11-26-2010, 12:00 AM
The music of space — by proper attunement the melodies of other spheres can be picked up on the universe broadcast circuits.
Science lives by the mathematics of the mind; music
expresses the tempo of the emotions. Religion is the spiritual rhythm
of the soul in time-space harmony with the higher and eternal melody
measurements of Infinity. Religious experience is something in human
life which is truly supermathematical.
The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves on majestically through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.
Angels do not have material bodies, but they are definite and discrete
beings; they are of spirit nature and origin. Though invisible to
mortals, they perceive you as you are in the flesh without the aid of
transformers or translators; they intellectually understand the mode of
mortal life, and they share all of man’s nonsensuous emotions and
sentiments. They appreciate and greatly enjoy your efforts in music,
art, and real humor. They are fully cognizant of your moral struggles
and spiritual difficulties. They love human beings, and only good can
result from your efforts to understand and love them.
Harmony, the music of the seven levels of melodious association, is the one universal code of spirit communication.
Appreciation of music
on Urantia is both physical and spiritual; and your human musicians
have done much to elevate musical taste from the barbarous monotony of
your early ancestors to the higher levels of sound appreciation. The
majority of Urantia mortals react to music
so largely with the material muscles and so slightly with the mind and
spirit; but there has been a steady improvement in musical appreciation
for more than thirty-five thousand years.
Tuneful syncopation represents a transition from the musical monotony
of primitive man to the expressionful harmony and meaningful melodies of
your later-day musicians. These earlier types of rhythm stimulate the
reaction of the music-loving
sense without entailing the exertion of the higher intellectual powers
of harmony appreciation and thus more generally appeal to immature or
spiritually indolent individuals.
The best music
of Urantia is just a fleeting echo of the magnificent strains heard by
the celestial associates of your musicians, who left but snatches of
these harmonies of morontia forces on record as the musical melodies of
sound harmonics. Spirit-morontia music
not infrequently employs all seven modes of expression and
reproduction, so that the human mind is tremendously handicapped in any
attempt to reduce these melodies of the higher spheres to mere notes of
musical sound. Such an effort would be something like endeavoring to
reproduce the strains of a great orchestra by means of a single musical
instrument.
...then would you have had music
in reality; but the gift of harmony, so large in their natures, has
been so diluted by strains of unmusical tendencies that only once in a
thousand mortal lives is there any great appreciation of harmonics. But
be not discouraged; some day a real musician may appear on Urantia, and
whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his
melodies. One such human being could forever change the course of a
whole nation, even the entire civilized world. It is literally true,
“melody has power a whole world to transform.” Forever, music will remain the universal language of men, angels, and spirits. Harmony is the speech of Havona.
-UB
Science lives by the mathematics of the mind; music
expresses the tempo of the emotions. Religion is the spiritual rhythm
of the soul in time-space harmony with the higher and eternal melody
measurements of Infinity. Religious experience is something in human
life which is truly supermathematical.
The whole marvelous and universal mechanism moves on majestically through space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the eternal purpose of the First Great Source and Center.
Angels do not have material bodies, but they are definite and discrete
beings; they are of spirit nature and origin. Though invisible to
mortals, they perceive you as you are in the flesh without the aid of
transformers or translators; they intellectually understand the mode of
mortal life, and they share all of man’s nonsensuous emotions and
sentiments. They appreciate and greatly enjoy your efforts in music,
art, and real humor. They are fully cognizant of your moral struggles
and spiritual difficulties. They love human beings, and only good can
result from your efforts to understand and love them.
Harmony, the music of the seven levels of melodious association, is the one universal code of spirit communication.
Appreciation of music
on Urantia is both physical and spiritual; and your human musicians
have done much to elevate musical taste from the barbarous monotony of
your early ancestors to the higher levels of sound appreciation. The
majority of Urantia mortals react to music
so largely with the material muscles and so slightly with the mind and
spirit; but there has been a steady improvement in musical appreciation
for more than thirty-five thousand years.
Tuneful syncopation represents a transition from the musical monotony
of primitive man to the expressionful harmony and meaningful melodies of
your later-day musicians. These earlier types of rhythm stimulate the
reaction of the music-loving
sense without entailing the exertion of the higher intellectual powers
of harmony appreciation and thus more generally appeal to immature or
spiritually indolent individuals.
The best music
of Urantia is just a fleeting echo of the magnificent strains heard by
the celestial associates of your musicians, who left but snatches of
these harmonies of morontia forces on record as the musical melodies of
sound harmonics. Spirit-morontia music
not infrequently employs all seven modes of expression and
reproduction, so that the human mind is tremendously handicapped in any
attempt to reduce these melodies of the higher spheres to mere notes of
musical sound. Such an effort would be something like endeavoring to
reproduce the strains of a great orchestra by means of a single musical
instrument.
...then would you have had music
in reality; but the gift of harmony, so large in their natures, has
been so diluted by strains of unmusical tendencies that only once in a
thousand mortal lives is there any great appreciation of harmonics. But
be not discouraged; some day a real musician may appear on Urantia, and
whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his
melodies. One such human being could forever change the course of a
whole nation, even the entire civilized world. It is literally true,
“melody has power a whole world to transform.” Forever, music will remain the universal language of men, angels, and spirits. Harmony is the speech of Havona.
-UB