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Jack Parsons: Occultist involved in early rocketry

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Re: Jack Parsons: Occultist involved in early rocketry

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You don't have to apologize to me - you're certainly entitled to your opinion. I disagree with you, though given the circumstances that certainly isn't unexpected. Please bear in mind that the Temple of Thelema (where I assume you found the quote) is one of several Thelemic groups, and do not necessarily speak for everyone. Still I am genuinely curious as to what you find offensive about that particular statement. If…

Perhaps you can refer me to a less doctrinaire viewpoint. I read enough on that site to make it quite clear that the Great Work is the actual book they seem to worship. Regardless, this still seems rather religious, even if some sects are less so. By reinterpreting "great work" it sounds like so many rationalizations of biblical belief.

The 'Great Work' is a term borrowed from Hermetic / Alchemical lore which predates Thelema by at least a thousand years. To understand how it found it's way into Levi's work and into Thelema you need to look back much further and examine to whatever degree you can the Mysteries of the ancient world

perhaps a place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetica

Re: Jack Parsons: Occultist involved in early rocketry

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Has nobody here read "Gravity's Rainbow"? Love and rockets, indeed.

Reading GR gave me a chance to be ultra geeky one evening in one of my fluids classes by correctly identifying a lump of crumpled metal as an A4 fuel pump. I went to college in Bedford which is next door to an RAE R&D station where they brought back captured Nazi tech – and half the course worked at twinwoods. Though I never got to go round the black museum at Cranfield where they had loads of v2 bits - I did see the…

That's what I'm talking about. That's the good stuff.

Re: Jack Parsons: Occultist involved in early rocketry

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..english letter frequency table based remapping did not help me here (and that was the extent of my effort).. I'm beginning to think that this might have been one of those autoironic fourth wall story-narrative-mocking jokes! Did you just pull a Derrida on me? (Thanks for the tvtropes article; it links to another one ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MinovskyPhysics ) which mentions "Schild's ladder"; whi…

It's ROT-13, try this http://web.forret.com/tools/rot13.asp - and a nice way to obfuscate a spoiler.

Ah! I should have known better. ROT-13 for the win!
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