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Odes to the Radiant One

by Goatchrist

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Serpent-staffed: accordingly, A coward fleeing didst I be. Grave consequence sprung from just action, Be it though a brute reaction, To the desert did I take: That lonely place on which none gaze. Whence I was harkened unto action: "I am I"; "no more distraction". Through this bush which calls to me - And why should this oneness not be, Of all things, a representative? Whirling smoke now prime connective, I am made one with my fate: A sum of all mine conscious states. And seeing the sum of mine failures, Spurred am I to good, availed us. I shall be, Felled before the promised land art reached, For of my needs and dreams: I did not them feed. Even these laws cast in stone, May break apart; they art not sewn, Into the fabric of the Lord: 'Universe' is its only law. Even these laws cast in stone, May break apart; they art not sewn, Into the fabric of the Lord: 'Universe' is its only law, So partake of the highest rites; The Holiest act; the fullest of sights: Love in life your path so carved, Or commit not and pay with heart.
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First, to establish these thoughts, three things I bequeath to thee: The entirety of Keter - the whole of any oneness which be; Knowledge of Chokhmah - that which dwells within 'One's' bounds; Understanding of Binah - of any one, that which is without. Make symbols of these things thus, O' sage and seer: Of any oneness, Keter (the wholeness) is a sphere; Chokhmah is the thing itself, and thus exists within the shell; Binah is the not-One - it is all which outside dwells. Each phenomena received, Has below its guise some system beneath: Each oneness can be divided into onenesses. Each single 'One' is dependent on other 'Ones': Whether a thought, or whether some force, Or whether a glare or a stench or a roar, All possess multiple 'Ones'! Consider some object like 'a stone': Its set contains size and the quality "stone"; Size is dependent on distance and properties; "Stone-ness" dependent on atoms and qualities. Thus, is each 'One' an intersection, Of overlapped bounds - other 'Ones'' definitions - But between two 'Ones' is bridged the gap, Through that which is the not-Chokhmah: Binah! That outside the sphere of some 'One': The total of things which each are not such 'One'. Now, of two 'Onenesses' their Binahs intersect, At each and all things which are neither of them. Thus each two things share a bond, Which is those things which both are not, Which is a 'Oneness' in itself, Dependent on both 'Ones' as well. Therefore Tiferet is formed. Without each 'One', systems are born.
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Unto a people despairing, In wake of Shabbatai's false hope; Unto a folk not well-faring; Unto those downtrodden, broke. Hidden in youth was my nature, But did it show all the same - Uttered in true nomenclature: "The Master of the Good Name." HaAri's wisdom and his progenitor's - The radiant scrollmaker Moshe de Leon - May finally be imbued into the teachings, Achieved through mine travels; through writing and speaking. I find a colossus with heart-spark unkindled, And come from a land where those flames have all dwindled, I find myself caged by emotion's detention, But unlock myself with supreme key: intention. Baal Shem Tov Baal Shem Tov Baal Shem Tov Baal Shem Tov I behold with sight, Tzaddikim in the night, In woodland lit by light, For none are concealed from the All-One. Jacob's Ladder furls, Upwards through the four worlds, Crusted with gleaming pearls. I see the descent, Of qualities, down sent, To atoms; into men. I behold with glee, That nothingness which frees, Radiantly, All that be. Jacob's Ladder unfurls, Downwards through the five worlds, Its onenesses in whorl. I see the ascent, Of desires of men, Which shape the thoughts of heaven. Baal Shem Tov Baal Shem Tov Baal Shem Tov Baal Shem Tov
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Interlude 01:22
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Here be the map of all being-things, topologically: First, nothingness - empty set, none - the seed which births the tree; Secondly, oneness - the not-nothingness - the all that all may be; Now with oneness defined, partions arise - with-in and -out bounds, we see. These two states, while disparate, unite to oneness be, Thus each two things in likeness are distant by degrees, With such a distance thus defined, systems arise - from oneness free, Instead defined by different ones, which act in harmony. The Sephirot are metaphysical aggregates - Regions of concept, not just time and space - So if each is a positive meta-attribute, And being that being is needed for truth, For each "One" exists the "not-One": a shell, Which by its boundary does dwell. Thus we conclude it that- Any "One" which may so be, Is comprised of parts; These three Are that beyond and that within, And that betwixt, which splits in twain. Sephirot are those which are, The inner of those two split parts; The outer husks are the Qlippoth, Which are those things which "One" is not. Hewn from rough, our work begun: The premise that "the All is One", And so all Being art not just, A sum of two parts, fighting thus. For each "One" there is "not-One" - The sum of things which are not so. At points of meeting boundaries form, So "not-One" is "One" [one] of the All. Consider now a formless void: A set; of things, wholly devoid. Place in it a sculptured stone, This object being there alone. All that exists is a single shape: The bounds that divide regions of space. But for both inner and outer parts, That single shape is all they are.
