I agree, Knight Enchanter, and the Inquisition agreeing to destroy phylacteries would be a great win, symbolically and practically. It may also increase the opposition they face, but if our world is to improve, principals such as this cannot be neglected for the sake of making the necessary work easier.

My concern is that if it proves necessary to make a stand, in the quest to make the world a better place for mages we risk condemning the entire world by allowing Corypheus some window we cannot easily predict, by significantly reducing the Inquisition's resources to hand. I understand that is the very power in the leverage, but— it cannot be wise, nor beneficial to mages.