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CHAPTER VI: GATES OF SHAMBHALA

Awake to a distant land

Among a strange and wonderful world

I feel a presence come over me,

I see a great shadow over me

I look to the sky and behold

a city of sapphire and gold

a city seated on the clouds

to then I hear a great sound

A sound that breaks my bones

A thunder shakes the ground

A thousand trumpets sound

the gates have opened unto me

and a voice of thunder speaks

“Come through the gates”

Taken up in a chariot of fire

Lifted from the ground, taken  higher

Carried by the hosts to the kingdom

passing through the gates as a pilgrim

I see the snake on his throne

but I dare not look in his eyes

(he calls me by name, speaking without words)

but I can’t turn away

completely powerless

(but I cannot speak the words)

Then he stares into me

his eyes of fire consuming

paralyzed by his gaze

He speaks to me

You are the one

Born to bear the message

You are the one

Who shall speak to the whole world

I shall give you the word

I shall give you a voice

I see the universe inside of me

I speak the universe inside of me

The universe inside of me

Lyrics with Jack Cranney © 2018