How does music heal? Well, some music does…and some music doesn’t. I find that music which is the most healing tends to be quite ancient, coming from a time when musicians were initiates of the Mysteries. The term ‘the Mysteries’ is shorthand for the Mysteries of Time and Space. Its initiates understood that the Time and Space of this universe is structured on numbered sounds… just as we living beings are too, as holographic microcosms of that macrocosm.
We understand that Time and Space are inextricably aligned because we talk in terms of ‘light years’ when describing long distances across the universe. But our earliest ancestors knew that music on Earth had to resonate with and mirror the numbers that are used in building the coding of this simulation if it is to be in tune with the natural principles of creation (and not the principles of destruction which we call black magic — and will have be another story for another day).
And so this goes a long way to explaining why music tuned to the frequency of 432 Hz is so much more pleasing to the human ear than today’s standardised concert pitch of 440 Hz. The number 432, 4320 or 432,000 crops up in many ancient myths, particularly in the Vedas of India from where our knowledge of mathematics originated. These myths were composed (officially) 4,000 years ago, but are actually much older than that.
The ancients hid their wisdom in their myths – you could say they secreted it or they occulted it, which is why some refer to the Mysteries as a secret occult knowledge.
And so they knew that, for instance, that the diameter of the Sun was roughly 864,000 (432,000 x 2) miles, and that it would accommodate the diameter of the Earth about 108 times. (*I’m using the words “roughly” and “approximately” not because the ancients’ methods were faulty or fuzzy, but because ours are.)
The number 108 crops up in ancient literature even more than 432, of which it is a multiple. (432 divided by 108 is 4).
These are just a few – and by no means a comprehensive list – of numbers that would have been of great interest to the Mystery Teachings initiate:
- There are 108 Sun diameters between the Sun and Earth
- The radius of the Moon is 1080 miles
- The diameter of the Earth added to the diameter of the Moon equals 10080 miles
- The diameter of Mars is 1080 x 4 miles (4320)
- The diameter of Jupiter = 10800 x 8 miles (86400)
- The orbit of Jupiter = 1080 x 4 days (4320)
Do you see the bigger picture unfolding of this simulation we’re all in? So you might be wondering, how does this understanding apply to music?
The way we compose music today is a direct result of the work of the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who made significant contributions to our understanding of harmonic ratios.
Pythagoras believed that the planets and stars produced a form of music through their movements, known as the “Music of the Spheres”.
We can’t hear this music with our human ears, but it is shown in the symbols and geometric ‘lacework’ drawn in the skies by the orbits of these stellar bodies as a reflection of the mathematical harmonies which govern the structure of the universe.
So how is this harmony transmitted to the human’s consciousness? Well, it’s really all about water.
The human body is made up of 60 per cent water… that’s an average overall figure. More specifically, water comprises about 73% of the heart and brain, the nexus where sound is received via the ear. Once the brain receives the vibration and frequencies from the music, it then begins to re-organise the structure of the water in our bodies according to the numbered coding or ‘blueprint’ that it’s being instructed with.
So music that is life-giving, inspirational and positive is in tune with the numbers of the universe that make our bodily waters sing and dance in harmony. The converse, music which is death-dealing, depressive and negative, is not in tune with those numbers, and will turn that dance into a funeral march of disease, dysfunction and eventually death.
Our ancestors’ knowledge of the mathematics of the universe was not just used to compose music, but also to build the ‘sound boxes’ where the music was performed, by which I mean the great Norman churches and cathedrals that were also constructed according to the same geometric principles.
So if a musical composition is made up of numbers of vibrations transmitted by instruments or voices over Time, what better Space to put it in than one constructed according to the same numbers, like a church or cathedral, to achieve the perfect marriage of Time and Space?
This would make sitting in St Thomas’s church in Leipzig, listening to Johann Sebastian Bach thumping out his Toccata and Fugue in D minor, even more stimulating annd inspirational than being at a Floyd concert where they’re setting the controls for the heart of the Sun.
*Our modern, high techy methods for measuring the dimensions of Space suffer from the usual problems of today, in that there are so many different science bodies competing for recognition (and therefore funding) that decisions are reached by consensus. In other words, a compromise figure for the diameter of the Earth has to be agreed upon by the helioseismologists, solar imaging experts and those who favour the triangulation, satellite measures and laser ranges of geodetic surveys.
Gone are the days of the ancient Alexandrian polymath Eratosthenes, who knew that simply measuring the angular displacement of a shadow from the Sun at the solstice would give him the circumference of the Earth.
Annie Dieu-Le-Veut 