TG&SS Part VI Chapters 7 to 8 Lessons 55

Part VI Lessons

Chapters 7 and 8

Part VI chapter 7

The best lies are told briefly and seamlessly surrounded by the truth

Someone “in hiding” may be trapped there rather than hiding there

Blood cannot be spilled inside a time loop – the one who spills blood becomes a
     prisoner of the loop (this is an exact analogy to the Law of Kinde: Never bring
     violence under your own roof)

Convincing, commanding persuasion may be used for banal purposes like hiding
     criminal evidence

Even the most carefully constructed secret society may be entered by a plunderer
     and destroyer

No secret society is completely safe from outside corruption of one of its members

Spiritual, especially ascetic, purification changes the nature of the seeking adept person

There's something so bad that if it breaks into our plane, nothing will survive intact
Trust no shaman who seeks to possess your body or to command your will

A life saving opportunity to help an ally might actually be a distraction from the enemy's
     real target

If you know too much about evil, all of evil's devices will be used to destroy you before
     others are informed with what you know

Part VI chapter 8

Don't dress differently, especially don't under-dress, when crashing a party as a spy

Psychological control, especially over one's vices, makes one appear younger than
     one's age

Relentless art collection is a sickness in which the collector comes to prefer the objects
     to humans

A party with the entrance closed and the feeling of celebration gone is no longer a party
     at all

As a guest, leave a party when there is more tension than you are comfortable with

Condescension can be used to trap an egotistical person into doing something
     dangerous or foolish

An army can be assembled motivated and energized by fear. But above a certain size,
     such a mob cannot be controlled nor directed

Respect humbling insights about yourself, especially those that come upon you suddenly

The great stories are only metaphors of objects and places standing for states of mind

If you get a prize bigger than you are, it is proper to fear opening it up

Trapped by enemies, getting them into a quarrel with each other may allow an innocent
     to escape the scene unnoticed

Surrounded by enemies, if the weakest seeks to leave, it may be advantageous to force
     him to remain, as a gift to the more powerful enemy