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En Astheneía
06:31
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I.
Nobody but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Maya Angelou, Alone (Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, 1975)
II.
Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout
Of the fire-born moods
Has fallen away
William Butler Yeats, Moods (The Wind Among The Reeds, 1899)
III.
Separa clorofille
Fiamme per nuove retine
Memoria dei tuoi volti possibili
Alessandro Sgobbio
IV.
Listen to my voice
When I cry, answer me
Psalm 27
V.
En Astheneía.
Paulus, 2 Cor 12, 9-10
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Those who will succeed in overcoming all these obstacles, and triumphing over the hostility of an environment opposed to all spirituality, will doubtless be few in number; but let it be said once more that it is not numbers that count, for we are here in a domain whose laws are quite different from those of matter. There is there- fore no cause for despair, and, even were there no hope of achieving any visible result before the modern world collapses under some catastrophe, this would still be no valid reason for not undertaking a work whose scope extends far beyond the present time. Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error, and darkness can win the day only in appearance and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibriums must perforce contribute toward the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.
René Guénon, Crisis of the Modern World (1927)
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Similar Lymphs
02:42
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Spread trees
Identical sap
Tall, low, green, dark becoming shape
A harmony of talents.
Wood spread leaves
Analog barks
A medieval village
Inclusive community.
Forests
Spread restart
Of a shared redemption.
Lyrics by Alessandro Sgobbio
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Luce Della Perfezione
03:09
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Luce della perfezione, luce eterna delle eternità, luce in silenzio, nella prescienza e nel silenzio del Padre.
Il sacro libro del grande invisibile spirito (Luigi Moraldi, Testi Gnostici, UTET)
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Love
00:50
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Silent Fires
04:19
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The 'end of a world' never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.
René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (1939)
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Qâf
02:49
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Prajnà
03:47
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round till the meditation. Master all its parts.
William Butler Yeats, Fergus and the Druid (1893) / All Souls’ Night (1930)
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The Light Of The Lights
04:59
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The great invisible Spirit, the Father whose name cannot be uttered, he who came forth from the heights of the perfection, the light of the light of the aeons of [ light, ] the light of the silence of the providence <and> the Father of the silence,
The light of the word and the truth, the light of the incorruptions, the infinite light, the radiance from the aeons of light of the unrevealable, unmarked, ageless, unproclaimable Father, the aeon of the aeons, Autogenes, self-begotten, self-producing, alien, the really true aeon.
The Holy Book of the Egyptians
(The Nag Hammadi Library, James M. Robinson)
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Banyak
04:15
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Multiple snapshots
Primordial traditions
Cosmic harmonies
Three times hidden
where the last and the first smile.
Equally dream and smile.
Still searching for the Spirit
Still searching further
Looking for quality
Still searching for
Aiming for the King
For the Light
Searching, aiming for the King.
Lyrics by Alessandro Sgobbio
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Alla Volta Del Sole
03:32
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I.
Mesti viaggiatori riparano
Nostalgie nuove (distrazioni da silicio)
Neve e radici
Promesse della luce
II.
Eravamo liberi
Come nelle favole
Accanto a mandorli
Nuovi angeli del candore
III.
Ora e sempre
Alla volta del sole
Lyics by Alessandro Sgobbio
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Alessandro Sgobbio Paris, France
Since his debut piano solo album “Aforismi Protestanti”, Alessandro keeps expanding his own personal vocabulary of
compositions, improvisations and spiritual explorations throughout music. He’s earned master’s degrees at the Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo) and the Boito Conservatory of Music (Parma), releasing 14 albums as a leader/co-leader.
Photo © Jeff Sales
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