I was browsing Hacker News today and it had Wikipedia articles relevant to our story. So apparently in our reality, one of the cofounders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was a Thelemite, and ran the biggest O.T.O. temple in the world in Pasadena, at the Agape Lodge. The JPL guy, Jack Parsons, never got higher education but really liked lighting stuff on fire. Anyway, at some point he joins the local Thelemite group, really impresses Aleister Crowley, and eventually he leads the group. Because they believe in sex magick and wife swapping and stuff, at some point Jack gets involved with his wife's sister, Sara Northrup. A little while after Crowley's death, Sara gets a divorce.
And then L. Ron Hubbard enters the scene. Seduces Northrup, and convinces Parsons to put a lot of money into a business venture. Hubbard runs away with the wife and the money, and the temple (basically a craftsman house on Orange Grove (you've seen this street if you've watched the Rose Parade)) had to be sold off. This was basically the end of the good days for the O.T.O. Northrup later marries Hubbard, and eventually was able to get a divorce from him after he kidnapped her and her child.
Point being: if Aleister Crowley ends up on our universe, he is not going to like the Scientologists. And I have an interesting setting in the LA area to use.
And then L. Ron Hubbard enters the scene. Seduces Northrup, and convinces Parsons to put a lot of money into a business venture. Hubbard runs away with the wife and the money, and the temple (basically a craftsman house on Orange Grove (you've seen this street if you've watched the Rose Parade)) had to be sold off. This was basically the end of the good days for the O.T.O. Northrup later marries Hubbard, and eventually was able to get a divorce from him after he kidnapped her and her child.
Point being: if Aleister Crowley ends up on our universe, he is not going to like the Scientologists. And I have an interesting setting in the LA area to use.
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