Trismegistos, by SinistAer

Trismegistos

by SinistAer

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1.	The World 00:56	lyrics	download
From Malkuth to the threshold of the Astral plane in Yesod Naked woman, holding a wand in (each) hand (and) dancing, in a garland of flowers Symbol of joy, lightness and release The leaving of earthly existence and the entry into a higher world This is death in a sense Subduing of the mind Thru the cabalist's exercise(s) Saturn is the planet of death And the ash, yew & cypress Are associated with... Death & Graveyards!
2.	The Day of Judgement 00:50	lyrics	download
A great winged angel blows a trumpet And the dead rise up from their tombs What is that within us sounds a trumpet And all that is lower in our nature rises in response- Almost in a moment, almost in the twinkling of an eye? Desire; sexual or spiritual Symbol of aspiration, the yearning for better things...
3.	The Sun 00:55	lyrics	download
It's path leads to Hod and it shows the descent of light from on high, The dazzling light of true intelligence which frees the mind The light purges away Beginning a process which is continued Although he still thinks of himself as a seperate being, The cabalist begins to identify himself conciously with the one life of the universe, Represented by the sun Like the merciless and keen-sighted Sparrowhawk he soars toward the sun.
4.	The Moon 01:08	lyrics	download
The moon is one from light to darkness The Moon hangs in the nightsky shedding drops of blood on a path Which leads away into the distance between two worlds A dog & wolf are howling at the moon And a crab crawls up on to the land from a pool 18 reduces to 9, number of initiation Shown here as the breaking of the hymen Symbol of the underworld of the mind And the cabalist's penetration of the unknown
5.	The Star 00:50	lyrics	download
A beautiful naked girl pours water from two vases on to the earth and into a pool Behind her trees and shrubs are blossoming and in the sky is a star Surrounded by seven lesser stars There are eight stars altogether (And) 17 reduces to 8 The number of new life The girl is nature pouring out the water of life To revive the world in the spring time
6.	The Falling Tower 00:59	lyrics	download
A Flesh coloured tower It's upper part shaped like a crown Is struck by a bolt of lightning And is beginning to crumble Two men are falling From it headlong An obvious symbol of ejaculation It stands for the collapse Of a false philosophy For the perception As one authority puts it; "That the structure of knowledge Built on the foundation of the fallacy Of personal seperateness Is a tower of false science"
7.	The Devil 00:49	lyrics	download
The Devil has wings, horns & claws and holds a man and a woman on a leash of chains Solo (In Babylonia the number 15 was sacred to Ishtar, Goddess of sexual love) The Devil frequently appears as a goat And the goat & ass are both symbols of lust The Devil is the angel who rebelled from pride and was cast down to earth Emblem of power Standing for the dominating forces (of) pride, ambition & lust
8.	Temperance 00:47	lyrics	download
A higher continuation of the world Connecting Tiphereth & Yesod It shows a figure Pouring liquid From a silver cup Into a golden one The silver cup is Yesod (The Moon) The golden one is Tiphereth (The Sun) And the pouring of the liquid Is the flood which the soul mounts to a higher Sagittarius - The Huntsman Is a centaur Half beast and half man
9.	Death 00:56	lyrics	download
Death is skeleton with a scythe He is mowing a field of heads But hands & feet are growing in their place This is a symbol of death And resurrection in nature The lopped heads are the seeds which fall to the ground From which new shoots Hands & feet grow Raising the dead to life Phallic connotation The scorpion rules the genitals and is in turn ruled by Mars The planet of violent energy!
10.	The Hanged Man 00:54	lyrics	download
Death is a gateway to life Not only to life in the higher world of the spirit after the death of the body But also to life in this world Because new human life Results from the 'death' Of the phallus in ejaculation The hanged man swings limply from a gibbit Head downwards, with two bags of gold dangling from his hands And on his face an expression of pleased serenity He is passion spent The completion of a process And 12 is the number of completeness
11.	Justice 01:06	lyrics	download
The judgement which follows The death in the hanged man Is a woman holding a sword in her right hand, Scales in her left She is justice in a sense Of an exact balance The adept achieves a condition Of passive equilibrium In which the conflicting elements (of his nature) Are equally balanced He does not prefer any idea or course of action to any other And he matches each idea or action with it's opposite Undergoing purgatory
12.	The Wheel of Fortune 00:41	lyrics	download
A wheel of seven spokes Presided over by an angel Who holds a sword in one hand And a crown in another It stands for destiny, fate, The unvarying cycle of nature The ebb & flow of the iron tides of life & death Growth & decay To which all things are subject 10 is the number of all things The wheal is the occult law of karma; As a man sows, so shall he reap
13.	The Hermit 01:00	lyrics	download
The hermit is an old man wrapped in a cloak Carrying a lantern and a staff His path joins Hesid, the father With Tiphereth, the sun, the life-force It blends the idea of the ancient of days with the light of the world Isolated & withdrawn from the world, He is yet a light & beacon to others Yod is the letter of the phallus Creative power, and in terms of sexual symbolism The hermit means masturbation The true self has reached puberty (As it were) the magician has found the master in himself Complete in himself Solitary & virgin (The hermit's plants all have white flowers) Emblems of purity Uninvolvement He is a symbol of the fertitlity Of absolute Self-reliance.
