Music: The Divine Art
As to what we call music in everyday language, to me architecture
is music, gardening is music, farming is music, painting is music,
poetry is music. In all the occupations of life where beauty has
been the inspiration, where the divine wine has been poured out,
there is music. But among all the different arts, the art of music
has been specially considered divine, because it is the exact miniature
of the law working through the whole universe. For instance, if
we study ourselves we shall find that the beats of the pulse and
the heart, the inhaling and exhaling of the breath are all the work
of rhythm. Life depends upon the rhythmic working of the whole mechanism
of the body. Breath manifests as voice, as word, as sound; and the
sound is continually audible, the sound without and the sound within
ourselves. That is music; it shows that there is music both outside
and within ourselves.
Music inspires not only the soul of the great musician, but every
infant which, the instant it comes into the world, begins to move
it’s little arms and legs with the rhythm of music. Therefore
it is no exaggeration to say that music is the language of beauty
of THE One every living soul has loved. And when one realizes this
and recognizes the perfection of all beauty as God, our Beloved,
one understands why the music we experience in art and in the whole
universe should be called the Divine Art.
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