He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.