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Music, the Language of the Soul: A Presentation Designed to Inspire Creative Thought and the Higher Emotions (Item #1029)

This presentation is given in three parts:

Part 1 - Beethoven's Soul Development as Experienced through His String Quartets: This part follows the development of the composer's music in its most intimate form through his Early, Middle and Late Periods as a reflection of his own vision and experience of life, and of his soul growth; and as was also revealed through the changes in his facial features (physiognomy).

Part 2 - The Emotional Life of the Soul and Music which Expresses Its Higher Levels: This part first provides a brief background as to the nature and functions of emotions and the seven levels of the emotional world; then goes on to illustrate through various musical selections the three highest positive and synergistic emotional levels of Soul Life, Soul Light and Soul Power.

Part 3 - Music to Express the Three Major Nadis or Pranic Force-Streams and the Major Etheric Psychic Centers or Cerebrospinal Chakras: This part first provides a metaphysical foundation, and then procedes to describe the major force-streams and psychic centers by means of specific musical selections. A more detailed exposition of the psycho-spiritual centers is given in the appendices, including illustrations of the Chakras and the triple creative Kundalini Serpent-Fire.

8-1/2 x 11 inch format, elegantly comb-bound with laminated covers, 83 pp., 51 illustrations: 28 in color; with a 112-minute presentation of music and commentary on two CD's–$19.50

Just as the astral, desire or emotional world has been described as one of color, so the thought world has been described as one of tone. For this reason, good music reminds us of our true home—which for us at our stage of evolution, is the very center of the thought world. This presentation aims to assist you in the great adventure of realizing spiritual inspiration, creative thought and a high, aesthetic emotional experience.

Good music is highly mathematical, obedient to harmonious mathematical relationships, patterns and sequences; and just as mathematical relationships and geometrical proportions express the universal language of the cosmos, music is the universal language of humanity. Mozart has been said to have been a mathematical genius, visualizing a whole musical selection within a moment—as a result of an intuitional realization; or once hearing a musical selection, was able to reproduce it exactly. The much touted “Mozart Effect” is perhaps due to the ordering of a person’s thought processes as a result of listening to a piano sonata written by the composer.

Emotions, as well as thoughts, are expressions of the human soul. “E-motions” are indeed actualized thoughts, or thoughts put into motion. As the analytical mind, the instrument of concrete thought, functions as the rational agent with which a person is able to control his or her emotions, the latter serve as the force which impels action. Generally, a particular thought pattern, or sequence of thoughts can become rapidly “clothed” with emotional energy. The working together of thoughts and emotions, then, constitute the feelings which a person experiences, and is an important part of the soul’s expression. An intense and well-developed emotional organization combined with a sensitive mind may constitute an invaluable asset in a great composer of fine music. Such sensitivity in the finely-tuned mental-emotional nature can, and usually does, result in the exquisite suffering experienced by many of the great composers. Ludwig van Beethoven was certainly a powerful example of this, and indeed had stated that suffering was God’s gift to creativity.

Music is preeminently the language of the human soul, and through listening to and assimilating the music of a great composer, we are communing with the soul of that composer—our soul and the soul of the composer are merged at a certain level, and if we possess the requisite sensitivity and development, a resonance between souls is set up in which we will share the life experience—the sufferings, joys, frustrations and triumphs—of that other person. This can be a profoundly moving, and sometimes even frightening, experience. Listening to the late string quartets of Beethoven is an outstanding example of such an experience.

I hope that this presentation will afford you, the reader, to utilize this special language to communicate with the some of the great souls of the world of music and by so doing, to enrich your own soul powers through this experience.