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13 Dec 2002 @ 22:58, by Craig Lang

We just returned home this evening from a concert featuring Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. At one point during the concert, I thought about how - even in our current state of affairs - there are indeed many very wonderful things about our present civilization. One of them is it's legacy of the arts, music, etc.

We must realize that like every organization made up of humans, western civ embodies both human wonders and human faults. And this evening, I found it refreshing to listen to a symbol of the wonders of humanity - as brought to us by Ludwig Von Beethoven approximately 200 years ago.

Namaste,
-Craig

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14 Dec 2002 @ 03:19 by istvan : It is amazing,ism't it
How much treasures human creativity presents us with, in our life, yet the average human exists in not knowing how much of the state of extasy is avaliable through the right stimulation of the senses. Not only hearing, but allowing the music,art,words of the great masters to touch the soul. can transform an ear, eyes, mind into a channel to scapes beyond the mundane where nothing but extasy exists. Surely these masters must have lived in a different vibrational reality.  

14 Dec 2002 @ 08:04 by martha : vibration
Yes it gets us in touch with all the beauty of the world. You are both right. There is so much wonder out there we just forget sometimes to pause and absorb it in.  

14 Dec 2002 @ 12:17 by sharie : Handel's Music
I saw a write-up on a recording of Handel's Messiah saying that as he had been busy composing, his servant prepared and brought him his lunch. The servant had said that when he opened the door, he saw the room was filled with a celestial light so radiant he felt the presence of angels. Handel looked up and said, "I do believe I have just seen the Heavenly Hosts in all its countenance."

He had just written the "Hallelujiah Chorus"

Later Handel said, "Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it, I know not. God knows...I did think I did see all Heaven before me and the Great God Himself."

He composed 260 pages in less than a month (that's not human).  

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