The Music of the Spheres or the sounds made by the planets: the music of the crystal spheres. Remnants can be seen of an earlier understanding in the names of the notes of our musical octave: DO (Dominus, the Lord God), RE (Regina Caelum, the Queen of Heaven, the Moon), MI (Microcosmos, the Earth), FA (Fates, the Fates, the planets), SOL (Sol, the Sun), LA, Via Lactea, the Milky Way), SI (Siderea, the sidereal heavens, the stars), and back to DO.
As the planetary spheres rotated, it was believed in those far-off times, they set off vibrations. Each planet had its own specific set of vibratory patterns. The interactions of those vibrations produced a cosmic harmony: the music of the spheres. Anciently, it was said, the music was audible to men on earth, but sin dulled the senses, and mankind lost the heavenly music.
Though knowledge of the sacred circle dance has all but completely disappeared in the western liturgy, it is still present in places in the east, most notably on Mount Athos, where the Byzantine chorós can still be found.
XIROPOTAMOU MONASTERY MOUNT ATHOS(holy mountain)
byzantine choir ioannis damaskinos
The Cosmic Ring Dance of the Angels by Frederick M. Huchel
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