June 01, 2005

Ordo Templi Orientis

John Whiteside Parsons embodied the supposedly counter-intuitive intersection of three related currents in the southern California culture of the '30s: Ritual Magick, Science Fiction and Rocket Science. It's about time someone wrote a book about him. More here.

Posted by Dr. Frank at June 1, 2005 02:04 AM | TrackBack
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I wonder if his "meanderings" coincidentally predicted the fall of V2 rockets?

Posted by: Fcb at June 1, 2005 03:25 PM

Here's a good capsule bio of Mr. Parsons:

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/mad-science/jack-parsons/

Posted by: Don at June 2, 2005 07:00 AM