[Intent] [I] I rip through the chains of Mars astride his mare and roan (as) war bellows blazing free [II] that rock, that vicar and that flower today I'll put them to sleep [III] Your wings have risen up against my foes and Your winds blow into my sail and set me upon this path of burning thorns that bends as the Devil's tail [IV] open heart closed eyes trembling hands tear apart the chain [V] what saint's decree can hold me back now that Your name is known to me? [VI] "for Your chants to reverb on the walls of my mind, their truth diligently unfurled, for the Living d**h in grotesque glory to walk, from my dreams into the world" [Preparation] [I] a bony hand upon my shoulder leads me from day into night [II] and from the void into the air I follow you sleepily [III] from the air to the sea I follow you uncertainly [IV] from the sea to the earth I follow you determinately [V] through the earth into the fire I follow you confidently [VI] from the fire into the void I follow you eternally [VII] within the godhead within the abyss and from on high I reach down into the world [Transcritical Bifurcation] [I] I am thrust through the air, particle swarm, gaining speed, friction builds I am perceived, I go where gravity wills [II] The sky it yields before my fall, an empty husk, I am fulfilled, and filled with rain a falling moon I neither wax nor wane [III] as fiery birds crumble and die in the wake of wings, scorching aether, I come along I land in salt (to be) neither psalm nor song [IV] at grotesque speed I break the gla** I am moved through, soul torn apart, blackthorn wreath lungs fill with brine as I slowly slip beneath [V] a deep blue glow of endless chance sends up its hands, grasping claws, tendrils bore into my skin (and) replace what was before [VI] I am rea**embled through witching love sirens call and pa** me by, my ears burst with the force of d**h that stills my endless thirst [VII] it seems as though the open sea, endless void, pregnant with rage, impedes my birth forever lost I set my nails into earth [VIII] as I writhe over scaly stone coral of blood, exquisite pain, there's not a sound awake I dream that I'm absorbed in ground [IX] I become aware of intense force choking my lungs, halting my pulse, drowning in mire I pa**, like night, from soil into fire [X] I grasp and reach for nothingness a final d**h, so loved not mourned, a final test a break of laws at His enduring behest [XI] chaotic swirl of ravenous flame nuclear decay, dead atom-sphere, unleash hell and from this point time has nothing to tell [XII] among melting stone my skin retreats magnesium bites, white storm of teeth, into my soul carbon to ash I am swallowed hole [XIII] I fall into the spaceless space the timeless time the endless end neither here nor there above or below into the night I go