Once I Was As You Are Now, by Akkad The Orphic Priest

Once I Was As You Are Now

by Akkad The Orphic Priest

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	1.	The Little Voice Gets Louder The Closer We Get 10:02
	2.	The Tears Of Orpheus Over The Loss of Eurydice 18:13
	3.	On The Brink Of Crossing The Threshold 10:15
	4.	Barely Visible To The Naked Eye 06:01
	5.	Existing Temporarily On The Other Side 11:05
	6.	Leaving The Material World To Join The Aether (digital bonus) 10:19
	7.	The Mystery Is Revealed To Us All (digital bonus) 14:44

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Once I Was As You Are Now

Akkad The Orphic Priest

Hymn For Sleep

Sleep, king of gods, and men of mortal birth,
sovereign of all sustained by mother earth,
Thy dominion is supreme alone,
Over all extended and by all things known,
It is your bodies all with good mind
In other metals than those of brass to bind,
Tamer of cares, to tiring works' repose,
From whom sweet solace in affliction flows,
Your pleasing, gentle chains preserve the soul,
And even the dreadful cares of death control,
For death and apathy with oblivious stream,
Mankind, your genuine siblings justly deem,
With favoring aspects to my prayer incline,
And save your mystics on their works divine - From the Orphic Hymns

''Death, like every other event in human life, is a manifestation of law. When we understand the law we can direct the forces of change so as to overcome death. Yet understanding never will be ours until fear, not only of dying, but of death itself, has been overcome by right knowledge, and by right interpretation of the phenomena of physical dissolution." - Paul Foster Case, on the 13th key, Nun

"Somebody asked a Zen master what happens after death and the master replied, 'I don't know, I'm not a dead Zen master.' " - Robert Anton Wilson

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released July 28, 2018

Dedicated to all creative persons, may we produce the best and most positively influential art with what we are given to create.

Cover art, "La Mort du Fossoyeur", by Carlos Schwabe

Inside art, "Wisteria in Sunlight", photographed and created by Adam Pacione

All music produced, manifested, conjured, and mastered by M Cody McPhail

Thank you Matthew Hanner, Gina Giamanco, Matthewdavid, Spencer Stephenson, Chad Mossholder, Joel Welch, Patrick Murray, Dane Thompson, Adam Pacione, Andrew Walters, Nancy Smith, Linda Sprague, TJ Prendergast, John Barker, Chad Walls, Sean Miller, Lily Taylor, Michael Morris, Evan Henry, Brian Tomerlin, Donovan Jones, Derek Rogers, Thor Johnson, Joshua Bradshaw, Stefan Gonzalez, Aaron Gonzalez, Lauren Belmore, and the love of my life, Marissa Yvette Rodriguez-Picazo.

Love and life eternal,
M Cody McPhail
aka
ATOP: Akkad The Orphic Priest
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