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London-Based ‘Church’ Slows Similarity to Manson Tenets BY JERRY COHEN Times Staff Writer Another bizarre cult is being investigated by detectives checking for possible links between the recent slaying of two voung members of the Church of Scientology and the Tate and LaBianca murders. it was learned Tuesday. Parallels between the three savage crimes are philosophical as well as physical. As a result, investigators are dipping into the lore of cults which practice black magic and_ glorify sexual excess. Under particular scrutiny is a religious cult which is fiercely anti- establishment and whose beliefs include Satan worship. It is an off- shoot of Scientology, but is disa- vowed by practitioners of that mystical, quasi-scientifie order. The cult is known both as "The Process" and the Final Church of Judgment. Its members are nick- named “mind benders," and they claim to be in direct contact with both Lucifer and Christ. Detectives have been struck by the similarities between its philoso- phies and the occultism of Charles Manson and his brand of hippies. The cult is based in London, where English authorities, despite great cutical presente, have recognized it a te church. But it has staged major recruiting drives in America, which suggests the possibility of cross fertilization between it and the Manson "family.* Manson and five members of his clan were indicted Monday in the Tate and La Bianca murders, all of which had overtones of dark ritual- ism and anti-affluence. Manson is known to have dabbled in Scientology, then to have gone on to more eccentric cultism which apparently included the power to order the execution of those he considered unworthy to live. The slayings of the two young Scientologists appear as lacking in motive as did the Tate and La Bianca slaughters when first discov- ered, The bodies of Doreen Gaul, 19, and James Sharp, 15, were found Nov. 5 in an alley between Arapahoe St. and Magnolia Ave., south of 11th St. They had been murdered elsewhere and dumped in the alley, only a few blocks from the separate residences they occupied in the Westlake dis- trict. The investigation into their deaths fell to a team of Rampart Division detectives headed by Lt. Earl Deem- er. The officers were immediately.in- trigued by the selection of th =