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     Reportedly, a good book on The Process Church of the Final Judgment is
     "Satan's Power" by William Sims Bainbridge.  Other information can be
     found in the first edition of Ed Sanders' "The Family" and Maury
     Terry's "The Ultimate Evil."
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                                    ON FEAR
                                       by
                               THE PROCESS CHURCH
     
         Fear is at the root of man's destruction of himself.  Without
     Fear there is no blame.  Without blame there is no conflict.  Without
     conflict there is no destruction.
     
         But there IS Fear:  deep within the core of every human being it
     lurks like a monster, dark and intangible.  Its outward effects are
     unmistakeable.  Its source is hidden.
     
         It can be seen on one level in furtive embarrassment, argumenta-
     tive protest, social veneer and miserable isolation.  It can be seen
     on another level in the mammoth build-up of war machines in every
     corner of the world.  It can be seen in the fantasy world of escapism
     known as entertainment.  It can be seen in riot-torn streets and
     campuses.  It can be seen in the squalor of ghettos and the preten-
     tious elegance of "civilized" society.  It can be seen in the desper-
     ate ratrace of commerce and industry, the sensational slanderings of
     the press, the constant back-biting of the political areana, and the
     lost world of the helpless junkie who has passed beyond the point
     of no return.
     
         The tight-lipped suppression of the rigid moralist reflects it,
     as does the violent protest of the anarchist.  But more starkly and
     tragically than anywhere else, it manifests in the pale grey shadow
     of the ordinary person, whose fear clamps down on all his instincts
     and traps him in the narrow confines of the socially accepted norm.
     Afraid either to step down into the darkness of his lower self or to
     rise up into the light of his higher self, he hangs suspended in bet-
     ween, stultified into an alien pattern of nothingness.
     
         But to a greater or lesser degree, and manifesting one way or
     another, all human beings are afraid.  And some of us are so afraid
     that we dare not show our fear.  Sometimes we dare not even know
     our fear.  For Fear itself is a terrifying concept to behold.
     
         We may confess to being afraid of violence and pain, and even
     ghosts; and with such obvious terrors, pigeonhole our fear to our
     own satisfaction.  But fear of people, fear of ourselves, fear of
     failure, fear of loss, fear of our closest friends, fear of isolation,
     fear of contact, fear of loneliness, fear of involvement, fear of
     rejection, fear of commitment, fear of sickness, fear of deprivation,
     fear of intensity, fear of inadequacy, fear of emotion, fear of GOD,
     fear of knowledge, fear of death, fear of responsibility, fear of sin,
     fear of virtue, fear of guilt, fear of punishment, fear of damnation,
     fear of the consequences of our actions, and fear of our own fear?
     How many of us recognize the presence in ourselves of these?
     
         And if some of us recognize some of them, are we prepared to
     see the full extent of them?  Do we know just how afraid we are?
     And do we know the effect that our fear has on our lives?  Do we
     know how completely we are governed by our fear?
     
         And do we know that the world is governed by the sum total of
     every human being's fear, and ours is not excluded?
     
         And do we know that wars and rumors of wars mount up in an
     ascending spiral of violence and potential violence, as the fear in
     the hearts of men intensifies?  Do we know that strife of every kind
     increases as hatred, resentment, jealousy and prejudice increase,
     and that all these stem from one thing only:  Fear?
     
         And do we know that one thing only ensures the escalation of
     the spiral of violence and destruction:  our own unwillingness to
     recognize the full extent of our fear and its effects - our fear of
     Fear?
     
         For each and every one of us, as long as he is afraid, and unwill-
     ing to see with full clarity his fear for what it is, contributes to
     the crippling conflict that has become the hallmark of this world of
     ours.  And as long as there IS fear, together with unwillingness to
     see it clearly and completely, as long as human beings are afraid
     and also fail to recognize the fact in their need to isolate them-
     selves, in their outbursts of anger and irritation, in their embar-
     rassment, in their sense of failure, in their feelings of resentment
     and frustration, in their desire for revenge, in their guilt, in their
     confusion, in their uncertainty, in their disappointment, in their
     anxiety about the future and their wish to forget the past, in their
     need to blame others and justify themselves, in their sense of help-
     lessness and despair, in their revulsion and disgust, in their need to
     be vicious and spiteful, in their lack of confidence, in their ten-
     dency to boast and protest their superiority, in their failure to
     respond, in their sense of inadequacy, in their feelings of envy, in
     their futility, in their misery and in their scorn; as long as human
     beings fail to see THEIR fear reflected in these and a hundred other
     manifestations of Fear, then they will fail to see their part in the
     relentless tide of hatred and violence, destruction and devastation,
     that sweeps the earth.  And the tide will not ebb until all is
     destroyed.