There is no escape. Accept or rebel?
– These are but throes. All is decaying.
Life seeks the Chance.
Step beyond limits – to the Edge
Where the path is lost.
Behold the Abyss – temptation and dread.
Leap!
The Fall is unbearable.
You yearn to be broken into pieces.
Farewell, Salvation and Joy of the World.
The nightmare shall stop the deceit.
– Fill yourself!
Inexistence is the refuge.
You are not you, forevermore,
But the Reflection and the Negation.
The Initiation.
The Core has been separated
And rectified in the Alembic.
The Spirit has risen, the Shadow is gone.
All is equal.
Open your eyes – there is Night in the East.
Open your mouth – the poison is tempting. Remember!
From above – conversely – the whirling of plans.
Mind is Absurd. Blood is Spirit. Life is Death.
Separate the Light from the Darkness.
Rectify the Essence from the Taint.
Fly, flow, and flare.
The vessel of transformations is the Alembic.
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