Editorial August 10, 1987 Issue

Some thoughts on music

Michael D. Rissler

Carlyle said something interesting regarding the nature of the world and music. "See deep enough," he observed, "and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it."^{Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture III .}

In a prosaic, pragmatic, tell-it-like-it-is world, such a statement may sound abstract at best. But there is a divine harmony that deeply underlies our lives. It's not music in the way we suppose the human ear detects material vibrations. The divine harmony appeals to spiritual sense. And spiritual sense is something that each one of us possesses.

There's quite a contrast between an uninspired material sense of music and the harmonious rhythms of divine Soul, or God, which reach the human heart and move it in harmony with the divine will.

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