We must correct Deleuze’s error: failing to cultivate a hatred for this world.
All matter is dead and alive.
Terror and ecstasy intertwine, are inseparable.
this much is certain: something lies behind everything.
Then again, maybe there was no “thing itself,” not really. Maybe there never is. Maybe there’s just a shadow, a stain, a projection - a crude visual mimicry of something literally unimaginable moving behind the walls of the world
But a were-wolf hunts to kill rather than eat, a creature whose unslaked hunger is only for blood and slaughter, defilement and degradation.
- Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Paul (via spiritandteeth)
(Source: sanctorum-communio)
