http://www.religioustolerance.org/process.htm History The Process Church is totally unrelated to "Process Theology" which is a belief system promoted by some liberal Protestant theologians and developed by Charles Hartshorne. It looks upon God and the rest of the universe as being in process, in a state of constant change. The Process evolved out of a self-help group founded in London, England by Robert de Grimston ("The Teacher"). To a Processean, "The Process" means change - specifically, the changes necessary to avoid the end of the world with its associated judgment. >From 1964 to 1974, Processeans were traveled throughout Europe and North America and organized Traveling, Administrative, and Open Chapters. Church leaders wrote books such as "Exit", "As It Is", "For Christ Is Come", and other titles which the Church used as its reference texts. By mid-1974, several Chapters in the US and one in Canada were operating, with headquarters in Washington DC Free shops for clothing and Free Kitchens for food dispersed donations in all of the Chapters. In the communities where Chapters were located, Processeans took on a variety of projects and received grants from local and state government agencies. Mass feeding stations were established in 'skid-row' areas where Chapters were present; these operated on a daily basis for years. Ministers and Lay-members took part in community action programs and responded to natural disasters alongside the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Weekly visitations to homes for the elderly, blind, and mentally handicapped were a regular weekly occurrence. In some Chapters, prison ministries were set-up. The Process welcomed all through its doors. The Church legally ordained women as Priests. The was an equal balance of the sexes in the ruling body and in the operational and administration of the Church and its Chapters. It performed wedding ceremonies, baptisms and ordinations. The Church opposed the Vietnam War but left the decision of military enlistment up to the individual. A crisis occurred in 1974. Robert de Grimston gradually removed himself from daily Church administration & activities. Disputes arose between the ruling body of the Church and The Teacher. This ultimately led to the dismissal of Robert de Grimston as Chief Theologian. The ruling body legally dissolved The Process. After unsuccessfully trying to reorganize a group of Processeans in Massachusetts, the Teacher returned to England. In 1979 The Process was reformed as a loosely knit group, under new leadership. In 1987 a vigorous expansion effort began. Private Chapters were established in which individuals operated programs aimed at helping the homeless become self-sufficient. In 1988, the Society Of Processeans was formed as a largely secular organization. In 1993, the faith and teachings of The Process were declared obsolete, the Archives were destroyed and the Church dissolved. Members continue, organized as a self-help organization. The future is unclear. The Process Church published the magazine "Process" and a monthly newsletter "The Processeans". Beliefs: The Church taught that Love conquers Evil, and thereby eliminates conflict. The basis of their religion was the book of Matthew in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament). They believe in a single unknowable God; God simply "is". Jesus Christ was seen as a Unifier; Satan as a separator, perhaps created by God to test mankind. They believe in the "Law of the Universe" which is "as you give, so shall you receive". All matter is seen as sacred, because it stems from God. In its earlier days, Ministers wore large surrounding black capes to promote their "mourning the death of the world unless we change" message. Christ's teachings to "love your enemies" became their prime rule of behaviour. They love the individual, but not his/her evil deeds. These beliefs led to a love for Satan - not to his acts but to Satan, the Being. The Process taught a dual concept of divinity. That is, that there are two more or less equal powers in the universe: Christ and Satan; one all good - the other all bad. The historic roots of this belief are traceable to the Zoroastrians in Persia in the 6th Century BCE. Deviating from traditional Christianity, God and Satan are not opposite and conflicting supernatural entities. They are both believed to contribute to the world and the rest of the universe. Their long standing enmity has disappeared. Jesus is pictured as the judge at the end time, while Satan becomes the executor of Christ's judgments. Misinformation about The Process: The Process held to a unique theology which worshipped God while loving Satan. Being an open and proselytizing religious organization, they were exposed to criticism by other Christians. Having such an unorthodox response to Satan, they were easily misunderstood. A book about Charles Manson, "The Family", claimed that Manson was a member of The Process. The Church obtained apologies and retractions to the book after it brought about a