History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.