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A brilliant scientist, passionate poet, and political dissident, Jack Parsons (1914-1952) was one of the most enigmatic figures in history. In Sex and Rockets, John Carter divulges the life of a genius and self-proclaime… More >>
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A brilliant scientist, passionate poet, and political dissident, Jack Parsons (1914-1952) was one of the most enigmatic figures in history. In Sex and Rockets, John Carter divulges the life of a genius and self-proclaime… More >>
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While everyone knows that the early days of rocket science were full of good CHRISTIAN PATRIOTIC MEN like Werner Von Braun, this book lays out the very scary case that one of the pioneers of rocket science, indeed, one of the VERY FOUNDERS of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was NOT a CHRISTIAN at all, and was, in fact, a WORSHIPPER OF SATAN, and, a fanatical follower of one of the wickedest men of the entire 20th century! According to this book, Jack Parsons even tried to create his OWN SCARLET WOMAN (Rotting Goddess: The Origins of the Witch in Classical Antiquity), with whome to conceive a “magical childe” (a supreme BLASPHEME if I ever heard one). He is alledged to have commited SEX ACTS which would shock even the most hardened LIBERAL HOMOSEXUAAL, and then proceded to try to sell AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SECRETS to the ISRAEL Government when the jews were trying to get a leg-up! His sickness was finaly put an end to when he (OR GOD) blew Himself up inside his own home, in a laboratory in his garden shed while handeling rocket fuel. (Talk about the SPARK OF DIVINE JUSTICE.) Altogether a disquieting, disturbing tale of one of the lesser known, but more improtant (if the aurther is to be believed) pioneers of what would become NASA. CHILLING.
Rating: 2 / 5
Firstly, the American space race owed as more to ex-Nazi rocket scientists such as Werner Von Braun who were smuggled into America at the end of WWII. The moon rocket was a direct descendant of the V2 flying bomb.
Secondly, using some of the same Nazi technology, and the remainder of their scientists, the Russians managed to beat the USA into space and orbit. They managed to break ahead in the space race when the USA was still crawling. Only some years after Parsons’ death did the USA manage to overtake the Soviets.
Thirdly, Parsons’ working career was relatively short since he died young, and he didn’t achieve a vast amount in it compared to his peers inside (and OUTSIDE – let’s not be America-centric) America. His rocket fuel had already been superceded by the time Americans got into space… it had proven to be too dangerous. In fact, this “revolutionary” rocket fuel may have been what killed him
Fourthly, Parsons was also incredibly gullible and got sucked in by various religious con artists and cult leaders. This is what makes him interesting to people into the occult and obscure.
Parsons is only a small footnote in space science. His most major contribution was giving his name to a crater.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am reading it. Very nice book for an astonishing character, who is ignored by history books
Rating: 5 / 5
Clearly Parsons was a fascinating character, and yet ‘John Carter’ manages to be boring. The seemingly endless recitations of the minutiae of various arcane rituals, the terms used without any reference, all wears on you after a while. In the end I took away no novel information about Parsons’s occult beliefs or whether/how it related to his engineering skill, only the strong impression that he was a gullible sort of man who’d believe anything, an easy mark for con artists like Crowley and Hubbard. I’m not sure that’s a fair reading of his character, or just a byproduct of a tedious and unsuccessful biography.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book examines in detail the life of Jack Parsons, friend of Alister Crowley and rocket scientist of Jet Propulsion Labratory fame. Lots of juicy details! The author appears to have more than a passing knowledge of Thelema, as he can explain and embellish on ceremonial material with ease. Fascinating information on a legendary man!
Rating: 5 / 5