#Thelema

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Aleister Crowley English occultist who headed the Ordo Templi Orientis from 1921 to 1947, wrote for German propaganda journals in New York in 1915 and claimed to have done so for British intelligence.
Jack Parsons Self-taught Pasadena chemist who co-founded the GALCIT rocket group and Aerojet, led the OTO's Agape Lodge, was investigated by the FBI in 1950, and died in a garage explosion on June 17, 1952.
L. Ron Hubbard Pulp author and Naval Reserve lieutenant who partnered with Jack Parsons in the 1946 Babalon Working, published Dianetics in 1950, founded Scientology, and whose Guardian's Office officials were convicted of infiltrating federal agencies.
Marjorie Cameron Iowa-born painter and former Navy WAVE who married Jack Parsons in 1946 after the Babalon Working, was present at his fatal explosion in 1952, and later appeared in films by Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington.

Agape Lodge California lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis, named in 1935 under Wilfred Talbot Smith and led from 1943 by Jack Parsons, whose Pasadena house drew FBI and Army counterintelligence inquiries.
Ordo Templi Orientis Occult fraternal order headed by Aleister Crowley from 1921 to 1947, investigated by federal agents in 1919 and the 1940s, and plaintiff in the 1985 federal judgment on its name and Crowley's copyrights.

Babalon Working Series of Enochian and sexual-magic rituals performed in Pasadena from January 4 to March 4, 1946 by Jack Parsons, with L. Ron Hubbard as scribe and seer, to incarnate the Thelemic goddess Babalon.