Comprehensive and thorough research! It's fascinating to explore the symbols that various cultures have used over the millennia and trace their adoption, reuse and metamorphosis.
I do think however that it's a mistake to give them any real mystical meaning, especially regarding aliens, souls, etc. Priests, rulers and their theorists have always been interested in symbols and the essential meaning of what we find in nature, be it pine cones, snakes or whatever else. This does not mean that they actually embody these meanings. Nothing magical happens to do you if you walk into a room that's probably modelled after a snakes head, and no spell is cast if you drink out of a cup shaped as a pine cone.
Hey my friend, Thank you for taking the time to read and comment I really appreciate it. In the essence of spells I certainly didn't mean real time spells that occur "from drinking out of a cup shaped like a pine cone" the spell I'm talking about is more the illusion of society, for nothing is as it seems. The pine cone itself is simply a representation of the pineal gland and the pineal gland is believed to be connection between the physical and the spiritual realms and as such it displays a meaning and is not a spell. Equally it is not an ideal that is supposed to be practised by the Catholic church, indeed many of these symbols actually display information that is a direct contrast to what they preach.
There is a vast difference between the collective understanding of reality and what is actually occuring in this world. Certainly the world we are born into is not the world we think it is. The symbology is used to display both intent and hidden knowledge and they are not spells. Many of the ancient symbols & shapes associated with the esoteric are physical representations of processes that occur in nature and hint at a deep awareness of universal constants. Mathmatics, geometry and numbers, the building blocks of life. This harks back to ancient wisdom and science discovered in the first religion and indeed the upper echeons of the power structure are still following the dark duality of this religion and they believe this to be the truth. Certainly the very concept of a secret society is to hold hidden knowledge from the masses as a way of empowering the few. Knowledge is power and it's being used to empower an agenda. Thanks again.