Quintessence

About Quintessence

Quintessence is the second studio album by the English group Quintessence.

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Quintessence is the second studio album by the English group Quintessence.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Quintessence; except where noted.

Side one

"Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga" - 5:01

"Sea of Immortality" - 5:19

"High on Mt. Kailash (Excerpt From Opera)" (lyrics: Stanley Barr) - 5:51

"Burning Bush (Live)" - 2:35

"Shiva's Chant" - 2:13

Side two

"Prisms (Conception Barham)" - 3:12

"Twilight Zones" (lyrics: Stanley Barr) - 5:18

"Maha Mantra" - 1:37

"Only Love" - 3:54

"St. Pancras (Live)" - 6:19

"Infinitum (Conception Barham)" - 1:42

CD bonus tracks

"Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga" - 5:08 (live version)

Personnel

Quintessence

Sambhu Babaji - bass guitar

Maha Dev - rhythm guitar

Shiva Shankar Jones - vocals, keyboards

Jake Milton - drums

Allan Mostert - lead guitar

Raja Ram - flute

with:

John Barham - arrangements, musical director

Technical

Richard Polak - front cover photography

Gopala - paintings

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Notable quotes

“When we say that God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.”
— John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 January 1820)
“One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.”
— Georg Büchner, in Lenz (1835)
“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”
— Galileo Galilei, as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 92
“No question is here raised as to the true content of this; the question is if one will give assent to the God’s having come into existence, by which the God’s eternal essence is inflected in the dialectical determinations of coming into existence.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, in Philosophical Fragments (1844), The Case of the Contemporary Disciple
“Of myths some are theological, some physical, some psychic, and again some material, and some mixed from these last two. The theological are those myths which use no bodily form but contemplate the very essence of the Gods: e.g., Kronos swallowing his children. Since god is intellectual, and all intellect returns into itself, this myth expresses in allegory the essence of god.”
— Sallustius, in On the Gods and the Cosmos, IV. That the species of myth are five, with examples of each.
“Prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.”
— Simone Weil, in The Power of Words (1937)

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