The Sound Sacrifice

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.

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

Andrea Alciati said: ‘Fingers touch and strings emit tones. But when a string is broken or badly made, the harmony is spoiled. Then we need the song of a cicada that fills the forest with its uniform voice.’

Acoustics is the beginning of reality. Aries imagines, Taurus, the sign of the vocal cords, begins reality.

A skilled musician can make a trump sound almost like a voice.

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