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Νηστεία, έπινα το Κύκυον
Nisteia, Epina to Kykeon
[Fasting, I drank the Kykeon]
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The Call of Eleusis
07:50
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We swear this night to secrecy
This world only temporary
Inside, the truth we've known
We behold the universal throne
Gather now children of the earth
Enter the telesterion
We fast, from dusk to dawn,
We drink from the kykeon
It's the call of Eleusis
It draws us in
The presence within
One visit for the soul to take
Transcendental mind escape
For Demeter and Persephone
Cast through this dimensionality
From mystes we pass through
As epoptes we see the truth
On the Eleusinian plain
Our thoughts will never be the same
Plutarch's On the Soul, preserved by John Stobaeus:
"The soul suffers as do those who have been initiated
into the great Mysteries, that is why the [Greek] words and
the actions of dying (τελευτᾶν - teleftan) and performing the rituals
(τελεῖσθαι - telis-thay) resemble each other.
At first there are wanderings and exhausting walks,
and unfulfilled and unclear journeys.
Before the end come all terrible things,
terror and trembling and sweat and awe.
But after this, a marvelous light appears,
and pure spaces and meadows receive [the initiate],
with voices and chants and the solemnity of
sacred sounds and holy spectacles."
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Taken to the Antechambers of Eternity
To reconvene with our spirituality
Through the wormhole that transcends all space and time
Where life is death and death is life
boundary dissolution at the end of time
Transcendental other, most sacred, in our travels we reconnect together;
We find strength to see beyond the cultured veil that cloaks eternal vision;
We bless all who seek truth and understanding.
We touch them, We feel them,
We reassure them, of our constant love.
Release into the divine machination
Unfold beyond the boundary
Pass the threshold of mortal comprehension
The antechambers of eternity
Amanita Muscaria, Psilocybe semilanceata
Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica
Lophophora williamsii, Turbina corymbosa
Virola theiodora, Salvia divinorum
To encounter and to breakthrough
To understand, to see the truth
Temporal clarity in the mind of the existential
Exultation of the presence eternal
We shall remain steadfast, Transcendental One,
to ward off superficiality in pursuit of
direct experience of the here and now.
May the presence of the hivemind illuminate the darkness;
and may the veil be lifted, so that we may see again.
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The Last Hierophant
08:21
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As he looked upon the final rites
The hierophant closed his eyes
Unbeknownst to them
This is the final night
The Galilean approaches the throne
Darkness spreads throughout the land
The Last Hierophant
His Mysteries now unknown
When will the curse be lifted?
When will the truth be shown?
The Last Hierophant
How wretched life can be
And in the darkest days
We now walk alone
We Return to the Void
Nothing here can last forever
Born of time's mystery
Spun is the web of Fate
Let us praise the rising sun
As we head to hell, or Elysium
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Living Death
08:01
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When the first time we died
We pierced the veil of light
Now we see the abysmal situation
No end in sight
We must die to be born again
We must die to see the message within
A trip through space and time
As we watch the stars align
Mother Gaia - Was it her?
Or do we stray alone?
Mistress of earthly evolution
Manifested one
She knows why mycelium grows
She's seen the nexus of old
A world of living death
Here to decompose
"Sculpted into life by the hand of death"
Our spirit ancestors give us breath
When we're here, we're here to live
And living death is the gift they give
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On the Brink of Nihil
03:12
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On the brink of the nihil
Lies the human life
How tangled truth becomes
In the absence of light
A tortured existence
As we fight amongst ourselves
With no love or compassion
We serve our sentence in hell
And with no gods among men
We turn to the sun
To call upon Mithras, Helios, and Rah
To manifest the void
Yet how tangled truth becomes
Without eternal exultation
And the visions from the spirit of the one
All lost in translation
On the brink of the nihil
Shocking revelations
Oh how we trust our senses now
From our ritual incantations
And from our rites we can see
Our celestial connectivity
Forming from the void
Transcendent singularity
On the brink of the Nihil
Lies the human life
But these rituals we hold
Are for the new gods and old
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Occult Rituals
07:17
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Release your demons
Upon this barren land
Cast aside all logic
And all common sense
The innocent perception
Erodes as grains of sand
Behold the mystery
Of temporal existence
Shrouded by the veil
Drowning in the void
We must recover the spirit
Occult Rituals.... Arise!
There is no shelter for the forsaken soul
As we trudge forward through the lands of time
Symmetry in the balance of despair and joy
There is chaos before the void
Fundamental are these questions deep within the heart
The answers can be revealed and the rituals are the start
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Mykosterion Denver, Colorado
Mykosterion is a one-man doom metal project. Music written and recorded by Loke.
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