“As we Satanists explored the implications of Anton LaVey’s initial, dramatic statements in the Satanic Bible, it gradually became evident that any focus upon oneself presupposes the separateness of that self from everything else. Flesh is found to consist of natural substances, and most of our lower-level thought processes – what Plato would class as pistis and ekasia – are similarly found to be little more than conditioned responses to external stimuli. As the Satanists continued his search for the ‘thing that was exclusively himself’, he was forced to increasingly more complex introspection, resulting ultimately in a philosophical and metaphysical crisis that would only be resolved in the more precise philosophy of the Temple of Set.” – Michael Aquino, Black Magic