UNIVERSAL MELODY
Pythagoras was perceptive
enough to study the musical
sounds and their relationship with Mathematics. He
maintained that the orbit
of the ‘heavenly bodies’ –
a term given to all matter
of Space: Planets; Stars;
Asteroids etc - and their
accompanying sounds were in
harmony with each other. The
result was a beautiful, perpetual
universal melody.
Plato
described
in ‘Timeus’
how
the
Demiurgus
forged the
world dividing the main
‘substance’ in
harmonic intervals. His conclusion,
through
Epinomis’s
voice, was that ‘the heavenly bodies play the best of the songs’, and
if we read a little further…
Iamblichus wrote of Pythagoras in
his book entitled ‘Protepticus’:
‘He used a divine, ineffable and
undecipherable power. That is how
he could concentrate and listen
to the sublime symphony of the
spheres. He was able to understand the universal harmony and
the concert of the spheres and the
Heavenly bodies’.
‘This harmony produces a music
much more beautiful and intense
than the worldly music’.
Whether Pythagoras was the first
to be aware of this Interstellar
Orchestra or not, it would seem
that the comparison between the
Cosmos and a huge musical instrument has been assumed from the
Middle Ages right through to the
present day.
So it seems that Iamblichus attributed to Pythagoras a special power
– a divine power – one that was
indicipherable. He is held as someone with skills far beyond our own.
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