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The Music of the Spheres

Is there a harmony between heaven and earth?
Are we connected with the planets?

Since the dawn of time, mystics have talked of a heavenly music, audible only on a subtle level. Until recently, the theme of The Music of the Spheres was taken seriously in many cultures and religions around the world, and even in music theory. And yet now it has become mute. Or perhaps we have become deaf. Can we learn how to hear this heavenly music again?

Through personal anecdotes, listening exercises and philosophical inquiry- based mainly on Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy, Paul Lawrence explores this subtle sound in an exciting and masterly way. Your appreciation for music and its significance for human and world development will not be the same after listening to this inspiring book.

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Introduction

  • Title Page
  • Opening verse by Rudolf Steiner
  • Introduction

Part One: A History of the Music of the Spheres

  • Origins and Birth
  • Prehistory and Ancient History
  • Pythagoras, the Bridge
  • Plato
  • The Music of the Spheres becomes Mainstream
  • Aristotle versus Plato
  • The Renaissance
  • In search of a Cosmic Tone: Johannes Kepler
  • Losing the Thread
  • A New Language
  • Spiritual Deafness

Part Two: The Music of the Spheres in Nature and the Human Being

  • Metaphysics meets Physics
  • My Story
  • The Resounding “Bass Note” of Creation
  • The Harmonic Series
  • Notes as a Microcosm of “Creative Ideas”
  • “Seeing” Harmony in Nature
  • The Human Being

Part Three: Learning to Listen

  • Learning to Listen: Introduction
  • The Ear
  • Physical, Soul and Spirit Sound
  • Redefining Music: A New Way of Listening
  • Sounds of Silence
  • Silence and the Wall of the Ego
  • Listening to Mother Earth
  • Guidelines for Higher Listening: Lessons from Mother Earth
  • Listening to Father Sky
  • Awakening to Intuition
  • Perception of Etheric Currents
  • Approaching Grace

Part Four: The Music of the Spheres as Cosmology: Tone-Numbers 1–7

  • Introductory Quote
  • Our Method of Study
  • A Word on Number
  • One
  • Two
  • Entering the Octave Portal: An Exercise
  • Three
  • Four
  • Five
  • Six
  • Seven
  • A Noisy Interlude

Part Five: From Cosmology to Initiation: Tone-Numbers 8–14

  • A Few Words
  • Prime Initiation (The Eighth Harmonic)
  • Second Initiation (The Ninth Harmonic)
  • Third Initiation (The Tenth Harmonic)
  • Fourth Initiation (The Eleventh Harmonic)
  • Fifth Initiation (The Twelfth Harmonic)
  • Sixth Initiation (The Thirteenth Harmonic)
  • Seventh Initiation (The Fourteenth Harmonic)

Closing

  • The Initiation Scale
  • Epilogue
  • Closing Verse by Rudolf Steiner
  • Appendix
  • Quote by Johannes Kepler
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Author

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What readers are saying

Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill

CEO, Steiner Education Australia

Reading this book will take you on a rich soul journey from the origins of the universe to a possible distant human future, all through an inner experience of musical tone. By combining a sharp intelligence with a trained musical sensitivity, Paul Lawrence has made an accessible guide both to the essential nature of music, and to inner development through music.

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Brian Keats

Brian Keats

Antipodean Astro Calendar

The Music of the Spheres is a beautiful and subtle guide to listen in with growing awareness to one’s own music. Gracefully, resonating Eternally. Laced with personal anecdotes, Paul gently takes us on a rigorous, clear and harmonious journey through Time into the realm of Eternity … A sublime insight into the art of the science of the spirit … evoking a further expansion of gratitude for our wonderful existence!

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Miha Pogacnik

Miha Pogacnik

Maestro of Violin, inventor of the Masterpiece & Leadership method

In the age of Pop, Entertainment and AI this book serves as a gate to the passage from hearing to listening. When in the soul interest arises for the deeper meaning and mission of music, the work of Paul Lawrence offers the spark of inspiration to enlighten the vast cosmic background.
Van James

Van James

Pacifica Journal

The Music of the Spheres: A Listener’s Guide by Paul Lawrence makes the convincing case through myth, legend, historic descriptions, the evolution of consciousness and mathematical-musical examples how the finished works of this our world are generative forms brought into being through the energetic, living vibrations of a sounding cosmos. This book is a subjective-objective exploration, in the Goethean sense, of how we can grow into an art of deep listening and hearing the world creation we are all a part of. At times challenging for the non-musician this is a manual and field guide to reconnecting with our inner being’s relationship to the Music of the Spheres.

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