suit against the publisher. Because of the time it took to bring about the retractions, a large portion of book sales had occurred; so many of the books (without retractions) are on shelves today. The connection between Manson and the Process has not completely been corrected. Manson was never a registered member of The Process. A group of Processeans visited him in prison and confirmed that he had never been involved in the local Chapter. More recently, a book was published that claimed a second mass murderer, David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" was also a member of The Process. The book stated that The Process was a network of killers and that Berkowitz was a look-out and did not take part in all of the killings. This conflicts with the police investigators who believed that Berkowitz was operating on his own. If they thought otherwise, the police certainly would have investigated the Church. Berkowitz claimed to have been a Satanist, and to have converted to Evangelical Christianity in prison. He claimed that the "Sam" in "Son of Sam" came from the name of the Celtic God of the Dead, Samhain (which he pronounced "Sam-hane"). His story is suspect, because: his pronunciation of "Samhain" is incorrect; the Celts never worshiped a God of the Dead; there is no Celtic God by the name of Samhain; Satanists do not worship Celtic Gods, and the Process Church no longer existed at the time of the Son of Sam murders. In reality, Samhain means "end of summer." It was a Celtic seasonal day of celebration, and remains a Wiccan Sabbat. Rituals: Assemblies were held in a room that had a Christian Cross on one wall and, on the opposite side of the room, a Goat of Mendes (a goat's head in a pentagram) which symbolizes Satan. The Process version of this symbol had the pentagram placed upright. The Goat of Mendes was later removed as part of Process symbolism. An round altar was in the centre of the room, covered with a Process motif. Candles were arranged on the altar pointing to the four cardinal directions; this symbolized their unity with all of creation. Frankincense was burned in the center of the altar as a symbol of Christ being at the heart of The Process. Members attending the ritual sat on cushions on the floor in concentric circles around the altar. To the rear was a music section usually with guitars, singers, sitar, piano and drums. Because Saturday was the traditional Sabbath (Sunday being the Christian day of rest), the main service of the week was called the Sabbath Assembly. It was held Saturday Evening at 7 p.m. The Christmas Assembly was held on Christmas Eve. Weddings occurred in all Chapters. The Process married same-sex couples in the same fashion as opposite-sex couples (however registry's tended to differ on the legal part of same-sex weddings). Chapters were closed on Sundays and Christmas Day. Reference W. S. Bainbridge "Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult", University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, (1978). +++++ http://www.isd.net/chansen/satan.html Item: In the early 1970s, the release of Rosemary's Baby, a horror film loaded with satanic content, sends shockwaves through the American culture. The film makes the bold and somewhat frightening proclamation: God is dead! Satan lives! *** Among other things, Manson was heavily influenced by the Process Church, which was active on California college campuses during the late sixties. Back in the 1960s the Process Church was one of many groups on college campuses trying to persuade students to join it, and was able to blend into the crowd. The doctrine it preached, however, was much darker. The Process Church, now completely underground, has splintered recently into factions, but is still active in America today. Its founders were natives of London who took part in cultist L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology before splitting from him and forming the Process Church. Distinctive beliefs of the Process Church are that there are three gods one may worship: Jehovah, god of holiness; Lucifer, god of sensuality; and Satan, god of destruction and death. Members of the Process Church believed that it did not matter which god their members chose to follow, since each of the three would unite in the "end times" to execute judgement upon the earth. They extract this belief from the Bible verse which instructs one to "love your enemy." Satan, they reasoned, is God's enemy, and therefore God would forgive Satan, and they would unite at the end time to execute judgement of the earth. What made the members of the underground Process Church dangerous is that, since they felt the end times were imminent and judgement would soon be executed, they, as members of the Process Church, were authorized to act as executioners of the "unrighteous." In other words, the Process Church condoned murder at any level. The Process Church also performed the Black Mass regularly on satanic holidays. The Black Mass, a ceremony which some or all of the ritual practices