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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.