Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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but who imagine themselves possessed of muRical taste so
purely classic, that they frown down everything that does not
run in the groove of the accepted musical standard. The second
class refuse to hear any music hut that of the sensational and
sensuous order, until the whole organism vibrates to the commonest
and coarsest sounds. Those who hear the song of the
soul, and who make the effort to reproduce it, are usually those
whose organism is most governed by the intellectual, tho~te in
whose nature the masculine predominates.
The seeond of the two classes above referred to, by whom
music is brought to earth, are those whose physical struoture is
flue and very sensitive, and in whom the sense of hearing is
the most highly devel•>ped sense; in other words, whose mode
of sensing is by means of the hea1·ing. Even in the old life
such persons are frt!quently able to su!!pcnd the activities of all
the external and phy11ieal senses, and so are enabled to hear
the vibrations, the sounds, from the sphe1·e or plane of the cause
world to which their consciou!lness has been developed. They
hear nothing upon a plane highet· than this; but they can hear
all the sounds from that high altitude, down thmngh a.ll the
mental spheres, through the sense 11phere of the aa1imal world,
into the sen:~e sphet·e of vegetation, down to the somber vibration
of the body of the earth itself.
Of course no one but those who a1·e living the regenerate
life, and who have reached some attainments in that direction
can, except at rare intervals, hear these things. "\Vhen othe1·s
have heard them, they have only dared to give voice to the experience
in the liberty which is allowed poetic thought. But
he who lives the regenerate life, and who reaches a degree of
harmony with God, the Crt>ator of all things, is awakened in all
hi11 sensibilities to :L wol'ld of sound vibration, color vibration, as
well as a new world of light and heat, of forms of order, and
great expanses of mind Ktructure.
It is from this realm of mind structure that we hope to be
able to obt:,in the knowledge that will enable the Fraternity to
build a nmsical jnstmmentality upon which may be reproduced
the sounds and songs of tlmt higher world into which we are
opening; and also to formulate the laws of vibration which
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