SOUL LOSS #6
Music, Musicians and Soul Loss
Music, until approximately a hundred years ago, was always meant to be spiritual, by the Greeks, indigenous peoples and various religions. However, there have always been demonic cults who welcomed dark, occult spirit forces through discordant sound.
The Greeks exploited music for good and understood that just as musical discord could distort the spirit, musical concord could enable it.
When we sin, we are without music or harmony. Rather control the modes of music in a city than its laws.
Many spoke of music as enabling humans to return to the Divine regions, a place once lost to them.
The Greeks and others felt that sound should follow a certain "objective moral order."
This is the reason classical music had and has such appeal. The great classical composers followed this idea and were supported by the church.
Pre-modernistic music kept these principles up until the last century when skilled musical advocates arose that attempted to defile the sacredness by introducing discord.
“I am conscious of having removed all traces of a past esthetic. I am cured of the delusion that the artist’s aim is to create beauty.” Schoenberg
“Once the past has been gotten out of the way, one need think only of oneself.” Boulez
“Purposeful purposelessness,” to have absolutely no organization.” Cage
Other iconoclasts arose that supported this idea with the likes of Heavy Metal Music and similar genres. Foul words in their lyrics aggravated their toxic effects. This music was said to be able to wake up the dead and call up the Devil. Many musicians in these genres aligned themselves with Satan for impact or in truth.
"The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day that you were created.” Ezekiel
Lucifer who became Satan, fell from heaven together with the other "fallen angels" Prior to that he was the chief musician in heaven and God's most beautiful angel. The Devil's Triad was said to exist in a particular musical tone. This "Trill" was said to enable one to become possessed by Satan which in turn opened the door to the Black Arts. For centuries, it was called the Devil's interval or the tritone because it is made of three whole steps. One can also hear the tritone in terrifying movie soundtracks, the sounds of Halloween, such as creaky floorboards and howling winds. It was designed to be chilling, unsettling, threatening and foreboding.
The tritone was also used by some famous composers but sparingly and for effect only.
Robert Johnson, previously a mediocre guitarist, was said to have met the Devil on the road at midnight. The Devil promised that he would make him one of the most famous guitarists of all time if he relinquished his soul to him. He indeed became that famous.
Many rock musicians seemed to become possessed on stage like Jimi Hendriks and some aligned themselves with the Devil implicitly or explicitly.
Tartini was visited by the Devil in a dream who dazzled him by playing a piece of music which he knew would have been impossible for him to replicate. The dream inspired him to compose but he also said;
“… The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote,and and I still call it the “Devil’s Trill”, but the difference between it and that which so moved me, is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.” Tartini
There were many others who flirted with dark forces including; Giuseppe, John Lennon, Bon Jovi , Snoop Dogg, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jagger, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and especially Heavy Metals; Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Warriors from the Gates of Hell and Black Sabbath.
Sex, drugs, alcohol, addiction and even spirit possession seemed to be the order of the day with some.
David Bowie affirmed there has never been anything innocent or pure about rock and roll. From its inception it had two great themes: licentiousness, rebellion and seeking power through the dark arts.
Hendrix became an international rock superstar. He abused even the worst drugs, alcohol and women. He destroyed his guitars and amplifiers during concerts and set his guitar on fire. This would send the young concert-goers into a frenzy. It was said that his band had to be stoned to play properly. He was using music to 'take people on trips.' Not the light and right trip' but a dark trip. Many of the sounds, invoked were demonic and could affect the mind of the listener.
Christian rock has been an attempt to counter this genre.
The Nazis and Soul Loss
The Nazis used music to torture their victims and rob their souls, especially the Jews. Musicologist Ruth Hacohen has called it the "music libel against the Jews." The SS robbed the Jews and Jewish musicians of the only vital resource that they had for their survival by forcing them to sing German patriotic songs while being tortured.
The Nazis took the demonic in sound to another level along with their genocide.
Herman Goering who was a master in inducing soul loss in the perpetrators and their victims said.
“It’s an easy thing. It’s nothing to do with Nazism, it has to do with human nature. You can do this in a Nazi regime, you can do it in democracy ... (and in any regime) The only thing a government needs to make people into slaves is fear… then you can get them to do anything that you want.” Hermann Goring
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s diabolical propaganda genius had maxims that are being used effectively by despots throughout the world today including the United States of America. This can induce soul sickness and even loss.
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.
The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.
This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated
are confident they are acting on their own free will.
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.
...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.
It is debatable whether someone like Goebbels or Goring with soul loss began as a socio or a psychopath or became one since power corrupts and complete power corrupts completely... Sadly they were able to create soul sickness in a multitude. Most when facing justice at the Nurenberg trials were happy with what they had done. They had absolutely no regrets and were most likely psycho or sociopaths.
I recall a metaphor related to me by a Tsonga (tribe in the north of South Africa) tracker. Two of us were walking in the bush in big game country with him and he was teaching us the use of medicinal plants for healing. He was a devout Christian and his mother was a sangoma who had taught him the plants. He was also well aware of the fact that sorcerers and witches used certain plants for demonic outcomes.
This is what he related: Anyone can become a witch. All that you have to do is go to powerful witch and buy a poisonous snake (an evil spirit.) This snake will then bring you anything that you want; power, sex, money… anything! But you have to feed your snake all the time. If you do not, the snake will eat anything and everything that you like or love.
Success is always predicated on complete submission and selling one's soul to the Devil.
Many of Hendrik’s friends died under strange circumstances after his death. Hendiks himself died at a young age as have many musicians and others who turned to the dark side. There are consequences to sensate indulgence, power and possession.
What you destroy, destroys you; what you defeat, defeats you.
What you sanctify, sanctifies you.
If you would dispel the darkness, seek the sacred.
Goebbels paradoxically stated that with time things might turn ...
There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.
Sadly, it takes a long time and much pain and suffering on behalf of others in the interim but eventually, hopefully, light will prevail. With social media and the power of the internet many of us now wonder if truth will prevail if something drastic is not done to stop the lies.
No comments:
Post a Comment