Owl City
Fireflies
You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential command. 1
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Renaissance philosophers such as Pico della Mirandola, Joannes Reuchlin, Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, and Lodovico Lazzarelli were alerted to the ancient manuscript tradition named after their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus—Thrice Greatest Hermes, ancient mystagogue and incarnation of Thoth-Hermes, the Greco-Egyptian god of writing, magick, and communication.
The documents were collectively called the Corpus Hermeticicum or, simply, the Hermetica. 2
The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole-
Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society
Tobias Churton
‘Cause they fill the open air
and leave teardrops everywhere
The key to the Hermetic rebirth resided in attainment of gnosis, spiritual knowledge to free the mind from the bonds of material perception. 3
The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole-
Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society
Tobias Churton
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet
and set it spinning. 4
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Dava Sobel
It’s magic, you know,
Never believe it’s not so
Pilot
Magic
Only puny secrets need protection.
Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. 5
Marshall McCluhan
I’d like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
empiricism
The character of being empirical; reliance on direct experience and observation rather than on theory
The Century Dictionary
We are turning with the earth so fast.
But it feels a lot slower
Julian Casablancas
Left & Right In the Dark
teleology
The philosophical interpretation of natural phenomena as exhibiting purpose or design.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition
To everything turn, turn, turn
There is a season turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under Heaven
The Byrds
Turn! Turn! Turn!
I’ll stop the world and melt with you
Modern English
I Melt with You
To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose
under the heaven
Ecclesiastes 3 6
It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay
Awake when I’m asleep
‘Cause everything is never as it seems
And oh, my dreams
It’s never quite as it seems
The Cranberries
Dreams
And as I roll along,
I begin to find
Things aren’t always just what they seem
Jack Johnson
Upside Down
‘Cause I’d get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance
Did all my dreams never mean one thing?
Imagine Dragons
Bad Liar
A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread
Oh you, you keep me hangin’
‘Round and ’round and ’round and ’round
Electric Light Orchestra
From the End of the World
And the grand facade,
so soon will burn
Peter Gabriel
In Your Eyes
The moon appears to shine
and light the skies,
with the help of some fireflies
Peter Frampton
Baby I Love Your Way
The moon is out the stars invite
I think I’ll leave tonight
The Smashing Pumpkins
Rocket
The world’s still spinning ’round
we don’t know why
Oasis
Champagne Supernova
Additional Information:
References:
- https://archive.org/details/GeorgeOrwells1984
↩︎ - The Magus of Freemasonry
↩︎ - Ibid.
↩︎ - A More Perfect Heaven
↩︎ - Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972) by Marshall McLuhan
↩︎ - Ecclesiastes 3
↩︎ - Ibid.
↩︎ - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/18/truth-stages/ ↩︎
Owl City – Fireflies (Official Music Video)
A time to cast away stones,
and a time to gather stones together
Ecclesiastes 3 7
“All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.”
Unknown 8
It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake
when I’m asleep
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams
The future’s open wide
Modern English
I Melt with You
