But the most tragic act of this eerily archetypal conflict was the end game, where the state's refusal to acknowledge or empathize with the Davidian's world-view proved fatal. But despite the pleas of the scholars, the FBI got antsy and stormed the compound the day after Koresh began the document. They thought Koresh was a con man. They couldn't understand that he really believed it. The state could not allow Koresh's revelatory language to mean anything, however, even to himself.
Cults are always mute.
In an intriguing parallel, the Swiss police have yet to release either the content or an analysis of the Solar Temple cassette message found stuck to the farmhouse at Cheiry. Apparently, the police dismissed the tape when they realized it was filled with astrological information. You gotta get someone who understands the symbolism. Yet understanding the symbolism requires allowing the horror to speak. And if we allow ourselves to communicate with the Solar Temple, to attempt to reconstruct its worldview and put it in context, then we may begin to see Jouret's cult not as an isolated aberration, but as an hallucinatory eruption of the apocalyptic sentiment brewing beneath Western civ.