Hamblin E-book, Installment 2

Letting your writing leave is hard

The Wednesday, September 17, 1980 edition of the Tucson Citizen featured articles on transportation planning and freeways, with the births listed on page 4C. At 1:37 p.m. on September 15, 1980, David Lee Hamblin and his wife Roselle became parents to a girl that they would name Rachel Rosa Lee Hamblin. The names were an inheritance: Rosa was for Roselle, Rachel’s mother; Carma Rose Anderson, Rachel’s maternal grandmother; and Rosabelle Winegar, Rachel’s great-grandmother, the first wife of her great-grandfather Gerrit de Jong, Jr. Lee was a bequest in nomenclature from Rachel’s grandfather and father, both of whom shared the middle name Lee.

If the victims statements written by Rachel and her sisters Eliza and Katherine were truthful, Rachel would have been subject to a maternal blessing, dedicating her to Satan, followed by a baptism in blood and water and a confirmation that involved sexual abuse. Rachel’s second victim statement described the blessing and baptism of her youngest sister Miriam.

“Plastic sheets and black cloth were laid out on Richard Anderson’s living room floor underneath 2 basins of water and blood. Miriam was undressed and placed in the black cloth naked and she started to scream. Carma [Anderson] did the Matriarchal Birth Blessing. Then Richard placed Miriam in the water basin and cupped water over her, saying the blessing with his left arm to the square. Then he did the same in blood, placed Miriam on the black towel, and dried his hands. Next, the Elders confirmed her (Richard blessed her on her head while David [Hamblin], Uncle Clyde [Sullivan], Dave Sheets, Norman [van Wagenen], Joe [Bennion], and other men rubbed her on all the places where Lucifer’s Spirit would reside.) Then David stated that he was the true Paterfamilias of the child and that she will forever be subject to him, as he is subject to Lucifer. He sealed her to him and invoked “The Wisdom of Parents." Then David repeated his lines (that she will be subject to him, etc.). Then he, Joe, and Richard opened their pants and I was ordered to hold Miriam up so they could put the end of their penises into her mouth, alternating, as they continued chanting. Then they each licked her vagina and then put their fingers in it (signifying their complete dominance). Then they each masturbated until they ejaculated over her. (They are supposed to try and time it together.)”

The ceremony was performed within the group for a specific purpose:

“We were taught that a baby must be dedicated to Satan at birth and then baptized and confirmed. They said it must be "cleansed" right away since it is coming directly from Heaven. At the confirmation, the child is filled with Satan’s spirit in special places throughout the body - genitals, bowels, stomach, heart, throat, forehead, with the main Elder’s hands on top of the head.”

Within the first week of a child’s life, the parents and extended family members would gather to dedicate the child to Satan, then perform a water and blood baptism, followed by a confirmation. The group’s commitment to its ideology was notable in that the ideology extended to the requirement of sexually abusing a newborn. For Rachel Lee Hamblin, her childhood was defined by her family’s commitment to a Luciferian ideology operating alongside the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In Tucson, her dedication, baptism, and confirmation would likely have been carried out by her paternal family, including her uncle Steven Hamblin, his wife Jeannie Hamlin, her grandfather Robert Lee Hamblin and his wife Mary June Adams Hamblin, and any other family members who could make the trip.

Abuse was practiced from the earliest days of a child’s life within the Church of Satan, in order to normalize the practices of abuse and in order to condition the children of the group to participate in abuse. At the time Rachel Lee Hamlin witnessed the dedication, baptism, and confirmation of her youngest sibling Miriam through a sexual assault, Rachel would have been just 13 years of age. During her 13 years of life, Rachel Hamblin was exposed to numerous instances of sadistic sexual abuse, animal torture and mutilation, all aimed at matriculation into full adult membership within her familial satanic group.

The importance of familial bloodlines is a recurring theme within the Hamblin Victims Statements:

“We were taught our families were of a royal birthright and among Lucifer’s elect and elite in the pre-mortal world. Redacted and Redacted Anderson especially stressed this about their superior generational lines. They would show us stapled pages of geneology that had been marked for CS ordinances and other significations. They said they had their own system of red and black dots that they would put next to their names. Our charge was to bring as many souls to Satan as we possibly could. This was done through the living and the dead. Our Redacted Carma spoke often about her Redacted, Gerrit deJong, Jr., who had learned about many, many languages and was, they said, “helping us” proselytize in "the spirit world” and bring more spirits to Satan. Redacted also worshiped Oliver Cowdry as having been an elect member of the Church (CS) in his day. They also spoke about some prophecy they hoped to see fulfilled about Joseph Smith’s decedents joining.”

