[link to] the Grey Lodge magazine's reprint of
Whence Came the Stranger: Tracking the Metapattern of Stranger in a Strange Land by Adam-Walks Between-Worlds
(first printed, I believe, in Green Egg in 1993)

For the inaugural post for this blog I thought I'd up a link to this fascinating article regarding the generally Gnostic and specifically Thelemic themes in Robert Heinlein's landmark sci-fi novel, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961). The novel details the arrival of a Martian-reared human on planet Earth and his careful transformation into a messianic figure. Aghast at conservative modern 1950's America, he becomes the committed iconoclastic catalyst for social, cultural, and philosophical evolution. Ostensibly a work of genre fiction, SiaSL became a seminal influence in the nascent years of the American counter-culture, Heinlein's masterpiece quickly transcended the strict parameters of science-fiction to become a major work of twentieth century literature.
An interesting and in-depth piece of Heinlein scholarship (a field that was, for a long time, incredulously small), this piece by the (now, sadly, infamous) member of the neo-pagan community, Adam-Walks-Between-Worlds (Duane Adam Rostoker) makes a very plausible and compelling case for the argument that the book is a "magickal seed containing the spiritual and intellectual DNA of Thelema, which he placed into the fertile loam of his time."  

http://www.incunabula.org/greylodge/Grey%20Lodge%20Occult%20Review%20Vol%20I%20Issue%20II.pdf