Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

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

I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .

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 .

In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.

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.