“You know Enochian?” he asks. I’m startled by the gentleness—and the hope. I can hardly lie about it now, but I don’t give more than the bare truth. “I learned it as a child.”

Ruthanna Emrys, The Litany of Earth [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Emrys The Litany of the Earth know enochian startled gentleness hope hardly lie dont give more bare truth learned as a child

Consider also:

  1. Ladies of Fantasy
  2. Micro Chapbook RPG: Deluxe Core Rulebook
  3. “My voyage to the world of Betelgeuse was decreed by a superior consciousness. It is up to me to show myself worthy of the choice and to be the new savior of this human race in decline.”
  4. Abraxas 2 – Summer Solstice 2011
  5. “Not without good reason does our catechism assert that Masonry contains ‘many and invaluable secrets.’ But these of course are not the formal and symbolic signs, tokens and words communicated ceremonially to candidates; they are rather those secrets which we instinctively keep locked up in the recesses and safe repository of our hearts; secrets of the deep and hidden things of the soul, about which we do not often talk, and which, by a natural instinct, we are not in the habit of communicating to any but such of our brethren and fellows as share with us a common and a sympathetic interest in the deeper problems and mysteries of life.”