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An Army of Jacks to Fight the Power
Peter Lamborn Wilson

Money could be seen as an exteriorized soul to be locked away so that our bodies acquire magical invulnerability. But it need not be hidden away -- it can be circulated and "beget" itself endlessly in usury. It constitutes humanity's one really totally successful experiment in magic:

Sumerian Economics
Peter Lamborn Wilson

About 3100 BC, writing was invented at Uruk, Sumer. Writing both is and represents the new "Creation" ideology. It wipes out the oral tradition of the Stone Age and erases the collective memory of a time before hierarchy. In the text we have always been slaves.

The Disciples at Saïs: A Sacred Theory of Earth
Peter Lamborn Wilson

The "new" scientific paradigm we're looking for – which sees the Earth as alive and replaces the dead-matter scientific world view of State/Capital -– can best be found in the underground tradition of hermetic-Romantic science. Its manifesto is a little known, fragmentary 18th century novel.

"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders

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Peter Lamborn Wilson is a poet-scholar of Sufism and Western Hermeticism and a well-known radical-anarchist social thinker. He is the author, among others, of Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam and Escape from the Nineteenth Century.Â