Opera Ix - Act Iv: Congressus Cum Daemone lyrics

The sacred fire burns in the stone circle In the centre of the all I'm waiting for the guardian Powerful thunders rumble in the air And lightnings herald the storm Darkness turns into light and light grows into darkness While the salamanders are continuing to dance in the heart of fire The moon stops growing She stretches the fronds shades as spectral witnesses And Eurus, the east wind, gives them life 6 are the towers, 4 are the revealed seals And now I am waiting for the next one Thunder is rumbling again Like the dragon's awakening from the deep abyss I honour the dark simulacrum of the depth's gates That is silently waiting for the event's completion I desert the realm of chaos and I liberate over the infernal rivers I follow the way of the red snake Ancestral flight ...into the depth I will celebrate the umpteenth pa**age ritual A new baptism in a space without time Tisipnon, fury of the occult power, is waiting for me To deliver me the black book of the supreme knowledge I cross the hidden paths of Shaytan to violate the ayernus gates That raise from the deep abyss up to the horrid vault 3 are the bronze doors and 3 of iron and 3 of diamonds They are wrapped up by an eternal fire That makes all red-hot but nothing destroys At the sides of the awful pa**age 2 guardians are waiting for me [First guardian:] "Be aware of your virtue, oh animal, and the abyss With its spectres will be overcome Rejoyce as a new spirit and the barking of the Infernal beasts will become silvery chant Beyond these portals you can join the perfect lightof the space without time" "I am Angelikos Phosphoros, Lucifer, Morning Star" [Second guardian:] "Welcome spiritual warrior who, conscious and daring, utters the secret name Before the black diamond gates Welcome ensign of light This pathway knows the steps, dreads and triumphs of your search Welcome insane hero, the only one who has descended the stairs of damnation You, blazing sun, dare-devil who faces the hades to win yourself" "I greet and thank you, obscure guardians, who allow my pa**age Without rending my flesh. I, brave rambling being, go and reveal the fifth seal"