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Vignoli, Tito - On music
Identifier
005813
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Most of Vignoli's ideas came from a form of dreaming and lucid dreaming or via relaxation.
Here, he is describing how music is simply a reflection of the functions of the universe, or the systems of the universe. Music and mathematics often go together because analogously the programs of the universe when played, as opposed to executed, produce music.
A description of the experience
Tito Vignoli – On Dreams, Illusions, Hallucinations, Delirium and Madness [from Myth and Matter]
Music, which was always becoming more elaborate, continued to be the highest inspiration, a divine power, an external and harmonious manifestation of celestial beings, of eternal life, and the order of the world. This conception was shadowed forth in the Pythagorean theory of the mythical harmony of the spheres; that school regarded the world as a musical system, an harmonious dance of planets