described in the first article of this series, was invented by witches' covens in the Middle Ages as a rebellion against the Roman Catholic church. It is a practice that occultist Alistair Crowley brought bac into popular use early this century, and modern-day underground satanists have institutionalized. ++++++ http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/CoS/books/scandal/sos-que.html In England, Scientology has been making news -- and trouble -- since 1959, when Hubbard left America (because "the atmosphere was being poisoned by nuclear experiments") and bought the palatial Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, formerly the home of the Maharaja of Jaipur. Hubbard switched the headquarters of Scientology to England and sent his decrees by Telex from this mansion to his "orgs" in five continents. +++++ http://www.britain.co.uk/tourism/pages/H/HEV87NGc.html ...The castle had another famous owner, when in 1903, William Waldorf Astor bought the estate. He restored it to the splendour of its Tudor days and created the spectacular gardens. Features of which include a unique Italian garden, topiary, maze, 35 acre lake, and rose, herb and Tudor gardens. ...Hever Castle is situated between Sevenoaks and East Grinstead off the B2026. Signposted from the M25 junctions 5 and 6. Thirty minutes from Gatwick, an hour from Heathrow, one and a half hours from Folkestone and Dover. 30 miles from London. ++++ http://www.egnet.co.uk/local.html#sthil Saint Hill Manor Between Turners Hill Road (B2110) and Saint Hill Green, about 2 miles from town. Built 1792, beautifully restored by its final owner, author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. Features include the author's library, wintergardens and John Spencer Churchill's delightful monkey room murals. Extensive grounds with flower gardens, shrubs, lake, modern castle, UK headquarters of the Church of Scientology. +++++ http://drugrehab.lronhubbard.org/page20.htm Although work on the Purification program properly commenced in 1977, L. Ron Hubbard’s theories on the purging of drug residues are actually found in much earlier papers. For example, reprinted here are notes pertaining to research from New York City, 1946. A crucial period in the development of Dianetics, Ron would soon spend an intense season testing Dianetics procedures on then rare “hopheads,” “vipers” and “junkies,” in and around Los Angeles. While Dianetics in and of itself proved entirely efficacious in the relief of drug-related trauma and underlying compulsions, it is significant that we find him, even then, asking: “Is there a poison accumulating in the body which must be purged...?” http://drugrehab.lronhubbard.org/page90.htm We are faced with a biochemical civilization, L. Ron Hubbard has declared, and however one wishes to interpret what has been presented here, he is right. Moreover, with illicit consumption among children roughly doubling since the start of the decade and the pharmaco-capitalist gearing up to market whole new generations of licit psychotropics to the parents of those children, the problem is clearly intensifying. The irony is, of course, massive and ugly; for having sold consumption—both illegal and legal—under a banner of behavioral control, we are finally very much out of control. And make no mistake, the suburban psychotropic user is no less an aspect of this crises than the inner-city crack or heroin user. Merely, what with that $10 billion in annual pharmaceutical promotion, the darker consequences of psychiatric drug consumption tend to slip from view. In either case, let us not permit the answers here to slip from view. Because unless we come to grips with what drugs have wrought, as Ron so emphatically states, this civilization will end. Then, too, let us not forget that when discussing what his solution finally represents, one is discussing something far closer to the heart of the problem than a war on supply, dusting with defoliants, crop replacement or stricter enforcement. Rather, as he very simply tells us, “One is offering a person his life.” “Everything administered to the body in the form of drugs which seems to benefit the body, takes something out of the body as wellburns something up. “Is cocaine a catalyst? If so, then what must accompany cocaine to keep it catalyzing? “Or does it leave a poison in the body which upsets the normal balance? If so, what can be given to remove the poison? “Alcohol, it is now known, burns up the thiamine chloride in the system. When the thiamine chloride is replaced, much of the harm is undone. “Is thiamine chloride a universal catalystic complement? “If it is not, then is there such a catalystic complement? “If the catalyst leaves a poison, does such a thing as thiamine chloride reduce or purge the poison? If not thiamine chloride, then what else? “All drugs require increasing doses. All possibly produce debility in some way. Is there something being burned out of the body? Is there a poison accumulating in the body which must be purged more and more?”
