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NOX INVICTUS LYRICS
"When the Shadows Lay Darkest" (2003 Demo)
1. Baal Who Strikes as Set
2. The One Whom the Winds Fear
3. Empowered by Darkness
4. Unconquerable Night
1. Baal Who Strikes as Set
IO BOLCHOSETH!!!!!
Come Forth, Baal who strikes as Set
Strike terror into the heart of my enemies
I call upon the Sentinels of the Abyss
To witness the decline and dissolution of my foes
May their days be filled with despair
Their nights fraught with torture and pain
I call upon Set, sender of nightmares
To terrorize the minds of my adversaries
For they have forsaken the Gift
The Dark Fire shines not with them
They stand in the Hall of the Two Truths
Where their hearts are weighed alone
Unbalanced against the Feather of Maat
The scales reveal the truth they betrayed
May their days be filled with despair
Their nights fraught with torture and pain
Their minds are full of deceit
And their thoughts echo false hopes
The funeral dirge drones at their flame's last flicker
Feed their mangled bodies to the ravenous jaws of Ammit
Deliver their minds to Setnakt, eater of intellects
Deliver my enemies unto the realm of Osiris
That their presence no longer plague us
No longer will I endure their existence
May their days be filled with despair
Their nights fraught with torture and pain
May their days be filled with despair
Their nights fraught with torture and pain
2. The One Whom the Winds Fear
AOTH ABRAOTH BASYM
ISAK SABAOTH IAO
Thee I invoke, the Headless One
Forger of the earth and the heavens
Separator of the night and the day
Isolator of the darkness and the Light
Thou art Osoronnophris
Whom no man hath seen at any time
Thou art Iabas, Iapos
Doubter of peace, sower of strife
CHORUS
Hear me, bend the earth to my will
Hear me, the sky falls before me
Rushing fire and whirling air
I am he who the winds fear
I invoke the Terrible and Invisible God
Who dwellest in the Void Place of the Spirit
The Eyes of Set seek beyond the Hidden
Apart, Self-caused, and Self-determined
CHORUS
Hear me, bend the earth to my will
Hear me, the sky falls before me
Rushing fire and whirling air
I am he who the winds fear
This is the neter before all others
This is the opener of the Mouth
This is He who forges the night sky
This is the One whom the Winds fear
My secret self within and beyond the self
An inspired utterance from the heart of Ra
The fivefold sword of the Black Flame
Source of the internal hidden light
I am He, the Headless One
Keeper of the Immortal Fire
I am the Heart Girt with a Serpent
I am he whom the winds fear
CHORUS
Hear me, bend the earth to my will
Hear me, the sky falls before me
Rushing fire and whirling air
I am he who the winds fear
3. Empowered by Darkness
This thirst for hidden knowledge, encoded in blood
How shall I choose to respond?
With fear which breeds hate, or with wonder and awe
My path grows increasingly clear
CHORUS
Thee I invoke the Lord of the Storms
Thee I invoke the Lady of Victory
I am he who has foreknowledge
Empowered by darkness, discerning clearly
What others grope for blindly in the light
Aspire to this within and beyond me
A spark at the core of my being
Kindles a Flame burning Black in my heart
The Way of Becoming unfolds
CHORUS
Thee I invoke the Lord of the Storms
Thee I invoke the Lady of Victory
I am he who destroys illusion
Empowered by darkness, I Come Into Being
To cast down that which is moved to appear against me
Knowledge of Self is the Knowledge of Set
The fortified Self will abide
Twin warriors fierce in countenance have opened the way
For my ascenscion of the ladder of fate
Through this struggle we are become victorious
Fate overcome, imperishable Self
I have entered into the Habitation that is Hidden
Once there I hold congress with Set
CHORUS
Thee I invoke the Lord of the Storms
I am he who holds dominion
Empowered by darkness, sovereign of Self
The sun shall not rise on the Setian Empire
CHORUS
Thee I invoke the Lady of Victory
I am he who Xnum protects
Empowered by darkness, beloved of Set
Obscurity flees from my mind's eye at once
4. Unconquerable Night
I rise from the earth to the seven stars
That I may order my own Becoming
Isolator I am, Child of IO
Wanderer among the stars, source of my essence
CHORUS
Nine black oaths, Nine black flames
Nine angles guard the Hidden Beyond
The Equinox has succumbed to the Solstice
Darkness flows from He who shuns the light
Invoke the neteru under moonlit night
The dark gods appear as fire from the sky
The winds howl secret names of power
The sign of Typhon, wielder of the Secret Flame
CHORUS
Nine black oaths, Nine black flames
Nine angles guard the Hidden Beyond
The Equinox has succumbed to the Solstice
Darkness flows from He who shuns the light
Majestic Night reveals the Hidden entrance
Undaunted by the jackal, opener of the way
Suspend the barrier between Hell and Earth
None but the Elect shall pass through the gate
CHORUS
Nine black oaths, Nine black flames
Nine angles guard the Hidden Beyond
The Equinox has succumbed to the Solstice
Darkness flows from He who shuns the light
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