"We are pooling our resources in a partnership that will act as a limited company to control our business ventures." — Jack Parsons to Aleister Crowley, ca. 4 Jan 1946 … [Read more...] about Allied Enterprises (1946)
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Blog article: Robert A Heinlein – A Real Science Fiction Author’s Experience with L Ron Hubbard (2014)
[1. Excerpted from https://scicrit.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/robert-a-heinlein-a-real-science-fiction-authors-experience-with-l-ron-hubbard/ In December 1945, Heinlein’s writing career was taking off. He generously made another attempt to help Hubbard to adjust to civilian life. Heinlein offered Hubbard a contract to rewrite his early (and unpublished) novel, “For Us, the Living” which he had created back in 1938. Hubbard signed a generous contract that would have given him 50% of the … [Read more...] about Blog article: Robert A Heinlein – A Real Science Fiction Author’s Experience with L Ron Hubbard (2014)
Book: A Magick Life: the biography of Aleister Crowley (2000)
Booth, M. (2000). A magick life: The biography of Aleister Crowley. (pp. 476-479). London: Hodder & Stoughton. [Worldcat] In the austere postwar years, Crowley had little money. His main source of income was the Agapé Lodge of the OTO in Pasadena, California. Germer, living in New York, also sent him a percentage of OTO initiation fees. [...] The Agapé Lodge was founded in 1915 by Wilfred T. Smith, an initiate of Charles Stansfeld Jones' Vancouver branch, who broke away from Jones. With … [Read more...] about Book: A Magick Life: the biography of Aleister Crowley (2000)
Article: Jack Parsons JPL’s Sorcerous Scientist: Sub-Figura vel Liber Babalon (ca. 1998)
Jack Parsons JPL's Sorcerous Scientist[1. V.H. Fra. B.R.H., B:.B:. (n.d. ). Liber Babalon Liber VI Publication in Class B An Holy Observer of the Babalon Bunch©. www.brotherblue.org. Retrieved 8 July 2010 from http://web.archive.org/web/19980424201950/http://www.brotherblue.org/brethren/parsons3.htm] "The [Babalon] Working began in 1945-46, a few months before Crowley's death in 1947, and just prior to the wave of unexplained aerial phenomena now recalled as the 'Great Flying Saucer … [Read more...] about Article: Jack Parsons JPL’s Sorcerous Scientist: Sub-Figura vel Liber Babalon (ca. 1998)
Book chapter: Black Magic ‘n Betty: Sub-Figura vel Liber Babalon (1997)
Chapter Seven Black Magic and Betty[1. V.H. Fra. B.R.H., B:.B:. (n.d. ). Liber Babalon Liber VI Publication in Class B An Holy Observer of the Babalon Bunch©. www.brotherblue.org. Retrieved 8 July 2010 from http://web.archive.org/web/19980424210004/www.brotherblue.org/brethren/hubbard6.htm], [1. Excerpt from Barefaced Messiah: http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm] "Hubbard broke up black magic in America... because he was well known as a writer and philosopher and … [Read more...] about Book chapter: Black Magic ‘n Betty: Sub-Figura vel Liber Babalon (1997)
Book: The Beast 666 by John Symonds (1997)
In the spring of 1945, Parsons met a new aspirant to the Great Work, a young man called Ron Hubbard. Hubbard's magical potential was very great and he made a considerable impression upon the members of Agapé Lodge, especially on Betty, the mistress of Dr Parsons; she soon found herself sleeping with him. Frater 210 (Dr Parsons) was not unduly upset about this; for he had decided to follow even more closely in the Beast's footsteps and find, by magical means, a Scarlet Woman, his own true … [Read more...] about Book: The Beast 666 by John Symonds (1997)