Chart #3

The following text is an excerpt from a song by the Canadian post-rock band, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. They are not lyrics, but rather a sample that was recorded in real life and used with the music. The sample is a recording of a speech given by an apocalyptic street preacher in Vancouver, Canada. The band recorded it and used it in their track titled 'Static'. I couldn't find the whole thing, not for my life (would've been great listening to the whole thing). So what follows is the excerpt used in the song... it's quite interesting to think about. It's a little bit haunting, too, I should add. Please listen while reading.. the preacher's voice and tone are hauntingly captivating.

Listen to the part labeled 'Chart #3' in the description; from 04:43 to 07:22... and listen before reading the lyrics first. Get the impression from the preacher's voice first before reading what he says exactly...

(Note: the words I couldn't hear are denoted by this below: "_____" [without the quotes]...)

I hope you enjoy.

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"...prepared in innocence to meet our king of glory, and so we have this. You have it in your secret windows, and you're understanding to understand it and to bring it forth. It takes minute detail. It takes a holy life. It takes motions. It takes dedication. It takes dedication. It takes a death. And only God can allow it, and you couldn't do it if you're not the seed of God. And so the path through the great corridors, these are corridors unto his perfection; that is which the prophet and the Urim and Thummim has penetrated. That through this great sea of blackness that I penetrated through these corridors, and I went through that last segment where I went through these dark serpentines. I passed through that corridor where they sat, where they are. And when you penetrate to the most high God, you will believe you are mad. You will believe you've gone insane. But I tell you, if you follow the secret window and you die to the ego nature, you will penetrate this darkness. Oh yes there's many a man or woman that's been put in the insane asylum when this has happened to them, and they're sitting there today, people think they're insane. But they saw something that's real. And they see it when they're on drugs... the only thing is they see it not through the light of God, and the way I show you. I show you to see it through the light of God and the understanding of God, because when you see the face of God, you will die, and there will be nothing left of you, except the God-man, the God-woman; the heavenly man, the heavenly woman, the heavenly child... There'll be prayer on your lips day and night! There'll be a song of jubilee waiting for your king! There will be nothing you will not be looking for in this world, except in for your God. This is all a dream, a dream in death. And so I went through that window, and the tower of hell and the great serpentines of the highest order, and I went through that when I showed you chart #3. The question is asked and learned and someone who can turn this _____ of this horrible _____ of my _____. All in front of me can now ask me a question. If it's asked from the right _____ or the right soul out of Urim and Thummim, I can give you unspoken words that's never been spoken; it's not even in your bible. Yet, it does clarify what is spoken in the bible..."

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For clarification purposes: Urim and Thummim are two objects of an unknown nature, possibly used for divination, worn on the breastplate of a Jewish high priest.

I hope you enjoyed listening to and reading this.

God bless.

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