Was Back to AtD Music of the Spheres--Not

[Mark Kohut]

In a footnote to my posted suggestion that perhaps one level going on
here in the Lydian-Phrygian discussion was that the the disappearance
as felt belief in the devil (in the music) meant that via Orpheus and Pythagoreanism
the devil came back as The Return of the Repressed--as a new 'mythic' belief
so to speak,a  modern Freudian-caused one, I have stumbled across
this from Yeats's "A Vision"....(Yeats did give us 'As above, so below" from this book
too, I believe):
 
"It is as though myth and fact, united until the exhaustion of the Renaissance, have now fallen
so far apart that man understands for the first time the rigidity of fact, and calls up, by that
very recognition, myth"...---W.B.
 
And from Safranski's bio of Nietzsche: "Music precedes the Tower of Babel...only universal
form of communication....."The related notion that music is closer to our essence than any other
product of our consciousness goes back to the beginnings of history. This notion underlies both
Orphic and Pythagorean doctrines."....and more including Kepler and the Music of the Spheres,
"music as the language of the cosmos and as figured meaning." 
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