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Abject Spirit
07:32
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A colorless landscape
Spawned in my mind
Unknowingly roaming
A desert to find what is yet undefined
Dry earth under foot
Above me no sky
Seasons in perpetual twilight
Obscuring my path and the passage of time
After endless searching
The mist began clearing
The veil of blindness lifting
I came upon a sight most confounding
A great black pupil
Shone in the sky
But instead of blinding
Its glow was inviting if not absorbing
I felt it thirst for my gaze
And it seemed to stare back
Deep within me, through me
It would've swallowed me whole
Had I not been able to avert my gaze
Then suddenly I saw its surface rupture
The sun burst open
Down poured a great fall
Of fire and brimstone
Thus wept the black star
The ground did open
Receiving the fall
With tremors it gave way
And swallowed it all
Drained of substance
Collapsing the star
Became like nothing
Had been there at all
Abject spirit
Hollow husk
I wanted for nothing
But something to want
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2. |
Vitriol
05:41
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A hole in the scenery
Sinking down into the abyss
Spewing clouds of black smoke
Seething from the first flame
Emanating from the deep
A voice beckoning
Without words
A call to the womb of all creation
Before realizing
I'd begun my approach
Towards the siren
Drawing me into a realm of temptation
As I reached the precipice
Met with a foul acrid stench
I felt heat escaping the crater
As I braved down the inverted mountain
The air around fell heavy
As if weighing me down
My descent so effortless
Almost automatic
With every step increasing
the difficulty of re-emerging
I'm going to steal the secrets of the fire
Or snuff it out
Visita
Interiora
Terrae
Rectificando
Invenies
Occultum
Lapidem
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3. |
Tantalust
09:39
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The unknowing sirens
A sacrifice prepared for the beast
Reduced to objects
To be used and discarded
By mine eyes I would take them
With vile thoughts I'd defile them
Rend away the 'self' leave only shell
Are these the lures that lead into Hell?
The manifold contagion
Temptations, they are legion
Gathered under the name of sin
As without, they are within
Destructive urges
To harm and control, to use and abuse
For the beast must me appeased
And his hunger grows as he feasts
Primitive desires
Gathered under the name of sin
Satisfaction escapes my grasp
Am I being punished?
Like Tantalos filled with lust
Ambrosia filled his cusp
Unsatisfied, betrayed the gods
Now never will he have his fill
Yet pleasure is an empty goal
Its pursuit can consume you whole
These inherent desires
Gathered under the name of sin
I'm to rid myself of this darker aspect
That I'm told only hinders
My own progress
I succumb to my punishment
Not fully understanding
Its cause or intent
I climb inside the brazen bull
To come out a hero or die a fool
To test my strength against the beast
To go forth one must perish
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4. |
In Dread Tartarus
06:14
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A realm of primordial beings
Arid wastelands predating creation
Ageless towering behemoths
Punished here for their transgressions
Proto-human beastlike creatures
Earthborn Typhon enemy of gods
Covetous in your revolt
With your legions of arms innumerable
Earthborn Typhon by thunderbolts
Your body burnt and broken
By your bitterness invoking
I have come, I've answered your call
And though I can not free you from thrall
I am to inherit your rage
Exact vengeance for the disgraced
Chthonic spirits
Cronus devourer of children
Lend me that adamantine sickle
With which the skies were castrated
Ready to march forth
Now that I'm armed
Toward the source of all things
I feel calling my heart
I am willing
To take on your burden
I'll make it my mission
To sever the Godhead
They are the ones to be punished
For the guilt I bare
My sins projected
On the divine
Repentless, forgiveness
No longer derived
From without
And so I march on
And enter the labyrinth
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5. |
Labvrinth
12:23
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No forks on my path
Ever winding
Led by mine shadow
Only instinct guiding
But am I moving
Inward or outward I can not tell
In this accursed spiral
Time and space are distorting
What was once outside
Has made its way in
What laid dormant so long
Has been released
The void within is now as vast
As the one without
That which is above
Is as that which is below
I am not the hero
But the beast in this labyrinth
I forge ahead to free myself
From this prison made to hold me
I follow the path narrowing
Arrive at the center
Step through the door
And into the inner sanctum
Where on an altar a prophet stands
Anthroparion, a brazen man
Who makes sacrifice and is sacrificed
Subjected to unendurable torment
Delivering his cryptic sermon
Anointing me to the mystery
His words from my lips echo
All things are mingled, all things combine
All things separate and unite
All things are woven and undone
All things flourish, all things fade
All things are given and received
In accordance to the method
He spews forth all of his flesh
Turns into his opposite, tears his own flesh
With his teeth and sinks into himself
He is the leaden man who discards
His body and frees himself
His words from my lips echo
Anthroparion, a brazen man
Who makes sacrifice and is sacrificed
His words from my lips echo
I am the leaden man and I submit
Myself to unendurable torment
His words from my lips echo
Be like the earth
Rigid and firm
Be like the water
Flowing
Be like the air
Formless and fair
Be like the fire
Transforming
Be like the earth
Fertile when turned
Be like the water
Eroding
Be like the air
Lay yourself bare
Be like the fire
Ushering rebirth
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6. |
The Final Threshold
03:03
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I take a step beside myself
And prepare to pass this test
Letting go I peer down the well
My face below the water's surface
Willingly I surrender
And become as my reflection
Awakening in a dark pool
With a cross standing in its center
Coiled around the cross a serpent
The guardian of the golden fleece
This is where my final challenge awaits
With my sickle I cut off its head
And from the wound sprout two in its stead
One of which disarms me the other bites my leg
Scales burn my skin as it slithers 'round my neck
Thrusts its tail down my throat cutting my breath
With talons tearing even after death
Flaying the skin off of my head
Rent piecemeal
My body's cast down the depths
Dismembered in accordance to the rule of harmony
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7. |
Divine Silence
06:54
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No air in my lungs
Am I not breathing?
No blood in my heart
Is it not beating?
My thoughts I can't find
Am I not thinking?
No body, no mind
How am I being?
I have no flesh to bind me
I am limitless
No beginning, no end
I'm timeless
I am not what I am
I have left myself behind and become æther
Yet this is not the end, for this is but a death
And there are still more to come before the cutting of my thread
In this divine silence
Is unity
From this divine silence
All came to be
In this divine silence
A loving embrace
From this divine silence
I have found my place
In this divine silence
I'm made whole again
From this divine silence
I'm torn back and placed
Back into flesh
Imbued with strength
To separate
And coagulate
From myself
The elements
The universe
All inverse
I begin to meld
With the abject
And if I regress
The cycle will repeat itself
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