Tonight we´re summoned for a divine cause
Remembrance - No
But for their future loss
This chapel of ritual
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar...
Beduins and nomads
Carried through the times
Through pestilences and famines
These ancient scrolls of rhymes
"Our fallen angel vexed
Was banished from the sky
Recite now from the text
Pray for ALL to die"
This chapel of ritual
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar bed
On this night of ritual
Invocing our master
To procreate the unholy bastard
"Our father
Who art in hell
Unhallowed be thy name
Cursed be the sons and daughters
Of thine Nemesis
Whom are to blame
Thy kingdom come
nemA"
Tonight we summoned for His unholy fiend
Now celebrate
The End
This chapel of ritual
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar bed
On this night of ritual
Invocing our master
To procreate the unholy bastard
Remembrance - No
But for their future loss
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar...
Carried through the times
Through pestilences and famines
These ancient scrolls of rhymes
Was banished from the sky
Recite now from the text
Pray for ALL to die"
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar bed
On this night of ritual
Invocing our master
To procreate the unholy bastard
Who art in hell
Unhallowed be thy name
Cursed be the sons and daughters
Of thine Nemesis
Whom are to blame
Thy kingdom come
nemA"
Now celebrate
The End
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar bed
On this night of ritual
Invocing our master
To procreate the unholy bastard
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As @timshanks1 so concisely summed it up ... this song is about Satan. The fall and worship of him.
"Our fallen angel vexed Was banished from the sky"
Describes God banishing Satan (who was an angel).
"Our father Who art in hell Unhallowed be thy name Cursed be the sons and daughters Of thine Nemesis Whom are to blame Thy kingdom come"
Describes Hell (Satan's world) and then curses heaven, God and followers, before delivering the line that Satan's realm will rise and rule the land (and skies?) again.
The song isn't about Satan, its about Lucifer, and outside of Christianity, they are NOT the same thing. Its also a reference to Luciferian Ritual practiced by occultists and the Freemasons, which Tobias Forge is a member of. If fact most of Ghost's songs are Masonic tributes. Square Hammer and From the Pinnacle to the Pit being the most prominent two. If you don't believe me, do a little research on Masonic symbolism, the Freemason practice of Luciferian Ritual, and what Ghost is REALLY all about.
Its not christian satanism, its often portrayed in that light because we as westerners understand and identify with the stories of the bible and our societies are based on the christian religion (the Papa Emeritus character is also intended to create an association of the catholic church and specifically the pope with satan or the anti-christ). But if you do a little research on that topic, you'll find that Lucifer was never a "bad" or "evil" character in the previous Pagan religions or ever before christianity. In fact Lucifer and Venus, the Roman goddess, were essentially the same person/principal. Venus/Lucifer is a god of the underworld, one who brings about death and rebirth, and they were represented this way because during the summer, there is a 3 day period where Venus the planet descends below the western horizon and isn't visible. But after the 3 days, it begins to rise early in the evening in the east again - death, transcending the underworld, and being reborn anew in 3 days. . .does that story sound familiar to anyone? (im taking about jesus).
Christianity basically stole all of its philosophy and idol representation from the ancient Greeks and Romans, The Stoics and the Pagans. They took ALL of the underworld gods, who had previously represented death and rebirth, and combined them into the meta-boogyman Satan. And turned the underworld, which was once a profoundly important place in the lives of humans, and made it hell, a one way street where at the end is eternal suffering. It helped massively to reinforce the slave/master relationship christians must exist in with their god to appease him. It was just another way christianity used fear to control people. And people like Occultists and Freemasons and numerous others understand all of this, they know the original, the empowering and uplifting Luciferian story, not the chirstian version which is NOTHING but negative and inhibitory to progress for the entire humans species.
Google the Luciferian story. Google Masonic symbolism and ritual. Google why our founding fathers, all but one of which were Masons, set up our system they way they did - I'll give ya a little spoiler - it was to prevent the goddamn Catholics from taking over our government and education system like at that time they had in almost the entirety of Europe and Asia.
And after all that - watch the videos for Pinnacle to the Pit and Square Hammer, read the lyrics to Ritual again and a number of their other songs. You'll see. Ghost (the ghost being the reborn human after a symbolic death) is trying to open the eyes of humanity and are doing it in one of the most creative and clever and impressive ways mankind will ever see. It does bum me out that so few people have caught on, but battling indoctrination and 2000 years of brainwashing is not an easy task. But the few genuine truth seekers out there, who want to find the truth and not guard what they already believe - they will see the real message being conveyed, they'll see the true light and receive true sight, they'll discover what it means to become a transcendent being. And everyone can experience this, its a matter of choice, and all you have to do is choose to value truth over your own current belief, to accept that you are probably wrong about most of what you believe about the world and ESPECIALLY about yourself. Its NOT easy, but if you can do it, you will live a better life than 99.9% of the other humans who have ever lived. And its quite literally as simple as CHOOSING to orient yourself more toward the truth than you previous were, it will cause a domino effect of positive, live altering, live affirming events that will persist until you no longer do in the physical world.
All you have to do is let go - and start to really look.
@timwins31 , thanks Mate, you did a great job in researching this, and also put a great deal of philisophy into your input. I agree with your comments but sometimes we put even more meanings and levels in the texts than what was originally planned by the artist...which is great, and that's why Ghost is getting more and more followers, because we actually discuss what their songs are mean.
