Scientology and the occult
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Scientology is in part derived from, and shares elements with, a number of esoteric or occult systems. The extent of the influence of specific occult belief systems on Scientology is a subject of deba
The eight-pointed Scientology cross
Aleister Crowley in Golden Dawn garb
Hubbard conducting a Dianetics seminar in Los Angeles in 1950
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
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