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circa 1952

Correspondence:

   - George Sims to Philip Kaplan

—  January  —

circa January 1952

Correspondence:

   - George Sims to Philip Kaplan

Tuesday, 1 January 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Britannia and Eve

Friday, 4 January 1952

Correspondence:

   - George Sims to Philip Kaplan

Saturday, 5 January 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

News Related to Crowley:

   - Age

Wednesday, 9 February 1952

Diary Entries:

   - Munitions Board Memo - Jack Parsons

- Jack Parsons is notified that, effective 7 January 1952, his security clearance has been revoked by the U.S. Government as the result of his removing seventeen classified documents without authorization from his place of employment, Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, California, on 15 September 1950. [306]

Thursday, 10 January 1952

Current Events:

   - George Cecil Jones is 79 years old.

Saturday, 19 January 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Sphere

Sunday, 20 January 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Straits Times

Tuesday, 22 January 1952

Current Events:

   - Karl Germer is 67 years old.

Wednesday, 30 January 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Western Mail

—  February  —

Friday, 1 February 1952

Correspondence:

   - George Sims to Philip Kaplan

Sunday, 3 February 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Sun

Thursday, 7 February 1952

Diary Entries:

   - F.B.I. Memo - Jack Parsons

   - F.B.I. Memo - Jack Parsons #2

Monday, 11 February 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jack Parsons to Karl Germer

Thursday, 21 February 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Phyllis Seckler

—  March  —

Saturday, 1 March 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

Monday, 3 March 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jack Parsons to Karl Germer

Tuesday, 11 March 1962

- Grady McMurtry writes the poem "Deus Ex Machina."

Wednesday, 12 March 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Sketch

Friday, 21 March 1952

Current Events:

   - Jane Wolfe is 77 years old.

—  April  —

Tuesday, 1 April 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Phyllis Seckler

Saturday, 5 April 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

Wednesday, 9 April 1952

Correspondence:

   - Gerald Yorke to Mr. Skilton

Current Events:

   - Leah Hirsig is 69 years old.

Wednesday, 16 April 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Grady McMurtry

Saturday, 19 April 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Age

Tuesday, 29 April 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jack Parsons to Karl Germer

Wednesday, 30 April 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

—  May  —

Thursday, 1 May 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Alpine Club Journal

Friday, 2 May 1952

Current Events:

   - Aleister Ataturk is 15 years old.

Saturday, 3 May 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Kenneth Grant

Monday, 5 May 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Phyllis Seckler

—  June  —

Tuesday, 3 June 1952

- Jack Parsons and Majorie Cameron visit Jane Wolfe to say goodbye before they leave for Mexico. [7]

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

Monday, 9 June 1952

Current Events:

   - Wilfred Talbot Smith is 67 years old.

Thursday, 12 June 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

Tuesday, 17 June 1952

- Jack Parsons, age 37, dies today as the result of an explosion that occurs while he is mixing chemicals in his workroom. The explosion takes place at 5:08 P.M. at Parsons' home at 1071 South Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, California. Parsons is taken to Huntingdon Memorial Hospital where he is declared dead about 37 minutes after the explosion. [308]

- After being told of Parsons' death, his mother, Ruth, takes her own life by swallowing a bottle of sedatives. She dies at 9:05 P.M. [308]

Wednesday, 18 June 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

News Related to Crowley:

   - Evening World Herald

   - Los Angeles Times

Thursday, 19 June 1952

- The remaining Los Angeles Thelemites come together at Beachwood Drive to remember Jack Parsons and celebrate his "last journey with the sun." Wilfred Talbot Smith presides over the ceremony. Present are Helen Parsons, Jane Wolfe, Georgia Schneider; Ed Forman; Louis Culling, Meeka Aldrich, Maria Prescott and Sara Northrup. [7]

News Related to Crowley:

   - Herald Express

   - Los Angeles Times

   - Pasadena Independent

   - Redlands Daily Facts

   - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Friday, 20 June 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Mirror

Sunday, 22 June 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

Tuesday, 24 June 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

—  July  —

Tuesday, 1 July 1952

- Phyllis Seckler attains the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. 

Correspondence:

   - Phyllis Seckler to Karl Germer

Wednesday, 2 July 1952

Correspondence:

   - George Sims to Philip Kaplan

Monday, 7 July 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Phyllis Seckler

Wednesday, 9 July 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Springfield Union

Wednesday, 16 July 1952

Correspondence:

   - Phyllis Seckler to Karl Germer

Saturday, 19 July 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - New Statesman and Nation

Sunday, 20 July 1952

Correspondence:

   - Phyllis Seckler to Karl Germer

Monday, 21 July 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

—  August  —

Thursday, 7 August 1952

Correspondence:

   - Cecil Williamson to Gerald Yorke

Friday, 8 August 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - New York Times

Wednesday, 13 August 1952

Correspondence:

   - Phyllis Seckler to Karl Germer

News Related to Crowley:

   - People Today

Current Events:

   - Frieda Harris is 75 years old.

Friday, 15 August 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Minneapolis Star

Saturday, 16 August 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

—  September  —

Monday, 1 September 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Sociological Bulletin

Current Events:

   - J.F.C. Fuller is 74 years old.

Friday, 5 September 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Phyllis Seckler

News Related to Crowley:

   - Spectator

—  October  —

Friday, 10 October 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Catholic Advance

Sunday, 12 October 1952

- Karl Germer publishes a reprint of Crowley's The Vision and the Voice.

Tuesday, 14 October 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to J.G. Raymond

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

Saturday, 18 October 1952

Current Events:

   - Grady McMurtry is 34 years old.

Tuesday, 21 October 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Grady McMurtry

Friday, 31 October 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

News Related to Crowley:

   - Courier Mail

—  November  —

Monday, 17 November 1952

Current Events:

   - Israel Regardie is 45 years old.

Thursday, 20 November 1952

- Roy Leffingwell, age 65, dies in his Los Angeles, California home. [304]

Friday, 21 November 1952

Correspondence:

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

Sunday, 23 November 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Oakland Tribune

Tuesday, 25 November 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Phyllis Seckler

   - Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe

—  December  —

Monday, 1 December 1952

Correspondence:

   - Phyllis Seckler to Karl Germer

Saturday, 6 December 1952

Correspondence:

   - Marjorie Cameron to Jane Wolfe

News Related to Crowley:

   - Times Colonist

Sunday, 7 December 1952

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Phyllis Seckler

Monday, 15 December 1952

Correspondence:

   - Marjorie Cameron to Jane Wolfe

Wednesday, 17 December 1952

Current Events:

   - Louis Wilkinson is 71 years old.

Friday, 19 December 1952

Current Events:

   - Gerald Yorke is 51 years old.

Monday, 22 December 1952

Diary Entries:

   - Marjorie Cameron

Tuesday, 23 December 1952

Diary Entries:

   - Marjorie Cameron

Wednesday, 24 December 1952

Diary Entries:

   - Marjorie Cameron

Friday, 26 December 1952

Correspondence:

   - Marjorie Cameron to Jane Wolfe

   - Jane Wolfe to Karl Germer

Saturday, 27 December 1952

News Related to Crowley:

   - Times Colonist

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