'just a bit too unsubtle for that time'.

Hm, you seem to prefer the understatement, Gall.

Yes, I agree that no shame was involved on their side - it was being projected by me on their behalf in my post, in which I momentarily relived the feeling I originally had on reading Glen's effort.

The whole revisionary episode of Passages and Glen's 'history' seems at first sight incredibly dim-witted and cack-handed.

Unless, of course, one were to see it as a long-term strategy of skipping over one generation of devotees, while planning on how to appeal to whole future ones, for whom Passages, if it were to eventually remanifest, would then become the accepted truth, with fewer voices remaining to contradict it.