Of the Key and Crossed Bones - Nightbringer

Three are the circles and three are gates

Three keys to unlock the leaden manacles of the gates

Three are her faces and three are her veils

By three secret names I call her at the threefold way

Darkness covers the realm of ether

As darkness buries the corpses crawling in the ground

Vain death sown deep into the flesh of man

Since that day he first opened his screaming eyes

Yet through the bottomless pit of matter

I can hear her calling and see her torch alight

A flame sprung from the heart of the empyreal hearth

To guide the scattered thoughts back into the halls of mind

O Ékati — O Phosphorous — Enodia Trismegistos

Open the depthts of the underworld that I may find the stars

O Trivia — Psuchopompos — Sophia Trismegistos

Open the heights of heaven that I may drink from the fount of gods

The fire of the father flowers in your sacred womb

The thunder of your world breaks through the sub-lunar tombs

Hell’s shadows shall bow in my presence and the Teletarchs sing me praise

For my spirit is led through the three fiery gates!

Behold the key and crossed bones, behold the hidden path

Behold a sun abloom within the uttermost black

As spirit returns to spirit and flesh to the worm and the hole

I was born of the father and him with my mother I go