Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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govern the production of thought and the emotion of divine love,
for in them is comprehended all that is attainable in an earthly
existence. \Vhen we thus refer to the production of thought
and of divine love, we do not limit the expression to the horizon
of the world's thought; the only limit which obtains here
was nt, which is, "God is knowledge, wisdom,
and understamling."
The use of mn!4ic is to be found in the newly discovered
seience of suggestion. Christian Scienee or Mental Science is
w01·king exclusively upon the suggestion of health. A. few of
the leading minds of the day :ne discovering that every thought
expressed in the hearing of another is a suggestion which enters
into and for·ms a more or less potent means of forming and reforming
the mental state~, feelings, and emotions of the indivitlual.
It is well known that great orators, b.v the expression of
the simple11t thought with the proper intonation, can affect
their audience to tears. To produee such efft>cts is one of the
lea..ling thoughts in the study of elocution. The actual idea
given to the people in their present stage of unfoldment, is not
su much as the tone antl manner in giving it.
All this is the legitimate child of music. The musician always
vibratt's the qualities that are within him or het·, because
musical expt·ession is of the phy11ical structure rather than of
the intellect. Let us here analyze a little. The organist is so
trained, that, without giving any thought whatever to them. he
n~es both hands and feet in pt·ntludng the tones. The real
thought of the musician i~ given to the sounds-and that, by
the way, it~ onl.v a suggestive thought-and the feelings and
emotions of the body at onee ntit·e composition; that is to say, the nerve centers
and the grey matter govemiu~ the fingers, the han