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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.

— Peter J. Carroll Liber Kaos (1992)

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

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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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