WEBVTT - S03 Episode 1: We Are The Witchcraft (Pt. 3 of 3) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.920 Please be aware the following episode contained some adult themes. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:20.759 You're listening to unexplained with me, Richard McClean smith, We 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:29.960 are the Witchcraft, Part three. The man introduced himself as 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.400 Captain Hubbard, though Jack could call him Ron, he said, 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.240 flashing a wide wolfish grin as he buttoned up his shirt. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.120 Ron had just been showing some of the other guests 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.680 his battle scars when Jack walked into the kitchen. It 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.479 was the squeals of delight coming from the small crowd 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.320 surrounding the enigmatic guest that had first drawn Jack's attention, 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.240 as Ron repeated for his host, those scars just below 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.320 his ribs were from the arrows he had taken after 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.720 being attacked by a local tribe while journeying through the 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:09.080 South American jungle. Ron, it turned out, was quite the explorer, 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.399 as he went on to reveal having once come face 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.959 to face with a polar bear whilst sailing round the 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.840 Aleutian Islands of Alaska. He had apparently lassued the excitable 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.640 creature after it leaped onto the ship from a nearby 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.520 ice flow. Only after it had succeeded in chasing half 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.160 the crew off the vessel, had Ron finally been able 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.680 to bring it down. Jack could only laugh at the 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:37.240 audacity of it all that evening, as the party continued 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.160 late into the night, Hubbard entertained all with the extraordinary 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.720 tales of his daring adventures. For Jack, like many of 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.680 those who had been fortunate to escape the fighting, it 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.160 was Hubbard's war stories that excited the most, and Ron 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.120 was only too happy to oblige, telling the guests about 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.120 the one time he commanded anti submarine vessels off the 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.560 coast of Californy and had sunk at least two Japanese submarines. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.280 Though he wasn't at liberty to divulge much about his 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.040 counter intelligence work, the thirty four year old naval officer 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.120 was able to reveal that he was currently on medical 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.600 leave due to injuries sustained whilst escaping the island of 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.760 Java on a raft he had built himself, including being 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:27.240 shot and breaking his foot. In truth, there had been 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.240 no sunken submarines or lassud polar bears, much less a 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.200 courageous escape from Java, but Hubbard was never one to 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.520 let the truth get in the way of a good story. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.440 Though some were less taken by Hubbard's incredible yarns. Whether 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.040 he truly believed the tales or not, Jack recognized a 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:50.760 kindred spirit that night. As a prolific author of science 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.720 fiction and fantasy stories writing under the name l. Ron Hubbard, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:03:00.680 Jack was well acquainted with his work. Hubbard's stories centered 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.720 on supercharged men with extraordinary powers of the mind, which 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.280 reminded Jack of the teachings of Thelama and Alister Crowley's 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:12.800 concept of magic as the mastery of will. Meeting the 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:17.840 magnetic Ron in person only cemented parsons suspicions that Hubbard 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:23.160 was a man of innate magical prowess. Ron, in return, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.520 was pleased to finally meet the refined rocket scientist that 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.360 he had heard so much about, and was only too 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.000 happy to take Jack up on his offer to see 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.320 out the rest of his leave at one zero zero 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:39.800 three Orange Grove Avenue. A few days later, Ron duly 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.760 returned to the house, driving an old, beat up packard 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.760 and towing a small trailer behind with all his worldly possessions, 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.960 ready to join the many new inhabitants of the Agape Lodge. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.400 It was September nineteen forty five, and the occupants had 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.200 much changed in the last few years. Things had much 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:09.800 changed for two by the beginning of nineteen forty three, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.320 as global war intensified and the business of rocket science 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.279 was swept up in the USA's burgeoning military industrial complex. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.680 Jack's position at both air Jet and as a founding 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.440 member of the Gausit Rocket research team was becoming untenable. