The Devil At His Hairiest - From "The Vaults"
Below is an old, perhaps even quite familiar image of the Devil. Or, as the French occultist Eliphas Levi termed him, the "Goat of Mendes." But in the upcoming "The Baptized," the Father of Lies is much sleeker and modern-looking, and thus all the more dangerous for it. New chapters being posted this week as a Valentine's Day present! Check them out later this week.
This image was also used on buttons sported by attractive female members of the still-somewhat-notorious Process Church of the Final Judgment, who wore crisp grey pantsuits and tried to entice others to their meetings during the late 60's in NYC. (I myself was invited by such a lass one Friday afternoon to the Processeans' weekly "party," and I've wondered sometimes since what my life would have been like if I'd attended.)
The controversial aspect of the Process (as it was shortened to) is that others have accused it of actual and all-out Satanism, and even of being an active influence upon the Manson Family. Ed Sanders, of the extremely alternative rock group
of those times The Fugs, is probably the best-known "writer" to make such claims, but Maury Terry, who wrote the pretty darn good "The Ultimate Evil" about the Son of Sam murders, also chimed in after a fashion.
Nevertheless, the charges remain unproven and hazily sourced, to say the least. Actually, the Process eventually morphed into, of all things given its priorheavy reliance on Satanic imager and even the black robes and capes of pulp novels and movies, a somewhat unconventional but apparently sincere Christian evangelical group.
The founders of the Process church were Robert and Mary Ann de Grimston (his original surname was Moore, and at least he was born a Brit). They did not stay together as a wedded couple. Mary Ann eventually wound up as a key member of an animal rescue charity and compound in the American West, and died a few years ago there.
Robert de Grimston, however, seems to have disappeared into the gaping maw of general American ex-celeb anonymity, those who have had their 'Page Six" fame for a brief bit but cannot maintain it. He remains a shadowy figure from the societal madness of the late 60's, someone about whom ominous legends continue to flow and even grow.
There is apparently some evidence, or anyway recollections from those who knew him "back when" (and such recollections from the formerly well-drug-fueled may not count for much) that de Grimston went into the marketing/advertising field, and supposedly was quite successful at it. (Well, he had founded his own religion, if never to the degree of success L. Ron Hubbard had.) If this is true, it seems a fairly appropriate fate for him, since so many in the advertising industry may already be fairly be viewed as advancing the agenda of Satan upon earth. Even as they commonly claim not to realize this, for all their considerable talents.
This image was also used on buttons sported by attractive female members of the still-somewhat-notorious Process Church of the Final Judgment, who wore crisp grey pantsuits and tried to entice others to their meetings during the late 60's in NYC. (I myself was invited by such a lass one Friday afternoon to the Processeans' weekly "party," and I've wondered sometimes since what my life would have been like if I'd attended.)
The controversial aspect of the Process (as it was shortened to) is that others have accused it of actual and all-out Satanism, and even of being an active influence upon the Manson Family. Ed Sanders, of the extremely alternative rock group
of those times The Fugs, is probably the best-known "writer" to make such claims, but Maury Terry, who wrote the pretty darn good "The Ultimate Evil" about the Son of Sam murders, also chimed in after a fashion.Nevertheless, the charges remain unproven and hazily sourced, to say the least. Actually, the Process eventually morphed into, of all things given its priorheavy reliance on Satanic imager and even the black robes and capes of pulp novels and movies, a somewhat unconventional but apparently sincere Christian evangelical group.
The founders of the Process church were Robert and Mary Ann de Grimston (his original surname was Moore, and at least he was born a Brit). They did not stay together as a wedded couple. Mary Ann eventually wound up as a key member of an animal rescue charity and compound in the American West, and died a few years ago there.
Robert de Grimston, however, seems to have disappeared into the gaping maw of general American ex-celeb anonymity, those who have had their 'Page Six" fame for a brief bit but cannot maintain it. He remains a shadowy figure from the societal madness of the late 60's, someone about whom ominous legends continue to flow and even grow.
There is apparently some evidence, or anyway recollections from those who knew him "back when" (and such recollections from the formerly well-drug-fueled may not count for much) that de Grimston went into the marketing/advertising field, and supposedly was quite successful at it. (Well, he had founded his own religion, if never to the degree of success L. Ron Hubbard had.) If this is true, it seems a fairly appropriate fate for him, since so many in the advertising industry may already be fairly be viewed as advancing the agenda of Satan upon earth. Even as they commonly claim not to realize this, for all their considerable talents.
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