Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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atmosphere, and upon the unknown anti im•isible life currents
that fill all space.
These vibrations again reproduce their kind and quality io
the feelings, emotiou11, desires, appetites, and passions of the
hody from which they emanate ; and as they belong to the
realm of sense, ancl not to that of mind, they, so to spe.ak,
inject the qualities of the mn11ic into the qualities of the life of
the listener who yields himself up to the enjoyment of the music.
Few observe a change in their own mental conditions after
hearing the most 11eusuons music, yet tho11e qualities have
impregnated the life currents of the holly, ancl will afterward
obtain in the intellese conditionR.
The classical German music expresst>s the st~li1l. materialistic.
intellectual German character, Italian mnsic voicel' the
hot-blooded passion nature of its people ; and these two sources
are the main fountains from which our so-callecl best music is
tlrawn. Tbns the stolid, materiaJistic, rea11oning tendencies of
the Germans, and the hot-hlooclecl passion nature of Italy, are
becoming the mothet· of the qnalities from whil'lh all thought
formation, and the feelings and passions of tht~ civilized world,
arise. Even church music is from these sources, with the addition
of the emotional devotion of the people. It seems to us
that it is time that the highe1· mentality of the rd.Ce arise, purify,
and put in m·der the fountain (music) from which spriug
--which mothers-all the qualitiel'l of the race.
Tn..: EsoTF.RW has therefore begun the work of taking from
the voi(~e of angels an