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...Sabbath Assembly is subdued and solemnly conducted, but at one point a Superior speaks informally to the Assembly, making small jokes, inviting responses from those on the floor around him. As the liturgy proceeds, examining in turn the gods Jehovah, Lucifer, Satan, and Christ, a sense of community seems to build in the Assembly; when the service is over, the Superiors of the Church leave first, and others follow, happy and relaxed. Like many other religious ceremonies, the Sabbath Assembly of the Process seems to leave its participants with a sense of pleasant relief and fulfillment...
unite in Christ as a single god. Jehovah is the "wrathful god of vengeance and retribution" who is very Puritanical; Christian's example of a Jehovaian person is Charles DeGaulle. Lucifer (traditionally a fallen angel associated, but not to be confused with, Satan) is "the bringer of light"; he represents "things we strive for." and indulgence. The Hare Krishna movement is "very Luciferian," and politics are "Lucifer's field." Satan is the god of doom and desolation, a god who embodies things "we're most afraid of," things low and bestial and also things high and spiritual. Sex criminals...
...religion of the Process is, in many ways, a transcendental one. Processeans see their Church as both a Christian and "more than a Christian Church." Christ is an emissary of Jehovah, Lucifer, and Satan; he is both "separate" from and "involved" with the three gods, a "link between man and God." He is, they believe, in the world now, and He will reveal Himself before the Final Judgment...
...planets in the heavens, Galileo, and the scientists who followed him, says Mumford, assumed that life on earth could be reduced to neat, predictable patterns. With his customary prophetic fervor, Mumford accuses Galileo of "driving man out of living nature into a cosmic desert even more peremptorily than Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden...
Helping God. The son of a Pittsburgh steelworker, Rhodes grew up under the decisive influence of his mother, a Jehovah's Witness. At 16, he believed that God determined everything. Now he is less sure. At an age when many young men are hindered by resentment or apathy, Joe Rhodes decided to give God a helping hand...