Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

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.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

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.

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.