Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 14 | 157 | The first five born of the Mother are the high council of the Nest. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 154 | Undoubtedly there was some type of rivalry or political division between them. |
| 14 | 155 | To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death. |
| 14 | 156 | I would learn later, however, that this simple fact was indeed almost incomprehensible to Priest-Kings, and that Misk, though he readily accepted it as a fact in his mind, could not bring himself, so to speak, in the furthest reaches of his heart to acknowledge it as true, for were not both he and Sarm of the Nest, and would not such an action be a violation of Nest Trust? "Sarm is the First Born," said Misk, "whereas I am the Fifth Born. |
| 14 | 157 | The first five born of the Mother are the high council of the Nest. |
| 14 | 158 | The Second, Third and Fourth Born, in the long ages, have, one by one, succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle. |
| 14 | 159 | Only Sarm and I are left of the Five". |
| 14 | 160 | "Then," I suggested, "he wants you to die so that he will be the only remaining member of the council and thus have absolute power". |
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Undoubtedly there was some type of rivalry or political division between them.
To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death.
I would learn later, however, that this simple fact was indeed almost incomprehensible to Priest-Kings, and that Misk, though he readily accepted it as a fact in his mind, could not bring himself, so to speak, in the furthest reaches of his heart to acknowledge it as true, for were not both he and Sarm of the Nest, and would not such an action be a violation of Nest Trust? "Sarm is the First Born," said Misk, "whereas I am the Fifth Born.
The first five born of the Mother are the high council of the Nest.
The Second, Third and Fourth Born, in the long ages, have, one by one, succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle.
Only Sarm and I are left of the Five".
"Then," I suggested, "he wants you to die so that he will be the only remaining member of the council and thus have absolute power".
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 14)