I didn’t realize the occult was so big in the depression era. Makes sense, I guess, given what was happening. There’s an interesting profile of Jack Parsons on Wikipedia. I’ve known people like him (and worked for them) — consummate promoter and salesman who can get anybody to buy into a dream, but technically not worth crap.
“I didn’t realize the occult was so big in the depression era.”
Remember, this was LA/Hollywood as the Depression was wearing off for that area.
When, we moved to California on the late 1960’s, we were amazed at the number of non Christians on the west coast from California to Seattle.
Some of those non Christian and often occult people were born during this time period and afterwards were proud of not being Christian.
That behavior spawned the SF Hippie movement in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.