Here me out here, but with what facts we know to be true about Adrenochrome, perhaps there's some truth in the "myths" about vampires? I'm not stating this as a fact, I'm just suggesting it may be true. I know it sounds crazy, but with everything else that's happened in the past 10 years or so, is it really THAT crazy?
Maybe that's what's at the head of the cabal. A bunch of vampiric canaanites who have used some kind of super adrenochrome to stay alive for hundreds of years at a time. And the adrenochrome that their lackies are allowed to use is some kind of diluted version.
It would also make sense if you consider how hollywood has spent literal decades changing the image of "vamipres" from blood sucking evil monsters, to emo tween heart throbs and sexy day walkers. We know the cabal uses hollywood to change public perception of various topics, so to me this makes WAY too much sense.
Of course I could be going into an autistic overdrive and overthinking things. But to be honest pre-Epstein I would have never thought that the world was controlled by a network of pedophiles. So suffice to say, I try to not dismiss anything without at least considering it first these days.
Feel free to discuss and put in your two cents.
Correct, but make sure to not fully decouple the physical aspects.
Have you heard the phrase "Worth its weight in gold"?
Gold is the symbol for invention and potential.
Consider:
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/gold
Gold is what the alchemists call any substance which dreams are made of in its raw form. Star dust.
Think of it more in terms of Opportunity, Discovery, and as a Treasure to pursue. A McGuffin, perhaps.
How, then might we relate this to children?
Because children are like the blank slate, which can be molded and bashed into any shape or form of your pleasing. Similarly to how gold can be used in crafts.
Within a child rests infinite potential. If you can harvest it, and turn it into something substantial. You can turn them into a Living Stone upon which rests your Empire.
Britney Spears comes to mind...
We're talking Philosopher's Stones here.
As for taking it literally versus figuratively, I have to say that it's both.
They harvest adrenochrome from children. They harvest their blood. They harvest gold from children. Both spiritual gold, as described above, and actual, vulgar gold.
Consider the legendary city of El Dorado. A city paved in gold. Where did they get that gold from? Well, taking one look at the blood drenched Ziggurats should give you a clue.
Make no mistake, they do also believe that by drinking deeply of a child's freshly squeezed juices they will be able to steal the potential and creative capacities of that child.
In order to Create Great Works, the fabled Magnum Opus, one needs a store of Creative energies to do so. They honestly believe they can steal those Creative Energies from children and then use those energies in order to produce Creative Works.
They necessarily must do this, mind you, because Evil cannot Create. Evil must steal from the Creative in order to proceed in its enterprises.
The catch 22 with the Philosopher's Stone is that only those who have no need of it will be able to find it. In other words, a human's most inspired works often come from a place of love of the craft rather than out of a desperate need to fulfill their desires. In other words, you can't merely catch lightning in a bottle.
this resonates fairly well with an ages old tradition of keeping talented students by masters and pushing their creative works as their own. Figuratively it will be definitely true, and I can totally imagine at least some of adepts practicing ritual murders to get the same effect.
For more insight, since you mention the word "talent"
Look up "talent" in the bible.
See how often it is associated with gold.
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=talent&version=GNV