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