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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons Hardback - 2000

by John Carter; Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson

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In his short 37 years, John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life.By day, Parsons' unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that helped the Allies win World War II and NASA send spacecraft to the moon. Co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corporation, a lunar crater was named after Parsons.By night, Parsons called himself The Antichrist when he performed Aleister Crowley's Thelemic rituals to create a new sort of human being that would finally destroy Christianity.In a Pasadena mansion, the dark, handsome Parsons hosted soirees for the emerging literature of science fiction, visited by writers such as Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and none other than L. Ron Hubbard, who later founded the Church of Scientology. With Hubbard playing his "Scribe", Parsons enacted dark "Babalon" rituals to help foment a new occult age. Jack Parsons died suddenly in a huge, mysterious explosion that even today cannot be definitively explained. Was it murder? Suicide? Or just an accident?

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Jack Parsons was a brilliant scientist whose innovations in solid rocket fuel were responsible for Allied air victories in WWII as well as early advances in space flight. A cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, he was honored by NASA for his accomplishments when they named a moon crater after him.

But outside the laboratory, Parsons immersed himself in a shadowy world unknown to his professional colleagues -- a world where Parsons practiced occult rituals with his mentor, Aleister Crowley, a self-professed Antichrist.

When Parsons befriended L. Ron Hubbard, who later ran off with Parsons's money and his wife, his life became even more peculiar. Ultimately, his increasingly obsessive experiments -- he aimed to create a creature with magical powers -- sparked a chemical explosion that killed him.

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Marvel H. Parsons was from the Boston area, born circa 1894, the son of an egg merchant.

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  • Title Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
  • Author John Carter; Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 229
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Feral House, Venice, CA
  • Publication date July 5, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780922915569 / 0922915563
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.82 x 5.77 x 0.87 in (22.40 x 14.66 x 2.21 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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