CELESTIAL EXPERIENCE: LYRIC BOOK
CELESTIAL EXPERIENCE: LYRIC BOOK
BOOK I - BLACK MADONNA
Know that there's traditionalists that hold back the good thoughts
And there's people in offices that stop the creative people
And are intimidated by actual good ideas
And I believe like a utopia is actually possible
But we are led by the least noble
The least dignified
The least tasteful the dumbest and the most political
Uh so in no way am I a politician
I'm usually and at my best politically incorrect
Darkness is the one true actuality
The basis and the root of light
Without which the latter could never manifest itself
Nor even exist
Light is matter and darkness pure spirit
Give heed my son Horus
For you shall hear the secret doctrine
Of which our forefather kamephis was the first teacher
It so befell that Hermes heard this teaching from Kamephis
The eldest of our race
I heard it from Hermes the writer of records
At the time when he initiated me into the Rite of Black Perfection
And you shall hear it now from me
Our Queenship thou art full of grace goodness and mercy
I consecrate to thee all my thoughts words and actions
My soul and body I beseech thy blessings
And especially prayers for my salvation
Today I consecrate myself to Thee Good Mother
Totally with body and soul amid joy and sufferings
To obtain for myself and others
Thy blessings on this earth and eternal life in heaven
Etruscans embarked upon a series of conquests
Initially probably not coordinated
But undertaken by individual cities
The pressing motive for expansion was that
By the middle of this century
The Greeks not only had obtained a grip on Corsica
And expanded their hold on Sicily and southern Italy
But also had settled on the Ligurian coast
For all her prevalence and influence
Black Madonna remains a surprisingly misunderstood figure
In mainstream Christianity
Too often, racism and ignorance obscure her true origins
She is the mother of universes
Identified with the primordial darkness and chaos of the universe
And with the moist and fertile black earth
Our Queenship speaks to an ancient cultural memory
Of the African origins of humanity
Representing the original mother of Earth's children
Etruscans had established a thriving commercial and agricultural civilization
Characteristics of their artistic achievements are the wall frescoes
And realistic terra-cotta portraits found in their tombs
Religion at that time employed elaborately organized cults and rituals
Including the extensive practice of divination
BOOK II - FIVE ELEMENTS
This most beautiful system of sun, planets and comets
Could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of
An intelligent and powerful being
Blind metaphysical necessity
Which is certainly the same always and everywhere
Could produce no variety of things
All that diversity of natural things
Which we find suited to different times and places
Could arise from nothing but the ideas
And will of a being necessarily existing
Here we find a universal method of checks and balances
Water promotes the existence of wood
Which promotes fire, which burns things to the earth
In the earth we find metals
Which through condensation promote the formation of water
However, water douses or controls fire
Which melts or controls metal
Which cuts or controls wood, which plows or controls earth
Which soaks up or controls water
Harmony requires checks and balances
If any one element becomes too strong or too weak
Imbalance occurs, illness sets in
And harmony is lost
A fifth element must be added to these four
To explain the behaviour of the heavenly bodies
Whereas the terrestrial elements of earth, water, air, and fire
Were all mutable and corruptible
Coming into being and passing away
No change could be perceived in the celestial realm
Moreover while the natural motion of the four terrestrial elements
Was towards or away from the centre of the cosmos in a straight line
The natural motion of the heavenly bodies was uniform circular motion
Around that centre
Therefore inferred
That the cosmos above the terrestrial sphere
That is, from the moon upwards
Was not made out of any of the mutable terrestrial elements
But must be composed of a different
Unchangeable substance, the fifth element
or quintessence, which is Aether
Aether, an element that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere
That's quintessential arts
BOOK III - KNOWLEDGE OF SELF
Before the small village of Rome became "Rome" with a capital R
A brilliant civilization once controlled almost the entire peninsula
We now call Italy this was the Etruscan civilization
A vanished culture whose achievements set the stage
Not only for the development of ancient Roman art and culture
But for the Italian Renaissance as well
Optimism is discredited not so much
And certainly not only because its tenets are shown to be implausible
In the light of the evidence
But essentially because it is a system
As such it is as inhuman and as dangerous as all the other systems
Which are ruthlessly satirized in history
The military system
The church system
The educational system
The colonial system
The economic models
Political establishments
And indeed the system of logic itself
Mr. Parker say it again? Mr Parker
The man sitting over there is compiling many accusations
You look me in the eye and on your life
You answer me truthfully have you any other name?
Solomon Northup is my name
Sheriff what's all this?
Its official business
The picture is not unrelievedly bleak there may be some grounds for optimism
First human beings may be admirable for their will to survive
And their refusal to commit philosophical suicide
Etruscan influence on ancient Roman culture was profound
And it was from the Etruscans
That the Romans inherited many of their own cultural and artistic traditions
From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat
To hydraulic engineering temple design and religious ritual
Among many other things
My nigga my business your business waits
Tell me of your family I have a wife two children
What the hell?
What are your children's names? Margaret and Alonzo
What's your wife's name before her marriage? Anne Hampton I am who I say
Where you going? Didn't authorize you to invade my property
You come back here you come back here boy
Mundanes no longer listen to fairytales
The cause is still the same an interfering church
That thinks it has a monopoly on virtue and truth
A breach in superterrestrial law
People heard these marvelous tales
They believed thrived and built dynasties on them
You will unhand him that is my nigga
He is Mr Solomon Northup
You come here in front of me with claims
Got no doubts the man is Solomon Northup
The hell he is he is my nigga, and I'll fight you for him
As is your right as it will be my pleasure to bankrupt you in the courts
Your decision? Unhand him
I'm gonna get to the bottom of this I paid good money for this nigga
Courthouse got papers to prove it
And we got papers to prove that he's real
I own you; you belong to me do you hear me?
Unhand him get you back by sundown
BOOK IV - AU REVOIR
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THIS SONG IS AN INSTRUMENTAL
