THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF MUSIC #2

(With apologies for Googles spacing.)

Akasha in Hindu philosophy is ether - the substrate of the quality of sound. 

It is the one pervading substance - the primordial Ohm, the root of vibration.

The concept of 

Nada (sound or vibration) - Brahma 

means the universe was created from the energy of sound. 

Sanskrit letters are sacred and were part of this creative vibration.

This concept is similar in Kabbalah where the Hebrew letters are considered sacred.

Both traditions treat sound, letters and vibration as fundamental to creative reality.

The Celts believed that the world was sung into existence.

They called the sacred tune of the universe the Oran Mo'r.

"Quiet— Eternal Quiet. Not even the sound of the restless, stirring, dark

waters could be heard.

Then, a great spiraling strain of Melody moved across the endless waters.

Subdued at first, then quickly gathering momentum until it reached a great crescendo.

And, then, there was Life! But the Melody did not stop. It continued its song,

filling all of Creation with its Divine harmony. 

And so it continues today, for all those who listen." Frank Mills

John said; "In the begiining was the word..."

This Logos was also sound and vibration. Sacred letters and words combined with harmony.

Even for those who think of the Bible as being mythology it is worth noting

how much it has to say about the power of sound and song.

In Exodus the Israelites trembled as trumpets sounded from Mount Sinai before Moses

went up the mountain to receive the ten commandments.

In the book of Joshua it was the blowing of the rams' horns by the priests

carrying the Arc of the Covenant that caused the wall of the fortified city to fall down.

Singing and playing musical instruments in the tabernacle and later the temple

was the duty of Levite priests and priestesses. 

Levite harpists were routinely called upon by the prophets to enable prophecy

especially with Isaiah, Jeremiah and Elisha.

King David's psalms were originally in song and included instruments ...The book of Revelations also refers to the "seven trumpet agues" that will occur at the endof this age at the return of Jesus to earth.

"The Music of the Spheres."

There still is an ongoing singing of the stars as Mills says;

"And so it continues today, for all those who listen."

The Chaldeans were apparently the first to say that all the heavenly bodies joined together to create music as they orbited space. The San Kalahari Bushmen also could hear this sound - as also stated in the Zohar. Pythagoras was apparently the first of the Greek philosophers to theorize that the sun, moon and planets emit their own "hum" as they orbit which reflect celestial sounds imperceptible to most human ears. Plato agreed with him and also assumed there was a numerical component to them.

"There is geometry in the humming of strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. Number is the within of all things." Pythagoras 

 "Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts' were as chaste and as snowy as Pythagoras, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars." John Milton

If the sun, the moon and all these huge bodies are rotating it is possible that they do generate sound. It is also likely that since we are born with this subtle music from light years away in our ears. However, now we may no longer be able to hear it or even know it is there - unlike the Bushmen who are as pure as Pythagoras. They all previously benefited from having little noise pollution. Pythagoras believed that not only the stars but all creatures and objects have energetic signatures which could be translated into numbers, fractions or geometric structures and that the Creator "geometrized" the universe in sound vibrations.This would fit with the idea that music is a part of the 'mathematics' of God.

If you amplify the frequency of sound the structure of matter can change.

Sound has the power to do many amazing things:

Playing the right frequency of sound can

cause a wine glass to move and even break apart.

Levitate and rotate objects

Boil water

Create light and heat

Drill through stone and metal

Destroy cancer and pathogens

Heal