The Science of Sound

… Science must illumine the consciousness
and affirm humanity in the Infinite.
(Infinity II § 265)

ATHENIAN Under our ancient laws, my friends… the populace
was rather, in a sense, willingly subject to the laws.
MEGILLUS To what sort of laws?
ATHENIAN Firstly to the laws concerning the music…
(Plato – Laws III, 700A)

Manuscript by W. A. Mozart

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When I use the term “reciprocal vibration”, what do I mean?  I mean the adaptation of the Personality or Lower Self, to the Ego, or Higher Self, the dominating of the Personality ray by the ray of the Ego and the combining of their tones.  I mean the blending of the primary colour of the Higher Self with the secondary hue of the Lower Self until beauty is achieved.  At first, there is dissonance and discord, a clashing of the colours, and a fight between the Higher and the Lower.  But as time progresses, and later with the aid of the Master, harmony of colour and tone is produced (a synonymous matter), until eventually you will have the basic note of matter, the major third of the aligned Personality, the dominant fifth of the Ego, followed by the full chord of the Monad or Spirit.
It is the dominant we seek at adeptship, and earlier the perfected third of the Personality.  During our various incarnations we strike and ring the changes on all the intervening notes, and sometimes our lives are major and sometimes minor, but always they tend to flexibility and greater beauty.  In due time, each note fits into its chord, the chord of the Spirit; each chord forms part of a phrase, the phrase or group to which the chord belongs; and the phrase goes to the completion of one seventh of the whole.  The entire seven sections, then, complete the sonata of this solar system,—a part of the threefold masterpiece of the Logos or God, the Master-Musician. (Alice Bailey – Letters on Occult Meditation, p. 4)

from Hans Kayser – The form of the violin

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Marko Rantanen | The Orchestra Project (Helsinki Philharmonic)

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You, my young friends, who have approached art and creation, you should be able to utilize your gifts as a condensation of your forces; for sound and color, thought and rhythm are the foundations of the Universe and of our existence. Sound and color, knowledge and creation are the chalice of Amrita, the Chalice of Immortality! Eternal, continuous creation of the universal Life surrounds us, and we, being part of this great creation, should create every moment of our life—create by thought, by word, by action.
My young friends, fill up the treasury of your spirit. Absorb all the sounds, all the colors, all the rhythms from the fathomless source of space. These finest vibrations, consciously absorbed, will refine your receptivity and your thought. The refinement of receptivity will give you the possibility of penetrating into the Sanctuaries of Space, and will open the joyous path of achievement and continuous, endless ascent. (Letters of Helena Roerich vol. I, 1929)

Notre Dame de Paris – North Rose Window

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Forget not that sound permeates all forms; the planet itself has its own note or sound; each minute atom also has its sound; each form can be evoked into music and each human being has his peculiar chord and all chords contribute to the great symphony which the Hierarchy and Humanity are playing, and playing now. Every spiritual group has its own tune (if I may employ so inappropriate a word) and the groups which are in process of collaborating with the Hierarchy make music ceaselessly. This rhythm of sound and this myriad of chords and notes blend with the music of the Hierarchy itself and this is a steadily enriching symphony; as the centuries slip away, all these sounds slowly unite and are resolved into each other until some day the planetary symphony which Sanat Kumara is composing will be completed and our Earth will then make a notable contribution to the great chords of the solar system—and this is a part, intrinsic and real, of the music of the spheres. Then, as the Bible says, the Sons of God, the planetary Logoi, will sing together. This, my brother, will be the result of right breathing, of controlled and organised rhythm, of true pure thought and of the correct relation between all parts of the chorus. (Alice Bailey – Glamour: a World Problem, p. 260)

Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744 (NASA – Chandra Observatory)

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In today’s eventful heliocentric Heavens, let us focus our attention on the conjunction, at the beginning of Aquarius, between Pluto, custodian – together with Vulcan – of the First Ray, the One who destroys forms so that the essence may find new tools and modes of expression, and who in this sign tears down old and obsolete structures of thought to create new and blazing ones, and the Muse Euterpe, the Lady of Musicality in all its forms, She who cheers through poetry and music. In the Science of the new Age we are entering, Sound cannot but be a point of reference and a fundamental tool to bring back to Light, from the depths of human consciousness, treasures of beauty and wisdom. Their sublime song in the water of life of Aquarius, a hierarchical sign, is a memento and an invitation to utter regeneration through the knowledge and application of the Laws of Sound, of that living Harmony, which is law in the Universe and which man cannot ignore without condemning himself! The inner resonance with the Music of the Spheres that it vaguely begins to sense assures Humanity of a cosmic destiny!

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Now it is necessary to recall the significance of sound…
There is no better way… than by comparing
physical sound with that of the Subtle World.
(Heart § 66, 327)

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Search to a sufficient depth
and you will find that there is music everywhere.
(attributed to Gustav Holst)