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Dec 2022
8m 33s

#7: House Mnemos

Tim Ferriss
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“Believe in Mokshanti, for he believes in you. Bow before Mokshanti, for he stands before you.”

— Morning prayer of House Mnemos

“Belief without action leads to impotence. Action without belief leads to regret. Belief with action leads to freedom.”

— The Law of Francippus

Members of House Mnemos sometimes refer to themselves as the Missionaries of Mokshanti. Outsiders mostly call them clerics.

Clerics fill the people of the realm with both hope and terror, for they are the harbingers of resurrection...

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