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

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.

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

Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

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

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.