"The only object in attaching oneself to an individual is to have a standard suitable for symbolic representation of certain phenomena which happen to interest one, though they cannot possibly possess any importance for one, and the only reason for interesting oneself in the welfare of any such individual is to increase the efficiency of one's instrument of perception.This, then, explains why the only intelligent course of action for a man is to obtain initiation.Even this is useless in itself.The highest attainment is insensate except in reference to the convenience of an intelligence who is not in any way involved in the individuality of its instrument."
Aleister Crowley