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"The world is indeed full of frightening things and we are helpless creatures surrounded by forces that are inexplicable and unbending. The average man, in ignorance, believes that those forces can be explained or changed; he doesn't really know how to do that, but he expects the actions of mankind will explain them or change them sooner or later.
The sorcerer, on the other hand, does not think of explaining or changing them; instead he learns to use such forces by redirecting himself and adapting to their direction. That's his trick. There is very little to sorcery once you find out its trick. A sorcerer is only slightly better off than the average man. Sorcery does not help him to live a better life; in fact, I should say that sorcery hinders him; it makes his life cumbersome, precarious. By opening hmself to knowledge a sorcerer becomes more vulnerable than the average man... A sorcerer has only one means of balancing himself, his will. Thus he must feel and act like a warrior. Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge. What helps a sorcerer live a better life is the strength of being a warrior."

"Sorcery is to apply one's will to a key joint. Sorcery is interference. A sorcerer searches and finds the key joint of anything he wants to affect and then he applies his will to it. A sorcerer doesn't have to see to be a sorcerer, all he has to know is how to use his will."