Secret Song Of The Day

"There will be thousands of millions of happy babes, and a hundred thousand sufferers who have taken upon themselves the curse of the knowledge of good and evil. Peacefully, they will die, peacefully, they will expire in your name, and beyond the grave they will find only death. But we will keep the secret, and for their own happiness we will entice them with a heavenly and eternal reward. For even if there were anything in the next world, it would not of course, be for such as they."
- The Grand Inquisitor in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

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"There are no 'bigger secrets,' because the moment a secret is revealed, it seems little. There is only an empty secret. A secret that keeps slipping through your fingers. . . . The universe is peeled like an onion, and an onion is all peel. Let us imagine an infinite onion, which has its center everywhere and its circumference nowhere. Initiation travels an endless Möbius strip. The true initiate is he who knows that the most powerful secret is a secret without content, because no enemy will be able to make him confess it, no rival devotee will be able to take it from him."
- The Grand Cabalist in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum

Comsat Angels - Our Secret

Every boy and every girl
All round the world
Lives in hope
One world at one time
One world only
That's the secret

They will never give it up

It's a secret but
It's not holy
It's in the blood
It's in the atmosphere
One world at one time
One world only
That's the secret

We will never give it up