crowley—a man who once declared himself to be the so-called Great Beast 666. Parsons didn’t hide these interests from his colleagues at JPL.

2022年7月2日 · Seventy years ago, on June 17, 1952, Jack Parsons—rocketry pioneer, self-proclaimed Antichrist, disciple of Aleister Crowley and explosives expert, whose work helped lead to the founding of...

Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magic rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley's teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable and unprecedented endeavor to the stars."

2013年1月24日 · He was also a goddess-obsessed acolyte and generous financial supporter of the infamous Pagan leader, Aleister Crowley. Parsons used his defense contract money to convert an old mansion into a...

2024年5月11日 · Jack Parsons was a self-taught rocket scientist who invented the fuel that would eventually send the Space Shuttle into orbit, but he also rubbed elbows with occultist Aleister Crowley and allegedly attempted to summon a sex goddess with L. Ron Hubbard.

2019年11月26日 · In my research for my previous body of work, Phantom Power, the name Jack Parsons kept coming up because of his involvement with the occult and sex magic. Parsons became a member of the Los Angeles chapter of Ordo Templi Orientis, which was lead by none other than Aleister Crowley.

2024年12月6日 · Anointed the group’s “delightful screwball” by von Kármán, Parsons liked reciting British occultist Aleister Crowley’s “Hymn to Pan” before rocket tests. World War II and the U.S. military’s need for motors and rocket research brought funding to the group’s activities.

Jack Parsons, an explosives expert, pioneer in rocket propulsion, and follower of the thelemic magic of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), was born Marvel Whiteside Parsons, the son of Marvel and Ruth Whiteside Parsons in Los Angeles, California, on October 2, 1914.

The “Working” reset the course of Parsons’ life, ending his relationship with Aleister Crowley and the O.T.O. In his surviving essays and polemical writings, Parsons anticipated by many years the ethical, moral, religious and social dilemmas of the future.