I'm standing here in time and space A king and priest o' th' Adamantine race I gaze into majestic skies The moon, the sun chase before my eyes This frolic wanton astral dance: A childhood dream of happenstance Within this realm King Chaos lent From Nothing's texture nothing rent In the threat of destruction Lies the spell of life renewed O'er this first, foremost reduction The spirits of the Waters brood I'm standing here in time and space I behold the true Godhead's face The terrors of proud mortal life But monuments of corrupted strife Promise of the mystic union: Past and present come to merge Covenant of divine communion In the cataclysmic surge I'm gazing at the astral bliss The portal to the vast abyss Within this realm King Heaven claimed This element for mankind tamed From the word of creation The catastrophe is here This the core of execration I face the terror without fear Ho Theos Echestai is a feeble tribute to the grandeur that is Paradise Lost.