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.

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

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.

Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.

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

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