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“MUSIC AS AN ART OF THE ANGELS’

 

THE MASTER ON THE MUSIC

 

Music is the profound sphere of Existence. Those who have created it have been great sensible beings. We know them by the common name of angels.

 

When the angels woke up at the dawn of Heaven, they began to sing. And when they commenced their singing, the world began to establish itself. The angels who understand the Divine laws, have made the universe under the supreme guidance of the Divine Spirit. They have expressed this sublime creation in music. That is why the great laws of the universe are hidden in music. These laws of the creative spirit of Existence. The Divine Spirit works in a musical way. And we may say that the music in which the harmony of the numbers sounds is a materialized movement of the Spirit.

 

Music, as an art of the angels, is the connecting link between the angelic and the human worlds. Music is the breath of the soul. The soul breathes through music. The musical world is the medium in which the soul reveals itself on earth. Without music and without a musical milieu which the world of tones creates, the soul and the spirit of the people cannot reveal themselves. Love cannot reveal itself without a suitable musical milieu either. And Love is the great reality of life. So when we say that Love cannot reveal itself without music, we understand that sensible order of the manifestations of nature. This order is expressed in the following dependence: music is a milieu of the consciousness, i.e. that internal organism of men through which the soul is being awakened to the world; consciousness is a milieu of the human mind, while the mind is a milieu of Love. Things move in this order in an ascending direction.

 

Everything in nature vibrates, and those vibrations flow like musical waves. Moreover it is said that everything in nature is music. Continuous music drifts on the earth where so many creatures live. There is music in the running streams, in the undulating oceans and seas; there is music in the air in the blowing of the breeze. There is music in the rustling of the leaves, in the chirping of the birds, in the cries of the animals and in the murmur of the brooks. And often when the wind is swaying the branches of the trees, there is some sublime orchestra music in the woods sounds like a symphony to the people who are able to hear it. Furthermore when the cosmic consciousness is unfolded in men and they begin to develop capabilities that lead them to a finer way of describing colours, tones and sounds, they will begin to delect that magnificent symphony which sounds throughout the universe. They will commence to hear that universal music which fills the universe. Then the people will comprehend the profound significance of life.

 

There are three kinds of music: mechanical music, which only moves things; organic music, which organizes the living substance and sets its vital rhythm and psychic music, which awakens the hidden energies of the soul. The occult music which comprises the qualities of these three kinds of music is just coming into the world. That is why it is accessible only to a few people. Very few musicians have reached its boundaries. Occult music has higher and broader aims than ordinary music.

 

When the occult music has only the shape of a primary exercise, a small attempt is made to introduce it mainly as an educational means, a method of training and elevating the human character. It is used as a means of creating a musical milieu which is the only place where the sublime energies of the soul may reveal themselves. All energies of the soul have to pass through music so that they may harmonize and balance themselves.

 

The educational power of music is also a major task. Music is being applied in the occult science as a powerful method for projecting thoughts, feelings and desires from the lower world to the higher one and to nourish the nuclei of the new feelings and abilities which are latent in the souls of men. Some of the high emotions of the soul can be awakened only by occult music.

 

Occult music is hard to study. The people should have a very fine sense of hearing and a great power of concentration. Moreover, men should get rid of all their prejudices and traditions. People cannot come to it if they have not studied ordinary music as a preface to occult music. When ordinary music has developed technically, then it is a preparation to occult music. The future musicians will create a music of which the people nowadays have no conception whatsoever.

 

Music influences men in every respect. It is the most correct method of organising human thoughts, feelings and deeds. As breathing is necessary for the purification of the blood, so music is needed for the cleansing of the feelings.

 

There is a certain link between the musical feeling and the thinking ability of men. The more musical a person is, the stronger his reasoning abilities are. The musical feeling generally helps the unfolding of the talents and abilities of men. First of all, it aids their thinking abilities. Men cannot think correctly unless they develop their feeling for music. There is no correct thought without music. When I say that, I mean the inner, the real music, not the external, the mechanical music as a manifestation of musical technique. As long as men have music in themselves, they are thinking correctly. Because every correct thought and every correct feeling represents a correct combination of tones.

