Music and Its Secret Influence: Throughout the Ages by Cyril Scott

Author:Cyril Scott [Scott, Cyril]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Spirituality/Music
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2013-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

PART III

Esoteric Considerations

The Music of the Deva or Nature-Spirit Evolution

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Musicians and the Higher Powers

As implied in chapter 5, all high Initiates have the power, by means of thought-transference, to impress upon the minds of such persons as are sufficiently receptive, any ideas they may think fit. But when we write impress, we use the word in a suggestionistic sense, and in no other. They suggest ideas to the poet, musician, painter, writer, or philosopher, they do not force ideas upon him. Indeed, the recipient is often quite unconscious whence come his inspirations, and has no suspicion that he is, as the case may be, either the subject of thought transference, or temporarily “overshadowed” by an unseen Presence. Only when the artist is at the same time an accepted pupil of an Adept and in close touch with Him, as in the case of Nelsa Chaplin, can he know these facts.

Now, within comparatively recent years, certain of the Masters who specialise in the arts have deemed it expedient to inspire a type of music calculated to augment spirituality by means of knowledge. Through music Man should at last come to sense that other world with its millions of incorporeal denizens existing concurrently with the physical. We refer of course to the Deva Evolution, those spiritual intelligences ranging from smallest nature-spirit to loftiest cosmic archangel. Since the generality of mankind are not sufficiently evolved to perceive these Devas, the power of music was brought into service. As the melodious utterance of a poet will often convince a sceptic of some truth when no amount of dry argument is of avail, so the melodious sounds of music can achieve a similar, nay, even greater, result. By inspiring composers to convey the vivid life and movements of the Devas, as also their atmosphere and even their music in terms of earthly sound, the Masters are enabling Man to “hear” what as yet he cannot “see.” Moreover, by realizing that the Devas exist, Man is approaching that closer relationship between himself and them, which is to constitute such an important evolutionary development of the future.1

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