Thelema
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Thelema is a Western esoteric and occult social and spiritual philosophy, and a new religious movement. It was founded in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley, an English writer, mystic, occultist, and
Aleister Crowley in 1910
François Rabelais
Portrait of Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer, by William Hogarth from the late 1750s
![The Stèle of Revealing [front] depicting Nuit, Hadit as the winged globe, Ra-Hoor-Khuit seated on his throne, and the creator of the Stèle, the scribe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Stelae_of_Ankh-af-na-khonsu.jpg/500px-Stelae_of_Ankh-af-na-khonsu.jpg)
The Stèle of Revealing [front] depicting Nuit, Hadit as the winged globe, Ra-Hoor-Khuit seated on his throne, and the creator of the Stèle, the scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu
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
Thelema
…the Feast of the Three Days of the Writing of the Book of the Law, commemorating the writing of Thelema's foundational text. Post-Crowley figures like Jack Parsons, Kenneth Grant, James Lees, and Nema Andahadna have further developed Thelema, introducing new ideas, practices, and interpretations. Parsons conducted…
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