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NOTHING: The unravelled thread of each and all; Having neither Quality nor place nor form. Both being, And being not in any way, Neither growing, Nor experiencing decay. Paradoxically, Despite possessing no quality, The nothingness is bound; Now see a limit on what it may be. Being thus a defined state - namely, one having no size or space - A border draws itself upon the nought, And creates a 'region' where nought is not. Now contracts the nothingness, To a single point within the 'All'. Previously, this nought had reigned, As king, with none other in its court. But now, not-nothingness occupies, That conceptual space, now vacant of nought, So now exist both the nothingness, And all not-nothingnesses, with their boundaries drawn. Now there does exist alone, An aggregate of all potentialities, Far from you, nought: 'the empty throne', Do all 'Ones' be which art not thee. So does the greatest infinity exist - A sum of all unmanifest 'be-ings' that could be, For such a sum does represent in entirety, The whole of existence, yet to come to Me.
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Harkening unto all wandering souls, Whose minds do seek to break their moulds; Whose minds increasingly grow old, And on dogmas they are not sold. Neither the absence! (Meaning is nought) And neither the conjured meaning-rule forms, Which plague the minds of men today, Whose minds are controlled - gone astray. Neither the absence! (Meaningless thoughts) And neither those religious forms, Which postulate and conclude thus, With fantasies, but meaning-less! But there is light (I herald it in!) The Scriptures do contain within, A symbolised and concealed truth, Which to raised minds it does so shew. "Remove the deities of the foreign nations, which are in your midst, purify yourselves and change your clothes. And we will arise and go up to Beth el, I will make an altar to that which dwelled, Within me on the day of my distress, and Was with me on the way that I went." But this man is not a man; As Tiferet his name doth stand. Piercing not the minds of fools, For whom symbols art not the tools, Of the raised initiate: Those men whose lives are bound to fate. Concealed thus from each and all, Yet each being within its thrall, The Eternal exists alone, And reigns supreme from its sole throne. Neither the absence! (Shapeless form) And neither those religious forms, Which postulate and conclude thus, With fantasies, but meaning-less! But there is G-d (Of It I do sing!) The Scriptures do contain within, A symbolised and concealed truth, Which to raised minds it does so shew. "[The man] saw that he could not overpower Jacob, so he touched his hip joint; which was dislocated as he wrestled with him" "And we will arise and go up to Beth el, I will make an altar to that which dwelled, Within me on the day of my distress, and Was with me on the way that I went."
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Rewarded for unmeritous acts - Yet a just universe this be. Unto the wild, I made tracks, On mine stony heart I fell asleep. Surrounded by those twelve sights, Which are of man, twelve archetypes. From the ground I do arise, And behold the pathway to nought, by light. Single steps leading from that which is not, Unto that which is manifest physically. Five worlds of groupings metaphysically, Five aggregates within each, with the 'whole' at each top, Five are the attributes of each aggregate, Being themselves each a whole one, Starting from that nought which begun, And descending one hundred and twenty five steps to manifest. Here are Adam Kadmon, nought and Atziluth, the archetypes; Beriah, systems of elements; Yetzirah, formations, Assiah, manifest world - physicality - what we perceive, As the entire universe, infinite, All-being. Here are Keter, the whole of any one which is existent; Binah, that manifest form which is defined within its bounds; Chokhmah, that which is without itself; Zeir Anpin, connections; Malkuth, the manifest, 'physical', entire wholeness which be. Rewarded for unmeritous acts - Yet a just universe this be. Unto the wild, I made tracks, On mine stony heart I fell asleep. Surrounded by those twelve sights, Which are of man, twelve archetypes. From the ground I do arise, And behold the pathway to nought, by light.
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Im HaShem lo yivneh bayis shav amlu boynav bo Im HaShem lo yishmor ir shav shokad shoymer Hineh lo yanum velo yishan shoymer isroel

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A Kabbalistic progressive black metal album.

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released November 11, 2021

J. Guilherme - all instruments and vocals.
D. Tann - clean vocals (tracks 2 and 4)

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