By playing different pitch classes into different ears through headphones it is possible to discover combinations which make one fall off the chair (but not go unconscious, for which other frequencies beyond the range headphones are required, so wudu would not be broken) and sure enough in New Age music there are those frequencies (and the others too). The call to prayer employs chromatic variations of about 70 cents (approximately
of a major tone), indeed this is the same microtonal interval as used by the ancient Greeks whose language was mentioned in the OP.
The newage delusion encourages—if that is not too mild a word—homeopathtard obsessions just as newage versions of Christianity, witness the Church
of England, engender compulsive behaviours such as chiropractic, yoga and moxibustion. And what Anglican does not adore Enya?
Quote:
 the living waters Created by God |
As it happens I was talking to a vicar's wife the other day and imagine my disgust when she got onto the subj. of astrology. "Oh," she chirruped, "as we enter the age of aquarius our spiritual consciousness.." (whatever that is) "..is evolving."
I didn't know what to say being somewhat shy by nature, so I just sat there and helped my self to another scone. The jam was quite good. She seemed to find that encouraging and off she went with the full spiel and I won't repeat it all but the gist of what she said was that, working backwards:
about now . . . Age of aquarius: the water bearer. An era of living water just beginning.
hitherto . . . .Age of pisces: the fishes. People clumping together like schools of fish or nations.
thitherto . . . Age of aries: the ram. Jesus became the ram in the thicket slain to make us fishers of men.
before that . . Age of taurus: the bull. Sex orgies, dancing nude around golden calves, toadstool consumption.
I decided not to drink any more tea, especially since she was starting to look a bit unusual about the eyes, and I remembered seeing her husband outside the homeopathic chemist's
and the flyer for yoga classes in his church hall on Thursdays. Mrs Vicar actually looks as though she'd be quite good at yoga and no doubt she is a regular but what concerned me was the heresy of interpreting Bible Truths according to some made up system of interpretation having more in common with Asian traditions (except for the toadstools which, she mentioned, had to be impoted from Europe) than anything related to King James.
Aaron's golden calf a retrograde step harking back to the days before Abraham characterised by bullock worship and slaughtering things on altars with horns (and sex orgies)?
The ram in the thicket a herald before an age of sheep whose shepferd must be slain ere Pisces should rise (during which period the less said about what went on in Greek and Roman temples the better)? That's not what fishers of men means!
The crucifixion merely symbolic of the end of an age of sheep, Aries, a new age of fish, Pisces, and the promise of a future new beginning, Aquarius, characterised by internal fountains?
I don't know what that vicar was buying from that homeopathic chemist's or what his wife's promoting at that yoga class but I bet in either case it's neither Jesus nor anything to do with The Holy Ghost.