05-10-2008, 05:34 PM
Linda Minor Wrote:I don't think it's as simple as I once did--that it's all about power or profit. I think it begins with a first generation who have a mission, such as to create a new, independent nation. They access whatever tools are available to them from their educational background or confidential sources of banking and family enterprise. They then passed these tools on to sons and sons-in-law (in those days women weren't privy to such things). The focus was on maintaining the status that had been achieved, using whatever methods the new generation could come up with.
Linda, in me you have a very willing 'book-buyer-in-waiting' duly chomping at the bit to read your Colonel House (any idea when it will be published?). Not least because your comments above (that it is not so simple as you once thought) strike me as being very insightful and most likely.
It is not so unusual, I think, that what starts off with the best of intentions get perverted/corrupted along the way. An example of this is the Chinese Triads/Tongs who began life as a resistance movement to overthrow the Manchu Qing dynasty and to restore the Han rule. I bet the same was true of many other secret societies like the Cosa Nostra and IRA etc.
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