08-31-2012, 04:37 AM
Quote:It was in 1942, the same year Parsons was appointed as head of the Agapé Lodge by Aleister Crowley (who himself had studied chemistry), that Parsons made the crucial breakthrough in the development of rocket solid fuel. Following intuition, Parsons switched from black powder to asphalt and potassium perchlorate
HA!
I forgot that Crowley and Hubbard knew of each other. I swear, one day I'm gonna make a mind-map of all the different cross-connections complete with the ideas they got from each other, and I have the strange feeling that that might finally blow my mind.