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found themselves with a public relations disaster on their hands that even
their well-honed irony could not evade. Tagged as an inspiration for the
Manson murders, the Process began to disintegrate. The inevitable tension
between the Satanic/Luciferian wing and the Jehovan/Christian side of the
Process intensified under this pressure. Coupled with the DeGrimstons'
failing marriage, these traumas ultimately led to schism. In 1974, Mary Anne
unsuccessfully attempted to reform the Process as a strictly Jehovan
denomination.
Despite its origins in the Babalon current, the Process does not appear to
have been a genuine manifestation of the left-hand path, although several of
its methods are useful for those who follow the Western way of the sinister.
One direct connection to the cult of the Scarlet Woman was the
DeGrimstons' ultimately unsuccessful attempt to purchase Crowley's
abandoned Abbey of Thelema on Cefalu and refurbish it as a religious center.
At the heart of the cult stood the contrasexual energy emanated by the
DeGrimstons, very much a latter-day Simon Magus and Helene. Although
the DeGrimstons' sexual teaching may have been a useful method for freeing
Processeans of inherited social conditioning – an essential initial step of lefthand
path liberation – this reprogramming was not followed up by any
coherent system of sexual self-awakening. Was it all a sophisticated mind
game, an archetypal 1960s put-on? A cynical business enterprise designed to
milk a generation of gullible spiritual seekers? Since the group's demise,
unreliable conspiracy theorists have accused the Process of masterminding a
Satanic crime network of monstrous proportions. Such unfounded hearsay
almost seems like a logical consequence of the Process's often reckless
provocation of the Grey Forces and its sacred cows. In a conversation with
one of the authors in 1989, Robert DeGrimston, unwilling to court publicity
concerning his notorious 1960s experiment in social anthropology and
religion, politely dismissed the Process as merely a "youthful phase." No
doubt, this reasonable assessment is more enlightening than all the hysterical
rumor-mongering that has been the unfortunate legacy of the Process.
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Kenneth Grant – Typhonian Sex Magick From Outer Space
Say what one will of the work of the controversial British sex magician
Kenneth Grant (b. 1924), he must at least he given credit for inspiring strong
reactions. Grant, one of the few Thelemites to identify themselves
unambiguously with the left-hand path, is revered and loathed with more or
less equal intensity. Taking Thelemic sex magick far beyond the Crowleyobsessed
limitations of others working more dogmatically in the Beast's
tradition, Grant has written of the Babalon Working in his Outside The
Circles Of Time that "Parsons opened a door and something flew in." Grant's
sex magical teaching has been conveyed through the vehicle of the so-called
Typhonian O.T.O., a name which acknowledges the importance of the
sinister Set-Typhon to his cosmology Grant applies sexual ecstasy and the
erotically charged raising of the kundalini fire serpent to communicate with
what he understands as extraterrestrial entities, noting that the first UFO
sightings occurred in 1947, shortly after the Babalon Working.
Grant has also theorized that the first nuclear explosions in 1945 also
played a part in unleashing the same "powers from the other side" that
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Hubbard and Parsons were simultaneously calling forth through sex magic.
Odd though this latter idea may seem, it is relevant that even a strict
rationalist like the scientist Robert Oppenheimer, one of the developers of the
atomic bomb was spontaneously inspired to utter a sacred litany from the
Indian Bhagavad Gila – "I am become Death, destroyer of Worlds" – upon
witnessing the first experimental mushroom cloud looming before him like
an apparition of Kali.
Grant met Crowley in 1944, and knew him until his death in 1947, a