Rosicrucian Beacon Magazine - 2011-03 - AMORC

Music & Civilisation
by Flora Rogers, SRC
HERE IS AN INTANGIBLE LAW OF
nature which embraces the constant warring
between the forces of good and bad, the
positive and the negative, the spiritual
and the material. And it is applicable in
the sphere of music just as much as it is in every other
department of life. Indeed throughout the universe,
constructive forces are on the whole balanced out by
destructive forces, though what is “constructive” and what
is “destructive” is not always that clear to us always (or even
often), and we as a result have our personal biases which
cause us to see either too much of one or too much of the
other, depending on our innate character.
During the Second World War while Poland, a
nation rich in its heritage of literature, music and art,
was being devastated by heavy bombing from the air, the
radio station in Warsaw kept up a constant connection
with the outside world by playing the music of their
national composer, Chopin. The same thing happened
in Finland: Sibelius stood out in those awful days as the
one vital link with the nation’s past and no one could
listen to the moving strains of Finlandia without a sense
of deep conviction that Finland would always live while
the music of Sibelius remained hidden in the hearts of the
people. The same was true of Norway where Grieg is held
in deepest reverence because he not only gave the world
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