From Physics to Witchcraft, Meet Mad-Rocket Scientist: Jack Parsons

Wife Number Three

In 1946, his future wife, Marjorie Cameron, arrived at the lodge. She was voraciously curious about the group and, of course, its mad-scientist leader. The couple went into Parsons’ room, where they performed “sex magic rituals” and barely came out of there for about two weeks. Less than a year later, the two got married.

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But things escalated and got really bad for Parsons. While he was working for Hughes Aircraft Co. in 1951, the FBI revoked his security clearance because of his connection to possible Communists. That’s when an investigation into his “subversive” behavior began. After all, access to qualified information is required when you’re making rockets for the government.

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