Since when was power goodness, or cleverness truth?

Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Muir Gideon the Ninth since when power goodness cleverness truth

Consider also:

  1. Demian
  2. “Weishaupt’s concept of virtue stems from his Rousseauian influences. Jean-Jacques Rousseau equated true virtue with the purity of mankind in its infancy before it was corrupted by civilization. This virtue was still apparent in the ‘savage’ races still being encountered by explorers in the forests and jungles of North and South America. By comparison, the despotism of western culture, with its class structures and inherent inequality, was considered inferior and contemptible.”
  3. Glory Road
  4. “Don’t look at her blood, or lick her bones, or do any of the shit necromancers lie and say they don’t do the moment two of them get nasty.”
  5. “Importantly, he also encourages us to remember that this deity is really just one reflection of the divine. If we lose sight of this, we risk overly identifying with a partial force, rather than the one spiritual star in our sight—the HGA.”