Serpent Sun

"For body's sleep became The soul's awakening, and closing Of the eyes - true vision" Awake my void-drunk eyes Amidst the tumult of filth and rats Awake amidst the waves of dismal Lethe And behold in truth at last Sunk and sunk and sunk have I Into skin and sin and sleep Yet this wasteland has revealed a gate And my heart holds its key O pierce the webs of dream Pierce my cold lifeless heart Nightbringer, lightbringer Infernal firstborn spark Ignite my funeral altar And let me rise like the dawn From the dregs of darkest ignorance To the blinding light of your throne So grant me now that sacred drink From the spring of memory Grant me those secret songs That shall lull the stars to sleep And when the night falls blackest In the slumbering underground Shall my woken soul take flight On the rays of the serpent sun I dance in maddest fervor Ever backwards through death's door And beneath my hooves of steel Break the masks that I once wore O, see how bright it burns That fire for which I seek That the faces of angels boil off And their ashes sing its majesty! Praise thee! Mystery! The muses of the ogdoad! That thine secret psalmody Paeon! Apollon! Speak through me thine prophecy! Higher and higher! Beyond the seven I shall reach Blind my sight with gold and blood and lapis lazuli Deeper and deeper! Into the very heart of the sun Below the shadows fall in multitude But here the light is one