Last point is the easiest to address: It’s just the standard salutation that the OOA uses. Presumably we are honoring the Oracles and Anoch directly with this glory.
We really haven’t figured out the answers to many of your questions. Tension, for all its glory, is still in it’s infancy. Whatever it is going to be, we have been repeatedly made aware that it hasn’t fully started yet, we’re only in the introductory stages. So answers are going to be sparse.
With that said, the OOA has something behind it. It’s something that is enough to attract hundreds or possibly thousands of members into a secretive group that has teachings that are unclear. Whatever this is, it’s enough that anyone attempting to join has their lives essentially laid bare to them and anyone who is a part of it faces extreme consequences for betraying The Institute. If you want a reason to join the OOA more than to uncover what the mystery is, I’m afraid you won’t find one. Not yet, at least.
Through this process we’ve met people that we care about. Addison Barrow. Aleister Gordon. Even 4 herself. Something’s happening with them, and some of us have heard impassioned pleas from Mr. and Mrs. Barrow to help her daughter, and cryptic rushed messages from Aleister. Anyone who’s met any of these people would likely say that staying to help and to find out what happened to them is another reason to stay.
Or, the OOA is clearly capable of malicious acts, including keeping people against their will and brainwashing. The Brothers of Seraph are actively trying to fight the OOA and stop what they consider to be the OOA’s evil from spreading. If you hold that belief, it’s a reason in its own to try to save the poor fools who fell to a cult.
Whatever this is, we get more pieces of information as time goes by and as we work towards uncovering them, but since it is still in the early stages, we don’t know all the answers yet.
I do hope you’ll be around to help us find them, though.
Sean (@TheGilded). Reason: TOTALLY DIDN'T EDIT THIS