Tales Beyond Dreams

By Hesham Ragab

This is a collection of seven epics, lyrics of seven respective musical albums, which I also composed. During that period of my life I passed through various experiences, which profoundly influenced my life and eventually my compositions, whether musical or lyrical. Maybe they could be a true reflection!

A teenager of the seventies, I was a fan of classical and rock music with a special interest in progressive and heavy rock, which quite influenced my musical style and stirring ideas driving my potential writing gear. The various readings of science fiction, eastern ethnical beliefs and philosophies, some significant motion pictures, and the surrounding world of changes; incarnating tyranny, deceit, war, inhumanity, injustice...all contributed and had tangible impact on forming my ideology.

The Martyr, the old-young man, who loved his human brotherhood and nature, whose enigma was to salvage them, who desparately searched for love but was absurdly treated, and winded up a martyr of his own principles! Could a simple person make a drastic decision to stop the wrong? Free the abused, whatever it took him? The Raver was sort of decisive evolution to countervail the dark world presented in the Demons' Kingdom.

Land of a Thousand Dreams, blindness! What a mysterious world? Is it better or worse? A bless or a curse? An evolution, a paradigm shift from delirium to step on the threshold towards the route to promise land. Travelling in space and time, traversing life and death to reach reality, a contemplation of the mind was The Journey!

When you have acquired knowledge, then you should share it and help others, lead them to enlightenment! Fly Free Gentle Dove is the aim. Have I really grasped the knowledge and gone beyond it to reach unity with the universe? The recapitulation is in the Voyages on the Oceans of Mystery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jul 10, 2007
• ISBN: 9781412230643

Hesham Ragab

Married for over twenty years with two children studying in university now I have decided to quit my computer related business and step into that world I have always yearned to live in, the world of art! Art, the gift of God that drives our capabilities to cross the barriers of boredom into planes of creativity and amusement! Born in 1955 in Egypt of mixed Greek and Egyptian origins, I was raised an only child of a middle-class family. My father was an architect while my mother was a housewife. They both had unexploited artistic talents so they strived to give me the opportunities they were not given. I had my primary and secondary education in an English school and got my B. Sc. Degree in Computer Engineering. However, I have always been obsessed with music and art in general. I started my piano lessons when I was six years old, played in a rock group when I was fifteen. Then I wanted to study music theory. Unfortunately, I could not enrol in the conservatory as I was not a regular student and they had closed the external studies section. My eagerness drove me to research and finally I was able, through a certain bookstore, to order, import, over twenty books in musical theory, structure, orchestration, etc. which helped a lot to build my musical background. Spirituality and metaphysics were mystic subjects that stimulated my avidity to learn more about, so my readings shifted from typical romance and thriller to science fiction, eastern philosophies, and spiritual books. These were the grains that developed to form my ideology.

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Copyright 2004 Hesham Ragab.

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Contents

Preface

The Martyr

Prologue

Exiles

Dream Of Rosie

Jinx And Incubus

Orison Of The Traveller (Part 1)

The End Is Near

Reveal The Secrets

Jinx And Incubus Return

Last Appointment

Orison Of The Traveller (Part 2)

Epilogue

Demons’ Kingdom

Demons’ Kingdom

Shadows Of Reality

I Don’t Want To See

Slave In Time’s Jail

Billion Centuries Gone

Exceptional Minstrel

Romantic Shadows

Phantoms Of Paradise

The Raver

Hell-Town Of Fakers

Dawn Of Frustration

Time And Dreams

A Word

Visions Of Hell

Margin Of Reality

Hail Saviour

The Raver

Going Mad

Land Of Thousand Dreams

Blind Daydreams

Nightingale

Land Of Thousand Dreams

The Journey

In The Cocoon

Travelling In Time

Through The Aeon Of Life

Down To Nowhere

Through The Aeon Of Death

Lament

Dawn Of Eternity

The Eternal Day

The Cosmic Merge Song

Fly Free Gentle Dove

Mortal World Born Crying!

Live Complaining!

Die Disappointed!

Ride With Me

Eternal World

Fly Free ... Gentle Dove (Part I)

When You And I Are One!

The Causeway To The Lord

The Land Of The Lord

Fly Free ... Gentle Dove (Part Ii)

Voyages On The Oceans Of Mystery

Isle Of Conception

Isle Of Creation

Isle Of Peace And Beauty

Isle Of Fantasy

Isle Of Desolation

Isle Of Double Edges

Endnotes

For many years idly confined to a

drawer on sheets of paper were

those thoughts. Long have I

dreamed to bring them out to the

light to reach out for the people!

To everyone who helped me make

this dream come true; you