14.	Strength 01:43	lyrics	download
Strength is a woman Forcibly closing the jaws of the lion Parallel to the falling tower At a higher level It is another emblem of discipline Crowley's formula Of the beast conjoined with the woman Orgiastic, perverse (Joins the) opposite spheres (Of) love & mercy Cruelty & hate The woman's unnatural dominance of the lion Implies the discipline of submission to the abnormal & distasteful Nature (is) outraged (By magic;) man is bestialized (And) woman defiled (The) pulsing excitement Self discovery (of) This discipline (Is) the beginning of A rapturous ecstasy
15.	The Chariot 00:47	lyrics	download
A warrior rides in a chariot Drawn by two sphinxes One white, and one black The sphinxes have been substituted To show that the charioteer Has solved the riddle of the Sphinx (They are) Black & white for the opposites (Which the) magician has yoked in his (own) nature (And) on the front of the chariot is the lingam, Symbol of the union of the sexes To reach the Godhead He must destroy himself (As an) individual man (and) identify himself with the universe which is God He annihilates his mortal human personality (And) returns to the womb of Binah (or) Babalon, The mother of all, (who is) also the whore
16.	The Lovers 00:35	lyrics	download
The lovers shows a man Choosing between two women In the passage of the abyss (The) magician has a choice Between obedience & disobedience to a higher law If he accepts self-annihilation He's reborn when he follows the path of the Empress If he refuses, he becomes a black brother Isolated from the rest of the universe In the hard & evil shell Of his own egotism
17.	The Pope 00:45	lyrics	download
The Pope is called the hierophant (One who) reveals sacred things by occultists He is the magus who has attained spiritual power & authority He corresponds to the process of 'projection' in alchemy (In which the perfect substance or Philospher's Stone is mingled) With a base metal to turn it to gold (And he) stands for the intervention (Of the divine) in earthly life - solo He holds the key of heaven & hell Which signify the knowledge of good & evil And his right hand is raised in the blessing called The sign of esotericism
18.	The Emperor 00:42	lyrics	download
The Emperor is the alter ego of the Pope, The ruler of all things material He stands for worldly authority, (organisation), Government, law & order (The) outward form (and) arrangement of things He sits on his throne holding a sceptre The arms of the throne end in ram's heads Which come from Aries, the ram, The sign of virile energy & domination The Emperor is God or man imposing order and form on things The Magus who 'declares his law' And dominates all things beneath him The owl is the bird of Athene The warrior-Goddess of wisdom And Hokmah Is the wisdom of God
19.	The Empress 01:07	lyrics	download
The Empress is pregnant, fair-haired & smiling Her path links Hokmah to Binah The active and passive or Male and female principles in God The sparrow and the dove are amorous birds And subject to Venus The swan is a symbol of satisfied desire It's phallic neck joined to it's cteic body The Empress is often identified with the woman clothed with the sun in Revelation Standing for beauty, pleasure & fertility, The teeming life of nature Her pregnancy represents the evolution of Godhead From infinite to finite Through the creation of the universe The magician must go through the same evolution to reach Hokmah He has become one with the Godhead in Binah and therefore infinite
20.	The Female Pope 00:54	lyrics	download
Called the High Priestess by occultists (Is a) dark crowned girl with a triple tiara And the horns of the moon Sitting on a throne between two pillars The pillars mean duality Opposites & Woman Between them is a veil The unbroken hymen, virginity Man must penetrate the virgin Or reconcile the opposites in his nature, And destroy his own duality to become the one The magician will destroy All duality of action in the Fool All duality of purpose In the Juggler
21.	The Juggler 00:52	lyrics	download
Called the magician by occultists He's a celestial juggler Who keeps the golden balls Of life in endless play A symbol of the single-minded creative will of man 1 is the number of beginning The first cause, the erect phallus And the swallow stands for spring The beginning of a cycle The quickening of life
22.	The Fool 01:28	lyrics	download
He is a jester in motley With a stick and bundle over his shoulder Close to the edge of a great cliff He is happily chasing a butterfly Not looking where he's going And his next step Will take him over the cliff The Fool is a symbol of foolishness (or madness) But his is a divine folly And the fool is also the perfected spirit of man approaching the one The one pervades all things And is free of all limitations It contains all qualities and yet it has no qualities (For to do so is to limit it) The Fool is the zero Which contains all things but is no-thing He is a free, as all pervading And is insubstantial as the air

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3rd album by SinistAer

This album is dedicated to the occult tradition of the Tarrot in it's many varied forms. The lyrics are taken from the book The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish respectively. NO MONEY IS BEING MADE OFF OF THIS! The words fitted perfect in the whole and was an inspiration to complete this mini opus. Every song is a card from the deck & it's explanation; a sort of 'magical working' in a way (to me anyway).