Okay, this has been my favorite Tool song for quite some time, and while listening to it I can't help but consider it in Thelemic terms.
The first verse can be considered as kind of realization of life. Suffering is apparent. Then the "It's calling me" can be seen as a calling to uptake the Great Work, which is the union of man and the Godhead. Then the moon (symbol of feminine energies) leads him to realize that the light is not his own. The light, can be the Body of Light, which when we die reincarnates into another body. The millions of light reflections is the energies passing on, coming into new life, it's a symbol of death and rebirth. It is a reflection of what is to happen to the light which is not his.
The verse after this, he talks of a feminine energy. "Without her we are lifeless satellites, dreaming dreams." I take this as his view upon Nuit, the goddess that the first chapter of the Book of the Law (the main text of Thelema) deals with. She is infinite space, and infinite stars. Everyone orbits their own path within Her body. This universal consciousness leads to the want to destroy the ego and to quit soothing petty narcissism. He is now practicing the path to achieving the Great Work, before he "pines away." After this, "and you will come to find, we are all one mind," describes realization we are all in one body, all a source of Light, of God, or however you wish to perceive it. He is not attained this enlightenment, and is spreading it to others, asking them to let the light come through, to achieve the Great Work. now, instead of "before I pine away" it's "before WE pine away." He has let go of the ego, and now instead of selfish thoughts of himself he is know aware of spreading the light to others.
I tried to describe this the best I can in my own viewpoint. I would love to go in depth with more references that could possibly be compared to Thelemic philosophy, but I doubt that a lot of people on here wouldn't know what I'm talking about. If someone has already thought of something similar to this then I'm sorry for repeating, I didn't look through all the comments. And if there are some grammar/punctuation inaccuracies I do apologize for them, I haven't slept in quite some time now. |
