Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00206)

Oldescott,
Speaking of enchanting music... We will be doing the same jam for John Lennon 
on Sunday, Dec 12th -- If the weather isn't cold enough to freeze our fingers 
off. (But, then, I can play my Versitar with my gloves on -- so in that case, 
at least the drummer and I, along with the voices, can have a go at it. :-)

Incidentally, the Versitar is not a Sitar. It's a one of a kind, fretless, 
three stringed instrument made on a beautiful cherry wood walking stick I 
sculpted about 20 years ago, and later strung -- that plays like a sitar, but 
can sound like either a sitar, or oto, vina, guitar, banjo, mandolin, 
ukulele, violin, cello, etc. depending on how you pluck, strum or bow it 
while bending the strings in infinite polyphonic chord combinations over 
about a four octave range. Since it's fully electrified, it can also be put 
through an effects box that can change it's timbre from a smooth classical 
sound to a high sustain and reverb "Hendrix" style fuzz box, and everything 
in-between. It also plays wonderful percussion effects, like wood block 
finger nail dancing and live skin drum rhythm patterns. To find out more 
about it, how I've used it, and the plans I have for it, check the web site 
at: 
http://members.aol.com/versitar/musicane/.

As for music or sound being the basis of all phenomena in the universe, check 
out my ABC theory and the coenergetic holistic "music of the Spheres" field 
concepts and diagrams that back it up -- which are consistent with the 3- 
Fundamental Principles of theosophy, and particularly, the 2nd Principle that 
speaks of cycles, periodicity and repeated births, transformations, and 
rebirths. 
http://tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.html
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/yinyang.html
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/evolution2.html
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/einstein.html

In contrast to Alice Bailey's scripturally oriented "Personal God with a 
Voice" point of view... While picturing my chakrafield diagram, I like to 
think of "God" or the primal "Force" (using the infinite interference 
patterned information contained in its primal "spinergy") -- as playing all 
the triple "superstrings" of substance/energy that make up the descending 
octaves of involved hyperspace coenergetic fields -- to recreate on each 
bubble within bubble within bubble. etc., all the truth and beauty of the 
Cosmos. I also see this as an impersonal and lawful process of 
"imagination," "harmony," "resonance," and "reflection" that is analogous to 
and engendering of the imagination, induction, harmony, and reflective 
resonance of the electrical (light) and sound fields on our mental/physical 
planes -- out of which we create, from the seven fundamental sounds and 
colors, all our beautiful music and art, such as that of John Lennon, George 
Harrison, and all the others of like mind and heart who observe the world 
from the same point of view. 

Warm regards,
Lenny Maurer 

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In a message dated 12/03/02 3:25:04 AM, wkpage@sympatico.ca writes:

>Thank you for your warm words, Lenny. What a wonderful way for you and
>your friends to remember George, and John. It's a testament, I think, 
>to the great love in George's heart. His notes will long resonate, 
>striking chords in millions of people. Music is one of the most 
>powerful mediums we have on this planet. That George used it as an 
>instrument to teach and inspire speaks for the great soul that he is.
>
>Your comments on the "enchanting sounds of music" brought to mind a 
>chapter in Alice Bailey's A Treatise on White Magic, The Creative Use 
>of Sound (chapter 4). Here's a little excerpt: 
>
>"People seldom realize the potency of a word, yet it is stated, 'In 
>the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. Without Him was not 
>anything that was made.' When therefore we read those words our minds 
>go back to the dawn of the creative process when, through the medium 
>of sound, God spoke and the worlds were made.
>
>"It has been said that, 'the chief agency by which Nature's wheel is 
>moved in a phenomenal direction is sound,' for the original sound or 
>word sets in vibration the matter of which all forms are made and 
>initiates that activity which characterizes even the atom of 
>substance.
>
>"The literature and the scriptures of all the ancient nations and 
>great religions bear testimony to the efficacy of sound in producing 
>all that is tangible and visible. The Hindus say very beautifully that
>'the Great Singer built the worlds, and the Universe is His Song. This
>is another way of expressing the same idea. If this is realized and 
>the science of the concept somewhat understood, the significence of 
>our own words and the utterance of sound in speech becomes almost a 
>momentous happening."
>-- Alice A Bailey
>
>Cheers
>oldescott
>
>P.S. I play a little guitar myself; never tried a sitar or Versitar.
>Would love to sometime, though. A beautiful instrument.
>
>
>--- In theos-talk@y..., leonmaurer@a... wrote:
>> About the the sanest comment I've heard on this forum since all this
>> character assassination, guilt by association and historical side issues
>> started. Thanks for your contribution. I'm also a friend of Harrison's
>> music, and spent last Saturday afternoon and evening, playing my homemade
>> electric Versitar (that plays like a Sitar, which he wove his music around)
>> and singing George's songs along with a group of musicians and visitors,
>> commemorating his death at Lennon's "Imagine" mandala peace memorial
>> in Central park's Strawberry Fields. The spiritual vibes and the qualitty
>> of the music and voices was inspiring. It's good to know that theosophical 
>> truths can be found even in the lyrics of a song, as well as in the 
enchanting
>> sounds of the music.
>> 
>> Lenny