The Sound Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the metaphor of a banquet that the earth offers to the sky and that sky cannot refuse, thereby finding mutual sustenance. By the end of the third labor, the learned alchemist had already been informed that he/she must wait for a note. Yes, a musical note emitted by the philosophical egg.
In Alchemy, the union of sky and earth is too symbolically transposed onto the level of a transmutation of the elements that should lead to a final “solid”. Very few, however, mention the “floating” of the “stone” in the philosophical sea. That is, the entry into that “private channel” that is the means and end of alchemical labors. Or, as it was symbolically said, “music is the cure of the gods for humans.”
To fully understand what this is about, see Sovereigns of the Seven Sounds
In 1960, musicologist Marius Schneider wrote an impressive little book entitled La Musica Primitiva or The Primitive Music, which brought together the subject of sound in ancient mythologies from around the world. The author’s research is not limited to the various Genesis works, in which the element of divine sound-voice-roar-whisper is ubiquitous and already widely known, but brings to light a surprisingly complex web of sound ceremonies and vocal evocations that make manifest the relationships between heaven, sky, and earth, through movements between the stars, the sun, the earth’s caves, trees, minerals, wood, smoke, fires and finally the human body and spirit. Perhaps only an alchemist can deeply understand Marius Schneider’s Grande Opera.
MARIUS SCHNEIDER
The Primitive Music
- 1 Deities are Chants
- 2 Some Sounds create World and Humankind
- 3 a Chant & a Counter Chant Give Rise to Humankind
- 4 Acoustic Nature of Bonds between Gods and Men
- 5 Through Music, Humankind Imitates the Gods
- 6 Cosmos and Individual Chant
- 7 Only Music Makes Ceremonies Effective
- 8 the Artistic Music Magical Root