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.400 Five and a half thousand miles away, an extraordinary discovery 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.800 was about to come to light that would change the 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.400 industry forever and usher a final end to Jack's involvement 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:40.560 with the Gausit team. Inside the imposing Trent House, a 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.400 vast country home overlooking some eight hundred acres of parkland 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.720 on the northern edge of London, fifty or so German 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.000 army generals and high ranking officers were living out their 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:55.680 days as British prisoners of war in extreme comfort. Unlike 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.200 many of their compatriots, due to their military status, these 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.240 prisoners had not not only been put up in a 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.320 stately home, but had also been granted servants, as well 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:10.520 as access to entertainment, fine wine, and expensive food. So 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.320 surprised were they by their treatment, the prisoners often wrote 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.120 home to boast of their luck and laugh at the 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.680 weakness and stupidity of the British government for allowing them 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:25.200 such luxuries. What they didn't know, however, was that every 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.880 word that the prisoners uttered was being recorded, thanks to 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.960 a vast network of microphones that had been rigged up 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.599 throughout the house, hidden in everything from lampshades to the 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.680 underside of a billiard's table, threaded below carpets and into 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.839 the walls. In a secret room, a group of Jewish 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.599 Germans who had been forced to flee their home country 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:54.080 sat carefully listening to everything. One overheard conversation caused some confusion, 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.160 at first, having something to do with the secret weapons 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.240 manufacturing facility in the industrial town of Pina Munda in 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:06.160 northern Germany. One general was recorded discussing a weapon the 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.599 likes of which couldn't possibly exist, a fourteen meter high 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.280 rocket that could travel at three and a half thousand 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.479 miles per hour and deliver a ton of explosives over 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:21.040 a distance of more than two hundred kilometers. He claimed 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.200 that such a rocket would be ready to launch at 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.640 the United Kingdom within months. It was known as the 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.080 V two. When the British Royal Air Force carried out 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.680 a covert reki to the region a few days later, 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:39.080 they were shocked to discover it was all true. Back 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.240 in Pasadena at Caltech, when news arrived from US intelligence 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.960 of the German rocket program. The scientists were utterly stunned, 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:52.280 and the US government equally so. Finally understanding the rocket's 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.120 potential as a war machine, the United States military tasked 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.760 the Gaust team with developing an equivalent rocket of their own, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.320 offering three million dollars if they could do it within 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:10.040 a year, and in that moment everything changed. The group 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:15.040 was substantially reorganized, adopting a far more professional approach, starting 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.480 with the changing of its name to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.320 Though Jack would continue to conduct experiments for the newly 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.080 formed j p L and his company, Aerojet. With so 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.520 much money and new personnel entering the business, not to 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.080 mention the concerns over his style of work and his 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:38.320 private life, he was fast becoming surplus to requirements. When 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.239 the Navy up to their JATO order to twenty thousand, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.520 it was clear to Andy Hayley, who had been drafted 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.520 in to manage the company, that the business of rockets 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.520 was fast outgrowing them. In the autumn of nineteen forty four, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.880 Haley convinced the wealthy General Hire and Rubber Company to 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.840 step in and take over on the one cond that 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.640 Jack Parsons and Ed Foreman be removed from the business. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.160 Having started the company along with Frank Malina, Martin Summerfield 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.640 and Theodore von Carmen less than a decade ago at 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.559 a cost of two hundred and fifty dollars each, both 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.480 Parsons and Foremen were persuaded to sell their shares in 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.920 the company for eleven thousand dollars. By the turn of 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.800 nineteen forty five, at the age of thirty and thirty two, respectively, 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:33.080 Jack and Ed's rocketing career was over. Within fifteen years, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:45.240 those shares would be worth ninety million dollars in today's money. