ASHTON: I don’t chastise you for your involvement in your little cult. CUTHBERT: Come on! You just helped to bring about a holy war and you’re going to pretend to be offended that I’m invading your privacy?

Alan Ryker, When Cthulhu Met Atlach-Nacha [Amazon]

Hermetic quote Ryker Cthulhu met Atlach-Nacha chastise your involvement cult holy war pretend offended invading privacy

Consider also:

  1. “green of the honeyed muse, green of the rough caress of ritual, green undaunted by reason or delirium, green of jealous joy, green of the secret holy violence of the thyrsos, green of the sacred iridescence of the dance”
  2. “Sometimes I think you’re too nice,” she said. The fact that she couldn’t sit down without wincing didn’t mean anything.
  3. “Every week we sat at the same table, ate the same thing, and drank the same coffee. It was the one small consistency in our life together and we cherished it more than we admitted, even to ourselves. Arguing was also a part of the tradition.”
  4. The ceremony took place in the tabernacle, upon a wooden stage with a background painted to look like drapery. Strang sat upon a throne made of wood, covered in cloth and stuffed with moss. He held a wooden scepter and wore a bright red robe trimmed with white, perhaps looking a bit like Santa Claus. An entourage of men with various church titles surrounded him, like dukes, earls, and barons at a court.
  5. “I can no longer believe the nice speculative contradictions of our divine theologians,” he wrote.