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Robert and Mary. Children were often separated from their parents because family ties were distrusted, and were brought up by other group members in something approaching a Kibbutz fashion. Some children were not treated very well in this set-up and have complained that they were physically punished for trivial things. To deliberately further destabilise family ties, some children were told that certain men were their fathers who were not actually their fathers. A former member who has bittersweet feelings about his involvement with the cult admits that many children were left ‘royally screwed up’.
There were six grades from acolyte to master and, in further weirdness, German shepherd dogs – the Process dog of choice – were also initiates to the cult.
As with Charles Manson’s ‘Family’, getting celebrities onside was a goal because of the money they had and the kudos they lent. Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger’s iconic girlfriend, was probably not best advised when she appeared in a death pose in ‘Process’ issue 3.
Forget Mick Jagger and Keith Richard’s cod satanism in ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ – when the Process went for the satanic template they were the real deal (in America they had had meetings with Antony LaVey of the Church of Satan).
The Process satanic template still makes one’s skin creepy crawl (the Manson pun is intended since the Process clearly had a lot of time for Charlie and had interviewed him in prison for the ‘Death’ issue of the Process magazine).
Here are a couple of quotes from the satanic side of the Process.
‘Release the Fiend within you! ... And the mother that pleads weakly for her child shall see it slain before her. And the woman that pleads palely for her miserable virtue shall be struck down and raped. And he that fearfully pleads for his life shall be cut to pieces … And stride with SATAN’S army to the End.’
‘Satan on War’, Copyright Church
of the Final Judgment, 1966
‘Or is your place within a ruined church high on a hill, no glass in the tall slotted windows, but perfect for the celebration of the Black Mass? The priest in midnight garb, the congregation, men and women unclothed except for the blood red masks upon their faces, stand silent waiting for the presence of the Lord and Master, Satan. A naked girl, fair haired and in the very prime of youth, lies like a human sacrifice upon the altar, snow white against the black velvet of the altar cloth. Nothing stirs, no sound but the sighing of the wind.’
‘The Gods on Sex’, Process Church of
the Final Judgement
And there was a lot more of that ilk.
At the cult’s peak the Process magazine had a circulation of around 200,000 copies and the church was making a couple of million dollars a year (they had moved to the USA by then), but the rank and file began to look askance at the luxury lifestyle of Mary and Robert. Then the pair split up and she kicked him out of the church into the wilderness and it all went downhill and ended with a whimper, not an apocalypse.
Mary ended her days running an animal centre while Robert may or may not work in communications in New York (so maybe he did go a bit Gray in the end!).
4) Broadwick Street Pump
Tube: Piccadilly.
A very appropriate place to read this chapter would be the John Snow pub on the corner of Broadwick Street and Lexington Street, John Snow being the hero of this chapter (although he never touched alcohol himself).
The best way to get to the John Snow pub is to travel to Piccadilly underground station. Shaftesbury Avenue exit and walk up Shaftesbury Avenue until you come to Great Windmill Street on the left. Walk up Great Windmill Street, which eventually intersects at right angles with Broadwick Street. The John Snow pub is right on the left-hand corner where the two streets meet.
To find the model of the pump turn right into Broadwick Street and walk for a few seconds to where on the left-hand side Broadwick Street
There were six grades from acolyte to master and, in further weirdness, German shepherd dogs – the Process dog of choice – were also initiates to the cult.
As with Charles Manson’s ‘Family’, getting celebrities onside was a goal because of the money they had and the kudos they lent. Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger’s iconic girlfriend, was probably not best advised when she appeared in a death pose in ‘Process’ issue 3.
Forget Mick Jagger and Keith Richard’s cod satanism in ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ – when the Process went for the satanic template they were the real deal (in America they had had meetings with Antony LaVey of the Church of Satan).
The Process satanic template still makes one’s skin creepy crawl (the Manson pun is intended since the Process clearly had a lot of time for Charlie and had interviewed him in prison for the ‘Death’ issue of the Process magazine).
Here are a couple of quotes from the satanic side of the Process.
‘Release the Fiend within you! ... And the mother that pleads weakly for her child shall see it slain before her. And the woman that pleads palely for her miserable virtue shall be struck down and raped. And he that fearfully pleads for his life shall be cut to pieces … And stride with SATAN’S army to the End.’
‘Satan on War’, Copyright Church
of the Final Judgment, 1966
‘Or is your place within a ruined church high on a hill, no glass in the tall slotted windows, but perfect for the celebration of the Black Mass? The priest in midnight garb, the congregation, men and women unclothed except for the blood red masks upon their faces, stand silent waiting for the presence of the Lord and Master, Satan. A naked girl, fair haired and in the very prime of youth, lies like a human sacrifice upon the altar, snow white against the black velvet of the altar cloth. Nothing stirs, no sound but the sighing of the wind.’
‘The Gods on Sex’, Process Church of
the Final Judgement
And there was a lot more of that ilk.
At the cult’s peak the Process magazine had a circulation of around 200,000 copies and the church was making a couple of million dollars a year (they had moved to the USA by then), but the rank and file began to look askance at the luxury lifestyle of Mary and Robert. Then the pair split up and she kicked him out of the church into the wilderness and it all went downhill and ended with a whimper, not an apocalypse.
Mary ended her days running an animal centre while Robert may or may not work in communications in New York (so maybe he did go a bit Gray in the end!).
4) Broadwick Street Pump
Tube: Piccadilly.
A very appropriate place to read this chapter would be the John Snow pub on the corner of Broadwick Street and Lexington Street, John Snow being the hero of this chapter (although he never touched alcohol himself).
The best way to get to the John Snow pub is to travel to Piccadilly underground station. Shaftesbury Avenue exit and walk up Shaftesbury Avenue until you come to Great Windmill Street on the left. Walk up Great Windmill Street, which eventually intersects at right angles with Broadwick Street. The John Snow pub is right on the left-hand corner where the two streets meet.
To find the model of the pump turn right into Broadwick Street and walk for a few seconds to where on the left-hand side Broadwick Street
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