Liber Plutonis - Chapter 56

Verses

Verse 75

Zeus gets lightning because he needs publicity. I get minerals because I understand assets.

Verse 76

Sky kings rule by announcement. Underworld kings rule by ownership records nobody sees.

Verse 77

You call me criminal when money disappears underground; you call it investment when the paperwork improves.

Verse 78

Power prefers basements. Palaces are for showing where power used to be.

Verse 79

The best vault is a belief nobody thinks to question.

Verse 80

The best threat is a consequence already in motion.

Verse 81

I never wanted worship. Worshippers are noisy and expect miracles on weekends.

Verse 82

Give me accountants, undertakers, miners, archivists, and one person who knows where the bodies are metaphorically and otherwise.

Verse 83

A cat may attend meetings because a cat understands leverage: move nothing, make everyone step around you.

Verse 84

The living think the dead have lost everything.

Verse 85

The dead have lost invoices.

Verse 86

Do not romanticize me. I am not freedom. Hidden power is still power.

Verse 87

If you descend seeking treasure, decide beforehand what you refuse to become for it.

Verse 88

Many heroes enter the underworld to retrieve one thing and return carrying a throne.

Verse 89

That is how franchises begin.