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Following some brief involvement with Marxism in 1939, Parsons converted to [[Thelema]], the new religious movement founded by the English occultist [[Aleister Crowley]]. Together with his first wife, Helen Northrup, Parsons joined the Agape Lodge, the Californian branch of the Thelemite [[Ordo Templi Orientis]] (O.T.O.) in 1941. At Crowley's bidding, Parsons replaced Wilfred Talbot Smith as its leader in 1942 and ran the Lodge from his mansion on Orange Grove Boulevard. Parsons was expelled from JPL and Aerojet in 1944 owing to the Lodge's infamous reputation and to his hazardous workplace conduct. | Following some brief involvement with Marxism in 1939, Parsons converted to [[Thelema]], the new religious movement founded by the English occultist [[Aleister Crowley]]. Together with his first wife, Helen Northrup, Parsons joined the Agape Lodge, the Californian branch of the Thelemite [[Ordo Templi Orientis]] (O.T.O.) in 1941. At Crowley's bidding, Parsons replaced Wilfred Talbot Smith as its leader in 1942 and ran the Lodge from his mansion on Orange Grove Boulevard. Parsons was expelled from JPL and Aerojet in 1944 owing to the Lodge's infamous reputation and to his hazardous workplace conduct. | ||
In 1945, Parsons separated from Helen, after having an affair with her sister Sara; when Sara left him for [[L. Ron Hubbard]], Parsons conducted the Babalon Working, a series of rituals intended to invoke the Thelemic goddess Babalon on Earth. He and Hubbard continued the working with Marjorie Cameron, whom Parsons married in 1946. After Hubbard and Sara defrauded him of his life savings, Parsons resigned from the O.T.O., then held various jobs while acting as a consultant for Israel's rocket program. Amid McCarthyism, Parsons was accused of espionage and left unable to work in rocketry. | In 1945, Parsons separated from Helen, after having an affair with her sister Sara; when Sara left him for [[L. Ron Hubbard]], Parsons conducted the [[Babalon Working]], a series of rituals intended to invoke the Thelemic goddess [[Babalon]] on [[Earth]]. He and Hubbard continued the working with Marjorie Cameron, whom Parsons married in 1946. After Hubbard and Sara defrauded him of his life savings, Parsons resigned from the O.T.O., then held various jobs while acting as a consultant for Israel's rocket program. Amid McCarthyism, Parsons was accused of espionage and left unable to work in rocketry. | ||
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