symbolic 55: old world order
I was doing some research on Operation Paperclip and what happened to the Nazi hierarchy following WWII and keep stumbling upon outlandish possibilities that make what I have in mind for THE BOOK OF LIES seem all too possible. Isn't that the old saw? Truth is stranger than fiction. I get a little worried occassionally that I might not be paranoid enough.
This is only tangentially related to things, but worth reading if you wonder who THEY might be. Jeffrey Sharlet wrote an expose on "the Family" entitled "Jesus Plus Nothing" for Harper's Magazine that has been posted online in its entirety. Stick with it, especially for page 7. Tell me you aren't frightened.
Back to fiction where it is probably safer. Now G., before he got tapped on the head and shuffled off to the sanitarium, came to America following WWII where he, as a young French lad, spent some time in the Resistance. As the spiritual arm of the US armed forces swept through Europe in their attempt to retrieve and preserve some of the more important artifacts of the occult history of Europe, G. and other "perceptive" lads were recruited to assist in the recovery and cataloguing effort. Now, let's be tunnel-visioned bureacrats for a moment. Why do all this cataloguing and ordering when you know someone has done it already? And if you're going to use their notes, why not absorb the very guys who made those notes in the first place? Yeah, if Operation Paperclip could absorb Nazi scientists into the Cold War effort and the "Family" could discover, as founder Abraham Vereide noted in a letter to his wife in the late 1940's, that members of the Nazi Party could be just as useful with their unswerving devotion to the new Kingdom of Christ as they had been with their adoration of their previous figurehead, then finding new homes for the occult wizards of the Third Reich isn't too much of a stretch.
G.'s problem -- which will soon be Jack's problem -- is that this is supposed to be a secret.
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SYMBOLIC
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