The box. Take it, it's yours. It always was ..

Today I finally have a long-awaited package in the mail. Now it's finally here, the cube, the music box, my LeMarchand box or also called Lament Configuration. The French toy maker Philip LeMarchand is said to have made the first cube in 1749 and allegedly murdered fourteen people. The box itself is more than a key to the gateway to another dimension, for some it is also hell - the cube is a masterfully built puzzle. It is the embodiment of forbidden knowledge. A mystery that can only be solved through obsession. As soon as the final piece of the puzzle is in its final place, its mystery is solved and reveals something that was not previously obvious - the hell of reality.

Like other artists through time, LeMarchand had heard of a perfect material in which to work, a perfect medium in which to express his talents. And like other damned artists through time, LeMarchand never dreamed just what it was he would create with that most perfect, most orderly material ...

A wide variety of stories arose about Philip LeMarchand's motives for constructing such cubes. He is said to have made the Lament Configuration for the wealthy aristocrat Duc de L'Isle, who is said to have been obsessed with dark magic. He and his apprentice Jacques kill a woman and separate her insides from her skin. L'Isle uses dark magic and the Lament Configuration to summon the demons Princess Angelique into the woman's skin. She gives them orders to clear the way to hell. But Angelique and Jacques team up and betray and kill de L'Isle. LeMarchand is in the process of developing another design, the "Elysium Configuration" to destroy the demons and steal back the "Lament Configuration", but he is discovered. Before Angelique orders Jacques to kill the Toymaker, Jacques callously informs LeMarchand that he and his bloodline are cursed to the end of time because of the cube he created... however, Philip's wife ultimately survives.

In addition to the “Lament Configuration”, LeMarchand is said to have developed other cubes before his alleged disappearance in 1811. Each cube is unique, the puzzle is different for each person and requires a different solution, a solution that is also a ritual. The puzzle isn't easy to solve because it's something that takes real work and something someone really wants, so much it borders on obsession. LeMarchand is believed to have built more than 270 such puzzle boxes before he disappeared. As you'd expect, the Cube's ownership changes quickly, although there are a few collectors who collect the objects to admire and are uninterested in working to unleash their wonder.

So much for that... Friends, I'm now dealing a little with theologians, namely the members of the "Order of the Gash" who, according to their self-description, are "Explorers in the wider regions of experience" ("Explorers in the further regions of experience») are. Accordingly, the members of the order appear like angels to some people, but like demons to others ("Demons to some - Angels to Others"), but are originally from a religiously neutral background. But the cenobites described received a devilish character trait from the Christian point of view through the various film adaptations. I now set out to solve my puzzle to meet the angels, experience an expansion of existence and be drawn into the labyrinth of Leviathan...

The box. You opened it. We came. Now you must come with us, taste our pleasures. No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering. We have such sights to show you! We'll tear your soul apart! This isn't for your eyes! Ah, the suffering. The sweet, sweet suffering.

LeMarchand's Musical Lament Configuration