The Pilgrims, who talked about peace but prepared for war, wouldn’t have understood. These people had outgrown their ancestors. A new world would come out of it, before everything was said and done.

Michael Poore, Up Jumps the Devil [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Poore Up Jumps the Devil talked peace prepared war understood outgrown ancestors new world

Consider also:

  1. “Unholy,” said Lucifer, “I take it, is the opposite of ‘Good.’” “Lots of things are the opposite of ‘Good,’” answered God. “Shut up.”
  2. “Did our ancestors go peeping about with dark lanterns, and do we walk at our ease in broad sunshine? Where is the manifestation of our light? By what symptoms do you recognise it? What are its signs, its tokens, its symptoms, its symbols, its categories, its conditions? What is it, and why? How, where, when is it to be seen, felt, and understood? What do we see by it which our ancestors saw not, and which at the same time is worth seeing?”
  3. “The actual Devil. In a limo with Jenna Steele, a bag of Mexican weed, and six bullets in him. He was an American, too. The fans and blogs were right about that. He had been an American for a very long time.”