Thank you for the Secret Sun link. At one time this kind of stuff was what RI was all about.
LASHTAL or The Aleister Crowley Society is fairly objective about Crowley (magick is a component but not the basis of content) and also has related material and other related subjects and persons, for example Jack Parsons, Spare, Grant, Chumley, RAW, all the Scarlet women, etc.
https://www.lashtal.com/Jack ParsonsJohn Whiteside "Jack" Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons;[nb 1] October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant, and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets.
https://www.lashtal.com/forums/john-whiteside-parsons/Regards Parsons, I prefer Sex and Rockets over Strange Angel as a biography and have not watched the Strange Angel film. The Unknown God - WT Smith and the Thelmites also has material on Parsons, Smith becoming the head of the OTO order previously headed by Parsons until Crowley sent him to the Mojave on permanent retreat. Also have The Principals of Astrology by Crowley and Adams. Evangeline Adams was the first American newspaper astrology. Crowley ghost wrote her books. This 2002 Weiser book presents the Crowley manuscripts as originally presented to Adams and associated history (and is edited by HA of the OTO).
Mr. Crowley, Do You Like My White House?This quaint little house in Hebron once hosted the Wickedest Man Alive
June 10, 2020 J.W. Ocker
The Evangeline Adams House, in Hebron. Photo by J.W. OckerIt’s a quaint little house by a quaint little church in a quaint little town in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, and it would be impossible to know just by looking at it that it once hosted the Wickedest Man Alive and sheltered all manner of magical shenanigans. But it did.
Aleister Crowley was born in England in 1875. He was a famous occultist, media personality and libertine. But in the summer of 1916, he needed a vacation – except he called it a magical retirement, because a man like him would never do anything so mundane as vacation. He chose Hebron, New Hampshire, to get away from it all because he had an acquaintance there, a psychic by the name of Evangeline Adams.
He stayed at her cabin and read, wrote, and thought about the universe, canoed on what was then known as Lake Pasquany and is now Newfound Lake, crucified and ate a frog, performed a ritual designed to end Christianity, was visited by a phantom fireball, started to formulate his Star Sponge vision, in which he postulated that the universe is “nothingness with twinkles,” and practiced some sex magick.
It was good times there in that little cabin in the summer of 1916.
His sojourn in New Hampshire lasted about four months, after which he left refreshed and ready to transgress the social and religious mores of contemporary Western society.
Evangeline Adams’ small house is still around, right on Hebron’s common at 14 Church Ln. beside the matching guest house that was her study. No historical plaque marks what must have been at least New Hampshire’s third or fourth weirdest moment in its history.
https://www.nhmagazine.com/mr-crowley-d ... ite-house/Link from LASHTAL (Aleister Crowley Society) Aleister Crowley was born in England in 1875. He was a famous occultist, media personality and libertine. But in the summer of 1916, he needed a vacation – except he called it a magical retirement, because a man like him would never do anything so mundane as vacation. He chose Hebron, New Hampshire, to get away from it all because he had an acquaintance there, a psychic by the name of Evangeline Adams.
https://www.lashtal.com/mr-crowley-do-y ... -magazine/