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Sabbath Assembly (Process Church Of The Final Judgment, Jex Thoth) Restored To One 2010 Ajna Offensive
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""Restored to One" is a modern response to the musical activities of a cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment, who used music to spread their visions of Gnostic reconciliation in a time of cataclysmic change. Sabbath Assembly has re-charged the original hymns of The Process Church and worked them into moving renditions that unite the trinity of rock, psychedelic, and gospel into one triumphant re-awakening. The Process Church was an intensely creative, apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered '60s and New Age '70s. The influential group opened chapters in London, Europe, and across the United States. Dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German shepherds, they created their own intricately designed magazines, and promoted a controversial, quasi-Gnostic theology that reconciled Christ and Satan through deeper awareness and love."

"The band offers a Gnostic theology in that the music encourages devotion not to one single force in the pantheon," Sabbath Assembly said, further explaining the band's high concept, "but rather a more holistic view of 'self' as multifaceted and multivalent. The spark of the divine which resides within can be characterized allegorically in the interplay of Christ, Lucifer, Satan and Jehovah; thus the songs offer worship of all these equally. To feel the relevance of this theology and to experience the peace, it brings is intuitive in a gnostic sense and best experienced through the hymns of the church, rather than via a logical treatise of any sort."

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• Gnosticism
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