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 After the final release by Spence, O'Donnell went to Twitter and encouraged anyone who had a copy of ''Music of the Spheres'' to share it. <ref>https://twitter.com/MartyTheElder/status/936349365496459264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkotaku.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-936349365496459264%26autosize%3D1</ref> A few days before Christmas 2017, Espinosa was contacted by someone who owned a real copy of ''Music of the Spheres'', and he worked with Spence to release it on December 25, 2017. <ref>https://kotaku.com/four-years-later-destinys-music-of-the-spheres-has-lea-1821572335</ref> Many fans feared the legal ramifications this would lead to, but for four months, the leak remained online. In April 2018, Spence was contacted by Bungie and sent a Cease and Desist letter, which led to a fan outcry for the music. Bungie's community manager Cozmo23 responded to the backlash on Reddit by saying they were doing it so Bungie could officially release ''Music of the Spheres''. <ref>https://www.pcgamer.com/the-unreleased-destiny-album-music-of-the-spheres-has-leaked/</ref>
+==Poetry==
+During a trip to England, O'Donnell met a poet named Malcolm Guite at a festival on the Isle of Wight, where they had their first conversation about pre-Copernican astrophysics and C.S. Lewis. Quickly realizing they shared a passion for these ideas, O'Donnell asked Guite to write a collection of poems for ''Music of the Spheres''. Guite wrote a collection of fourteen poems which he called ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells; A Sequence for the Spheres''<ref>http://www.wshu.org/post/poetry-inspired-destinys-music-spheres#stream/0</ref> and gave them to Bungie to read over. O'Donnell loved the poems and Bungie purchased the rights to them and Guite had his name for his poetry in the first ''Destiny'' game's credits.<ref>https://www.bungie.net/en-US/Destiny/Credits</ref>
+As years passed and ''Music of the Spheres'' was seemingly not going to release, Guite considered putting ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells'' into a number of his books, but the author whom Guite had admired, Michael Ward, said the poems didn't fit into any of the collections he proposed thematically. ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells'' remained unpublished.
+Shortly after Spence had leaked ''Music of the Spheres'' in December 2017, Spence and his friend Landon Davis reached out to Guite with a proposal to release the poems. Guite obliged and gave the poems to Spence, who then worked with Davis to make a video for the first poems, titled ''The Moon'', and their video was released on July 7, 2017. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mrDRsB6O_0</ref>
+In terms of the layout of the poetry, there are fourteen poems arranged in seven pairs. Each poem draws influences from Ward's book ''Planet Narnia'', and the poems are arranged in a format called a roundel, where each poem has a main phrase that is repeated throughout (for instance, ''The Moon's'' phrase is "The Moon is Full).
+Every two poems are 'opposing pairs'. According to Guite, "Each of the seven spheres has a certain cluster of associations and influences, Venus with Love, Mars with war and martial valour, the Sun with gold, but also poetry and inspiration etc. But equally it is possible for each of these celestial influences to become corrupted and malign, for, as St. Augustine says, good is primal and evil is always a corruption of some original good." As such, the first poem of the opposing pair is diurnal, or the 'heavenly' sphere, and the second in the pair is the nocturnal, or the 'hellish' sphere. <ref>https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/the-music-of-the-spheres-a-poetic-adventure/</ref>
+==Latin Lyrics==
+O'Donnell used Latin lyrics in places of normal choir tones in the ''The Rose, the Prison'' and ''The Hope''.
+=== The Rose ===
+''Ad Victoriam Qua Patet Orbis'' - To Victory as far as the world extends
+''Sub Rosa'' - Beneath the Rose
+''Semper Fortis'' - Always brave
+''Sub Divo'' - Under the wide open sky
+''Stamus Contra Malo'' - We stand against evil
+''Per Audacia ad Astra'' - With Bravery to the stars
+=== The Prison ===
+''Veritas Et Fortitudo'' - Truth and Courage
+''Ab Aeterno'' - From eternity
+''Ab Extra'' - From beyond
+''Stamus Contra Malo'' - We stand against evil
+''Non Timebo Malo'' - I will fear no evil
+''Audax at Fidelis'' - Bold but faithful
+''Ardus Ad Solem'' - Striving towards the sun
+=== The Hope ===
+In ''The Hope'', O'Donnell uses the names of the planets as they were in ancient Latin and made his own interpretation of the pronunciation.
+''Luna, Mercu, Venoo,''
+''Luna, Mercu, Venoo,''
+''Sola, Maroo, Jova,''
+''Sola, Maroo, Jova,''
+''Saturna, Terra''
+''Saturna, Terra''
+==Trivia==
+*O'Donnell had a number of influences on ''Music of the Spheres'', including ''Planet Narnia'' by Michael Ward, ''De Musica'' by Boethius, The Vatican Library, ''Music of the Spheres'' by Rued Langgaard, ''Music of the Spheres'' by Mike Oldfield, and the Golden Record.
+*Guite had recordings made of him reading the poetry while he was at Bungie in 2013.
+*The musical keys of the music goes in order of the Lydian B7 scale (C, D, E, F#, G, A, Bb, C). This same order is used in the [[Vault of Glass]].
+*At one point the development of the music, O'Donnell had the names of the geomantic figures encoded in binary.
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