16-05-2011, 05:20 AM
Charles Drago Wrote: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.
CD, Would you mind summarizing what are getting at in a few sentences for the uninitiated among us? Like me for example. Maybe say a little bit about this spiritual core which still continues to defy?