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"Music should be the spark that lights the fire in the human spirit. It is a higher revelation than any philosophy...whoever understands the meaning of my music will escape the wickedness in which the other people crawl. Freedom and progress are not only the goal of art but also the goal of entire life."-Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Each person likes a certain type of music, in which one’s level of consciousness and one’s particular psychology reflects. For many young people music has taken the place of traditional religious beliefs as a source of the most absolute of their convictions; they can quote texts and the origin of the songs in the same way people quoted from the Bible, in the past... |
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So, all that artistic creation that can get to thrill the heart and the emotional center of the spectator, giving him profound joy and interior peace. For example, when we observe Michelangelo’s Pieta, Moses of the same author, also when we see the paintings that Michelangelo made in the Sistine Chapel, Rafael’s frescoes, in the Vatican Museum, Leonardo da Vinci’s La Gioconda, etc., etc., we feel invaded by a very beautiful emotion that sometimes we cannot explain, because it belongs to the superior emotional center of our human machine. That is Art.
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It is very important to know how to choose what music to listen to, because it is known, and facts show it, that music influences human will. For example, we can very easily observe the violence in the behavior and in the language of a person frequently listening to the heavy-metal genre - even the name of this music genre says everything.
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The eternal Gnosis, the Eternal Knowledge has expressed itself in many forms in all the civilizations throughout the time. The Islamic tradition could not have been failed. Every great religion has two parts: an exoteric one - adressed to all mankind, and an esoteric part, which means occult, for those few who really want to understand the purpose of living and the origin of everything that the world and the human being is, that means liberation.
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There are two kinds of art: one is the subjective art that leads nowhere; the other is the Royal Art of Nature, the objective and real art, the transcendental art. The latter obviously contains in itself precious cosmic truths... This is the gnostic art...
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