16-05-2011, 12:05 AM
Fascinating.
Jan, when you write, "I include metaphor as a possibility because one path of investigation of the OAS and Gladio in France leads to Priory of Sion metaphysical territory: AMORC, Synarcism, La Rose des Vents and Arc-en-ciel mysticism, even the Order of the Solar Temple," you drive toward the spiritual core of the phenomena we study -- phenomena which continue to defy, over centuries, our expectations of discovery of solely material methods and motives.
I give you Pont D'Alma and its most recent ritual significance.
Vieil État-Major ... Another layer of the onion, albeit one much closer, perhaps, to that stinking core.
Jan, when you write, "I include metaphor as a possibility because one path of investigation of the OAS and Gladio in France leads to Priory of Sion metaphysical territory: AMORC, Synarcism, La Rose des Vents and Arc-en-ciel mysticism, even the Order of the Solar Temple," you drive toward the spiritual core of the phenomena we study -- phenomena which continue to defy, over centuries, our expectations of discovery of solely material methods and motives.
I give you Pont D'Alma and its most recent ritual significance.
Vieil État-Major ... Another layer of the onion, albeit one much closer, perhaps, to that stinking core.