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

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

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.

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.