00:00We are accustomed to perceiving progress as a linear movement forward from simple to complex,
00:06from dark to light, from ignorance to knowledge.
00:09But what if the universe is not linear, but cyclical?
00:13What if its true law is not an arrow, but a circle,
00:17and development is merely an illusion preceding an inevitable decay and return to the primordial chaos?
00:23Source of madness invites us to witness and participate in this eternal cycle.
00:27We are not heroes carving a path to the light,
00:31but temporary patterns on the surface of an infinitely spinning wheel of samsara,
00:35whose axis runs straight through the very heart of madness.
00:39Every creature in this world, every landscape, every particle of distorted reality is not a mistake of nature,
00:46but a logical stage in the great process of the rebirth of matter and spirit.
00:51Madness here is not a disease, but a catalyst,
00:54an accelerator of evolution that breaks down outdated,
00:58obsolete forms to clear the way for something new, alien, and incomprehensible to the previous state.
01:04We fight the monsters, failing to understand that they are not enemies,
01:09but merely a different, more advanced or, conversely, a more simplified stage of existence.
01:16They are the future that awaits us, too, if we linger here long enough.
01:20Our resistance is a futile attempt by a being belonging to one phase of the cycle to avoid transitioning to the next.
01:28The abyss itself, the source of all this transformational horror, is neither evil nor good.
01:35It is a fundamental force of nature, akin to gravity or entropy.
01:39It is the great rebirther, the divine torturer and creator in one.
01:43Its madness-inducing whisper is not a curse, but an invitation to metamorphosis.
01:50To accept it is to renounce oneself, one's fragile individuality,
01:54but to become a part of something infinitely greater, eternal, and incomprehensible.
02:00To reject it is to doom oneself to an endless struggle against the inevitable,
02:04to the suffering of a being desperately clinging to a form already doomed to destruction.
02:08Thus, our journey through the twilight lands is an allegory for existence itself.
02:15We are born into a world already in decline,
02:18and our fate is either to accept decay as a given and find a new, albeit terrifying, meaning within it,
02:24or to cling until the end to the vanishing ghosts of order, condemning ourselves to pain and despair.
02:31Source of Madness does not threaten us with madness.
02:33It offers it as the only possible response to the absurdity of being in a cyclical universe,
02:40where any victory is temporary,
02:42and any defeat is merely the beginning of a new stage of eternal transformation.
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