"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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Article: Robert A Heinlein – A Real Science Fiction Author’s Experience with L Ron Hubbard (2014)
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 Heinlein offered Hubbard a contract to rewrite his early (and unpublished) novel, “For Us, the Living” which he had created back in 1938.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 profits. Soon after, he left Hubbard’s home to move in with Jack Parsons, and nothing more was heard of the project. Hubbard had passed up a chance … [Read more...] about 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. 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 Crowley's … [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: The Beast 666 (re: how to attract an elemental) (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 Agape 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 (re: how to attract an elemental) (1997)
Book: The Beast 666 (re: moon child; homunculus; lunar intelligence) (1997)
The Beast was rarely lacking in creativeness; and in the spring of 1917, he turned out in rapid succession essays, and short stories about a detective called 'Simon Iff'. He ascribed his creative ability at this time to the stimulating effect of the old quarter of New Orleans where he was living. 'I wrote day and night continuously — poems, essays and short stories.' He also tried his hand at a longish novel called The Net or The Butterfly Net, the butterfly being the ancient Chinese symbol for … [Read more...] about Book: The Beast 666 (re: moon child; homunculus; lunar intelligence) (1997)