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Squaring The Circle

from Bathos [remaster 2010] by Aarni

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This song may be musically the most "traditional doomish" one on 'Bathos'. After the intro part it becomes literally a three-chord song. We included the needless and tasteless (or is it?) outro guitar solo mainly as a misguided joke. The lyrics deal with the Jungian individuation process and/or the Hermetic Great Work using alchemical and magickal terminology.

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The first matter,
The salt of salts,
Celestial water dissolves
The subtlest fluid sustains
The burning of sulphur.

Squaring the circle,
Spirit and matter

Driving the triumphal chariot,
Scattering treasures for the world
Blackening to become whitened,
Transmutation accomplished.

Squaring the circle,
Zero equals two

Aliquem alium intermum, quadratura circuli
The blood of the lion, the eagle's tears,
Result in the stone of millions of years.

Squaring the circle, solve et coagula

Omne superius sicut inferius

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from Bathos [remaster 2010], released May 9, 2010

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Aarni Oulu, Finland

Aarni has of course always existed, but the current incarnation's story began in the autumn of 1998 e.v. when M.·.M.·. suddenly began solitarily developing his vague musical ideas further. He got telepathetic messages from the unicorn dolphin elder of Sirius B, who begged M.·.M.·. to reawaken the ancient Xothian aural technology tradition called 'aarni'.
Soon other dodgy entities joined him. Grok?
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