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XVII
01:44
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The Veiled Architect
07:22
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The finger moves, the flower blooms
In the arising smile, the sun births a new dawn
Of my own design, a decade of creation
With impalpable power, I converge
All to be set free
The God within dreams the grand dream
Under the Veil, the weaving ghosts sing
Awe, petrifying the vessel
O beautiful oblivion, you and I are one
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Throne of Solitude
06:32
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On wings of peace torn
Here, paradise is born
Fallen, cradled in the void
I am of pure ivory
Above and within, vicariously I live through them
Every soul my own, in beautiful oblivion
Through the starry heavens
Across kingdoms and oceans
All beauty echoes into a still abyss
Gripping my own throne to an opera of peace
Voices sing to bless, doomed to eternal drone
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Augmented
05:19
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Man and machine as one
Alpha through the meta, become
Mystery beckons odyssey
Into the void of the Veil, I seek
As it is beyond, it is within
Essence evades the man and the God
Purity birthed from the soul
Of the immaculate unknown
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Portal
05:10
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Lost in the ashes of time, an era of youthful flourishing
My own wraiths play with the darkness, invoking an old soul
You have my hand
Please take me home
All my hopes and my reveries become alive
Yesteryear ignites with the yearning light
Portal into the astonishing
Dream of a Veiled life
When peace is gone, peace is made
Hold still, embrace the wraiths’ song
For it will carry you away to the one home you know
Their hymns then depart, gifting silence
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Sigil
06:03
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White blossoms rain down with the bathing sun
Returning the royal guard in the grandeur of victory
Attuned with the divine, sacred be this crown
Attuned with thorn and sky, nurtured be this realm
Attuned with the essence, mastering the will
Trivium of the Gods, mark of our kingdom
Together we stand: knight, seer, and field-hand
Unified hearts and souls, warmed in ceremonial fire
Dawning our reign, we bear with honor the sigil of the trivium
Et ordo in virtute pulchritudinis
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Order & Virtue
04:08
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For ten long years, I have wandered. Navigating man-made worlds of words in search of the face of purity only to find silhouettes and charlatans. But, you know, there are those moments when no particular feeling is clear. Yet at the same time, everything is just right. Connection without reflection, I guess. And you walk freely, with a quiet yet keen mind, blessed in an aura of flourishing peace. But the moment you try to make sense of it, the moment you try to put it into words, it's gone. Our obsessive use of language shrouds those rare moments gifting that purity, that... beauty. No thoughts can capture them; they slip through every grasp but that of raw, silent experience. I’ve wasted so many thoughts and words utterly failing to hold that purity, but that told me all I needed to know: no matter what happens, no matter what life is or how others are, that gift of purity awaits in a silent synthesis of order and virtue. And it waits for us to exile from the worlds of words and into the beautiful silence, a life lived in pure experience towards the good. Order and virtue are dear to me, but all in all, I simply seek beauty.
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Divine Abeyance
02:50
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Virin
06:09
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Journeying into the depths of my soul
I find myself, a wraith among wraiths
Veiled in the void so beautiful, I lift my head
To stoke the forge and shape the glass once again
O God of the dream, converging with oblivion, I am thy own
Woefully through the senses do we sleep
By the fires of the dream, I awaken
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Echoes from the Dream
07:00
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