14-12-2009, 11:00 PM
Helen Reyes Wrote:John: I think no one is quite certain about the provenance of the Protocols. It first appears in history in Peterburg, if I recall right. There was some reason to believe it was a translation, but whether from French, I don't know and I don't think anyone does. Russia was very francophile in those days among the upper classes, and there is evidence of a partially fake Priory of Sion in France, in its later incarnation very much a part of the extreme French right wing's lexicon of intrigue. The Dreyfuss Affair is a nice fit, it's aesthetically pleasing. Importing that sort of divisiveness, and France was totally divided over Dreyfuss, might have been the desire of forces close to the Tsar, pursuing an anti-Semitic agenda in the Russian military and government, or purely for personal reasons.
I'm positive some scholars have done work on the origins of the Protocols, but I'm not familiar with their work. The disinformative but interesting Holy Blood, Holy Grail does connect them with the French Priory, and contends the contents were misinterpreted in Russia, that this was a plan for world domination by a secret French society a la the Templars, militant Cathars or disenfranchised Knights of some kind in Languedoc. David and Jan I hope will correct me if I misstated what Holy Blood claimed.
Far more intriguing to my mind is the suggestion made by British PoS researcher and author, Guy Patton, that the Protocols were originally a Martinist document written or authorised by Papus and misinterpreted (whether knowingly or not) by Nilus etc. It is a fact that there was a Martinist Lodge in Moscow frequented by Russian royals of the time (I think the Tsar from memory but don't count on that), and that Papus travelled to Moscow to attend this Lodge prior to the Protocols coming into existence (again from memory so caution is advised).
I know and have met Guy and consider his research to be good and he may well be right about this. I certainly think it is a real possibility.
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