Aleister Crowley
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Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. As the founder of the religion of Thelema in the early 20th century, he identified as its prop
Crowley in 1925
Aleister Crowley was born Edward Alexander Crowley at 30 Clarendon Square in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on 12 October 1875.
Crowley in Golden Dawn garb, 1910
Crowley during the K2 Expedition, 1902
Jack Parsons
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John Whiteside Parsons was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aerojet. He invented the f
Aleister Crowley
…lectures on yoga in Soho. Crowley was now living largely off contributions supplied by O.T.O.'s Agape Lodge in Los Angeles, later led by rocket scientist Jack Parsons. Crowley was intrigued by the rise of Nazism in Germany, and, influenced by his friend Martha Küntzel, believed that Adolf Hitler might convert to…
Parsons in 1941
Parsons (dark vest) and GALCIT colleagues in the Arroyo Seco, Halloween 1936. JPL marks this experiment as its foundation.
GALCIT Group members in the Arroyo Seco, November 1936. Left foreground to right: Rudolph Schott, Amo Smith, Frank Malina, Ed Forman, and Jack Parsons.
Parsons in 1938, holding the replica car bomb used in the murder trial of police officer Captain Earl Kynette