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Apotheosis

by Iconoclast

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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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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?
3.
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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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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released February 21, 2024

Line-up:
Pablo Escobar (Vocals / Guitars)
Javier Bravo (Guitars)
Daniel Fuentes (Bass)
Juan Pablo Fernández (Drums)


Recording, editing and mastering:
Fernando Naranjo
Omicron Studios, 2023.

Artwork:
Jose Canales.

Music: Iconoclast
Lyrics: Pablo Escobar

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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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