Knock of the Spirit, beginner invited–or rather forced–to enter.

After the spirit had manifested itself to that man and had gotten no reponse, the spirit laid a trap for that man. It was a final subterfuge, not because the man was special, but because of the incomprehensible chain of events of the spirit made the man available at the very moment that the spirit knocked on the door. (Silence, 40)

A natural can be a conduit only after the spirit had manifested its willingness to be used. (Silence, 41)

The poet, although he never moves his assemblage point, intuits that something extraordinary is at stake. He intuits with great certainty that there is some unnamed factor, awesome because of its simplicity, that is determining our fate. (Silence, 51)

He said that we, as average men, did not know not would we ever know that it was something utterly real and functional–our connecting link with intent–which gave us our hereditary preoccupation with fate. (Silence, 48)