bigmoog wrote:* O rdo T empli O rientis [do a google]
And if you take the Rosicrucians (see Mars Polaris story, C.R. = Christian Rosenkreuz, G.B. = Gautama Buddha) as the connecting element, you get this
Echnaton/Akhenaten ==> Rosicrusians ===> O.T.O.
Here's the connecting element between Akhenaten and the Rosicrucians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMORC
and here's the connection between them and O.T.O.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_Cross
On the other hand (and that's why I think the reference to Ordo Templis Orientis could be just Edgar having a little fun with abbreviations!):
"One Times One" might be about Echnaton introducing the first monotheistic religion (see Wikipedia article) on planet Earth: 1 x 1 - meaning "The One God" or maybe also "We're all One". Something in that direction.
Does somebody have any idea what the "Gleeful poets crying softly" could be about? I have no clue so far. And why this gloomy cover artwork?