“The uninitiated try to conceive of prescience as obeying a Natural Law. It’d be just as correct to say it’s heaven speaking to us, that being able to read the future is a harmonious act of man’s being. Prediction is a natural consequence in the wave of the present. It wears the guise of nature. Such powers cannot be used from an attitude that prestates aims and purposes. Does a chip caught in the wave say where it’s going? There’s no cause and effect in the oracle. Causes become occasions of convections and confluences, places where the currents meet. Accepting prescience, you fill your being with concepts repugnant to the intellect. Your intellectual consciousness, therefore, rejects them. In rejecting, intellect becomes a part of the processes, and is subjugated.”