"Human beings are born with a finite amount of energy ... an energy that is systematically deployed, beginning at the moment of birth, in order that it may be used most advantageously by the modality of time." (9)

"Sorcery is a state of awareness. Sorcery is the ability to perceive something which ordinary perception cannot." (10)

"For you, writing should not be a literary exercise, but rather an exercise in sorcery." (14)

"Sorcerers are vitally concerns with the past." (22)

"The entire truth is that the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only sorcerers, and naguals in particular, are attuned to such revelations." (34)

"My benefacator was a modern nagual, involved in the pursuit of freedom ...." (47)

"Knowledge and language are separate." (57)

"The first core, the Manifestations of the Spirit, is the edifice that intent builds and places before a sorcerer, then invites him to enter." (60)

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