Ickes is functioning as a pied piper/strawman.

He speaks 'truths' with a twist and is to be ridiculed for it, throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

It's actually quite clever, but they're clever little cleavers.

Just as you've done with my response, take everything with a grainbin full of salt.

I'd like to add that this same thing was done on a deeper, grander scale by the likes of Crowley, Blavatsky, Gurdjieff, et al........

They compiled ancient writings and twisted them into a ply-able system to use as magick for control.

Orthodox priests and others as white magicians, luciferian gnosis, etc, as black.

White as female. Black as male. (things flip as they enter a sphere)

The Christ is Androgyne and so BOTH miss the mark.

They imitate each other as mirrored images.

Third party intermediaries to deep ancient truths are a pitfall for most, and magicians take advantage of it.