![]() He only discovered Agobard because his story was embedded in an occult book Vallée both read and quoted at great length: The Comte de Gabalis (1670) of the Abbé de Villars. ![]() In 1969, Vallée was using anything and everything, no matter how specious, to concoct an ancient astronaut book. Although he did not pursue this line of inquiry, he accidentally came much closer to the truth in his early attempt to throw spaghetti at the wall than he did in his later “scientific” analysis of such works. In 1969, Vallée saw the incident as being related to “a major current of thought distinct from official religion,” which he tied to alchemy, Hermeticism, and the demonic. ![]() Things were a bit different fifty years earlier when Vallée preferred to cast the same story as being inseparable from the folklore that surrounded it. ![]()
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