A Master of Wisdom on the Music of the Spheres

A Himalayan Master of Wisdom, Thomas Taylor · The Masters Speak Series · 6 pages

Six pages built on Mahātma Letter 13 in the third combined edition, with supporting material from Thomas Taylor.

The letter makes knowledge conditional on conduct before it says anything about music: lead the life necessary for the acquisition of such knowledge and powers, and wisdom will come naturally. Only when the reader can attune his consciousness to any of the seven chords of universal consciousness — those chords running along the sounding-board of Kosmos and vibrating from one eternity to another — and only when he has thoroughly studied the music of the spheres, will he be free to share what he knows, and then only with those with whom it is safe. The caution that follows is repeated twice for emphasis: be prudent; do not give out the great truths that are the inheritance of the future races to the present generation. The image at the centre is Apollo's heptachord, the lyre of the radiant god, in each of whose seven strings the spirit, soul and astral body of the Kosmos are said to dwell — of which, the letter adds, only the shell has fallen into the hands of modern science. The reason given for prudence is practical rather than proprietorial: take care what those who learn from you believe, lest by deceiving themselves they deceive others, which is the fate of every truth men are not yet familiar with. The last part of the file turns the doctrine into an experiment the reader can perform. The Nag awakes and heaves a heavy breath sent like an electric shock along the wire encircling space — and the reader is told to go to his pianoforte and play the seven notes of the lower octave, and then upward, in order to hear the thing being described.

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