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.440 Although Jack was doubtless upset by the manner in which 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.199 it had all come to an end, he remained resolute 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.040 that together he and Ed would continue their work in 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.200 one capacity or another. But more importantly, he now had 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.520 more time to dedicate to his magic. With the sale 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.720 of his shares, Jack promptly bought the lodge house, which 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.160 he had only been renting up till then, and in 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.040 which much had changed over the last few years. Two 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.440 In early nineteen forty three, Parson's wife Helen, together with 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.439 the head of the Agape Lodge, Wilfred Smith, had borne 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.560 a son. However, both had been forced to leave the 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.280 home after Alister Crowley decided to remove Smith as head 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.600 of the organization due to his concerns that the members 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:34.200 of the lodge cared more about sexual gratification than the 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:38.480 true teachings of Thelama. It was Crowley's hope that Jack 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.920 would take over and restore the group's focus, and for 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:47.080 a time it worked. Although a reluctant leader, not wanting 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.960 to betray his friend Smith, Jack soon embraced his new role, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.760 converting his bedroom into the house temple and leading the 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.960 Gnostic Mass with his lover Betty by his side in 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.720 place of Regina Carl who i had also left the 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.880 house having been left heartbroken by Smith and Helen's relationship. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.800 A house resident and senior member of the Agape Lodge, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.640 Jane Wolfe, soon grew concerned, however, that Parson's interests were 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:19.439 not entirely in the group's best interests. For the rebellious 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.080 anti authoritarian Jack, as much as he was sympathetic to 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.520 the philosophy of Thelama, for him It had always been 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:31.000 about the magic, the things that Alice to Crowley claimed 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.760 to have conjured up with the ancient spells. All the 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.720 ritual and the gathering of knowledge was merely a means 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.320 to an end. But for the impatient Jack, the end 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.840 was taking too long. Soon he was consulting the feigned 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:50.360 Lesser Key of Solomon and the ars Goetier, searching for clues. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.600 As Wolfe had suspected, he was dabbling in black magic. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:02.400 But Jack couldn't operate alone. Concerned what his fellow Thelamites, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.120 would think, one night, he turned to the ever faithful Ed, 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.120 who was then staying at the lodge, to assist him. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.920 Although Ed kept only a passing interest in Jack's esoteric fixations, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.200 he was more than happy to help him out, even 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.600 if he did find the whole thing a little silly. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.080 That night, in Jack's bedroom, the pair chalked out cymbals 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.640 on the floor under the flickering light of candles, before 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.800 Jack instructed Ed on how to take the pyote. Ed 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.920 then sat back and listened to Jack as he read 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.640 from the old books, chanting strange incantations into the air. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.960 After a few hours, however, when nothing had occurred, the 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.160 pair decided to call it a night, but as Ed 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.280 made his way back to his bedroom, the whole house 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.920 began to shake in terror. Foreman ran to his room, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.520 only to be confronted with the ific cacophony of shrieking 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:06.560 voices coming from outside his window. Uncovering his ears, he 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:11.280 pulled back the curtain to find three terrifying entities floating outside, 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:18.559 their grotesque faces contorted and mouths wide open. In a scream, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.679 Ed bolted from the room and ran into two residents 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:26.440 talking quietly amongst themselves. Neither had heard the screams, but 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.880 both recognized the entities that Ed said he had seen. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.719 They were screaming banshees, they said, a warning of a 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:41.680 coming death. By nineteen forty five, only Jack, the twenty 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.960 year old Betty, and Jane Wolfe remained at the property 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.959 as genuine followers of Thelema, with Wolfe soon to follow 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:54.080 Carl In moving out. When Carl died unexpectedly early in 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.480 the new year, something of the old order had irrevocably shifted. