released December 21, 2019

On Winter Solstice, December 21st , 2019 at 1 a.m. (ET) The Ninth Heaven, a band from an alternate reality in the 1980s, released 'Fii Fixxa and the Amulet of Occult Radiance'.

Conceived in 1987 in a “super-conscious dream” by lead singer, Enrique Abu, 'The Initiation of Fii Fixxa' –originally intended as a multimedia art installation that included living tableaus, an interactive altar, and what Enrique Abu described in notebooks as “video icons”– was to be mounted at Zoroaster’s Egg, an underground art gallery, esoteric bookstore and health food cafeteria. Alas, it was not to be.

Two weeks before the planned opening on May 31, 1987 (Walpurgisnacht), the owner of Zoroaster’s Egg was arrested for her involvement with the synarchic terrorist organization, the Blank Obelisco, which planned the kidnapping and ransom of a high-profile Iranian princess. Hoping to recoup their losses with an impromptu tour later that same year, the Ninth Heaven tragically perished in a catastrophic bus accident. It was the evening of the Winter Solstice.

Miraculously unharmed, the master tapes of the completed Fii Fixxa soundtrack were excavated from the scorched ruins of the Ninth Heaven’s tour bus, the Ubelluris, having been stored in a secret vault by the Ninth Heaven’s band manager, Czar Lipstick, ever since. All but one VHS tape was melted in the flames, containing the sole remaining “video icon” for the album’s opening track, The Veiled Woman, which will be made available to the public upon the album’s release.

Also surviving were all but two missing notebook pages comprising the general outline of Enrique Abu’s narrative, describing the tale of hapless scholar/seeker, Aubree Quinn, his subsequent time travel journey into an arcane past, and ultimate initiation via sexual union with a mysterious, primordial goddess.

These master tapes, sent by Czar Lipstick to our current dimension, were obtained by the Medium via magical ritual in which a gold candle was lit at the headstone of a nun in the cemetery of the Orthodox Gnostic Catholic Church of the Cosmic Observance in rural Nebraska. Let it be known this album is to be released on Winter Solstice against dire consequences.
 
The Veiled Woman is Here.

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Fii Fixxa and the Amulet of Occult Radiance
 
In the magical and wicked city of Ephesus, the centre of the ancient world, the legendary Temple of Artemis has undergone reconstruction after having been destroyed in a flood. The depraved Ephesians rejoice.
 
Hundreds of years in the future, a young seeker called Aubree Quin is in a library in Paris studying the Ephesian cult of Artemis. Absorbed in ancient manuscripts, he doesn’t notice when a mysterious Veiled Woman sits beside him.
 
“We depart, dear, at midnight,” the Veiled Woman whispers in his ear. To his complete shock, Aubree Quin realizes he knows Her. But from where?
 
Aubree Quin and the Veiled Woman board the SS Pythia, headed for the Mediterranean. They are making a pilgrimage to Mount Helicon.

(missing page)
 
In a sacred grotto, the two encounter a Sibyl. After offering them some wine, the Sibyl divines Aubree Quin’s future.
 
As the day dies, the couple contemplates the unlikely predictions of the Sibyl. It begins to rain. Surrendering to the beauty of the evening, they kiss.
 
Aubree Quin finds the Veiled Woman has vanished, just as the Sibyl portended.
 
Aubree Quin, following the advice of the Sibyl, searches a forbidden garden for the sacred narcissus flower.
 
Finding the narcissus flower, Aubree Quin swallows it as instructed.
Falling unconscious, he awakens in the ancient city of Ephesus. He must find the Veiled Woman who, the Sibyl assured him, he will discover trapped inside a magical amulet.Outside the Temple of Artemis, where evil criminals thrive, Aubree Quin is attacked by a demon-possessed mob. Aubree Quin is nursed back to health by a Witch. She looks exactly like the Sibyl. She wears a large amulet. He knows he must kill her.
 
The Witch invites Aubree Quin to become her initiate. Aubree Quin accepts and is made to eat a strange, white fruit. During the ritual, he witnesses the creation of the world, a thousand, thousand mysteries, and the identity of the Veiled Woman.
 
Now initiated, the Witch gives Aubree Quin his new name. “I dub thee Fii Fixxa!”

Fii Fixxa must kill the Witch to release the Veiled Woman from her prison. The Sibyl warned that she cannot be harmed while wearing the amulet. Fii Fixxa must brew a beer with Flowers of the Underworld to place the Witch in a magical sleep. Then he will steal the amulet.

Fii Fixxa travels to the Underworld to pick flowers. In the Meadows of Asphodel, he brews the poison beer.

The Sibyl, drinking the beer, falls into a thousand-year sleep. Fii Fixxa takes the amulet and puts it on, hoping to free the Veiled Woman imprisoned inside. Fii Fixxa is instantly propelled to another world.

Fii Fixxa and the Veiled Woman are reunited on the moon. They make love in a magical cave.

Fii Fixxa remembers the prophecy of the Sibyl. The Witch's famliars will abduct the Veiled Woman and imprison her on an evil star.

(missing page)

With the power of the amulet, Fii Fixxa flies through the celestial regions in search of the Veiled Woman.

(The remaining pages of this illustrated tale by Enrique Abu, intended as a booklet insert to accompany the album, were never recovered.)


THE NINTH HEAVEN DOES [NOT] EXIST