I see the Beast as anything material or structured systems, the machine anyone surrenders to. If you are totally immersed in a system you are not as Joseph Campbell said, "following you bliss".

This beast is the force behind the denial of life..
That draws souls from pools to stack them in orders..
Spiritual orders...
That keeps minds numb for a bigger system..
A system like.. economy..defense.. war..
The free spirits will detach from this system..

There are those that believe in this system for self-preservation..
And preservation of their kinship..
THese are people who create in the name of destruction..
To destroy the free soul to feed of it..

The eyes are set on kill..
The hair on the back is raised...
Attacking for surviving..
Attacking in the rage...
With teeth hungry for blood..
With lips curled..
Blaring nostrils
Steaming breath...
Confronting death...
Primal screams...
Like roaring dinosaurs...
Pillars.. crashing...burning...
It ends in red..
Pools of blood..
Where limbs and fur float..
Rumors from the waterfront..
Where trading in bones is business

"A shift is seen on heaven's horizon,
Dragons of light flood the gates.
It's called "The passage of beginning"
The wizards have found the key..
Shape-shifted into darkness...
...explorers of the underworld..
They say there will be war...
They say we'll be destroyed...
What should we do..
What should we do..!!"

So they call their master
"THE RAGING BEAST"
His presence is like a storming comet..
Heading for the world..
Heading for destruction.
With an aura that turns souls to stone.
With rays that induce fear...
With a spirit that makes the brave weak
...and melts them in their armor.
He appears in the mind's eye as a screaming mask of rage...
With the eyes of a hunting snake...

I read this somewhere...

"I promise to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. That I will never accept what I am told. That I will never fall in love with safety and forget liberty. I promise that I will look for the lie in every pretty story and the bribe in every convenience."

I thought that was pretty cool.

Yeah, you know what "they" say about HOPE. HOPE is still in the future and still unconvinced.

Good side of it is, in these days of darkness, you can safely close your eyes and open you heart.

Reminds me of Frank Zappa's lyrics to Trouble Every Day

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Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friend
Is anybody's guess

So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Wednesday I watched the riot . . .
Seen the cops out on the street
Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff
And chokin' in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin' 'round
Seen the smoke and fire
And the market burnin' down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn

And I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Well, you can cool it,
You can heat it . . .
'Cause, baby, I don't need it . . .
Take your TV tube and eat it
'N all that phony stuff on sports
'N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsman say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so

And further they assert
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They will be the first to tell,
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin' hard and doin' swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can't be beat

And if another woman driver
Gets machine-gunned from her seat
They'll send some joker with a brownie
And you'll see it all complete

So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white

Well, I seen the fires burnin'
And the local people turnin'
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched the mob just turn and bite 'em
And they say it served 'em right
Because a few of them are white,
And it's the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin' "You can't understand me!"
'N all that other jazz they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
(No matter if it's black or white)
Because he's out for blood tonight

You know we got to sit around at home
And watch this thing begin
But I bet there won't be many live
To see it really end
'Cause the fire in the street
Ain't like the fire in the heart
And in the eyes of all these people
Don't you know that this could start
On any street in any town
In any state if any clown
Decides that now's the time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
And if a million more agree
There ain't no Great Society
As it applies to you and me
Our country isn't free
And the law refuses to see
If all that you can ever be
Is just a lousy janitor
Unless your uncle owns a store
You know that five in every four
Just won't amount to nothin' more
Gonna watch the rats go across the floor
And make up songs about being poor

Blow your harmonica, son!

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Brilliant innit..?