mystery of the guild

Matt Teel · 10 Feb 2009, 16:45 · from 2009-February.txt.gz

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From: adeodatus43 at yahoo.com (Matt Teel)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:45:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) mystery of the guild
Message-ID: <288124.34730.qm at web59602.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

I've always assumed he was hearkening back to the Greek word 'mysterion,' which generally refers to knowlege that is unknowable, but also means knowlege that is secret, for initiates only (the mystery religions would be one example of this usage).? The mystery would therefore be the knowledge of how to torture a person?... probably in such a way that you didn't actually kill them, but sort of dangled them over the precipice of death, so to speak, until you got what you required.
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Matt Teel

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