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Thus, unknown to most members of my caste, we exist to be overcome, thus in our way pointing the way to man's greatness". - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 33, Sentence #152)

"What gap is this?" I asked. "We speak not to man's heart," said Om, "but only to his fear. We do not speak of love and courage, and loyalty and nobility—but of practice and observance and the punishment of the Priest-Kings—for if we so spoke, it would be that much harder for man to grow beyond us. Thus, unknown to most members of my caste, we exist to be overcome, thus in our way pointing the way to man's greatness". I looked at the Initiate for a long time, and wondered if he spoke the truth. These were the strangest things I had heard from the lips of an Initiate, most of whom seemed interminably embroiled in the rituals of their caste, in the arrogance and archaic pedantry of their kind. I trembled for a moment, perhaps from the chill winds sweeping down the Sardar. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)