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.199 May the United States government and its allies celebrated victory 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.319 in Europe with the fall of Berlin and the subsequent 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.679 surrender of the German Army War was coming to an end, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.200 and whether it was the coming of Horace or not, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:20.120 a new age was undoubtedly dawning. Such was the air 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:24.160 of secrecy that surrounded the Manhattan Project. Even those like 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.520 Jack and most of his former colleagues at Caltech had 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.960 not quite been prepared for the power that was soon 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.280 to be unleashed over the sands of the New Mexico Desert. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.080 In nineteen oh four, Alister Crowley had received word from 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.920 his guardian angel that Horace would deliver a war engine 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.320 with which the peoples will be smited and none shall 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:50.760 be left standing, and from the ashes something new will arise. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:57.079 On July sixteenth, nineteen forty five, that engine was delivered, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.640 with the force of almost nineteen thousand tons of t 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.680 n T. We knew the world would not be the same. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:14.400 A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:21.760 were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:28.920 the bag of ad Ghita. Vishnu is trying to persuade 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:35.360 the prince that he should do his duty, and to 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:41.520 impress him takes on his multi armed form, who says, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:48.560 now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds the 0:14:48.600 --> 0:15:03.120 atomic age had arrived. When it was revealed the following 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.480 month that the Japanese city of Hiroshima had been wiped 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.360 out by one single bomb, it was more clear than 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.240 ever to Jack that if the Age of Horace was 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.880 upon us, it was being dominated by its more destructive 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:21.400 masculine urges and was leading the world toward catastrophe. A 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.640 new force would be required to neutralize it, and a 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.440 strong ally was needed to help invoke it. But Jack 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.840 wouldn't be able to rely on Ed this time, who 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:36.280 had been left traumatized by their last experiment. Grady McMurty, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.320 whose letter of distress to Alister Crowley had resulted in 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.080 Smith's ousting as the Agape Lodge leader, returned from military 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.600 service to find things little changed on Orange Grove Avenue. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.160 Having met Crowley in person during his travels through Europe, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.120 Crowley had once again asked him to keep a close 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:58.040 eye on proceedings at the lodge. If Crowley had been 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:04.480 hoping for greater order, would be sorely disappointed. Without full 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.640 time employment, Jack decided to rent a number of rooms 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:11.000 out to keep a steady income. He placed an ad 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.840 in a local paper requesting applicants must not believe in God, 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:20.840 and that only bohemians, musicians, atheists, anarchists, and artists need apply. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.520 Although a few ot O members answered Jack's request, most 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.440 of the residents that Jack and Betty hand picked were 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.800 chosen for what they would bring to the social mix. 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.760 By the time Ron Hubbard turned up to stay, some 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.600 twenty people had moved in, such as scientist Robert Kornock, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.120 who had assisted on the Manhattan Project, and future leading 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.280 journalist Nis and Himmel, as well as a number of 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:52.120 fortune tellers and enigmatic socialites. All were enamored with Jack, 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.880 and all were intent on taking complete advantage of each 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:01.080 other's company. Jack enjoyed theirs, too, but none more so 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.840 than Hubbard's, who continued to impress Parsons with his raw 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:10.080 magical capabilities. As Jack instructed Ron on the finer teachings 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.520 of Thelama, Ron in turn shared his own ideas about 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.800 how to rescue the human race from self destruction. It 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.240 quickly became clear that Hubbard might well be the magical 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:34.240 partner that Parsons had been looking for. One morning in September, 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:38.199 Robert Kornock walked into Jack's room and found Hubbard in 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:44.160 bed with Betty. As practitioners of Thelama, Jack, who continued 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.639 to experiment with other partners, had encouraged Betty to do 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.320 the same. In a way, they saw it as testament 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.600 to their love that they could transcend the petty jealousies 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.080 of conventional relationships and still find their way to each 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.920 other by the end of the day. That was until 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.679 she met Hubbard. Although it had all been obvious to 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.240 many of the residents, Jack had not seen it coming. