Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 19 | 467 | The View more quotes about initiates">Initiates, I suspect, understand it as little as anyone else. |
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 19 | 464 | They might stand there alone and give thanks to the world, or the fates, or the Priest-Kings, that they had returned. |
| 19 | 465 | One controls so little, if anything, of one's own fate. |
| 19 | 466 | The mystery exists. |
| 19 | 467 | The Initiates, I suspect, understand it as little as anyone else. |
| 19 | 468 | It is only, I think, that they pretend to do so. |
| 19 | 469 | That is how they make their living, by the most demeaning and grievous of all lies. |
| 19 | 470 | But others, many others, I suspected, perhaps simpler men, or perhaps more intellectually insouciant or robust fellows, would conduct themselves otherwise, joyously frequenting the taverns, prowling the streets with torches, making loud the night, indulging in riotous thankfulness. |
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They might stand there alone and give thanks to the world, or the fates, or the Priest-Kings, that they had returned.
One controls so little, if anything, of one's own fate.
The mystery exists.
The Initiates, I suspect, understand it as little as anyone else.
It is only, I think, that they pretend to do so.
That is how they make their living, by the most demeaning and grievous of all lies.
But others, many others, I suspected, perhaps simpler men, or perhaps more intellectually insouciant or robust fellows, would conduct themselves otherwise, joyously frequenting the taverns, prowling the streets with torches, making loud the night, indulging in riotous thankfulness.
- (Witness of Gor)