A few years ago I read 'Strange Angel' , George Pendle's very readable biography of Jack Parsons, the (in)famous rocket pioneer and occultist. Parsons led a strange double life of rocket science and Crowleyan magician. For Parsons, the old Hermetic maxim 'As Above, So Below' was taken very seriously.
During the 1990s I lived in Pasadena, not realising that Parsons' old OTO lodge would have been a short walk from my house - so the constant references to 'Orange Grove' as haven of Crowleyan magic were fun, as today it's a very vanilla middle class street.
An awful lot of virulent rubbish has been written about Parsons - it's common to see the usual reactionary tosh about him and Crowley being 'Satanists' (AM radio level analysis). You'll also hear him described as though he was some sort of blue-blood 33 degree baby-eating Illuminati insider. He's often incorrectly credited as a founder of Caltech (now that would be magic, as Caltech was founded 19 years before he was born); He did found JPL, but he was one member of a team of about half a dozen). Pendle's b
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