By the mid-1940s the success of Aleister Crowley’s esoteric magickal organisation Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O) was spreading in Los Angeles via the Agape Lodge, its members included influential bankers, lawyers, artists, authors and well known Hollywood actors.

The leader of the Agape Lodge was Jack Parsons, a brilliant young scientist dubbed the ‘James Dean of Cal Tech’. His work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena had seen him heavily involved in the invention of solid rocket fuel, a breakthrough that would ultimately make space travel possible. Yet while his scientific work made him one of the most respected scientists in his field, his fascination with the occult was the presiding belief in his life.

The intention behind O.T.O was to raise man’s consciousness to a higher level, specifically through the use of sex and drugs. Indeed hedonistic pleasures were all-important factors in Crowley’s ‘sex-magick’ rituals, allowing the magus to reach the recesses, or rather the outer limits, of his being.

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