MUSIC - THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF MEN, ANGELS, AND SPIRITS

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From THE URANTIA BOOK

Part II, 44, 1

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Appreciation of music on Urantia is both physical and spiritual; and your human musicians have done much to elevate musical taste from the barbarous monotony of your early ancestors to the higher levels of sound appreciation. The majority of Urantia mortals react to music so largely with the material muscles and so slightly with the mind and spirit; but there has been a steady improvement in musical appreciation for more than thirty-five thousand years. 

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 Tuneful syncopation represents a transition from the musical monotony

 of primitive man to the expressionful harmony and meaningful melodies of your later-day musicians. These earlier types of rhythm stimulate the reaction of the music-loving sense without entailing the exertion of the higher intellectual powers of harmony appreciation and thus more generally appeal to immature or spiritually indolent individuals.

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 The best music of Urantia is just a fleeting echo of the magnificent strains

 heard by the celestial associates of your musicians, who left but snatches of these harmonies of morontia forces on record as the musical melodies of sound harmonics. Spirit-morontia music not infrequently employs all seven modes of expression and reproduction, so that the human mind is tremendously handicapped in any attempt to reduce these melodies of the higher spheres to mere notes of musical sound. Such an effort would be something like endeavoring to reproduce the strains of a great orchestra by means of a single musical instrument.

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 While you have assembled some beautiful melodies on Urantia,

you have not progressed musically nearly so far as many of your neighboring planets in Satania. If Adam and Eve had only survived, then would you have had music in reality; but the gift of harmony, so large in their natures, has been so diluted by strains of unmusical tendencies that only once in a thousand mortal lives is there any great appreciation of harmonics. But be not discouraged; some day a real musician may appear on Urantia, and whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his melodies. One such human being could forever change the course of a whole nation, even the entire civilized world. It is literally true,
 “melody has power a whole world to transform.”
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 Forever, music will remain the universal language of men, angels, and spirits. Harmony is the speech of Havona.

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This is from Paper 44 of THE URANTIA BOOK,
"The Celestial Artisans."  From the simple standpoint
of just "human curiousity," this is certainly one of
the more intriguing revelations in the book about
life "on the other side."
See the entire paper here:
http://www.urantia.org/en/urantia-book-standardized/paper-44-celestial-artisans
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