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Universal Reign
03:54
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And true omnipotence brought forth life
Ex nihilo – The sole sustainer of existence
Intangible
The Alpha and the Omega
The absolute origin of all that is animate
All matter, energy, and organization
The creator, questioned by his creation
The observer remaining spited by the observed
Yet was not man given free will and a cerebrum?
A choice between good or evil and a consciousness to yearn
If so, dismiss the inquisition of war, famine, and disease
Let it be known, that hate, malice, and death are nothing more than reaping seeds
Planted in the hearts of the corrupted
Envenomed by the fury
Its ire polluting man
With its obscured plague
Yet the denied is the accused
Blood on the hands of the non existent
The absentee in which they loathe
The washing away of blood, sweat, tissue and bone
The decomposition of vessels
Left to erode
Although death is of the fury
The observer is left to blame
Although they deny him of existence, impious mortals blaspheme his name
Regardless of divine intervention, this truth remains unchanged
Like man his grace
Left to erode
Consciousness is merely a beginning
A prelude to the afterlife
AFTERLIFE
For what good is creation without purpose?
To eat, drink, and rust away
Or exist infinitely, ultimately without cause?
Such existence is trivial
Accept or reject this truth
Regardless, the observer’s glory shall flourish
And the maelstrom shall continue
Until ambition is fulfilled
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Space Time Reciprocal
02:58
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A parallel dimension
Reciprocal to ours
Coexisting and dependent
All things adhere to this duality
Existing simultaneously in both worlds
Space!
Time!
Constantly sharing their pieces that make up the whole
It is possible to travel there
To move through time
As we would move through space
It is the true reciprocal
This science holds the secrets of the universe
Levitation, transformation, teleportation
This theory becomes truth
This truth reality
Accelerating subatomic particles past the speed of light
Watch as they disappear
Into space and time
Reciprocating
Themselves into time space
The reciprocal relation of two dimensions
In our posited vibratory existence
Reconstitutes our understanding of space and time
A perplexing astronomical phenomenon in the paradigm
Knowledge once known by many, now held by few
Cherished by the ancients, a gift from the stars
Monolithic impossibilities that withstand the test of time
Intangible realities that await our kind
Symbols of the existence...
Of the space time reciprocal…
Reciprocation now in motion
The future of the universe is now in our hands
This secret lost in time
Man’s quest to conquer truth
Is it the missing key?
That fits the lock to the gateway
To ultimate knowledge and wisdom
The gateway of God!
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And the fury was cast out from Elysium
By omnipotence
Bestowed with the curse
To curse and rile bedlam upon the mortals in jealousy
The lord of flies
Such is the most abhorred and unclean
Chief of the bottomless pit
The entity dwelling in the shadows
Trans-temporal, trans-locative
He’s in your fucken mind
Its serpentine essence coiling around the earth
Manipulating minds like marionettes
Barbarous devouring of souls like a roaring lion
A covenant with death
Its legions follow, afflicting man with bane
Stirring delirium, incinerating faith,
Hope depraved
Bringing dreaded ruin among the masses
Calamity
The prince of the air
Leaving drought, famine and despair
Abysmal quintessence of horror
Sulfuric essence which feeds on man’s fear
Eroding spirits under flesh
Bending the bones till they crack and fissures start to show
As its virus
Continues to swell in the subconscious of mankind,
Like a viper observing its victim, as the venom
Decays it’s will
It watches the atmospheric decomposition
The archaic cancer in metaphysical form
Until it’s sole purpose of existence comes to fruition
Autarch of Evil!
Apollyon!
Architect of fallacy
Conducting humanity to the rhythm of subservience
Fallacy!
The epitome of execrable devastation cometh
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Climbing Babel's Tower
05:32
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And man brought toil into this world
The inharmonious species misled by greed
Dissonance in the source
Man cast out the creator
Attempting to replace its architect
To become the creator
With visions of its own
Discovering archaic knowledge
The wisdom of the ancients
Stealing the space time reciprocal
To find glory and virtue
Somewhere in the galactic abyss
Somewhere inside that galactic abyss
Creating AI in his own image
Passing on his inherited labor, to a void creation
A meaningless augmentation
Such as evolution without purpose
The secrets of the universe now unlocked
However, death remaining undefeated
Shines a light of imperfection
As the fury still reigns the air
Unseen yet absorbed
Those who perish the thought
Are now no different than those who seek it
The deaf judging the blind
Its essence engulfing the atmosphere
Its effluvium debasing cognition amongst this advanced civilization void of consciousness
The space time reciprocal
Clenched in the hands of man
Seeking immortality
As the final vindication
To replace its creator
This greed, instilled in the heart of man by the fury
The chief architect of the scourge
Since the bite of the forbidden fruit
Its ultimate blueprint to bastardize mankind
Is approaching its close
This golden age shall be blackened and then
Mankind seeking life shall find death instead
And although he’ll long to die, death will flee from him
Its ultimate blueprint to bastardize mankind
Is approaching its close
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Existence in Fractals
04:31
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“Emptiness hath brought you here – You’re chasing after the wind”
Word’s softly spoken by the creator, greeting his creation
The beauty of the fullest ambition held by engineered life, finally reaching its architect
Whose existence was inarguably denied
Cast out from his throne
Like a king usurped of sovereignty by his children
Denied of his honor - beheaded, for all to see
No mass, no grave
Simply fed to decay
His ontological ballast stolen
“We have climbed your tower,
Your attempt to suppress
Unlimited wisdom and knowledge was futile, as we transcend on”
We are of you, and we shall become you”
Words bravely spoken by man in his onslaught to become God
For the creator’s gift of life
Alone was insufficient to man
The fury made this clear
When his ancient promise of enlightenment condemned mankind to toil
And now this epic voyage approaches its closure at the crossroads of existence
The fury dwelling in the shadow of man, equidistant from the architect
Apollyon, Man, Creator
Darkness, Mortal, Light
“Can the clay become the potter?” said the architect
“Or is the clay and potter both one?” he continued…
“Is man to be compared to potsherds?” the fury replied…
The innate ego of human nature led man to the fury’s shadow
“You have given us dominion over earth, yet we are capable of this universal reign” mankind uttered…
Recognizing the sulfuric passion of his creation,
The creator presented man with but one ultimatum
“Create life in your own image, give it free will for one cycle of the earth’s axial precession, and see that it does not destroy you. Then, and only the, will you have earned your universal reign”
Silence filled the cosmos
As true omnipotence cast out the fury
For Gnosis now had taken its place
Granted the role of demigod for one axial rotation
With the daunting task of replicating the architects design
Beyond all bounds of possibility
To finally obtain immortality
To walk through the gateway of God
As is the way of the ouroboros
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