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Additionally the "biography" of Parsons, "Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons", is a great read. https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-

• smacktoward 8y ago
  And because Parsons' life intersected in the late '40s with that of L. Ron Hubbard, he features prominently in Lawrence Wright's excellent history of Scientology Going Clear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear_(book)) as well. Wikipedia summarizes Parsons' and Hubbard's sex-magic collaboration here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)#L._Ron_Hubbard_and_the_Babalon_Working:_1945%E2%80%9346 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)...