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.680 Hubbard left the house a few weeks later and booked 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.960 himself into a hospital, claiming to be suffering from terrible 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.919 pains caused by his war injuries. It was in fact 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.200 a stomach ulcer, which he was intent on fully exploiting 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.000 in the hope of being granted a pension from the Navy. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.199 Despite Hubbard now having gone, Betty no longer came to 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.520 Jack's bed, and watching her pine for the absent writer 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:42.919 only served to intensify his heartache. Late one night, lodge 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.840 resident Alva Rodger's was woken by a strange, ominous noise 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:52.120 that sounded like death. Stepping into the hall, he could 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.560 see that Jack's door was slightly ajar with the flickering 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:59.520 of candle light coming from within. Having never had the 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.240 chance to see inside Jack's room and worried for its occupant, 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:09.400 Roger's tiptoed across the hall and peered inside. The room 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:14.240 was painted black and covered in bizarre cymbals. Thick and 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.720 sweet incense filled the air, and in the middle of it, all, 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.920 robed in black, with his arms stretched out, stood Jack 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.639 at the altar of the gnostic Mass. At his feet 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.359 was a large pentagram that he had drawn on the floor. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.320 As Rogers continued to gorp, he realized that the groaning 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:39.119 was in fact chanting, indecipherable words that Jack repeated over 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:45.520 and over again. A few days later, a strange atmosphere 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:49.840 had descended over the lodge, with Rogers noticing a number 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:54.240 of OTO members variously rushing about the house in great distress. 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.399 Jane Wolf, who visited at the time, was prompted to 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.920 write to Crowley, deeply concerned that there was something strange 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:07.240 going on. Although it wasn't clear what Jack had apparently summoned, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:13.520 Some suspected a demon, others an elemental Whatever had occurred 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.119 had changed him for the better. When Hubbard returned in 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:22.280 early December, Jack welcomed him with open arms, making no 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.800 effort to stand in his and Betty's way. What's more, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:32.720 he had finally realized what he had to do. Are 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.680 you always taking care of your family? 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Yet, if the adept can 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.040 successfully negotiate the abyss, they will find Babylon waiting to 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:15.920 embrace them on the other side. The Book of Revelation 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:20.080 declared Babylon the mother of harlots and abominations of the Earth, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:25.840 a female personification of evil and depravity. To Crowley, however, 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:31.280 she represented the counterpart to his beast, a passive, lustful receiver, 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:35.840 subduing the strength of whomever she lies with, completing oneness. 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:41.800 To Parsons, she was much more like the sword wielding 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:45.840 Virgin of the Gnostic Mass. Parsons considered Babylon to be 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:51.480 anything but passive. As poet and cultural theorist Amy Ireland 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:55.920 puts it, Parsons saw the purpose of Babylon not as 0:22:55.920 --> 0:23:00.520 the nullifier of the masculine world, but its conqueror, destined 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.280 to bring an end to his world. She was the 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:08.399 flame of life and power of darkness, who will feed 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:14.680 upon the death of men beautiful horrible. This was whom 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:18.640 Jack needed to summon, and he would need Hubbard's help 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:25.240 to do so. Inspired by the sixteenth century magician and 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:29.960 adviser to Queen Elizabeth, the First, Doctor John D. Parsons 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:33.240 devised a plan for a magical working that would combine 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:39.359 Crowley's own magic with D's Inochian magic. Sometime during the 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:44.640 fifteen eighties, D, along with his seer Edward Kelly, undertook 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:48.159 a series of scrying sessions, whereby they claimed to have 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:53.280 made contact with angelic entities. Over the course of nearly 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:57.960 a decade, the pair received communication of a secret magical language, 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:00.320 which was delivered to them in a sea series of 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:04.160 mystical tables comprising what D considered to be the Real 0:24:04.240 --> 0:24:07.760 Book of Enoch, a fabled text said to hold the 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:12.719 