@timwins31 , thanks Mate, you did a great job in researching this, and also put a great deal of philisophy into your input. I agree with your comments but sometimes we put even more meanings and levels in the texts than what was originally planned by the artist...which is great, and that's why Ghost is getting more and more followers, because we actually discuss what their songs are mean.
Worst thing is when you don't really care about what the artist is trying to say. Seems Ghost have a lot to say.
Worst thing is when you don't really care about what the artist is trying to say. Seems Ghost have a lot to say.
This song's about Satan.
This song, as well as Con Clavi Con Dio, very well establishes that this isn't some standard rock or metal album and they aren't just some band, they are agents of Satan come to do his work on earth and they performing a ritual, not a rock show. Really helps set the mood that you're watching/listening to a dark mass.
@chadwick57 I always took their whole Satan worshiping act as a bit of a masquerade (a bit of tongue in check to society and the norms).
@chadwick57 I always took their whole Satan worshiping act as a bit of a masquerade (a bit of tongue in check to society and the norms).
It is a masquerade but likely not in the way most people expect. And truth be told, they aren't agents of satan, they're agents of Lucifer who was turned into satan by christianity, but previous to that religion, he represented death, transformation, and rebirth, he was the god who died and resurected and then gave the power awoke in him DIRECTLY to the masses. He was essentially Jesus in Pagan religion. He died and was gone for 3 days before he awoke anew, and discovering he had immense powers, his first response was to realize that one...
It is a masquerade but likely not in the way most people expect. And truth be told, they aren't agents of satan, they're agents of Lucifer who was turned into satan by christianity, but previous to that religion, he represented death, transformation, and rebirth, he was the god who died and resurected and then gave the power awoke in him DIRECTLY to the masses. He was essentially Jesus in Pagan religion. He died and was gone for 3 days before he awoke anew, and discovering he had immense powers, his first response was to realize that one person, or one god, should NEVER have this kind of power alone, so he gave every living human after himself the same powers to ensure our equality and to prevent us from enslavement by those who would use that power malevolently.
Its why many non-christians and especially those of us who are somewhat educated on ancient Roman and Greek gods and Pagan religion laugh so intensely at christianity and at the same time, see the religion as the root of all true evil. Its sole intention was the enslavement of the human species by whatever governing body was at the top of the Christian hierarchy - which has been the Roman Catholics for a good 1500 years now. Christianity is Poison, but Catholicism is evil incarnate, if the religion in general is poison, Catholicism is the most toxic substance known to mankind. Its the exact reason Tobias Forge/Papa Emeritus dresses as the Pope but portays himself as the Christian Satan. Because the Pope is the closest thing to a living Satan the world will ever know. If there is a such thing as the anti-christ, he sits on that throne in the Vatican.
Educate yourselves folks. Its our only hope.
@chadwick57 exactly, I can't believe that there hasn't been sex of Christians protesting and that they haven't tried to get banished from a couple cities or towns. Tobias has a very clever way of seeing the things he says and it's not any it's his belief when he's saying it and what he has to say it's not come join us to worship Satan it's so much more than that it's brilliant and when I first seen the stage act in the outfits and what was going on I was like it's basically like a f** publicized black mass type...
@chadwick57 exactly, I can't believe that there hasn't been sex of Christians protesting and that they haven't tried to get banished from a couple cities or towns. Tobias has a very clever way of seeing the things he says and it's not any it's his belief when he's saying it and what he has to say it's not come join us to worship Satan it's so much more than that it's brilliant and when I first seen the stage act in the outfits and what was going on I was like it's basically like a f** publicized black mass type thing but their own versions of symbolism I mean even Masonic stuff mostly Sonic rituals are enclosed and I used to drive past a masonic temple years ago in the town of Bethlehem PA when you come to the five points light there you'll see it and you cannot see in that place like they don't want that s* out in the open I mean masonry is way different these days what lodges have made it then what it's original thing was like masonry started out with all kinds of Egyptian symbolism and themes and it was about oneself and what you make yourself into and you know climbing that pyramid that ladder of enlightenment with yourself and that tip of that pyramid that's missing that you're the missing piece once you reach it to the top Templars were supposed to have allegedly worshiped the baphomet which was declared the satanic symbol but I don't think there's anything about Mason's actually doing that nothing admitted anyway but I think it's a whole combination of different spiritual occult ritual type things everything from you know his own brand to his own creation of satanic slash luciferian / just dark and evil and he's f** smart because he conjured up the ultimate gimmick for the stage and for their shows that will live on forever that will never get old it's why I'm saying they need to bring back that first few albums s* with the Lucifer and Satan songs they got it away from that but I have all faith that they'll come back to it more even if they don't the song still or darkness without saying so much Satan like the first few albums he stated it put it out there hardcore he doesn't need to really sing about it in other albums and say the actual names Satan or anything he has represented all the symbolism and what they're about without you know coming out and actually admitting it and what better way to hide behind anything anybody has to say within us just to show it's for you know it's all for entertainment it's just entertainment yeah and most of that stuff was always done behind closed doors even Anton lavate and put his rituals on film so I forget what year but then again can always go by Levy because he made it his own thing and he thought he was the only one in true one but you make it your own same to do with Wicca and all that s*** spiritualism your rituals your things you do it's all about your preference and what you like and have to stay conformed and follow every detail of all kinds of complex and in-depth rituals you make up your own and go with it it's whatever empowers you