Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 26 | There was nothing about them to encourage me to believe that the priest-kings, or king as it might be, were ultimately unfathomable or incomprehensible beings. |
| 8 | 27 | Moreover in the corridor beyond I had sensed the traces, tangible traces, of a priest-king. |
| 8 | 28 | I laughed. |
| 8 | 29 | Yes, I had smelled a priest-king, or its effects. |
| 8 | 30 | The thought amused me. |
| 8 | 31 | More fully than ever before I then understood how much the forces of superstition have depressed and injured men. |
| 8 | 32 | No wonder the priest-kings hid behind their palisade in the Sardar and let the myths of the Initiates build a wall of human terror about them, no wonder they let their nature and ends be secret, no wonder they took such pains to conceal and obscure their plans and purposes, their devices, their instrumentation, their limitations! I laughed aloud. |
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There was nothing about them to encourage me to believe that the priest-kings, or king as it might be, were ultimately unfathomable or incomprehensible beings.
Moreover in the corridor beyond I had sensed the traces, tangible traces, of a priest-king.
I laughed.
Yes, I had smelled a priest-king, or its effects.
The thought amused me.
More fully than ever before I then understood how much the forces of superstition have depressed and injured men.
No wonder the priest-kings hid behind their palisade in the Sardar and let the myths of the Initiates build a wall of human terror about them, no wonder they let their nature and ends be secret, no wonder they took such pains to conceal and obscure their plans and purposes, their devices, their instrumentation, their limitations! I laughed aloud.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )