Hamblin E-Book Introduction

Ask, and you shall receive

Author’s Note: A while back, one of my readers asked for an introductory overview with respect to the LDS Church of Satan. I decided to write an e-book, and I’ve been drafting it in what little spare time I have as I continue to unravel the story of David Lee Hamblin and his family and friends. I am more or less satisfied with the opening chapter, some 3,276 words in length, which provides a bit of a history where the Hamblin allegations are concerned for those who aren’t Latter Day Saints. It is, in my mind, a succinct overview of the relevant portions of church doctrine and history which pertain to the LDS Church of Satan’s inversions of both.

It’s presented below for readers to consider. The next chapter will deal with familial connections within the LDS Church of Satan, and from there I will examine the allegations and the evidence that supports the Hamblin sisters’ claims. As always, the most difficult part of writing is pressing publish and letting a final draft be a final draft. Eventually, I get tired of tinkering with writing and let it go. The first chapter is at that stage, so enjoy.

Provo, 2012.

On January 20, 2012, a young woman sat in an interview room at the Provo Police Department. She was there to accuse her father, a former psychologist, of raping and sexually assaulting her. Sgt. Dan Dove of the Provo Police conducted the interview, and entered his report into the Provo Police reporting system on March 7, 2012. Dove’s report referenced an initial report from Anthony Howell that was forwarded to him by Dave Sturgill of the Utah County Attorney’s Office. Over four interviews, Dove listened as the victim detailed hundreds of sexual assaults from 1986 to 1999, and she began to fill out statements describing her abuse in graphic detail. In total, the victim detailed fourteen experiences of violent rape and sexual abuse, and she alleged that her sisters had also been raped and abused. When Dove’s report was entered into the reporting system on March 7, 2012, he had only spoken to one sister; the youngest, who went by the name Mimi. Mimi came in with her mother, who had since divorced the girls’ father. She did not have any independent recollection of abuse at the hands of her father.

The story that emerged when Dove did interview the other sisters was graphic, and appeared to defy credulity. Three women detailed horrific abuse at the hands of their parents, their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and their extended families as well as others within their parents’ network. Their parents, both Latter Day Saints, had purportedly belonged to a group operating within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that called itself The Church of Satan, or the Group. The three women detailed a systematic technique of abuse designed to train children to become adult members of their family’s satanic group. Four little girls had been systematically forced to torture, mutilate, and dismember their family’s pets in order to demonstrate their loyalty to a satanic cult, one with its own detailed mythology that inverted Latter Day Saint belief. In the Church of Satan’s belief system, Lucifer rather than Christ was the rightful heir to the throne of Heavenly Father, and Lucifer’s followers on earth were actively working to enable him to obtain his inheritance. For those outside of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the inversion and its foundation would have appeared too strange for consideration, as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints differed from mainline Christianity in important ways.

THE RESTORED CHURCH AND THE BOOK OF MORMON: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

In 1830, Joseph Smith, Jr. established The Church of Christ, which would later come to be known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In its earliest iteration, Smith’s church did not appear all that different from mainline Christianity, save its contention that another testament of Jesus Christ existed. Smith claimed to have translated that testament from golden plates, into what would become known as the Book of Mormon.