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