The Mistery of Belicena Villca claim his belongings , I had to return them , without discussion , the contents of that chest . But so far no one , except you , has requested reports on the Order , so I have never opened his safety box . What we will do , then , is to examine the contents of the box and try to find some clue .
We immediately went to the study of the late Oskar and , with growing anxiety , I waited for Mrs . Feil to type in the combination of the lock . At last it was opened and the reserved objects were exposed . Oskar Feil ' s lean esoteric heritage consisted of two objects : a book and a vulgar magazine .
It will be difficult for someone to represent my perplexity of that moment . The book was a copy of " Foundations of the Hyperborean Wisdom ”, by Nimrod de Rosario , exactly like the one that Uncle Kurt gave me to read in Santa María , and that I now had in my power . And the magazine , it was a Spot ' s number , three years old .
Mrs . Feil ended up sharing my concern and , not knowing how to content me , or wanting the interview to end as soon as possible , she gave me the two publications . She was convinced , she said , that Oskar Feil would approve of her behavior because I was the nephew of her most beloved Comrade , to whom nothing could be denied .
It is pointless to clarify that I reviewed the book sheet by sheet , and line by line , looking for some secret clue , some cryptographic message , some hidden indication , some key only intended to be interpreted by the Hyperborean Initiates . Very soon I had to rule out that the book offered such a possibility .
And it is pointless to explain that I read and studied all the articles in the magazine , looking there for a clue about the Order of Tyrodal Knights . Very soon I got the same results as with the book : nothing ; not a hint . Unpleasant task the latter , since Spot ' s is a sensationalist magazine of the lowest intellectual or moral level .
Crudely pro-government in its general political line , it lacks defined editorial criteria because its articles are written with the obvious purpose of causing the low blow or the scandal , effects that naturally please its 2,000,000 readers . The ethical limits of the development of the themes , as expected , are determined solely by the legal protections with which their victims manage to defend themselves if they are attacked or for the amount of bribes paid for by the " friends " of cheap advertising . Logically , a magazine like this cannot belong to anyone : its editor-owner is the famous yellow journalist , not precisely " oriental ", Samuel Isaacson , exponent of the most rancid Hebrew prosapia , and declared Zionist . For the copy that had come into my hands , I learned the ins and outs of eight separations of not quite united couples of actors and actresses ; I knew the claims of the Movement of National Liberation of Homosexuals ; I read two different articles on U . F . O . S ., in which , two " Professors in Parapsychology ", assured that its crew members are going to save humanity ; I internalized the details of five murders , three rapes and one statutory rape ; I accessed to the crimes of Nazism , thanks to a biography of Anne Frank and an abbreviated account of her apocryphal " diary "; I saw five critical notes , which actually contained undercover advertising , on leftist-themed movies , and five other notes on ecology and pacifism ; etc ; etc . In truth , there was practically no matter in that the magazine did not intrude with its usual and disgusting vulgarity .
Mein Gott ! What a cesspit was that publication ! Why the Hell would have Oskar Feil kept that copy ? There should be some reason . And this possibility was my only hope .
But what reason ? I had already read it several times : seventy , or more , articles and notes with the indicated synarchic tone . And that I did not mention the incredible and varied series of advertisements about objects from porno-shop ' s and Afro-Brazilian sorcery ; and the endless list of pais , teachers , gurus , magicians , palmists , tarot readers , etc ., who offered all kinds of " spiritual help ", from " solution to relationship problems " or " impotency ", to complex psychological " unblockings ". Of course I did not lend these advertisements the same attention as journalistic articles : there were so many , hundreds of them !
And there was the solution to the enigma ! So in sight , that it seemed like a joke : a practical joke from Nimrod de Rosario !
Suddenly , where I least would have expected , on a page covered with ads offering the " services " of various esoteric schools and teachers , on a page on which I had looked many times without seeing anything , the phrase " Hyperborean Wisdom " stood out . When I carefully inspected the advertisement , I read with surprise the following :
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