Thebes is one of OM’s most epic songs. The first half is very meditative and psychedelic, almost like a mantra. On the second half, it explodes into a more familiar sound for the band, with distortion and heavy drumming. This song is their second longest, clocking at 19 minutes.
The title makes ref...
Descends supine grace of the luminant
Attunes to access light of celestial form
Open the radiant sea-electric. Seen
Visitant guides and the breath cedes grant release
Hayya ala salah. From the minaret see
Toward solidaric ground. Weeps - walk on sadhak
Salute the sun - invocates the first streamed rays
Append the fire right - grounds on approach. Essene
Grace of the angels guard the sanctum ground
Sentries the eye of the sacred flame
Ablutes the sequence house of being-sheaths
Summit the still point gleams to the realm replete
Compounds reduce abates ideation's stream
Cognize the clear stream glows at the ground serene
Pulsates the field outbreath's retention
Become the light - from the eight limbed sojourn freed
Lebanon screen - Damascus road traveler and ground upon a saviour
Eremite breath the cognized avatar - sovereign attainer
Back to ward the flight ground returns to freedomsea
Dweller of the atom systems - projects, reflects, percieves
And attains to integration
The immanent transcendent seen
Time and space fall abandoned
Rise the stoned belief
Lebanon screen - Damascus road traveler. Rise to flight on steaming skein
The monastic weeps for Axum
Candescent glow of Atman-Sovereign. Carry on O seeker
Indweller of the particle formed systems mechanics now perceived
Reveal thy will descender
The immanent transcendent seen
Time and space fall abandoned
Rise the stone belief
Toward the red sun rise ascendant way
From the five fold sheath attains release
Within shines the rising glows effulgent feed
Non-emergence of the outer world
And back toward Lebanon - priest ascending
Weeps in the fire rite - down sojourn prevails
Salve the light wall claims reformer
Non-emergence of the outer world