Thorn, I found what you have described on Google images (crystal cathedral pulpit).  It does not trequire a streatch of the imagination to see the Baphomet-looking images in the marble.

Pax, there is a technique of marble cutting - I'm wracking my brain to recall the term-it's an ancient technique for creating patterns.

At St. Matthew's Cathedral in DC where we were married the technique is also used, but it looks like the Shroud of Turin.  I tried to find some examples of images without luck so far.



 

As a church the building is really, really weird and completely secular. I'm a little bit familiar with it because years ago I used to travel alot and would often be in a hotel on a Sunday morning. I used to watch Schuller because everything about him was so corny and superficial alongside the traditional Catholic faith.

BTW: One morning I was surprised to hear him say that his guest speaker was Abp. Sheen! Sheen came on in his full Catholic bishop's gear (red cape and all) and preached to the positive thinking protestants what seemed to be a perfectly orthodox Catholic sermon on the Cross. You probably can find it somewhere on the internet. Schuller mentioned that he had always been a fan of Sheen (!), and in the news reports about his group's bankruptcy I saw a photo of a statue of Sheen he had put into the church.

In any event the building is about as "Catholic" as an airport or a mall, and I think there is even an arrangement where a wall can be opened up that allows people to stay in their cars as at a drive in. and watch the service from there. If the Novus Ordo still had confessions, they could add drive thru confessions, which we used to joke about as kids. "Stop and tell or go to hell!" (if the NO believed in hell!).

Thanks, Elizabeth, for the further information.  Interesting!  I always thought it was just coincidence about the veins, but what a coincidence!  And the most prominent ram's head right under the pulpit to me spoke volumes.
Pax, you don't believe that the devil has power?!

There are many other, mostly New Age, things about the Crystal Cathedral.  If you walk around outside on the left & to the back, there's a round tower.  When you walk in, there in the center on a pedestal is a huge crystal.  I think the tower is called a Meditation Chapel, but it's been years since I saw this so I may be wrong.  Then outside their school there is a statue.  Of Christ with the little children?  No, if I remember it's of Mary Magdeline!  I love Mary Magdeline but I thought one of Christ - suffer the little children..... would be more apropos in front of a school.  It just struck me as odd.  

I don't know if you'll be able to make it out in pictures, but look on the right in pictures of the inside of the Cathedral, right under the pulpit on the veined pink marble.  There you will see in the veins a very good 'picture' of a ram's head complete with horns.  It's an excellent figure of Satan.

I should correct you. That's a goat like head, not a ram. I missed it at first because I was looking for a spiral pattern. lol

Ram's horns spiral. Goat horns grow upward.

Goat's head - so much the better!  You know - sheep & the goats?!

btw, when I first saw this years ago, I sent a picture and information to National Enquirer and other such papers.  I thought that since everyone was seeing the faces of Jesus & Mary all over the place and getting money for it, they'd be interested in seeing this.  Wrong.  They wouldn't touch it.  It's OK to chuckle over Catholics seeing things but leave 'Rev.' Schuller alone.  He's untouchable.

Oh good, there's a pic online --



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