Those fifty pound bundles were power and potential in its purest form. It was countless acts of compassion and charity, or a lifetime without work. The amount was highly symbolic.

JMR Higgs, KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money

Consider also:

  1. “He constructed a brass trunk and etched binding symbols on its lid”
  2. “all forms of serious art and knowledge—in other words, all forms of truth—are suspect and dangerous.”
  3. “I am that very being who shaped my body out of thy good and evil achievements. My spectral form is woven out of thine own life’s record.”
  4. “under the veil of secrecy, dangerous plans and harmful teachings can be accepted just as well as noble intentions and profound knowledge; because not all members themselves are informed of such depraved intentions, which sometimes tend to lie hidden beneath the beautiful façade”
  5. “All too many people are corks on the sea of life.”