But Hierarchy… brings one to the shore of Light.
And imagine the entire effulgence that the eyes behold!
And understand the Song of Light.
Let us labor for Light and Hierarchy!
(Agni Yoga | Hierarchy § Introduction)
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Voces8 | Lux Æterna (Nimrod) – Edward Elgar | Enigma Variations
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It is quite just to call the music of the spheres the Song of Fire.
Are not the fiery vibrations concordant?
And is not this resounding nurtured with radiations?
(Fiery World II § 4)
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Edvard Munch | The Sun
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In today’s exciting heliocentric heaven, let us focus on the harmonious splendour of the conjunction between Venus and Calliope in Taurus, the magnificent sign of vision and enlightenment. Venus, the lady of Golden Relationships, the Isis of our solar system, guardian of the Fifth Ray, that Light-bearing Intellect of Love that commensurately unites the Earth to the Sun and the personality to the Soul, harmonises with Calliope, “she who has a beautiful voice”, the mother of Orpheus, the inspirer of initiatory texts, the Muse of the art of speech and occult philosophy. Their celestial encounter urges us to the utmost commitment to deepen the art of constructing thought-forms and to master that sonorous wisdom, made up of metres, rhythms and songs, which allows us to transmute our nature and ascend to Heaven. Let us therefore welcome their inspiration to attune ourselves to the love of knowledge and to honour the music imbued with light that is the very essence of Creation!
Perfection of thought is an expression of beautiful musicality.
(Supermundane § 42)
Look deep enough and you will find that there is music everywhere.
(attributed to Gustav Holt)
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Morten Lauridsen | Dirait-on
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Antonio Canova | Calliope
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Gustav Klimt | Beethoven Frieze – Secession Building | Vienna
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And now, Lanoo, thou art the doer and the witness, the radiator and the radiation, Light in the Sound, and the Sound in the Light. … Behold! Thou hast become the Light, thou hast become the Sound, thou art thy Master and thy God. Thou art thyself the object of thy search: the Voice unbroken, that resounds throughout eternities, exempt from change, from sin exempt, the seven sounds in one, the Voice of the Silence. (H. P. Blavatsky – The Voice of the Silence)
Ólafur Elíasson – The Wheather Project | Tate Modern – London
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The soul is light essentially, both literally from the vibratory angle, and philosophically from the angle of constituting the true medium of knowledge. The soul is light symbolically, for it is like the rays of the sun, which pour out into the darkness; the soul, through the medium of the brain, causes revelation. It throws its light into the brain, and thus the way of the human being becomes increasingly illumined. (Alice Bailey – Esoteric Psychology I, p. 132)
Light is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This is perhaps one of the most occult definitions of the light of the world that has yet been given… Light and substance are synonymous terms. Soul and light are equally so, and in this equality of idea—light, substance, soul—you have the key to fusion and to the at-one-ment which Christ expressed so fully for us in His life on Earth. (Alice Bailey – Glamour: a World Problem, p. 193-4)
When a man literally walks in the light of his soul and the clear light of the sun pours through him—revealing the Path,—it reveals at the same time the Plan. (Alice Bailey – A Treatise on White Magic, p. 355)
Beato Angelico | Glorification of the Virgin (detail)
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There is a higher and better mode of song, actuated by a difference in the point of tension and involving a breathing process which draws the needed energy upon the breath from sources higher and far more extensive than those normally used; this will produce the inspiration which will involve the whole man and not simply his emotional reaction to the theme of his song and his audience. This will bring into being a new mode and type of singing and of breathing, based on a form of mental breathing which will carry energy and consequent inspiration from sources without the personality aura. … The singing in the next century will be by those who will know how to tap the reservoirs of inspiration by means of a new method and technique in breathing. These techniques and exercises will be taught, to start with, in the new and coming schools of esotericism. …
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. 259-260)
Gustave Doré | The Divine Comedy – Paradiso, Canto XXXI
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Notre Dame de Paris | North Rose Window
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Rule Four. Sound, light, vibration, and the form blend and merge, and thus the work is one. It proceedeth under the law, and naught can hinder now the work from going forward. The man breathes deeply. He concentrates his forces, and drives the thought-form from him. (Alice Bailey – A Treatise on White Magic)
… sound and color, thought and rhythm are the foundations of the Universe and of our existence. … 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. (Letters of Helena Roerich vol. I)
In life imbibe the source of sound and color, and thus strengthen your mind. (Leaves of Morya’s Garden I § 7)
Antoni Gaudí – Sagrada Familia
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The world is one in the consonance of spirit…
Boundless is the World, countless the colors of the Light.
Immersed in its harmony, the spirit sings the song of all hearts.
Therefore, rejoice if you can sense it.
(Leaves of Morya’s Garden I § 394)
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Let the song of the soul be sounded forth by me,
and the clear high notes bring peace and joy to others.
(Alice Bailey – Discepleship in the New Age vol. I, p. 565)
You have heard music and singing in Our Community.
They ought to be regarded as part of the work.
(New Era Community § 224)
Let us sing, let us sing that light which leads mortals upwards…
(Proclus | Hymn to the Muses)
