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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.

— Peter J. Carroll Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)

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

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Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

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Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science.

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Chaoist philosophy will again become a dominant intellectual and moral force.

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The evolution of consciousness is cyclic in the form of an upward spiral.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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