Post by luxcthonis on Sept 4, 2007 11:09:02 GMT -6
This is a dream that I had about a year ago, and I thought it appropriate to share with all of my Cthonic kindred. I did not want to wake up, and was disappointed when I did. It was Heaven; it is Hel. This is copied from the text of the "Triptych" where it also appears in full [as Chapter 2 of the Words of Nox in the Book of Shadows (part 3)]:
Chapter 2
1 The Abyss of Hallucinations is the abode of the dead, where the spirit and soul takes residence after the life has expired. Within the Abyss of Hallucinations all are a part of their own private heavens, and their own private hells, wherein the soul waits for resurrection.
2 I was given a vision of the glorious ecstasy of All that is Hell. I prayed to The Nameless Father-Mother to expound all things unto me, and aid my understanding of the most profound mysteries, wherefore, I was given this vision:
3 In Hell there is an order of Chaos, and there is a chaos of Order. I traveled through the maze of Hell with Cain at my side, I in white raiment, and he in black raiment.
4 The colours swirled, and were bright, and yet darkness hovered in the midst.
5 I perceived that Hell was a labyrinth in the semblance of a great building. As I moved through the aisles, I became aware that I was in a race with Cain, as if in a competition.
6 There were many rooms hidden by plastic curtains which I dared not in my excitement, nor in my haste, to peer behind. The aisles were littered with debris: fallen limbs, filth, insignificant objects, streaks of blood, and neon corpses.
7 I met few passersby, yet in a certain room, I was met by a man running towards me mindlessly. He passed me by, yet as I made my way from room to room, I could hear him shambling in a destructive path behind me.
8 Many rooms I did not see, for I followed the path that would lead me into the innermost chambers, and out again. At times I knew I had not taken the correct path for I could see entrances to other rooms that were darkened, behind sheets, or plastic drapes, or paint-peeled doors.
9 I could only guess at the horrors that lay beyond, and yet despite my curiosity, I was urged forth by an unseen hand to finish my race with Cain, for I was in utter awe, and ecstasy at all that all that I beheld.
10 As I traveled deeper into the labyrinth, I saw a few others who were engaged in the marketplace which held the arcane merchandise of human existence, prehistoric, and modern.
11 The atmosphere was very like that of a carnival, with a contrast of fluorescent colours and darkness.
12 I was shown a symbol, or a semblance of God; I could not tell its significance, only that the figure was revered as there were types of it in many rooms.
13 The semblance of the God (whether the God of Hell, or The Nameless God, I knew not), was in the shape of a human skull bearing horns. Four legs, or perhaps eight, protruded from it. At times this image included the tail of a scorpion.
14 Soon after leaving the area which I could only perceiva as a marketplace, for the entire labyrinth was much like that of a desolate factory in which a store had been placed,
15 I met Cain at the end of the maze, in a black stairwell, illuminated only by black light. All of the walls were black, and it appeared to be a stairwell leading downward toward I knew not what.
16 There was a window in the wall where a person would sit to allow entrance into the lower floors below.
17 I traveled through this maze twice in my vision, and the second time there was no person at the admittance window; there was instead, an orb of energy in the form of an eye, which touched me in some manner, and I began to travel backwards through the labyrinth at a tremendous speed which allowed me to be able to see the spiritual forces that governed it.
18 As I flew backward I could fathom thousands of millions of greenish tentacles around the circumference of my sight. The tentacles moved in a squirtching manner, and were covered in astral slime.
19 A great purple-ish octopoid being, possibly a great squid, came into view. It writhed, and breathing pustules emanated from its body.
20 It touched my with its tentacle-like appendages, and I at once lost all of my skin, whereby I became a skeleton; my skull had horns, and I was wearing a cloak, or a cape fastened with a clasp, perhaps bearing a symbol of some sort.
21 Cain said to me "You know that you will never get it back," referring to my skin, which insinuated that I would have to remain in the world of the living without any skin. I cared not but for the awe of the moment.
22 In an instant I beheld myself, and I began to change: my cape may have covered me for a second, and I had my skin again; celestial colours swirled about me, I know not whether I continued going backwards, or whether I was suspended in space,
23 Yet, as my form was reinstated, I saw through the eyes of a wizard, or a king of some great medieval castle, with many subjects milling about.
24 Looking to the horizon I saw myself, through the eyes of the wizard, rise up before the kingdom, higher than nine mountains.
25 The wizard waged war against me, and smote my face, cutting it to the bone, whereby I proceeded to smash the kingdom, and decimate it into non-existence.
