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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons Hardcover - 2000
by Carter, John
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- Hardcover
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Details
- Title Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
- Author Carter, John
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 229
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Feral House, Venice, CA
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0922915563I3N00
- ISBN 9780922915569 / 0922915563
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.82 x 5.77 x 0.87 in (22.40 x 14.66 x 2.21 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
In his short 37 years, John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life.By day, Parsons' unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that helped the Allies win World War II and NASA send spacecraft to the moon. Co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corporation, a lunar crater was named after Parsons.By night, Parsons called himself The Antichrist when he performed Aleister Crowley's Thelemic rituals to create a new sort of human being that would finally destroy Christianity.In a Pasadena mansion, the dark, handsome Parsons hosted soirees for the emerging literature of science fiction, visited by writers such as Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and none other than L. Ron Hubbard, who later founded the Church of Scientology. With Hubbard playing his "Scribe", Parsons enacted dark "Babalon" rituals to help foment a new occult age. Jack Parsons died suddenly in a huge, mysterious explosion that even today cannot be definitively explained. Was it murder? Suicide? Or just an accident?
First line
Marvel H. Parsons was from the Boston area, born circa 1894, the son of an egg merchant.