13-12-2009, 03:33 PM
John Bevilaqua Wrote:By the way SKOM is considered by many to be a "fake order or mimic order" without the proper credentials, with no documented lineage and with no one to "put under their Protectorate" except whomever they choose.
Yes, in these cases it is the Vatican itself who regulate these orders and who say who is fake and who is not. The accepted authority for all these Orders both Catholic and Protestant is a gentleman living and working (he owns an art gallery) in NYC - Guy Stair Sainty. He is a pompus man imo, who in private correspondence with me tried rather hard (I thought anyway) to defend the SMOM - as well as the British royal family - of it Nazi elements. See HERE for more.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14