Get all 12 Silence & Strength releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Leviathan - Remixed by IM, The House of Death, The Lord of the Garden, Saturnian Transmissions: Soundtracks for Ritual and Meditation, Star Sapphire: A Collection of Rare and Unreleased Tracks, Saturn Return, Das Haus Zur Letzten Latern, Jupiter, and 4 more.
1. |
The Pentagram
09:53
|
|||
|
The Pentagram by Aleister Crowley
In the Years of the Primal Course, in the dawn of terrestrial
birth,
Man mastered the mammoth and horse, and Man was the
Lord of the Earth.
He made him an hollow skin from the heart of an holy tree,
He compassed the earth therien, and Man was the Lord of
the Sea.
He controlled the vigour of steam, he harnessed the light-
ning for hire;
He drove the celestial team, and man was the Lord of the
Fire.
Deep-mouthed from their thrones deep-seated, the choirs
of the æeons declare
The last of the demons defeated, for Man is the Lord of
the Air.
Arise, O Man, in thy strength! the kingdom is thine to
inherit,
Till the high gods witness at lenght that Man is the Lord
of his spirit.
|
||||
2. |
Der Golem (Demo)
08:48
|
|||
3. |
Wassertrum
04:04
|
|||
4. |
Star Sapphire
07:16
|
|||
|
Liber XXXVI The Star Sapphire by Aleister Crowley
Let the Adept be armed with his Magick Rood [and provided with his mystic rose].
In the centre, let him give the L.V.X. signs; or if he know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them, the signs of N.O.X. being the signs of Puer, Vir, Puella, Mulier. Omit the sign. I.R.
Then let him advance to the East and make the Holy Hexagram, saying: Pater et Mater unus deus Ararita.
Let him go round to the South, make the Holy Hexagram and say: Mater et Filius unus deus Ararita.
Let him go round to the West, make the Holy Hexagram and then say: Filius et Filia unus deus Ararita.
Let him go round to the North, make the Holy Hexagram and then say: Filia et Pater unus deus Ararita.
Let him then return to the Centre, and so to The Centre of All (making the Rosy Cross as he may know how) saying Ararita Ararita Ararita (In this the Signs shall be those of Set Triumphant and of Baphomet. Also shall Set appear in the Circle. Let him drink of the Sacrament and let him communicate the same.) Then let him say: Omnia in Duos: Duo in Unum: Unus in Nihil: Haec nec Quatuor nec Omnia nec Duo nec Unus nec Nihil Sunt.
Gloria Patri et Matri et Filio et Filiae et Spiritui Sancto externo et Spiritui Sancto interno ut erat est erit in saecula Saeculorum sex in uno per nomen Septem in uno Ararita.
Let him then repeat the signs of L.V.X. but not the signs of N.O.X.: for it is not he that shall arise in the Sign of Isis Rejoicing.
|
||||
5. |
Ibbur
07:08
|
|||
6. |
Hymn to Pan
08:43
|
|||
|
Hymn to Pan by Aleister Crowley
Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress
(Shepherdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,
In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!
Dip the purple of passionate prayer
In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
The soul that startles in eyes of blue
To watch thy wantonness weeping through
The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
Of the living tree that is spirit and soul
And body and brain — come over the sea,
(Io Pan! Io Pan!)
Devil or god, to me, to me,
My man! my man!
Come with trumpets sounding shrill
Over the hill!
Come with drums low muttering
From the spring!
Come with flute and come with pipe!
Am I not ripe?
I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
With air that hath no boughs to nestle
My body, weary of empty clasp,
Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp —
Come, O come!
I am numb
With the lonely lust of devildom.
Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
All-devourer, all-begetter;
Give me the sign of the Open Eye,
And the token erect of thorny thigh,
And the word of madness and mystery,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan,
I am a man:
Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
O Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
In the grip of the snake.
The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
The gods withdraw:
The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne
To death on the horn
Of the Unicorn.
I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!
I am thy mate, I am thy man,
Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
Everlasting, world without end,
Mannikin, maiden, Maenad, man,
In the might of Pan.
Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!
|
||||
7. |
||||
|
В моем небе странное созвездие
То ли случайность, то ли возмездие
Четыре звезды сошлись в дуге
Свинцовый серп в костлявой руке
Висит одиноко над соседской крышей
Бездонная пропасть зияет выше
А ниже тускло глядят фонари
И я сижу, и пусто внутри
За одну ногу нелепо подвешенный
С прахом земли заново смешанный
С шестом балансирую на перепутье
Где клином сошлись соль, сера и ртуть
Когда призраки ходят в обличьях людей
Когда Сатурн пожирает своих детей
Кто-то сказал: это Кали Юга
И все без причин ненавидят друг друга
Не ведая истины и красоты
Погрязши в пучине пустой суеты
Задерганный мир истерично кричит
Древний адепт молчит
|
||||
Silence & Strength Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel
In 2004, driven by a fascination with the occult, Israeli musician Stephan Friedman embarked on a quest to channel mysticism's essence through music. Mixing dark folk, ambient, industrial and electronica within conceptual albums, he aimed to transport listeners to realms beyond the ordinary, birthing Silence & Strength—the name inspired by Liber AL vel Legis. ... more
Silence & Strength recommends:
חושך / Darkness (LP)
by Choshech - חושך
A unique blend of atmospheric black metal and post-punk with depressive Hebrew lyrics. There is nothing like it.
go to album
דגל שחור / Black Flag (LP)
by Choshech - חושך
The second Choshech installation, staying true to post-punk atmospheres and black metal grandiosity, to create a poignant narrative of melancholy and grief.
go to albumIf you like Silence & Strength, you may also like:
Awaken (2014 complete version)
by Nordvargr
supported by 7 fans who also own “Star Sapphire: A Collection of Rare and Unreleased Tracks”
Oh boy, the sounds of summer are here!
go to album
supported by 7 fans who also own “Star Sapphire: A Collection of Rare and Unreleased Tracks”
go to album
The aptly-named Hauntings write songs that are sinister and moody—the seconds in a horror film right before the jump scare.
go to album
The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part One
by Larum (Micah Frank & Chet Doxas)
A gorgeous woodwind/electronics collaboration from Micah Frank, Chet Doxas, and friends that celebrates the work of Hildegard von Bingen.
go to album
