Oct 2006 | TheDogPress.com
Ms. Jade, TheDogPress Legislative Reporter
From a devil worship cult to animal sacrifice, and a tenuous connection with mass murderer Charles Manson; the impeccably researched facts are backed up by hard copy, incorporation records, and Gold Links below…
Best Friends has Katie Couric and the CBS evening news to help solicit donations.
Best Friends wants laws to criminalize dog breeding.
Best Friends wants laws to grant citizen “rescuers” the power to steal your animals.
Best Friends is promoted on the Animal Liberation Front website.
Best Friends is no friend of mine.
Self proclaimed as the richest and "largest animal sanctuary in the United States", meet Best Friends Animal Society aka The Process, Church of the Final Judgment, aka the Four-P Movement, aka The Foundation Church of the Millennium, aka The Foundation Faith of God, aka Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.
The book “Best Friends - The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary” professes to be a complete history - but the religious incarnations are conspicuously missing. Why do you suppose that is? Best Friends President Michael Mountain (aka: Hugh Mountain, aka: Father Aaron) has been a Processean since the early days. He claims the omission was the author's idea, and not a marketing decision. Yeah, right Huey.
Thank dog for the internet! Where buried treasure may be discovered by even the amateur archaeologist. Let’s start by unearthing the skeletons in their closet. The sordid past they would rather keep buried. A passport may be in order for this globe trotting expedition. Grab a shovel and let’s start digging.
Once upon a time, over a half century ago, three friends were avowed pseudo-Satanists; Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (aka: L. Ron Hubbard) – the founder of Scientology, Aleister Crowley (aka: The Great Beast) the head of the Ordo Templi Orientis “OTO” in England and John W. “Jack” Parsons (aka: Marvel Whitesides Parsons) – hand picked by Crowley to be the leader of the Pasadena California branch of the (OTO) and a physicist who played a major role in founding the aero-space department at Cal Tech.
Not surprising, this tale doesn’t have a happy ending. Crowley, addicted to heroin for the latter part of his life and bankrupt from a lost libel suit, passed away in 1947 at age 71. L. Ron Hubbard absconded with roommate Parsons’ woman and his money, bought a yacht and eventually landed in England. Parsons would later self-immolate in an explosion in his garage laboratory in 1952. Speculation was that he and Hubbard had been attempting to conjure/create an elemental being, and that his fiery demise was the direct outcome of that endeavor. His mother Ruth committed suicide the next day.
Home movies would reveal sex with mom and the family dog.
Fast forward to 1963. Our first stop on the Best Friends magical mystery tour begins in London. While auditing at the L. Ron Hubbard Institute on Fitzroy Street, architect Robert DeGrimston Moore (aka “the Teacher”) met S&M prostitute/madame (and ex wife of boxer Sugar Ray Robinson) Mary Ann McClean (aka “The Oracle”). They eventually left Scientology, and twisting it with Adler’s post Freudian ideas, created a self-help process called “Compulsions Analysis”. Mary Ann convinced Robert to drop the last name Moore (they only used the name to travel incognito) and adopt DeGrimston when they married in 1964. L. Ron Hubbard declared them "suppressive persons" in December 1965.
After initiates would undergo “the process”, they began initiating others – at a steep fee paid to the “Founders”, of course. This allowed them to rent an office on Wigmore Street where the group began to experience the mind effects of the collective. It was in 1965 that they officially became The Process Church of the Final Judgment. ("Process" meant "pro-cessation," or "for the end" and according to doctrine, the Final Judgment will bring "the purifying presence of fire in the world… ") Processeans did not know exactly when the end would come, but they expected it before the turn of the century. I hope they weren’t too disappointed.
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