Bootleg edit of the gorgeous electronica track,  “Sleep Is A Sacrament” by Cephas Azariah, produced by Paul Duane / Soul Anarchist. Featuring a spoken word rendition of C.S. Lewis from “The Weight of Glory”.

“In speaking of this desire for our own far-off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. 

I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you–the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence…

The secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. 

We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name.    

Our commonest expedience is to call it beauty and behave as if that had settled the matter. 

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came and what came through them was longing. 

These things–the beauty, the memory of our own past–are good images of what we really desire;  but if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. 

For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. 

• C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory” 

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