harmony of the spheres & binaural beatitude

musica universalis

According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings, the heavenly "music of the spheres" is heard in the Region of Concrete Thought, the lower region of the World of Thought, which is an ocean of harmony. It is also referred in Esoteric Christianity that this is the place where it occurs the state of consciousness called the "Second heaven."

A part of the cosmology of the Pythagorean is their extraordinary theory of the "harmony of the spheres", which caught later generations in the ancient world and the Renaissance. It is generally accepted by scholars, that Pythagoras himself was the first to formulate that concept, which reflects the whole cosmic plan and showed the intimate connation between the laws of mathematics and of music.
Aristotle characterizes the Pythagorean as having reduced all things to numbers or elements of numbers, and described the whole universe as "a Harmonia and a number".

Aristotle continued: "They said too that the whole universe is constructed according to a musical scale. This is what he means to indicate by the words "and that the whole universe is a number", because it is both composed of numbers and organized numerically and musically. For the distances between the bodies revolving round the center are mathematically proportionate; some moves faster and some more slowly; the sound made by the slower bodies in their movement is lower in pitch, and that of the faster is higher; hence these separate notes, corresponding to the ratios of the distances, make the resultant sound concordant. Now number, they said, is the source of this harmony, and so they naturally posited number as the principle on which the heaven and the whole universe depended."



Binaural beats are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. Binaural beats reportedly influence the brain in more subtle ways through the entrainment of brainwaves.

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