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concept that can in turn be traced to PR. Randolph's 19th century notions of<br />

volancia and decretism. As for the sex-magical implications of the initiated<br />

conception of a child which an Operating <strong>The</strong>tan is held to be capable of in<br />

the above chronicle, the reverberation of Crowley's theories of the Moonchild<br />

and the 1916 attempt of Hubbard and Parsons to realize that theory in the<br />

flesh are evident. In a Penthouse interview in June 1983, Ron Hubbard, Jr.<br />

claimed explicitly that his father "was very interested in ... the creation of<br />

what some people call a Moon Child... He thought of himself as the Beast<br />

666 incarnate ... the Antichrist." <strong>Of</strong> course, it goes without saying that the<br />

vast majority of Hubbard's followers are for the most part entirely unaware of<br />

the sex-magical history of the man they refer to reverently as "Source", and<br />

that the Church of Scientology has vigorously denied his son's claims.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Process – Robert and Mary Anne DeGrimston And <strong>The</strong> Three<br />

<strong>Path</strong>s <strong>Of</strong> Sex<br />

One of the intriguing traces of the Babalon Working that has not previously<br />

been situated in its proper context is that elusive phenomenon which during<br />

the thirteen years of its tempestuous existence was called Compulsion<br />

<strong>The</strong>rapy, <strong>The</strong> Process, and finally, the Process Church of the Final<br />

Judgement. If there was a transmission of the Babalon current from Parsons<br />

to Hubbard to the Process, it came about in 1962, when Robert Moor, a<br />

charismatic young architectural student born in colonial Shanghai, met – and<br />

was thoroughly captivated by – one Mary Anne MacLean, an attractive fellow<br />

student taking a London Scientology course with him. <strong>The</strong> couple applied<br />

what they had learned of Hubbard's techniques to the creation of their own<br />

school of psychoanalysis, which they dubbed Compulsion <strong>The</strong>rapy <strong>The</strong> group<br />

rapidly attracted a following, which took on semi-religious overtones.<br />

Hubbard had taken the magical techniques he had learned from Parsons and<br />

repackaged them as a nominally scientific self-help philosophy. Moor and<br />

MacLean now reversed the procedure, repackaging methods they had<br />

squirreled away from Scientology in a more magical Satanic/Luciferian guise.<br />

True to the spirit of Babalon, Mary Anne had been a high-priced call<br />

girl whose clients included the rich and the prominent. If Moor provided the<br />

written doctrines of the team's budding vision, MacLean was evidently the<br />

tutelary Scarlet Woman energizing the partnership with chaotic Shakti<br />

dynamism. One of the key terms and practices the pair appropriated from<br />

Hubbard's lexicon was "Processing," which is a series of Socratic questions<br />

asked by Scientology auditors to their subjects in order to assist them to<br />

discover themselves. After marrying, the couple were known as the<br />

326<br />

DeGrimstons, and they renamed their group the Process. Not surprisingly,<br />

considering Mary Anne's former occupation and the obligatory freeing of<br />

erotic inhibitions that characterized the "Swinging London" environment<br />

from which the Process emerged, sex (if not sex magic per se) became a<br />

major theme for the sect.<br />

According to Process legend, a revelation was visited upon Mary<br />

Anne DeGrimston during a 1966 group pilgrimage to an isolated. region in<br />

the Mexican state of Yucatan, and she suggested that the unorthodox<br />

psychology group should mutate into a full-blown religion. <strong>The</strong> DeGrimstons<br />

and their cadre of Processeans emerged from this 1966 experiment in<br />

communal living extolling the Process theology, based on a trinity of Satan,<br />

Lucifer and Jehovah, the "Three Great Gods of the Universe." <strong>The</strong> trio of<br />

deities would be united by "Christ the Emissary" whose return would bring<br />

the enemies Satan and Christ together "to execute the [final] judgement." In<br />

essence, the Process taught that enlightenment could be reached only by<br />

following one of the three paths embodied by these spiritual principles, the<br />

"three basic human patterns of reality." <strong>The</strong> world was on the brink of a<br />

violent apocalypse, the DeGrimstons concluded, and Processeans were<br />

compelled to choose one of these three divine principles as a guiding light.

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