Author Marilyn Ferguson relates one such experience given by a physicist:
"I saw cascades of energy coming down from outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pulses; I saw the atoms of the elements and those of my body participating in this cosmic dance of energy; I felt its rhythm and I heard its sound, and at that moment I knew this was the Dance of Shiva... (Emphasis in original.)
Occultist Alice A. Bailey discussed this "energy" experience as well:
"The new religion will be one of Invocation and Evocation, of bringing together great spiritual energies and then stepping them down for the benefitting and the stimulation of the masses. The work of the new religion will be the distribution of spiritual energy..."
The reverberations of sound is one which re-echoes many times. These reverberations impinge upon the ear and the body giving the impression of being within a sea of sound. It is this effect that was created through strong, repeated invocations and chants, filling the temple or room with the force or energy being invoked. This helped to create a space acceptable for its actual physical manifestation or for the raising of the consciousness of the individual to a sense of unity with the divine force.
The Greek amphitheatres exhibited highly advanced knowledge of acoustical properties. They were free from noise. The Greeks even constructed shells to further direct and reflect sounds in specific patterns.
Many societies had forbidden certain kinds of music, especially in the the formative years of the children. There was more extensive awareness of how sound played upon all aspects of humanity and could trigger problems in health and balance. In those societies which practiced "musical restraint" part of the overall education of the individual included training in the musical arts. Since the time of the early Greeks and the Roman Empire, the teachings of sacred sound and the power of the Word has been passed down through what we now generically call the 'bardic tradition.'
Through the Greek rhapsodists, the English Bards, the French troubadours, the African griots, the Norse skalds, the Navajo singers, the power to teach, heal and raise consciousness through sound, music, and voice has been kept alive.
by Dee Finney
The Law of Three and The Law of Seven
Everything in the universe is weighable and measurable, although the matter
from which everything is made exists in differing degrees of density. The
seven steps in the Ray of Creation may be thought of as the seven levels or
orders of materiality, each differing in the rate of vibration: The absolute
vibrates most rapidly and is least dense, and the levels below it become more
dense and slower in rate of vibration until he moon, the slowest and densest
place on our ray, is reached. Of these orders of matter the finer permeates the
denser and coarser ones. Thus everything around us and familiar to us is in fact
permeated with all the levels of matter that exist, including the Absolute.
There is no need to study or investigate the sun in order to discover the matter
of the solar world: this matter exists in ourselves and is the result of the
division of our atoms. In the same way we have in us the matter of all other
worlds. Man is, in the full sense of the term, a "miniature universe"; in him are
all the matters of which the universe consists; the same forces, the same laws
that govern life of the universe, operate in him; therefore in studying many we
can study the whole world, just as in studying the world we can study man.
The Law of Seven governs successions of events. It states that whenever any
manifestation evolves, it does so nonlinearly. There is an orderly discontinuity
in every progression of things, in every series. This lawful discontinuity is
preserved in our musical scale which, as singing up and down any octave will
show, is composed of unequal steps. Do, re, and mi are equally distant from
one another, but between me and fa there is a half-step instead of a full step.
Proceeding up the scale, we have sol, la, and si (ti in some usages) separated
by full intervals, but si and do having a half-step between them again.
The Law of Seven explains why when something begins it does not just
continue and continue, ad infinitum. And the Law of Seven is behind the fact
that there are no straight lines in nature. It is also reflected in the Ray of
Creation.
If we look at the Ray of Creation so that is is a descending octave going from
the level of the Absolute to the level of the moon, the discontinuities appear
between the Absolute and the level of all worlds, and between all planets and
the earth. The first of these gaps or discontinuities is bridged by the force of
creation engendered by the Absolute itself.
The Law of Seven may also be called the law of Shock, for if an additional
force or energy enters a process between mi and fa it will proceed on course
until the si - do interval, and if another Shock or influx of energy is given at
that point the process continues to its conclusion at do. In this sense we exist
to serve nature and it is not in the interest of nature that humanity be anything
more than an energy transducer coating the planet. In another perspective,
mankind is created incomplete and has the possibility of evolving to the level
of the sun or even further, and there are forces striving to complete an
ascending octave in every human being, forces that go astray for want of
specific additional energies skillfully applied.
(This information is largely taken from P. D. Ouspensky and G. I. Gurdjieff )
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