I’d only been there a few days when I got myself into another serious mess, undeserved to tell the truth, because this time around I was entirely blameless—whatever you may have heard.

Catalina De Erauso, trans Michele Stepto, Gabri Stepto, Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote de Erauso Stepo Lieutenant Nun only there few days got myself into another serious mess undeserved tell truth this time entirely blameless whatever you heard

Consider also:

  1. “My dearest, I will now explain the only safe and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the World, the most secret among all secrets. Let it be secret to him who would attain. Let it cover any period of time, depending on his conception. There is no qualification, nor ritual or ceremony. His very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. Most emphatically, there is no need of repetition or feeble imitation. You are alive!”
  2. “A ‘Christian’ of that order ought to be put under restraint, and not allowed to associate with mankind. He carries a moral malaria with him, which poisons the air. He suggests evil to minds which have not thought it. He is a dangerous hypnotist, while pretending to be a disciple of Christ.”
  3. 2010: Odyssey Two
  4. “Dreams you can’t hold onto and secrets you can never share, and lies, and living conspiracies. It’s a conceptual subculture, of ideas consuming other ideas and… sometimes… segments of reality. Sometimes, people. “
  5. “We seek truth in all human experience, principally because we want security; we want that certainty that we are not deceiving ourselves. The question is, how do we know when we have attained truth? To most of us, truth consists of the substantiation of our ideas.”