The doctrines of Latter Day Saints with respect to a premortal existence were appropriated by the members of the Church of Satan, inverted to the opposite end. Those within the Church of Satan were the satanic elites of the premortal existence, just as Orson Pratt had outlined when he explained the purpose of plural marriage in 1852 to those who were the elites of the premortal existence with respect to their obedience to Heavenly Father. The elites who listened to Pratt in 1852 were those Saints who would be called to plural marriage by Brigham Young in order to provide the elite premortals goodly parentage. Rachel Lee Hamblin’s elders believed that they had been designated as premortal satanic elites, among Lucifer’s elect. As such, the elders within the Hamblin and Anderson families taught Rachel, Eliza, and Katherine Hamblin a Luciferian mythology that turned traditional Latter Day Saint doctrine on its head:

Lucifer was the firstborn of God’s children, the eldest Prince (older than Jehovah), and it was his birthright to take God’s place after this experience on earth. He had a great deal of power and authority in Heaven and many influential and mighty spirits who served loyally under him in the organization of gods. God wanted all his spirit offspring to follow his progression and become gods like Him. He called a Great Counsel and He and others spoke before the host of Heaven. God had a plan and many of the Princes of Heaven spoke, including Lucifer and Jehovah. Lucifer spoke and it was well received by his followers, some members of the Counsel, and many, many others. Lucifer presented a superior plan. It would bring all of God’s "so-called beloved" children back to him, having received bodies. Our spirits had already progressed over the ages of time and we (the high ranking ones), as spirits, were not far behind the knowledge and power of Heavenly Father. God was unrighteously protective of his throne. He greedily wanted to stay on his throne past His natural time. Jehovah, bitter and jealous of Lucifer’s power and station, had plotted against Lucifer and sought his birthright and rightful throne. Jehovah "beguiled” God and many on the Council with flattery and they sustained his request (the only way he could have defeated Lucifer). Jehovah had also successfully amassed many spirits who were loyal to him. Jehovah turned on Satan and urged God to throw him out of Heaven so that he would not threaten Jehovah’s rise to power. This caused a great outcry in Heaven. Lucifer had many, many followers and admirers who swore allegiance to him - both openly and secretly after these events. Lucifer was threatened and he and his powerful and loyal officers (his "elect”) were forced to consider their options. He knew he would soon assume the role of “Satan” (a title and role played in many other worlds throughout the eternities). Some of his elect were chosen to accompany him out of Heaven and serve him as spirits. In this plot of necessity, others publically accepted and sustained Jehovah in order to come to earth to receive a body. A plan was formed for the righteous overthrow of Jehovah and then God. A loving parent would not make it so hard if he really wanted all his children to return to live with Him. Lucifer desired and still desires the complete success of all his brothers and sisters. God the Father decreed many "rules of the game" that Lucifer was bound to (such as the fact that the greater one’s dedication to either kingdom, the greater and greater power one can obtain within that kingdom). In Lucifer’s mercy and through obedience to him, one can rise to a high ranking in his kingdom much more easily and quickly, all while enjoying the fruits of His service (i.e. Power, Fame, Wealth, Satisfaction of Desire, etc.). Lucifer’s great and elect followers are the only ones who are promised a high status and ranking in his kingdom on the earth and through progression in his future kingdom. Lucifer promises to lead his church to victory over God the Father.

For the average Latter Day Saint, such teaching and beliefs are incomprehensible because they lack any antecedent in mainline LDS teaching. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is unusual among purportedly Christian denominations in that it is not a belief system that emphasizes the primacy or inerrancy of its own scriptures. Saints are taught that current revelation supersedes past revelation, that the words of the current prophet and apostles trump past revelation. The current prophet has no burden of adherence or conformity to past revelation; his current prophetic utterances do not have to align with prior doctrine and theology.