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Dynamics for Living
Music and Healing
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THE healing power of music, which is heralded as a modern
discovery by those who are practicing it in hospitals, is
not new. The fact is, this method of healing has always
been recognized and practiced, the most striking
illustration being the universal lullabies which mothers,
civilized and savage, sing to soothe their tired children.
In every nation, and in every tongue, the lullaby has its
place. We assume that every child has been harmonized
mentally and physically by the mother's song, however crude
that song may have been.
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Harmonious Ideas
Metaphysicians have discovered that a harmonious
arrangement of ideas in mind produces harmony in body; that
within the five avenues of expression, called the senses,
there are certain thoughts that can be adjusted one to
another. The mind and body can be filled with such harmony
that a song of joy springs forth without volition. This
relation is governed by an exact science, and works out the
same way every time.
The relation is similar to the mathematical accuracy which
governs the arrangement of tones in musical harmony. Ideas,
mathematics, and music are related. When the mind
understands that relation and applies it the harmony called
health follows.
Pythagoras went to Egypt, and stayed there twenty-one years
learning occultism. When he returned to his home, he
preached some strange doctrines. He said that man and the
whole universe were created as a musical production.
Musical Vibration
If dry sand is placed on a plate and a violin bow is drawn
across the plate, the sand will arrange itself in
symmetrical forms. Probably the earth took form from the
harmonious vibrations of the Word, and it may be that God is
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singing the universe into expression this moment.
The most wonderful music box in the world is man's body.
There are reeds and bellows and pipes. The whole physical
organism seems to have for its purpose the production of
sweet sounds. Who can tell what he may do when all his
forces are brought into play and he knows how to control
them properly?
When the faculties are in spiritual harmony, music flows
from man as naturally as the brook murmurs in cadence or
Niagara roars in organ tones. A free, unburdened mind
naturally expresses itself in some sort of music; for
example, the whistling boy.
A poet says that the man who has no music in his soul is
fit for treason, stratagem, and spoils. It is universally
observed that people who live on the seamy side of life
seldom express themselves in song. An employer of wide
experience once said that he always trusted the man who
hummed or whistled at his work.
Seven Tones
God is the universal Spirit of harmony. Man is the
offspring of that Spirit. We have seven centers that
correspond to the seven tones of the musical scale. When
these seven tones are in harmony, like an aeolian harp the
Spirit plays
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tones in your body if you will study them.
In the head is intelligence. It is "do." I AM is the
keynote. Next is power, then come love, substance, order,
life, strength. Each of these has a ganglionic center in
the body. It makes a great difference how you play on them.
If you believe in weakness and failure, your voice will
express that belief. You have let go of your power center.
How may you key it up? By going to the Source of power, and
affirming your oneness with it. Declare that you have power
to express in all its fullness your Christ mastery and
dominion. Think of all the power of the universe centered
at your throat. Sing songs of victory. Raise your voice in
praise, and you will lift your whole organism into high,
harmonious spiritual radiation.
When you know this law, you will know just how to tone up
your body. When thoughts are making it lax or tense so that
it cannot sound forth divine harmony, you can speak the
true, freeing, toning-up word, and put yourself in tune,
within and without.
Spirit of Music
The spirit of music is within all of us. When we have
developed and brought it forth; when the quickening,
harmonizing life has entered the physical, by the union of
God with man,
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then we will realize that there is a power in us which will
produce harmony. And harmony is health.
So we see that the body is a musical instrument, meant to
give forth the harmony of Divine Mind. It must therefore be
kept in tune with the Infinite. We need to learn how to put
it in tune, keep it in tune, and how to play upon it, and
this is all done by right thinking and right speaking.
Thinking in wisdom produces harmony of mind and grace of
body. All discord is produced by ignorant, unwise thoughts
and words.
Healing by Music
In time, probably, there will be schools of healing based
on music, where patients will be taught how to center
themselves in the harmonious Christ mind. The body will
then respond, for it is mind, has its foundation in mind,
lives in mind, and is moved upon by mind. The more we think
about the great pulsating, universal life, the more we
shall express it.
We may apply music in every department of life. The body is
not only a musical instrument, it is also the composition.
You are constantly composing as well as playing.
As you come into the harmony of Divine Mind, you will be
able to play above and below
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the staff, and your ear will be quickened far beyond its
present range of hearing. You will hear, not only the music
of the spheres, but you will be able to discern musical
tones in what now seems to be merely noise. The whir of the
dynamo is the music of a bass viol; in the traffic of the
street you will catch a deep musical tone, and when you are
in perfect harmony in thought, you will hear music
everywhere.
Time and Music
As time in music is merely a measure of pulsations, so
years are measures of events. Time, therefore, being but a
measure, is under your control. You can diminish or
increase the movement at will. You can crowd into one year
experiences that will make it seem like a hundred. This
understanding that you are not in bondage to time, but that
you control it, gives you a sense of freedom and your
life's music will have fuller and better expression. You
will not play mechanically, but your soul will be free to
express its own harmony.
Bring harmony into your life by singing and praising.
Everybody should play and sing. We should rejoice in the
divine harmony. We should sing songs of joy and of love and
of peace and of the unity of the Spirit, the Spirit of
Jesus Christ, the supreme Man expressed.
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