LAPIDEM (Uncreated Son of Tiamat)
AN OPEN GRAVE (reborn of Tehom)
EMERGE (Thyself headlong cast into)
LAZARUS (the psychopomp diabolus)
CROSS ROADS (Recreated Son of senexus)
FURTIVE GROUND (Ouroboric matter)
TRAVERSE (Pulled anew from nigredo, shining pneumatic)
Pylorus chamber acid-devours jettisoned dermal
Journey’d from prima hylic to ultima animus
Ave Saturnus, morituri te salutant
Ave Mercurius, lux aeternus imperator
YES! I have tasted the enantiodromia
Where East is West and North is South
The darkness shone and the illumination blinded
Into the abyss my eyes were thrown, but did not once blink
Hurl toward the Sun, the blackest spear of sulfur
O’er skeletal remains of the vanquished fool deceiver
Hermetic aura glowing in divine involution
Willing daring knowledge in echoes of silence
Memento mori born of vile putrefaction
Ascending cursed vessel crowned:
The Cruxitome
Carve it into regrown spiritual flesh
An obsolete skin to shed yet still
Rescale the corpse hill engulf Golgotha
Delivered into His arms bearing XXI scars
Drink of the Void, And be left to dream forever
Drink of the Void, the final gallows rope to sever
XIII Times
Convolute
I: Bind!
III: Fall!
VII: Sever!