The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality: A startling proposition, with a chapter devoted to mental therapeutics and instructions for self healing — John Shaqi
The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality: A startling proposition, with a chapter devoted to mental therapeutics and instructions for self healingFleetwood, Henry
Religion
The Secret of Life, Death and Immortality: A startling proposition, with a chapter devoted to mental therapeutics and instructions for self healing
Fleetwood, Henry
Death; Immortality; Life
Primeval man through passion or the procreative tendency, surrounded
himself with offspring. Through the appeal made by the helplessness
of his children paternal love was evolved. From this was evolved love
of family, tribe, clan, and country. In all this music moved side by
side with love. The mother before language was born crooned her lullaby
to her baby, and the father imitating the birds pursed his lips and
made similar sounds. Later he used hollow reeds and fashioned pipes or
flutes. Thus music was born, becoming a universal language, and has been
involved throughout all the ages. Music and love are inseparable, and
their influence upon mankind is unfathomable. We read a love story, or
hear a love song, and each brings a thrill of emotion or vibration that
stimulates, and brings to the body that harmony, the perfection of which
is fullness of life—health. The birds sing their love songs to their
mates and these vibrations fill the woods with music. The humming bird
with continuous accompanying melody gathers the honey from the flowers
to feed its young. All music is life and life is love. The youth is
transformed into a man, the maiden into a woman, by love. And this is a
new birth or regeneration. Emerson says, “The passion remakes the world
for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. Nature grows
conscious. Every bird on the bough of the tree sings now to his heart and
soul. The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers
have grown intelligent.” All nature breathes love, which is expressed
in self-abnegation, dying that other species may live. Prof. Darwin at
a meeting of a Scientific Society in Dublin made this statement, “All
vegetation sees, hears, breathes and feels.” Witness the action of the
sensitive and carnivorous plants.
We have said all organic and inorganic existence is subject to and lives
by the same vibratory energy of the one substance—Electricity. Its
vibrations produce “the exquisite tint of the rose, the velvet of the
lily and the ethereal daintiness of the orchid. Each is but some trifling
variation in the timbre, the tempo or the pitch of vibration that
produces it.”
The breathing of zephyrs through the trees echoes the universal language
of music in which all nature voices its thought. The purling of the
brooks, are but other notes by which nature sings her song of love. “All
one’s life is music if one touches the notes rightly and in tune.”
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