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There are certain risks involved in attending a Red King Performance.



Physical , mental, and spiritual properties are all subject to disintigration

Extreme people are known to take extreme action

in order to rectify. an extreme situation.

The Red King's solution lies in a summoning by way of

smoke, oils, blood, fire, water, essences, tonics, spirits ,

and, when all else fails. medical devices.



-participants should expect to commune

with the perilous experiments conducted by symphonic fire-

With a rotating cast of performers, projections, and experiments,

the tragic tale of an artist who has gone to far is woven.

Our story begins on the wisdom and majesty of the alchemical path.

The story ends in the 'furnace of truth', on the opium trail.

The initiate is arrogant as he

leads a proccession of notions through the world.



CONSECRATING:

All in water, all in flame,

This abandoned child, this unhallowed ground.

The perfect flower cut, we put the living in the tomb.

Upon entering the earth, The Red King communes with the Green Fairy,

Let the long, green hour begin.

A time for dreaming, the THRICE GREAT approaches .



The furnaces are fired, and the distillation begins.



The homunculus takes shape.

The perfect stillness torn, the ever withering.

The hermetic fire burn's the senses with essence.

One's perception of the world slips away,

and becomes that which it is not.

This world is not this world.



The perfect flower cut, the ever-withering.

OuR HERO OuR HERO OuR HERO aNd OuR heroine



Dedicated to all those who have perished in the pursuit of The Great Work, with all its inherent danger and deceptions

**Words to the title track- 'SOMNIFERUM'***

.Novice to this mystery.

heed my warning from the start

And contemplate fully the steps leading off this art



Known by many names.none ever spoken twice



By the vain and vulgar who misuse this sacrifice



Medicine of Morpheus blood craves injection

Toxic blood transfused allows no resurrection

He loves poison that do poison need avail

No return to purity, once on this. The Opium Trail.

The shadow's shadow, the salt of Khem

root-bound gypsy, ends begin

Hypnotic calling, red balsem bred for slaughter

.oh Opium



The score is made, the wound bleeds white

The darkest harvest beyond one night

Coagulating, hate and fear

Love's concubine collects the tears

As I am now so you shall be

they will find you just as they found me.



This is the gift of medicine.

Where the dream forms skin and Pain is but a dream.

The old world meets the new world now at the source of death.

To wake and sleep misery of miseries and mystery of mysteries.

Principium Somniferum the great salt elementia.

A cousin to strychnine and a mother of us all



Anodyne Combine

Isoquinoline Precipitate

Papaverine Solidify

Narcotine Purify

Codeine Submerge

Laudanum Dissolve

Vicodin Suspend

Morphine Prescribe



and our hero and our hero and our hero and our heroine .

Once tolerant to an ounce of perfection

Does anybody hear have a problem.

with injection.Then look away I might die



I buy and fly

So step aside

Lay low and lie

Somniforsuicide



Imagine these symptoms

Imagine they won't go away

Its not to be tried

Its something you do

Your very life

What a thing what a thing

What a thing everything to lose

It tightens the screws

And lowers the noose

I'll shorten the fuse

What a thing to choose



Doctor, this patient isn't waiting

It seems to insist on a treatment all its own

Appears to be on a run And can hide

By self-medication sedation



His is the face that makes the old young again

and Hers is the face that Makes the young so old

Self-medication saved



" Enter the Earth . and be .Reborn."