I Have a Special Plan for This World Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bkilpat01 

Cover art for I Have a Special Plan for This World lyrics by Current 93

It's a thelemic song about crossing the abyss, the "world for which there is no special plan." The "greater darkness" is the womb of babalon.

I do not believe Thomas Ligotti is a follower of Crowly or the Temple of the Golden Dawn, or Thelema.

Ligotti is a brilliant horror writer who suffers immensely from depression. His work carries a philosophical pessimism that the world is quite malignant at its core and we are merely suffering puppets, caged animals deluded into thinking they have identities.

The greater darkness refers to the soft black stars from his literary mythos. Many of the lines are taken from stories out of his book Teatro Grottesco, and this piece seems like a mashup of the ideas from his books.

I do not believe Thomas Ligotti is a follower of Crowly or the Temple of the Golden Dawn, or Thelema.

Ligotti is a brilliant horror writer who suffers immensely from depression. His work carries a philosophical pessimism that the world is quite malignant at its core and we are merely suffering puppets, caged animals deluded into thinking they have identities.

The greater darkness refers to the soft black stars from his literary mythos. Many of the lines are taken from stories out of his book Teatro Grottesco, and this piece seems like a mashup of the ideas from his books.