The Acts of the Apostles (Ancient Greek: Πράξεις τῶν Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis tōn Apostólōn; Latin: Acta Apostolorum), usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age. The author is traditionally identified as Luke the Evangelist; see Authorship of Luke–Acts for details.
While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a (Koine) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians. The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul. It is said to be that the author of the Gospel of Luke is the same as the author of the Acts of the Apostles. Tradition holds that the text was written by Luke the companion of Paul (named in Colossians 4:14) and this traditional view of Lukan authorship is “widely held as the view which most satisfactorily explains all the data.” The list of scholars maintaining authorship by Luke the physician is lengthy, and represents scholars from a wide range of theological opinion. However, there is no consensus, and according to Raymond E. Brown, the current opinion concerning Lukan authorship is "about evenly divided."
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In the night I see? Shadows coming close to me
Dreams of ecstasy? Leading my thoughts
Mystic ways of life? I share
The calling of four winds? Caress my flesh
Those who see look through my eyes
I am made to live and made to rule
I am a sorcerer of a golden age
Of knowledge and black arts
I freeze the Moon of a cursed dark night
Like shining aeons from frigid deeps
I am immortal
I never die
Gods!
We are masters...
We take your force and live forever...
We are masters...
We bring the dark millenium back and rule...
The light...
The light has eclipsed my soul...
We will return...
We will return as the glorious race...
Disaster...
Disaster no man has ever seen...
We are immortals...
The ancient cult for few to live...
The crypts shall shine again like steel
The mighty serpent awakes once more
The ancient flame shall burn... The light!
The morning will be last forever...
Diabolical strong winds shall shred the sea
When the great crown weeps the sky!
The moonlight covering the land of blood
My ancient spirit awakes and screams in the skies
This is what the Moon brings
The Goddess of my dreams
The key of the haunted kings
The temple I had seen
The idol of a stone horn
The bestial cave that slept forever
The snakeish edge of a serpent throne
Why are the fates so cruel and unforgiving?
Although we suffer, still,
Their weaving does go on...
I remember...
Riding through the mountains of despair
Hear had embraced my body and my soul
Seeking for shelter to rest my tired bones
I came upon a rugged hill and saw the crystal castle walls
Why do they seem so far away?
It seems like endless nights I rode, before I stopped to behold!
Who calls?
What is this creature, one of Earth, or spawned in the deepest lakes of fire?
In fear I wonder if I dream and will it end?
I will remember, these dursed nights
Where the dark lands rose like grey clouds and their towers were cold and dark,
There were no man's fate could ever reach the Sun, a demon travelled
Out of life searching for the lost dreams
The clouds are writhing in the flow of some great fire, as the demon
Travelled beyond the void and beyond the void and beyond the lands of the eternal deeps
There the Phantom Lord dreams alone in the dark, surrounded by creatures dancing insanely for him!
I wait for I shall share with him the ancient wisdom, the ancient pain!
Frightening ghouls, mysterious births of Alchemy, they ride the wind, crawling around the Lords of Chaos
The ruins of their trespassing are not forgotten, for they brought sorrow to the Earth and created a hill of ancient dust
His name was praised with psalms that echoed deep into the night
The God was finally awake as was written long ago
The flying Lord then spread his wings and dove into the dark and so the Earth will be possessed and she will never see the Sun!
I wait for I shall share with him the ancient wisdom, the ancient pain!
"Is this thy decision... To walk the rainbow no man hath walked?
It will cause a Pandemonium on Earth!"
"No man shall know my name or where I cometh from..."
Haunt the illusions of the wind and dream...
Hold the planets in your arms and scream!
Release the creatures in the wind of night...
Release your powers and your storm with hate!
Spread your force Nyarlathothep: Invoke the spirits of the dead...
The night of a thousand stars!
Walk the rainbow no man has walked and bring the hearts of endless moons... your highest desire!
Hear the voices of a thousand souls: Invoke the demon and the ghosts to enter the gates of sadness
Hold the torch and walk beyond, you are the Amorphus creature Lord...
A Demon of a dark millenium...
What fear it brings to walk these lands again
As if in a dream that seems to have no end
Fires light the sky, the earth barren and black
Yet somehow I must walk on
And lose the trail of coming back
Cursed to face a dream,
That surely is kissed by the Mares
They call me by name,
Their voices burning me like flames
Long ago, this curse had come to peaceful dreams
Haunted by starlight, like Night Mares in my dreams
Chosen one, you hold the keys to the distant gates
However, you shan't remember, you shall not awake
Sleeper, condemned to shiver like a burning flame
"sint mihi dei acherontis propitic valeat numen triplex iehovae!"
"I gnei, aerii, aquatici, terreni spiritus salvete!"
"orientis princeps lucifer, beelzebub, inferni ardentis!"
"monarcha, et demogorgon propitianus vos ut appareat et surgat mephistophilis!"
"lucifer - lord of the ancient flame..."
"lucifer... I hail your name!"
"quid to moraris? per iehovah gehenna, et consecratam aquam quam nunc spargo"
"signumque crusis quod nunc facio, et per vota nostra"
"ipse nunc surgat nobis dicatus mephistophilis"
"lucifer - lord of the ancient flame"
The Era of Tiamat
A new Age has come
My Goddess, my Spirit
Tiamat!
