In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

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

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .

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.

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.