If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.
Hakim BeyThe dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
Hakim BeyIn short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.
Hakim BeyThe media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.
Hakim BeySorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flowโ priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.
Hakim Bey