Jack Parsons and the Fall of Babalon

JACK PARSONS AND THE FALL OF BABALON is the first published biography of John Whiteside Parsons, who was a founder of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Corporation. He was also a disciple of "the world's wickedest man", Aleister Crowley. Parsons tried to use sex magick to give birth to a goddess called Babalon. (It didn't work.) Parsons later started calling himself the Antichrist, and died in a mysterious explosion in 1952. Eleven chapters, seven appendices.