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Theo Paijmans
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| | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2003 - 10:12 am: | 
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I read that on the criminologist there's an article in 3 parts by one Christopher Smith entitled: the Alembic Connection.
Has anyone read it, is it any good, and what's the main theory of this author?
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Dan Norder
Chief Inspector
Username: Dannorder
Post Number: 602
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 12:58 am: |
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This is an extremely late reply, but I just read the series and decided to go looking to see if the author wrote anything else, and found this thread.
Yes I've read it, it's not any good, and the main theory is that those sneaky occultists in the Golden Dawn took prostitutes who were on their periods to abandoned cemeteries to be slain in Tantric sex rituals so their uteruses could be removed to turn lead into gold and then transported the bodies so that they could be dropped in the form of a cross and Mary Jane Kelly was really in on it and killed someone else in her bed and yada yada yada.
The theory actually tosses out several possibilities, many that contradict each other, but that seems to be the thrust of his arguments. Yet after all that and repeatedly naming Dr. Westcott as the main man behind it all he oddly tacks on a single sentence at the end claiming that Druitt was still the most likely suspect, even though he made no attempts previously to come up with anything that could link Druitt even by association to the types he was talking about. I don't know if he didn't take his own theory that seriously or if he meant that line to be sarcastic.
Dan Norder, Editor
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