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“Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.”

Source: The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection

“Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and uniquesomething truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.”

May Long Moments Happens Process Secret Heard Events One Day Demand Historical Heavy Destroyed Cracks Halt Inertia Pseudo

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.”

Men Giving Country Secret Virtue Path Five Pride Keys Demand Vices Manhood Masculine Dilemma Distinctive Grappling Courage To Love

Author:Waller R Newell

“A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.”

Individual Natural Secret Company Effects Demand Raises Trade Sells Competition Rate Profit Granted Commodity Wages Trading Monopoly

Book:Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings