Crowley as a Pynchon source?

[R. Fiero]

pynchonoid wrote:
>I'm working on a little bibliographic research project
>and wonder if anybody out there can point to
>publications that make an explicit link between GR
>(and other Pynchon works) and the writings of Aleister
>Crowley.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>Preliminary research indicates that Crowley may be a
>possible source for Brigadier Pudding's snack.

It's far weirder than, well, weird.  Just for starters:

http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id592/pg1/index.html
john whiteside parsons: anti-christ superstar
by Richard Metzger - April 08, 2003

"All stories are true, every last one of them. All myths, all 
legends, all fables. If you believe them true, then they are 
true. If you don't believe them, then all that can be said is 
that they are true for someone else."
~ ~ Dave Sim, 'Cerebus.'
When the history of the American space program is finally 
written, no figure will stand out quite like John Whiteside 
Parsons. Remarkably handsome, dashing and brilliant, 'Jack' 
Parsons was one of the founders of the experimental rocket 
research group at Cal Tech and the group's seven acre Arroyo 
Seco testing facility would eventually become Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, NASA's rocket design center.

Werner von Braun claimed it was the self-taught Parsons, not 
himself, who was the true father of the American space program 
for his contribution to the development of solid rocket fuel. 
Although Parsons has been memorialized with a statue at JPL and 
has had a crater on the dark side of the moon named in his 
honor, his story remains shrouded in mystery – for what is 
little known about this legend of aerospace engineering is that 
Parsons was an avid practitioner of the occult sciences, and 
for several years, Aleister Crowley's hand-picked leader of the 
US branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Southern 
California-based Agape´ Lodge."

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/leiber/50/dgalicrw.htm
. . .
Here's a collection of links relating to the subject that are 
viewable by all. My next post, which hopefully players in my 
games will not view (JIM!) will have my notes on the subject 
for Con-X. As my campaign has some big Lovecraftian overtones 
as well as stuff ripped off whole-hog from Unknown Armies and 
DG, it should be easily convertible.

"Apparently Parsons and Hubbard or somebody is producing a 
moonchild. I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these louts."

--In a letter from Crowley to Karl Germer, re: their attempt to 
summon the Ho o' Babylon

"[The angel] carried my spirit away to the desert. I saw the 
scarlet woman sitting on the beast with seven heads and ten 
horns, covered with blasphemous names. The woman was clothed in 
purple and scarlet, and gilded with gold and precious stones 
and pearls, with a golden cup in her hand filled with the 
abominations and the unclean things of her fornication. On her 
forehead a name had been written, 'A Mystery: Babalon the 
great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the 
earth.' I saw the woman was drunk from the blood of the saints, 
and from the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Seeing her, I wondered greatly."