26 I stood side by side with Cain afterward, and as we walked toward what I could only take to be the sunrise of the land of the living, I said "That is my favorite town," referring to the labyrinth, which was Hell. In all of this writing it does not begin to describe the aura, or the glorious horror of that place which can only be Hell, for there are few who could endure its bliss, and human words could never do it justice, wherefore all must stand breathless before it.
Chapter 2
1 The Abyss of Hallucinations is the abode of the dead, where the spirit and soul takes residence after the life has expired. Within the Abyss of Hallucinations all are a part of their own private heavens, and their own private hells, wherein the soul waits for resurrection.
2 I was given a vision of the glorious ecstasy of All that is Hell. I prayed to The Nameless Father-Mother to expound all things unto me, and aid my understanding of the most profound mysteries, wherefore, I was given this vision:
3 In Hell there is an order of Chaos, and there is a chaos of Order. I traveled through the maze of Hell with Cain at my side, I in white raiment, and he in black raiment.
4 The colours swirled, and were bright, and yet darkness hovered in the midst.
5 I perceived that Hell was a labyrinth in the semblance of a great building. As I moved through the aisles, I became aware that I was in a race with Cain, as if in a competition.
6 There were many rooms hidden by plastic curtains which I dared not in my excitement, nor in my haste, to peer behind. The aisles were littered with debris: fallen limbs, filth, insignificant objects, streaks of blood, and neon corpses.
7 I met few passersby, yet in a certain room, I was met by a man running towards me mindlessly. He passed me by, yet as I made my way from room to room, I could hear him shambling in a destructive path behind me.
8 Many rooms I did not see, for I followed the path that would lead me into the innermost chambers, and out again. At times I knew I had not taken the correct path for I could see entrances to other rooms that were darkened, behind sheets, or plastic drapes, or paint-peeled doors.
9 I could only guess at the horrors that lay beyond, and yet despite my curiosity, I was urged forth by an unseen hand to finish my race with Cain, for I was in utter awe, and ecstasy at all that all that I beheld.
10 As I traveled deeper into the labyrinth, I saw a few others who were engaged in the marketplace which held the arcane merchandise of human existence, prehistoric, and modern.
11 The atmosphere was very like that of a carnival, with a contrast of fluorescent colours and darkness.
12 I was shown a symbol, or a semblance of God; I could not tell its significance, only that the figure was revered as there were types of it in many rooms.
13 The semblance of the God (whether the God of Hell, or The Nameless God, I knew not), was in the shape of a human skull bearing horns. Four legs, or perhaps eight, protruded from it. At times this image included the tail of a scorpion.
14 Soon after leaving the area which I could only perceiva as a marketplace, for the entire labyrinth was much like that of a desolate factory in which a store had been placed,
15 I met Cain at the end of the maze, in a black stairwell, illuminated only by black light. All of the walls were black, and it appeared to be a stairwell leading downward toward I knew not what.
16 There was a window in the wall where a person would sit to allow entrance into the lower floors below.
17 I traveled through this maze twice in my vision, and the second time there was no person at the admittance window; there was instead, an orb of energy in the form of an eye, which touched me in some manner, and I began to travel backwards through the labyrinth at a tremendous speed which allowed me to be able to see the spiritual forces that governed it.
18 As I flew backward I could fathom thousands of millions of greenish tentacles around the circumference of my sight. The tentacles moved in a squirtching manner, and were covered in astral slime.
19 A great purple-ish octopoid being, possibly a great squid, came into view. It writhed, and breathing pustules emanated from its body.
20 It touched my with its tentacle-like appendages, and I at once lost all of my skin, whereby I became a skeleton; my skull had horns, and I was wearing a cloak, or a cape fastened with a clasp, perhaps bearing a symbol of some sort.
21 Cain said to me "You know that you will never get it back," referring to my skin, which insinuated that I would have to remain in the world of the living without any skin. I cared not but for the awe of the moment.
22 In an instant I beheld myself, and I began to change: my cape may have covered me for a second, and I had my skin again; celestial colours swirled about me, I know not whether I continued going backwards, or whether I was suspended in space,
23 Yet, as my form was reinstated, I saw through the eyes of a wizard, or a king of some great medieval castle, with many subjects milling about.
24 Looking to the horizon I saw myself, through the eyes of the wizard, rise up before the kingdom, higher than nine mountains.
25 The wizard waged war against me, and smote my face, cutting it to the bone, whereby I proceeded to smash the kingdom, and decimate it into non-existence.
26 I stood side by side with Cain afterward, and as we walked toward what I could only take to be the sunrise of the land of the living, I said "That is my favorite town," referring to the labyrinth, which was Hell. In all of this writing it does not begin to describe the aura, or the glorious horror of that place which can only be Hell, for there are few who could endure its bliss, and human words could never do it justice, wherefore all must stand breathless before it.