György Ligeti – Lux Aeterna

From the album: "Ligeti: Lux Aeterna" (2008) by Cappella Amsterdam & Daniel Reuss — Label: Harmonia Mundi + READ MORE + Painting: Kenneth Laugan — "Angel of Hope" * The Birth of Light “This is how a Gnostic gospel, re-discovered in the East by a learned traveller, explains, in treating of the symbolical Lucifer, the genesis of Light. &which is conscious of itself is living Thought. Truth is the Thought which is contained within itself; and formulated Thought is Speech. When the Eternal Thought sought for a form it said: ‘Let there be Light.’ Therefore this Thought that speaks is the Word, and this Word says: ‘Let there be Light’, because the word itself is the light of the spirit!' The uncreated light, which is the divine Word, sends forth its rays because it wishes to be manifest, and when it says, ‘Let there be light,’ it commands the eyes to open; it creates the Intelligences. And, when God said: ‘Let there be light,’ Intelligence was made and light appeared. Then, the Intelligence which God had breathed forth, like a planet detached from the Sun, took the form of a splendid Angel and the heavens saluted him with the name of Lucifer. Intelligence awoke and it fathomed its own depths as it heard this apostrophe of the divine Word, ‘Let there be Light.’ It felt itself to be free, for God had commanded it so to be, and it answered, raising its head and spreading its wings, ‘I will not be Slavery.’ ‘Wilt thou be then Sorrow?’ said the uncreated voice. ‘I will be...