Occult Profiles: Douglas Evans Coe, Founder of "The Family"

PARANORMAL SEARCHERS NOTE: Due to Mr Coe's connections and undisputed influence we would rate him as one of the most dangerous men in America.

Douglas Evans Coe (born October 20, 1928) is the reclusive leader and "first brother" of The Family, Coe also has been referred to as the "stealth Billy Graham." In 2005, Coe was named one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in the United States by Time magazine Although Coe is not an ordained minister,^[4] D. Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University, surveyed more than 300 top evangelical politicians in Washington and one in three said The Family was one of the most influential Christian groups in the nation's capital. According to Lindsay, "there is no other organization like the Fellowship, especially among religious groups, in terms of its access or clout among the country's leadership."
Very little is known about Coe's life and he routinely denies requests for interviews.^[6] He was born and raised in the State of Oregon. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Willamette University. While enrolled as a college student, Coe met Dean of Men and future Fellowship associate and Senator Mark O. Hatfield. A former banker, Coe became involved with Young Life, a campus youth ministry, in Salem, Oregon, and went on to start a chapter of "Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship" with Roy Cook while enrolled at Willamette University.^[8] Coe and Cook became involved in laymen’s groups of various kinds and helped establish a “fellowship house” in Salem. They met Dr. Abraham Vereide when he visited Salem and his vision of a "leadership led by God."

What make David Coe interesting is that, under cover a "Christian Dogma" he is truning large swaths of the political leadership into followers of the Alexister Crowley tenants.

An Example: "Let's say I hear you raped three little girls. What would I think of you?" The man guessed that Coe would probably think that he was a monster. "No," answered Coe, "I wouldn't." Why? Because, as a member of the Family, he's among what Family leaders refer to as the "new chosen." If you're chosen, the normal rules don't apply. "

Counseling Rep. Tiahrt, Doug Coe offered Pol Pot and Osama bin Laden as men whose commitment to their causes is to be emulated. Preaching on the meaning of Christ's words, he says, "You know Jesus said 'You got to put Him before mother-father-brother sister? Hitler, Lenin, Mao, that's what they taught the kids. Mao even had the kids killing their own mother and father. But it wasn't murder. It was for building the new nation. The new kingdom."

If sexual license was all the Family offered the C Street men, however, that would merely be seedy and self-serving. But Family men are more than hypocritical. They're followers of a political religion that embraces elitism, disdains democracy, and pursues power for its members the better to "advance the Kingdom." They say they're working for Jesus, but their Christ is a power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway savior not many churchgoers would recognize. Sexual peccadilloes aside, the Family acts today like the most powerful lobby in America that isn't registered as a lobby -- and is thus immune from the scrutiny attending the other powerful organizations like Big Pharma and Big Insurance that exert pressure on public policy.
The Family likes to call itself a "Christian Mafia," but it began 74 years ago as an anti-New Deal coalition of businessmen convinced that organized labor was under the sway of Satan. The Great Depression, they believed, was a punishment from God for what they viewed as FDR's socialism. The Family's goal was the "consecration" of America to God, first through the repeal of New Deal reforms, then through the aggressive expansion of American power during the Cold War. They called this a "Worldwide Spiritual Offensive," but in Washington, it amounted to the nation's first fundamentalist lobby. Early participants included Southern Sens. Strom Thurmond, Herman Talmadge and Absalom Willis Robertson -- Pat Robertson's father. Membership lists stored in the Family's archive at the Billy Graham Center at evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois show active participation at any given time over the years by dozens of congressmen.

Today's roll call is just as impressive: Men under the Family's religio-political counsel include, in addition to Ensign, Coburn and Pickering, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham, both R-S.C.; James Inhofe, R-Okla., John Thune, R-S.D., and recent senators and high officials such as John Ashcroft, Ed Meese, Pete Domenici and Don Nickles. Over in the House there's Joe Pitts, R-Penn., Frank Wolf, R-Va., Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., and John R. Carter, R-Texas. Historically, the Family has been strongly Republican, but it includes Democrats, too. There's Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, for instance, a vocal defender of putting the Ten Commandments in public places, and Sen. Mark Pryor, the pro-war Arkansas Democrat responsible for scuttling Obama's labor agenda. Sen. Pryor explained to me the meaning of bipartisanship he'd learned through the Family: "Jesus didn't come to take sides. He came to take over." And by Jesus, the Family means the Family.  The Family has also been connected with "The Process" a Satanic Church founded in 1966.
The Aleister Crowley connection: Coe's teaching fall remarkably in line with Crowley:
Whose basic tenants can be encapsulated:

• "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" (AL I:40) and
• "Love is the law, love under will" (AL I:57)

Thelema is a philosophical, mystical, and cultural system that is based upon a seemingly simple premise: do what thou wilt. This phrase, called the Law of Thelema, is not to be interpreted as a license to indulge in whim, but rather as a mandate to discover and fulfill one's essential nature or path in life, which is called True Will (those who are dedicated to this path are called Thelemites). This Will is the expression of one's deepest, most genuine self which acts in perfect accord with the Universe.

The difference here is that "The Family" has suborned "self" with serving the"The Family's" interests. Making Coe even more dangerous than Crowley.