1. Why is Music Teaching so Important?

2. In all ages the thoughtful have called music "the celestial Art". Artists have pictured the angels playing on harps, and this teaches us that the soul comes on earth with the love of music. It is not after being born on earth that man learns to love music; the soul was already enthralled by music before it came to earth.... music is the first and the last thing to appeal to every soul.

3. Music is the most wonderful way to spiritual realization; there is no quicker and no surer way of attaining spiritual perfection than through music.... In golden age(s) there was the music of the soul, a music that appealed to the soul itself and that raised it to cosmic consciousness, the music of the angels, the music that was healing and soothing

4. "... When this man sang his new compositions, he won the admiration and praise of everyone at the court. But one of the old musicians who was present said, "If Your Majesty will pardon me, I would like to say a word. There is no doubt that this is most beautiful music, and it has won the admiration of all those present, and also my own. But I must tell you that from this day the music of the country, instead of going upward, will go downward....And so it happened; step by step after that, that music was brought down. "... When this man sang his new compositions, he won the admiration and praise of everyone at the court. But one of the old musicians who was present said, "If Your Majesty will pardon me, I would like to say a word. There is no doubt that this is most beautiful music, and it has won the admiration of all those present, and also my own. But I must tell you that from this day the music of the country, instead of going upward, will go downward....And so it happened; step by step after that, that music was brought down.

5. Music should be healing; music should uplift the soul; music should inspire. There is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection than music, if only it is rightly understood.

6. Music and Ancient Civilizations

7.  Early Greeks thought there was a clear connection between music and mathematics. Over the entrance to Plato's Academy at Athens there was an inscription that could be translated: "No one may enter who does not know earth's rhythm."... in the belief that what held all things together was music.

8. Hindus believe there is a seed sound at the heart of creation, the Nada Braham, the tone from which God made the world, "which continues to sound at the bottom of creation, and which sounds through everything."

9. A passage in the Tibetan Book of the Dead describes the essence of reality as "reverberating like a thousand distant thunders."

10.  Pythagoras's asserted in the fifth century B.C. that, "There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres."

11. Plotinus: "All music, based upon melody and rhythm, is the earthly representative of heavenly music."

12. ► Lao-tzu spoke of the Great Tone that is "the tone that goes beyond all unusual imagination."

13. Ancient writings are filled with testimonies to music's power to perform miracles of healing or transformation, whether in ancient Greece or Rome, in the Bible, or other ancient texts.

14.  Rumi, thirteenth century Islamic master, wrote: We have heard these melodies in Paradise; But while we are thus shrouded by gross earthly veils, How can the tones of the dancing spheres reach us?

15.  To get in touch with music that allows access to the unconscious and inner depths, one must listen to the masterpieces of baroque, classical, romantic and impressionist composers who have encoded many of their works with messages of divine inspiration and unity. Great compositions offer those who listen, keys to personal transformation and the understanding of wholeness.

16. Music and Ancient Civilizations

17.  Using specific music allows you to do strenuous mental work while remaining relaxed and focused. Without music the following physiological effects take place:  The pulse and blood pressure rise.  Brain waves speed up.  Muscles tense.

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