Based on the conversation Locke has with Richard in 1954, Richard is aware of Jacob back then. I find it odd though that we have seen Jacob constantly connected to the Cabin, which we've seen Horace building somewhere in the mid 80's. That's 30 years after we've known Jacob to exist. Through conversations with Ben we've come to believe that Jacob is the superior to Hostiles and people like Richard, but if he was around long before the Cabin was built, then what connection could he really have to it. Also, Jacob, as the supposed leader of the Hostiles would probably have little interest in Horace, a member of Dharma which the hostiles oppose. So what does Horace have to do with Jacob? Most of the mysteries in lost are slowly coming into few or there are a few possible explanations that we can already foresee. But Jacob's relation to the Cabin and consequently to Horace seems to have absolutely no plausible ! explanation. The only possible outcome would be that we do know it was Horace who helped a young Ben and his father come to the Island. So perhaps it was Horace who was the real inside man helping Jacob and the hostiles elimate Dharma and his orders were to bring Ben to the island. Tragedy has befallen others who help Jacob and it wouldn't be suprising that Horace would be sacraficed much in the way Locke will be. We also have seen that Horace was building the cabin for himself as a way to get away from the Dharma Initiative on a temporary basis, which lends evidence that he didn't fully support them. If the cabin is Horaces though, and we believe that the cabin is also Jacob's, but we know that Jacob existed as far back as 1954, then I'm not sure how Jacob couldn't be a time displaced Horace. Why else would Jacob be in the cabin that Horace built? If Richard got to Horace and convinced him that Dharma was wrong, then Horace could have gone on to condemn Dharma, dyin! g, and becoming Jacob and claiming the cabin as his home. Theory by Locke4God
