I'm certain that I'm not the only sorcerer(*) who draws inspiration and material from the media that I consume. In particular, I draw from music. I grew up on Styx, and Rush, and when I emerged from a doom metal phase in the early 1990s, I came out with a love of hard music that sounded somehow epic, or was at least melodic. Lately, I've been listening to Killswitch Engage. A lot. I mean it, as in their entire discography every single day at work while I pummel data into submission and tweak indexes.
As a result of this exposure, their album As Daylight Dies has become one of my favorite albums, and the song Unbroken has become one of my favorite songs. I'm sure by this point you're likely thinking "Hey, where's the magic part of this? What's he trying to pull?" Well, fear not, the magical content follows.
The last verse in the song Unbroken is:
The absence of fear, is the renewal of ourself.
The absence of doubt, breeds desire.
If there is truth to face, I will design it.
I will not be denied!
Pow. That's Will right there. Summed up tidily. This makes a satisfying mantra as well, imho.
Okay, so the magic part wasn't a grandiose treatise on arcane topics, but it's through the accretion of segments like this that such works emerge.
Ooh, got deep there again on you for a moment, didn't I. Sorry about that.
Observations on fringe culture, science, epistemology, and the occult
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