 

Music is the most sublime expression of sensibility on the earth, because music is condensed light and light is an expression of thought. The sensibility of men is conditioned by their musical qualities. When a person is sensible in the full meaning of the word, all his deeds are musical. In general we judge the character of a person by the degree of his musical abilities. The more musical a person is, the more consistent is his character. If a person is musical that does not necessarily mean that he should be a musician, a singer or a virtuoso, but he should have a deep insight into music, a musical nature and a musical soul. If a person is musical, he will pour out music in his thoughts, feelings and deeds.

 

Music is one of the important methods of work for disciples of the occult. It is one of the best methods for saving and acquiring energy. Music guards men from internal and external unfavourable conditions. Music teaches people to have balance especially in the fields of the astral world where many sharp changes exist. Music teaches them to tame the animal within themselves, their strong passions and desires, their animal inclinations. Music strengthens men both physically and spiritually.

 

In the broad sense of the word, there is music in the thoughts, in the feelings and in the desires of men. If men have this music and this harmony within themselves, they have the feeling that something is singing quietly within them, deep in their souls, they will be able to hear an unceasing harmony. That musical state will calm down the heart and the mind of the person, and it will give a new direction to his thoughts.

 

The body of man is a complex musical instrument which has to be tuned and adjusted constantly. The human body has a special key which determines the various tones of his different organs. Their musical tones are designated by the functions and vibrations of the organs. Respective occult exercises arranged according to corresponding scales can influence the different organs of the body.

 

Music brings an expansion into the soul, power and might into the spirit, tenderness and warmth into the heart and light and freedom into the mind.

 

Inspiration plays an important part in singing. A person who sings and sings with inspiration is a free man. There is freedom only where high ideological principles exist. A great presence of roind, heart and willpower is needed in occult music. Balance is necessary. People should have disciplined will-power. They should not be troubled by anything, because music is a great divine process which exists throughout the universe.

 

To attract the creative musical energies in nature, a musician should dedicate his life to serving humanity. The true musician has to be a priest to music. In this way he will carry on the tradition of those first musicians and adepts of music who cultivated it first in the ancient temples of dedication, so that it might be spread among the people in later years.

 

Music has originated in the sanctuaries of the initiated people. To put their will-power into action, people have to link their singing with movement. Music has its own special expression in the movements. When music is linked by the movements, it becomes beautiful. When it is joined also by speech, it becomes even more beautiful. Everything has to become alive in music. Everything has to come into movement through it. The whole body ought to vibrate and move in a musical way. All the movements ought to be musical. The movements go in accordance with certain laws, as the tones move in accordance with certain laws.

 

We can come to the natural movements through music. If we come to these natural movements, we are going to understand that though every movement certain streams are projected out of the people and a natural exchange takes place between the people and nature. The people give and get simultaneously through those movements.

 

It is a law: when the movements coincide with the tones, they are great and magic energies. Singing in occult music has to be expressive, picturesque and figurative. In actual fact some feeling is necessary in the singing, but that feeling has to be unfolded in images. That unfolding in images is a mental process. That is why the singer has to think when he sings; he has got to have living images and project them through his singing. All the ideas in his mind should be clear and vital. He has to give a musical expression to his ideas through his singing. The singers of genius sing in that way.

 

The true singers and the true musicians have come to the earth with a certain task, to raise the sorrowful, the suffering and the fallen souls. And in fact good singers always bring in something new. That is why people say that they sing with their souls. There are singers who do not bring in anything when they sing. Their singing is indifferent. It lulls people to sleep, it is hypnotic. Good singing reanimates, encourages and creates a revival. It brings in thoughts, it makes us deeply concentrated and leads us to contemplation. The people who hear such singing are unable ever to forget it,

 

The future musicians should be inspired by the idea that their music has to create a radical change in the soul of the fallen people. A person can sing a song with such an inspiration that it may bring about a change in everybody who hears it. The vibrations of that song will fly into space, they will be repeated by the people and they will sound throughout eternity.

 

True music can originate only in the souls of those people who have raised altars in their hearts, and the angels, the greatest musicians, lay their offerings to God and their inspired songs at those altars.

 

If there are musicians in whose hearts there are such altars, there burns the sacred fire of Love. Sacred hymns are sung there, worshipping God through music.

 

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