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Date Posted: 09:19:52 02/21/04 Sat
Author: ketch - 16 Dec 2003
Subject: Some examples of sound meditation in Christian Mysticism
In reply to: anon - 14 Dec 2003 's message, "St. John of the Cross and the AUM Sound" on 09:17:14 02/21/04 Sat

"What else is Christ but the Sound of God?"
The Acts of John

"Peter and I knelt down, gave thanks, and sent our hearts up to
heaven. We heard with our ears and saw with our eyes the sound of
battles and a trumpet's blast and utter turmoil. And when we passed
beyond that place, we sent our minds up further. We saw with our eyes
and heard with our ears hymns and angelic praises and angelic
rejoicing. Heavenly majesties were singing hymns, and we ourselves
were rejoicing."
Apocryphon of James

"I think that no soul may truly feel the angel's song or heavenly
Sound, unless it is in perfect love, though not all that are in
perfect love have felt it, but only the soul that is so purified in
the fire of love that all earthly savor is burned out of it, and all
obstacles between the soul and the cleanness of angels are broken and
put away from it. Then truly may he sing a new song, and truly may he
hear a blessed heavenly Sound, and angel's song, without deceit or
feigning. Our Lord knows the soul that, for abundance of burning
love, is worthy to hear angel's song.
Walter Hilton - The Song of Angels


To the Trinity be praise! God is Music.

The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self.
Rather, it is more like a Chord, a Sound that is played.
The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather,
through the touch of the Musician.
I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness!
Hildegard of Bingen

"The eternal speaking Word is the divine understanding or Sound. That
which is brought forth from the love-desire into forms, that, I say,
is the natural and creaturely understanding and Sound which was in
the Word; as it is said, In him was life, and that life was the Light
of men."
Jacob Boehme

"It is He to whom the universe has come; they were silent before Him
and have not told of Him, for He is beyond speech, beyond thought. So This
is the First Fountain; it is He whose Voice has penetrated in every place --
this is the First Sound vibrating until the universe feels and understands."
("The Gospel of the Gnostics," Duncan Greenlees

"In the beginning was the the Sound, the Sound was with God, the
Sound was God. I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with
the Sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the vast chorus of the
sky, and the holy chant of the stars in their fixed rounds; it is the Holy
Stream of Sound that traverses the vault of stars and crosses the endless
kingdom of the heavenly Father. It is ever in our ears, so do we hear it
not. Listen for it, then, in the silence."
Essene Gospel of Peace

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