secrets of the true reality of things. Since Crowley had 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:16.680 written often of his success in using Anochian magic, it 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.919 was through D's tablets that Parsons hoped to invoke the 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:27.560 Goddess Babylon on January fourth, nineteen forty six, as Prokofiev's 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:32.320 Violin Concerto Number two played gently in the background. Parsons 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:36.399 and Hubbard prepared the magical squares, comprised of four twelve 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:42.280 by thirteen tables of Anchian symbols, and consumed piote. By 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:45.840 nine PM, as the slightest sliver of a waxing crescent 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:49.920 moon rose high into the sky, the pair were ready 0:24:49.920 --> 0:25:05.680 to begin the Babylon working. Parsons picked his first square 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:09.200 from the Inochian tablets, and starting at the upper right 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:12.439 hand point, drew a pentagram in the air with the 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:16.840 magic dagger, followed by the invocation of the bornless One. 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:21.880 I invoke the bornless one, that dist create the earth 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:26.119 and heavens, that dist create the night and day, that 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:32.000 dist create the darkness and the light. The process continued 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:35.080 long into the evening, with each invocation of the square 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:39.640 culminating in the fertilizing of the parchment bearing the relevant symbol, 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:47.399 by ritual masturbation, and finally banishment. The working lasted for 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:50.840 eleven days in total, during which a number of strange 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:56.119 occurrences took place. On the tenth, Jack was awoken in 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:59.359 the night by the sound of nine loud knocks and 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:02.240 the smashing of a lamp thrown violently to the floor. 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:07.720 Four days later, the power in the house inexplicably cut out. 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:12.280 As Hubbard prepared candles to continue the operation, he was 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:16.359 struck forcibly on his right arm by something unseen, knocking 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:20.880 a candle from his hand. Jack found him wincing in pain, 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:25.080 staring up at a mysterious brownish yellow light that seemed 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:28.960 to hang seven feet in the air. According to Hubbard, 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:31.720 his arm remained paralyzed for the rest of the night. 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:38.320 By January fifteenth, however, despite the peculiar events and Hubbard's 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:41.800 insistence that he had seen various manifestations about the house, 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:48.040 the Goddess Babylon had failed to materialize. Three days later, 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:51.639 a disconsolate Jack made his way into the Mahave Desert, 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:55.400 accompanied by Hubbard, looking for guidance on how to proceed. 0:26:57.680 --> 0:27:01.000 Jack had a favorite spot underneath the confluence of two 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:04.360 vast power lines, where he would often sit and practice 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:08.720 his magic. That morning, as Jack sat tuning into the 0:27:08.720 --> 0:27:11.560 electric hum of the wires while the pink light of 0:27:11.560 --> 0:27:15.280 the desert sun rose above the horizon, he was struck 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:20.280 by a profound sense of certainty. Turning to Hubbard, he declared, 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:25.399 it is done. Just before New Year, at the lodge, 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:28.520 Parsons had been talking on the phone in his dressing 0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:32.320 gown when he spied a stranger wandering around the house. 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:37.080 The red haired woman, who had recently been demobilized by 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:40.240 the Navy, had come looking for the mad scientist that 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:44.480 a friend had told her was living there. Jack disappeared 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:47.960 to get dressed, returning a few moments later to find 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:51.000 the woman playing records in a small alcove off the 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:55.119 main hall. The pair regarded each other for a moment 0:27:55.520 --> 0:28:00.440 before Jack abruptly left. When he returned from his elatery 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:03.679 trip to the desert, that same woman was waiting for 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:14.680 him at the house. The woman was twenty three year 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:21.400 old Marjorie Cameron, also known as Candy. Born in Belleplaine, Iowa. 0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:24.560 Cameron was a talented artist who had moved to Los 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:28.920 Angeles hoping to further her work. Unbeknownst to her at 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:32.480 the time, to Parsons, she was the missing link to 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:37.000 completing the Babylon working the elemental he had been trying 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:41.800 to summon back in December. With Cameron, Parsons hoped to 0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:44.840 conceive the very goddess he had been trying to deliver 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:49.600 to Earth. The pair spent the best part of the 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:53.720 next two weeks in bed together, before Cameron traveled to 0:28:53.760 --> 0:28:57.240 New York to break up with a recent boyfriend, returning 0:28:57.320 --> 0:29:02.360 in March to move in with Jack. In the meantime, 0:29:02.640 --> 0:29:05.680