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FourWinds Oct 18, 2001 11:51:48
Replying to RiotGibbon

great quote from the book about The Temple Of Mithras ...

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If the present Temple stands for anything, it is the symbol of how the City has lost it; corrupted the integrity of its founding greed, its pattern of ritual and sacrifice, decent human vices, by yielding entirely to secrecy, cynicism, surveillance. Unprepared to let the past go, the offshore investors and short-term profit takers have deliberately enslaved every artefact they can claw out of the ground. Walks are permitted only on agreed paths. The ancient gates, energy sluices, have been replaced tawdry plastic barriers. A policy of deliberate misalignment (the Temple of Mithras, London Stone, the surviving effigies from Ludgate) has violated the integrity of the City's sacred geometry; leaving, in the place of well-ordered chaos, regimented anonymity - a climate in which corruption thrives. Poisoned weather, sick skies, confused humans.
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http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/browse.php?site_id=632

Nice find RG

R RiotGibbon
RiotGibbon Oct 18, 2001 12:02:29
Replying to FourWinds

I've been hassling McGrail for weeks to let me put this site in ... I went there the day before the first Discover Odin, on the way to somewhere else. Wheels have been ticking over ever since, until I finally found the book on a remote shelf last night

you should all go out and buy it - it's stunning

I'm ready to defend my inclusion of a Roman temple in TMA until the death, but only after you read the full quote from Iain Sinclair. Sort of speaks for itself after that ...

come on, the lot of you :-)

RG