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The unknown narrator wrote:Men like Hugh Nibley were no more and no less an auditor of inspiration and we came to sit at their feet.[/color]

"Auditor", as far as I know, is not a Mormon term, and it is certainly not a term in mainline Christianity. But it is used in Scientology, isn't it?

INcidentally, I noticed that Kishkumen was addressed as " Right Reverend". This is an address reserved in Episcopalian circles for bishops. No-one would address a university chaplain with that title (I can be very certain on thsi point). This is the sort of slip that any Mormon might make,...

I was hoping someone would make something of the clues to the narrator's identity in this last entry. Most specifically - One could say that my relationship with Daniel was the median value between what Socrates was to Alcibiades and what Abelard was to Heloise. During the first decade of this cent...

Honestly, there are only a few people I know personally who could pull this off. Several of them already post on this board. Right away I felt like I was reading our dear consul, Symmachus. But there are a couple of other people of my acquaintance in the larger Mormon world who have the impressive ...

I assumed it was you, Kishkumen! In a sense, yes. I think he may have been the first person of this era to whom the name Faustus was applied (obviously in ancient Rome the name was more common, in particular I am thinking of the son of Sulla Felix, Faustus Sulla). The thing is, this can be a pointle...

Also, the avatar Agromanticus comes from Trithemius' description of Georgius Sabellicus, a vainglorious fraud who claimed he could perform the miracles of Christ. It does mean "field/earth diviner," which would be not an altogether inappropriate allusion to Joseph Smith's activities. Aha ...

The authorial voice interests me. It's a parodic version of a cranky and self-absorbed old man. The obvious assumption is that it's Professor Peterson, but the prose style is very different from DCP's. I'm inclined to think that a specific person is being satirised, but who? Maybe there is a clue in...

I'm finding the satire quite well-encoded, although parts of it can be detected by the Nevermo eye.

Is this the sort of thing that you people talk about in the Celestial Room?

"What has Athens to do with Salt Lake?" is a hat-tip to Tertullian's famous "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?", which was an expression of a separatist, anti-Hellenic strand in early Christianity. This is consistent with the LDS talking point that Joseph Smith's restored gos...

THis is something to do with Rosicrucians. The image is Christian Rosenkreuz. You can see the cross with the rose on the door, and the initials "CR". I'm guessing that Rev. Kishkumen is behind this. The idea of the blind man who can see things with his inner eye feels classical - maybe the...