Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Process Church of the Final Judgement



The Process Church of the Final Judgment originally developed in London in the 1960s and 1970s, founded by Robert and Mary Anne DeGrimston. As an offset of Scientology, the Process Church was denounced by L. Ron Hubbard, forcing them to flee to a small town in Mexico where the majority of its dogma developed. While in Mexico, the church recognized Jehovah and the one true God but over time, began to accept Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan as the Three Great Gods of the Universe, and saw Jesus Christ as their emissary. Jehovah was the stern and wrathful god that demands discipline from humanity, Lucifer was the Light-Bringer who encouraged the enjoyment of life and Satan was the receiver of lost souls, who instilled in humanity both the desire to overcome human desires and the desire to sink into them. Between Gods and humanity was an hierarchy of various angels, demons, archangels, elementals and watchers. The Church believes that Lucifer and Jehovah are opposites and that Christ and Satan are opposites. Once Christ and Satan are reconciled, Jehovah and Lucifer will be united. Because the Process Church views Lucifer and Satan as gods, they have been deemed as a satanic cult. The church eventually set up headquarters in New Orleans and has become one of the most notorious cults of all time. The Process Church still exists today, although it is nowhere near as dark as people would like to believe and most of the urban legends surrounding are based more on fear than fact. Timothy Wyllie has written extensively on the Church and is considered an academic expert on them.

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