Just listened to the awesome performance of Verdi's Requiem conducted by the Maestro George Solti.
Verdi composed the Libera Me first (even though it appears at the end of the Requeim with the following words:
Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, in die illa tremenda,
quando coeli movendi sunt et terra.
Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.
Tremens factus sum ego, et timeo, dum discussio venerit atque
ventura ira quando coeli movendi sunt et terra.
Dies illa, dies irae, calamitatis et miseriae, dies magna et amara valde.
Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Deliver me, o Lord from everlasting death on that dreadful day,
when the heavens and the earth shall be moved. When thou shalt come to judge the world by fire. I quake with fear and I tremble, awaiting the day of account and the wrath to come when the heavens and the earth shall be moved. That day, the day of anger, of calamity, of misery, that great day and most bitter. When thou shalt come to judge the world
by fire.
Eternal rest grant them, o Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.
The words are from the Requiem mass (in Latin) - when thou shalt come to judge the world by Fire. A clear reference to the Great Solar Flash at the end of the cycle, when the world goes through Ascension - and everyone is "judged" from the book where everything is written down ie the akashic records.
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