Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.

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

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

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

In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.