But very few people are aware of Marvel Whiteside Parsons (a.k.a Jack Parsons), co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratories. Parsons made major contributions to rocket development, particularly in the area of solid fuel propellant. The solid motors on the Space Shuttle and the motors in the Minuteman missile were based on the solid propellant technology that he invented. He was a founding member of Aerojet Corporation, and he even has a crater on the dark side of the moon named after him. So why isn’t he as celebrated as the other founding fathers of spaceflight? And what was that about the occult?
In 1939 Parsons became acquainted with the works of English occultist Aleister Crowley who referred to himself as “The Great Beast 666,” and was referred to by the English media as the “wickedest man in the world.”
Parsons and his wife Helen joined the O.T.O.’s Pasadena chapter, known as the Agape Lodge, which was led by Wilfred Smith. He began correspondence with Crowley, and quickly became Crowley’s American representative for the O.T.O.
In August 1945, Parsons was introduced to a former navy employee and some-time pulp fiction writer by the name of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Parsons was taken in by Hubbard’s charisma, and saw him as an equal in his magic circle. Writing to Crowley, Parsons said of Hubbard, “I deduced that he is in direct touch with some higher intelligence. He is the most Thelemic person I have ever met and is in complete accord with our own principles.” On that basis, Hubbard was invited to stay at the Parsonage, and was soon initiated into the secrets of the O.T.O.
Crowley was not impressed. The wickedest man in the world saw L. Ron Hubbard as a charlatan and a fraudster. Although Crowley was clearly a warped individual, he certainly was no fool, and history has largely confirmed that Hubbard was indeed one of the greatest fraudsters of the last century. Unfortunately for Parsons, he did not believe Crowley, and invited Hubbard into his life as his magic partner.
http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/aerospace-engineering/rocketry/jack-parsons-occult-roots-jpl/
PASADENA, CA — They called it the “Babalon Working” — a ceremonial procession of occult rituals enacted in 1946 by a 31-year-old rocket engineer and a 34-year-old science fiction writer intended to manifest a living incarnation of the goddess Babalon right under the sunny skies of southern California.
The scientist, Jack Parsons, was a genius who had dropped out of CalTech to cofound the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and pioneer the invention of rocket fuels that are still used today. The fantasy scribe was L. Ron Hubbard. He went on to create Scientology.
At the height of World War II, the U.S. military enthusiastically funded Parsons and the JPL to beat the Nazis with advancements in rocket technology.
Newly emboldened with a partner in otherworldly proclivities, Parsons sought with Hubbard to manifest the pagan goddess Babalon out of the divine and into this earthly realm. Thus began the machinations of the Babalon Working.
Following a Babalon Working ceremony in the Mojave Desert, Parsons believed he had finally conjured Babalon in the form of Marjorie Cameron, a 23-year-old illustrator who had dropped by The Parsonage. The two immediately became a couple and embarked on whole new realms of sex magick.
The Babalon Working culminated with Parsons and Hubbard, inspired by Crowley’s 1917 novel Moonchild, attempting to conjure a newborn Thelemic messiah that would overthrow Christianity by way of an immaculate conception somewhere else on the planet.
http://crimefeed.com/2017/08/jack-parsons-l-ron-hubbard/
During the period of January 19 to February 27 I invoked the Goddess BABALON with the aid of my magical partner, as was proper to one of my grade.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib49.htm