>>20057629I like the Therion albums Sitra Ahra, Magic Kabbalah, Theli, and especially the opera Beloved Antichrist.
That last one is not for beginners though - it requires long concentration, because it has to be listened to in order, in one sitting, and paying utmost attention to the lyrics. It concerns the topics of good and evil, purity, deception and gnosis.
One of the dreams from my childhood I always remember is about a symmetrical city of red tiles and limestone bricks, with one main dry dirt road bisecting it. It has a cliff coast on both sides, dropping into an aquamarine sea.
It has a second axis of symmetry - two steep hills on both extremes and a gradual valley between them. The buildings aren't large - they are typical southern European houses two or three storeys tall, but the city itself is imposingly large. It would take no less than two hours to walk from one hill to the other, on the only road, in a straight line.
An old volkswagen beetle car, with the driver's face obscured drops me off at the peak of one of the hills and drives away in the direction of the other. There is not a single person seen in the city, and the late afternoon is eerily calm. I don't know where I am, and I cry at being lost.
