There was an elderly American author years ago that wrote about the pre-moslem mystery school brotherhood in that neck of the... started to say "woods" but that hardly seems fitting... any how, the cats that run things there behind the scenes in much the same way as the mystery school cats have run things here behind what used to be the veneer of Christian civilization, uh, whatever the heck it is we've morphed into now. So any way, the author wrote about the institutions there and how things were run. Now it's been too long and I cannot recommember the author, much less a book he wrote. If any of you guys do happen to know who the author might have been please yell.