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- any mundane soul would be unceremoniously rejected.” The reason was obvious, for Parsons and
his associates were heavily into drunkenness, illegal drugs, all manner of sexual degeneracy, and
Satanic worship.

The Agape Lodge soon came under investigation by both the Pasadena Police Department and the
FBI. Both had received allegations of a "black magic cult" involved in sexual orgies; one
complainant was a 16-year-old boy who claimed that he was raped by lodge members... Having been
a long-term heavy-user of alcohol and marijuana, Parsons now habitually used cocaine,
amphetamines, peyote, mescaline and opiates as well. He continued to have sexual relations with
multiple women...
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)]

Parsons immoral behavior included having sexual relations with the fiancee of a young Caltech
student he had persuaded to embrace Thelema. Parsons paid for the young woman to have an
abortion, which ended his friendship with the young man. Jack’s use of all manner of illegal drugs
was becoming well known. In the February 21, 1943 edition of the O.T.O. journal which the Agape
Lodge published, Parsons published the following poem which he authored.

I height Don Quixote, I live on peyote,
marijuana, morphine and cocaine,
I never know sadness, but only a madness
that burns at the heart and the brain.
I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman,
angelic, demonic, divine.
Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
that brims with ambrosial wine

Parsons’ life had become one of tremendous dissipation. He had cast away self-control and moral
restraint, and was living a life of manic licentiousness. By December of 1944, the Caltech linked
employees of JPL forced Parsons out of the company, deeming his occult activities to be a disgrace,
and his debauched lifestyle a reproach on the company. In the following years until his mysterious
death in 1952 at the age of 37, Parsons would work in an array of jobs. For a time he was able to
continue obtaining government contracts in the field of rocketry, but the FBI was hounding him and
he eventually lost his security clearance due to his “subversive character” and his advocacy of
“sexual perversion” in the O.T.O..

He would fall on hard times financially, eventually selling his mansion to a developer with the
agreement that he could continue to live in the apartment above the garage. He made bootleg
nitroglycerin to earn money, worked as a car mechanic, took employment as a manual laborer at a
gas station, and for two years was a faculty member at the University of Southern California’s
Department of Pharmacology. The only consistent thing during these latter years of his life was his
continued involvement in Satanic practices.

Still involved in Thelema in 1945, and remaining in possession of his mansion, Jack Parsons
continued his dark lifestyle. When his wife Helen, also a willing participant in their Satanic lifestyle,
went out of town for a time, Jack began having sexual relations with his wife’s 17 year old sister