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Emanuel Swedenborg is metal.

Caption: Swedenborg, with a book of METAL.

Never during my years at the Academy of The New Church did I ever guess how Metal Swedenborg is. Then, last week, I heard this song by Swedish metal band Therion. It’s called “The Dreams of Swedenborg” on their “Lemuria B” album.

Okay, that’s a very un-metal fragment of the whole song and you can’t even hear the awesome Swedish-accented lyrics that go like this:

Wake up in the darkest hour!
Angels are surrounding you
In the borderland of heaven
Lucid are yor dreams tonight
Open a door, a gate in a dream
(The) dead will pass by to show you the sky
[chorus:]
Astral presence everywhere
In the dreams of Swedenborg
He could see across the sky
Through the boundaries of time
Lucid dreams and astral sight
In the dreams of Swedenborg
Every part of universe’s
Corresponding to the world
Dream a vision clear and splendid
When you visit afterlife
Daedalus Hyperboreus
Delinate the astral world
Write all your dreams in your diary
Give to the world a glimpse of the sky

E-mail me if you want to hear the whole thing.

 Update: I posted this at midnight because that is the Metalest time to post things.