Jack Parsons, a brilliant rocket engineer, was hired by the US government in the 1940s to advance rocket technology, with the goal of exploring space. In 1938, he met Ernest Donovan, a follower of Aleister Crowley, who introduced him to the occult and the principle "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
Jack Parsons, a janitor by day and moon-bound rocket enthusiast by night, nav...