"Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops."
"I will not keep information secret in order to prevent widespread hysteria; it never works."
What could we do? The information would have leaked out somehow; nobody can keep secrets for long. Information is a living force that most people can't fully comprehend. It wants to be free. It wants to be known.
— Mage: The Ascension - Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts
"Mysteries are as much a part of nature as sunrises. They may not yield to us, but they are freely available for all to wrestle with. The hoarding and withholding of "secret" knowledge is the trademark of covert societies and governments, for the purpose of concentrating power and resources within a powerful elite, the few against the many. This polarities stand in direct opposition to one another; mysteries enliven existence, secrets strangle it. The battle continues to this day, and the flow of information — in any "free" society — depends on the outcome."
— "The Archivist", The Secret History Of Twin Peaks
If magic was real, it stood to reason that some genuine information about how to work it must be in circulation. The Brakebills couldn't have it all to themselves. It was inevitable; anybody who knew anything about information theory would know that. You couldn't just contain a body of that data that large completely hermetically. There would be too much of it and too many pores it could leak out through.
