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All of creation sings one song. One song with one verse - the universe. Every being and every element is assigned one note to sing. The same note reverberating throughout all existence. It is the sound the angels make, exalting before the throne of God.

Free will exists but the only choice one may make is to sing or not sing. To fulfill your purpose or to remain silent. To resist. But even that resistance, that keeping silent, drives the song inexorably forward, adding rhythm, counting out time. It all serves the same purpose, God’s purpose. Those who resist fear God, running from his embrace. Their way back to Eden is barred by the Cherubim with the flaming sword, by Christ on the cross, who opens his arms to welcome you back into the one song, the one verse. The No-King waiting on the edge of Apocalypse where time and silence and rhythm are obliterated by one continous note arising from all Creation.

WOULD it were anything but merely voice!’
The No King cried who after that was King,
Because he had not heard of anything
That balanced with a word is more than noise;
Yet Old Romance being kind, let him prevail
Somewhere or somehow that I have forgot,
Though he’d but cannon - Whereas we that had thought
To have lit upon as clean and sweet a tale
Have been defeated by that pledge you gave
In momentary anger long ago;
And I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?
The hourly kindness, the day’s common speech.
The habitual content of each with each
Men neither soul nor body has been crossed.

William Butler Yeats

The purpose of earthly music, then, is to reveal the music underlying everything already. To channel the exaltation of the angels and spirits before God’s throne. To bring forth in Revelation that which is hidden, occult, within each individual - that we may experience together, to share all the same notes and be inspired to lift too our voices and fulfill our purpose, our Apocalypse. One note, altogether now…

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14 Reader Responses

  1. James Russell Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 1:09 am

    One note, altogether now

    How very LaMonte Young.

  2. trafalgar Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 1:17 am

    James, keep singing bro, you’re never going to make it to high drone, JK status…

  3. lisa Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 1:26 am

    Have you read Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman? If not, I think you might like it.

  4. JR Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 3:40 am

    Ahh yes, finally an author other than Tom Robbins! Thanks Lisa, I might check that one out. That one actually sounds like a real book, not the watered down type of nonsense that idiots in here like to praise.

  5. SubstanceM Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 9:14 am

    It’s fucking great to be alive, ladies and gentlemen, and if you do not believe it is fucking great to be alive, you better go now, because this show will bring you down so much - Zappa

    One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain - Marley

  6. Kylark Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 10:21 am

    American Gods by Neil Gaiman is another one, and sort of a precursor to Anansi Boys, so you might want to read that one as well.

  7. Kylark Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 10:21 am

    er, another *good* one.

  8. daddy peacebucks Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 12:34 pm

    Yeah, Neil Gaiman! Praise J.R.! Grrrrr!

    Are there other books in the Gaiman vein by other authors you can recommend, Kylark?

  9. jp Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 12:58 pm

    Bravo!

    Brings to mind the creation myth in Tolkien’s Silmarillion (summary from Wikipedia):

    The opening paragraphs of Ainulindalië tell of the time before Time. First to be named is ‘Ilúvatar’ (‘Father of All’ , also called ‘Eru – “the One, He that is Alone”’ ). Ilúvatar, as his names imply, exists before and independently of all else. He can take a particular concept, thesis or theme, and ‘give a secret fire to it’, will it into being, so it exists as a distinct object or entity. Such existence itself is a re-presentation and concretization of divine conceptualizations: there is first the idea, then the concrete, or ‘objective’, manifestation commensurate with that idea. The ‘Ainur’ (meaning ‘Holy Ones’, singular ‘Ainu’ ) are the first such concepts-embodied or themes-realized; they are the children ‘of Ilúvatar’s thought.’ Upon their creation, when nothing else exists, Ilúvatar teaches the Ainur the art of ‘Music’, which becomes their life and work. So Heaven becomes filled with the making of Music.

    With each Ainu comprehending at first only those secondary ideas and themes most closely related to that primary idea-theme-thought of Ilúvatar’s which pre-figured itself, these creative musical elaborations only gradually, through exposure to each other, become collaborative. The compositions revolve around themes given to each Ainu by Ilúvatar, which themes correspond respectively to those primary themes/concepts embodied in each Ainu – that indeed are each Ainu. Through listening and contemplation, an Ainu becomes aware of other Ainur, other musics, and the cultivation and adornment of other themes.

    After a time of Music, Ilúvatar proposes a first ‘great’ design/theme/plan to all the Ainur at once: a symphony for His pleasure. He then charges them with the collective elaboration of this great design/plan/theme. They are to play themselves at composition.

    While it is true that the Ainur are Ilúvatar’s thoughts embodied, they each have a life of their own, and are expected to utilize their ‘freedom’ by cultivating the grand theme. Only in the future, at the ‘end of days’, will all the created beings of Ilúvatar fully understand not only the divinely provided concepts and themes they each personally embody, but how each relates to all the others and fits (as per Ilúvatar’s intentions) in the entire greater scheme.

  10. SubstanceM Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

    I have to say I really like the idea of the universe as music / song but the idea of Jesus opening his arms to invite you back to the “one true note” sort of bugs me.
    Creation maybe was an old blues tune, and the rest was built over top of it. But is the only way back home to play that old blues song again - and only if Jesus is sitting in on jaw harp?

  11. alistair Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 7:22 pm

    try;
    www.tools4change.ca/hypgnosys.mov

    this product has never been tested on animals, you are the first…….

  12. kmw Says:
    February 13th, 2006 at 7:33 pm

    God’s Word aka Truth, is the greatest composition of all time.

  13. JR Says:
    February 14th, 2006 at 2:12 am

    lol, JR is NOT James Ruyssel… But I agree that guy is a loser, wannabee tim boucher type… Some kind of mediocre film critic blogger from australia, and he turned his comments off because he realized that no one ever reads his blogs. That’s funny. I always thought you were james russell.

  14. James Russell Says:
    February 14th, 2006 at 6:25 am

    JR is NOT James Ruyssel

    Not a day goes by when I’m not grateful for this fact (and would it pain you that much to spell my name correctly?), believe me. And I turned the comments off because I realised you *were* reading my blog and didn’t feel the same need that Tim apparently does to give you space to vent your sad little self all over the Internet.

    For what it’s worth, I actually do like Neil Gaiman as well. And I do have a fairly rotten attitude (you may have noticed). Maybe I should stop now before people confuse me any further with this JR clown…



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