Pythagoras and his followers believed that a universal philosophy could be found in numbers. The music of the spheres is an ancient philosophical concept that regards the proportions in the movements of celestial bodies - the Sun, Moon, and planets - as a form of "musica", the Medieval Latin name for music. There is music in the spacing of the spheres." "There is geometry in the humming of the strings. The elements of architecture on their temples, their geometric disposition, and formats, for example, were considered as comparable to musical modes and notes, or as having a musical counterpart. The concept that everything is nothing but a note in the harmony of the worlds can be observed through the study of the Greek Mystery schools included in their doctrines a magnificent concept of the relationship existing between music and form. Pythagoras also believed that God does not create, He geometrized the Universe.
He could perceive through his unique abilities, a straight correlation between every single creature and object existing in this world and believed that their energetic signatures could be translated into numbers, fractions, or even through geometrical structures. Nowadays, however, to understand the Pythagorean system of celestial music- Music of the Spheres, it is only possible to approximate his actual theory using our contemplative mind. In the Old Testament of the Bible, Job describes a time "when the stars of the morning sang together", and William Shakespeare in his play, “The Merchant of Venice”, writes: "There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st but in his motion like an angel sings." Many other Greek initiates also acknowledged a fundamental connection between the individual heavens or spheres of the seven planets and the seven sacred vowels. "We shall, therefore, borrow all our Rules for the Finishing our Proportions, from the Musicians, who are the greatest Masters of this Sort of Numbers, and from those Things wherein Nature shows herself most excellent and complete." If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, and as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars. But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony. Apparently, the Chaldeans were the first civilization to conceive of the heavenly bodies joining in a cosmic hymn ( Music of the Spheres) as they moved in stately mode across the heavens.Īristotle. After being captured in Egypt, he became a prisoner in Babylon from where he finish the delineated lines of what became his Theorem. It is said that the great philosopher Pythagoras learned and developed this concept after studying in Egypt in a priesthood school. Music of the Spheres is an expression that refers to the entwined relationship connecting the structures of music and those of the physical world, and a conscious awareness of mystical or spiritual qualities being transmitted through-composed sound.
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