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Jack Whiteside Parsons

Born

in The United States

October 02, 1914

Died

June 17, 1952

Genre

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

Influences

Aleister Crowley, Jane Wolfe ...more

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John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons and published as Jack Parsons), was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology. He was one of the principal founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corp. He was also an occultist and one of the first Americans to take a keen interest in the writings of English author and Thelema's founder Aleister Crowley. ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 1,460 ratings · 122 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle, Jack Whiteside Parsons (Contributor/Subject), Frank J. Malina (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 1,592 ratings — published 2005 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter, Robert Anton Wilson (Introduction), Jack Whiteside Parsons (Quoted) 3.71 avg rating — 1,200 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Is A Two Edged Sword (Oriflamme Series) by Jack Whiteside Parsons, Hymenaeus Beta (Editor) 4.34 avg rating — 229 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebels & Devils: The Psychology of Liberation by Christopher S. Hyatt, Lon Milo DuQuette (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), S. Jason Black (Introduction) 3.99 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Writings of Jack Parsons 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Essays on Freedom by Jack Whiteside Parsons, John Whiteside Parsons, Hymenaeus Beta (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magick, Gnosticism & The Witchcraft: Introductory Essays 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Babalon Working 1946: L. Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons, and the Practice of Enochian Magic by Henrik Bogdan, Jack Whiteside Parsons (Contributor), Aleister Crowley (Contributor) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Characteristics of the Rocket Motor and Flight Analyses of the Sounding Rocket by Frank J. Malina, William Bollay (Contributor), Jack Whiteside Parsons (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1940	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition.”
― Jack Whiteside Parsons, Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt

tags: discipline, freedom, self-control, thelema

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“Freedom is a two-edged sword of which one edge is liberty and the other responsibility, on which both edges are exceedingly sharp; and which is not easily handled by casual, cowardly or treacherous hands.”
― Jack Whiteside Parsons

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“Being in love we create love, being in hate we create hate, and, the image of the universe being in ourselves, the love or hate we create acts equally upon us. This is the great pragmatism of Magick.”
― Jack Whiteside Parsons, Freedom Is A Two Edged Sword

tags: magick, thelema

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