I am the daylight
I am the Light
I am the Earth and Sea
I am the Winds and Storms
I am the Cosmos
I am the Fear, the Fear of Mortals
The Era of Tiamat
A new Age has come
My Goddess, my Spirit
Tiamat!
I am the Source of Life
I am the Dreamer's eyes
A Soul that never dies
A Truth between the Lies
I am the Cosmos
I am the Chaos, The Ear of all Mortals
The Era of Tiamat
A new Age has come
My Goddess, my Spirit
Dawn of time I have seen you
Through forests, dark seas and black skies
My gates I have built upon you
Gold to mesmerize
The mortals that question my reign
The mouth of the abyss still remembers
I am the God you created
The conqueror of fear that still breathes
The tower that rises in starlight,
It holds in the fire that burns in your veins,
In pools of cold dreams and of nightmares;
I hold all the secrets of immortal life
In wastelands forgotten by light
My kingdom rises in glory
Into the abyss of black waters
I dream of the battle to come
Crushing we shall send them down
The light that scorches our eyes
For dream we no more, we're awakened
And stars have foretold that we rise
"So enter the myth and the prophecy"
And the words of the myth were thus:
In time before time, the great dragon ruled
When stars were not born
And this world had seen no dawn
When the power of Gods was still young
The great serpent hissed
And it spread it's black wings
And the silence was broken by cries
And another God was born
And the dragon was no longer alone
In a world of cold silence and dreams
Life for the mortal fool define
Treading in daylight as if blind
Allow those so-blinded to maintain
The fears that make so grand my reign
I am your master
The conqueror of fear
Life for the mortal fool define
Treading in daylight as if blind
Allow those so-blinded to maintain
The fears that make so grand my reign
I am your master
it's a hostile place
we have found a way out
how far is this freedom from here
how long have we lived how far can we go
if we stop will we waste away
destitute
chaos and bleeding
no it's all in the past
the horrors in the darkened hallway lives the sound you know when will you realize it all a mirage
can feel that time has stopped
no way back home no reasoning
the first truth
don't trust your feeling
we are neither here nor there
the slaves are the last to go
the proles are free
at the expence of us
no reasoning in their heads
no worrying
they're free
how can we live inside this void
how can we breathe without our lungs
they're free
no way chaos from this other world
how can we how can we live inside this void
how can we breathe without our lungs
how can we stay inside this void
how can we breathe our lungs
in this place
we no longer try
can't you see we've been here before
destitute
chaos and bleeding
how can we live inside this void
how can we breathe without our lungs
we're free
get away
You're the one I
Met in skies of gray
And you're the one who
Chased the clouds away
I thought that I would
Never find a love all mine
And for this, I'm so thankful
For this, I'm so thankful to you
Thank you, baby
Ooh, thank you, baby
Ooh, baby
You're the flame
Who set my soul on fire
I'm proud to have a
Love that you inspire
And when we walk together
Hand in hand, understand
For this, I'm so thankful
For this, I'm so thankful to you
Thank you, baby
Ooh, thank you, baby
I used to think
That I could be your queen
And have the things
That only money brings
But I have more than
All that gold can buy
That is why, for this
I'm so thankful
For this, I'm thankful
For this, I'm thankful
Ooh, every day now
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
Gong gong gong, yeah
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
Gong gong gong, yeah
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
I wanna tell all you people
I dropped a penny in the well
Hoping you would come back soon
I couldn't believe what I heard
A fortune teller told me
My love with you was doomed
I hope her reading was wrong
I hope she was wrong
'Cause you been gone too long, come home
Hey, gong gong gong, yeah
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
Gong gong gong, yeah
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
Gong gong gong, yeah
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
I can't sleep at night for thinking of you
Every night about two
My love for you comes tumblin' down
I can't stand being here alone
I start a feelin' and a fumblin'
But you ain't nowhere around
I hope her reading was wrong
I hope she was wrong
'Cause you been gone too long, come home
Hey, gong gong gong, yeah
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
Hey, gong gong gong, yeah
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
Gong gong gong, yeah
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
(I'm blue do be, do be, do be do)
My mama told me love
Is not all sweet, uh huh
She said, watch out for all
The boys you meet, uh huh
Cause someday, you'll be on
Your own two feet, uh huh
But if you find
The right boy to marry
Life can be a bowl of cherries
Like peaches and cream
Don't you know what I mean
Ah, ah, ah, peaches
Peaches and cream
Ah, ah, ah, peaches
Don't you know what I mean
Now I'm grown and
Living on my own, uh huh
Got me a boy, I know
He's not alone, uh huh
He's the kind of boy a
Girl can take home, uh huh
I know I found
The boy to marry
Cause our life's been
A bowl of cherries
Don't you know what I mean
Ah, ah, ah, peaches
Peaches and cream
Ah, ah, ah, peaches
Don't you know what I mean
I know I found
The boy to marry
Cause our life's been
A bowl of cherries
Don't you know what I mean
Ah, ah, ah, peaches
Ah, ah, ah, peaches
Peaches and cream
Peaches and cream
Ah, ah, ah, peaches
Ah, ah, ah, peaches
Peaches and cream
Don't you know what I mean