If you some­times won­der what the hell Alf Rune is going on about (and to be hon­est, we all do at times), a link or two might help. When he recently pos­ted about con­spir­acy the­or­ies regard­ing the “all-see­ing eyes through­out Civic Square”, we had to ask him where the hell he heard about that.

The answer is a web page called “Occult Sym­bol­ism in Wel­ling­ton” from some­thing or someone called “Sov­er­eign Mind”. It starts with pecu­li­ar eye-like geo­met­ries in aer­i­al pho­tos, moves on to occult pyr­am­ids, Free­ma­sonry, Vat­ic­an pineal gland sym­bol­ism and pagan erot­i­cism in the Nikau palms, and ends up drag­ging the Majest­ic Centre and Bee­hive into the vast con­spir­acy. But the high (or low point) is when the author accuses Cap­it­al E of being an Illu­minati lair for satan­ic rituals and vir­gin sac­ri­fices.

Does any­one know who’s behind this (the site, not the fiendish plots)? Are they ser­i­ous, or is it a wind-up? If the lat­ter, it seems rather an elab­or­ate under­tak­ing.

But what if they’re right?! What oth­er archi­tec­tur­al occult­ism and evil sym­bols are lurk­ing around us, hid­den in plain sight in Wel­ling­ton’s geo­metry?