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Unveiling Existence
05:33
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Longing the knowledge of sorrow and human experience
I abandoned peace to start my transmutation
Submerged in a sphere of material existence
Where everything is nothing but a mere illusion
Trauma of birth will erase my peace and ego shall grow instead
I have condemned myself to this dimension
Where truth shall be found in a world of false
Set to walk astray from true comprehension
In a thousand journeys through the utmost dark
Cast out from above to walk the path of grievance and suffering
I will witness once again the eternal reprise of the cycles of life
As through fire we descend, and through fire we arise
Dormant I shall be until the highest intellect
Connects to the divine from the source within
Born of the universe to exist in the abyss
I long for the answers to these mysteries
But the secret knowledge resides in me
As I once was an ethereal being
The cosmic architecture, the essence of the soul
A karmic descent to the earth
Were the answers carved in stone?
Keeper of the secrets I had been bestowed
The hidden worship of the sun,
I chant the words: As above, so below!
Attached to a mortal body, condemned to decay
Walking the labyrinths of earthly illusions and despair
Dwelling in a sphere under the laws of time and space,
Condemned to exist in a world just to experience pain
Bereft of my past, have I ever lived among the stars?
As alone I walk into this journey through the dark... towards light.
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Cycles Of Suffering
04:01
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Now that I have been deprived of heaven
In fire I cleanse, in earth I am reborn
For I need to unveil the secrets of the seven
As I descended from the solar temples
But how could I awaken from this conscious sleep?
As consciousness was vanished from my ethereal being
Restrained by flesh to experience an eternal grief
Forlorn I am in the scourge of existence
An empty reflection in the mirrors of death
Incarcerated by the body itself
A perennial war against the "I"
The multi-existence, the distortion of time
The essence of what this contradiction implies
Set to live in a world of thoughts
Inside the sphere of uncertainty
The burden of anguish I have to resist
Inside this vacuum, do I really exist?
Set to perform in a theatre of pain
Inside an illusion called reality
Could I be by my own senses deceived?
Is life itself nothing but a dream?
A witness of the great spectacle of misery
The imprisonment of the whole humanity
As within, so without
An internal star, chaos bestowed
Withered are the secrets
Can truth be found on earth?
The desires of the flesh
Will burn into the flames of death
Symbols carved in stone as truth lies above
Are they hidden from us? Or am I hiding from truth?
Formless thoughts that can transcend the dimensions of time
Will my consciousness survive after my bodily demise?
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Return To Nothingness
06:16
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Existence on earth has ceased
With blind eyes I now realize
I experienced nothing but a fragment of existence
A glimpse in the dark of the intellect void
Transmigration of the soul
Through the burning flames of the sun
Obscurity will reveal its hidden truth
From ashes the spirit shall rise anew
As I was bounded to earth
Once I lived in oblivion
Once I crawled in the dark
Where I end now is where I begin
I always was and I will always be
When the ego and the self are truly dissolved
Consciousness becomes one with the void
The secret of the solar splendour appears
"I will live in death when I first had died in life"
Through emptiness and silence I have transcended existence
I returned to my origin - I belong to the above
In utmost silence my manifestation has begun
I have become the twice-born. I am now an ascendant to the sun
Existence is nothing more than a collective conscious delusion
How could I know that I am not dreaming in the vastness of my own consciousness?
I have renounced material existence to see beyond the sphere
Has life been the illusion, and is death nothing but a dream?
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Seeds Of Chaos
06:32
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From my tomb I ascend to the stars where I shall exist perpetually
In shapeless manifestations as I abandoned my decaying flesh
To rise upon the silent firmament
Now that I am beyond time
I realize I have eternally lived
Departed from the ego
The self has been dissolved into the universal essence
Arisen from the material hallucination
I have merged with the primordial wisdom
Awakened from the eternal illusion
I have become the conscious creation
A divine metamorphosis, existing in a living void
Darkness above and darkness below
The vacuum manifests in perennial thoughts
The abiding glory of the sun
Emptiness within, existence without
Oh, ever-expanding source of darkness
Enlighten my soul through fire
Grant me the veil of silence
And let me adore the blazing star
As my spirit became the ethereal elements
I dissolve and I transmute
And as my soul ascended to the source of all
I exist as part of the invisible divinity
In the vast realms of deafening silence
My burning spirit ignites the solar temples
As chaos I dwell, I will destroy
As silence I speak, I will create
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Iconoclast Santiago, Chile
Iconoclast is a Chilean metal band formed in 2010 with the relase of their first E.P. called "Naqoyqatsi." Then, in 2016, "Process Of Decadence" was recorded and released. Now, a new four song E.P. will be announced in 2024.
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