sentences:  It also stated that he had turned down several honorary degrees.Parsons adhered to the occult philosophy of Thelema, which had been founded in 1904 by the English occultist Aleister Crowley following a spiritual revelation that he had in Cairo, Egypt, when—according to Crowley's accounts—a spirit being known as Aiwass dictated to him a prophetic text known as "The Book of the Law".Prior to becoming aware of Thelema and Crowley, Parsons' interest in esotericism was developed through his reading of "The Golden Bough" (1890), a work in comparative mythology by Scottish social anthropologist James George Frazer.