On the nature of the universe

There is a war on but it's... we're like ants on a battlefield, we haven't the heads to understand even a fraction of what's going on all around us. This whole universe is just... it's like a munitions factory. They make bombs here, Dane. We're just the end product of a factory process carried out by gigantic Manichaean intelligences. That's what it's all about: they're trying to perfect your soul, they're trying to make you like Buddha or Jesus because a perfected human soul is the ultimate weapon. That's what all of humanity's spiritual fucking aspirations amount to: the highest and best thing we can ever become is a bomb.

- The King-Of-All-Tears, under the guise of the future Dane McGowan,
from Grant Morrison, The Invisibles