The Process Church of the Final Judgment in the 1970s

Record summary

The Process Church of the Final Judgment, founded by Robert and Mary Ann de Grimston, continued its distinctive synthesis of Christian, Satanic, and apocalyptic symbolism into the early 1970s before reorganizing and declining. Its communes, magazine, ritual language, and later association with sensational accounts of crime made it a recurring subject in occult and conspiracy narratives. The group is valuable for comparing charismatic authority, dualistic theology, and media construction of Satanic danger. The organization existed, but alleged links to unrelated murders and conspiracies are generally unsupported or disputed.