![]() Jehovah is the wrathful god of vengeance and retribution, demanding discipline and ruthlessness. God is composed of three gods - Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan. But the problem comes because we cannot describe God if we could describe God then we could define him and to define him would be to limit him to the level of the finite and mortal. The way we can resolve this tension is by uniting ourselves through knowledge of him. But there exists also the part of man which is anti-god, it is contrary to God’s character and is responsible for the conflicts and tensions of life, the uncertainties, fears and shortcomings that rob man of happiness. “God is within us, his stature and character are inherent in our lives. Hollberg visited as an attempt to learn more about one of the cults that were increasing in number at that time, and challenging the church.ĭuring the service Hollberg approached “Mother Mercedes,” director of the Open Chapter, who explained the unique Processan doctrine: Wheaton College student writer Sinclair Hollberg chronicles his visit in “ Record Investigates Process Church in Chicago,” published on November 5, 1971. ![]() A Processan minister inducts two acolytes into the Church, at which time they become initiates of the Covenant of Christ and Satan. Charles Manson was allegedly a member of the California chapter, but this assertion was never proven. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology, was founded in London in the early 1960s by Mary Ann and Robert de Grimston, who soon established chapters in major U.S. But those who journeyed from the comfortable suburbs to the Near North Side of Chicago to attend the Process Church of the Final Judgement were surely surprised to hear from its black-robed ministers that God is composed of three gods, Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan. Hence the idea of Christ and Satan, buddies, just two guys with a job to do, beating each other senseless every day and yukking it up over a beer every night.It is not uncommon for Wheaton College students to explore various denominations, investigating differences in ecclesiastical polity and practice. They broke with the church in 1963, apparently figuring if you can just make this shit up, why not go all the way and make up a new story, one that suits you better? And while you're at it, you can borrow some of the popular characters from other stories. The church's founders founders came out of Scientology, having been early and quick adopters in the late 50s. The book's interest lies more in the parts they made up, the mythology of Christianity re-written with a new slant on the characters, kind of like the musical Wicked. To read the book is to realize that theirs is a relatively dry, talky, intellectual religion, and the use of Satanic imagery is more symbolic than diabolical. So Wyllie's book Love Sex Fear Death (Process Media) is not a true crime novel, although it's possible that the way they talk about Satan will still get you in trouble in some parts of the country. Although the Process Church did publish a magazine, which solicited an essay from Manson, author and sect member Timothy Wyllie remarks, "One of the only times I recall that we decided to deliberately break the law was to smuggle a German Shepherd across the English Channel." ![]() This kind of statement, made despite the fact that no one in the group has ever been convicted of anything like murder, is somewhat like blaming the people who ran Amok Books for all the horrible killings written up in their inventory. ![]() ![]() Some of the farthest-out hipster prose in the original print run of Ed Sanders' highly readable Manson account, The Family, concerns the supposed "hooded snuffoids" from the spookily-named but otherwise harmless Process Church Of The Final Judgement. ![]()
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