Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
19
398
He may not even have understood them.
19
399
I did note that the fellows who were engaged in this raillery did, all of them, however, place their coins in the bowl.
19
400
They were, I suspected, taking no chances.
19
401
What if, for example, as an outside possibility, but one they were not willing to discount, there might be some mysterious connection between the Initiates and the priest-kings? Why not, then, put a coin in the bowl, particularly if it were not too valuable a coin? As far as I can determine, most people on this world do, in fact, believe in the existence of priest-kings.
19
402
On the other hand, it seems, also, that they generally regard them as being very far away and not being very interested, if interested at all, in the affairs of human beings.
19
403
In short, they do not dispute the existence of the priest-kings but do not, on the whole at least, depend upon them in any practical way.
19
404
The Initiates then reformed their double line and, bells ringing and smoke wafting about, fragrant, from the censer, took their way from the docking area.
He may not even have understood them.
I did note that the fellows who were engaged in this raillery did, all of them, however, place their coins in the bowl.
They were, I suspected, taking no chances.
What if, for example, as an outside possibility, but one they were not willing to discount, there might be some mysterious connection between the Initiates and the priest-kings? Why not, then, put a coin in the bowl, particularly if it were not too valuable a coin? As far as I can determine, most people on this world do, in fact, believe in the existence of priest-kings.
On the other hand, it seems, also, that they generally regard them as being very far away and not being very interested, if interested at all, in the affairs of human beings.
In short, they do not dispute the existence of the priest-kings but do not, on the whole at least, depend upon them in any practical way.
The Initiates then reformed their double line and, bells ringing and smoke wafting about, fragrant, from the censer, took their way from the docking area.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter )