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Episode 290 - Jack Parsons: The Occultist Sex-Crazed Father of Modern Rocketry

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Jack Parsons' Black Magic Activities

Parsons was stripped of his security clearances due to his subversive character and sexual perversions during his time at OTO. He married Marjorie Cameron still under the firm belief that she was the goddess Babylon, who he'd summoned by jizzing onto magical tablets. They moved into a house together in Manhattan Beach, and Jack began working as an expert consultant in army ordinance investigations regarding explosions. By this stage in the game, he'd become pretty distant from the defunct OTO, but he stayed in touch with Crowley until his death in December 1947 - same year Cold War began.

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